History Fanfic / GlimmerOfHopeCatosStory

* ShortRangeGuyLongRangeGuy: Discussed. Marvel is a very good JavelinThrower, Cato could dismantle him with a sword. In a CombatBreakdown however, the two are evenly matched.

* DoomedByCanon: The story cuts off just before the Feast, but the narration all but states Cato and Clove's fates

* DoomedByCanon: The story cuts off just before the Feast, but the narration

* DoomedByCanon: Cato, Glimmer (who is KilledOffscreen during the last chapter), Clove, Marvel (also KilledOffscreen during the last chapter). And given the Tribute purges in the later books Cato's parents might not be around for much longer.

* FamilyThemeNaming: Cato's family has names from AncientGrome patterned throughout: his father is Severus, his mother Livia, brother Ajax, and grandfather Marcus.

* UnderestimatingBadassery: Cato doesn't see the girl from District 12 (Katniss) as a threat; he doesn't even think she can read.

* OldManMarryingAChild: Peacekeepers aren't allowed to marry unless they finish their tour of duty, which could take decades. Cato's mother left and joined the Tribute academy because she wanted to marry someone who was around her age and have a family while she was still young.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:Cato intended to take Glimmer and their baby and get as far away as he could from Panem once he won his Hunger Games. And then he learns Glimmer was reaped.]]

* StarCrossedLovers: Glimmer and Cato. When the rule about two Champions from the same district is announced, Cato muses that neither of them could be saved by that announcement.

* ThemeNaming: Cato's family all have names from AncientGrome: his father is Severus, his mother Livia (Romanesque) and his elder brother Ajax (Greek).

* BetaCouple: Clove and her boyfriend Thor.
* ChekhovsGunman: The girl from District 12: Katniss Everdeen.

* ItIsDehumanizing: Cato's father Severus constantly refers to Glimmer as "the girl".

* StageMom: Cato's father is a male example.

* WideEyedIdealist: Cato has no idea about how different the world outside of District 2 is.

* DoomedByCanon: Cato, Glimmer, Clove, Marvel. And given the Tribute purges in the later books Cato's parents might not be around for much longer.

* DarkActionGirl: Glimmer and Clove. Clove is more specialized with her knives while Glimmer is a JackOfAllStats.

* LawOfInverseFertility: [[spoiler:Cato's brother Ajax has had trouble having children, thanks to drugs he took on their father's orders while training for the Games. It's one of the factors in his wife leaving him and why Ajax persuades their father to let Glimmer carry her child to term; it's the only opportunity Severus and Livia will have to be grandparents since his wife Drizella is leaving him]].

* OddNameOut: Cato's friend Thor is the only male from District 2 who doesn't have a name from AncientGrome.

* OneHitPolykill: Cato's father scored one of these to win his Hunger Games.

* ArrangedMarriage: In District 2, victorious Tributes will marry the next victor of the opposite gender. For example, Cato's father won his Hunger Games, and his mother won the year after.
* BadassFamily:
** Cato has 23 Victors in his family, including both his parents and his brother. His mother comes from a family of Peacekeepers.
** Clove has three Victors in her family, including her father.

* ChildSoldiers: Alongside the District 1 and 2 Tribute schools, [[spoiler:Cato and Glimmer's twin sons will be raised as Peacekeepers.]]

* UnderestimatingBadassery: Cato doesn't see the girl from District 12 as a threat; he doesn't even think she can read.

[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8101559/1/Glimmer-of-Hope-Cato-s-Story Glimmer of Hope: Cato’s Story]] is a ''Film/TheHungerGames'' fanfic concerning Cato’s relationship with Glimmer before the events of the books.

* ArrangedMarriage: In District 2, victorious Tributes will marry the next victor of the opposite gender. For example, Cato’s father won his Hunger Games, and his mother won the year after.

* BerserkButton: Glimmer’s appears to be older men, likely due to the DirtyOldMan trope. When Darius says that he knows retiring Peacekeepers [[OldManMarryingAChild who would like a younger wife]], Glimmer gives him a DeathGlare and snarls “I would rather die in the Arena than have an old man touch me”.

* ChildSoldiers: Alongside the District 1 and 2 Tribute schools, [[spoiler:Cato and Glimmer’s twin sons will be raised as Peacekeepers.]]

* CoolBigBro: Ajax for Cato. He serves as Cato’s mentor for the 74th Hunger Games, which also makes him a BigBrotherMentor.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Glimmer’s mother is a prostitute, her father abandoned them, and she’s already killed someone (in her case it was a pimp) by the time she showed up at the Tribute Academy.

* FamousAncestor: Cato’s grandfather Marcus was the first District 2 champion.
* ItIsDehumanizing: Cato’s father Severus constantly refers to Glimmer as “the girl”.
* ItWasAGift: The ring with the retractable poisoned spike mentioned in the first book was a gift to Glimmer from Cato’s mother.
* LawOfInverseFertility: [[spoiler:Cato’s brother Ajax has had trouble having children, thanks to drugs he took on their father’s orders while training for the Games. It's one of the factors in his wife leaving him and why Ajax persuades their father to let Glimmer carry her child to term; it’s the only opportunity Severus and Livia will have to be grandparents since his wife Drizella is leaving him]].

* NoodleIncident: When Clove had dinner at Cato’s house a year before, she discharged a steak knife. It’s never explained how.

* OddNameOut: Cato’s friend Thor is the only male from District 2 who doesn’t have a name from AncientGrome.

* OldManMarryingAChild: Peacekeepers aren’t allowed to marry unless they finish their tour of duty, which could take decades. Cato’s mother left and joined the Tribute academy because she wanted to marry someone who was around her age and have a family while she was still young.
* OneHitPolykill: Cato’s father scored one of these to win his Hunger Games.

* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Remember the Peacekeeper stationed in District 12 named Darius? He’s a cousin of Cato here.

* StageMom: Cato’s father is a male example.

-->'''Severus''': We would have preferred Clove. Her line is strong, three Champions including her father, and no markers for genetic defects. But, [Glimmer]? She’s from the gutter. Her whore mother probably doesn’t even know who her father was.

* UnderestimatingBadassery: Cato doesn’t see the girl from District 12 as a threat; he doesn’t even think she can read.

* DarkActionGirl: Glimmer and Clove.

* ItIsDehumanizing: Cato’s father Severus refers to Glimmer as “the girl”.

* StarCrossedLovers: Glimmer and Cato.

** Cato has 23 Victors in his family and his mother comes from a family of Peacekeepers.

* DoomedByCanon: Cato, Glimmer, Clove, Marvel. And given the Tribute purges Cato's parents might not be either.

* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Remember the Peacekeeper named Darius? He’s a cousin of Cato here.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Glimmer’s mother is a prostitute, her father abandoned them, and she’s already killed someone by the time she showed up in the Tribute Academy.

* DoomedByCanon: Cato, Glimmer, Clove, Marvel.

* OddNameOut: Cato’s friend Thor is the only male who doesn’t have a name from AncientGrome.

* ChildSoldiers: [[spoiler:Cato and Glimmer’s twin sons will be raised as Peacekeepers.]]

* ItWasAGift: The ring with the retractable poisoned spike was a gift to Glimmer from Cato’s mother.
* LawOfInverseFertility: [[spoiler:Cato’s brother Ajax has had trouble having children, thanks to drugs he took on their father’s orders while training for the Games. It's one of the factors in his wife leaving him and why Ajax persuades their father to let Glimmer carry the child to term; it’s the only opportunity Severus and Livia will have to be grandparents]].

* OddNameOut: Cato’s friend Thor is the only male who doesn’t have a name from
AncientGrome.

* LawOfInverseFertility: [[spoiler:Cato’s brother Ajax has had trouble having children, thanks to drugs he took while training for the Games. It's one of the factors in his wife leaving him and ]]

* OddNameOut: Cato’s friend Thor is the only male who doesn’t have a name from AncientGrome.

[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8101559/1/Glimmer-of-Hope-Cato-s-Story Glimmer of Hope: Cato’s Story]] is a ‘’Film/TheHungerGames’’ fanfic concerning Cato’s relationship with Glimmer before the events of the books.

* LawOfInverseFertility: [[spoiler:Cato’s brother Ajax has had trouble having children, thanks to drugs he took while training for the Games.]]

-->’’’Severus’’’: We would have preferred Clove. Her line is strong, three Champions including her father, and no markers for genetic defects. But, [Glimmer]? She’s from the gutter. Her whore mother probably doesn’t even know who her father was.

* BadassFamily: Cato has 23 Victors in his family.

* SuperBreedingProgram: District 2 is obsessed with making better Tributes, often by having Victors from their district marry each other.