Trivia / The End of the World (FernWithy)

• Accidentally-Correct Writing: While parts of the story are Outdated by Canon, others are predicted with some accuracy in this book.
  • A Snow is responsible for the Hunger Games coming into existence (although it was Snow's father in the official canon and not Snow himself like in these stories).
  • Snow is a war orphan who survives a rebel bombing and has It's Personal feelings toward Katniss's family in both stories. In canon, said feelings are because of his romance and falling out with District 12's first victor (which, for those who focus on how said romance is an Unequal Pairing, may be reminiscent of District 12 escort Ausionius Glass sexually abusing District 12's first victor in the backstory of this series), who is implied to br an Everdeen ancestor. In The Big Empty and other currently missing LiveJournal The End of the World stories, it is established that Snow had a negative encounter (at least on his part) with Katniss's great-grandfather at the end of the Dark Days Rebellion.
  • District 12's first victor isn't around to mentor Haymitch for the 2nd Quarter Quell in canon or this story.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes:
  • FernWithy wrote a prequel story called The Big Empty which is set during the Dark Days Rebellion and follows District 12's future first victor and Everdeen and Abernathy ancestors traveling the country, trying to reunite one of them with his Rebel father. However, the story was seemingly never finished and was eventually removed from FanFiction.Net despite many references to it^note including scenes with Snow the climax would have likely provided a Perspective Flip of and one-shots showing the main characters after the rebellion's end existing in other The End of the World stories and one-shots.
  • Many one-shot stories in this series were only collected on the author's since-deleted LiveJournal account. A few were added to the Archive of Our Own Stops on the Way to the End of the World anthology collection, but most remain unavailable.
• Outdated by Canon:
  • In the Narrow Path continuity, the fourth District Twelve Victor was a woman named Duronda Carson, who won the 3rd Games and hanged herself a couple of years before the Second Quarter Quell, as opposed to the canonical Lucy Gray Baird who won the 10th Games. The series began in 2013, before the release of the official prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, so this dissonance is to be expected.
  • In the prequel novel, President Snow is about a decade younger than he is in this series, and the president during the Dark Days rebellion is named Ravinstill and not Clemm.
  • Plutarch and Fulvia's families are shown to be wealthy and politically connected in the novel while the two have Penny Among Diamonds backstories in this series.
  • The first full-time host of The Hunger Games is named Lucky Flickerman rather than Cambria Light, which also presumably makes Caesar Flickerman's backstory as a native of District 5 impossible unless he adopted Lucky Flickerman's last name as a tribute or to pretend they were related.
  • Haymitch says "The Hanging Tree" was a popular song during the Dark Days after the Capitol hung Rebel Leaders from every district, but the prequel novel says the song was only written ten years after the war ended.
  • Johanna wins the 69th Hunger Games but Word of God statements made when the movies were coming out described her as Victor of the 71st Hunger Games.

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