Characters / The Victors Project: Fallen Tributes and District Citizens

The Victors Project Character Index
Career Districts | Districts 3–8 | Districts 9–12 and Capitol | Fallen Tributes and District Citizens

"All of their faces. All of their names. They've been filed away by the Capitol as Hunger Games deaths 1199-1221, but to me they will always be the boys and girls who could've come home if it weren't for me."

— Blight Gavin

District 1

Fallen Tributes

Ruby (5th Games)

• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Reduced to this once Plat overpowers her.
• Bullet-Proof Fashion Plate: After swimming several hundred feet and possibly taking part in battles with the other tributes, her hairstyle remains unwet and perfect.
• Les Collaborateurs: Learns to fight with a sword from her father, an officer in the Panem Loyalist Militia.
• Teacher/Student Romance: She has a romantic relationship with her mentor, Luxe.

8th Games Male Tribute

• Didn't Think This Through; He and his allies cut down a tree as a floatation device to paddle out to an island where two rival tributes are. The glint of their knives in the moonlight and the sound of their paddling warn their enemies right away, and said enemies are from District 4 and are strong swimmers who can attack them in the water.
• No Name Given: He is unnamed.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: He abandons the fight and frantically paddles back to shore after losing his companions.

20th Games Male Tribute

• Hypocrite: He mocks the girl from District 6 as an unworthy potential Victor for throwing up during the interviews but throws up himself after his District partner is killed with a thrown axe (although depending on how he viewed her, this could be a case of Hypocritical Heartwarming).
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: He stabs his burly ally from District 2 in the back as the boy tries to drown Wren once they reach the final 4. As a result, Wren lives to kill the boy from District 1 when her would-be drowner might have been too injured to win a fair fight anyway.
• No Name Given: He is unnamed.
• Taking You with Me: He makes it clear to Wren that he can stick her with his sword if she stabs him in an effort to end a Mexican Standoff. He is frightened and shocked when Wren proves willing to stab him anyway and, while he makes good on his promise, Wren survives his blow while he dies from hers.

21st Games Female Tribute

• Didn't Think This Through: In a panicked desire to get out of the suddenly hellish arena as fast as possible, she turns on her alliance. Her whole alliance, without suggesting that they have a free-for-all. She only kills her district partner before the others cut her down.
• No Name Given: She is unnamed.
• Punch-Clock Villain: She and her allies, while still out to hunt and kill the other tributes, find the arena so enchanting that they spend far more time swimming and relaxing to take in the beauty (until the Gamemakers release legions of truly horrible mutts).

Luscious (24th Games)

• Do Unto Others Before They Do Unto Us: Betrays Virtus even earlier than the standard Inevitable Mutual Betrayal, because it's clear he can take out multiple tributes at once.
• Karmic Rape: Deconstructed. Virtus brutally rapes her after she forms a romantic relationship with him but then joins the other Careers in betraying him. But rather than portraying the act as just, her rape is portrayed as horrifying (see Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil below), and Virtus is forever haunted by his terrible act.
• Love-Interest Traitor: Forms a romantic bond with Virtus but joins the Career pack in throwing Virtus off a cliff into the water. She even gives him a Last Kiss right before they toss him.
• Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Virtus brutally rapes and kills her. While him killing her is excused because There Can Only Be One, the rape is treated as especially heinous. The narration simply describes her as "begging him to stop, please stop, not like this" and being "defeated in every way a woman can be defeated."
• Worthy Opponent: Virtus describes her as a "brave and noble fighter" and called it "a privilege to compete against her in the Games." This, however, is just a cover for not wanting to discuss how he raped her.

Gossamer and District One boy (25th Games)

• All Elections Are Serious Business: Gossamer campaigns to be selected for the First Quarter Quell.
• I Just Want to Be Special: Why Gossamer wants to be voted into the Hunger Games. She is told by family that she's special, yet the DAEYD said otherwise when cutting her three months prior.
• Kill Tally: They, together with the District 2 tributes, kill the District 11 tributes as soon as the Games start. They cut and stab them to the point that their bodies are barely recognizable. It is also stated, "The Careers cut down the overconfident and those petrified by fear as cannons begin to sound."
• Killed Offscreen: The boy's death isn't mentioned in Cora's chapter, while Gossamer is said to have been killed with an axe to her skull.
• No Name Given: The duo's names weren't given in both Cora's chapter nor Quell. Subverted during Haymitch's chapter where it's revealed that the unnamed girl's first name is also Gossamer, as her niece (a tribute) was named after her.
• Not Distracted by the Sexy: Cora mentions in Fall Into the River that she tried to seduce the District 1 boy, but he didn't fall for it because "he didn't swing [her] way".

Glitz and Satine (40th Games)

• Combination Attack: Satine is killed in a joint attack by Nolan and Perry (District 4).
• Disney Villain Death: Glitz breaks his neck after falling out of a high tree.
• Kill Tally:
  • Glitz kills one tribute — the District 12 boy.
  • Satine kills two tributes — an unnamed tribute and the District 8 boy.
• Killer Bear Hug: The District 12 boy tries to kill Glitz with this, but Glitz is able to stab him in the neck.
• The Leader: Caesar describes Satine as "an intuitive and natural leader, inspiring her allies to keep moving, keep fighting".

Jet (43rd Games)

• Assumed Win: Justinian Trinket bet his remaining money on himto win the Hunger Games. It doesn't work out well.
• Death Glare: Gives Ermine one as they stand on the stage together after Ermine killed his girlfriend, Topaz.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: Cradles Topaz in his arms after Ermine cuts her throat during a training session at the DAEYD.
• Kill the Ones You Love: Apparently planned on going into the Hunger Games with Topaz, which would have put them in this situation if they both made it far enough. But then Ermine killed Topaz.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Killed at the Cornucopia by Ermine.

45th Games tributes

• Bludgeoned to Death: The girl is beaten to death with a pipe by Chaff.
• Combat Sadomasochist: The girl grinds on the District 2 boy while they watch the District 9 boy die an agonizing death via hanging.
• Final Battle: The boy is the final tribute Chaff kills to become the Victor.
• Head Crushing: Chaff kills the boy by crushing his skull with his one remaining hand.
• Kill Tally: The boy has one — the District 10 girl.
• Love-Interest Traitor: Despite hooking up with the District 2 boy, the girl forms a secret alliance with the District 4 girl. But she never has to betray him, as they get separated and she is killed soon after.
• My Country, Right or Wrong: Luster notes that the boy is "possessed of a certain patriotism that's honestly more suitable to a District 2 brute".
• Out of the Inferno: The girl gets a signal from her mentor Ermine to run from a blazing fire headed their way. She is able to outrun the fire, but then runs into Chaff.
• Realpolitik: The boy betrays the District 2 boy and forms a brief alliance with Chaff, because the Two boy is the strongest remaining tribute and neither of the other two can defeat him alone.
• This Cannot Be!: The boy's reaction when he discovers that Chaff is still immensely strong despite only having one hand.
  District 1 boy: But ... but ... you have only one bloody hand!
  Chaff: One is all I need.

Gossamer Munroe, Dazzle Brooks, Miracle Vermeer, and Turq St. James (50th Games)

• All of the Other Reindeer: Miracle is picked on throughout his entire childhood for having bright orange hair, instead of the usual blond hair commonly seen in District One.
• Blue Blood: Turq is from the St. James family, a Great House.
• Dead Guy Junior: Gossamer is named after her late aunt who competed in the First Quarter Quell.
• Deliberate Under-Performance: Dazzle attempts this for District 1's reaping for the Second Quarter Quell. She hopes to come in second in the foot race to the reaping ball, so she can avoid being the volunteer while still saving face. However, in the heat of the moment she forgets that she needs to come in third and not second to avoid actually volunteering for that particular Games. She ultimately dies during the Cornucopia bloodbath while dispatching one of the girls from 11 (Cornflower), tying in with how District 1 tributes tend to choose death over being a Victor (and thus a Sex Slave).
• Doomed by Canon: It's clear that Haymitch won the Hunger Games, meaning that it's not if they die but when and how.
• Generation Xerox: Gossamer and her aunt both competed in Quarter Quells and died with an axe in their skulls.
• Idiot Ball: Dazzle makes sure to come in second during the race to the stage, forgetting that the Quell includes two pairs of tributes.
• In Touch with His Feminine Side: Turq loved to watch romantic comedies and would cry when the couple has their Hollywood Kiss in the rain.
• Killed Offscreen: Miracle and Turq's deaths aren't mentioned.
• Neck Snap: Dazzle dies during the bloodbath this way.
• O.C. Stand-in: In Catching Fire, Katniss and Peeta notice that Haymitch's final battle was with a girl from District One, who was killed using Haymitch's forcefield trick. Gossamer Munroe is that girl.
• Total Party Kill: All four tributes are killed in the arena.

Alabaster and Link (52nd Games)

• Doomed by Canon: As it's already known that Blight won, it's not if they'll die, but when and how.
• It's All About Me: Link's Interview angle, at least, was acting extremely cocky and self-absorbed.
• Ms. Fanservice: In-universe, this is Alabaster's entire gimmick for getting sponsors, acting "sultry and lush".

Copper and Rarity (54th Games)

• Back-to-Back Badasses: Rarity and Odessa, the District 2 girl, begin to form this after they hear two cannons go off in preparation for the Inevitable Mutual Betrayal. But Priam, the District 2 boy, convinces them it's not time yet.
• Fan Disservice: The remaining Careers in the 54th Games, including both Copper and Rarity, strip down to their underwear, but by this point they are so covered in bruises, wounds, and scratches that they don't expect to get any gifts for doing it.
• Inevitable Mutual Betrayal: Halibut kills Copper once the last outlier tribute is dead, also by Hal's hands.
• Let's Split Up, Gang!: Rarity leaves the remaining Career pack to look for crabapples. She is soon after killed by Halibut.
• My Girl Back Home: Copper has one named Chrysalis. He imagines her comforting him as he's dying.
• Tampering with Food and Drink: Halibut kills Copper by poisoning the fish he serves him.
• Tempting Fate: Lianne, the District 4 girl, warns Rarity that splitting from the group will make her vulnerable to an attack from Halibut. Rarity responds, "I think I can handle a jumped up fishmonger." Turns out she can't.
• Wham Line: Halibut to Copper: "I killed you ten minutes ago as I fed you."

Mink and Zinfandel (57th Games)

• Affectionate Nickname: Zinfandel is also known as "Zin".
• The Family That Slays Together: Mink and Zinfandel are cousins and fellow Career tributes.
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Mink and Zin volunteer for the Hunger Games and are willing to kill helpless children (and each other, despite their blood relation) to bring status and glory to their Nouveau Riche family. How much of it was their idea and how much was forced on them is unclear. According to Cora, neither of them actually make a kill before Mink dies and Zin is badly injured and left with no real chance of victory.
• Kill Tally: Zinfandel got 1 possible kill — the District 10 girl (Jonni).
• Meaningful Appearance: During the Tribute Parade, Zinfandel was dressed in nothing but a purple loincloth with vines of grapes twisted around his chest and arms, reflecting District 1's winemaking industry.
• Meaningful Name: Zinfandel is named after a variety of grape used to produced red wine, hence his attire during the Tribute Parade.
• Off with His Head!: During the fallout the Career pack, Pomponia uses Zinfandel as a Human Shield, causing Ferrus to take his head off.
• Pretty in Mink: Mink wears the fur of her namesake animal in the Tribute Parade and her Interview.
• Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: Zinfandel managed to survive Cecelia's rockslide trap that buried his cousin Mink. However, a junior Gamemaker set off his cannon prematurely, causing the other Careers to believe him to be dead until he returned, prompting a No One Could Survive That! reaction.

Citrine (62nd Games)

• Big Bad Duumvirate: She and Enobaria initially lead the Career pack together, until Enobaria becomes the clear leader following the bear-mutt attack. After that, Citrine is more The Lancer.
• Blood-Splattered Warrior: Is covered in blood after slowly torturing and killing Josephina off-screen.
• Brainless Beauty: Quite beautiful, but she completely subverts the brainless part. She is the most strategically savvy person in the Career pack, forming an early side alliance with Enobaria for the Inevitable Mutual Betrayal and then later convincing Orion to betray both Enobaria and Rob, his two strongest allies. Together they make it all the way to the end until their Final Battle with Baria.
  • She is also the first person to recognize that Orion is gay (though he never explicitly tries to hide it).
• Farm Girl: From pearl farms, which she portrays as poor compared to Mercury’s aristocratic upbringing. Becoming a Victor is her path to a wealthy life.
• Flowers of Femininity: Has flowers woven into her hair for her interview with Caesar Flickerman.
• Girl on Girl Is Hot: Makes out with Enobaria on the second day in hopes of getting food as a reward.
  • She kisses Enobaria again when they escape the freezing maze, but this one seems more genuine.
• Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: Like all the female tributes of the 62nd Games, she begins the Games wearing a ballgown and high heels, but unlike Enobaria, she keeps her heels on throughout the opening bloodbath.
• Kill Tally: At least one tribute — the District 10 girl (Josephina), and her dirk throw contributed to killing the District 9 girl (Savannah). She also likely killed at least one tribute during the opening bloodbath, since she takes a shot at Mercury for not having one.
• Ms. Fanservice: Plays the part of a District 1 female tribute to perfection.
  • Initiates much of the gratuitous sexual activity to gain sponsor support (see Girl on Girl Is Hot, Thanks for the Mammary, and Three-Way Sex).
  • Strips down to her panties when she does She-Fu (see below).
• Mutual Kill: After Enobaria dodges his attack during the final battle, Orion slices Citrine from collarbone to hip, while her glaive spears his abdomen.
• Naginatas Are Feminine: Describes herself as the best glaive fighter in District 1. It's the weapon she uses in her Final Battle with Enobaria.
• No Full Name Given: Her last name isn't mentioned in the fic.
• Sarcastic Clapping: Gives one to Enobaria after Enobaria kills Holsteen, the District 10 boy.
• She-Fu:
  • Employs what Enobaria calls "astonishing gymnastics" to get passed the laser-guarded walk-in closet and get some more comfortable clothes.
  • Demonstrates these skills during her Final Battle with Enobaria, doing aeriels over her glaive shaft to avoid Baria's blows.
• Thanks for the Mammary: At the end of her She-Fu, she stumbles forward, but Rob catches her by the breasts. It's not stated if she did this on purpose, but given her role as Ms. Fanservice, it's quite likely.
• Three-Way Sex: Has one with Orion and Tiller and gets rewarded with a pair of boots.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Develops this dynamic with Enobaria, with Citrine as the Girly Girl.

Mercury Dustell (62nd Games)

• Aloof Ally: Citrine describes him as a bit of a loner early on, and he is the most resistant to Enobaria's leadership, though he eventually falls in line and even reluctantly helps Orion when Orion gets injured.
  • He is also the most uncomfortable with the sexual fan-service needed to get sponsor rewards. Because of that, he is the last one to get new boots from his mentors.
  • He is also the only Career to go completely solo when the alliance breaks up. He is therefore alone during his fight with Holsteen.
• Bad Impressionists: Mercury does impressions of past Victors, which his allies view as Actually Pretty Funny. Later does one of Citrine from her interview.
• Blue Blood: From Dustell House, one of the 40 Great Houses in District One. However, Citrine mentions that he's from a lower branch.
• Fight Unscene: His Final Battle with Holsteen, the District 10 boy, occurs off-screen. Enobaria only overhears "shouts, grunts, and cries" and then sees Holsteen come out covered in blood. Only when Baria sees his face in the sky that night does she learn that Mercury was the victim.
• Kill Tally: One tribute — the District 12 boy (Jay), and his javelin throw contributed to killing the District 9 girl (Savannah).
• Laughing Mad: Gives a "half-insane laugh" during the Games countdown after Kerry kills herself.
• Master Swordsman: Citrine describes Mercury as the greatest swordsman she ever saw, and Enobaria later agrees that his skills are "unparalleled".
• Spanner in the Works: Blocks Enobaria from making a kill blow against Hera, the District 4 girl, during their Duel to the Death, because he wants to claim the kill for himself. Instead, he and Baria slam into each other, almost allowing Hera to get away.
• Worthy Opponent: Enobaria describes him as this after seeing his face in the sky, due to not acting nor playing mind games on his allies. She admits she believed he would be her final opponent.

Precious and District One boy (68th Games)

• Amazonian Beauty: Precious is noted to be extremely muscular for a District One tribute, and Luster certainly wouldn't have kept her in the DAEYD if she weren't beautiful.
• Eaten Alive: How the boy goes out.
• Kill Tally: Precious has one confirmed kill, the District Seven girl.
• Neck Snap: How Precious kills the District Seven girl.
• The Ur Example: In her time as a mentor, Johanna often arranged painless deaths for her tributes. Precious was the first deliverer.

DAEYD Cadets

Esther Quinn

• The Ace: Had the third-highest prestige (points) ranking of the DAEYD, so much that she would have made the run to volunteer for the Hunger Games had she not been killed.
• Best Friend: To Ermine, as the two arrived at the DAEYD on the same day at age 8.
• Death by Origin Story: Her death led to the chain of events that caused Ermine to volunteer for the Hunger Games.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: A polite girl with the golden locks that characterize most of District 1.
• Hanging Around: How the Girl Posse kills her.
• Never Suicide: The DAEYD Girl Posse makes Esther's death look like a suicide, but Jade immediately recognizes it as a fake and knows the posse killed her to take her spot.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Ermine is headstrong, impatient, disrespectful, and prefers the mace. Esther is calm, courteous, focused, and prefers the sword. And they are the closest of friends.
• Sexy Slit Dress: Esther's dress for the Showing had deep slits on either side that show off her "sculpted legs".
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: The delicate Girly Girl who excels in 'social graces' to Ermine's more fiery tomboy.
• Wrong Side of the Tracks: Is from the lower city and described to be from the poorest class in District 1, so much that they were "not even worth enough to give their children proper district names".

Topaz Dustell, Saffron, and Cinnamon

Three of the six members of the Girl Posse at the DAEYD, and the main antagonists of Ermine's chapter.^note These three particular girls are the only ones with a significant impact on the plot, and are the only ones named. The other three have No Name Given.

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• The Ace: The three girls had among the highest prestige (points) of the DAEYD, so much that they could have made the run to volunteer for the Hunger Games had they not been killed (or severely injured in Saffron's case).
• Alpha Bitch: Topaz is stated to be The Leader of the Girl Posse, is from a Great House, and is an absolute bitch to Ermine and Esther, to the point of killing the latter.
• Aristocrats Are Evil: The three of them harass Ermine and kill Esther, and all come from the wealthy families of District 1.
• Blue Blood: Topaz is from Dustell House, one of the Great Houses.
• Death by Origin Story: Their deaths directly led to the chain of events that caused Ermine to volunteer for the Hunger Games.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: Jet, Topaz's boyfriend, cradles Topaz as she's dying.
• Edible Theme Naming: Both Saffron and Cinnamon are named after spices.
• Girl Posse: Form one that are a Shout-Out to the Plastics from Mean Girls.
• Green-Eyed Monster: It's heavily implied that they killed Esther because they were jealous of her talented appearance at the Showing.
• Heroes Prefer Swords: Inverted, as Topaz and Cinnamon were the antagonists of Ermine's chapter and used swords as weapons in the duel that would end their lives.
• Kick the Dog: Topaz mocks Ermine for mourning her closest friend, who she killed. This triggered Ermine to call for Jade to throw her her mace, and let the Roaring Rampage of Revenge truly begin.
• No Full Name Given: Saffron and Cinnamon's surnames are not mentioned, though it is stated that they are either "daughters of Great Houses or prominent guild masters".
• Only Sane Woman: Implied and downplayed with Saffron, who was the only one who was wary when Ermine challenged the Girl Posse (including herself) to a duel, though she also took part in the bullying herself.
• Psycho Knife Nut: Saffron's weapon in the duel that would leave her maimed for life were knives, and while she seems slightly more sane in comparison to Topaz and Cinnamon, her fellow Girl Posse members, she's still far gone enough to partake in the bullying and murder of a fellow DAEYD cadet.
• Slashed Throat: How Ermine kills Topaz.
• Sole Survivor: Saffron was this to her friend group after their duel against Ermine, but only because others managed to hold Ermine down before she could deliver a killing blow.
• Those Two Girls: Saffron and Cinnamon are said to be Topaz's "twin lackeys".
• What Happened to the Mouse?: We never get to know about Saffron's fate after Ermine maims her. It can be assumed that she was cut out of the DAEYD because Luster tends to see the cadets as products over people.

Nobles

Madame St. James

• Good Parents: She loves her children deeply. She's upset when Luxe is reaped as a tribute and does her best to help him mentally recover afterward.
• Upper-Class Twit: She's a caring mother, but is rather class-conscientious and overly entitled.

Diamond and Blaze Lancaster

• Females Are More Innocent: When Luster announces that he wants to compete in the Hunger Games, Blaze, Luster's mother, sobs while Diamond, his father, barely looks up from his book. Diamond later supports Luster training to be a ruthless killer.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: They're never mentioned after their infamous son Luster becomes a Victor.

Gemini Boleyn

• Abusive Parents: He threatens to send Jade to the Academy of Evil for making a rude comment when she's six (when she does get sent there, it's for a more serious offense) and pimps out Jasmine while making threats about what will happen if she fails.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: He's never mentioned after his first scene, and it's unclear if he's still alive when the Boleyns become rebels.

Mr. and Mrs. Delacroix

• Awful Wedded Life: They spend most of their scenes together fighting about money and family decisions. Mr. Delacroix prefers getting drunk with day laborers to spending time with his wife.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: Mr. Delacroix is a major presence in Gloss's chapter before Cashmere's chapter abruptly reveals that Snow had him murdered.
• Impoverished Patrician: Until Gloss and Cashmere becomes Victors, they're the poorest nobles in the district and spend most of their time groveling for loan extensions.
• Long Hair Is Feminine: Mrs. Delacroix thinks so; after Cashmere had to have her hair cut short, she manages to pull off a Fake Twin Gambit with her brother "until her hair grows out to what Mother [Mrs. Delacroix] calls a 'proper feminine length'."
• Papa Wolf: Mr. Delacroix shows a lot more grief and concern for the twins than their mother. After Gloss volunteers for the 63rd Games, he is described as having an expression of "pride, love and something approaching immeasurable grief". Later, Cashmere tries to avoid visits to her parents after Snow and Luster start pimping her out due to feeling that, while most of the district suspects what goes on with the Victors, "if Father saw the physical evidence on his only daughter's flesh Gloss isn't sure he'd be able to stop him from killing someone".
• Parental Favoritism: Their dad cares more about Gloss (especially after his older sons have to join the peacekeepers) and their mother dotes on Cashmere. Due to this, their parents can't decide which one to send to the DAEYD, out of the hope that it would make the Academy leave the other alone and that a Victor's salary could pay off their debts. Not wanting to be separated, the twins Take a Third Option and go out together.
• La Résistance: Mr. Delacroix was likely involved in the Rebellion, resulting in Snow having Enobaria kill him, though it was made to look like robbery gone wrong.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Mrs. Delacroix is never mentioned after the twins win their Games.

The Delacroix Brothers

• Creepy Souvenir: One of them wears a necklace that supposedly contains the remains of Luster Lancaster (who caused their family lot of misery and suffering) after the Mockingjay Rebellion.
• Hero of Another Story: They are prominent District 1 rebels, but they barely appear and it's unclear how deeply involved they are in the primary rebel actions shown in the story.
• Practically Different Generations: They are implied to be a decade or so older than their famous twin siblings Gloss and Cashmere, and are serving in the Peacekeepers by the time the twins go to the DAEYD.
• La Résistance: The brothers are part of a "discussion circle" with other dissidents in the St. James and Boleyn families.

The "young man from Dustell House"

• Hero of Another Story: He was involved with the Rebellion and was assassinated as a result, but only bare hints about his activities are given.
• No Full Name Given: His given name is never mentioned, though it can be assumed that his family name is 'Dustell'.
• Posthumous Character: He's only mentioned after his death.
• Uptown Guy: He was a Blue Blood who had a strong relationship with Crystal, who has a Victor's salary but grew up poor.
• White Sheep: He's the only Dustell mentioned in the story to come off particularly well, with the possible exception of the girl Jade maimed.

District 2

Fallen Tributes

Cassia (1st Games)

• Carry a Big Stick: Not Cassia herself, but Ahenobarbus found her "lying at the bottom of her pedestal, a mace buried in her chest", presumably dead.
• Dies Wide Open: Implied since Ahenobarbus remarked on her eyes while she was dead.
• Flipping the Bird: Implied Trope. When she was Reaped, Ahenobarbus recalled that Cassia "flashed a rude sign to the cameras" as she mounted the stage.
• Must Not Die a Virgin: The reasoning for her Pre-Climax Climax.
• Pre-Climax Climax: She and Ahenobarbus had sex prior to entering the Games.
• Vote Early, Vote Often: Implied as it was noted she had rebels for grandparents.
• What Beautiful Eyes!: Ahenobarbus remarked that her eyes were still pretty even in death.
• White Shirt of Death: She presumably wore a white tunic into the arena like Ahenobarbus, and died a bloody death with a mace put through her chest.

25th Games Tributes

• Heroic Sacrifice: How the girl sees herself if she doesn't make it out alive. The tribute she's volunteering for is a malnourished and sickly girl whose parents are both alcoholics.
• Kill Tally: The boys kills one tribute — the District 10 girl (Nellie Mills).
  • They, together with the District 1 tributes, kill the District 11 tributes as soon as the Games start. They cut and stab them to the point that their bodies are barely recognizable.
  • It is stated, "The Careers cut down the overconfident and those petrified by fear as cannons begin to sound."
• Noodle Incident: Though the exact incident isn't disclosed, the boy has a strong vendetta against Virtus.

Venus Archulla (27th Games)

• Beauty Is Bad: Downplayed. She was described to have "all the beauty of her namesake" and was described to have had "her eyes brimming with pride" in response to being chosen as tribute for the 27th Games, but the latter of which isn't necessarily a condemning factor in itself.
• Knee-capping: Justus kicks her knees in during their Final Battle and leaves her to die.

Meraxes and Unnamed Female Tribute (40th Games)

• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Initially subverted for Meraxes at the bloodbath, where Perry (D4 boy) throws a spear at Meraxes, but Meraxes dodges it at the last second and is hit in the shoulder. Meraxes survives until the final day, when Perry again spears him, this time fatally in the back.
• Kill Tally: Meraxes kills one tribute — the District 7 boy.
• Ludicrous Gibs: Nolan kills the girl with a mace, sending pieces of her body flying into the stream.
• There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Meraxes slices up the 7 boy into such a pulp that all the grass around him is sprayed in blood.

45th Games Tributes

• Camping a Crapper: Chaff attacks the girl while she is going to bathroom.
• Combat Sadomasochist: The boy grinds on the District 1 girl while they watch the District 9 boy die an agonizing death via hanging.
• Curb Stomp Cushion: The girl is able to cut off Chaff's hand with a sharpened metal disk before dying.
• Inevitable Mutual Betrayal: The District 1 boy turns against the Two boy when they are down to the Final 3, and Chaff is the only other tribute left. The One boy recognizes that the Two boy is the strongest remaining tribute, so he allies with Chaff to kill him.
• Kill Tally: They together kill the District 12 tributes. In addition, the boy has one—the District 3 girl.
• Neck Snap: The boy delivers one to the District 3 girl.
• Punched Across the Room: Chaff punches the girl so hard that it cracks her ribs and sends bone chards into her heart, killing her.

Titania Briss, Athena Costa, Menelaus Quartz, and Tenebreus "Terry" De Luca (50th Games)

• The Giant: Menelaus stands at 6 feet and 9 inches, making him the largest Hunger Games tribute overall.
• In-Series Nickname: Tenebreus is known as "Terry".
• Morality Pet: Athena isn't mentioned to have any affections for anyone, but she does care about the sparrows near her windowstill at the Institute.
• Not Enough to Bury: Menelaus was vaporized by the volcano, leaving nothing behind for the tribute vaults.
• Porn Stash: It's mentioned that Terry bequeathed his entire porn collection to the thirteen year-old Institute cadets, and that it was valued by all future classes.
• Total Party Kill: None of them survive the Games.
• Weapon Specialization: Titania is mentioned to be the best bullwhip fighter that District Two has seen.

Plautia (52nd Games)

• Chekhov's Gunman: Plautia took the Trials for the 51st Hunger Games but was unknowingly tracked by Lyme for three days in the Trial of Strength before she found out. It is presumed that the same Plautia retook the Trials the year after that and became the District 2 female tribute for the 52nd Games.
• Deadpan Snarker: Her angle at her Interview.
• Famous Uncle: Possibly. Plautia mentions that her uncle was a Victor of a previous Games. However, the Victor she says she's related to turns out to be Virtus, who is one of three cousins, all of them Victors of past Games. This may be a case of Series Continuity Error or indicate an honorary relationship or one by marriage.
• Kill Tally: At least two tributes — the District 10 girl (Clare) and District 11 girl (Robin). It is unknown whether she killed the boys from 11 and 9 (Sower and Monaghan, respectively), who attempted to raid the Careers' supplies during the Games.
• Mercy Kill: She stops her fellow Careers from torturing Clare, the District 10 girl, to death by knifing Clare in the back before the other Careers could start. Unfortunately, the second time she tries this, Link kills her and leads the remaining Careers in a 7-hour-long torture session with Clare's district partner.
• Slashed Throat: How she dies.
• Token Good Teammate: She's the only member of her Career pack that isn't a sadistic killer — she disapproves of her fellow Careers being willing to torture outlying tributes in their Games, instead preferring to kill them quickly and efficiently. This ultimately ends up being turned against her when Link kills her for trying to stand up for Devon and Blight after they were captured.
• Worthy Opponent: Blight notes that he wouldn't mind if Plautia won, due to her being the Token Good Teammate of the Careers.

Odessa and Priam (54th Games)

• Back-to-Back Badasses: Odessa and Rarity, the District 1 girl, begin to form this after they hear two cannons go off in preparation for the Inevitable Mutual Betrayal, but Priam convinces them it's not time yet.
• Bros Before Hoes: Inverted. Priam forms a lover's alliance with Lianne, the District 4 girl, and chooses her as his final ally over Odessa, with whom he originally made an alliance.
• Dying Declaration of Hate: Priam tells Hal right before Hal strikes the final blow that Halibut is a stupid name for a Victor. Hal shrugs and responds, "Better than yours."
• I Shall Taunt You: Priam tries this against Hal in their Final Battle, which distracts Hal but not enough to stop Hal from harpooning him.
• Kick Them While They Are Down: Priam's final thought as he dies:
  As a last insult, they play the trumpets before I'm even dead.
• Kill Tally: Priam kills two tributes — Odessa and Lianne, the District 4 girl.
• The Leader: Priam of the Career pack. Rarity even admits that their time in the arena was much easier than expected due to his wise leadership.
• Love-Interest Traitor: Priam remains loyal to Lianne until the last moments of the Games, when he has the chance to drown her and Hal together, since There Can Only Be One.
• Off with Her Head!: Priam attempts to cleanly behead Odessa, but she moves, which makes the fatal blow much messier, leaving Priam and Lianne covered in Odessa's blood and brains.

Pomponia and Ferrus (57th Games)

• Blood Knight: During Pomponia's Interview, she "play[ed] her role as the ruthless District 2 killer", which seems to be a common angle that District 2 tributes tend to go for.
• Due to the Dead: After killing Pomponia, Ferrus closes his district partner's eyes and "kneels on the plateau, his eyes closed in silent prayer".
• Kill Tally:
  • Pomponia has 3 kills — the tributes of District 5 (Electra and Soren), and the girl from District 3 (Satellia).
  • Ferrus has 5 kills — the boy and then girl from District 9 (Wheaton and Sesamy), the District 1 boy (Zinfandel), the District 2 girl (Pomponia), and the District 11 girl (Abundance).
• Mask of Sanity: Ferrus, with his stoic and quiet appearance as his mask.
• Psycho Knife Nut: Subverted in Pomponia's case. Although District 2 girls are traditionally trained in knives and especially throwing knives, Pomponia's preferred weapon was a sword. Nevertheless, she remains a formidable force and a Blood Knight.
• The Quiet One: How Ferrus acts during his Interview.
• Slashed Throat: How Ferrus kills Pomponia during the falling out of the Career pack.
• The Stoic: According to Andromache, Ferrus is "insane" in a way that isn't characteristic of District 2, in that he is controlled and cold and acting like the Games were "all a relatively interesting school trip", and that he was unpredictable and difficult to read.
• Tempting Fate: Near the end of the Games, Ferrus has Cecelia and Andromache at his mercy and goes into some ill-advised Evil Gloating, which costs him what would have been a certain victory.
  Ferrus: This is almost too easy. I expected the finale to be more... climatic.
  Cecelia: You've got your wish, Ferrus. You brought it on your own head.
  Ferrus: (uneasily) What are you talking about, Eight?
  (Cecelia points past him, where it's shown that the Gamemakers are about to release scores of mutts into the arena to attack the last three tributes.)
  Cecelia: You forgot the first rule of the Hunger Games, Ferrus. Never, ever tempt the Gamemakers. I'd run if I were you.

Orion Baker (62nd Games)

• Blinded by Rage: He attacks Enobaria after she lies to him about torturing Rob to death.
• Career-Ending Injury: Subverted. Despite suffering a terrible leg injury and shoulder dislocation, he is able to recover after three days, thanks to his own resolve and Enobaria preventing the other Careers from killing him.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice:
  • Spears an unnamed girl during the bloodbath.
  • Citrine accidentally spears him with her glaive.
• Kill Tally: Three tributes — the District 9 boy (Plowman), an unnamed girl, and the District 1 girl (Citrine). The latter was due to an accidental Mutual Kill.
• Leader Wannabe: Originally aspires to be leader of the Career pack, but Enobaria takes on this role, and he quickly comes to term with it.
• Lover and Beloved: Forms this type of relationship with Rob, in terms of their power dynamic within the alliance rather than their age. Orion's affection for Rob is more genuine, while Rob is more interested in gaining Orion's protection and getting rewards from sponsors.
• Male Gaze: Enobaria catches him staring at Rob's butt.
• Mr. Fanservice: Chooses to go shirtless after they strip out of their evening wear and is the most game among the guys for gratuitous sex and flirting.
• Mutual Kill: After Enobaria dodges his attack during the Final Battle, Orion slices Citrine from collarbone to hip, while her glaive spears his abdomen.
• No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction: His motivation for becoming a tribute.
  Orion: I was strong. I was good-looking. I excelled at sports. I was doing advanced geometry when I was nine from an old textbook the university here donated. And I was going out of my mind. Because nothing was a challenge anymore, and there's only one place in Two that will drive a man to his full potential.
  Enobaria: The Institute... So you chose the Games. Because you were bored with your life.
  Orion: I figured a quick death in the arena is preferable to dying a little every day.
• Off with His Head!: Decapitates Plowman with one swing of his sword.
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Enobaria gives him one as a Call-Back to their No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction conversation.
  Enobaria: Wherever you end up, I hope it's not boring.
• Sexy Discretion Shot: After doing a patrol with Rob, both return eating peaches. They clearly received a reward for doing something, and it wasn't for killing someone.
• Slippery Skid: Slips on Enobaria's blood during his Final Battle with her. This saves her from what would have been his death blow.
• Straight Gay: Never hides that he's gay (he even hints at it when he first meets Enobaria), but he exhibits no traits considered stereotypically gay. Only Citrine picks up that he's gay without being told.
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Described as tall and muscled with black hair.
• Three-Way Sex: Has one with Citrine and Tiller and gets rewarded with a pair of boots.
• Ungrateful Bastard: Abandons Enobaria and Rob even though they were the two who protected him when he was injured. Even worse, he allies with Citrine, who was ready to kill him.

Creon (67th Games)

• The Ace: Described as fierce and brilliant, with Phoebus also bragging about his endurance and wrestling skills.
• Big Brother Mentor: Phoebus is this to him.
• Kill Tally: Only one identified — one of the District 9 tributes — but by the time of the Final 8, he has the most kills of all the tributes, though the exact number is not given.
• Killed Mid-Sentence: Has two unfinished sentences in the process of Johanna killing him. First, when he hears his ally Sapphire scream, he says "What the f—" as a hatchet flies right into his chest. Then, when Johanna pulls the hatchet out of his chest, he begins to say, "You... aren't..." but then Johanna butchers his entire body.
• Tame His Anger: Came to the Institute as an "angry, self-destructive loner", but through Phoebus's mentorship he developed the discipline to become District 2's choice for tribute.
• There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Johanna kills him with a hatchet to the chest, then his knees, then his throat, then his groin, and this chest again and again.

Cato and Clove (74th Games)

• Boisterous Bruiser: Cato is described to be this, word-for-word.
• Childhood Friends: To some degree, as both were part of Lupus' "close team of comrades" at the Institute.
• Doomed by Canon: Quite literally in both cases.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Cato is said to be twice as large as Lupus but only has half of his self-control. This lines up with his canonical short fuse.
• Kids Are Cruel: Clove is established to be a menace and a "wild thing" who reportedly "gained a reputation for skewering feet of nine-year-olds who annoyed her" around the time of Berenice's Games.
• Orphan's Ordeal: According to Berenice's chapter, Clove hails from the Community Home, which implies that she's a victim of Parental Abandonment in some shape or form.
• Psycho Knife Nut: As per canon for Clove. Berenice's chapter implies that Clove was inspired to become one due to her influence.
• The Quiet One: Lupus' narration describes Clove to be "[d]ark, quiet, vicious [and] little", and that she was the favourite member of his "close team of comrades".

Ahenobarbus's Dogs

"For all the boasting of the Victors, all the blustering about how the training made District 2 superior, the tributes never came back. Ever."

—Honorius's narration

District 2 tributes trained by Ahenobarbus until Boudicca replaced him, kicked most of his recruits out, and founded the Institute.

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• Assumed Win: They are consistently considered the heavy favorites to win, but they very rarely do.
• Recruited from the Gutter: They tend to either be homeless, from the Community Home, or criminals on the run.
• The Spartan Way: The proto-Institute set up by Ahenobarbus trained up-and-coming tributes in this way. Deconstructed by the fact that only one Victor for the District was produced as a result of the brutal and abusive/neglectful training, which caused Boudicca, the second Victor to be trained as such, to reform the training process into the Institute. Though the Institute's training is harsh in its own right, it is much more standardized and successful in producing Victors.
  The gymnasium in Ahenobarbus's cellar was long gone. Instead he had bought a disused warehouse and converted it into a poor man's version of the Training Center at the Capitol, complete with training dummies, barracks, and fighting rings. Twenty or so kids would be living there at any one time. When one dropped out, there was always another to take his place. It was, by all accounts, a grim place. The trainees got food, but they were encouraged to steal it from each other. Brawls broke out on a regular basis. The trainees got hurt — badly hurt — and fought through it. No one in the arena is going to nurse your boo-boos for you. You keep fighting, or you leave.

5th Games Male Tribute

• No Name Given: He is unnamed in the series.
• Pragmatic Villainy: When he and Platinum have a chance to fight while they are both injured from other fights, he calmly suggests that they get medicine for their wounds and resume the fight later if they live long enough.
• Younger Than They Look: While young enough to qualify for the Games, he is old for a tribute and Platinum thinks he looks more like a man than a boy.

Vesta (7th Games)

• Achilles' Heel: Struggles most with using an ax, as revealed in Tiberius' chapter, and it's an ax from Jules that ultimately kills her. This is lampshaded by Ahenobarbus.
  Ahenobarbus: An ax. Of all things, it would be an ax.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Vesta is first mentioned in Tiberius' chapter as one of "Ahenobarbus' Dogs", then makes a return the following chapter as the female tribute for District 2 during the 7th Games, where she is ultimately killed by Jules.
• Designated Villain: In-universe. Because she has the Final Battle with Jules in the 7th Games, the recap video of those Games focuses on her as a foil for Jules.
• Final Battle: She is the final tribute Jules kills to become Victor.
• Kill Tally: Two recorded kills (though it's stated her alliance kills most of the tributes in her Games) — the District 9 boy and District 4 boy.
• Predatory Prostitute: Ahenobarbus recruits her after she is kicked out of her brothel for killing a client.

Marble (9th Games)

• Always Someone Better: The best knife-thrower among Ahenobarbus's dogs (and in the district, according to Tiberius), but he "didn't even stand a chance" when going up against Gleam, who learned his skills from his mother's Knife-Throwing Act.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Marble is first mentioned in Tiberius' chapter as one of "Ahenobarbus' Dogs", then makes a return in Gleam's chapter as he is mentioned to become the male tribute for District 2 in the 9th Hunger Games, where he is ultimately killed by Gleam.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: He is described to be a "slum rat with a nasty temper".
• Psycho Knife Nut: He is noted to have "a natural talent for knife fighting", including with throwing knives. He also had a short fuse and possibly killed one or more fellow tributes in the Games due to being trained by Ahenobarbus.

Marcellus (11th Games)

• Anger Is Not Enough: Even after falling into Mags's trap and being set on fire, his rage almost gives him enough strength to climb out of the ravine. But then Mags spears him.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Mags spears him to death after pouring fish oil on his alliance and lighting them all on fire.
• Lured into a Trap: His entire alliance falls into Mags's trap into a ravine, which allows Mags to pour fish oil on them and set them on fire.
• Pragmatic Villainy: He prevents a fight among his allies due to how the last Games ended with a dark horse Victor after the alliance broke too fast.
• Properly Paranoid: Marcellus asks for information about Mags and carefully considers it rather than dismissing her as someone who his alliance can easily kill.
• The Sleepless: He is never seen sleeping during his Games, even when he is not on watch. He is always waiting and watching.

Achilles and Patronia (15th Games)

• Back Stab: How Vera kills Patronia.
• Dark Horse Sibling: Ahenobarbus believes Achilles has a much better chance of winning over Patronia, but Patronia makes it all the way to the end before being killed by Vera.
• Final Battle: Patronia is the final tribute Vera kills to become Victor.
• Hunk: Achilles is described to be very muscular, or as Marty Spickle puts it, "jacked" and "totally out of this world ripped and bulging", earning him several sponsors.
• Kill Tally: Achilles kills two unnamed tributes at the beginning of his Games, though one of them is implied to be Ryla Donner from District 12, based on the little information given about her in Camden's chapter.
• The Leader: Achilles seems to be this, because after he is killed the Career alliance turns on each other.
• Slashed Throat: Vera stealthily slits Achilles's throat, killing him.

Linus (17th Games)

• Last of His Kind: The last tribute trained by Ahenobarbus to die in the arena.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Only named when Ahenobarbus chooses him as the male tribute for the 17th Games, and then is next referenced as one of the four dead allies Boudicca kills before becoming a Victor.

Gaius

• Attempted Rape: Attempts to rape Minnie but Tiberius stops him.
• Murderers Are Rapists: His background as a rapist is one of the things that makes him suitable as a potential Hunger Games tribute. He later tries to rape Minnie before Tiberius stops him.
• Neck Snap: Tiberius breaks his neck, killing him.
• Teacher's Pet: Ahenobarbus's clear favorite among the original five "dogs".
• Teeth Flying: Loses a tooth in his fight with Tiberius.

Minnie

• Damsel in Distress: Tiberius rescues her from being raped by Gaius.
• Mysterious Past: Ahenobarbus brings her to the training gym, but neither he nor Minnie ever reveal where she came from.
• Rejected Apology: Tiberius commits an unspecified offense against her and sends her letters every year, begging for forgiveness. She returns each one unopened.

Other Citizens

Mr. Romero

• My Country, Right or Wrong: He killed his rebellious wife due to the strength of his loyalty to an unjust regime.
• Small Role, Big Impact: In his one appearance, he urges his son to win the 1st Hunger Games through brutal methods, setting the stage for what's to come.

Phyle

• Wicked Stepfather: He subjects his stepson Barty to vicious beatings without a hint of remorse.

The Pastier family

• Androcles' Lion: When he's wandering the streets, they adopt Barty out of gratitude for him saving Viola, the family's daughter, from a vicious dog.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: They send their adopted new family member Barty to the Career academy to keep him from being sent back to his abusive stepfather, but are distraught when he ends up being sent into the Games. Barty wordlessly assures them that he's fine with it, though.

Britannicus "Tanni" Romano

• Dogged Nice Guy: He treats Cecelia better than her other johns do and does genuinely care abut her welfare, but the idea that she wouldn't want to be with him is not one he's willing to entertain.
• Entitled to Have You: Feels this way towards Cecelia to the point that she starts a whole war to win her love.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: He goes from a low-ranking Peacekeeper to the leader of a group of Reavers who apparently want to enslave both the Capitol and the districts.
• Love Makes You Evil: After being slated for execution for impregnating Cecelia, he fled for his life and formed the Reavers in order to take down the Capitol so they could be together.
• Loving a Shadow: His love for Cecelia is more akin to an obsession, largely because he's convinced she genuinely loves him back. In reality, as a prostitute with little options, she had no choice but to say she loved him in order to make sure he kept coming back with the coin she and her family desperately needed.
• One Degree of Separation: He's one of Cecelia's former johns and the father of her eldest child Cardella, and the leader of the Reavers, the sadistic group responsible for Enobaria's Start of Darkness.
• Two Aliases, One Character: Known first by his real name in Fall Into the River and then as the Speaker in The Bonds of Blood.

Tigellinus

• Actually Pretty Funny: He's greatly amused by Boudicca and Lyme's first meeting and how his boss mistakes Lyme for a boy.
• Girl Friday: Serves as the Spear Counterpart for Boudicca in running the Institute.
• I Coulda Been a Contender!: He was supposed to volunteer for the 46th Hunger Games, but someone else beat him to it. Tigellinus is bitter about it years later and mocks the "particularly boring" victor of those Games (Matthias from District 5).
• What Happened to the Mouse?: His fate after the Mockingjay Rebellion is never revealed.

District 3

Fallen Tributes

5th Games Male Tribute

• Combat Pragmatist: He has little to no skill at close quarters combat but kills two tributes, including a District 2 proto-Career, by setting a bridge on fire.
• No Name Given: He is unnamed.

25th Games Tributes

• Children Forced to Kill: The boy is sixteen when he is voted into the Quarter Quell.
• Drunk Driver: The girl is voted into the Quell because she went on a drunken joyride that kills a pedestrian.
• Never My Fault: The girl justifies her killing an old woman while driving drunk by claiming no one could have seen the woman crossing the street in time to stop.
• Sins of the Father: The boy is voted into the Quell because his older brother is a drug dealer who's outside of reaping age.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: In-universe with the boy. He's killed 36 seconds into the Quell by the District Eight boy.

29th Games Female Tribute

• Death from Above: She tries to take out Ben (and possibly others) in Combat Pragmatist fashion by climbing a tree near a cliff and taking a bag of rocks with her. She can drop her rocks down on opponents (she breaks Ben’s shoulder this way), and if she misses, then they will hopefully think that the rock fell naturally from a nearby cliff.
• Martial Pacifist: Implied. She is willing to drop rocks on Ben, but only on his third trip past her tree, at which point it is likely clear that he is actively hunting other tributes.
• No Name Given: She is unnamed in the series.
• Quaking with Fear: With his night vision goggles, Ben can see her lip trembling as she tries to stay silent and hope that he won't notice her and will think the rock that fell on him was a natural occurrence.

45th Games tributes

• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: The boy begs the District 7 tributes for his life, but they still kill him.
• Children Forced to Kill: The boy is fourteen when he enters his Games.
• Hyper-Awareness: The girl is able to keep track of where all the Careers are even as she collects food and supplies around the Cornucopia. But once she makes a run for it, she stops paying attention to them and pays for it.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: The District 7 boy stabs the boy in the throat.
• Shoplift and Die: The boy is caught by the Seven tributes when he tries to raid their food supply. This costs him his life.
• Tall Poppy Syndrome: Ares identifies the girl as a threat during the training time and instructs his mentee to target her early.
  Beetee: Did you tell your boy to target her specifically, Ares?
  Ares: She was clever. Too clever.
• Too Fast to Stop: Subverted. The girl is almost out of the Cornucopia when the District 2 boy throws a rusty piece of machinery at her and knocks her flat. Before she can fully recover, he breaks her neck.

Pixelle Lee, Sue Jones, Garrett Healy, and Dattery Nakamura (50th Games)

• Children Forced to Kill: All four tributes are assumed to be reaped.
• Death Seeker: Dattery is pleased to be reaped, since his late family would be more pleased than if he killed himself.
• Hidden Depths: Despite being best remembered for being killed thirty seconds into the Quell, Sue was a Teen Genius who invented a weather machine that can predict a dangerous storm with an error margin of 0.3%.
• Juggling Dangerously: Garrett would make money juggling pint glasses that Peacekeepers would toss to him without dropping one.
• Off with Her Head!: Sue is beheaded at the Cornucopia 30 seconds into the Quell.
• Sole Survivor: Dattery by the time of his reaping. His parents were killed in an industrial accident, his sister died of a fever due to the family unable to afford medicine, and his brother died in the 48th Hunger Games.
• Teen Genius: Sue invented a highly accurate tool for meteorology as a teenager. Too bad she quite literally lost her head in the government-enforced Deadly Game.
• Total Party Kill: All four tributes obviously die in the arena.

Kira and Chip (52nd Games)

• Death Trap: Chip dies from a Gamemaker trap that used food as bait in Chapter 14.
• Doomed by Canon: Since Blight wins their Games, it's not a matter of whether they would die but rather a matter of when and how they'd die.
• Not Enough to Bury: Chip's body was mentioned to be vaporized by the Gamemakers' fatal trap.
• One-Track-Minded Hunger: Presumably the reason Chip falls for the Gamemaker trap that ended up causing his demise.
• Super Drowning Skills: Kira is thrown into the lake by Quintus at the Bloodbath, and it's heavily implied that she dies from drowning as a result of this.
• Too Dumb to Live: Chip ran headfirst towards a "supply" of food without considering whether it was a trap or not, and unluckily for him, it was.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: The only things we know about them are their names, district, and how they die.

Codey (62nd Games)

• Bring My Brown Pants: Orion (District 2) causes Codey to wet himself at the end of the second day of training. Turns out to have been all part of his ruse.
• Bully Hunter: During his interview, he calls out some of the tributes for being bullies, and he exacts his vengeance on the Careers by setting booby traps for them and torturing Enobaria and Rob.
• Chekhov's Skill: Mentions during his interview that he makes fireworks with his dad. Orion and Enobaria remember this when they barely survive the booby trap outside the maze.
• Electric Torture: Builds a machine to torture the Careers in hopes of gaining rewards from sponsors. He uses it to kill Rob.
• Evil Genius: How he is portrayed in the Hunger Games recap, and how he comes off once he has captured Enobaria and Rob. Baria even gets him monologuing.
• Fake Weakness: Codey tries to look like a sniveling outlier boy during training so the Careers wouldn't see him as a threat. Justified because the Careers tend to target the Threes for being too clever (as seen during the 45th Hunger Games).
  Enobaria: How did you do it? During training you were so... so...
  Codey: Weak? Scared? I had to be. Beetee said the Careers always check out the Threes, so I had to do more than hide. I had to disgust you. I had to make you laugh at me.
• Kill Tally: Two tributes — the District 4 boy (Tiller) and District 6 boy (Rob). Enobaria technically gives Rob a Mercy Kill, but without this, Rob would have died from the effects of Codey's Cold-Blooded Torture anyway.
• O.C. Stand-in: In Catching Fire, Katniss mentions that Enobaria is known for ripping another tribute's throat out during the Games. Codey is that tribute.
• Scarily Competent Tracker: Codey's strategy during the Hunger Games. He follows the Career pack's movements without being caught, setting traps in places that they know he will be. He also knows about the drawn-out kills by both Enobaria and Citrine, along with the prizes they receive from the sponsors.
• Trap Master: Codey's strategy in the arena up until his death. When he captures Enobaria, he reveals that he's the one behind the the fireworks and the chemical trap encountered by the Careers.
• Underestimating Badassery: Despite District 3's reputation, the Careers completely underestimate him. During the bloodbath, he runs passed Enobaria while carrying a load of supplies, but she chooses to let him go and instead targets the District 7 boy. Later, when the Careers find all the chemical and electrical supplies in the Cornucopia, Enobaria is relieved "neither of the tributes from 3 showed any sign of being a mad genius". Orion agrees that it's safe to leave the supplies unguarded, since none of "the cannon fodder will have much use for... potassium nitrate".
• Worthy Opponent: Once Orion figures out it was Codey who was setting the traps, he can't help but exclaim, "Oh, well done[,] District 3!"
• You Have No Chance to Survive: Codey gives one to Enobaria when he's about to finish her and Rob off in his cocoon trap.

Sonara (62nd Hunger Games)

• Informed Ability: Sonara claims to be a good climber and knife fighter, but she doesn't last long enough to prove it.
• Tomboy with a Girly Streak: She's a tough climber, but she also enjoys trashy romance novels.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Killed during the bloodbath, likely by one of the Careers but it is left unstated.

District 4

Fallen Tributes

Waverly Mertz (8th Games)

• Action Girl: She makes it to the final two in her Games alongside her would-be brother-in-law.
• Brother–Sister Team: Forms a tight alliance with Seaward, her fiancé's brother, and the two outlast all the other tributes.
• Hoist by Her Own Petard: Once they are the final two, she and Seaward agree to go their separate ways and see what happens, but once Seaward turns his back and is far enough away, she throws a spear at him. She barely misses, but Seaward's responding spear toss does not.
• Kill Tally: Two tributes — the boys from Districts 9 and 7.
• Stealth Expert: Pulls the 7 and 9 boys underwater and kills them, all without making a sound.

25th Games Tributes

• Killed Offscreen: Their deaths aren't mentioned in Quell nor Cora's chapter.
• Nothing Personal: What was said to the girl about why she was voted into the Hunger Games. She stole a boat part from someone who couldn't afford its replacement, causing him to miss their quota and lose his boat.
• Uptown Girl: Implied with the boy. He impregnates a more upper-class girl and it was why he was voted into the Hunger Games.

Perry Flynn (40th Games)

• Defector from Decadence: Betrayed the Career alliance to join Nolan's alliance.
• Final Battle: The final tribute Nolan kills to become Victor.
• Kill Tally: Three tributes — the blind District 6 girl, the District 2 boy (Meraxes), and the District 1 girl (Satine) in combination with Nolan. He also gives a Mercy Kill to his ally, the District 5 girl, after she is mortally wounded.
• The Lancer: Serves as this within the alliance.
• Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Nolan promises him a fair fight in their Final Battle due to Nolan's "district honor", but as soon as they are the final two, Nolan slices Perry's throat without giving him a chance to fight.
  Nolan: This is all the honor a Career deserves.

45th Games tributes

• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: The girl begs Chaff to spare her, but to no avail.
  District 4 girl: Our mentors are friends.
  Chaff: We're not.
• Bludgeoned to Death: The girl is beaten to death with a pipe by Chaff.
• Bullet Dancing: The boy sticks a heated metal rod at the District 10 boy and tells him to dance.
• Caught with Your Pants Down: Masturbates after brutally killing the District 9 boy, allowing Chaff to sneak up on him and kill him.
• Get It Over With: The girl wants to just kill the District 9 boy quickly, but her partner tells her to shut up and insists on a more drawn-out hanging.
• Hate Sink: The boy truly enjoys torturing and killing the other tributes, to the point that after gruesomely hanging the District 9 boy, he goes off to pleasure himself. He's so terrible that even his mentor Mags isn't sad to see him eliminated.
  Cora: Your boy is a sick puppy, Mags!
• Kill Tally: The boy has four — the District 9 girl, the District 10 boy, the District 8 girl, and the District 9 boy.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Right after brutally hanging the District 9 boy and then celebrating by masturbating, the boy is strangled to death by Chaff. Chaff then bashes in his dead skull to send a message to the other Careers.
• Undignified Death: The boy is killed while masturbating.

Coralle O'Keefe, Demeter Niles, Brock Burns, and Ulysses Blackwater (50th Games)

• Cartwright Curse: The only people Brock cares about—his boyfriend and younger cousin — both volunteer for the Hunger Games (49th and 51st, respectively) and, like Brock himself, are killed by the eventual Victor.
• Combat Parkour: Implied with Demeter during her training demonstration. She gets an eleven as her training score from demonstrating hand-to-hand combat skills and "a titillating display of nude gymnastics".
• I Coulda Been a Contender!: Had she not gotten reaped, Coralle was on track to become a successful chef in the Capitol.
• Killed Offscreen: Coralle, Demeter, and Ulysses's deaths aren't mentioned in the fic. Averted with Brock, where it's implied that he was one of the three Careers who Haymitch encounters and fights against.
• Supreme Chef: Coralle is known for her shrimp gumbo among Capitolians. At the time she was reaped, a Capitolian chef was petitioning the government to let her work in his newest restaurant.
• Total Party Kill: All four tributes obviously die in the arena.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Ulysses only volunteered so his parents will notice him.

Tara and Romani (52nd Games)

• Taking You with Me: Romani is on the receiving end of this courtesy of Charlie from District 7, after pushing her off the Ferris Wheel.

Lianne (54th Games girl)

• Peaceful in Death: Lianne is at least relieved to die of drowning, since her greatest fear is to die of thirst.
• Yoko Oh No: Priam breaks his Final 2 deal with his district partner, Odessa, after falling for Lianne. Though it doesn't stop Priam from later killing Lianne as well.

Andromache and Gillard (57th Games)

• Cool Boat: Andromache planned to buy a sailboat with her Victor's Salary if she won, among other things.
• Enemy Mine: Andromache teams up with Cecelia against the District 2 boy, Ferrus.
• Hold the Line: When the Career Alliance breaks, Gillard stays behind to fight Ferrus so Andromache can run away. Surprisingly, both Gillard and Ferrus survive the fight.
• Honor Before Reason: As with many District 4 tributes before her, Andromache chose to forego Mags' advice to "do whatever it takes", including "District honor" to return from the arena alive... and presumably like many of those District 4 tributes before her, it proved to be Andromache's doom.
• Hunk: Gillard was described to have a well-defined chest and broad shoulders. As a result, he has plenty of fans in the Capitol who very much appreciate it whenever he takes his shirt off.
• Kill Tally: Gillard has one confirmed kill — the boy from District 6 (Track).
• Off with Her Head!: Cecelia kills Andromache during their ceasefire in this way, winning her the Games.

Hera (62nd Games)

• Defiant to the End: Even when unarmed and cornered by the Careers, she continues to spit out insults towards them.
• Duel to the Death: Has one with Enobaria, who allows Hera to have a fair fight rather than letting the Careers just kill her.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Inverted. Hera is a complete Jerkass to her potential allies from the moment she meets them, rejecting every attempt Enoabaria and Citrine make to connect with her. Baria points out to her the foolishness of her attitude, but to no avail.
  Enobaria: You know, you're not playing this very smart. It’s sort of stupid to make enemies of your allies before the Games.
• Get Out!: The Careers kick Hera out of their alliance during training.
• Holier Than Thou: Volunteers in the place of a fifteen year-old girl with diabetes. Because of this, she sees herself as better than the other Careers. Brutus suggests she has a martyr complex.
• Hope Spot: Just as Enobaria is about to deal her a death blow, Mercury (District 1 boy) tries to kill Hera himself, and instead the two Careers collide into each other. Hera takes the opportunity to make a break for it, but Baria throws a sword in her back.
• Perpetual Frowner: From the time she is reaped to the time she is killed, Hera only ever has a sour expression on her face.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Believes she can be rude to her allies with impunity, because they still would want Mags' sponsor connections. They cut her loose anyway.

Tiller (62nd Games)

• Flat Character: Little is revealed about his actual character, despite appearing in several chapters of The Bonds of Blood. His death is also the least mourned or reflected upon.
• Get It Over With: Wants to kill Hera quickly during the bloodbath and move on, but the other Careers want to draw it out.
• Glory Hound: Hera accuses him of being this.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: During the bloodbath, he throws a spear that barely misses Enobaria and instead kills an unnamed girl.
• Kill It with Fire: Killed in a fire set by Codey, the District 3 boy.
• Kill Tally: One tribute — an unnamed girl during the bloodbath.
• Lost in the Maize: Defied. He guides the Career pack through a lawn maze without getting lost, thanks to a trick he learned from Mags.
• The Medic: Dresses and bandages Enobaria's wounds after her Duel to the Death with Hera.
• Shoot Your Mate: His decision to abandon Hera proves his loyalty to the Career pack.
• Three-Way Sex: Has one with Citrine and Orion and gets rewarded with a pair of boots.

Merlin Shore (70th Games)

• Dead Partner: Seeing him get decapitated is what begins Annie Cresta's Sanity Slippage.
• I Let Gwen Stacy Die: Both his father Hal and his district partner Annie blame themselves for his death: Hal because he only gave his son minimal training since he assumed he was going to die anyway, and Annie because she promised Hal she would look after him.
• O.C. Stand-in: He is referenced in Catching Fire as Annie's district partner who was beheaded in front of her.
• Off with His Head!: Per canon, he is beheaded, but exactly how this happens is not said.
• Together in Death: After District 4's liberation, his remains are disinterred and placed in a boat with Hal, his father, for a Viking Funeral.
• Vote Early, Vote Often: Though never explicitly stated, it's assumed that his vote was rigged, especially since Hal's family was targeted for prior treasonous behavior.

Baela Certes-Docker (74th Games)

• Ambiguously Related: Seaward Docker, the first Victor of District 4, shares a surname with Baela and her father Seafoam, but it's not said if they are related. Given the Capitol's tendency to reap Victors' family members, it is quite likely.
• Named by the Adaptation: Her name is unstated in the books, though she's called Marina by her actress in the films.
• O.C. Stand-in: In the books, she's an unnamed Career tribute who was killed by Katniss after dropping a tracker jacker nest on her, and that's about as much information the books give on her. In this fanfic, while she doesn't appear in person, she's Named by the Adaptation and her family background is slightly elaborated on.

District 5

Fallen Tributes

Ryla Undersee (1st Games)

• Back-to-Back Badasses: She and her brother Jon do this at the beginning of their Games.
• Propaganda Hero: Ryla played this role during the First Rebellion.
• La Résistance: Both her and her brother were celebrated rebels in their time.
• Teen Genius: Both Ryla and her brother Jon were described to be "prodigies", with Ryla being noted to be "the face of the original propos". Both also happened to be no older than 16.
• Together in Death: With Jon, as Ahenobarbus speared both siblings together to the point that "[n]either was forced to mourn the other, even for a minute".
• Vote Early, Vote Often: Due to her and her family's renowned status as rebels, Ahenobarbus says it's unlikely that they were reaped randomly.
• White Shirt of Death: She presumably wore a white tunic into the arena like Ahenobarbus, and died a bloody death alongside her brother as part of Ahenobarbus' One Hit Poly Kill.

Solaris (23rd Games)

• Crack Defeat: His district is certain he has his Games won, with him making it all the way to the Final 3, farther than any District 5 tribute had made it thus far. But then Evelyn slips a snake into his food.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Dies a slow, agonizing death over eighteen hours from a snake bite, "screaming and convulsing in pain as his hand and arm turned green and purple and swelled to the size of a ham."
• A Hero to His Hometown: District 5 held a bonfire and an impromptu dance in anticipation of his Assumed Win.
• Kill Tally: One tribute — the District 1 boy.
• Meaningful Name: He is said to have "shone like the sun he was named for" during the tribute parade. It also helps that his name alludes to the solar power that his district produces.
• Tampering with Food and Drink: Evelyn puts a poisonous snake into the feast his district sent him, and when he goes back for another bite, he gets fatally bitten.

25th Games Tributes

• Gang of Bullies: The boy is part of the gang of particularly terrible tributes who band together in the Quell. He is the Sole Survivor of their fight with Cora.
• Neck Snap: Jon, the District 10 boy, kills the Five boy this way.
• Rebellious Rebel: The boy's rebellious actions caused so much blowback for his district that many of them (though not a majority of them) vote him into the Games.
• The Scapegoat: A sadly unintentional example was when the female tribute was voted in because of a fatal industrial accident she caused while working double shifts to help keep her family clothed. Her supervisor admitted he was at fault for failing to instruct her on how to use the equipment properly, but it happened just a week after the Quell announcement, so plenty of people were familiar with her name and role in the accident but not that she'd been cleared of wrongdoing.
• Vote Early, Vote Often: The boy's votes were manipulated by the Capitol against him because he was a political agitator.

40th Games Female Tribute

• Instant Expert: Kills lots of game birds and a Career tribute with a bow despite never using one before the pre-Games training session.
• Kill Tally: Two tributes — the District 4 girl and District 1 boy (Glitz).
• Not Afraid to Die: Tells Nolan and Perry that she is ready to die after seeing her alliance defeat the Careers and knowing she has no hope of outliving her allies after being badly injured in a fall from a tree.
• Stronger Than They Look: She is a thin girl who fails to impress Caesar before the Games start, but she becomes a good archer, is a decent hand-to-hand combatant, and remains composed after suffering painful injuries.
• Taking You with Me: Shoots an arrow at Glitz as he climbs up a tree to attack her. After she misses, she lunges at him, causing them both to fall far to the ground. The fall kills Glitz and leaves the girl with two broken legs.

Maisy (42nd Hunger Games)

• Badass and Child Duo: Harshly deconstructed. She is only thirteen and is taken on as an ally by the older and tougher Eamon, but only because he can make use of her small size and attract sponsors with her cuteness.
• Disney Villain Death: Her fate in The Victors Project after Eamon betrays her, with only her fall being described. But later subverted in The Victors Chronicles, which describes in detail how she burned to death.
• The Dog Bites Back: Or more accurately, the Morality Pet Bites Back posthumously. When Eamon travels to her district during his Victory tour,^note The Victors Project gives her district as Five, but The Victors Chronicles gives it as Six, they tell him that Maisy had a pet cat named Pebbles. He's haunted by that fact ever since.
• Say My Name: Screamed Eamon's name as she falls into the fire.
• Series Continuity Error: The Victors Chronicles states that she is from District 6.
• Tears of Fear: She cries for two straight minutes while being made to climb over a fiery pit to get supplies.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: As soon as she gets the supplies Eamon was unable to get himself, he coldly walks away as she is left hanging from a ledge above a fiery pit and feels her fingers slipping (something he eventually comes to view as My Greatest Failure, or one of them anyway, after his Break the Haughty downfall) .

45th Games Tributes

• Bludgeoned to Death: The boy kills the District 8 boy by first gouging his eyes out and then beating him to death with a piece of metal.
• Kill Tally: The boy kills one — the District 8 boy.
• One-Hit Kill: The girl is the Games' first casualty, being bashed in the head by the District 8 boy. She was killed instantly.
• Redheads Are Ravishing: The boy's red hair makes him popular with the Capitolian girls.
• Reduced to Ratburgers: The boy survives on eating grilled rats until he succumbs to sepsis.
• Victorian Novel Disease: Subverted. The boy dies a terrible death from sepsis over eighteen long hours, in which he cries out for his mother.

Pansy Wilcox, Aeria Whittaker, Bear Smith, and Watts Jarofsky (50th Games)

• Dancing Is Serious Business: Aeria spent the entirety of her Interview time performing a solo for her school's summer recital.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Pansy's playmate drowned in the reservoir when she was five, leaving her terrified of deep water.
• Doomed by Canon: Since Haymitch canonically wins the 50th Games, this is to be expected.
• Face Death with Dignity: Aeria flawlessly performs the dance solo she would have given at her school's summer recital, and died at the Cornucopia the next day with no regrets.
• Grease Monkey: Bear was described to be this by the people around him.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Watts volunteered to save his thirteen-year-old brother. It was noted that he was the last to volunteer for their own sibling until Katniss in the 74th Games.
• Mr. Fixit: Bear could fix a broken generator with "nothing but a bit of wire and some adhesive tape".
• Properly Paranoid: Pansy's thalassophobia (or "hydrophobia", as the text calls it) kept her alive longer than the rest of her district partners because she was able to avoid all the poisoned water sources in the arena.
• Total Party Kill: As they are all Doomed by Canon.

Genner and Rachel (62nd Games)

• Air-Vent Passageway: Genner spends most of the 62nd Hunger Games hiding in the ventilation system.
• Apathetic Student: In the interviews, Genner jokes that the Games are a well-deserved break from school.
• Children Forced to Kill: Genner is thirteen when he enters his Games.
• Neck Snap: Holsteen, the District 10 boy, kills Genner this way.
• Sole Survivor: Genner forms an alliance with the two District 12 tributes, Jay and Naomi, but they are caught by the Careers on the second day. Jay is immediately killed, but Genner and Naomi are let go, only for Enobaria to insist that Rob (District 6) kill one of them as proof of his worth. Rob kills Naomi, while Genner gets away.
• Watch Where You're Going!: While fleeing from Enobaria at the final feast, Genner runs right into Holsteen and gets a quick Neck Snap.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Rachel is Enobaria's first kill and possibly the very first kill of the bloodbath. She gets little characterization beyond being either sullen or sobbing throughout the interviews.

"Foxface" (74th Games)

• Animal Motifs: Foxes, as per canon. Other than her red hair and cunning personality, her Rebel Leader brother names his rebel group "The Nightfoxes", possibly in memory of her.
• Named by the Adaptation: Her surname is suggested to be "Donovan" in the TVP continuity through her brother Miles. Her given name, however, remains unknown.

District 6

Fallen Tributes

1st Games Tributes

• Gutted Like a Fish: Ultimately how the girl dies, at the hands of her District partner.
• Heroic BSoD: The boy screamed after killing his District partner and was left frozen in shock by his actions. This is exploited by Ahenobarbus to chop his head off with a machete.
• Kill Tally: One for the boy — his District partner.
• Off with His Head!: How Ahenobarbus kills the boy.
• Ur-Example: The two tributes from District 6 were the first to die in the very First Hunger Games. The female tribute is killed by her district partner, and he is then killed by Ahenobarbus.
• White Shirt of Death: They presumably wore white tunics into the arena like Ahenobarbus, and died accordingly bloody deaths by being gutted with a spear and beheaded, respectively.

20th Games Female Tribute

• The Ghost: She is described but remains offscreen.
• Killed Offscreen: A cannon goes off for her while Wren is lying wounded, but it's never explained how she dies.
• No Name Given: No one mentions her name.
• Vomit Indiscretion Shot: She throws up on Pine's shoes during the interviews.
• Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing: Almost. She runs and hides during the Games rather than fight anyone, is the second-to-last competitor, and would have won if Wren had been wounded just a bit more seriously.

Chevy Jameson and District Six Girl (25th Games)

• Addled Addict: The girl was born addicted to morphling because her mother was addicted when she was pregnant.
• Assumed Win: Chevy Jameson walks towards the stage before they call his name at the Reaping, having expected that they'd vote for him. This is a rare case, in which the person assuming the win does in fact win.
• The Cartel: Chevy J. was voted in for, among other things, being the youngest drug kingpin in the city.
• Children Forced to Kill: The girl is thirteen when she is voted into the Quarter Quell.
• Gang of Bullies: The boy is The Leader, along with the District 8 boy, of the gang of particularly terrible tributes who band together in the Quell. He is the first to die when the gang tries to take Cora on.
• Hated by All: Cheers can be heard from the crowd as Chevy J. mounted the reaping stage.
• Self-Made Orphan: The Jameson parents "tried to rein [Chevy] in, then beat him down, then escape his wrath".

40th Games Female Tribute

• Blaming the Victim: Not by her, but her reaping evoked this reaction among many prominent figures in the Capitol, as they were "[e]xasperated and disgusted" by her and saw her District as not "properly invested" enough in the Games. In other words, they victim-blamed her for being disabled and unlucky enough to be reaped in the first place.
• Born Unlucky: She is blind, lives in a world where everyone in the Districts is expected to do slave labor, and only gets sent into the Hunger Games after another girl is reaped before her but is excused for being too sick to participate.
• Bury Your Disabled: She dies in the Hunger Games as a disabled girl. It's inevitable in that Nolan wins her Games, but it's also justified in that her blindness gives her an immediate disadvantage in surviving the Games in the first place.
• Prophet Eyes: She is blind and, based on a brief description of her white eyes, lacks irises or corneas.
• Stepford Smiler: She is fairly upbeat but spends the interviews reciting a poem about her mother's bread while knowing she is going to die during the approaching Bloodbath.

45th Games tributes

• The "Fun" in "Funeral": A very dazed and confused Maeve parachutes in a set of red balloons to match the different red colors pouring out of the dying girl's body.
• Grimy Water: The boys dies from drinking contaminated water.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: The girl's only mention is as Maeve watches her bleed out during the Cornucopia bloodbath.

Camaro Jorgin, Jenna Dunne, Gordy Brockleton, Petrum Steele (50th Games)

• Disappeared Dad: Gordy Brockleton has three different kids from three different girls and doesn't even know any of their names. He considers his reaping to be a form of Karma Houdini Warranty for his lack of a role in their lives.
• Kill Tally: Camaro is stated to have killed another tribute at the Cornucopia, being the only 12-year-old to accomplish such a feat. However, it is unknown who this tribute is, and whether her district partners got any kills.
• Living Emotional Crutch: Jenna's mother stayed clean of drugs for sixteen years to try and give her a better life, but "fell Off the Wagon four hours after Jenna was reaped".
• Throw the Dog a Bone: Petrum's stylist takes him to see the hovercraft cockpit and sit in the pilot's seat for ten minutes, as Petrum always dreamed of being a hovercraft pilot.
• Tyke Bomb: Camaro was 12 years and 9 days old when she participated in the Hunger Games, making her the youngest tribute in Games history to date.

56th Hunger Games Female Tribute

• Damsel out of Distress: She is taken to the nest of an eagle mutt, presumably to be eaten, but kills it instead.
• Improvised Weapon User: She kills a mutt by grabbing a stick, snapping it in half, and ramming a jagged end through the creature's eye.
• No Name Given: Her name is never disclosed in any of the fics.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: She is never mentioned after her fight with the eagle mutt, but Connor is the tribute who makes it home that year.
• Wrong Side of the Tracks: The nest of an eagle mutt is bigger than the room she sleep in back home, implying a fair amount of poverty even by District standards.

Violet and Track (57th Games)

• Doomed by Canon: Since Cecelia wins their Games, their deaths are expected.
• Meaningful Name: Track's name clearly stems from the rails on which a train runs on—and he's from the transport district.
• Stuff Blowing Up: Violet died just before the gong rang when Cecelia, who was on the tribute platform next to hers, threw her boot at her to set off the mines surrounding the podium.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: We only know their names, their district, and how they died—Track was pinned to the ground by a spear thrown by Gillard (the District 4 boy). We also have the added bonus of Violet breaking down into tears halfway through her Interview, and that both of them were typically terrified when they were reaped and... that's about it.

Rob (62nd Games)

• Accidental Pervert: Citrine, after doing some impressive She-Fu, stumbles forward, and Rob catches her by the breasts. Considering Citrine is the District 1 girl, it's not clear whether this was an accident on her part.
• Big "NO!": Yells this to Enobaria as they are coming out of the hedge maze. He sees a booby trap and throws a knife at it before Enobaria reaches it.
• Captain Obvious: Enobaria accuses him of being this, but this is more because many of the features of the arena are new to him, while the Careers are trained to know what to expect.
• Category Traitor: Initially very popular among the outlier tributes, but they all shun him once he joins the Career pack. When the Careers capture a group of outliers and demand Rob kill one, Naomi (District 12) calls out Rob for being a traitor.
  Naomi: You filthy traitor. Do it, you turncoat. Wish I could've seen what's coming to you. Hope it hurts when it's your turn.
• Children Forced to Kill: Seventeen when he enters his Games.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: Codey, the District 3 boy, creates a torture machine and tortures Rob to the point that he asks Enobaria for a Mercy Kill.
• Cool Kid-and-Loser Friendship: His dynamic with the Careers. Orion is most affectionate towards him, while Citrine and Enobaria treat him with Condescending Compassion. Mercury is the harshest towards him and forces him to kill an outlier tribute to prove his worth. It is during his fight with Savannah (District 9), though, that he truly shows his strength.
• Damsel out of Distress: During the bloodbath, Orion rescues him from the District 9 boy and then says, "Considered yourself rescued, damsel." But then Rob throws a knife at the District 9 girl, who was about to stab Orion in the back (which wounds her but doesn't kill her).
• Death Is Dramatic: Has the most dramatic death scene of the 62nd Hunger Games. Codey tortures him to the point of death, but before he dies, Enobaria carries him outside to the spacious lawn, where the sun is setting, and then gives him a Last Kiss from his girl back home before delivering a Mercy Kill.
• Had to Be Sharp: Rob's skill in knife-fighting and his strength against Savannah are attributed to this.
  Enobaria: He's not the flirting boy or the half-baked Career. As Rob slams Nine down to the ground, I know I'm seeing the boy who only survived on the streets of District 6 because he never loses a fight.
• If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten!: Mercury insists he kill a group of outlier tributes to prove his worth to the Careers. Enobaria ultimately agrees and tells the surviving two (the District 5 boy and District 12 girl) to run, and then orders Rob to kill one of them, or she'll kill him. He kills the girl.
• Kill Tally: Two tributes — the District 12 girl (Naomi) and District 9 girl (Savannah), the latter with assists from Citrine and Mercury.
• Mercy Kill:
  • Enobaria tell him that she, Orion, or Citrine would give him one of these in the end along with a Last Kiss. He responds with a sarcastic thanks and then lays down to sleep, all while Trying Not to Cry.
  • Enobaria ends up giving him one after he is slowly dying from Codey's Electric Torture. She also gives him a Last Kiss.
• My Girl Back Home: Has one named Sara, though that doesn't stop him from clearly lusting after Enobaria and Citrine or from having a sexual relationship with Orion. Though when Baria gives him a Last Kiss, he asks that she pretends it's from Sara.
• Non-Indicative Name: Citrine and Enobaria assume his name means that his parents were thieves, since most districts have Theme Naming. But in Rob's case, it's just his name.
• One-Sided Arm-Wrestling: Gets flustered talking with Caesar during his interview and finally just challenges Caesar to an arm wrestling match. Rob wins, but he allows Caesar to put up a fight.
• Performance Anxiety: During the training time, he does a great job showing off his knife-throwing skills to a pair of outer district girls, but when Citrine and Enobaria ask to see him throw, he flubs it.
• Sexy Discretion Shot: After doing a patrol with Orion, both return eating peaches. They clearly received a reward for doing something, and there were no reported kills.
• You Are a Credit to Your Race: After his critical role in fighting the bear-mutt, killing Savannah, and getting them out of the freezing maze, he receives a parachute of healing cream. Enobaria comments that it is likely the most expensive gift someone from "the morphling district" ever received.

Cloud (62nd Games)

• Orphan's Ordeal: Has no family and grew up in a community home.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Her name and characterization only come from the interviews, and she dies in the bloodbath.
• Workaholic: Works a factory shift after school to earn money for a further education in engineering. When Caesar asks what she does for fun, she's confused and says she has no time for fun.

Titus (66th Games)

• City Mouse: Implied, as he was raised in the heavily urban District 6 and lacked the survival skills to find food in the rural arena.
• Doomed by Canon: Katniss mentions in the first Hunger Games novel that there was a tribute named Titus who the Gamemakers kill, because he starts cannibalizing other tributes.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: The Gamemakers created an avalanche in order to kill him and prevent a cannibalistic lunatic from ending up as the Victor.
• The Giant: Though his height is not explicitly mentioned, Titus was described to be "enormous".
• Kill Tally: One confirmed kill — the District 3 girl.
• No Party Like a Donner Party: As per canon, he started to cannibalize on his fellow tributes' dead bodies due to desperate hunger. The three confirmed tributes he ate were the District 12 boy (whom he was allied with before he died), the District 3 girl, and the District 1 boy (Burnish).
• O.C. Stand-in: Titus is a canonical character whose Games was more fleshed out in The Victors Project.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: His Games are permanently remembered for his cannibalism and for the Gamemakers blatantly killing him to prevent his possible victory. Katniss even says that one of the few unofficial rules of the Hunger Games is that you cannot eat your opponents.
• One-Track-Minded Hunger: Due to the harsh natural environment of the arena, Titus and his ally—the District 12 boy—were left starving, to the point that this motivated him to become a cannibal.
• The Quiet One: Said to be this when he was first introduced.

District 7

Fallen Tributes

Fyr (11th Games)

• Doomed Protagonist: The 11th Games are told from his perspective, in which he is Mags's final kill.
• Gang of Bullies: Part of the alliance of tributes that included the boys from Districts 1, 2, 4, and 9.
• Get It Over With: After being horribly burned by Mags, he simply asks her to end it quickly.
• Ironic Name: Being named "Fyr" proved to be terribly fitting.
• Kill Tally: Two tributes — the District 3 girl and either the District 5 or 6 girl.
• Lured into a Trap: His entire alliance falls into Mags's trap into a ravine, which allows Mags to pour fish oil on them and set them on fire.
• A Real Man Is a Killer: His alliance fully accepts him after seeing the blood on his ax, showing he has both the ability and the stomach to kill.

Rem (20th Hunger Games)

• Back-to-Back Badasses: He and Wren kill several Careers while standing together.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: The boy from District 2 cuts him in half.
• Incompatible Orientation: He flirts with Wren before learning that she's gay. Afterward, the two become friends and allies anyway.
• Inevitable Mutual Betrayal: Discussed but ultimately averted. He and Wren agree that in the unlikely event they both survive their fight with the Careers (they don't), then they'll each swim to a different island and let the Gamemakers decided who to kill with the arena.
• Kill Tally: Two tributes — the District 4 boy and District 1 girl.
• Mighty Lumberjack: Like much of his district, he's a lumberjack and described by Wren as "heavily muscled and very handsome."

21st Games Tributes

• No Name Given: Neither is named.
• Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Despite them implicitly surviving together for over a week, the boy kicks his partner out of a tree they climbed, into the midst of a mutt pack below, to try to appease them and make them go away. They stay and wait for him to fall.

25th Games Tributes

• Abusive Parents: The girl tribute's father is highly religious, forces her to wear long clothing, and locks her in the woodshed when she rebels in any way. Her mother does nothing to stop this abuse, meekly accepting her role as a submissive wife.
• Guilt by Association: The boy was a member of a rowdy local gang, and it's noted, "He's not the worst of them, not by far, but he's the only one still of reaping age, barely".
• The Heretic: The girl is voted into the Quarter Quell after burning the shrine of District 7's gods.

Alana Mallon (29th Games)

• Dead Partner: Her district partner ends up sacrificing his own life at the Cornucopia in order to get her an ax.
• Dying Declaration of Hate: Dies while screaming that Ben is a traitor for siding with the Careers.
• Final Battle: She is the final tribute Ben kills to become Victor.
• Thwarted Coup de Grâce: Believes she has Ben beat after cutting off his fingers and pinning him down. She even whispers "Goodbye" as she brings the knife down for the final kill. But then she discovers that the mutt-wolf pelt he's wearing is impervious to direct stabs, and Ben takes advantage of her shock to reverse her hold, pin her down, and deliver the final blow.
• Treachery Is a Special Kind of Evil: Has particular contempt for Ben ever since training, when he first attempts to join the Career pack.
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Pretends to be under attack behind the Cornucopia, and when Ben comes to finish her off, she throws an axe at his head, that he is able to block at the expense of two fingers.

45th Games Tributes

• Back-to-Back Badasses: They fight side by side in their Last Stand against the Career pack.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: The boy dies from a steel poker to the gut.
• Kill Tally: The boy has one — the District 3 boy.
• These Hands Have Killed: The boy has a self-loathing reaction, including vomiting, after killing the District 3 boy.

Sparrow Flaherty, Miriam Murray, Cameron O'Neill, and Cedar Fritz (50th Games)

• The Alcoholic: Cedar started drinking at age 11 and took tessarae because all of his money was used up to purchase alcohol. It's also clarified that most (if not all) of the men in his family were also alcoholics.
• Category Traitor: Cameron abandons his alliance with Wally Larsen, the District 12 tribute, and joins the Career pack instead.
• Doomed by Canon: Since Haymitch canonically wins the 50th Games, this is to be expected.
• Everyone Is Related: Cameron is Jason Mellark's cousin, who in turn is the distant relative of Peeta Mellark. It's not stated whether Cameron is a cousin on the Mellark side.
• O.C. Stand-in: In Catching Fire, a Career almost slit Haymitch's throat in a fight, only to be killed by Maysilee from a poisoned dart. That Career is implied to be Cameron O'Neill, who, according to Haymitch's chapter in The Victors Project, betrayed Wally for the Career Pack and died with a poison dart to the neck.
• Suicide by Cop: Sparrow purposely runs headlong into the Cornucopia bloodbath when she learns from Vera about "Victor's duties".
• Teen Pregnancy: Miriam was two months pregnant when she entered the Games, not that she knew at all. The baby's heartbeat was detected after she died, and her fiancé was fined a month's worth of wages for this.
• Total Party Kill: As they are all Doomed by Canon.

Charlie Lourdes (52nd Games)

• Break the Cutie/Murder Makes You Crazy: After killing her ally Qin Li in self-defense, Charlie undergoes a breakdown and spirals into a Wild Child, reduced to her most basic of instincts.
• Dying as Yourself: She snaps out of her Wild Child state just before she dies.
  But in the moment [Romani] gives the final shove, Charlie's body relaxes, her screams soften, and I know instinctively that in this last moment, her mind has cleared, and she knows who and where she is. In one last act of desperation, even as she flies of[f] the edge of the Ferris wheel, Charlie reaches out and grabs Romani's shirt, pulling with all her strength. For a few short seconds, Romani's screams echo through across the lake as my enemy and my beautiful district partner plunge to the ground.
• Girl Posse: Forms a non-bullying variant by teaming up with two other outlier girls, Bobbi (from District 9) and Qin Li (from District 8), dubbed "the three princesses" by the Careers and none of whom are particularly skilled combatants (except against a few mutts). They mostly avoided playing the Games until, with the final 8 approaching, Bobbi tried to poison Charlie and Qin Li, only for Charlie to secretly give Bobbi her portion of the dinner due to thinking that she wasn't taking enough for herself. Qin Li then assumed that Charlie deliberately poisoned Bobbi, forcing Charlie to kill her in self-defense and undergo an extreme Break the Cutie/Murder Makes You Crazy meltdown.
• Identical Stranger: Charlie looked similar to Devon's girlfriend back in District 10, and reminded Devon of her to the point he kissed her after the Interviews.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Her full given name is Charlotte, but most people call her "Charlie".
• Taking You with Me: She drags Romani, the District 4 male tribute, down with her after being pushed off the Ferris wheel.
• Wild Child: She becomes this after being forced to kill her ally in self-defense. She only snaps out of it in the final moments of her life.

Rowenna (57th Games)

• Fiery Redhead: She is frequently described to have copper hair.
• Massively Numbered Siblings: Rowenna was the second-youngest of seven children, meaning she had six siblings.
• Meaningful Name: Rowenna was named after the rowan tree. Exploited when Cora sends Cecelia a sponsor gift containing rowan leaves, to advise Cecelia to do what Rowenna did to her to Andromache during their ceasefire—betrayal.
• Murder by Inaction: Rowenna leaves Cecelia hanging off a cliff to die in a rockslide that ends in her being Buried Alive. This ultimately doesn't end well for Rowenna in the long run.
  Rowenna: I'm sorry, Cecelia. But I want to go home. It's better this way. I don't have to kill you. I just don't have to save you.
• Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: Rowenna is noted to have copper hair and green eyes at her Reaping, and later becomes Cecelia's ally.
• Ungrateful Bastard: At first, Cecelia spared Rowenna's life when she has every reason not to (something she makes very clear to Rowenna). However, Rowenna took this opportunity to try to stab her in the back, causing Cecelia (as Victoria) to finish her off.

Aspen "Luckie" Woodman (57th Games)

• Doomed by Canon: Since Cecelia wins his Games, this is obvious.
• Gangbangers: Johanna's chapter reveals that he was part of the nastiest of the gangs in District 7 around the time before his Reaping.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: In the form of Cecelia Rheys, acting on Blight Gavin's request.
  The young man who had thrown the knife [at young Johanna] was arrested for attempted rape a week later but escaped punishment by volunteering for the Fifty-Seventh Games. His reprieve lasted a week until Cecelia Rheys threw her boot at the mines around his pedestal.
• Meaningful Name:
  • The aspen is a type of tree and his surname is Woodman. District 7's industry is lumber. You do the math from there.
  • Luckie also claims during his pre-Games interview that he had seven girls waiting for him back at home, giving him his nickname. Considering his personality and experiences, the implication is that he had sexually assaulted or raped seven girls back in District 7.
• Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Luckie ends up on the receiving end of this when Blight asks Cecelia to kill Luckie, even though Luckie is from his district, because of Luckie's perverse actions.
• Smug Snake: During his interview, Cora describes him to be "[a]rrogant, supremely confident, and seemingly oblivious to the way the Careers are eying him like a wild dog eyes a rat".
• Stuff Blowing Up: When Cecelia throws one of her boots on the mines surrounding his podium, he dies in the following explosion.
• Would Hurt a Child: He threw a knife at Johanna when she was a toddler after she caught him trying to rape a girl.

Holly and Kormac (62nd Hunger Games)

• An Arm and a Leg: Enobaria cuts off Kormac's arm in the bloodbath, although he keeps fighting for several seconds afterward.
• Genius Bruiser: Kormac starts the interviews by doing 20 push-ups to show off his physique. Then he compares himself to Haymitch, saying they both have a sense of district loyalty and know the value of outsmarting their less intelligent opponents. He doesn't get a chance to prove his boasts, though.
• Mighty Lumberjack: Both of them are tough teenagers from the lumber District.
  Holly claims that she has no surprises in the arena, everyone knows she can use an ax and she intends to show them all just how well.
• Tall Poppy Syndrome: The Careers target and kill them during the bloodbath due to concerns that they'll form an effective underdog alliance with the District 9 tributes.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Both are killed during the bloodbath: Kormac by Enobaria, and Holly likely by one of the Careers but it is left unstated.

Jason Mellark

• Distressed Dude: He is kidnapped and held hostage in the 52nd Games in order to convince Blight to give up or at least throw him off his game.
• Everyone Is Related: He's a distant cousin of Peeta and his family.
• Heroic Sacrifice: He dies nursing victims of the Bleeding Blight (the Synthetic Plague Snow unleashed on 7).
• Manly Gay: A lumberjack who spent the first half of his life careful to show no signs of his sexuality due to the district's sentiments.
• Rebel Leader: Becomes a second-tier member of the Rebellion well before Blight officially joins.

Blight's Family

Burgen Gavin

• The Alcoholic: He's a self-pitying man who does little but drink.
• My God, What Have I Done?: He's horrified when he finds out that he's spent a decade making Blight miserable over a lie.

Lilia

• Hero of Another Story: She only has a few scenes, but is implied to be a leader of the Avox rebels in the Capitol.
• Outliving One's Offspring: At least two of her sons are already dead by the time of her cameo in in the epilogue of The Bonds of Blood.
• Sex Slave: She was taken from her home and family to be raped by President Snow and other Capitolites on a regular basis. The Victors Chronicles reveals that she was "Snow's favorite concubine" and "queen of the underworld" who "held as much power as some ministers".

Abel

• Cain and Abel: Despite his name, Abel is very much the Cain of the dynamic, bullying his younger brother and trying to get him killed.
• Hypocrite: Abuses Blight for supposedly being the product of an affair with a Peacekeeper. Ends up joining them to save his own skin.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: He's a horrific Big Brother Bully who tries to kill Blight, but he seems to be partially driven by hatred for the Capitol and looks stunned about hearing that the district's hatred toward Blight and his mother has been misplaced. Then, he becomes a collaborator to pay off his gambling debts, becoming a Torture Technician known as "the Skinner" and bombing a hospital in the Mockingjay Rebellion before being killed by Katniss.
• Kill It with Fire: His final fate, burning to death after Katniss brings down the hoverplane he was in.
• Torture Technician: He becomes a peacekeeper torturer called "the Skinner".

Jonnel

• Accomplice by Inaction: He doesn't actively bully Blight or try to get him killed as much as Abel and their father do, but he doesn't lift a finger to stop it either.
• Rejected Apology: When Blight returns from the Capitol, Jonel begs him for forgiveness. Blight tells Jonnel that he got what he wanted, as his brother died in the Capitol.

Blane

• Combat Parkour: He fights the Capitol's soldiers with a bo staff while leaping from one horse to another.
• Guile Hero: He uses a "Scooby-Doo" Hoax to bring down District 7's Peacekeepers, pretending to be his uncle's ghost.
• Strong Family Resemblance: He's the spitting image of his uncle Blight.

Other District 7 Rebels

Mack and Evelyn Murray

• Alliterative Name: Mack Murray.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Mack is probably the friendliest person in District 7 until Burgen's abuse of Blight pisses him off enough for a "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
• Rank Up: Mack goes from a lumber crew foreman to the Mayor of District 7.
• Satellite Character: Evelyn's role is largely an extension of her husband Mack's.
• Secret-Keeper: Mack the only one who knows the real circumstances behind why Lilia left.

Mayor Lourdes

• Dropped a Bridge on Him: The epilogue of The Lumberjack and the Tree-Elf mentions that he died when the Capitol tested a bioweapon on District 7.
• Heartbroken Badass: The Capitol turning his wife into an Avox has taken its toll on him, and his youngest daughter being reaped into the Games causes him to prematurely age.
• Hero of Another Story: He got the District through a harsh winter by going against the Capitol and then managed to make it look like he was acting out of loyalty toward them. He's also a leader of the rebellion, but only has a handful of scenes.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: When Blight's father volunteers him against his will, Mayor Lourdes senses something is wrong and tries to stop it before Eamon quickly confirms Blight as the tribute.
• Roguish Poacher: During a harsh District 7 winter several years before The Lumberjack and the Tree-Elf, Mayor Lourdes organized unauthorized hunting parties into the woods to keep the District fed and then presented it to the Capitol as an act of loyalty meant to ensure the loggers were well-fed enough to keep working. The public bought it but President Snow didn't, and punished Lourdes behind closed doors while officially accepting his explanation.

Carla Lourdes

• Only the Knowledgable May Pass: She watches the door during District 7's rebel meetings and makes sure anyone who wants to come in knows the password.
• Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: The epilogue of The Lumberjack and the Tree-Elf claims that she's dead, but she only faked her death and turns up alive in Arrow.

Lees

• Cool Big Sis: She's very friendly and supportive of her younger brother Jason.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: She's a notable character in The Lumberjack and the Tree-Elf, but in the main story, Beetee says that he heard that all of Jason's surviving relatives on the Mellark side of the family died in the Mockingjay Rebellion.

Greta

• Cool Old Lady: She's a witty and intelligent rebel leader and, during the 52nd Hunger Games, describes herself as elderly.
• Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: The epilogue of The Lumberjack and the Tree-Elf claims that she's dead, but she only faked her death and turns up alive in Arrow.

Reuben

• Mighty Lumberjack: He runs the logging crews and fights on the frontlines of the Mockingjay Rebellion.
• Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: The epilogue of The Lumberjack and the Tree-Elf claims that he's dead, but he only faked his death and turns up alive in Arrow.
• Sour Supporter: He's fairly curmudgeonly and bickers with the others about rebel strategies, but he's a dedicated rebel.

Mitch Murphy

• Alliterative Name: Mitch Murphy.
• Manly Gay: He strongly resembles hulking lumberjack Jason Mellark and is in a relationship with Blane Gavin.

Moran

• Badass Family: In Arrow, Moran is implied to be dead, but his sons are "carrying on their father's work" by fighting alongside Mack on the frontlines of the battle for District 7.
• Hunter Trapper: He is the head of the trappers, who kill animals for their meat and furs to keep the district residents from freezing or starving.
• The Voiceless: His presence is noted at a rebel meeting or two, but he remains silent.

District 8

Fallen Tributes

District Eight Boy (25th Games)

• Childish Tooth Gap: Missing his front teeth, but it in no way makes him come off as cute or innocent.
• Gang of Bullies: The Leader, along with the District 6 boy, of the gang of particularly terrible tributes who band together in the Quell.
• Hated by All: When he was reaped, many residents of the district were heard crying for him to just be killed already.
• Mutual Kill: Subverted. Both he and Cora stab each other—she is stabbed in the stomach, he in the groin and then the neck—but only he dies.
• Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: The reason why District 8 voted him into the Games is because he's a rapist. More specifically, as Cora elaborates in Fall Into the River, one of his victims was a child, though said child's age was never explicitly stated.
• Serial Rapist: He gets a tattoo mark on his arm for every girl he sexually assaulted. As of the time he was reaped, he had five of them.

Cotter (32nd Games)

• Category Traitor: Despite being from 8, he joins the Career pack.
• Final Battle: He is the final tribute Antigone kills to become Victor.
• Inevitable Mutual Betrayal: The only part of his Games that is described is the breakup of the Career pack once all the other tributes have been killed. His first kill is Tyde, the District 4 boy who was his closest ally among the Careers.
• Javelin Thrower: His preferred weapon.
• Kill Tally: Two tributes — the District 4 girl and District 4 boy (Tyde).
• Klingon Promotion: The Careers allow him to join their pack after he kills and replaces the District 4 girl.
• Worthy Opponent: Right before their Final Battle, Antigone commends him for doing far better than any of them expected and making it to the Final 2.
  Antigone: Good night, Cotter. I'll make sure my speech in Eight is special. I promise.

45th Games Tributes

• Eye Scream: The District 5 boy gouges the boy's eye out, which gives the Five boy the decisive advantage in their fight, allowing him to bludgeon the Eight boy to death.
• Karmic Death: The boy kills the District 5 girl and is then killed by the District 5 boy.
• Kill Tally: The boy has one — the District 5 girl.
• Killed Offscreen: The girl is killed by the District 4 boy but her death is not shown. However, Cora's reaction suggests it was particularly gruesome.
• One-Track-Minded Hunger: The boy is so hungry that he fights the District 5 boy over rats that the Five boy is eating. It costs the Eight boy his life.

Jane Lawson, Yarna Smethers, Weaver Browne, and Edmure "Big Eddie" Aberdeen (50th Games)

• The Bully: "Big Eddie" stole tessarae rations from his fellow Community Home kids and terrorized the playing field at his school.
• Eaten Alive: Weaver is devoured by a pack of golden squirrel mutts.
• Gentle Giant: The burly Weaver used to be kind and harmless before the Quell.
• Hated by All: "Big Eddie" being voted into the Quell was met with cheers from his peers.
• In-Universe Catharsis: "Big Eddie" is infamous among his peers for being a bully who steals tessarae from Community Home kids. It's easy to understand why they're cheering when he goes down during the Cornucopia bloodbath.
• Kill Tally: Weaver murdered three girls with his bare hands.
• Murder Makes You Crazy: Weaver presumably 'went crazy' at some point in the Games, which led to him turning from a Gentle Giant to a murderer.
• O.C. Stand-in: Weaver came in fourth place in his Games and was devoured by carnivorous golden squirrels. It's indicated that he was mentioned but not named in Catching Fire in the recap of Haymitch's Games, though there's a slight inconsistency that he would have come third instead.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Yarna got her high score in her Gamemakers' session "for her mean shot with a sling and her general bullying of tributes twice her size".
• Stealing the Credit: Jane adjusts her own interview dress (which was fitted for a taller tribute by the novice stylist) for the Second Quarter Quell, which is something her stylist doesn't mention after being voted "Best Newcomer" to the stylist pool by a tabloid magazine.
• Suffer the Slings: Yarna's weapon, which she might have been able to utilize had the Careers not targetted her.
• Tall Poppy Syndrome: Yarna's high score of 9 draws the attention of the Careers, who target her as the first kill of the Quell.
• Theme Naming: Yarna and Weaver are both from the textile district.

Qin Li and Tune (52nd Games)

• Cynicism Catalyst: Having to kill Qin Li in self-defense drove Charlie from District 7 to turn into a Wild Child.
• Girl Posse: Qin Li forms a non-bullying variant by teaming up with two other outlier girls, Bobbi (from District 9) and Charlie (from District 7), dubbed "the three princesses" by the Careers and none of whom are particularly skilled combatants (except against a few mutts).
• Gutted Like a Fish: Alabaster kills Tune in this way at the Bloodbath.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Tune tackled Alabaster at the Bloodbath, allowing Charlie to escape with her alliance. This ended with Tune being Gutted Like a Fish.
• Kill Tally: For Tune, he has one — the District 6 boy, Cole, whom he killed at the Bloodbath while fighting over a water bottle.

Loomer Twall (57th Games)

• An Arm and a Leg: A lizard-mutt bites his hand off in the Games.
• Bury Your Disabled: Since Cecelia ends up winning his Games, this is inevitable.
• Cannot Tell Fiction from Reality: He reenacted a level of a video game that he and Woof played on the train ride to the Capitol... in the middle of the Hunger Games. This is justified by his mental disability.
• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: He goes on a hologame-style quest to rescue Cecelia. Justified in this case, as Cannot Tell Fiction from Reality as a result from his mental/intellectual disability.
• Loon with a Heart of Gold: He has a mental disability of some sort, and he's very kind to most people.
• Morality Chain: Of a sort for Cecelia. He is the one tribute that she did not want to kill, both because of his disability and because of his kindness towards her, including saving her from the landslide that buried her, even calling him her hero. After she's forced to Mercy Kill him anyway, something in Cecelia snaps, and she ends up developing a more ruthless Split Personality who takes over and finishes the Games for her. Even decades after his death, he still remains in her heart; right before the Third Quarter Quell starts, he's one of the people she whispers a prayer to.
• Muscles Are Meaningful: Cora notes on how muscular Loomer is during his interview. He later demonstrates his physical strength in the arena when he pushes away the boulder that has trapped Cecelia in a cave for 48 hours.
• Trademark Favourite Food: Oranges.
• Vorpal Pillow: How he dies; Cecelia smothers Loomer with a pillow after a lizard-mutt bites off his hand, fearing he is too wounded and simple to make it any further.

Kerry Rheys (62nd Games)

• Children Forced to Kill: Twelve when she enters her Games, though she rejects the chance to kill.
• Death by Irony: Kills herself by dropping her ball on the mine in front of her, a Call-Back to how her sister Cecelia killed the two tributes next to her.
• Heroic Suicide: She took her own life just before the 62nd Hunger Games began by dropping her district token onto the mines surrounding her podium.
• Ludicrous Gibs: As a result of her suicide via Stuff Blowing Up.
• O.C. Stand-in: In the first Hunger Games novel, Katniss recalls a Hunger Games where a tribute dropped her token, a small wooden ball, onto the mines around her podium before the Games began, and that the Gamemakers had to scrape her remains off the arena floor. The Bonds of Blood heavily implies that Kerry was the tribute in question.
• Sins of the Father: Or rather, Sins of the Sister. She's Reaped as punishment for Cecelia getting pregnant with Cardella.
• Tall Poppy Syndrome: Honorius instructs the District 2 tributes to target her early, since she will likely gain many sponsors. This, however, becomes unnecessary, since she does the job for them.
• We All Die Someday: Says this to Orion (District 2) when he tries to intimidate her on the tributes' elevator after the interviews.
  Kerry: All men die, Orion Baker. All women, too. Even Victors. Tomorrow me. Then you. The day after. Or next week. A month, a half-century. Still, you will die.

Kent (62nd Games)

• Killed Offscreen: He's the only tribute in Enobaria's game to be killed through unknown causes, although Enobaria speculates that the Gamemakers will target him with a muttation.
• Spiteful Spit: When Caesar asks what he's enjoyed most about the Capitol, Kent replies by spitting on the stage.

Lorelei (68th Games)

• Dropped a Bridge on Her: The Gamemakers create a chasm of fire under her, ending her chances of winning her Games.
• Sins of the Father: The Gamemakers kill her as punishment for having a high-profile rebellious relative (either an uncle or brother). invoked
• Statuesque Stunner: Described as being "tall, blonde, leggy in a way the Capitol loved but with cool grey eyes".
• The Unfought: The Gamemakers kill her at the Final 3 before she can take on Berenice or the District 1 boy, the other two remaining tributes.

Triss (74th Games)

• Mercy Kill: Dies from this, courtesy of Peeta.
• Named by the Adaptation: The girl from Katniss' Games who was hunted down by the Careers is named Triss in this fic.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: As per canon.

Sammy Jones, Eileen Martin, Satin Kasten, Monnica Thomas, Chrysanthemum Frill, Linyn Jonson, Lilia Remington

"My voice is a loud, long scream, but the names of my tributes hang in the air like a spell."

— Cora

• The Dead Have Names: When Snow has Cora tortured to get the names of the District 8 rebel leaders, Cora instead screams the names of these fallen tributes, whose deaths motivate her to fight the Capitol.
• Theme Naming: Satin and Linyn are named after textiles, which their District manufactures.^note 'Linyn' is likely a variant spelling of 'linen'.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Beyond the fact that they are dead tributes, we know nothing about them, even what Games that fought and died in.

President Paylor

• Due to the Dead: While part of District 8's underground resistance, her Trust Password was the current number of District 8 children killed in the Hunger Games.
• Iron Lady: Always portrayed as a smart, hardworking, multi-tasking, and no-nonsense President.
• Old Soldier: A rebel since before the 57th Games when she was a teenager, where she was trusted enough to know Spindella was the head of the district's resistance.
• No Full Name Given: Her first name is never given, and it's possible "Paylor" is just a pseudonym that stuck.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Works closely with the Victors to help uncover Katniss's assassin and then rescue her, though she's not let in on their final rescue plan. Once it succeeds, Paylor is duly congratulatory and exasperated.
  Odysseus: President Paylor rants at us for our irresponsibility, carelessness, and utter stupidity for around forty minutes, then pins medals of valor on all our chests and tells us to get out of her sight.
• Rebel Leader: Takes over as District 8 rebel leader after Cora is killed by the Capitol and Spindella does a Murder-Suicide Decapitation Strike against the District 8 leadership. Under her leadership, District 8 "drove back seven waves of Capitol forces. Her ragtag militia hurt the Capitol so badly that several districts encountered half the resistance they would have otherwise".

Spindella "Della"

• Decapitation Strike/Murder-Suicide: Arrow reveals that in the year leading up to the Third Quarter Quell, Della built an explosive vest so that she could march into the Justice Building to blow up the Capitol administration there, taking herself out in the process. It is presumed that she carried out this plan after the 75th Games arena was destroyed by rebel plans.
• Good Stepmother: Spindella zigzags this. She has a fairly cold relationship with her stepchildren and doesn't have much visible warmth towards them, but this is partially to limit any harm that might come to them if her resistance activities are exposed and does what she can to save Cecelia's life after she's reaped. It's even implied that Cecelia's impending death in the Quell is what motivated her decision to make a Suicide Attack on the District 8 Justice Building so the rebellion there has a better chance of succeeding.
• Meaningful Name: Her name is presumably a portmanteau of 'spindle' and 'Ella', and she's from the district that produces textiles.
• Taking You with Me: She died in a suicide bomb attack on the District 8 Justice Building to take out the Capitol-sympathizing administration.
• Together in Death: It's implied that she planned her Suicide Attack on the Justice Building in part to be with her family, including her late husband, her late daughter and her stepdaughter (the latter of whom they all knew was going to die in the Quarter Quell).
• Wicked Stepmother: Subverted. While they have a distant relationship, and Cecelia is conflicted to find out that Della knew she was raising money for the family by working as a prostitute and never talked to her about it, Della does care for her stepdaughter in her own way, trying to motivate her to win the Games, and helping recruit her for the Rebellion afterwards.

Cardella, Aaron and Milo Rheys

• A Boy, a Girl, and a Baby Family: Aaron (11 as of Katniss' rescue mission), Cardella (15 as of Katniss' rescue mission) and Milo, respectively.
• Curtains Match the Window: Cardella is described to have "masses of black hair and identical eyes".
• Dead Guy Junior: Aaron is named after his paternal uncle who died in the quarry a week before his father's Games.
• Gadgeteer Genius: Cardella, who is able to hack into President Paylor's computer network to gather information for the Rescue Arc for Katniss, is implied to have invented a slicing device, and can pick and break locks.
• Kid Hero: Cardella and Aaron join the rescue mission for Katniss at ages 15 and 11, respectively.
• Missing Mom: Because Cecelia is Doomed by Canon.
• Newhart Phonecall: Cardella Rheys is able to hack into Paylor's network and finds a televideo conversation between Paylor and Luster, but only Luster's side is heard. Regardless, they are able to learn that Luster kidnapped Katniss, the list of his demands, and a sense of how Paylor responded.
• Son of a Whore: Their mother, Cecelia, was a sex worker—initially as a streetwalker before the Hunger Games and her motherhood, and afterward being forced into sexual slavery through "Victors' Duties". Her having children was seen as a way to get out of the latter.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Cardella is described to be "the splitting image" of her late aunt, Kerry.

District 9

Fallen Tributes

Benji (23rd Hunger Games)

• Big Man on Campus: He is a handsome boy who gets good grades, has a pretty girlfriend, and is far better-liked by the people of District 9 than his district partner Evelyn.
• Too Dumb to Live: He dies making a "mad dash" for the Cornucopia despite the strength of the Career pack.

25th Games Tributes

• Attack on the Heart: Cora punches the girl in the throat before fatally stabbing her in the heart.
• Gang of Bullies: The girl is part of the gang of particularly terrible tributes who band together in the Quell and is killed trying to take Cora on.
• Hated by All: All of the girl's classmates were seen smiling when she was voted into the Games.
• Homophobic Hate Crime: The boy was voted into the Quell by his district for being gay.
• Woman Scorned: The girl made a False Rape Accusation against a boy who wouldn't go to a dance with her and watched him get whipped with a smile on her face.

Sheavan (40th Hunger Games)

• Cruel and Unusual Death: No specifics are given, but the Careers spend an entire hour torturing her to death.
• Stealth Expert: Sheavan is the scout and spy for her Five-Man Band alliance, spying on the Careers.
• Theme Naming: Her name is most likely a portmanteau of Siobhán (roughly pronounced shiv-VAHN) and sheaves, as in sheaves of wheat. She's from the district that produces grain.

45th Games Tributes

• Bring My Brown Pants: The boys craps himself when the District 4 boy describes his plan to hang him.
• Bullet Dancing: The District 4 boy sticks a heated metal rod at the boy from District 9 and tells him to dance.
  District 4 boy: Dance, little fucker. Dance, dance, dance away.
• Hanging Around: The Careers, and most specifically the District 4 boy, horrifically hang the boy. He is described as "going blue, then purple" as the Careers laugh around him.
• Too Dumb to Live: The girl ignores Evelyn's advice and runs straight towards the Cornucopia. She is immediately killed by the District 4 boy.

Amaranth Copeland, Betsy Mueller, Adam Stone, and Oaten Strauss (50th Games)

• Ambiguous Gender Identity: Adam is addressed with he/him pronouns and wears a dress to the Interviews, but it is unconfirmed whether he is a Wholesome Crossdresser or a trans/nonbinary person who uses masculine pronouns.
• Ascended Fanboy: Oaten goes from collecting Victor cards to being a tribute in the Hunger Games himself.
• Doomed by Canon: Since Haymitch canonically wins the 50th Games, this is to be expected.
• The Lad-ette: Amaranth is most likely this, being a champion darts player and good at drinking.
• Love Hurts: Betsy developed a crush on Haymitch and followed him because she wanted to be his ally. However, Haymitch managed to outrun her, and Betsy eventually died from drinking water from a poisonous pool while exhausted from her futile chase.
• Total Party Kill: As they are all Doomed by Canon.
• Wholesome Crossdresser: Possibly. Adam asked Tigris, his stylist, if he could wear a dress to the Interviews, which was a request that Tigris agreed to.

Bobbi and Monaghan (52nd Games)

• Evil Redhead: Downplayed. Bobbi is the first to turn to betraying her allies, though it seems to be more by circumstance and for self-preservation than a genuine turn to "evil".
• Girl Posse: Bobbi forms a non-bullying variant by teaming up with two other outlier girls, Charlie (from District 7) and Qin Li (from District 8), dubbed "the three princesses" by the Careers and none of whom are particularly skilled combatants (except against a few mutts).
• Hoist by Her Own Petard: As the final 8 approached, Bobbi tried to poison Charlie and Qin Li, only for Charlie to secretly give Bobbi her portion of the dinner due to thinking that she wasn't taking enough for herself.
• Tampering with Food and Drink: How Bobbi planned to betray her allies. It backfires on her.
• Terms of Endangerment: Bobbi called Qin Li "sweetheart" as she received a vial of poison to prepare and destroy their alliance from the inside-out.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Monaghan — we only knew his name, his district, and that he died while trying to raid the Careers' camp with his alliance.

53rd Games Tributes

• Action Girl: The girl is an experienced fighter who Nolan views as being even tougher than he was. She has had her nose broken and reset as a result of two scrapes.
• Ambiguously Brown: Nolan describes the boy as "dark", but doesn't explain if he means his skin, hair, or both.
• The Charmer: The boy is very good at winning people over with jokes and "effortless courtesies".
• Leeroy Jenkins: They attempt a particularly dangerous Cornucopia run (probably due to Nolan advising them to do that before he knew what it would be like) where the tributes have to run past a pile of weapons to reach any other supplies and are both cut down within minutes.
• No Name Given: Neither is named.

Sesamy and Wheaton (57th Games)

• Doomed by Canon: Since Cecelia wins their Games, this is expected.
• Floral Theme Naming: They appear to be named after the sesame and wheat plants, respectively.
• Slashed Throat: Sesamy was killed by Ferrus in this way.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: The only thing we know about them are their names, their district of origin, how they did in their Interviews—quivering and not standing out—and when and/or how they died—Wheaton on the first night, and Sesamy was hunted down by the Careers, and both were killed by Ferrus from District 2.

Savannah and Plowman (62nd Games)

• Back Stab: Savannah attempts to do this to Orion, the District 2 boy who had just beheaded Plowman, but Rob (District 6) throws a knife at her shoulder, causing her to flee.
• Combat Pragmatist: Savannah tries to stab Career tribute Orion In the Back during the bloodbath.
• Impossibly Tacky Clothes: Savannah's stylist dresses her in a horrible straw dress with a matching wide-brimmed hat. Savannah herself mocks the outfit during her interview.
• Off with His Head!: Plowman is decapitated by Orion during the bloodbath.
• Sinister Scythe: Plowman uses a scythe as a combat weapon in the bloodbath.
• Sole Survivor: Savannah is the only member of the alliance between Districts 7 and 9 to escape the bloodbath.
• Storm of Blades: Savannah is killed by a combined attack from Rob and the District 1 tributes, who respectively throw a knife, dirk, and javelin at her at the same time.
• Super Fly Reflexes: Savannah claims that she can snatch a fly out of the air.
• Tall Poppy Syndrome: The Careers target them during the bloodbath (killing Plowman and wounding Savannah) due to concerns that they'll form an effective underdog alliance with the District 7 tributes.
• Testosterone Poisoning: Plowman spends part of his interview deriding men who use perfume and boasting about "what a man who's not afraid to sweat can do".
• Wild Child: After over a week in the Games, Savannah becomes mentally unhinged.

66th Games Female Tribute

• Determinator: She and Song spend three days pursuing Titus up a mountain, through a blizzard, with wounds on their legs, but they are unable to catch him. The Gamemakers have to create an avalanche to do it for them.
• Doomed by Canon: Due to the fact that Song wins her Games.
• Hunter Trapper: On top of her survival skills, it was noted that she was decent with snares and used them to catch rabbits to keep her and Song fed throughout their Games.
• Murder by Suicide: She ends up on the receiving end of this courtesy of Song.
• Only Friend: Forms an alliance with Song after the Career tributes refuse to ally with Song.
• Parental Abandonment: She was mentioned to be an orphan, though it's not elaborated why this is the case.

Caramel Mills

Caramel Mills

• Fainting: She outright fainted after her son was reaped for the Games.
• Living Emotional Crutch: To her son, Abram. Her death (personally ordered by Snow himself) galvanizes Abram to lead District 9's rebellion, and after he dies, he's buried next to her by the district's citizens.
• Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: Officially, Abram is the son of her late husband. However, Caramel had a one-night stand with Ben Cooper around the time of Abram's conception, suggesting the possibility that he might be Abram's biological father. This ends up helping save Abram's life after he's reaped for the Games, as Ben can't let the idea go and decides to come out of retirement to mentor him.
• Meaningful Name: A sweet-maker named 'Caramel'.
• Revenge by Proxy: Snow orders her to be executed as revenge for Abram joining the rebels.
• Ship Tease: With Ben Cooper during Abram's chapter. Abram describes his mother always becoming hot and bothered whenever Ben visits their shop. It later turns out they had a one-night stand and there's a non-zero chance Abram is Ben's son.

District 10

Fallen Tributes

Nellie Mills and Jon Parsons (25th Games)

• Ambiguous Innocence: It's never made clear whether Nellie is aware that the jewelry her father gives her comes from Anasazi citizens he hunts and kills like animals.
• Bloody Handprint: Nellie beats her hands against the transparent wall of the arena, leaving bloody handprints. Once the Career packs finds her, her bones and organs cover the wall as well.
• Children Forced to Kill: Jon is eighteen when he is voted into the Quarter Quell.
• Due to the Dead: Bovina makes sure Jon's grave is always covered with flowers to atone for agreeing to select him as tribute.
• Hope Spot: Rick McNulty sends Jon a weapon, and just as Jon is about to open it, Cora jumps from behind him and cuts his throat.
• I Have a Family: Inverted. The Anasazi choose Jon, because he is in good health and without a family to support.
• Kill Tally: Jon has one — the District 5 boy.
• Neck Snap: Jon kills the District 5 boy this way.
• Sins of the Father:
  • Nellie Mills was voted in by the Anasazi because her racist father liked to hunt them like animals while the Peacekeepers turned a blind eye.
  • This was zig-zagged with Jon Parsons, the District 10 boy. Richard McNulty voted for Jon, because Jon's father had cost him a promotion at work, but he never expected Jon to be picked. When he was, Richard had a major My God, What Have I Done? reaction. However, the actual reason Jon went in was because the majority-Anasazi wanted to send in a Settler instead of one of their own as payback, and since they couldn't find any boy of reaping age they had a grudge against, they picked someone who might win and had no dependents.

Brandon McNulty (34th Games)

• Chekhov's Gunman: Brandon is first referenced in the First Quarter Quell chapter, in which his father Richard is the First-Person Peripheral Narrator. It's mentioned at the end of the chapter that Brandon is reaped in the 34th Games, and he ends up being Elena Perez's district "partner".
• Foregone Conclusion: It's revealed in the First Quarter Quell chapter that he dies in his Games.
• I Was Beaten by a Girl: Elena breaks his arm and knocks him out cold, despite him having a notable size advantage over her.
• Knee Capping: Elena breaks his knee instead of killing him, because she doesn't want to continue the blood feud between the Anasazi and Settlers.
• Left for Dead: Unable to walk after being knee-capped, he dies two days later when the Gamemakers sink the boats he's laying on.
• Troubled Sympathetic Bigot: Before his fight with Elena, he says he hopes "that Sazi-loving fucker back home has to watch you die." Still, knowing of his father's descent into alcoholism and his family's subsequent break-up, it's hard not to feel sorry for him.
• Would Hit a Girl: Initiates the fight with Elena, but it doesn't end well for him.

37th Hunger Games Male Tribute

• Category Traitor: He joins the Career pack and is willing to fight another tribute to compete for the one spot they're offering.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: He is digested alive by a mutated venus flytrap.
• Fragile Speedster: He is a high-scoring tribute and a track star back home who fights a burly boy from District 11 for about half an hour while dodging blows and getting in some minor hits, but he isn't able to take down his opponent and eventually the Careers get bored enough to interrupt the fight.
• No Name Given: His name is never mentioned.
• The Voiceless: He has no dialogue.

Rando (42nd Hunger Games)

• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Or at least a few blood cells of gold. Despite his lack of qualms about cutting down other tributes, he does feel guilty as Eamon chats apologetically and familiarly with him during their final duel. He hesitates to strike a killing blow, and Eamon uses that hesitation to kill him.
• Sickening Slaughterhouse: He kills lambs in the farms of District 10 and sees killing people as little different.

45th Games Tributes

• Bullet Dancing: The District 4 boy sticks a heated metal rod at him and tells him to dance.
• Children Forced to Kill: The boy is fifteen when he enters his Games.
• Hope Spot: The girl nearly makes it out of the Cornucopia alive, having bumped into Chaff and them both agreeing to go their separate ways. But then she runs straight into the District 1 boy.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: The girl is brutally stabbed to death by the District 1 boy.
• Man on Fire: The boy is set on fire by the District 4 boy.
• No One Gets Left Behind: Averted for the boy, as Chaff leaves him behind after they loot the Cornucopia together but then the Career pack appears.
• Scary Stinging Swarm: Prior to entering the Games, the girl got sixteen bee stings when robbing a hive of its honey. According to her, every sting was worth it.
• Teen Genius: The girl got perfect scores in school and was offered a job in a genetics lab once she survived her final reaping. She doesn't work out.

Dempsey Drake, Veala and Charlie Perez-Hooley, and Morgan Garcia (50th Games)

• Abusive Parents: At one point, Morgan's father punched him and said that he had a "worthless hide". Morgan refused to have the scar left by his father's ring from the punch covered up as a reminder to his father.
• Big Brother Instinct: Charlie Perez-Hooley promised his sister and fellow tribute that if the Careers corner them, he'll Mercy Kill her.
• Doomed by Canon: Since Haymitch canonically wins the 50th Games, this is to be expected.
• Mercy Kill: Charlie promised to do this to his sister if he ever got the chance to. He didn't.
• Moth Menace: Charlie was killed painfully by being stung to death by poisonous butterfly mutts.
• Total Party Kill: As they are all Doomed by Canon.
• Vote Early, Vote Often: The Perez-Hooley children were both reaped as a result of this.

Devon Hooley (52nd Games)

• Alliterative Family: Him, his brother, and his uncle all have names that start with the letter D.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: He was tortured by the Career Pack over the course of seven hours through Flaying Alive before they finally killed him.
• Everyone Is Related: Devon is the nephew of Danny Hooley, one half of "Danlena" of the 34th Games. It is off-handedly mentioned that he is also the brother of Dalton, the District 10 resident who escaped to District 13 and appears in Mockingjay.
• Groin Attack: How the Careers' hours-long torture session starts. It only gets more painful to watch from there.
• Meaningful Name: 'Devon' is the name of a meat product sold in Australia and New Zealand, and also a breed of cattle. He's from the district that produces livestock.
• Vote Early, Vote Often: Averted, as it was noted in Elena's chapter that his reaping wasn't a fix even though he was Elena's nephew by her marriage to Danny.

58th Games Female Tribute

• By the Hair: How Roan grabs her to kill her.
• Nice Girl: In spite of Roan's blatant hatred and racism towards her people, the girl still freely helps him and is happy to see him in the Games.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: She showed Roan to an underground river and spring while he was dying from thirst. Roan repaid this by murdering her.
• There's No Kill like Overkill: She was stabbed seventeen times by Roan with a knife, one for every Settler child that had been Reaped into the Games as of the 58th.

Holsteen and Josephina (62nd Games)

• Animal Lover: Josephina declares herself to be this, having raised goats, and she hopes there will be animals in the arena.
• Attack on the Heart: Enobaria cuts off Holsteen's hand and then stabs him in the heart.
• Badass Boast: Holsteen looks Caesar directly in the eyes and tells him with confidence that he's coming back.
• Blood-Splattered Warrior: Holsteen is covered in blood after his successful battle with Mercury.
• Cowboy: Holsteen tells Caesar that he wrangles cattle and that taking down other tributes won't be any different.
• Excrement Statement: After killing Genner, Holsteen pisses on the piece of moldy bread Genner and Enobaria had been fighting over, in order to show he's not hungry and that he's ready for the Final Battle.
• Kill Tally: Holsteen kills two tributes — the District 1 boy (Mercury) and District 5 boy (Genner).
• Neck Snap: Holsteen kills Genner this way.
• Scream Discretion Shot/Sound-Only Death:
  • Citrine, the District 1 girl, drags Josephina By the Hair behind a garden hedge and brutally tortures her over an hour before killing her. The torture and death are not described, and the only thing described are "the symphony of screams and shrieks from beyond the hedge".
  • Holsteen's battle with Mercury also occurs off-screen. Enobaria only overhears "shouts, grunts, and cries" and then sees Holsteen come out covered in blood "from brow to knees".
• Tall Poppy Syndrome: Subverted for Holsteen. Enobaria immediately pegs him as a contender when watching his reaping, so Honorius instructs the District 2 tributes to target him early. But then the Careers learn about a potential alliance between Districts 7 and 9, and they become the bigger priority.
• Your Makeup Is Running: Despite her stylist going light on the mascara, Josephina still suffers from smeared makeup when she cries during her interview.

Rick McNulty

• Ambiguous Ending: Seemingly overcomes his alcoholism by chapter's end, but it is left unsaid whether his wife takes him back.
• Drowning My Sorrows: Becomes an alcoholic after Jon Parsons is elected as tribute for the First Quarter Quell.
• First-Person Peripheral Narrator: Of the First Quarter Quell and Cora's victory.
• Happily Married: Until his Descent into Addiction.
• It's All My Fault: Completely blames himself for Jon's election and death, but Jon was actually chosen by the Anasazi (and approved by Bovina), because he had no dependents and was relatively strong and healthy, giving him a fighting chance.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: His son Brandon is reaped for the 34th Games, and Brandon's death finally allows Rick to find atonement for Jon's death and (possibly) get beyond his alcoholism.
• Outliving One's Offspring: His son Brandon, although he does have a daughter as well.
• Sins of the Father: Votes for Jon as tribute, because he hates Jon's father, Eli. Nonetheless, Rick is shocked and devastated when Jon is actually chosen as tributes.
• Stress Vomit: Vomits after witnessing Nellie, the District 10 girl, get killed.

Danny Hooley

• Break the Cutie: Is Happily Married with a family until his children are reaped for and killed in the Second Quarter Quell. This begins a Descent into Addiction for his wife Elena, and two years later out of despair over this and his nephew's brutal murder in the 52nd Games, he kills himself.
• Category Traitor: Several Settlers beat Danny up when he publicly reveals his love for Elena at her reaping. However, because their love is popular in the Capitol, Peacekeepers put him in protective custody throughout her Games.
• Driven to Suicide: Kills himself after his nephew Devon is reaped and gruesomely killed during the 52nd Games, though he was already depressed following Elena's Descent into Addiction.
• Former Bigot: Participates in a party of Settlers who are looking to scalp some Anasazi. But after he gets injured and Elena nurses him back to health, he turns away from his bigotry.
• Happily Married: For fifteen years until the the deaths of their children and Elena's Descent into Addiction.
• Replacement Goldfish: After his marriage with Elena falls apart, Danny copes with his depression by having affairs with young Anasazi girls that are willing to "pretend" for a couple of hours.

District 11

Fallen Tributes

Millet Fry and District 11 Boy (25th Games)

"And they face the crowd, and the crowd in 11 starts cheering as their two children stand on stage next to an escort whose face is drawn white with fear. And they smile, soft knowing smiles, and with their mere existence the District 11 volunteers give the Capitol the biggest FUCK YOU anyone in the Games has ever managed."

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• Black Dude Dies First: They are first tributes killed in the Quell as punishment for volunteering and embarrassing the Capitol.
• Children Forced to Kill: Millet is eighteen when she volunteers for the Quarter Quell, replacing a fifteen-year-old girl.
• Divide and Conquer: The boy volunteers in order to defy this trope, because he recognizes that is what Quell voting system is meant to accomplish.
• A Good Way to Die: Both volunteer, because they decide that they would rather die by sticking it the Capitol than live a longer miserable life and die eventually anyway.
• Honor Before Reason: Both volunteer as a way of expressing their defiance to the Capitol's strategy of sowing dissent by making the districts vote for their tributes. Both tributes are killed immediately.
• Inspirational Martyr: The two tributes who volunteered for the First Quarter Quell seem to have become this, as they are often referenced as symbols of District 11's eternal defiance.
• Make an Example of Them: They are immediately killed at the beginning of the Games as punishment for their defiance.
• Meaningful Look: When the boy volunteers, Millet "looks at him in disbelief, then understanding, then pride, and the emotions are mirrored in the faces of their district".
• Meaningful Name: Millet's surname, Fry, is derived from an Old English word meaning "free". Fitting for an Inspirational Martyr against an authoritarian state.
• A Taste of the Lash: The boy has several scars on his back from the field overseer. So, when the overseer's son is the tribute elected to go, the boy almost doesn't volunteer, but he does so anyway in order to defy the Capitol's Divide and Conquer plan.
• There's No Kill like Overkill: The Careers hack their bodies to the point that their corpses are unrecognizable.
• We All Die Someday: Part of Millet's motivation for volunteering.

Eddie Baxter (32nd Games)

• Children Forced to Kill: Seventeen when he enters his Games.
• Moe Greene Special: Antigone kills him by throwing a knife into his eye.
• Starving Student: He is described as being able to "read and write and do sums, a rarity among the slums where he grew up."
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Lasts forty-four seconds into his Games when Antigone kills him.

45th Games Girl

• Death by Despair: Despite not being found by the Careers or attacked by mutts, she dies after two weeks of suffering from "the isolation, the constant terror, the ever present hunger and thirst and exposure to the elements."
• Dying Alone: Dies after seventeen days, "having never seen another tribute."
• Mirror Character: Like Seeder, District 11's third Victor, she avoids everyone in her arena and experiences extreme hunger. Unlike Seeder, she doesn't survive.

Hyssop Loloka, Cornflower Buckley, Irri Preen, and Birch McCallen (50th Games)

• Blind Without 'Em: Irri was nearsighted and had to wear glasses, which broke two minutes into the Games.
• Doomed by Canon: Since Haymitch canonically wins the 50th Games, this is to be expected.
• Dying Moment of Awesome: Cornflower manages to break Dazzle's neck even as she went down at the Cornucopia.
• Floral Theme Naming: All of them except for Irri are named after plants.
• Kill Tally: Cornflower has one — Dazzle Brooks from District 1.
• Mooning: Birch did this at the Reaping because "if he was going to go out, do it with flair".
• Muscles Are Meaningful: Cornflower had "muscles like steel cords" and reportedly could lift fifty-pound sacks of fruit in each hand. Unfortunately, this painted a target on her back for the Careers, who went after her at the Bloodbath.
• Must Not Die a Virgin: Hyssop's boyfriend is of this opinion, and took their last meeting at the Justice Building to do just that. Hyssop eventually reflects that she didn't understand why this was such a big deal.
• Total Party Kill: As they are all Doomed by Canon.

Robin and Sower (52nd Games)

• We Hardly Knew Ye: Both of them—we only knew their name, their district, and how they died—Sower while trying to raid the Careers' camp with his alliance, and Robin at Plautia's hand while the Careers went hunting.

Abundance and Wren (57th Games)

• Debt Detester: Presumed for Abundance, who refuses sponsorship gifts to avoid being beholden to the Capitol if she won the Games.
• Gender-Blender Name: Wren is the male tribute of the 57th Games, and shares a name with the female Victor Wren from his District.
• Man on Fire: Abundance was ultimately burnt alive by Ferrus at the Feast.
• Trap Master: At the start of the Games, Abundance rigged an complex trap from one of Lil's snares to crush someone in an artificial rockslide. This almost killed Rowenna. In the middle, one of her snares caught the District 3 girl, Satellia, leaving her as easy prey for the Careers to finish off.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Wren, as he died in the Bloodbath on the first day.

Cayne and Starling (62nd Games)

• A Birthday, Not a Break: Cayne says during the interviews that he will turn 19 on the fifth day of the Games and that he hopes he makes it that far and gets a cake, since he's never had a birthday party. He does make it that far, and Chaff is able to send him a cake for a One-Person Birthday Party. Unfortunately, Enobaria shows up before he can eat it.
• Children Forced to Kill: Cayne is eighteen and Starling is fourteen when they enter the Games. Cayne turns nineteen while he is in the arena.
• Get It Over With: Cayne asks Enobaria to kill him quickly. She does not oblige.
• Killed Offscreen: Cayne's murder is not shown. All that is described is a bloody Enobaria walking away after torturing him for two hours.
• Orphan's Ordeal: Cayne has no known family.
• There's No Place Like Home: All Starling says in her interviews is that she wants to go home.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Starling is killed during the bloodbath, likely by one of the Careers but it is left unstated.

Other Citizens

Matthos

• Babies Ever After: His last appearance is with a pregnant Enobaria.
• The Defroster: Becomes this for Enobaria. After she is rescued from the Capitol, she is taken to District 11, where Matthos meets her and tells her, "Welcome back, Enobaria Malachite." Baria then cries for the first time in thirteen years.
• Gun Struggle: Attacks the Speaker right as he is about to shoot Enobaria in the back of the head. The two then fight over the gun, but Enobaria ends up getting it, only for it to be out of bullets.
• Kiss-Kiss-Slap: Enobaria punches him after he kisses her for the first time.
• Lovable Rogue: He is first introduced as a carefree, flirtatious drug dealer who knows his way around District 11's underground mines.
• Native Guide: Guides the Peacekeepers through the mines, so they can battle the Reavers.

MawMaw Lime

• Magical Negro: Old Black woman who gives a Whoopi Epiphany Speech to Enobaria about Baria coming home to her true roots in District 11. Matthos reveals that she also declared that he would stand before Victors, and now he is working alongside Enobaria and Boudicca.
• Senior Sleep-Cycle: Suddenly falls asleep after giving Enobaria a Whoopi Epiphany Speech.
• Title Drop: Tells Enobaria, "The bonds of blood will bring you home."

District 12

Fallen Tributes

Jon Undersee (1st Games)

"Death has no meaning. It's how we live that gives meaning to the dead we loved."

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• Back-to-Back Badasses: He and his sister Ryla do this at the beginning of their Games.
• Famous Ancestor: Jon is a famous leader of the Dark Days Rebellion and is implied to be a direct ancestor of Katniss's friend Madge.
• The Mole: Jon was a spy during the First Rebellion, most likely in District 2.
• Non-Action Guy: In Ahenobarbus' recounting of Jon's achievements in life, he was noted to be "no fighter".
• La Résistance: Both him and his sister were celebrated rebels in their time.
• Sinister Scythe: Ryla gave him a sickle as a weapon in their Games.
• The Strategist: Jon was known for his tactics and strategies in life.
• Teen Genius: Both Jon and his sister Ryla were described to be "prodigies", with Jon's strategies winning the rebels several key offensives. Both also happened to be no older than 16.
• Together in Death: With Ryla, as Ahenobarbus speared both siblings together to the point that "[n]either was forced to mourn the other, even for a minute".
• Vote Early, Vote Often: Due to him and his family's renowned status as rebels, Ahenobarbus says it's unlikely that they were reaped randomly.
• White Shirt of Death: He presumably wore a white tunic into the arena like Ahenobarbus, and died a bloody death alongside his sister as part of Ahenobarbus' One Hit Poly Kill.
• Worthy Opponent: Ahenobarbus regards him to be this.

Ryla Donner (15th Games)

• A Birthday, Not a Break: Implied, as she presumably spent her birthday watching her brother fight for his life on live television in a government-enforced Deadly Game.
• Driven to Suicide: Not Ryla herself, but her older brother Camden grabbed the District 12 electric fence a week following Ryla's death.
• It's All My Fault: Implied. Despite not having her name in the Reaping bowl itself, Ryla was scared for Camden that if he were Reaped, it would be because of her name, and she was described to be "hysterical" in response to Camden actually being Reaped.
• Named After Somebody Famous: She is named after Ryla Undersee, the famed Rebel.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Implied. Camden's suicide after Ryla's death may be part of the reason why District 12 didn't have a Victor until Haymitch, as they lacked a mentor that was invested enough in them to help them win.
• Vote Early, Vote Often: Heavily implied, as her family as a whole was often targeted for signing the Declaration of Freedom on behalf of District 12 at the start of the Dark Days. Oh, and that her older brother is a Victor.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: The only sources we know about her is from Camden's diary and the little commentary that Marty Spickle gave in her Games—that she was killed in the Bloodbath of the 15th Games, likely by the District 2 boy, Achilles, with his bare hands.

25th Games Tributes

• The Dead Have Names:
  • Subverted for the girl. The Games' commentator gets her name wrong when discussing her after her death.
  • Played with for the boy. Though the narrator states that he had a name as a statement of his significance (see A Million Is a Statistic below), his name is never actually given.
• Emergency Food Supply Animal: The girl's beloved calico cat becomes this for her Community Home within hours of her being killed.
• Empathy Doll Shot: The Community Home matron gives the girl a rag doll as a district token.
• A Million Is a Statistic: The ending to the boy's section in Quell says it best:
  "He had a name, and a family, and hopes and dreams for a future. He goes into the Capitol records as Hunger Games death #558."
• The Un-Reveal: They are the only two First Quarter Quell tributes whose reasons for being selected are never revealed in Quell.^note This is also true of the boy from District 2 and the girl from District 11, but they are replaced by volunteers. The boy even asks why he was chosen, but his escort tells him she doesn't know but he should be honored to be selected. Subverted in The Victors Project, where it is stated that the two, as children from the Community Home, were "chosen merely because no one would miss them".

Bear McFarlene (34th Games)

• Improvised Weapon: He used "a crude knife he had fashioned from a sharp rock" throughout his Games.
• Kill Tally: Several unnamed tributes, all of them non-Careers.
• Nothing Personal: He and Elena tell each other before their final showdown that they have no desire to kill the other, but they both want to go home.

37th Hunger Games Female Tribute

• Action Survivor: Whether by luck, speed, or intelligence, she manages to survive a Cornucopia run that claims fourteen lives despite being from the Butt-Monkey district.
• No Name Given: Her name is never mentioned.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: She is either the only outlier tribute or only one of three to survive the Cornucopia run (a potential math error on the writer's part makes it unclear if there were two other survivors who made the run for the supplies and two tributes who ran for the jungle rather than going for the supplies or just three non-Career survivors in total counting her). However, all she escapes with is a package of crackers, and the Career pack tracks her down within a couple of days.

40th Games Male Tribute

• Big Guy Fatality Syndrome: His large size is often commented on, but he dies early in the final battle while trying to give an opponent a Killer Bear Hug. Out of his alliance members, he also gets the least importance and characterization.
• Doomed by Canon: Even without his chapter focusing on Nolan, it is clear he will die, due to his District never getting another Victor between Camden and Haymitch.

45th Games Tributes

• Last Disrespects: Their Capitol escort/"mentor", Ambrosius, is relieved when they are killed on the first day, so he can attend the many Capitol parties.
• Together in Death: Both tributes are together when they are killed by the District 2 tributes.

44th Hunger Games Male Tribute

• Delicious Distraction: He ignores his last three opponents to munch down on food at a Cornucopia feast, although this is justified since all of them have been starving for days (his opponents ignore him to gorge themselves as well).
• The Juggernaut: He is big, fast, and able to blow through dense jungle foliage while racing for an antidote to poison. Claudius even compares him to a juggernaut.
• No Name Given: His name is never mentioned.

Layla Forrester, Maysilee Donner, and Walnut "Wally" Larsen (50th Games)

• Doomed by Canon: Since Haymitch canonically wins the 50th Games, this is to be expected.
• Et Tu, Brute?: Wally calls out Cameron for joining the Career pack when the two had initially been allied.
• Family Extermination: Maysilee's section points out that she was the sixth member of her family to be Reaped as tribute.
• Memento MacGuffin: Maysilee is wearing the Mockingjay pin that Katniss will make famous. It's made from gold melted down from a locket of her cousin Ryla Undersee, District 12's first female tribute.
• Poverty Food: Layla's section in Haymitch's chapter notes that before she got on the tribute train to the Capitol, the only things she had ever consumed were tesserae grain, dandelion leaves, and tepid water.

53rd Games Male Tribute

• Know When to Fold 'Em: He doesn't even attempt a particularly dangerous Cornucopia run where the tributes have to run past a pile of weapons to reach any other supplies, which is part of why the 53rd Hunger Games is one of the extremely rare Games where both tributes from District 12 survive the bloodbath.
• No Name Given: His name is unknown.
• Undignified Death: He "blunder[s] blindly off the edge of a cliff" while wandering the arena.

Lil (57th Games)

• The Load: Lil was panicking and screaming while Cecelia and Rowenna were in the midst of trying to cause a landslide to take out the Careers.
• Only Known By Her Nickname: Her full given name is Lilac, but prefers to be known as "Lil".
• Slashed Throat: How Cecelia kills her.
• Sticky Fingers: Based on Cecelia's observations, Lil was a thief from the Seam who stole to survive before being reaped into the Hunger Games.

Naomi and Jay (62nd Games)

• Curtain Camouflage: The Careers find Jay hiding behind a curtain the day after the bloodbath.
• Defiant Captive: Naomi is fearless and bitter (especially toward Category Traitor Rob) after being captured by the Careers and threatened with torture.
• Dying Declaration of Hate: Naomi calls out Rob, the District 6 boy, for being a traitor and joining the Careers right before Rob kills her.
• Hope Spot: Enobaria lets Naomi and Genner (District 5 boy) go after the Careers catch them. But then she tells Rob to kill one of them as they are fleeing, to prove his worth to the Careers. He chooses Naomi and throws a knife into her back.
• Improvised Weapon: Naomi throws a bust of President Snow's head at Enobaria after the Careers corner her alliance.
• O.C. Stand-in: Katniss mentions in the first book that one year, the District 12 tributes were naked and only wearing coal dust during the Tribute Parade. The "body honesty" trend during Enobaria's Games were apparently the cause of this, and Naomi and Jay were those two tributes.
• The Quiet One: Jay says very little in the interviews.
• Slashed Throat: Mercury, the District 1 boy, kills Jay with a quick, effortless sword slash to the throat.
• Tall Poppy Syndrome: Downplayed for Naomi. She performs exceptionally during the interviews, but she still remains off the Careers' radar during the bloodbath. But later when Rob chooses her to kill, Enobaria agrees this was the best choice given the threat Naomi posed.
• Teen Genius: Naomi is described as being far more intelligent than the average District 12 tribute and spends her interview describing the history of coal mining in an intelligent, engaging way. She talks about wanting to use coal dust as a weapon and says that under the right circumstances, she could use it like a grenade. She also eludes the Careers for longer than her allies by hiding in a fireplace.

Doris Flaherty (70th Hunger Games)

• Flat Character: The only thing revealed about her is that she is the first merchant kid who has been reaped as far back as Peeta can remember.

Mick Cahill (72nd Hunger Games)

• Always Someone Better: He frequently wrestles with Peeta in school, and keeps narrowly losing while taking it in stride and expressing hope/determination that he will win their next match. 
• Lightning Bruiser: Peeta describes him as brawny and fast, both traits that make Mick a good wrestler.
• Your Head A-Splode: Peeta is deeply traumatized by the sight of Mick's head bursting like a piece of overripe fruit after Lupus bludgeons him with a mace.

June Everdeen — Unmarked Spoilers!

• Mama Bear: Insists on going on the mission to save Katniss and ends up shooting Luster to stop him from shooting Katniss.
  June: Not my daughter, you son of a bitch.
• The Medic: Serves as this for the Victors mission to rescue Katniss.
• Non-Protagonist Resolver: Shoots and kills Luster in order to prevent him from killing Katniss.
• Vomit Discretion Shot: As Odysseus pulls a trident out of a Snowman, she suddenly feels sick, so Ody and Lupus look away and then look back to see her wiping her mouth.

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