Trivia / Cheating Death: Those That Lived

• He Also Did: CragmiteBlaster also writes Total Drama Island fanfics such as Total Drama: Brains VS Brawns. He's also responsible for The Nameless Chronicles series.
• Outdated by Canon: This fanfic was written before the publication of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, meaning that Lucy Gray, the amphitheater, or the Covey does not appear in this story.
• Similarly Named Works: There is another popular Harry Potter fanfic called Cheating Death, which is an AU where Harry is an auror^note a law enforcement official for magical governments who has to investigate a case involving the Department of Mysteries.
• What Could Have Been: CragmiteBlaster mentions several of these possibilities a couple times in a DeviantArt journal entry.
  • Claudia, the District Two girl in Dollar's arena, was originally going to be a Victor who avoided being mutated and would have been assassinated by Pasture during her Victory Tour.
  • Other scrapped Victors include a Career girl whose sisters died in past Hunger Games and reappear as ghosts, an Affably Evil career, a tribute who wears the face of the District One girl as a disguise, a medic who tries to save his last foe through emergency operation, a witch, and a very forgettable tribute.
  • Augustus was going to be under the influence of drugs in-arena and would accidentally do heroic deeds while stoned. Instead of sacrificing his life for Rhyder, he would die from a bus running over him in the Capitol.
  • District Six and Eight would have three victors each.
  • The party would only have ten living victors, with Platinum, Librae, and Crimson not surviving.
  • Fiona and Lawrence would have been a decades-long story arc that both Coin and Snow would be a huge fan of.
  • Pasture's Games would have chainsaws instead of gauntlets.
  • Bear's Games would take place in a Candyland-style arena.

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