1 | ''The Capitol Series'' is a series of fanfictions based on ''Literature/TheHungerGames'', published on Website/FanfictionDotNet by author [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2113874/Claratrix_LeChatham Claratrix Le Chatham]]. The series currently consists of three works: ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5651370/1/A_Capitol_Experience A Capitol Experience]]'', ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6230763/1/Capitol_Punishment Capitol Punishment]]'', and ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6560631/1/With_a_Capitol_G With A Capitol G]]''. |
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4 | !!Provides examples of: |
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6 | %%* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:Soren snapping Lecia's neck.]] |
7 | * ActionGirl: |
8 | ** Several, mostly Careers, but Demetra is probably in the running for most triumphant example. |
9 | ** Kali would like to contest that assertion, though she is more of a DarkActionGirl herself. |
10 | * ActionSurvivor: |
11 | ** Lectic, definitely. He is alive thanks to a generous amount of intervention on Demetra's part, and a good amount of luck and intelligence on his own. |
12 | ** See also Carden, Hypatia, Holland, Actassi... most of the non-Careers who actually... y'know, survived. The bloodbath, anyway. |
13 | * ActionDuo: Lectic and Demetra do pretty well for themselves, though Demetra would sooner cut her tongue out than admit it. |
14 | * AerithAndBob: Rachel/Asha/Tanner/Diane: all relatively typical names. Auroch/Hetcher/Rippel/Pasque: not so much. |
15 | %%* AlphaBitch: Lycra. |
16 | %%* AlternateUniverseFic: Each and every one of them. |
17 | %%* AntiHero: Soren, Lucian, Demetra... a good portion of the Careers. |
18 | * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: ''He is prepared to...shoot? Explode? Blast fire? Serve pancakes?'' |
19 | * AxeCrazy: |
20 | ** Demetra is flamethrower crazy. |
21 | ** [[spoiler: Chalice starts going this way, too, until Diele kills her.]] |
22 | * TheBerserker:[[spoiler: Diele puts an end to it pretty quickly, but Chalice seemed to be turning into one.]] |
23 | * BloodSport: The Hunger Games. |
24 | * BrainlessBeauty: Twyla. Though she's prefectly aware of her effect on Sherman, and is smart enough to [[TheVamp use it to her advantage]]. |
25 | * BrainsAndBrawn: In ''Capitol Punishment'', Lectic is brains and Demetra is brawns. |
26 | %%* TheBrute: |
27 | %%** Martial. |
28 | %%** Bond from ''A Capitol Experience'', and, debatably, Royce. |
29 | * CatScare: Lucian hears a noise in the bushes and pulls his gun on it. A squirrel runs out. [[spoiler:A subversion, as we know it's actually Lissom hiding there, with the squirrel just being pretty convenient for her.]] |
30 | %%* ChildrenForcedToKill: And not-so-forced, in some cases. |
31 | %%* ClusterFBomb: Soren and Demetra know how it's done. |
32 | * ComicallyMissingThePoint: Demetra's friends spend most of her interview time gushing over how lucky she is to be in the Hunger Games with a cute guy and a flamethrower. |
33 | * CrackFic: The chapter that replaced the character list in With A Capitol G. |
34 | * CurbStompBattle: Subverted. [[spoiler:Strong, smart Auroch is beaten by not one, but ''two'' of his Games' youngest contestants.]] You gotta feel sorry for the poor guy. |
35 | * CuteKitten: Lectic has a pet kitten. Named Sparky. Can I get an "aww", please? |
36 | %%* DarkHumor |
37 | %%* DeadlyGame: The Hunger Games. |
38 | * DeadpanSnarker: |
39 | ** Demetra informs the readers that snarking is one of her very favorite things to do. |
40 | ** Soren, [[spoiler: her uncle]], shares the trait as well as the trope. |
41 | ** Maren too. |
42 | ** And they all qualify as {{First Person Smartass}}es, too. |
43 | * DeathFromAbove: The mutt that looks like Actassi's mother in ''A Capitol Experience'', and then the GiantFlyer in ''Capitol Punishment''. |
44 | %%* DoomedByCanon: The District 12 tributes in ''A Capitol Experience''. |
45 | * DualWielding: Kali is described as wielding a knife in her left hand a staff in her right. |
46 | %%* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Diane, after her victory.]] |
47 | * EyeScream: |
48 | ** Actassi [[spoiler:kills Kali by stabbing a spear through her eye and into her brain]]. |
49 | ** [[spoiler:Skiff]] gets a quarter launched into his eye. |
50 | * FinalSpeech: |
51 | ** [[spoiler:Hypatia]] delivers a rather haunting one about why people die. |
52 | ** [[spoiler:Lectic and Demetra]] get some final banter. |
53 | * {{Fingore}}: Kali loses part of her thumb, not that she notices. |
54 | %%* FragileSpeedster: Lissom is the poster child. Poor girl can't take a hit, and isn't wonderful at dishing it out in the first place. |
55 | * GallowsHumor: Demetra comments on the morbid jokes she and Lectic make. This continues [[spoiler:all the way up through their final dialogue as they lay shot and dying.]] |
56 | %%* GeniusBruiser: Auroch is [[TheWorfEffect something]] of one. |
57 | * GirlWithPsychoWeapon: A few examples. |
58 | ** Lissom, who carries a little knife and knows how to use it. |
59 | ** Demetra and her [[FireBreathingWeapon flamethrower.]] |
60 | ** By the time she's snapped, [[spoiler: Chalice]] can make a golf club into one of these. |
61 | * GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler: Sherman, because he believes he'll be TogetherInDeath with Twyla.]] |
62 | * GratuitousSpanish: A cryptic author's note in Capitol Punishment. |
63 | * HeroicSacrifice: |
64 | ** [[spoiler:Diane plans to die so Carden can leave the arena. It doesn't work.]] |
65 | ** [[spoiler: Lissom suicidally attacks Lucian so he won't be able to finish off Lectic and Demetra.]] |
66 | * HoldingHands: Demetra takes Lectic's hand [[spoiler:as they lay dying from bullet wounds.]] |
67 | * HomeBase: The cave on the island with the freshwater spring that Hetcher, Diane, and Carden always seem to find their way back to. |
68 | %%** Lectic and Demetra's car. |
69 | %%* ItsQuietTooQuiet: Soren drops one. |
70 | %%* ItHasBeenAnHonor: Lectic to Demetra, [[spoiler:as they part ways.]] |
71 | * IWasBeatenByAGirl: Soren and Kali had an similar dynamic [[spoiler:until she killed him and cut off his jaw]]. |
72 | * JustFriends: Lectic and Demetra. Hetcher and Diane. Diele and Dylan. Maren and Actassi. ''The Capitol Series'' is rife with this trope. |
73 | * KillItWithFire: Demetra's general attitude towards anything that bugs her. The flamethrower helps. |
74 | * LackOfEmpathy: |
75 | ** Lucian. WordOfGod states that he was borderline autistic before suffering a skull fracture, and picked up a few [[TheSociopath worse]] traits accompanying his not-quite-recovery and the encouragement of District Two's warped values. |
76 | ** Kali from aCE was a perfect example of TheSociopath, no genetic disorders involved aside from whatever is going through most District Two DNA. |
77 | * LoveConfession: Aww, [[spoiler: Carden]] and [[spoiler: Hypatia]]. Oops, now [[DyingDeclarationOfLove she's dead.]] |
78 | * MeaningfulName: |
79 | ** The author has a fondness for these, and, luckily, such names or within the relms of canon. |
80 | ** Lissom, lithe and flexible. Auroch (Aurochs), an enormous, extinct breed of cattle comparable to a buffalo. Forester... forester. |
81 | %%* MercyKill: [[spoiler:Lissom to Skiff.]] |
82 | %%* MrFanservice: Lectic, both in and out-of-universe. |
83 | * MomentOfSilence: As an out-of-universe example, Claratrix Le Chatham calls for one in an author's note after [[spoiler:Diele's death.]] |
84 | * MoralityPet: Lecia to Soren, Carden to Franz/Esther/Diane, and, in measure, Lectic to Demetra. |
85 | * MoreDakka: Demetra knows how to fight perfectly well, but prefers the raw power of her flamethower. |
86 | %%* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: Diane after killing Actassi.]] |
87 | * NoFourthWall: The...[[CrackFic very interesting]] chapter used as With A Capitol G's first chapter to hold its place while Capitol Punishment is still underway. |
88 | * NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Chalice snaps. And [[spoiler: Auroch]] is on the receiving end. |
89 | * OhCrap: |
90 | ** [[spoiler: Soren]] knows exactly what's going to happen, exactly who's going to do it, and exactly one syllable to summarize his thought process. |
91 | *** It isn't [[PrecisionFStrike a very nice word]], either. |
92 | ** "Oh crap," is also the first thing Esther says in response to her reaping. Esther, too. |
93 | * OlderThanTheyLook: Head Gamemaker Xenia is quite a bit older than she looks, thanks to the wonders of Capitol beauty treatments. |
94 | %%* OriginalCharacter: At ''least'' twenty-two of 'em per story. |
95 | * OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope: ''All [[SelfInsertFic resemblances]] to any authors, real or imaginary, is [[BlatantLies entirely coincidental]].'' |
96 | * OverlyLongName: Forester Montgomery-Cunningham. |
97 | * PlayfulHacker: Lectic is somewhere between this and TheCracker. He has no ''real'' malicious intent, but he does use his hacking skills for material and monetary gain. |
98 | * PlotTumor: Lectic and Demetra's subplot in Capitol Punichment. Most definitely [[JustFriends ''not'']] a RomanticPlotTumor, though. |
99 | * {{Pun}}: |
100 | ** The author has a sort of love affair with these. ''A Capitol Experience''? A 'capital' experience! ''Capitol Punishment''? 'Capital' punishment. ''With a Capitol G''? With a 'capital' G. |
101 | ** In-universe, Demetra makes a comment to herself about "pushing [the] buttons" of a girl wearing a calculator costume. |
102 | * QuitYourWhining: Demetra really, really doesn't care about other peoples' problems. Especially when they're getting between her and a giant vulture. Even if it's Lectic. |
103 | -->"''LECTIC FOR THE LOVE OF GOD LISTEN TO ME!''" |
104 | * RaisedByGrandparents: Asha chose to move in with her grandmother. |
105 | * RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: Dylan]] embarks on one after [[spoiler: Lucian kills Diele.]] |
106 | * SacrificialLion: Quite a few of them. [[spoiler: A Career or two tends to kick it in the bloodbath, too, adding the less-sympathetic variety.]] |
107 | * SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: The lovely duo that is Lectic and Demetra. Poor, poor Lectic. So, so, [[NotWhatISignedOnFor not what he signed up for.]] |
108 | * SelfInsertFic: An odd variation in the placeholder chapter of With A Capitol G, in which a not-the-author-at-all is certainly ''not'' the author at all, if you catch the drift. |
109 | * ShipTease: With twenty-some-odd teenagers crammed into an emotionally intense setting, you're gonna get some romance. When the author can't get enough of JustFriends, you'll end up with a delight amount of teasing. |
110 | * ShouldntWeBeInSchoolRightNow: |
111 | ** All of the characters are technically young enough to be in school. |
112 | ** Subverted in that a good chunk of the older ones have dropped out, and the games take precedence over ''learning''... |
113 | ** Played straight in that [[spoiler: Diane, the 17 year old victor, is definitely not in school. She has better things to do. Suicidal things.]] |
114 | * SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: The author in With A Capitol G is ''not'' Claratrix Le Chatham herself. [[BlatantLies Of course not.]] |
115 | * ShoutOut: The filler chapter in With A Capitol G feautures the line "Wow, you don't look quite like what I- I mean Clara pictured you, Pen.", with 'Pen' being short for Penelope, one of the author's friends through the website. |
116 | * SlasherSmile: Kali. [[spoiler:She dies smiling over the fact that Actassi got over his fear of her. Not your typical GoOutWithASmile.]] |
117 | * SleepCute: Diane describes herself as sleeping with her head on Hetcher's shoulder. |
118 | * StarCrossedLovers: [[JustFriends There couldn't possibly be anyone like this in the Capitol Series.]] [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial Don't be ridiculous.]] |
119 | %%* StayWithMeUntilIDie: [[spoiler: Esther to Franz.]] |
120 | * SurvivalMantra: |
121 | ** Lectic gets a minor one during his chariot prep. It's PlayedForLaughs. |
122 | --->''Forcefieldsforcefieldsforce... I give up.'' |
123 | ** Lissom's inner monologue has a tendency towards this trope, as well as third person. |
124 | |
125 | * TearsOfRemorse: Actassi, after [[spoiler:the bloodbath, and killing Sherman]].] |
126 | * TemptingFate: |
127 | ** Subverted. As Hetcher bemoans the failure of his attempt to steal the Careers' fever medicine, he says, "But it could be raining, right?" Unlike most times a character says something along these lines, it doesn't start raining. |
128 | ** Played straight with Dylan and Diele. See [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have To Be Birds?]] below. |
129 | * ThemeNaming: |
130 | ** All of the titles include the word "Capitol", usually as a pun where one would expect "capital" to be used instead. |
131 | ** Lectic's prep team members are named Veni, Vidi, and Vici. |
132 | * ThereCanOnlyBeOne: Only one tribute gets to leave the arena alive. |
133 | * ThoroughlyMistakenIdentity: |
134 | ** Very much not PlayedForLaughs. Diane, convinced that not only is Actassi Kali [[spoiler: who is already dead]], but that he somehow killed [[spoiler: Hetcher.]] He's got no clue what's going on, and she is unaware of the mistake until [[spoiler: shortly after she's killed him.]] |
135 | ** On the same vein, [[spoiler: Franz kills Esther believing that she is the Career girl who murdered his sister.]] |
136 | * TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:Demetra, as she lies dying from bullet wounds, takes comfort in the fact she won't die alone and takes Lectic's hand. The only kink being that she lives.]] So, SubvertedTrope. |
137 | * TooDumbToLive: If you know your teammate is a sociopath with a gun, what do you do? Hopefully not confront him about it on your own, as several of Lucian's allies did. |
138 | * TooHappyToLive: Carden was taking everything incredibly well, until he was [[spoiler:crushed by a giant rock.]] Whoops. [[spoiler: If he had any foreknowledge, he would have tried to fit in one last smile...]] |
139 | * TwoOutOfThreeAintBad: Demetra to Lectic. |
140 | -->''"I'm looking for someone smart, strong, and not allied with my dear comrades from before. You know what, Lectic? Two out of three isn't half bad."'' |
141 | -->''"Umm… You're right. It's only a third bad."'' |
142 | * TheUnfettered: Lucian doesn't care who he has to kill, what he has to do. But he doesn't ''exactly'' have a goal, just doesn't want to die. |
143 | * ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption: Good luck getting out of the games without breaking a few necks... or skulls, or just plain indirectly killing other kids. Foxface couldn't do it, and neither can you. |
144 | * [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have To Be Birds?]]: Dylan and Diele share a moment of distaste for avians in general shortly before they are set upon by a flock of terror birds. Diele thinks they are beautiful. Dylan disagrees. |
145 | * WorldOfNoGrandparents: Subverted. Asha's grandmother not only appears, but is her ParentalSubstitute. |
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