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* Abram[[note]]District 9, 69th Games[[/note]] is bullied for most of his life, has a bad TheseHandsHaveKilled reaction to his first death, becomes a joke for Capitol pundits until [[FormerlyFat he starts working out]] and suffers severe body confidence issues afterwards anyway. When the Rebellion broke out, he loses his mentor and several friends in the first battle at the viewing center, and he returns to help with the Rebellion in 9 to find his beloved mother hanged in front of their sweet shop.

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* Abram[[note]]District 9, 69th Games[[/note]] is bullied for most of his life, has a bad TheseHandsHaveKilled reaction to his the first death, death he causes, becomes a joke for Capitol pundits until [[FormerlyFat he starts working out]] and suffers severe body confidence issues afterwards anyway. When the Rebellion broke out, he loses his mentor and several friends in the first battle at the viewing center, and he returns to help with the Rebellion in 9 to find his beloved mother hanged in front of their sweet shop.
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* Abram[[note]]District 9, 69th Games[[/note]] is bullied for most of his life, has a bad TheseHandsHaveKilled reaction to his first death, becomes a joke for Capitol pundits until [[FormerlyFat he starts working out]] and suffers severe body confidence issues afterwards anyway. When the Rebellion broke out, he loses his mentor and several friends in the first battle at the viewing center, and he returns to help with the Rebellion in 9 to find his beloved mother hanged in front of their sweet shop.

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* Abram[[note]]District 9, 69th Games[[/note]] is bullied for most of his life, has a bad TheseHandsHaveKilled reaction to his first death, becomes a joke for Capitol pundits until [[FormerlyFat he starts working out]] and suffers severe body confidence issues afterwards anyway. When the Rebellion broke out, he loses his mentor and several friends in the first battle at the viewing center, and he returns to help with the Rebellion in 9 to find his beloved mother hanged in front of their sweet shop.shop.

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put the victors in chronological order and added their districts and games numbers for reference.


At least half of the Victors probably qualify at one point or another in their lives (with a good share of StoicWoobie's and JerkassWoobie's) but some stand out.

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At least half of the Victors probably qualify at one point or another in their lives (with a good share of StoicWoobie's {{Stoic Woobie}}s and JerkassWoobie's) {{Jerkass Woobie}}s), but some stand out.



** Elena loses her husband and children to Snow's pettiness after a years long HopeSpot that she'd [[EarnYourHappyEnding earned a happy ending]] and becomes a drug addict numb to the world around her.
** Granyte returns from the Games a triple amputee, avoided by the family who he sacrificed everything for.
** Seaward is reaped with his brother's fiancee, forms an alliance with her and is forced to kill her in self-defense, something that it's implied he's never forgiven for back home, causing him to become a junkie.
** Camden suffers from SanitySlippage during his Games and then has to watch his little sister be reaped and die five years later.
** Thisbe is mentally destroyed by a truly sadistic arena, then is subjected to severe {{Gaslighting}} during her victory tour, and used as a scapegoat for Snow's first KlingonPromotion.
** Mitt is a jovial ClassClown who manages to survive the arctic arena [[VictoryByEndurance without a kill]] but comes out with heavy frostbite and even deeper mental scars that cause him to spend the rest of his life shot up on morphling due to always feeling the cold from the arena; constantly slumping over and drooling in public, and sleeping on the floor as close to his heater as he can.
** Abram is bullied for most of his life, has a bad TheseHandsHaveKilled reaction to his first death, becomes a joke for Capitol pundits until [[FormerlyFat he starts working out]] and suffers severe body confidence issues afterwards anyway. When the Rebellion broke out he looses his mentor and several friends in the first battle at the viewing center and he returns to help with the Rebellion in 9 to find his beloved mother hanged in front of their sweet shop.
** Wonder was torn away from a happy childhood to what he described as years of "hell" at the [=DAEYD=]. He Volunteers for the Games to avoid being sold as a concubine and then found out that he would still becomes a SexSlave anyway, with his boyfriend being killed and dismembered when they try to flee District 1 even as Wonder was sent to his first customer. He spends the rest of his life as a drug addict and kills himself after a decade due to being convinced the abuse would never end [[GaveUpTooSoon just a few months before District 1 got their next male victor, who might have taken some of the unwelcome attention and pressure from the people Snow pimped Wonder out to]].
** Seeder's brother is killed or made an Avox by the Capitol and her father suffers brain damage. She is whipped badly at a young age, and nearly starves to death in her arena. She is pushed into supporting Snow during the SuccessionCrisis despite severe (and correct) reservations about it. In 43 years she only saves the life of a single tribute. Her husband is murdered by the Capitol in a show of dominance. And throughout all of that [[StoicWoobie she never lets herself cry]].
** Haymitch, as per canon. He never saves a tribute before Katniss and Peeta, has his ally die in the Games, loses his family back in 12, and spends the rest of his life remembering the names of ''all 47'' of the kids who died so he could come home no matter how hard he drinks, while unable to hang onto happier memories like the color of his girlfriend's eyes.
** Blight is falsely accused of being a peacekeeper's illegitimate son at a young age. His mother is taken from the District and his father, brothers and most of their neighbors spend the next decade or so beating and starving Blight. And then he has to suffer still additional scorn from them due to the districts (at the time) homophobia. His own family [[GotVolunteered volunteers him for the Games without his knowledge]], his best friend in the Games is dismembered alive for seven hours in front of him. His District partner suffers a bad mental breakdown in front of him. And when it looks like he'd finally gotten a happy ending a lot of the people he cared about, including the man he loves, die while being used as {{Unwitting Test Subject}}s for a Capitol bio-weapon.
** Cecelia has to become a prostitute at fourteen to feed her family. Her father drinks himself to death out of worry for her while she's in the arena. She has a pretty traumatizing time (having to kill a lot of people, being BuriedAlive for several days etc.) and years after her Games [[spoiler:Her sister is reaped for Enobaria's Games]].
** Chevy [[AllTheOtherReindeer spends most of his life being shunned by every other victor besides the ones he mentors]], suffers from very bad shell-shock, sees both of the tributes he managed to save die in the Quell, is a bit of a DeathSeeker by the time the Mockingjay Rebellion breaks out, and after his death his beloved family arre used as hostages and puppets by the various gangs seeking power over the District, and many die as a result.
** Enobaria is orphaned in a landslide at a young age. She is captured and tortured by marauders living outside of the Districts who brutally kill her three closest friends. She is convinced to volunteer for the Games (having to MercyKill an ally who was tortured pretty badly and being betrayed by friends) to get revenge only for it to come at the cost of being forced to save as Snow's personal assassin despite realizing how it wasn't worth it almost from the beginning.
** Cashmere grows up without many friends and joined the [=DAEYD=] just to avoid being separated from her twin brother. She tries to drop out after he won the 63rd Hunger Games but is forced to go into the 64th Games anyway. She watches her brother suffer from a bad case of MurderMakesYouCrazy and has some of the worst SexSlave treatment of the victors. Her father is killed at Snow's order. And eleven years after her Games she is selected to be reaped for the 3rd Quarter Quell despite clearly not wanting to go back there. [[spoiler:And upon offering to help the Rebel tributes is told that the best way to do so would be to play the villain and distract the Capitol, while also requesting death for herself and her brother in the arena]].

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** Elena loses her husband and children to Snow's pettiness after a years long HopeSpot that she'd [[EarnYourHappyEnding earned a happy ending]] and becomes a drug addict numb to the world around her.
** Granyte returns from the Games a triple amputee, avoided by the family who he sacrificed everything for.
** Seaward
* Seaward[[note]]District 4, 8th Games[[/note]] is reaped with his brother's fiancee, fiancée, forms an alliance with her and is forced to kill her in self-defense, something that it's implied he's never forgiven for back home, causing him to become a junkie.
** Camden * Camden[[note]]District 12, 10th Games[[/note]] suffers from SanitySlippage during his Games and then has to watch his little sister be reaped and die five years later.
** Thisbe * Granyte[[note]]District 2, 18th Games[[/note]] returns from the Games a triple amputee, avoided by the family who he sacrificed everything for.
* Thisbe[[note]]District 4, 21st Games[[/note]]
is mentally destroyed by a truly sadistic arena, then is subjected to severe {{Gaslighting}} {{gaslighting}} during her victory tour, Victory Tour, and used as a scapegoat for Snow's first KlingonPromotion.
** Mitt is a jovial ClassClown who manages to survive the arctic arena [[VictoryByEndurance without a kill]] but comes out with heavy frostbite and even deeper mental scars that cause him to spend the rest * Chevy[[note]]District 6, 28th Games[[/note]] [[AllTheOtherReindeer spends most of his life shot up on morphling due to always feeling being shunned by every other Victor besides the cold from the arena; constantly slumping over and drooling in public, and sleeping on the floor as close to his heater as ones he can.
** Abram is bullied for most of his life, has a bad TheseHandsHaveKilled reaction to his first death, becomes a joke for Capitol pundits until [[FormerlyFat he starts working out]] and
mentors]], suffers severe body confidence issues afterwards anyway. When from very bad shell-shock, sees both of the tributes he managed to save die in the Quell, is a bit of a DeathSeeker by the time the Mockingjay Rebellion broke out he looses breaks out; and after his mentor and several friends in the first battle at the viewing center and he returns to help with the Rebellion in 9 to find death, his beloved mother hanged family are used as hostages and puppets by the various gangs seeking power over the District, and many die as a result.
* Seeder[[note]]District 11, 31st Games[[/note]]'s brother is killed or made an Avox by the Capitol and her father suffers brain damage. She is whipped badly at a young age, and nearly starves to death
in front her arena. She is pushed into supporting Snow during the SuccessionCrisis despite severe (and correct) reservations about it. In 43 years, she only saves the life of their sweet shop.
** Wonder
a single tribute. Her husband is murdered by the Capitol in a show of dominance. And throughout all of that, [[StoicWoobie she never lets herself cry]].
* Elena[[note]]District 10, 34th Games[[/note]] loses her husband and children to Snow's pettiness after a years-long HopeSpot that she'd [[EarnYourHappyEnding earned a happy ending]] and becomes a drug addict numb to the world around her.
* Wonder[[note]]District 1, 38th Games[[/note]]
was torn away from a happy childhood to what he described as years of "hell" at the [=DAEYD=]. He Volunteers for the Games to avoid being sold as a concubine and then found out that he would still becomes a SexSlave anyway, with his boyfriend being killed and dismembered when they try to flee District 1 even as Wonder was sent to his first customer. He spends the rest of his life as a drug addict and kills himself after a decade due to being convinced the abuse would never end [[GaveUpTooSoon just a few months before District 1 got their next male victor, who might have taken some of the unwelcome attention and pressure from the people Snow pimped Wonder out to]].
** Seeder's brother is killed or made an Avox by the Capitol and her father suffers brain damage. She is whipped badly at a young age, and nearly starves to death in her arena. She is pushed into supporting Snow during the SuccessionCrisis despite severe (and correct) reservations about it. In 43 years she only saves the life of a single tribute. Her husband is murdered by the Capitol in a show of dominance. And throughout all of that [[StoicWoobie she never lets herself cry]].
** Haymitch,
* Haymitch[[note]]District 12, 50th Games[[/note]], as per canon. He never saves a tribute before Katniss and Peeta, has his ally die in the Games, loses his family back in 12, and spends the rest of his life remembering the names of ''all 47'' of the kids who died so he could come home no matter how hard he drinks, while unable to hang onto happier memories like the color of his girlfriend's eyes.
** Blight * Blight[[note]]District 7, 52nd Games[[/note]] is falsely accused of being a peacekeeper's Peacekeeper's illegitimate son at a young age. His mother is taken from the District and his father, brothers and most of their neighbors spend the next decade or so beating and starving Blight. And then he has to suffer still additional scorn from them due to the districts District's (at the time) homophobia. His own family [[GotVolunteered volunteers Volunteers him for the Games without his knowledge]], then his best friend in the Games is dismembered alive for seven hours in front of him. His District partner suffers a bad mental breakdown in front of him. And when it looks like he'd finally gotten a happy ending ending, a lot of the people he cared about, including the man he loves, die while being used as {{Unwitting Test Subject}}s for a Capitol bio-weapon.
** Cecelia * Mitt[[note]]District 6, 55th Games[[/note]] is a jovial ClassClown who manages to survive the Antarctic arena [[VictoryByEndurance without a kill]] but comes out with heavy frostbite and even deeper mental scars that cause him to spend the rest of his life shot up on morphling due to always feeling the cold from the arena; constantly slumping over and drooling in public, and sleeping on the floor as close to his heater as he can.
* Cecelia[[note]]District 8, 57th Games[[/note]]
has to become a prostitute [[{{Streetwalker}} prostitute]] at fourteen to feed her family. Her father drinks himself to death out of worry for her while she's in the arena. She has a pretty traumatizing time (having to kill a lot of people, being BuriedAlive for several days etc.) and years after her Games [[spoiler:Her Games, [[spoiler:her sister is reaped for Enobaria's Games]].
** Chevy [[AllTheOtherReindeer spends most of his life being shunned by every other victor besides the ones he mentors]], suffers from very bad shell-shock, sees both of the tributes he managed to save die in the Quell, is a bit of a DeathSeeker by the time the Mockingjay Rebellion breaks out, and after his death his beloved family arre used as hostages and puppets by the various gangs seeking power over the District, and many die as a result.
** Enobaria
* Enobaria[[note]]District 2, 62nd Games[[/note]] is orphaned in a landslide at a young age. She is captured and tortured by marauders living outside of the Districts who brutally kill her three closest friends. She is convinced to volunteer Volunteer for the Games (having to MercyKill an ally who was tortured pretty badly and being betrayed by friends) to get revenge revenge, only for it to come at the cost of being forced to save as Snow's personal assassin despite realizing how it wasn't worth it almost from the beginning.
** Cashmere * Cashmere[[note]]District 1, 64th Games[[/note]] grows up without many friends and joined the [=DAEYD=] just to avoid being separated from her twin brother. She tries to drop out after he won the 63rd Hunger Games but is forced to go into the 64th Games anyway. She watches her brother suffer from a bad case of MurderMakesYouCrazy and has some of the worst SexSlave treatment of the victors. Victors. Her father is killed at on Snow's order. orders. And eleven years after her Games Games, she is selected to be reaped for the 3rd Quarter Quell despite clearly not wanting to go back there. [[spoiler:And upon offering to help the Rebel tributes is told that the best way to do so would be to play the villain and distract the Capitol, while also requesting death for herself and her brother in the arena]].arena.]]
* Abram[[note]]District 9, 69th Games[[/note]] is bullied for most of his life, has a bad TheseHandsHaveKilled reaction to his first death, becomes a joke for Capitol pundits until [[FormerlyFat he starts working out]] and suffers severe body confidence issues afterwards anyway. When the Rebellion broke out, he loses his mentor and several friends in the first battle at the viewing center, and he returns to help with the Rebellion in 9 to find his beloved mother hanged in front of their sweet shop.
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At least half of the Victors probably qualify at one point or another in their lives (with a good share of StoicWoobie's and JerkassWoobie's) but some stand out.
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** Elena loses her husband and children to Snow's pettiness after a years long HopeSpot that she'd [[EarnYourHappyEnding earned a happy ending]] and becomes a drug addict numb to the world around her.
** Granyte returns from the Games a triple amputee, avoided by the family who he sacrificed everything for.
** Seaward is reaped with his brother's fiancee, forms an alliance with her and is forced to kill her in self-defense, something that it's implied he's never forgiven for back home, causing him to become a junkie.
** Camden suffers from SanitySlippage during his Games and then has to watch his little sister be reaped and die five years later.
** Thisbe is mentally destroyed by a truly sadistic arena, then is subjected to severe {{Gaslighting}} during her victory tour, and used as a scapegoat for Snow's first KlingonPromotion.
** Mitt is a jovial ClassClown who manages to survive the arctic arena [[VictoryByEndurance without a kill]] but comes out with heavy frostbite and even deeper mental scars that cause him to spend the rest of his life shot up on morphling due to always feeling the cold from the arena; constantly slumping over and drooling in public, and sleeping on the floor as close to his heater as he can.
** Abram is bullied for most of his life, has a bad TheseHandsHaveKilled reaction to his first death, becomes a joke for Capitol pundits until [[FormerlyFat he starts working out]] and suffers severe body confidence issues afterwards anyway. When the Rebellion broke out he looses his mentor and several friends in the first battle at the viewing center and he returns to help with the Rebellion in 9 to find his beloved mother hanged in front of their sweet shop.
** Wonder was torn away from a happy childhood to what he described as years of "hell" at the [=DAEYD=]. He Volunteers for the Games to avoid being sold as a concubine and then found out that he would still becomes a SexSlave anyway, with his boyfriend being killed and dismembered when they try to flee District 1 even as Wonder was sent to his first customer. He spends the rest of his life as a drug addict and kills himself after a decade due to being convinced the abuse would never end [[GaveUpTooSoon just a few months before District 1 got their next male victor, who might have taken some of the unwelcome attention and pressure from the people Snow pimped Wonder out to]].
** Seeder's brother is killed or made an Avox by the Capitol and her father suffers brain damage. She is whipped badly at a young age, and nearly starves to death in her arena. She is pushed into supporting Snow during the SuccessionCrisis despite severe (and correct) reservations about it. In 43 years she only saves the life of a single tribute. Her husband is murdered by the Capitol in a show of dominance. And throughout all of that [[StoicWoobie she never lets herself cry]].
** Haymitch, as per canon. He never saves a tribute before Katniss and Peeta, has his ally die in the Games, loses his family back in 12, and spends the rest of his life remembering the names of ''all 47'' of the kids who died so he could come home no matter how hard he drinks, while unable to hang onto happier memories like the color of his girlfriend's eyes.
** Blight is falsely accused of being a peacekeeper's illegitimate son at a young age. His mother is taken from the District and his father, brothers and most of their neighbors spend the next decade or so beating and starving Blight. And then he has to suffer still additional scorn from them due to the districts (at the time) homophobia. His own family [[GotVolunteered volunteers him for the Games without his knowledge]], his best friend in the Games is dismembered alive for seven hours in front of him. His District partner suffers a bad mental breakdown in front of him. And when it looks like he'd finally gotten a happy ending a lot of the people he cared about, including the man he loves, die while being used as {{Unwitting Test Subject}}s for a Capitol bio-weapon.
** Cecelia has to become a prostitute at fourteen to feed her family. Her father drinks himself to death out of worry for her while she's in the arena. She has a pretty traumatizing time (having to kill a lot of people, being BuriedAlive for several days etc.) and years after her Games [[spoiler:Her sister is reaped for Enobaria's Games]].
** Chevy [[AllTheOtherReindeer spends most of his life being shunned by every other victor besides the ones he mentors]], suffers from very bad shell-shock, sees both of the tributes he managed to save die in the Quell, is a bit of a DeathSeeker by the time the Mockingjay Rebellion breaks out, and after his death his beloved family arre used as hostages and puppets by the various gangs seeking power over the District, and many die as a result.
** Enobaria is orphaned in a landslide at a young age. She is captured and tortured by marauders living outside of the Districts who brutally kill her three closest friends. She is convinced to volunteer for the Games (having to MercyKill an ally who was tortured pretty badly and being betrayed by friends) to get revenge only for it to come at the cost of being forced to save as Snow's personal assassin despite realizing how it wasn't worth it almost from the beginning.
** Cashmere grows up without many friends and joined the [=DAEYD=] just to avoid being separated from her twin brother. She tries to drop out after he won the 63rd Hunger Games but is forced to go into the 64th Games anyway. She watches her brother suffer from a bad case of MurderMakesYouCrazy and has some of the worst SexSlave treatment of the victors. Her father is killed at Snow's order. And eleven years after her Games she is selected to be reaped for the 3rd Quarter Quell despite clearly not wanting to go back there. [[spoiler:And upon offering to help the Rebel tributes is told that the best way to do so would be to play the villain and distract the Capitol, while also requesting death for herself and her brother in the arena]].

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