The Starvation Sequence is a series of fanfictions based on The Hunger Games published on fanfiction.net by Penelope Wendy Bing
. Each tells the story of an original Hunger Games. Two are currently completed, with the third in progress.
The series picks up with the first Hunger Games, directly after the end of the rebellion. Consecutive stories then build on this, fleshing out the early Games and especially the development of the Hunger Games themselves.
Tropes:
- Always Save the Girl: Adrian puts the life of his
love interest before anyone else in the arena, himself included.
- Becoming the Mask: After her victory, Eewyn invokes this because she knows it will be easier to deal with the guilt if she can learn to be the uncaring person she pretends to be.
- Berserk Button: Mistaking "Blossom" as Ever Blossom's middle name will send her raging.
- Big Damn Heroes:
- When Wrainin and company swoop in to save Flute and Fenn.
- Adrian saving Roe from the giant squid.
- Break the Cutie: Flute dies slowly, sees most of her friends killed off, and can no longer trust Wrianin after his killing of Narcis. Not entirely fair, since Narcis was coming after them, but Flute has a small Friend to All Living Things complex.
- Cruel and Unusual Death:
- The Gamemakers sent Kiteriin insane. She proceeded to saw her wrist open with her own fingernails.
- Disha's face is melted off by acid.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Wesley is quite formidable, but usually only gets to show his strength against much younger, weaker opponents.
- Damsel in Distress: Baylyn pretty much has to be babysat after Wesley smashes her ribs in.
- Death of a Child: The younger kids are just as, if not more, likely to bite the dust than those in their upper teens.
- Disappeared Dad: Wrianin's father is dead in Starvation 1. In Starvation 3, so is Leo's father.
- Five-Finger Discount: Daphine likes to steal stuff, although she refers to it as "discount shopping".
- Healthcare Motivation: Lavendess' friend Allae is ill. Word of God says she has cancer, and that it's actually entirely possible to diagnose and cure in the Capitol. Just not the Districts, because who cares about giving them medical care?
- La Résistance: Wrianin fought in the rebellion.
- Loners Are Freaks: Subverted. Anastasia assumes Caspar is dangerous because he has no friends, but it turns out he's just painfully shy.
- Loveable Rogue: Daphine Ryte is both a thief and an arsonist, but she's a pretty nice girl, overall.
- Madness Mantra: "I'm a killer." Aria says this a lot after she murders her District partner.
- The Millstone: Roe. She can't even bring herself to save Caspian's life, which might have vindicated her.
- Never a Self-Made Woman: Erasaziel's fervent denial that she was chosen as an announced because her cousin is the president is a little suspicious. Despite this, the trope is subverted, as the cousin in question is also female.
- Original Character: Twenty-four tribute every year, and then extras. Lots of original characters.
- The Pollyanna: Kaden, employing copious amounts of Think Happy Thoughts.
- Post-Kiss Catatonia: Inverted. Lance only rbeaks out of his post-reaping catatonia when Ribbon kisses him.
- Rape as Backstory: Tatum's backstory is mostly being raped and having a son.
- Really Gets Around: Anastasia in her past, although she's has a steady boyfriend when she is introduced.
- Ship Tease: Quite a bit between Adrian and Baylyn. Word of God states that they can't kiss or announce anything due to the Starvation stories not being Alternate Universe Fics, but they are in fact a couple.
- Shout-Out: Word of God says that the names of Lance's sisters, Magpie and Whisper, are a Shout-Out to the Faeries of Dreamdark series.
- The Snark Knight: Disha and Narcis. Mocking the idiocy of their team is one of their very favorite things to do.
- Teens Are Monsters: Some of the characters are just a little too comfortable about the whole "two dozen teens shut in an arena until all but one are dead" thing.
- There Can Only Be One: victor of the Hunger Games.
- Tyke-Bomb: President Hellwick's personal guard is made entirely of tykebombs.
- Token Evil Teammate: Drai to Wrianin's gang. Possibly Narcis and Disha as well, although YMMV.
- Too Dumb to Live: Roe has to be in the running for Most Triumphant Example.
- Two First Names: Ever Blossom Drey.
- Unnamed Parent: Most of them. With twenty four tribute every time around, it simply isn't practical.
