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* GeniusBruiser: Auroch is [[TheWorfEffect something]] of one.
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Diane plans to die so Carden can leave the arena. It doesn't work.]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: HeroicSacrifice:
** [[spoiler:Diane plans to die so Carden can leave the arena. It doesn't work.]]
** [[spoiler:Diane plans to die so Carden can leave the arena. It doesn't work.]]
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* HomeBase:
** Lectic and Demetra's car.
** The cave on the island with the freshwater spring that Hetcher, Diane, and Carden always seem to find their way back to.
** Lectic and Demetra's car.
** The cave on the island with the freshwater spring that Hetcher, Diane, and Carden always seem to find their way back to.
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* HomeBase:
** Lectic and Demetra's car.
**HomeBase: The cave on the island with the freshwater spring that Hetcher, Diane, and Carden always seem to find their way back to.to.
%%** Lectic and Demetra's car.
** Lectic and Demetra's car.
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%%** Lectic and Demetra's car.
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* ShouldntWeBeInSchoolRightNow: All of the characters are technically young enough to be in school.
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* ShouldntWeBeInSchoolRightNow: ShouldntWeBeInSchoolRightNow:
** All of the characters are technically young enough to be in school.
** All of the characters are technically young enough to be in school.
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* ThrowItIn: Lectic and Demetra's JustFriends dynamic. The author has said that she "didn't intend for them to have such good chemistry".
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* WriteWhoYouKnow: Soren and Maren are based off of real-life friends of the author.
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* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:Soren snapping Lecia's neck.]]
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* AlphaBitch: Lycra.
* AlternateUniverseFic: Each and every one of them.
* AntiHero: Soren, Lucian, Demetra... a good portion of the Careers.
* AlternateUniverseFic: Each and every one of them.
* AntiHero: Soren, Lucian, Demetra... a good portion of the Careers.
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* TheBrute:
** Martial.
** Bond from ''A Capitol Experience'', and, debatably, Royce.
** Martial.
** Bond from ''A Capitol Experience'', and, debatably, Royce.
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* ChildrenForcedToKill: And not-so-forced, in some cases.
* ClusterFBomb: Soren and Demetra know how it's done.
* ClusterFBomb: Soren and Demetra know how it's done.
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* DarkHumor
* DeadlyGame: The Hunger Games.
* DeadlyGame: The Hunger Games.
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Diane, after her victory.]]
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* FinalSpeech: [[spoiler:Hypatia]] delivers a rather haunting one about why people die.
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* FinalSpeech: FinalSpeech:
** [[spoiler:Hypatia]] delivers a rather haunting one about why people die.
** [[spoiler:Hypatia]] delivers a rather haunting one about why people die.
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* IncrediblyLamePun:
** The author has a sort of love affair with these. ''A Capitol Experience''? A 'capital' experience! ''Capitol Punishment''? 'Capital' punishment. ''With a Capitol G''? With a 'capital' G.
** In-universe, Demetra makes a comment to herself about "pushing [the] buttons" of a girl wearing a calculator costume.
* ItsQuietTooQuiet: Soren drops one.
* ItHasBeenAnHonor: Lectic to Demetra, [[spoiler:as they part ways.]]
** The author has a sort of love affair with these. ''A Capitol Experience''? A 'capital' experience! ''Capitol Punishment''? 'Capital' punishment. ''With a Capitol G''? With a 'capital' G.
** In-universe, Demetra makes a comment to herself about "pushing [the] buttons" of a girl wearing a calculator costume.
* ItsQuietTooQuiet: Soren drops one.
* ItHasBeenAnHonor: Lectic to Demetra, [[spoiler:as they part ways.]]
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** The author has a sort of love affair with these. ''A Capitol Experience''? A 'capital' experience! ''Capitol Punishment''? 'Capital' punishment. ''With a Capitol G''? With a 'capital' G.
** In-universe, Demetra makes a comment to herself about "pushing [the] buttons" of a girl wearing a calculator costume.
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* MeaningfulName: The author has a fondness for these, and, luckily, such names or within the relms of canon.
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* MeaningfulName: MeaningfulName:
** The author has a fondness for these, and, luckily, such names or within the relms of canon.
** The author has a fondness for these, and, luckily, such names or within the relms of canon.
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* MercyKill: [[spoiler:Lissom to Skiff.]]
* MrFanservice: Lectic, both in and out-of-universe.
* MrFanservice: Lectic, both in and out-of-universe.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: Diane after killing Actassi.]]
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* OriginalCharacter: At ''least'' twenty-two of 'em per story.
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* {{Pun}}:
** The author has a sort of love affair with these. ''A Capitol Experience''? A 'capital' experience! ''Capitol Punishment''? 'Capital' punishment. ''With a Capitol G''? With a 'capital' G.
** In-universe, Demetra makes a comment to herself about "pushing [the] buttons" of a girl wearing a calculator costume.
** The author has a sort of love affair with these. ''A Capitol Experience''? A 'capital' experience! ''Capitol Punishment''? 'Capital' punishment. ''With a Capitol G''? With a 'capital' G.
** In-universe, Demetra makes a comment to herself about "pushing [the] buttons" of a girl wearing a calculator costume.
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* StayWithMeUntilIDie: [[spoiler: Esther to Franz.]]
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* ThoroughlyMistakenIdentity: Very much not PlayedForLaughs. Diane, convinced that not only is Actassi Kali [[spoiler: who is already dead]], but that he somehow killed [[spoiler: Hetcher.]] He's got no clue what's going on, and she is unaware of the mistake until [[spoiler: shortly after she's killed him.]]
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* ThoroughlyMistakenIdentity: ThoroughlyMistakenIdentity:
** Very much not PlayedForLaughs. Diane, convinced that not only is Actassi Kali [[spoiler: who is already dead]], but that he somehow killed [[spoiler: Hetcher.]] He's got no clue what's going on, and she is unaware of the mistake until [[spoiler: shortly after she's killed him.]]
** Very much not PlayedForLaughs. Diane, convinced that not only is Actassi Kali [[spoiler: who is already dead]], but that he somehow killed [[spoiler: Hetcher.]] He's got no clue what's going on, and she is unaware of the mistake until [[spoiler: shortly after she's killed him.]]
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* OutDamnedSpot: [[spoiler: After Sherman's fever-induced hallucination leads him to believe he murdered Twyla, he tries to wash the black blood off his hands, to no avail.]]
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* FiveManBand: The Careers in aCE.
** BigBad: Kali.
** TheDragon: Soren.
** TheEvilGenius: Maren is as close as it gets, within the Careers.
** TheBrute: Royce.
** TheDarkChick: Actassi, the poor boy. [[spoiler: Maybe if Paris had survived the bloodbath...]]
** BigBad: Kali.
** TheDragon: Soren.
** TheEvilGenius: Maren is as close as it gets, within the Careers.
** TheBrute: Royce.
** TheDarkChick: Actassi, the poor boy. [[spoiler: Maybe if Paris had survived the bloodbath...]]
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** Lissom, who carries a little knife and [[KnifeNut knows how to use it.]]
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** Lissom, who carries a little knife and [[KnifeNut knows how to use it.]]
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* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: Enforced. Fanfiction.net doesn't allow list-format stories, so the first page of ''With A Capitol G'' (a character list) has been replaced with a place-holding CrackFic while the story is on hold.
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* DoomedByCanon: The District 12 tributes in ''A Capitol Experience''.
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* FamousLastWords: In handy...well, okay, ''spoilered out'' alphabetical order.
-->"Fuck death. Also, fuck life. Fuck everything. I'm through with this shit." -[[spoiler:Demetra Boise]]
-->"No 'fense, Tassi, but I always thought you'd be first." -[[spoiler:Maren Ericsson]]
-->"You saw. You saw me. I did...I did something good." -[[spoiler:Lissom Henley]]
-->"So I suppose you got rid of your silly phobia of me? Good. I hate a coward." -[[spoiler: Kalika Hope]]
-->"I love you, [[spoiler:Rhea]] -[[spoiler:Esther Jaffe]]
-->"It's worth it. Living is worth dying." -[[spoiler:Lectic Riggs]]
-->"You really do?" -[[spoiler: Hypatia Leonodas]]
-->"I think...he wants to give me a ride." -[[spoiler:Lecia Smithfield]]
-->"Fuck death. Also, fuck life. Fuck everything. I'm through with this shit." -[[spoiler:Demetra Boise]]
-->"No 'fense, Tassi, but I always thought you'd be first." -[[spoiler:Maren Ericsson]]
-->"You saw. You saw me. I did...I did something good." -[[spoiler:Lissom Henley]]
-->"So I suppose you got rid of your silly phobia of me? Good. I hate a coward." -[[spoiler: Kalika Hope]]
-->"I love you, [[spoiler:Rhea]] -[[spoiler:Esther Jaffe]]
-->"It's worth it. Living is worth dying." -[[spoiler:Lectic Riggs]]
-->"You really do?" -[[spoiler: Hypatia Leonodas]]
-->"I think...he wants to give me a ride." -[[spoiler:Lecia Smithfield]]
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* FiveBadBand: The Careers in aCE.
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* FiveBadBand: FiveManBand: The Careers in aCE.
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** TheBigBad: Kali.
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** TheBigBad: BigBad: Kali.
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* FragileSpeedster: Lissom is the poster child. Poor girl can't take a hit, and isn't wonderful at dishing it out in the first place.
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* SaltAndPepper: WordOfGod confirms that Lectic is black and Demetra is white. They couldn't be more different. Their races, however, are rarely even alluded to, and definitely not a plot point.
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* DeadlyGames: The Hunger Games.
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* DeadlyGames: DeadlyGame: The Hunger Games.
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The Capitol Series is a series of fanfictions based on ''Literature/TheHungerGames'', published on Website/FanfictionDotNet by author [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2113874/Claratrix_LeChatham Claratrix Le Chatham]]. The series currently consists of three works: ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5651370/1/A_Capitol_Experience A Capitol Experience]]'', ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6230763/1/Capitol_Punishment Capitol Punishment]]'', and ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6560631/1/With_a_Capitol_G With A Capitol G]]''.
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* JustFriends: Lectic and Demetra. Hetcher and Diane. Diele and Dylan. Maren and Actassi. TheCapitolSeries is rife with this trope.
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* JustFriends: Lectic and Demetra. Hetcher and Diane. Diele and Dylan. Maren and Actassi. TheCapitolSeries ''The Capitol Series'' is rife with this trope.
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The Capitol Series is a series of fanfictions based on ''Literature/TheHungerGames'', published on Website/FanfictionDotNet by author [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2113874/Claratrix_LeChatham Claratrix Le Chatham]]. The series currently consists of three works: ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5651370/1/A_Capitol_Experience A Capitol Experience]]'', ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6230763/1/Capitol_Punishment Capitol Punishment]]'', and ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6560631/1/With_a_Capitol_G With A Capitol G]]''.
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!!Provides examples of:
* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:Soren snapping Lecia's neck.]]
* ActionGirl:
** Several, mostly Careers, but Demetra is probably in the running for most triumphant example.
** Kali would like to contest that assertion, though she is more of a DarkActionGirl herself.
* ActionSurvivor:
** Lectic, definitely. He is alive thanks to a generous amount of intervention on Demetra's part, and a good amount of luck and intelligence on his own.
** See also Carden, Hypatia, Holland, Actassi... most of the non-Careers who actually... y'know, survived. The bloodbath, anyway.
* ActionDuo: Lectic and Demetra do pretty well for themselves, though Demetra would sooner cut her tongue out than admit it.
* AerithAndBob: Rachel/Asha/Tanner/Diane: all relatively typical names. Auroch/Hetcher/Rippel/Pasque: not so much.
* AlphaBitch: Lycra.
* AlternateUniverseFic: Each and every one of them.
* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: Enforced. Fanfiction.net doesn't allow list-format stories, so the first page of ''With A Capitol G'' (a character list) has been replaced with a place-holding CrackFic while the story is on hold.
* AntiHero: Soren, Lucian, Demetra... a good portion of the Careers.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: ''He is prepared to...shoot? Explode? Blast fire? Serve pancakes?''
* AxeCrazy:
** Demetra is flamethrower crazy.
** [[spoiler: Chalice starts going this way, too, until Diele kills her.]]
* TheBerserker:[[spoiler: Diele puts an end to it pretty quickly, but Chalice seemed to be turning into one.]]
* BloodSport: The Hunger Games.
* BrainlessBeauty: Twyla. Though she's prefectly aware of her effect on Sherman, and is smart enough to [[TheVamp use it to her advantage]].
* BrainsAndBrawn: In ''Capitol Punishment'', Lectic is brains and Demetra is brawns.
* TheBrute:
** Martial.
** Bond from ''A Capitol Experience'', and, debatably, Royce.
* CatScare: Lucian hears a noise in the bushes and pulls his gun on it. A squirrel runs out. [[spoiler:A subversion, as we know it's actually Lissom hiding there, with the squirrel just being pretty convenient for her.]]
* ChildrenForcedToKill: And not-so-forced, in some cases.
* ClusterFBomb: Soren and Demetra know how it's done.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Demetra's friends spend most of her interview time gushing over how lucky she is to be in the Hunger Games with a cute guy and a flamethrower.
* CrackFic: The chapter that replaced the character list in With A Capitol G.
* CurbStompBattle: Subverted. [[spoiler:Strong, smart Auroch is beaten by not one, but ''two'' of his Games' youngest contestants.]] You gotta feel sorry for the poor guy.
* CuteKitten: Lectic has a pet kitten. Named Sparky. Can I get an "aww", please?
* DarkHumor
* DeadlyGames: The Hunger Games.
* DeadpanSnarker:
** Demetra informs the readers that snarking is one of her very favorite things to do.
** Soren, [[spoiler: her uncle]], shares the trait as well as the trope.
** Maren too.
** And they all qualify as {{First Person Smartass}}es, too.
* DeathFromAbove: The mutt that looks like Actassi's mother in ''A Capitol Experience'', and then the GiantFlyer in ''Capitol Punishment''.
* DoomedByCanon: The District 12 tributes in ''A Capitol Experience''.
* DualWielding: Kali is described as wielding a knife in her left hand a staff in her right.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Diane, after her victory.]]
* EyeScream:
** Actassi [[spoiler:kills Kali by stabbing a spear through her eye and into her brain]].
** [[spoiler:Skiff]] gets a quarter launched into his eye.
* FamousLastWords: In handy...well, okay, ''spoilered out'' alphabetical order.
-->"Fuck death. Also, fuck life. Fuck everything. I'm through with this shit." -[[spoiler:Demetra Boise]]
-->"No 'fense, Tassi, but I always thought you'd be first." -[[spoiler:Maren Ericsson]]
-->"You saw. You saw me. I did...I did something good." -[[spoiler:Lissom Henley]]
-->"So I suppose you got rid of your silly phobia of me? Good. I hate a coward." -[[spoiler: Kalika Hope]]
-->"I love you, [[spoiler:Rhea]] -[[spoiler:Esther Jaffe]]
-->"It's worth it. Living is worth dying." -[[spoiler:Lectic Riggs]]
-->"You really do?" -[[spoiler: Hypatia Leonodas]]
-->"I think...he wants to give me a ride." -[[spoiler:Lecia Smithfield]]
* FinalSpeech: [[spoiler:Hypatia]] delivers a rather haunting one about why people die.
** [[spoiler:Lectic and Demetra]] get some final banter.
* {{Fingore}}: Kali loses part of her thumb, not that she notices.
* FiveBadBand: The Careers in aCE.
** TheBigBad: Kali.
** TheDragon: Soren.
** TheEvilGenius: Maren is as close as it gets, within the Careers.
** TheBrute: Royce.
** TheDarkChick: Actassi, the poor boy. [[spoiler: Maybe if Paris had survived the bloodbath...]]
* FragileSpeedster: Lissom is the poster child. Poor girl can't take a hit, and isn't wonderful at dishing it out in the first place.
* GallowsHumor: Demetra comments on the morbid jokes she and Lectic make. This continues [[spoiler:all the way up through their final dialogue as they lay shot and dying.]]
* GeniusBruiser: Auroch is [[TheWorfEffect something]] of one.
* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: A few examples.
** Lissom, who carries a little knife and [[KnifeNut knows how to use it.]]
** Demetra and her [[FireBreathingWeapon flamethrower.]]
** By the time she's snapped, [[spoiler: Chalice]] can make a golf club into one of these.
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler: Sherman, because he believes he'll be TogetherInDeath with Twyla.]]
* GratuitousSpanish: A cryptic author's note in Capitol Punishment.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Diane plans to die so Carden can leave the arena. It doesn't work.]]
** [[spoiler: Lissom suicidally attacks Lucian so he won't be able to finish off Lectic and Demetra.]]
* HoldingHands: Demetra takes Lectic's hand [[spoiler:as they lay dying from bullet wounds.]]
* HomeBase:
** Lectic and Demetra's car.
** The cave on the island with the freshwater spring that Hetcher, Diane, and Carden always seem to find their way back to.
* IncrediblyLamePun:
** The author has a sort of love affair with these. ''A Capitol Experience''? A 'capital' experience! ''Capitol Punishment''? 'Capital' punishment. ''With a Capitol G''? With a 'capital' G.
** In-universe, Demetra makes a comment to herself about "pushing [the] buttons" of a girl wearing a calculator costume.
* ItsQuietTooQuiet: Soren drops one.
* ItHasBeenAnHonor: Lectic to Demetra, [[spoiler:as they part ways.]]
* IWasBeatenByAGirl: Soren and Kali had an similar dynamic [[spoiler:until she killed him and cut off his jaw]].
* JustFriends: Lectic and Demetra. Hetcher and Diane. Diele and Dylan. Maren and Actassi. TheCapitolSeries is rife with this trope.
* KillItWithFire: Demetra's general attitude towards anything that bugs her. The flamethrower helps.
* LackOfEmpathy:
** Lucian. WordOfGod states that he was borderline autistic before suffering a skull fracture, and picked up a few [[TheSociopath worse]] traits accompanying his not-quite-recovery and the encouragement of District Two's warped values.
** Kali from aCE was a perfect example of TheSociopath, no genetic disorders involved aside from whatever is going through most District Two DNA.
* LoveConfession: Aww, [[spoiler: Carden]] and [[spoiler: Hypatia]]. Oops, now [[DyingDeclarationOfLove she's dead.]]
* MeaningfulName: The author has a fondness for these, and, luckily, such names or within the relms of canon.
** Lissom, lithe and flexible. Auroch (Aurochs), an enormous, extinct breed of cattle comparable to a buffalo. Forester... forester.
* MercyKill: [[spoiler:Lissom to Skiff.]]
* MrFanservice: Lectic, both in and out-of-universe.
* MomentOfSilence: As an out-of-universe example, Claratrix Le Chatham calls for one in an author's note after [[spoiler:Diele's death.]]
* MoralityPet: Lecia to Soren, Carden to Franz/Esther/Diane, and, in measure, Lectic to Demetra.
* MoreDakka: Demetra knows how to fight perfectly well, but prefers the raw power of her flamethower.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: Diane after killing Actassi.]]
* NoFourthWall: The...[[CrackFic very interesting]] chapter used as With A Capitol G's first chapter to hold its place while Capitol Punishment is still underway.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Chalice snaps. And [[spoiler: Auroch]] is on the receiving end.
* OhCrap:
** [[spoiler: Soren]] knows exactly what's going to happen, exactly who's going to do it, and exactly one syllable to summarize his thought process.
*** It isn't [[PrecisionFStrike a very nice word]], either.
** "Oh crap," is also the first thing Esther says in response to her reaping. Esther, too.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Head Gamemaker Xenia is quite a bit older than she looks, thanks to the wonders of Capitol beauty treatments.
* OriginalCharacter: At ''least'' twenty-two of 'em per story.
* OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope: ''All [[SelfInsertFic resemblances]] to any authors, real or imaginary, is [[BlatantLies entirely coincidental]].''
* OutDamnedSpot: [[spoiler: After Sherman's fever-induced hallucination leads him to believe he murdered Twyla, he tries to wash the black blood off his hands, to no avail.]]
* OverlyLongName: Forester Montgomery-Cunningham.
* PlayfulHacker: Lectic is somewhere between this and TheCracker. He has no ''real'' malicious intent, but he does use his hacking skills for material and monetary gain.
* PlotTumor: Lectic and Demetra's subplot in Capitol Punichment. Most definitely [[JustFriends ''not'']] a RomanticPlotTumor, though.
* QuitYourWhining: Demetra really, really doesn't care about other peoples' problems. Especially when they're getting between her and a giant vulture. Even if it's Lectic.
-->"''LECTIC FOR THE LOVE OF GOD LISTEN TO ME!''"
* RaisedByGrandparents: Asha chose to move in with her grandmother.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: Dylan]] embarks on one after [[spoiler: Lucian kills Diele.]]
* SacrificialLion: Quite a few of them. [[spoiler: A Career or two tends to kick it in the bloodbath, too, adding the less-sympathetic variety.]]
* SaltAndPepper: WordOfGod confirms that Lectic is black and Demetra is white. They couldn't be more different. Their races, however, are rarely even alluded to, and definitely not a plot point.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: The lovely duo that is Lectic and Demetra. Poor, poor Lectic. So, so, [[NotWhatISignedOnFor not what he signed up for.]]
* SelfInsertFic: An odd variation in the placeholder chapter of With A Capitol G, in which a not-the-author-at-all is certainly ''not'' the author at all, if you catch the drift.
* ShipTease: With twenty-some-odd teenagers crammed into an emotionally intense setting, you're gonna get some romance. When the author can't get enough of JustFriends, you'll end up with a delight amount of teasing.
* ShouldntWeBeInSchoolRightNow: All of the characters are technically young enough to be in school.
** Subverted in that a good chunk of the older ones have dropped out, and the games take precedence over ''learning''...
** Played straight in that [[spoiler: Diane, the 17 year old victor, is definitely not in school. She has better things to do. Suicidal things.]]
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: The author in With A Capitol G is ''not'' Claratrix Le Chatham herself. [[BlatantLies Of course not.]]
* ShoutOut: The filler chapter in With A Capitol G feautures the line "Wow, you don't look quite like what I- I mean Clara pictured you, Pen.", with 'Pen' being short for Penelope, one of the author's friends through the website.
* SlasherSmile: Kali. [[spoiler:She dies smiling over the fact that Actassi got over his fear of her. Not your typical GoOutWithASmile.]]
* SleepCute: Diane describes herself as sleeping with her head on Hetcher's shoulder.
* StarCrossedLovers: [[JustFriends There couldn't possibly be anyone like this in the Capitol Series.]] [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial Don't be ridiculous.]]
* StayWithMeUntilIDie: [[spoiler: Esther to Franz.]]
* SurvivalMantra:
** Lectic gets a minor one during his chariot prep. It's PlayedForLaughs.
--->''Forcefieldsforcefieldsforce... I give up.''
** Lissom's inner monologue has a tendency towards this trope, as well as third person.
* ThrowItIn: Lectic and Demetra's JustFriends dynamic. The author has said that she "didn't intend for them to have such good chemistry".
* TearsOfRemorse: Actassi, after [[spoiler:the bloodbath, and killing Sherman]].]
* TemptingFate:
** Subverted. As Hetcher bemoans the failure of his attempt to steal the Careers' fever medicine, he says, "But it could be raining, right?" Unlike most times a character says something along these lines, it doesn't start raining.
** Played straight with Dylan and Diele. See [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have To Be Birds?]] below.
* ThemeNaming:
** All of the titles include the word "Capitol", usually as a pun where one would expect "capital" to be used instead.
** Lectic's prep team members are named Veni, Vidi, and Vici.
* ThereCanOnlyBeOne: Only one tribute gets to leave the arena alive.
* ThoroughlyMistakenIdentity: Very much not PlayedForLaughs. Diane, convinced that not only is Actassi Kali [[spoiler: who is already dead]], but that he somehow killed [[spoiler: Hetcher.]] He's got no clue what's going on, and she is unaware of the mistake until [[spoiler: shortly after she's killed him.]]
** On the same vein, [[spoiler: Franz kills Esther believing that she is the Career girl who murdered his sister.]]
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:Demetra, as she lies dying from bullet wounds, takes comfort in the fact she won't die alone and takes Lectic's hand. The only kink being that she lives.]] So, SubvertedTrope.
* TooDumbToLive: If you know your teammate is a sociopath with a gun, what do you do? Hopefully not confront him about it on your own, as several of Lucian's allies did.
* TooHappyToLive: Carden was taking everything incredibly well, until he was [[spoiler:crushed by a giant rock.]] Whoops. [[spoiler: If he had any foreknowledge, he would have tried to fit in one last smile...]]
* TwoOutOfThreeAintBad: Demetra to Lectic.
-->''"I'm looking for someone smart, strong, and not allied with my dear comrades from before. You know what, Lectic? Two out of three isn't half bad."''
-->''"Umm… You're right. It's only a third bad."''
* TheUnfettered: Lucian doesn't care who he has to kill, what he has to do. But he doesn't ''exactly'' have a goal, just doesn't want to die.
* ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption: Good luck getting out of the games without breaking a few necks... or skulls, or just plain indirectly killing other kids. Foxface couldn't do it, and neither can you.
* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have To Be Birds?]]: Dylan and Diele share a moment of distaste for avians in general shortly before they are set upon by a flock of terror birds. Diele thinks they are beautiful. Dylan disagrees.
* WriteWhoYouKnow: Soren and Maren are based off of real-life friends of the author.
* WorldOfNoGrandparents: Subverted. Asha's grandmother not only appears, but is her ParentalSubstitute.
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!!Provides examples of:
* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:Soren snapping Lecia's neck.]]
* ActionGirl:
** Several, mostly Careers, but Demetra is probably in the running for most triumphant example.
** Kali would like to contest that assertion, though she is more of a DarkActionGirl herself.
* ActionSurvivor:
** Lectic, definitely. He is alive thanks to a generous amount of intervention on Demetra's part, and a good amount of luck and intelligence on his own.
** See also Carden, Hypatia, Holland, Actassi... most of the non-Careers who actually... y'know, survived. The bloodbath, anyway.
* ActionDuo: Lectic and Demetra do pretty well for themselves, though Demetra would sooner cut her tongue out than admit it.
* AerithAndBob: Rachel/Asha/Tanner/Diane: all relatively typical names. Auroch/Hetcher/Rippel/Pasque: not so much.
* AlphaBitch: Lycra.
* AlternateUniverseFic: Each and every one of them.
* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: Enforced. Fanfiction.net doesn't allow list-format stories, so the first page of ''With A Capitol G'' (a character list) has been replaced with a place-holding CrackFic while the story is on hold.
* AntiHero: Soren, Lucian, Demetra... a good portion of the Careers.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: ''He is prepared to...shoot? Explode? Blast fire? Serve pancakes?''
* AxeCrazy:
** Demetra is flamethrower crazy.
** [[spoiler: Chalice starts going this way, too, until Diele kills her.]]
* TheBerserker:[[spoiler: Diele puts an end to it pretty quickly, but Chalice seemed to be turning into one.]]
* BloodSport: The Hunger Games.
* BrainlessBeauty: Twyla. Though she's prefectly aware of her effect on Sherman, and is smart enough to [[TheVamp use it to her advantage]].
* BrainsAndBrawn: In ''Capitol Punishment'', Lectic is brains and Demetra is brawns.
* TheBrute:
** Martial.
** Bond from ''A Capitol Experience'', and, debatably, Royce.
* CatScare: Lucian hears a noise in the bushes and pulls his gun on it. A squirrel runs out. [[spoiler:A subversion, as we know it's actually Lissom hiding there, with the squirrel just being pretty convenient for her.]]
* ChildrenForcedToKill: And not-so-forced, in some cases.
* ClusterFBomb: Soren and Demetra know how it's done.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Demetra's friends spend most of her interview time gushing over how lucky she is to be in the Hunger Games with a cute guy and a flamethrower.
* CrackFic: The chapter that replaced the character list in With A Capitol G.
* CurbStompBattle: Subverted. [[spoiler:Strong, smart Auroch is beaten by not one, but ''two'' of his Games' youngest contestants.]] You gotta feel sorry for the poor guy.
* CuteKitten: Lectic has a pet kitten. Named Sparky. Can I get an "aww", please?
* DarkHumor
* DeadlyGames: The Hunger Games.
* DeadpanSnarker:
** Demetra informs the readers that snarking is one of her very favorite things to do.
** Soren, [[spoiler: her uncle]], shares the trait as well as the trope.
** Maren too.
** And they all qualify as {{First Person Smartass}}es, too.
* DeathFromAbove: The mutt that looks like Actassi's mother in ''A Capitol Experience'', and then the GiantFlyer in ''Capitol Punishment''.
* DoomedByCanon: The District 12 tributes in ''A Capitol Experience''.
* DualWielding: Kali is described as wielding a knife in her left hand a staff in her right.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Diane, after her victory.]]
* EyeScream:
** Actassi [[spoiler:kills Kali by stabbing a spear through her eye and into her brain]].
** [[spoiler:Skiff]] gets a quarter launched into his eye.
* FamousLastWords: In handy...well, okay, ''spoilered out'' alphabetical order.
-->"Fuck death. Also, fuck life. Fuck everything. I'm through with this shit." -[[spoiler:Demetra Boise]]
-->"No 'fense, Tassi, but I always thought you'd be first." -[[spoiler:Maren Ericsson]]
-->"You saw. You saw me. I did...I did something good." -[[spoiler:Lissom Henley]]
-->"So I suppose you got rid of your silly phobia of me? Good. I hate a coward." -[[spoiler: Kalika Hope]]
-->"I love you, [[spoiler:Rhea]] -[[spoiler:Esther Jaffe]]
-->"It's worth it. Living is worth dying." -[[spoiler:Lectic Riggs]]
-->"You really do?" -[[spoiler: Hypatia Leonodas]]
-->"I think...he wants to give me a ride." -[[spoiler:Lecia Smithfield]]
* FinalSpeech: [[spoiler:Hypatia]] delivers a rather haunting one about why people die.
** [[spoiler:Lectic and Demetra]] get some final banter.
* {{Fingore}}: Kali loses part of her thumb, not that she notices.
* FiveBadBand: The Careers in aCE.
** TheBigBad: Kali.
** TheDragon: Soren.
** TheEvilGenius: Maren is as close as it gets, within the Careers.
** TheBrute: Royce.
** TheDarkChick: Actassi, the poor boy. [[spoiler: Maybe if Paris had survived the bloodbath...]]
* FragileSpeedster: Lissom is the poster child. Poor girl can't take a hit, and isn't wonderful at dishing it out in the first place.
* GallowsHumor: Demetra comments on the morbid jokes she and Lectic make. This continues [[spoiler:all the way up through their final dialogue as they lay shot and dying.]]
* GeniusBruiser: Auroch is [[TheWorfEffect something]] of one.
* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: A few examples.
** Lissom, who carries a little knife and [[KnifeNut knows how to use it.]]
** Demetra and her [[FireBreathingWeapon flamethrower.]]
** By the time she's snapped, [[spoiler: Chalice]] can make a golf club into one of these.
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler: Sherman, because he believes he'll be TogetherInDeath with Twyla.]]
* GratuitousSpanish: A cryptic author's note in Capitol Punishment.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Diane plans to die so Carden can leave the arena. It doesn't work.]]
** [[spoiler: Lissom suicidally attacks Lucian so he won't be able to finish off Lectic and Demetra.]]
* HoldingHands: Demetra takes Lectic's hand [[spoiler:as they lay dying from bullet wounds.]]
* HomeBase:
** Lectic and Demetra's car.
** The cave on the island with the freshwater spring that Hetcher, Diane, and Carden always seem to find their way back to.
* IncrediblyLamePun:
** The author has a sort of love affair with these. ''A Capitol Experience''? A 'capital' experience! ''Capitol Punishment''? 'Capital' punishment. ''With a Capitol G''? With a 'capital' G.
** In-universe, Demetra makes a comment to herself about "pushing [the] buttons" of a girl wearing a calculator costume.
* ItsQuietTooQuiet: Soren drops one.
* ItHasBeenAnHonor: Lectic to Demetra, [[spoiler:as they part ways.]]
* IWasBeatenByAGirl: Soren and Kali had an similar dynamic [[spoiler:until she killed him and cut off his jaw]].
* JustFriends: Lectic and Demetra. Hetcher and Diane. Diele and Dylan. Maren and Actassi. TheCapitolSeries is rife with this trope.
* KillItWithFire: Demetra's general attitude towards anything that bugs her. The flamethrower helps.
* LackOfEmpathy:
** Lucian. WordOfGod states that he was borderline autistic before suffering a skull fracture, and picked up a few [[TheSociopath worse]] traits accompanying his not-quite-recovery and the encouragement of District Two's warped values.
** Kali from aCE was a perfect example of TheSociopath, no genetic disorders involved aside from whatever is going through most District Two DNA.
* LoveConfession: Aww, [[spoiler: Carden]] and [[spoiler: Hypatia]]. Oops, now [[DyingDeclarationOfLove she's dead.]]
* MeaningfulName: The author has a fondness for these, and, luckily, such names or within the relms of canon.
** Lissom, lithe and flexible. Auroch (Aurochs), an enormous, extinct breed of cattle comparable to a buffalo. Forester... forester.
* MercyKill: [[spoiler:Lissom to Skiff.]]
* MrFanservice: Lectic, both in and out-of-universe.
* MomentOfSilence: As an out-of-universe example, Claratrix Le Chatham calls for one in an author's note after [[spoiler:Diele's death.]]
* MoralityPet: Lecia to Soren, Carden to Franz/Esther/Diane, and, in measure, Lectic to Demetra.
* MoreDakka: Demetra knows how to fight perfectly well, but prefers the raw power of her flamethower.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: Diane after killing Actassi.]]
* NoFourthWall: The...[[CrackFic very interesting]] chapter used as With A Capitol G's first chapter to hold its place while Capitol Punishment is still underway.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Chalice snaps. And [[spoiler: Auroch]] is on the receiving end.
* OhCrap:
** [[spoiler: Soren]] knows exactly what's going to happen, exactly who's going to do it, and exactly one syllable to summarize his thought process.
*** It isn't [[PrecisionFStrike a very nice word]], either.
** "Oh crap," is also the first thing Esther says in response to her reaping. Esther, too.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Head Gamemaker Xenia is quite a bit older than she looks, thanks to the wonders of Capitol beauty treatments.
* OriginalCharacter: At ''least'' twenty-two of 'em per story.
* OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope: ''All [[SelfInsertFic resemblances]] to any authors, real or imaginary, is [[BlatantLies entirely coincidental]].''
* OutDamnedSpot: [[spoiler: After Sherman's fever-induced hallucination leads him to believe he murdered Twyla, he tries to wash the black blood off his hands, to no avail.]]
* OverlyLongName: Forester Montgomery-Cunningham.
* PlayfulHacker: Lectic is somewhere between this and TheCracker. He has no ''real'' malicious intent, but he does use his hacking skills for material and monetary gain.
* PlotTumor: Lectic and Demetra's subplot in Capitol Punichment. Most definitely [[JustFriends ''not'']] a RomanticPlotTumor, though.
* QuitYourWhining: Demetra really, really doesn't care about other peoples' problems. Especially when they're getting between her and a giant vulture. Even if it's Lectic.
-->"''LECTIC FOR THE LOVE OF GOD LISTEN TO ME!''"
* RaisedByGrandparents: Asha chose to move in with her grandmother.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: Dylan]] embarks on one after [[spoiler: Lucian kills Diele.]]
* SacrificialLion: Quite a few of them. [[spoiler: A Career or two tends to kick it in the bloodbath, too, adding the less-sympathetic variety.]]
* SaltAndPepper: WordOfGod confirms that Lectic is black and Demetra is white. They couldn't be more different. Their races, however, are rarely even alluded to, and definitely not a plot point.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: The lovely duo that is Lectic and Demetra. Poor, poor Lectic. So, so, [[NotWhatISignedOnFor not what he signed up for.]]
* SelfInsertFic: An odd variation in the placeholder chapter of With A Capitol G, in which a not-the-author-at-all is certainly ''not'' the author at all, if you catch the drift.
* ShipTease: With twenty-some-odd teenagers crammed into an emotionally intense setting, you're gonna get some romance. When the author can't get enough of JustFriends, you'll end up with a delight amount of teasing.
* ShouldntWeBeInSchoolRightNow: All of the characters are technically young enough to be in school.
** Subverted in that a good chunk of the older ones have dropped out, and the games take precedence over ''learning''...
** Played straight in that [[spoiler: Diane, the 17 year old victor, is definitely not in school. She has better things to do. Suicidal things.]]
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: The author in With A Capitol G is ''not'' Claratrix Le Chatham herself. [[BlatantLies Of course not.]]
* ShoutOut: The filler chapter in With A Capitol G feautures the line "Wow, you don't look quite like what I- I mean Clara pictured you, Pen.", with 'Pen' being short for Penelope, one of the author's friends through the website.
* SlasherSmile: Kali. [[spoiler:She dies smiling over the fact that Actassi got over his fear of her. Not your typical GoOutWithASmile.]]
* SleepCute: Diane describes herself as sleeping with her head on Hetcher's shoulder.
* StarCrossedLovers: [[JustFriends There couldn't possibly be anyone like this in the Capitol Series.]] [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial Don't be ridiculous.]]
* StayWithMeUntilIDie: [[spoiler: Esther to Franz.]]
* SurvivalMantra:
** Lectic gets a minor one during his chariot prep. It's PlayedForLaughs.
--->''Forcefieldsforcefieldsforce... I give up.''
** Lissom's inner monologue has a tendency towards this trope, as well as third person.
* ThrowItIn: Lectic and Demetra's JustFriends dynamic. The author has said that she "didn't intend for them to have such good chemistry".
* TearsOfRemorse: Actassi, after [[spoiler:the bloodbath, and killing Sherman]].]
* TemptingFate:
** Subverted. As Hetcher bemoans the failure of his attempt to steal the Careers' fever medicine, he says, "But it could be raining, right?" Unlike most times a character says something along these lines, it doesn't start raining.
** Played straight with Dylan and Diele. See [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have To Be Birds?]] below.
* ThemeNaming:
** All of the titles include the word "Capitol", usually as a pun where one would expect "capital" to be used instead.
** Lectic's prep team members are named Veni, Vidi, and Vici.
* ThereCanOnlyBeOne: Only one tribute gets to leave the arena alive.
* ThoroughlyMistakenIdentity: Very much not PlayedForLaughs. Diane, convinced that not only is Actassi Kali [[spoiler: who is already dead]], but that he somehow killed [[spoiler: Hetcher.]] He's got no clue what's going on, and she is unaware of the mistake until [[spoiler: shortly after she's killed him.]]
** On the same vein, [[spoiler: Franz kills Esther believing that she is the Career girl who murdered his sister.]]
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:Demetra, as she lies dying from bullet wounds, takes comfort in the fact she won't die alone and takes Lectic's hand. The only kink being that she lives.]] So, SubvertedTrope.
* TooDumbToLive: If you know your teammate is a sociopath with a gun, what do you do? Hopefully not confront him about it on your own, as several of Lucian's allies did.
* TooHappyToLive: Carden was taking everything incredibly well, until he was [[spoiler:crushed by a giant rock.]] Whoops. [[spoiler: If he had any foreknowledge, he would have tried to fit in one last smile...]]
* TwoOutOfThreeAintBad: Demetra to Lectic.
-->''"I'm looking for someone smart, strong, and not allied with my dear comrades from before. You know what, Lectic? Two out of three isn't half bad."''
-->''"Umm… You're right. It's only a third bad."''
* TheUnfettered: Lucian doesn't care who he has to kill, what he has to do. But he doesn't ''exactly'' have a goal, just doesn't want to die.
* ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption: Good luck getting out of the games without breaking a few necks... or skulls, or just plain indirectly killing other kids. Foxface couldn't do it, and neither can you.
* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have To Be Birds?]]: Dylan and Diele share a moment of distaste for avians in general shortly before they are set upon by a flock of terror birds. Diele thinks they are beautiful. Dylan disagrees.
* WriteWhoYouKnow: Soren and Maren are based off of real-life friends of the author.
* WorldOfNoGrandparents: Subverted. Asha's grandmother not only appears, but is her ParentalSubstitute.
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