History Fanfic / ValkyrieOnFire

* BirdsOfAFeather: Katniss and Glimmer might be polar opposites superficially, but they are each skilled fighters who stand out from the traditional stereotypes of their District Tributes.

* BodyHorror: In ''Viam Eorum'', [[spoiler:District 13 planted five different implants in Glimmer's mother; a tracker in her arm, monitoring devices in her ear and eye (along with a third cranial implant to take in information from the other two), and a bomb in her abdomen, although Prim is able to remove these]].

* TheChessmaster: In a change from his role as a discreet chessmaster for District 13 in the canon, Haymitch [[spoiler:is forced to reveal his own plans when he overhears Glimmer, Katniss and Gale's plans for a last stand in the Quarter Quell]].

* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: Glimmer's parents are referenced, but are never shown directly, to the point that [[spoiler:after the Victors decide to mount their own campaign, Glimmer explicitly states that they shouldn't bother 'rescuing' her parents as they'd never be able to cope with life outside District 1 and would probably side with the Capitol]].

* LoveRevelationEpiphany: Katniss already knew she had strong feelings for Glimmer, but they only explicitly say "I love you" [[spoiler:after Glimmer is nearly killed by a Capitol bio-weapon]].

** [[spoiler:Cinna]] escapes his canon death to more officially join the Rebellion.

The Valkyrie on Fire series by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/2095766/Relena-Mishima Relena Mishima]] is an AU version of the ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' series that starts during the night Katniss spent in a tree with the Careers and Peeta beneath her. Where in canon she slept through the night, woke up to see Rue in time for the girl to suggest using the tracker jackers as a weapon, and subsequently acted alone, in this version of events, Katniss wakes up in time to be noticed by Glimmer, the female Career from District 1, who tosses the bow to Katniss and offers her an alliance against the other Careers in exchange for a more evenly-matched final battle than she'd get against the other Careers. With that deal, Katniss's life is changed, as she and Glimmer come together to form a surprisingly effective team, both in the Seventy-Fourth Games and beyond…

The Valkyrie on Fire series by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/2095766/Relena-Mishima Relena Mishima]] is an AU version of the ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' series that starts during the night Katniss spent in a tree with the Careers and Peeta beneath her. Where in canon she slept through the night, woke up to see Rue in time for the girl to suggest using the tracker jackers as a weapon, and subsequently acted alone, in this version of events, Katniss wakes up in time to be noticed by Glimmer, the female Career from District One, who tosses the bow to Katniss and offers her an alliance against the other Careers in exchange for a more evenly-matched final battle than she'd get against the other Careers. With that deal, Katniss's life is changed, as she and Glimmer come together to form a surprisingly effective team, both in the Seventy-Fourth Games and beyond…

* BlackAndGrayMorality: ''Viam Eorum'' [[spoiler:sees the rescued Victors quickly become disillusioned with the rigid rules enforced in District Thirteen, with Madge in particular affirming that their indoctrination of children makes it clear that they like their current power and are unlikely to give it up later]].
* BloodKnight: Flash, the District One tribute in the Quarter Quell, comes across as the worst example of this, killing two Tributes in the initial bloodbath but becoming so covered in blood that the more experienced Finnick wonders how he got that much blood on him.
* BodyHorror: In ''Viam Eorum'', [[spoiler:District Thirteen planted five different implants in Glimmer's mother; a tracker in her arm, monitoring devices in her ear and eye (along with a third cranial implant to take in information from the other two), and a bomb in her abdomen, although Prim is able to remove these]].
* BreakTheCutie: Prim experiences a variation of this in ''Viam Eorum''; when she is assigned as an 'official' doctor in District Thirteen, she swiftly becomes disheartened with it because the District procedures simply order her to move on from one patient to another after barely giving any of the patients particular attention, rather than actually giving her the time to focus on treating them.
* BrokenBird: Glimmer has a breakdown after Rue joins her and Katniss as Rue reminds her of the Tributes she killed in the opening bloodbath; watching this back in District Twelve, Madge speculates the Capitol let this air to give the impression that Glimmer was weak.

** During the Quarter Quell in ''Everyone Loves a Victor'', [[spoiler:new District One Tribute Flash initially venerates Finnick, but eventually dismisses him as a weakling who gets too worked up about 'worthless' Tributes such as Annie, stabbing him in such a manner that Finnick will die slowly and painfully (although giving him enough time to be taken for medical treatment)]].

* TheChessmaster: In a change from his role as a discreet chessmaster for District Thirteen in the canon, Haymitch [[spoiler:is forced to reveal his own plans when he overhears Glimmer, Katniss and Gale's plans for a last stand in the Quarter Quell]].

** Glimmer goes to great lengths to give [[spoiler:Finch]] a [[VikingFuneral Viking-style funeral]], and later [[spoiler:addresses District Five during her Victory Tour to tell them to be proud of Finch, who showed Glimmer that just being smart could be an asset. During the 'funeral', Glimmer privately admits to Katniss that she thinks that Finch could have excelled at the Academy as she had the spirit to be a great Career with training, not even crying when she was stabbed through the chest, where Glimmer had seen some Academy trainees bawling over far more minor wounds]].

* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Cato]] is killed with an arrow to the eye, and in ''Viam Eorum'', [[spoiler:after rescuing Glimmer's mother from District Thirteen, Prim has to remove implants from her head, which include taking out an implant from behind her eye]].

** Puella, the stylist for District One, attempts to establish himself as this, but he falls short compared to Cinna.

** Cinna is given a foil in the form of Puella, District One's stylist, as Puella goes to far too much effort to make himself and his creations stand out where Cinna draws a clear line between making a dramatic impression and pure lack of taste.

* GadgeteerGenius: Beetee demonstrates this once they reach District Thirteen, to the point that he only needs a few days to modify a computer tablet to deactivate local security systems and devise a miniature radar system the other Victors can use to make a discreet exit by mapping the surrounding corridors.

* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: Glimmer's parents are referenced, but are never shown directly, to the point that [[spoiler:after the Victors decide to mount their own campaign, Glimmer explicitly states that they shouldn't bother 'rescuing' her parents as they'd never be able to cope with life outside District One and would probably side with the Capitol]].
* HeelRealization: When she meets Rue, Glimmer is forced to acknowledge that, while District One regards being a Tribute as a noble pursuit, when she actually used that training for the first time in a real fight during the opening bloodbath, she just killed three kids who barely knew what they were doing and would never have been in that position if they'd had a choice, acknowledging that there was no honour in what she did during that bout.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Glimmer falls victim to this once she returns to District One, as the Academy and other Victors go to great lengths to claim that [[NoTrueScotsman she isn't a 'real' Victor due to the unconventional nature of her victory]], with the result that Glimmer can't even follow the example of other Victors and teach at the Academy.

* NoodleIncident: Katniss and Glimmer's treatment of Rue [[spoiler:and Finch]] after their deaths actually inspired full-on riots in Districts Eleven [[spoiler:and Five]] as they actually showed true respect to their allies rather than discarding them after death as traditional Tributes should.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: In ''Viam Eorum'', [[spoiler:the escaped Victors call out District Thirteen on trying to control them by using Glimmer's parents as hostages, which is basically what the Capitol were doing at the beginning]].

** The whole premise of this series, as Glimmer, dismissed as the ruthless but essentially airheaded District One female Tribute, becomes Katniss's ally in every sense of the word during and after the Seventy-Fourth Games, developing into a more rounded character who subtly resents the role she is forced to play for the Games even before she and Katniss help each other survive and grow beyond the arena.

* OffWithHisHead: In ''Viam Eorum'', during the assault on District Five, [[spoiler:the fight is essentially over after Glimmer cuts the Mayor's head off]].
* OnlySaneWoman: Glimmer considers herself basically this out of the District One and Two Tributes in the 74th Games, noting that Cato and Clove are both hardboiled killers and Marvel doesn't really have anything going for him beyond raw physical strength.
* PrisonerExchange: In a sense; ''Viam Eorum'' [[spoiler:sees District Thirteen attempt to trade Glimmer's mother for Beetee, but the Victors take Glimmer's mother away without trading Beetee in turn, and Beetee was never a prisoner for them anyway]].

* RefugeInAudacity: In ''Viam Eorum'', when [[spoiler:Glimmer is injured by a Capitol bio-weapon that Prim can't treat on her own, Madge has the idea that they get treatment from a hospital in District One as the most likely place outside of the Capitol to have an antidote for the weapon, intending to pass Glimmer off as some unnamed celebrity, Katniss as her girlfriend, Madge as her manager and Gale as her bodyguard to get them through the door]].

** Later, faced with the option of working with District Thirteen on nothing more than propaganda pieces or being stuck with the Capitol, Glimmer convinces Katniss to instead [[spoiler:join the other rescued Victors and open up their own campaign against the Capitol]].
* TakingYouWithMe: On their first night in the Capitol prior to the Quarter Quell, [[spoiler:Katniss, Glimmer and Gale decide that the best they can hope for is to take the Cornucopia in the opening fight and eliminate as many of the Careers as they can before they're killed, as Snow won't allow any of them to live]].

* TokenGoodTeammate: As far as the District One Tributes and Victors can be considered a 'team', this term definitely applies to Glimmer as she comes to respect the strengths of non-Career Tributes and take time to understand life in the outer Districts, to the extent that she expresses disgust at the idea that her 'fellow' District One Victors are almost certainly encouraging next year's Tributes to basically torture District Twelve's Tributes in the next Games (before they learn the new 'rule' of the Quarter Quell).

* TookALevelInBadass: Katniss and Gale get this when Glimmer sets up her own 'Academy' in District Twelve to train them both, recognising that the Capitol will do everything it can to put the three of them in the next Games.

** In ''Viam Eorum'', the battle for District Eleven ends with the resistance apparently cornered, [[spoiler:until Gale reveals his plan to basically drop napalm on the Capitol forces]], although Haymitch insists that he be kept up-to-date on such plans in future so that he can better assure potential allies.

* WouldHurtAChild: This being a ''Hunger Games'' fic, violence against children was obviously going to be a factor, but ''Viam Eorum'' [[spoiler:sees Enoboria and Johanna cross that line themselves when they kill the mayor of District Seven, his wife and their two children, with the rest of their group feeling that they should be better than the Capitol rather than sink to their level by using such tactics]].

The Valkyrie on Fire series by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/2095766/Relena-Mishima Relena Mishima]] is an AU version of Hunger Games that starts during the night Katniss spent in a tree with the Careers and Peeta beneath her. Where in canon she slept through the night, woke up to see Rue in time for the girl to suggest using the tracker jackers as a weapon, and subsequently acted alone, in this version of events, Katniss wakes up in time to be noticed by Glimmer, the female Career from District One, who tosses the bow to Katniss and offers her an alliance against the other Careers in exchange for a more evenly-matched final battle than she'd get against the other Careers. With that deal, Katniss's life is changed, as she and Glimmer come together to form a surprisingly effective team, both in the Seventy-Fourth Games and beyond…

* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: A minor example in ''Viam Eorum'', when [[spoiler:Beetee and Cinna's designed costume for Gale includes a cloaking device that turns him invisible, although it will only work properly when he is standing still as the hologram technology involved will have trouble adapting to rapid movement, while Glimmer's armour includes a limited force field that will give her fifteen minutes protection that decreases as she's attacked]].

* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Peeta sacrifices himself to save Katniss and Glimmer in the final confrontation in the Seventy-Fourth Games]].

* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Played with for Glimmer, who freely flirts with Katniss, leaving Katniss bemused at receiving that attention from another girl but not entirely against it. [[spoiler:They eventually get together]].

** Glimmer and Katniss are obvious examples of this, with Glimmer the outgoing blonde FemmeFatale while Katniss is a quieter brunette tomboy, although they make a good team nevertheless.
** Cinna is given a Foil in the form of Puella, District One's stylist, as Puella goes to far too much effort to make himself and his creations stand out where Cinna draws a clear line between making a dramatic impression and pure lack of taste.

* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: Simultaneously acknowledged and defied by Katniss and Glimmer, as Glimmer favours hand-to-hand combat- whether unarmed or with weapons- while Katniss is more skilled at archery.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: More in the sense of 'She who lives with monsters'; Cashmere has spent so long living in the Capitol's world that she has essentially become one of them rather than one of the District residents, to the point that [[spoiler:her resentment of Glimmer drives her to become the first Victor to book an appointment with another, scheduling a night with Katniss and Glimmer]].

* HeroWithBadPublicity: Glimmer falls victim to this once she returns to District One, as the Academy and other Victors go to great lengths to claim that she isn't a 'real' Victor due to the unconventional nature of her victory, with the result that Glimmer can't even follow the example of other Victors and teach at the Academy.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Peeta gives his life to save Katniss and Glimmer, shooting himself up with so much pain medication that Cato gets his sword stuck in Peeta's chest while Peeta advances on him, distracting Cato long enough for Glimmer and Katniss to kill him]]

* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Snow, as in canon.

** Also used for Foxface, who here is named 'Finch' and actually becomes a part of Glimmer and Katniss' alliance rather than a briefly-acknowledged 'rival' [[spoiler:(even if she doesn't survive their first major assault on the Careers)]].

* OnlySaneWoman: Glimmer considers herself basically this out of the District One and Two Tributes in the Seventy-Fourth Games, noting that Cato and Clove are both hardboiled killers and Marvel doesn't really have anything going for him beyond raw physical strength.

** [[spoiler:Cinna escapes his canon death to more officially join Katniss's rebellion]].

* TrapIsTheOnlyOption: Used at the conclusion of the Seventy-Fourth and Seventy-Fifth Games, created by both the Gamemakers and [[spoiler:Katniss, Gale and Glimmer]] respectively; all parties know that they're being lured together for a final showdown, but accept that they can fight now when reasonably prepared or fight later when at least one of them won't be in a suitable state to do so.

* WrongGenreSavvy: Arguably applies to Glimmer, as she refers to herself as the 'main character' of the Quarter Quell in ''Viam Eorum''.

* AbsoluteCleavage: Glimmer enjoys outfits that give her a chance to show off her assets; the only thing she dislikes about them is that they make it hard for her to practice her post-Games hobby of gymnastics, due to her being too well-endowed to balance properly.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: In ''Viam Eorum'', [[spoiler:while Katniss and Glimmer's new 'alliance' of Victors rejects working with the Capitol and District 13, they freely acknowledge amongst themselves that they have no real idea how to run a war and appreciate their limits as military leaders and instructors, such as Prim knowing limited real medicine or the tactics Glimmer learned at the Academy being difficult to adapt to large-scale campaigns]].

** Basically Glimmer's reasons for working with Katniss in the first place; as Glimmer sees it, going off on her own would be automatic suicide if she's caught by her former allies, but staying with the Career Pack means that she would almost certainly get stabbed in the back once the remaining non-Career Tributes are dead. By allying with Katniss, the most capable non-Career in the Games, Glimmer can be assured of an ally that both won't betray her at a moment's notice and will give her an interesting challenge when the time comes for the final battle

* OnlySaneMan: Glimmer considers herself basically this out of the District One and Two Tributes in the Seventy-Fourth Games, noting that Cato and Clove are both hardboiled killers and Marvel doesn’t really have anything going for him beyond raw physical strength.

* AscendedExtra:
** The whole premise of this series, as Glimmer, dismissed as the ruthless but essentially airheaded District One female Tribute, becomes Katniss's ally in every sense of the word during and after the Seventy-Fourth Games, developing into a more rounded character who subtly resents the role she is forced to play for the Games even before she and Katniss help each other survive and grow beyond the arena.
** Also used for Foxface, who here is named 'Finch' and actually becomes a part of Glimmer and Katniss' alliance rather than a briefly-acknowledged 'rival' [[spoiler:(even if she doesn't survive their first major assault on the Careers)]].

* HeelRealisation: When she meets Rue, Glimmer is forced to acknowledge that, while District One regards being a Tribute as a noble pursuit, when she actually used that training for the first time in a real fight during the opening bloodbath, she just killed three kids who barely knew what they were doing and would never have been in that position if they'd had a choice, acknowledging that there was no honour in what she did during that bout.

* RealityEnsues: In ''Viam Eorum'', [[spoiler:while Katniss and Glimmer's new 'alliance' of Victors rejects working with the Capitol and District 13, they freely acknowledge amongst themselves that they have no real idea how to run a war and appreciate their limits as military leaders and instructors, such as Prim knowing limited real medicine or the tactics Glimmer learned at the Academy being difficult to adapt to large-scale campaigns]].

The Valkyrie on Fire series by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/2095766/Relena-Mishima Relena Mishima]] is an AU version of Hunger Games that starts during the night Katniss spent in a tree with the Careers and Peeta beneath her. Where in canon she slept through the night, woke up to see Rue in time for the girl to suggest using the tracker jackers as a weapon, and subsequently acted alone, in this version of events, Katniss wakes up in time to be noticed by Glimmer, the female Career from District One, who tosses the bow to Katniss and offers her an alliance against the other Careers in exchange for a more evenly-matched final battle than she’d get against the other Careers. With that deal, Katniss’s life is changed, as she and Glimmer come together to form a surprisingly effective team, both in the Seventy-Fourth Games and beyond…

!!''I Am Not a Victim'' contains examples of:

* AdaptationalHeroism: Glimmer goes from being a ruthless Career who took glee in killing the other Tributes to Katniss’s trusted ally and partner who genuinely regrets her initial victims in the opening bloodbath.
* AdaptationalSexuality: [[spoiler:Katniss has a romantic and sexual relationship with Glimmer, although given Katniss’s canonically-established issues with romance it’s hard to say definitively that she never felt that way towards any girls in canon]].
* AdaptationalVillainy: Cashmere was a ‘loyal’ Career in canon, so she was already far from a saint, but in this version of events her jealously of Glimmer’s popularity drives her to [[spoiler:book the first Victor-on-Victor ‘appointment’ with Glimmer and Katniss simultaneously]].

** The whole premise of this series, as Glimmer, dismissed as the ruthless but essentially airheaded District One female Tribute, becomes Katniss’s ally in every sense of the word during and after the Seventy-Fourth Games, developing into a more rounded character who subtly resents the role she is forced to play for the Games even before she and Katniss help each other survive and grow beyond the arena.
** Also used for Foxface, who here is named ‘Finch’ and actually becomes a part of Glimmer and Katniss’ alliance rather than a briefly-acknowledged ‘rival’ [[spoiler:(even if she doesn’t survive their first major assault on the Careers)]].

** After [[spoiler:Glimmer kills Clove, practically the first thing Katniss, Glimmer and Peeta agree on once they’re all together is that Clove deserved to die]].

* AttentionWhore: Finnick muses that Cashmere is one, to the point that she actually enjoys having appointments at the Capitol as another sign that she’s adored and popular, and resents Glimmer’s recent victory taking attention away from her.

* BerserkButton: Finnick spends most of his time relatively controlled, essentially resigned to the role he has to play to protect his loved ones, but when [[spoiler:Flash starts talking about how Annie (Finnick’s wife) didn’t deserve to win her Games, Enoboria is the only reason Finnick didn’t stab Flash straight away, even though they were officially still on the same team]].

* BodyHorror: In ''Viam Eorum'', [[spoiler:District Thirteen planted five different implants in Glimmer’s mother; a tracker in her arm, monitoring devices in her ear and eye (along with a third cranial implant to take in information from the other two), and a bomb in her abdomen, although Prim is able to remove these]].
* BreakTheCutie: Prim experiences a variation of this in ''Viam Eorum''; when she is assigned as an ‘official’ doctor in District Thirteen, she swiftly becomes disheartened with it because the District procedures simply order her to move on from one patient to another after barely giving any of the patients particular attention, rather than actually giving her the time to focus on treating them.

** During the Quarter Quell in ''Everyone Loves a Victor'', [[spoiler:new District One Tribute Flash initially venerates Finnick, but eventually dismisses him as a weakling who gets too worked up about ‘worthless’ Tributes such as Annie, stabbing him in such a manner that Finnick will die slowly and painfully (although giving him enough time to be taken for medical treatment)]].

* TheChessmaster: In a change from his role as a discreet chessmaster for District Thirteen in the canon, Haymitch [[spoiler:is forced to reveal his own plans when he overhears Glimmer, Katniss and Gale’s plans for a last stand in the Quarter Quell]].
* ClothesMakeTheLegend: In ''Viam Eorum'', [[spoiler:Cinna and Beetee design distinctive uniforms for Katniss, Glimmer and Gale that reflect their image in the public eye, such as Katniss having form-fitting black armour with flaming gauntlets, Madge wearing a form-fittingly feminine armour, Gale’s suit turning him invisible, and Glimmer’s attire being more basic but including a force field]].
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: A minor example in ''Viam Eorum'', when [[spoiler:Beetee and Cinna’s designed costume for Gale includes a cloaking device that turns him invisible, although it will only work properly when he is standing still as the hologram technology involved will have trouble adapting to rapid movement, while Glimmer’s armour includes a limited force field that will give her fifteen minutes protection that decreases as she’s attacked]].
* CripplingOverspecialization: Katniss is deadly with a bow and arrow, but she’s relatively useless with any other weapons, although she develops enough hand-to-hand combat skills to conceivably hold her own for a few moments if she’s caught off-guard.
* CulturedBadass: Cinna explicitly compares his training as a stylist to Glimmer’s own training as a Career, each of them having worked hard to learn their craft.

* DoWellButNotPerfect: Glimmer’s goal when she got her score of 8 in training; as she later observes, 8 is just high enough to attract the interest of the other Career Tributes without appearing so skilled as to be particularly dangerous to the others before she’s ready to show what she can really do.

** Glimmer goes to great lengths to give [[spoiler:Finch]] a Viking-style funeral, and later [[spoiler:addresses District Five during her Victory Tour to tell them to be proud of Finch, who showed Glimmer that just being smart could be an asset. During the ‘funeral’, Glimmer privately admits to Katniss that she thinks that Finch could have excelled at the Academy as she had the spirit to be a great Career with training, not even crying when she was stabbed through the chest, where Glimmer had seen some Academy trainees bawling over far more minor wounds]].
** Also, [[spoiler:as an indirect homage to Finch, Cinna’s designs for Glimmer’s outfit in the opening of the Quarter Quell are based on the Valkyrie, Glimmer’s outfit including veils that form into wings when an electrical charge is sent through them]].
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Basically defines the reason Glimmer disliked the idea of Peeta winning the Games; after [[spoiler:Finch died fighting]], Glimmer resents the idea that Peeta would get to go home when he’s done nothing so far but tell bad lies to the Careers and get a serious wound rather than actually make a difference to anybody.

* EveryoneHasStandards: ''Viam Eorum'' establishes that [[spoiler:Enoboria is this; she might have killed in a brutal manner in the Games, but she makes it clear to Katniss and Glimmer’s allies that she only kills when she has to, and is willing to work with others she can trust]].
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: In a loose sense; Madge speculates that the Capitol allowed Glimmer’s breakdown about her actions in the Bloodbath to be broadcast because they wanted to show her as weak, but personally Madge considered it an important step in showing Glimmer as a human being rather than the traditional ruthless Career, leaving Madge assured that Glimmer could be trusted.
* EvilCounterpart: Suggested if not explicitly stated; Katniss notes various similarities and differences between Glimmer and her official ‘mentor’, Cashmere, and Glimmer openly speculates that her ‘partner’ in the Quarter Quell, a muscular young man known as Flash, was chosen to counter her through his reliance on raw power rather than Glimmer’s superior tactical expertise.
* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Cato]] is killed with an arrow to the eye, and in ''Viam Eorum'', [[spoiler:after rescuing Glimmer’s mother from District Thirteen, Prim has to remove implants from her head, which include taking out an implant from behind her eye]].

** Cinna is complimented for his design skills to the point where Glimmer easily dismisses her own stylist in favour of Cinna’s designs, musing that the only reason she didn’t like Cinna’s initial work on Katniss’s outfit was because it drew attention away from Glimmer herself.

* FashionVictimVillain: Flash, Glimmer’s ‘counterpart’ in the Quarter Quell, falls victim to this, as his outfit is described as a very tacky ensemble of flashing lights that his stylist is trying to get to catch on. By contrast, with [[spoiler:Cinna acting as Glimmer’s stylist, she’s provided with a far more tasteful and awe-inspiring outfit modelled after the Valkyrie that completely draws attention from Flash]].

** Cinna is given a Foil in the form of Puella, District One’s stylist, as Puella goes to far too much effort to make himself and his creations stand out where Cinna draws a clear line between making a dramatic impression and pure lack of taste.
* ForWantOfANail: Everything changes because Katniss and Glimmer each woke up at just the right time for Glimmer to attract Katniss’s attention and propose their subsequent alliance, rather than Katniss dropping the tracker jacker nest on the Careers and killing Glimmer before she could make such an offer.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: For the Capitol, certainly, as [[spoiler:Glimmer and Katniss’s group of Victors become a significant force on the board in their own right during the revolution]].

* GuileHeroine: Finch essentially serves as this during her alliance with Katniss and Glimmer, with Glimmer later complimenting Finch’s intellect [[spoiler:after her last act gives Glimmer and Katniss a chance to deliver a serious blow to the Careers]].

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: More in the sense of ‘She who lives with monsters’; Cashmere has spent so long living in the Capitol’s world that she has essentially become one of them rather than one of the District residents, to the point that [[spoiler:her resentment of Glimmer drives her to become the first Victor to book an appointment with another, scheduling a night with Katniss and Glimmer]]
* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: Glimmer’s parents are referenced, but are never shown directly, to the point that [[spoiler:after the Victors decide to mount their own campaign, Glimmer explicitly states that they shouldn’t bother ‘rescuing’ her parents as they’d never be able to cope with life outside District One and would probably side with the Capitol]].
* HeelRealisation: When she meets Rue, Glimmer is forced to acknowledge that, while District One regards being a Tribute as a noble pursuit, when she actually used that training for the first time in a real fight during the opening bloodbath, she just killed three kids who barely knew what they were doing and would never have been in that position if they’d had a choice, acknowledging that there was no honour in what she did during that bout.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Glimmer falls victim to this once she returns to District One, as the Academy and other Victors go to great lengths to claim that she isn’t a ‘real’ Victor due to the unconventional nature of her victory, with the result that Glimmer can’t even follow the example of other Victors and teach at the Academy.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Peeta gives his life to save Katniss and Glimmer, shooting himself up with so much pain medication that Cato gets his sword stuck in Peeta’s chest while Peeta advances on him, distracting Cato long enough for Glimmer and Katniss to kill him]]

** Talking with Rue and Katniss gives Glimmer a fresh perspective on life in the outer Districts that she’d never considered, leaving her disturbed to realise how many families in the further Districts have to rely on their children to help themselves survive where Glimmer’s parents have no real ‘need’ for her assistance.
** On a minor note, this same conversation results in Katniss and Glimmer learning that Rue didn’t know what a virgin was, with Glimmer in particular reflecting that a child who doesn’t even know about sex really shouldn’t be in the Games.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Katniss accuses Gale of this in ''Viam Eorum'', stating that his desire to rely on himself rather than accept her charity could have got him killed when he went into the mines, and he can’t compare their experiences as Tributes as the Quarter Quell was basically a joke compared to the previous Games as Gale had a comfortable place to stay and everyone he cared about got out alive where Katniss and Glimmer faced harsher conditions and had to see three of their allies get killed.

** As in canon, Haymitch soon establishes a ‘reputation’ for making valid points even if ‘his’ Tributes (now unofficially including Glimmer) don’t get along with him as a person.
** When Johanna and Enoboria advocate a more brutal campaign of attacking anyone even associated with the Capitol rather than just focusing on the Peacekeepers and Capitol residents, Haymitch acknowledges that their proposed plan could work, even if he makes it clear that it’s not the only plan they could use and he would prefer alternatives himself.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Cashmere [[spoiler:is killed when she attempts to force Katniss and Glimmer to ‘attend their appointment’]].
* LastStand: [[spoiler:Katniss, Glimmer and Gale contemplated rushing for the Cornucopia and taking out as many of the other Tributes/Victors as they can in a final stand before they die in the Quarter Quell, but Haymitch tells them about the plan to get some of the Victors out of the Quell so that they’ll abandon that plan]].

* LoveRevelationEpiphany: Katniss already knew she had strong feelings for Glimmer, but they only explicitly say ‘I love you’ [[spoiler:after Glimmer is nearly killed by a Capitol bio-weapon]].
* MeaningfulName: Subverted in the case of Marvel, as even Haymitch muses that he’s far from a ‘marvel’ in terms of a traditional Career as he has nothing special going for him.

* MutualKill: In ''Everyone Loves a Victor'', [[spoiler:new Career Tributes Flash and Otho kill each other before any of the opposing Alliance members have to do so, leaving Finnick and Enoboria free to join Katniss and Glimmer’s alliance as they escape]].
* NoodleIncident: Katniss and Glimmer’s treatment of Rue [[spoiler:and Finch]] after their deaths actually inspired full-on riots in Districts Eleven [[spoiler:and Five]] as they actually showed true respect to their allies rather than discarding them after death as traditional Tributes should.
* NotSoDifferent: In ''Viam Eorum'', [[spoiler:the escaped Victors call out District Thirteen on trying to control them by using Glimmer’s parents as hostages, which is basically what the Capitol were doing at the beginning]].

* ObfuscatingStupidity: Glimmer admits that she basically relied on this to get through the Academy, feigning just enough of an air-headedness for people to underestimate her while still demonstrating her skills with weapons and various forms of combat so that she’d get into the Games.
* OffWithHisHead: In ''Viam Eorum'', during the assault on District Five, [[spoiler:the fight is essentially over after Glimmer cuts the Mayor’s head off]].

* PrisonerExchange: In a sense; ''Viam Eorum'' [[spoiler:sees District Thirteen attempt to trade Glimmer’s mother for Beetee, but the Victors take Glimmer’s mother away without trading Beetee in turn, and Beetee was never a prisoner for them anyway]].
* RealityEnsues: In ''Viam Eorum'', [[spoiler:while Katniss and Glimmer’s new ‘alliance’ of Victors rejects working with the Capitol and District 13, they freely acknowledge amongst themselves that they have no real idea how to run a war and appreciate their limits as military leaders and instructors, such as Prim knowing limited real medicine or the tactics Glimmer learned at the Academy being difficult to adapt to large-scale campaigns]].
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Peeta tries to give one to Glimmer about how she only knows how to kill where his family can at least make something that gives people life and support, but Glimmer counters that she doesn’t think she’s better than him because she knows how to fight, but because she actually did something in the Games where Peeta has basically spent the Games trying (and failing) to trick the other Careers and accomplishing nothing but getting himself hurt.
* RefugeInAudacity: In ''Viam Eorum'', when [[spoiler:Glimmer is injured by a Capitol bio-weapon that Prim can’t treat on her own, Madge has the idea that they get treatment from a hospital in District One as the most likely place outside of the Capitol to have an antidote for the weapon, intending to pass Glimmer off as some unnamed celebrity, Katniss as her girlfriend, Madge as her manager and Gale as her bodyguard to get them through the door]].
* SanitySlippage: Cashmere demonstrates that she’s fallen victim to this when [[spoiler:she insists on Glimmer and Katniss keeping their ‘appointment’ with her even as the Capitol is being bombed]].
* SexSlave: As in canon, Glimmer and Katniss face this fate once they win their Games, [[spoiler:but various factors prevent them from ever attending any ‘appointments’]].
* ShipToShipCombat: [[spoiler:Cinna]] essentially ‘weaponises’ this when [[spoiler:he]] anonymously creates a mass of merchandise focused on the idea of Katniss with Peeta and/or Glimmer during the Games, encouraging the Capitol citizens to root for Katniss to end up with one or the other. This goes so far as to culminate in [[spoiler:an actual riot when the Games organisers don’t immediately announce that the contest is over or that the new rule is invalid after Peeta’s death as the ‘fans’ resent the implication that neither of their ‘ships’ were ever going to be allowed to win]].
* ShippingTorpedo:
** While Johanna flirts with Glimmer in ''Everyone Loves a Victor'', in ''Viam Eorum'' Glimmer affirms to Johanna that she just isn’t feeling any real chemistry with her.

* SmarmyHost: Caesar Flickerman still comes across as this, although he continues his more ‘sympathetic’ attitude when talking with Katniss and Glimmer about the deaths of [[spoiler:Rue, Finch and Peeta in particular]].
* TheSmartGuy: Beetee is this for the rest of the Victors [[spoiler:in Glimmer and Katniss’s new independent rebellion]].
* SpannerInTheWorks: The Gamemakers attempt to turn Peeta into this by introducing a revised rule that two Tributes can win if they’re in an alliance prior to the end of the Games just as Katniss and Glimmer find Peeta, in the hopes of triggering a conflict between the three over which of their ‘team’ should survive.

** Glimmer, originally Katniss’s first victim in the 74th Games, now becomes her partner in first the Games, then [[spoiler:the rebellion, and finally in a romantic sense]].
** [[spoiler:Cinna escapes his canon death to more officially join Katniss’s rebellion]].
* StalkingIsLove: Peeta acknowledged that his interest in Katniss might be considered stalking as he spends so much time watching her, but he ‘argued’ that it wasn’t a crime to want to know more about the person you love.

** Basically Glimmer’s reasons for working with Katniss in the first place; as Glimmer sees it, going off on her own would be automatic suicide if she’s caught by her former allies, but staying with the Career Pack means that she would almost certainly get stabbed in the back once the remaining non-Career Tributes are dead. By allying with Katniss, the most capable non-Career in the Games, Glimmer can be assured of an ally that both won’t betray her at a moment’s notice and will give her an interesting challenge when the time comes for the final battle

* TakingYouWithMe: On their first night in the Capitol prior to the Quarter Quell, [[spoiler:Katniss, Glimmer and Gale decide that the best they can hope for is to take the Cornucopia in the opening fight and eliminate as many of the Careers as they can before they’re killed, as Snow won’t allow any of them to live]].
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Invoked in a sense when [[spoiler:Glimmer kills Clove by slitting her throat and stabbing her in the heart; however, Glimmer later clarifies that the initial attack was just meant to make Clove stop her current charge and create an opening for the subsequent thrust, but Clove was so focused on her attack that the obvious threat of the sword didn’t register]].
* TokenGoodTeammate: As far as the District One Tributes and Victors can be considered a ‘team’, this term definitely applies to Glimmer as she comes to respect the strengths of non-Career Tributes and take time to understand life in the outer Districts, to the extent that she expresses disgust at the idea that her ‘fellow’ District One Victors are almost certainly encouraging next year’s Tributes to basically torture District Twelve’s Tributes in the next Games (before they learn the new ‘rule’ of the Quarter Quell).
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: A neat summary of Katniss and Glimmer’s dynamic, with Katniss rougher around the edges and with little clue about how to use her femininity while Glimmer is the better dressed and more obviously attractive, even if they’re each skilled fighters.

* TookALevelInBadass: Katniss and Gale get this when Glimmer sets up her own ‘Academy’ in District Twelve to train them both, recognising that the Capitol will do everything it can to put the three of them in the next Games.
* TrapIsTheOnlyOption: Used at the conclusion of the Seventy-Fourth and Seventy-Fifth Games, created by both the Gamemakers and [[spoiler:Katniss, Gale and Glimmer]] respectively; all parties know that they’re being lured together for a final showdown, but accept that they can fight now when reasonably prepared or fight later when at least one of them won’t be in a suitable state to do so.

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Snow is an obvious example, but Cashmere is another one, with Glimmer [[spoiler:expressing disgust when she finds Prim watching Cashmere’s funeral on TV and the announcer is talking about her death as though it’s a tragic loss, prompting Glimmer to tell Prim some details of what Cashmere was really like]].
* WorthyOpponent: Glimmer initially teams up with Katniss specifically because she recognises that Katniss has the potential to be a worthy opponent when the Games come down to just the two of them, where the other Careers are more likely to end their alliance by stabbing Glimmer in the back and the other non-Career Tributes don’t have the skill to give Glimmer a real fight.

* WrongGenreSavvy: Arguably applies to Glimmer, as she refers to herself as the ‘main character’ of the Quarter Quell in ''Viam Eorum''.

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Snow is an obvious example, but Cashmere is another one, with Glimmer [[spoiler:expressing disgust when she finds Prim watching Cashmere’s funeral on TV and talking about her death as though it’s a tragic loss, prompting Glimmer to tell Prim some details of what Cashmere was really like]].

* EveryoneHasStandards: ''Viam Eorum'' establishes that [[spoiler:Enobaria is this; she might have killed in a brutal manner in the Games, but she makes it clear to Katniss and Glimmer’s allies that she only kills when she has to, and is willing to work with others she can trust]].

* WouldHurtAChild: This being a ''Hunger Games'' fic, violence against children was obviously going to be a factor, but ''Viam Eorum'' [[spoiler:sees Enoboria and Johanna cross that line themselves when they kill the mayor of District Seven, his wife and their two children, with the rest of their group feeling that they should be better than the Capitol rather than sink to their level]].

* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Cato]] is killed with an arrow to the eye.

* JerkassHasAPoint: As in canon, Haymitch soon establishes a ‘reputation’ for making valid points even if ‘his’ Tributes (now unofficially including Glimmer) don’t get along with him as a person.

* ShippingTorpedo: While Johanna flirts with Glimmer in ''Everyone Loves a Victor'', in ''Viam Eorum'' Glimmer affirms to Johanna that she just isn’t feeling any real chemistry with her.

* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: Katniss, Glimmer and Gale demonstrate a perfect example of this in ''Everyone Loves a Victor'' when [[spoiler:they silently come up with a plan to take out six mutts that had been sent after them, luring them into an ambush while making it look like the trio just split up and abandoned each other to their fates]].

* Foil:

* WorthyOpponent: Glimmer initially teams up with Katniss specifically because she recognises that Katniss has the potential to be a worthy opponent when the Games come down to just the two of them, where the other Careers are more likely to end their alliance by stabbing Glimmer in the back and the other non-Career Tributes don’t have the skill to give Glimmer a real fight.

** During the Quarter Quell in Everybody Loves a Victor, [[spoiler:new District One Tribute Flash initially venerates Finnick, but eventually dismisses him as a weakling who gets too worked up about ‘worthless’ Tributes such as Annie, stabbing him in such a manner that Finnick will die slowly and painfully (although giving him enough time to be taken for medical treatment)]].

* MutualKill: In Everybody Loves a Victor, [[spoiler:new Career Tributes Flash and Otho kill each other before any of the opposing Alliance members have to do so, leaving Finnick and Enoboria free to join Katniss and Glimmer’s alliance as they escape]].

* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: Katniss, Glimmer and Gale demonstrate a perfect example of this in Everybody Loves a Victor when [[spoiler:they silently come up with a plan to take out six mutts that had been sent after them, luring them into an ambush while making it look like the trio just split up and abandoned each other to their fates]].

* AdatiationalSexuality: [[spoiler:Katniss has a romantic and sexual relationship with Glimmer, although given Katniss’s canonically-established issues with romance it’s hard to say definitively that she never felt that way towards any girls in canon]].