Characters / Cheating Death: Those That Lived

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District 1

In General

• Theme Naming: Being the district of luxury, some of the people's names are high class related (Mascara, Bronze, Crown, Treasure).

Peridot Gaudy (8th Games Victor)

• Ass Shove: Infamous for killing her final rival by shoving his sword up where the sun don't shine.
• Blue Blood: A scion of the Flawless Estate, the twelve wealthiest families in District One.
• Everyone Has Standards: Mascara was so much of an insane psychopath that Peridot granted her blessing to her District Partner to try and kill her as soon as possible, in spite of it being usually considered betrayal from the worst grade.
• Law of Inverse Fertility: As a Victor and the last scion of the blue-blooded Gaudy lineage, she was expected to bear children only to learn she was barren. It apparently caused her not a small amount of distress.
• Life Will Kill You: Passed away of old age shortly before the 69th Games.
• Not So Above It All: The very picture of a well-mannered, dignified aristocrat, but also very fond of silly comics — her favorite was about a superhero welding cats to criminals.
• Sweet Tooth: She first met Crown when she went to buy gummies in his candy shop and later stroke a friendship with him as she became a regular client of his. He calls her the biggest chocoholic he ever met.
• Upper-Class Twit: Was very proud of her aristocratic lineage and often described as snooty and haughty.

Crystal McCree (14th Games Victor)

• The Baby of the Bunch: With four older sisters and recurring heart issues, Crystal was heavily pampered and coddled by her family and she loathed it.
• Butch Lesbian: She dreamed about having an adventure, becoming an Action Girl to do so, and fell in love with the very dainty Harp.
• Cool Old Lady: Middle-aged actually, but she nonetheless refuses to lose her childish enjoyment of life and comforts Platinum as the girl is fretting her mind to pieces.
• Dream-Crushing Handicap: Everyone wanted for her to be more careful and lead a safe, cozy life because she had a heart condition. But Crystal was bent on having an adventure, and volunteered for the Games.
• Expy: Basically a female Indiana Jones with heart problems, complete with fedora and bullwhip.
• Go Out with a Smile: Even if she died relatively young from her health issues, Crystal considered her life a wonderful adventure and departed from this world with her lover and the last girl she brought home alive at her bedside.
• Happily Married: Well, she never officially tied the knot with Harp but from the way they were acting around each other, it was obvious they were an item.
• Heroic RRoD: All this stress in the arena wasn't good at all for her heart, to the point she barely survived to be crowned the Victor and was left permanently disabled afterwards, with her condition acting up when she was too emotional.
• Life Will Kill You: Ultimately her heart condition causes her to pass some time after Platinum's victory.
• My Beloved Smother: She understood why her parents and siblings relentlessly coddled her, but she wanted to be more than their fragile little angel. Her chosen rebellion was to volunteer in Harp's stead.
• Official Couple: With Harp.
• Rescue Romance: She volunteered instead of Harp who utterly lacked a fighter's temperament. The other girl came to live with her after being disowned, and they grew to be a couple.
• Sweet Tooth: Enjoyed raiding the cookie jar, no matter how old she was.
• Too Dumb to Live: Peridot and her District partner are completely floored when she cheerfully admits she has recurring heart issues yet willingly entered a death competition in which it will significantly lower her odds for survival. Years later, Crystal acknowledges it was deeply stupid from her.

Bronze Marley (19th Games Victor)

• Broken Pedestal: Augustus used to idolize him, but as he slowly progress towards a Heel Realization, the possibility of turning in another Bronze morphs in a nightmare.
• The Creon: Bronze has no official position in the Capitol hierarchy and, as a district-born citizen, is ineligible for the presidency, but he is President Snow's closest and longest-lasting advisor and has no greater ambition than to wallow in luxuries whenever Snow doesn't need him. It's likely that Bronze's district citizenship and lack of an official title are the reasons for this stability: he and Snow both know that Bronze couldn't threaten to supplant Snow without a ridiculously complicated and difficult effort for a job Bronze probably wouldn’t even enjoy (given the cumbersome responsibility that comes with it when he already has plenty of luxuries).
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Crimson cuts his genitals off before hammering his limbs with stakes and burning him alive.
• The Dragon: He's one of Snow's closet allies and was the one who helped him become president.
• Expy: Seems to be one for Luster Lancester from The Victors Project, given that he's also District One Victor who's loyal to Snow and being the one who established the Victors' prositution ring.
• The Hedonist: After being crowned the Victor, he doesn't waste time to start indulging in wine and drugs and sleeping with any pretty girl unlucky enough to catch his eye. It winds up being his downfall.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Decades of indulging his appetites took a toll on his ability to fight, so when Crown and Crimson decide to put an end to him, he's so out of shape that the much more burly and fit Crown can wrestle him into submission.
• Jerkass: The very first thing the narrative explains about him is how much of a scumbag he is. And he manages to get even worse.
• Jungle Japes: His Games took place in a large jungle.
• Kick the Dog: Bluntly tells Crown he's not a tribute, he's going to die on the first day and it will ruin District One's reputation. He also screams at a sobbing Pi who just witnessed her tribute being gruesomely killed in the First Quarter Quell.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Is beaten by Crown who he refused to teach and ultimately killed by Crimson, the girl he raped.
• Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: What cements him as truly irreddeemable and not a mere scumbag is his active involvement in establishing the Victors' prostitution ring and forcing Crimson to slake his lusts for almost fifty years.
• Tantrum Throwing: When he doesn't get what he wants, he starts screaming, breaking things, and later getting high or laid.
• Villainous Friendship: The closest thing he got to a positive relationship with another human being was with President Snow, as both of them mutually encouraged the other's nastier vices. Bronze actually called Snow "Coryo" and brought him flowers when his family was poisoned.

Crown Martins (24th Games Victor)

• Ambiguously Gay: Confesses he finds women as appealing as men would be for his lesbian friend Harp, but it's unclear if he was gay or didn't actually care for romance since he never got married and is never mentioned to have a sweetheart either.
• Big Damn Heroes: Saved Crimson in the Second Rebellion when she was about to be raped again by Bronze.
• Even the Loving Hero Has Hated Ones: Crown is perky and nice to everyone he meets, so it's saying a lot about Bronze that the chubby Victor seethes in his presence and calls him poison for ruining so many innocent lives in his endless pursuit of hedonism.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: His cooking skills. He is rather chubby from enjoying the fruits of his work. His mentor comments the lard means he has fat reserves to burn against starvation, he gains the District Twelve tributes as his allies when he offers to cook for them, sponsors helped him in the arena because they enjoyed watching him cooking, and he poisons the District Two female tribute when she cannot resist the temptation to eat a candy he filled with acid.
• Kill Tally: Two - the pair from Two (Felicia and Heto).
• Land Down Under: His Games' Arena. It's rocky and red, with the hot sun beating down and only a few bushes and cacti here and there for cover. The arena also features kangaroo mutts and cassowaries — though the cacti and coyotes suggest elements of The Wild West.
• Motor Mouth: Is one of the fastest talkers ever. It annoys Peridot and Crystal, overstimulates Harp, drives the edible plants instructor insane, and hurts Mortimer. Crown's victory also prompts the Capitol to learn speed talk so they can understand what he's saying. Subverted during the Victors' Party where Crown admits that he doesn't talk like that in normal situations, after messing with Katniss. Double subverted where he reverts back to his usual talking speed when trying to vote against the Capitol Hunger Games.
• Nice Guy: He forges an alliance with District Twelve tributes because these poor kids look starved and likely never enjoyed candy in their lives. He also firmly disapproves of voting kids into the arena, such as for the First Quarter Quell and the Capitol Games.
• Platonic Life-Partners: Tabloids floated the possibility of him becoming Harper Victory's Second Love, only for him to declare they cared for each other but not that way and reminding them she was a lesbian and in love with Crystal.
• Stout Strength: He's noticeably fat, with Bronze openly insulting his weight. Thing is, he's hiding muscles under the lard.
• Supreme Chef: His candy is some of the best ever.
• Tampering with Food and Drink: He creates a lollipop that replaces honey with corrosive acid to kill one of his victims.
• Through His Stomach: His method to obtain allies and sponsors. If the District Twelve tributes are in the position to enjoy his cooking, it's rather more indirect with the Capitol audiences.
• Token Wholesome: Unlike every other Victor from One, Crown was a fully-fledged civilian who never even handled a weapon before having to participate in the Games.

Dollar Dettwieller (32nd Games Victor)

• All of the Other Reindeer: Her family are alienated from District One society over their beliefs in zombies. Dollar is said to look scruffy when compared to the rest of her peers at Gaudy High, while the locals claim to deny knowing let alone living near her family.
• An Arm and a Leg: Was forced to hack her left hand off after being swarmed by zombies — when you're risking infection, cutting the limb stops the virus spreading, that's the first rule!
• Be Yourself: Fully aware that people saw her as that kooky survivalist obsessed by zombies, and utterly unashamed of it.
• Crazy Survivalist: With a heavy focus on zombie invasions. She basically spent her childhood in a bunker.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Let Numi's twin sister into her zombie bunker so she'd be safe from the firebomb raid instead.
• Pop-Cultured Badass: She was quite familiar with the Resident Evil franchise because it dealt with zombies, even if the games were considered old before the Dark Days.

Mascara Court (41st Games Victor)

• Bad People Abuse Animals: Mentioned to skin stray cats in her free time.
• Beauty Is Bad: A very pretty girl, who unfortunately was more interested in torturing people than being nice to them.
• The Berserker: Was prone to a violent, unrefined style of fighting. That allowed her to face the Grim on equal stand, as he was used to people thinking about their next move instead of blindly hacking at him.
• Blue Blood: Her parents committed Brother–Sister Incest because it was the only way they considered acceptable to ensure their scion would have an impeccable pedigree.
• Brother–Sister Incest: The product of that, and it's heavily implied it contributed to her deficiencies.
• The Dreaded: She terrified absolutely everybody, with the career pack and the outliers doing their best to kill her as soon as they could.
• Mutual Kill: Between her and the Grim.
• One-Woman Army: For all her obvious insanity, Mascara was genuinely tough, being able to fend off six outliers banding together to kill her then facing the whole career pack on her own.
• Psychopathic Womanchild: She slaughtered people in order to spill all the pretty red in their bodies and make angels on the ground with it.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Was murdered barely a few months after winning, but her shadow loomed quite large over Panem, cementing the idea of career tributes being bloodthirsty, crazed monsters and driving District One to vote preventive measures against another tribute with her violent disposition.
• Teens Are Monsters: So much of a monster that Snow decided she was better murdered a few months after her Victor's tour than alive to spread her insanity, and District One actively took measures to ensure nobody would ever reach her level of bloodlust.
• Tragic Monster: One of the most violent and disturbing Victors ever, but she was actively groomed to be such by her parents who only cared about her as their ticket to wealth and fame, ignoring anyone wanting to genuinely help her.
• Trophy Child: Her parents paid attention to her violent and bloodthirsty demeanor only because it increased the odds for her to come back a Victor — and when she succeeded at this goal, they immediately started indulging their cravings for luxuries and fame, without even taking the time to speak with Mascara.
• Tyke-Bomb: Her parents willingly engaged into Brother–Sister Incest to create a strong, fierce career, and encouraged her to be as destructive and psychopathic as she could.
• "Well Done, Daughter!" Gal: When she wasn't disturbing people, she often mumbled she wanted to make her daddy and mummy proud. Sadly, they never cared about her as a person and only saw her as their ticket to unlimited wealth, blatantly ignoring her after she won her Games to relish in their new lifestyle.

Platinum Twist (44th Games Victor)

• An Arm and a Leg: Loses part of her left leg during the Second Rebellion.
• Break the Haughty: She followed the career path because she saw that as the easiest way to be popular. Then she slowly realized she would have to kill other teens or be killed — cue a lot of Stress Vomit.
• Facial Markings: Quite fond of the dollar sign tatoo on her cheek.
• Go Mad from the Isolation: Falls in a hole and is forgotten by everybody for weeks. When a corpse falls down there, she starts speaking to it.
• Kill Tally: One - The boy from Eleven.
• Nervous Wreck: When she understands she's completely over her head, Platinum flubs a lot of her training, has frequent bouts of Stress Vomit and sobs in her pillow. The other careers bullying her doesn't help, in spite of Crystal and Harp's best efforts.
• Outliving One's Offspring: Her daughter Spinel was reaped and killed in the 69th Games. This makes her vote for the Capitol Games.
• Sex Slave: Mentioned by Finnick as being forced to participate in the Victors' prostitution ring.
• Stress Vomit: Puked all over herself after volunteering, and was immediately humiliated on social medias as "Vomit Girl".
• Underground Level: Her Arena was a large crystal cavern.
• Unexpected Successor: In a sense, she was not the chosen volunteer for the Games, but most of the girls before her dropped out after Mascara's performance and the others did for various different reasons.
• Victory by Endurance: Was stuck in a pit with enough food and water pilfered from the Cornucopia and corpse-looting to wait for the other tributes to murder each other. The game lasted for forty days, which is the record for longest Games.

Gloss Lord (63rd Games Victor)

• Big Brother Instinct: Decides to volunteer as a tribute because him and his sister are in the streets and he wants for Cashmere to not worry about starving or freezing to death.
• Irony: He refused to ask for help at homeless shelters, and it's implied it was because Cashmere was sexually harassed there. So he instead volunteers for the Games — putting his sister on the Capitol's radar for sexual slavery.
• Jerkass Façade: He really doesn't enjoy playing the bloodthirsty Career, but he just needs to ensure Cashmere will live in safety and comfort and that means winning the Games.
• Kill Tally: In his original games, six. In the Quarter Quell, two - Seeder and Wiress.
• O.C. Stand-in: The District One male tribute in Catching Fire, the chapter expands on his backstory and why he became a Career.

Cashmere Lord (64th Games Victor)

• Got Volunteered: Snow told her she would be shot with her brother if she refused to enter the Games — and if she couldn't win, then Gloss would still be shot for her failure.
• Kill Tally: Eight
• Non P.O.V. Protagonist: Her chapter is told from the eyes of President Snow.
• O.C. Stand-in: The District One female tribute in Catching Fire.
• So Beautiful, It's a Curse: She wouldn't go to a homeless shelter in spite of freezing and starving in the streets as she was constantly harassed there, and Snow threatens her brother's life to force her to volunteer in order to get her in the Victors' prostitution ring.

Augustus Braun (67th Games Victor)

• The Dead Have Names: What slowly prompts his Heel Realization is the Capitol casually dismissing the tributes he mentored for not winning and flat-out forgetting who they are in a few days, when Augustus actually tattoos their names on his body as penance.
• Drowning My Sorrows: As years pass without him managing to bring a tribute home alive, Dragon and Wattzon start bringing him to the bar when he loses his kid.
• Heel Realization: His years mentoring tributes made him realize how bad the Games were.
• Human Notepad: Honors his lost tributes by tatooing their names on his body. He takes this decision after hearing one Capitolian too much dismissing them as not worth remembering.
• Kill Tally: Eight.
• One Degree of Separation: His niece was Glimmer, the girl Katniss killed with tracker jacks in the 74th Games.
• Taking the Bullet: Died taking a sniper shot meant for Rhyder in the Victor Purge.

Fallen Tributes

Candy Spicer and Triumph Washington (40th Hunger Games)

• Cruel and Unusual Death:
  • Triumph's face sticks to Lammy's tree sap trap. His face rips off while trying to free himself.
  • Candy is burned alive in the cornucopia.

Shine Rares and Midas Battalion (42nd Hunger Games)

• The Ace: Midas is described to make the social rules in his district's training academy.
• Acid Attack: Spool throws acid at Shine, where it dissolves her face and throat.
• Death by Irony: Midas wanted to come out of the arena remembered. Instead, Spool denies his chance of a fair duel and he's unceremoniously eaten by a crocodile mutt, leaving him as just another tribute to be forgotten.
• Interclass Friendship: Averted. While Midas's family comes from the ruby mines and Shine is a noble, Shine can't stand Midas in-arena because of his overbearing personality.

Treasure Romantic, Dreamer Luna, Ramesses Firebird, and Fantastic Tzar (50th Hunger Games)

• A Molten Date with Death: The lava consumes Dreamer after she trips during the volcanic eruption.
• O.C. Stand-in: Treasure is the District One girl who dies from Haymitch's force field trick.

Harp Victory

• Blue Blood: Just like Peridot, she hailed from the Flawless Estate.
• Father, I Don't Want to Fight: Her parents craved a Victor in the family to gain prestige, but Harp's temperament just wasn't suited to blood sports. When Crystal volunteers in her stead, she's pretty content to let her and actually encourages her to win.
• Happily Married: She and Crystal never officially tied the knot but it was obvious they were an item, and when Crystal ultimately died in her middle age, Harp was basically treated as her widow.
• I Have No Son!: Since she failed to volunteer and bring fame to the Victory name, her parents kicked her in the streets. Harp took it rather well, as she went to live with Crystal.
• Kindhearted Simpleton: Was considered a retard by her family for being deeply autistic. She's also the sweetest, gentlest woman to be born in District One.
• The Lady's Favour: Gave Crystal her fedora as a token for the Games.
• Last of Its Kind: The only scion of the Flawless Estate to have survived long past the families' extinction.
• Lipstick Lesbian: Utterly nonviolent, always polite and meek, she bakes good cookies and was Crystal's wife in all but name.
• Loophole Abuse: As Crystal's lover, she happily sponsored District One's tributes with her personal fortune.
• Platonic Life-Partners: Fantastically gets along with Crown, and both of them opened a night club together after Crystal's demise. When the Capitol started to speculate on them growing romantically closer, however, Crown reminded them Harp is a lesbian.
• Sweet Baker: Enjoyed to bake cookies, and later opened a night club with Crown to sell candy and pastries.
• White Sheep: The Flawless Estate — yup, even Peridot in some measure — was the embodiment of Aristocrats Are Evil. Harp is the complete antithesis.

District 2

In General

• Theme Naming: As a Career district focusing on stone, many people have names that are either stone related or reflect their status as trained killers (Machete, Boulder, Dragon, Gorn).

Baron Overwhill (4th Games Victor)

• Eye Scream: In his fight against the second-to-last tribute in his Games.
• Happily Married: To Runa.
• Jock Dad, Nerd Son: The reason behind his deeply stilted relationship with his father. Tellingly, Elias starts to soften towards his son when Baron has the idea of volunteering and trains so much he becomes able to catch a punch.
• Life Will Kill You: Passed away of old age in the same hour as Chassis.
• Momma's Boy: Deconstructed hard, as he willingly enters the Games with the full knowledge that it will turn him in a murderer out of desperation to pay her medical treatment. Then the Capitol twists his filial devotion into propaganda, encouraging teens to volunteer and train as careers to give their parents a better life.
• Properly Paranoid: He fretted about his son being Reaped, in spite of Rhyder's reassurances that a career would automatically volunteer. As proven by Rhyder's Reaping being rigged, he was right to worry.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Becoming the first tribute to volunteer caused the wealthiest Districts to groom a culture of violence in which their children's sacrifices were seen as honourable. Baron is deeply affected by this unwanted legacy, as he only sought to win because he wanted to pay for his mother's medicine and wondering if the years he gave her were worth it.

Runa Pearce (7th Games Victor)

• All of the Other Reindeer: She didn't enjoy being around the other career hopefuls since they wouldn't stop picking on her for living in the boonies.
• Braids of Action: Her picture shows her with a "gigantic" braid, she killed seven tributes in the Arena and is described as bulky and "a mammoth". Katniss praises her good taste in hairstyles.
• Got Volunteered: Wasn't interested at all in joining the fledgling career training academy, only to get abducted by the teachers and forced into the careers because she looked so tough.
• Happily Married: To Baron.
• Hard Work Hardly Works: Averted — that's because she had a work ethic that she gained so much muscle.
• Life Will Kill You: Passed away from old age around the time of Skinner's Games.
• Raised by Grandparents: After losing her family to nuclear warheads in the Dark Days, she was left with her grandfather to support her. She adored him greatly.

Olga Machete (10th Games Victor)

• The Atoner: After the Capitol Games, Crown tells her she still has time to turn her life around, which she does.
• Break the Haughty: After learning the truth of the Capitol, she's left a broken, weeping shell who's fully aware of how she wasted her life in the service of evil.
• Broken Pedestal: A fierce Capitol Loyalist until she learned the Gamemakers have been rigging the Games against the tributes she shaped into loyalists since they find it boring, including her nephew Borris. The final nail in the coffin is when she learned from Finnick's broadcast that Snow killed her own father.
• Bubblegloop Swamp: Her Games took place in a grotesque swamp.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Chev from Six refused to let her fulfill her vow of killing a tribute from each district by committing suicide. Olga responded by telling her students at the Academy to always kill tributes from District Six first in retribution, for many, many years to come.
• Dramatically Missing the Point: She spends all of Rook's Victory party sulking and complaining about him allying with an Outlier, in spite of Baron and Runa insisting a tribute only needs to survive to the end.
• Expy: Seems to be one for Boudicca from The Victors Project, given that she's also a Capitol Loyalist from 2 who helped shaped the District Two training academy... and also ultimately realizes her mistakes.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Openly acknowledges that being hoodwinked and brainwashed by the Capitol doesn't excuse the part she played for causing so many deaths in the Hunger Games. However, she also notes it goes both ways; while she did make those choices of her own volition, it also doesn't excuse the Capitol for manipulating her into believing those decisions were for the greater good, nor for all their other crimes, including starting the Hunger Games to begin with.
• Heel Realization: Learning the truth about the Capitol made her realize she was supporting evil all along.
• Kill Tally: Eleven - The girl from Three, the girl from Ten, the girl from Twelve, the girl from Five, one from Eight, one from Nine, the boy from Eleven (Til), the boy from One (Prince), the girl from Seven, the girl from Four (Reef), and her District Partner (Mercury).
• Meaningful Name: Her middle name is Mars, like the Roman God of War.
• Mother Russia Makes You Strong: Implied. She has a Russian name, can speak at least a little Russian (according to Rhyder's chapter), and is skilled in multiple combat-related disciplines. The main deviation from this trope is that Russia likely no longer exists as of the time of the Hunger Games, but from what we know, it's possible that she's of Russian descent nevertheless.
• Patriotic Fervor: Is one for the Capitol until the Second Rebellion.
• Vodka Drunkenski: When she's drinking onscreen, it's always vodka — which fits her potential Russian ancestry.

Rook Valiant (17th Games Victor)

• Defiant to the End: Is shot in a confrontation with Olga, but gets the last laugh by presenting her documents that prove the Capitol never liked her tributes to the point of actively rigging the Games against them and that her loyalty was unappreciated and All for Nothing. He dies saying that she was the real loser all along.
• Everyone Has Standards: He's rather displeased when the other careers kill a tribute by throwing him in the forcefield, laughing all the while. Coupled with his promise to give Socket a painless demise, Rook appears to not be interested in pointless torture and suffering — if you gotta die, then let it be quick.
• "Getting My Own Room" Plot: Exaggerated — the reason why he volunteered for blood sports in which he would have to outlast twenty-three other teenagers was to obtain a house he wouldn't have to share with his parents and Massive Numbered Siblings.
• Irony: He volunteered for the Games because he couldn't stand sharing his space with his loud parents and Massive Numbered Siblings anymore, and winning would give him a house of his own to breathe. Unfortunately, his status as a Victor turned him in a celebrity for the Capitol and tabloids and fans just wouldn't stop harassing him.
• I Work Alone: Courtesy of his distaste for crowds and the knowledge he would have to turn against them anyway, Rook ditches the career pack very early in the Games. He makes an exception for Socket, as two isn't a crowd and she's pretty quiet.
• Massive Numbered Siblings: Eight of them. That's no wonder he wanted an entire house to himself after sharing with so many rowdy people all his childhood.
• Master Actor: Lets Olga and the career pack believe he's the picture-perfect District Two patriot, only to betray their expectations by alling with Socket pre-Games with no one the wiser.
• Middle Child Syndrome: Stuck babysitting four younger siblings and serving as his four older's punching bag, he was rather eager to escape them.
• Pet the Dog: His alliance with Socket is a long moment in this, as he constantly shows her gentleness, promises to kill her painlessly and to watch over her family, and grants her dream of getting to fly.

Boulder Atherson (20th Games Victor)

• Handicapped Badass: Don't let his dwarfism fool you, he was a trained career and picked up as the best candidate for his District for a reason.
• Killed Offscreen: Killed when the Nut collapsed in the Rebellion.
• Switching P.O.V.: His chapter is about how the Districts and Capitol thought of him.

Vercingetorix Carnby (1st Quarter Quell Victor)

• Boom, Headshot!: His fate at Ajax's hands.
• Doomed by Canon: Since it's stated the First Quarter Quell Victor wasn't alive in the books, this was foreseen.
• Failure Hero: In spite of preventing one of the psychopath alliance to win and gain the freedom to indulge their sadism and cruelty without fear of retaliation, Vercingetorix was more focused on his inability to protect his partners from One and Two.
• Knight in Shining Armor: Crystal describes him as this upon his victory, and it's a rather apt title. He's one of the few victors who left his Games a legitimate hero.
• Non P.O.V. Protagonist: His Games is told from the eyes of the previous Victors as they mentor the Games.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: One of the most egregious cases, considering he had to fought an alliance of psychopaths and was a witness to several gruesome demises, his District partner and his ally Amethyst among them.

Dragon Batofel (27th Games Victor)

• Blood Knight: One of the most fight hungry Victors and loves watching the Bloodbath at the Cornucopia. When the twist for the 3rd Quarter Quell was announced, he's disappointed he can't volunteer himself as he's suffering from a leg injury.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: He respects people who manage to overcome impossible odds to achieve a predetermined goal — so he sneers at Mercy for failing to achieve a Pacifist Run but is genuinely fond of Arendellian for winning as she was wearing a straightjacket.
• Cain and Abel: His last opponent in his Games was his sister, who was just as much of a Blood Knight.
• Challenge Seeker: Infamous for making the Games way harder for himself for a bigger challenge.
• Do Not Go Gentle: Killed a hundred Reaper Mutts before succumbing to his wounds during the Second Rebellion.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: His sister Wyrm was bent on following the rules and being a "classic" career, while Dragon was constantly called insane for his recklessness and insistance on challenging himself in absurd ways.
• Hero-Worshipper: He deeply admired his grandfather's wartime successes and willingly emulated his reckless fighting style when he volunteered.
• Let's Fight Like Gentlemen: Being a Challenge Seeker, he disdains murdering another tribute in his sleep and insists on a proper duel to legitimately show himself the stronger man.
• Mistaken for Gay: When he volunteers, he deliberately adopts campy, effeminate mannerisms to be underestimated. Cue the District One female asking if he's gay, only for him to laugh and admit he had twenty different girlfriends in the academy.
• Noodle Incident: Once ate a thousand eggs for breakfast when Boulder said more than a hundred is dangerous.
• Old Soldier: When the Second Rebellion came, it was almost fifty years after Dragon's Games. Yet this sexagenary was able to Hold the Line against a hundred Reaper Mutts to let Wattzon's husband flee to safety.
• Pet the Dog: He was rather fond of Arendellian, deeming her wonderful and awesome for winning her Games without using her hands at all. When she's killed in the Third Quarter Quell, he's the one to comfort her surrogate brother Wattson.
• Self-Imposed Challenge: In-universe, he kept making his Games harder and still won.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Had no qualms murdering his own sister when he had to go into the arena. In the latest years, he shows some measure of empathy by comforting his fellow Victors when they lose a loved one, and ultimately protects Wattson and his husband in the Second Rebellion.
• You're Insane!: The other tributes' reaction to his antics. He didn't care a whit.

Rhyder Overwhill (39th Games Victor)

• All of the Other Reindeer: Is alienated by the rest of the tributes during his Hunger Games, forcing him to solo it. The Careers don't appreciate having a kid with them, while the outliers resent him because his father (Baron) started the Career tribute system.
• Book Ends: His chapter starts and ends with him on a family outing.
• Chekhov's Skill: It's mentioned he's good at climbing, which became useful in his Games when the arena was set inside a giant ant hill. It also helps him in the Second Rebellion and allows him to survive.
• Generation Xerox: The son of District Two's first two Victors, who went on to become a Victor himself. His arena is also in a maze like his mother's arena and kills a tribute from above like she did.
• Guile Hero: After being told by his mother to "fight smart", Rhyder uses a combination of trickery and out-of-the-box thinking to survive in his arena, despite Snow trying to rig the Games against him.
• Kill Tally: Four - The boy from Three (Flash), The girl from Eight (Neev), the girl from Eleven, and the girl from One (Rarity).
• The Prankster: Has a knack for pranks as seen before and after his victory. He sends Elias crashing using tripwire, made Olga slip on a banana peel, and planned on putting a bucket of water on top of Snow's office door following his victory.
• Sins of the Father: Most of the other tributes hate him for his father starting the Career system and was rigged into the arena by his own grandfather for that action.
• Underestimating Badassery: Snow and his grandfather rigged the Games against him by delaying sponsor gifts and having the Gamemakers target him, not to mention all the other tributes hated him for what his father had done. Unfortunately for the two, they underestimated Rhyder's capabilities (especially his skill at climbing), ingenuity, and tenacity, resulting in Rhyder becoming the second-youngest Victor in the history of the Hunger Games.

Mercy Gregor (46th Games Victor)

• Big Sister Instinct: In her arena, she did her best to protect the younger tributes because she couldn't stand the idea of children dying.
• Break the Haughty: She was very proud of her District being a model of order and safety, seeing her volunteering as saving an innocent kid. Then she saw all the other tributes for her Games weren't older than twelve, and had a nervous breakdown in the train.
• Cool Big Sis: Has shades of this towards her main ally and protectorate, Honda from District Six, who calls her the "best career ever" as she breathes her last.
• Friend to All Children: Her defining trait. She was horrified when all the tributes Reaped for her Games turned out to be 12 years old due to in-universe Executive Meddling following Chaff being accidentally called for, broke the taboo of District Two allying with District Six, and gave her life to protect orphans from reaper mutts during the Rebellion.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Ultimately dies protecting orphans from a pack of reaper mutts.
• Ironic Name: Since she's a Career, you wouldn't expect her to give Mercy.
• Wouldn't Hurt a Child: Broke apart from the career pack because they had no qualms slaughtering the other tributes in spite of their criminally young age. She unfortunately was forced to subvert her principle when facing Lilian from District Eight.

Brutus Gunn (49th Games Victor)

• Bald Head of Toughness: Kept a shaved skull all his life. He also was violent enough for Dragon and Olga to enjoy his Games.
• Everyone Has Standards: He worried just as much as Lyme herself about her blackouts, and was utterly appaled when he understood she had been hypnotized to turn in a berserker when she heard a fingersnap, calling it a violation of her human rights and sending her earmuffs as a sponsor gift.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Volunteered for the 3rd Quarter Quell so Rhyder wouldn't have to go back into the arena.
• A Hero to His Hometown: Very much beloved in District Two and among the other Victors sharing this District with him. However, it's a bit deconstructed as his friendliness and empathy stopped at District Two, so everybody else mistrusted him.
• Kill Tally:
  • In his original games, eleven - the pair from Eleven, the pair from Nine, the boy from Five, the boy from Twelve, one unknown, the girl from Seven, the girl from Four, and the pair from One.
  • In the 3rd Quarter Quell, four - Chaff, Woof, Pasture, and Laurel.
• Nice Guy: Outside the Games, he was a pretty decent guy in District Two and the Victors that preceded him all liked him for what's he done. These acts are:
  • Cheered Mercy up after what happened with Vercingetorix, stating she volunteered in his sister's place.
  • Helped threw a surprise birthday for Baron and accidentally fell face first into the cake, which Baron found so funny that he joked that Brutus should do it again next year, and Brutus did for the next ten years.
  • Gave a great show at his Games' Bloodbath that Dragon loved.
  • Volunteered in Rhyder's place when he was reaped for the 3rd Quarter Quell.
  • Helped Boulder get his Gameboy off a tall self and was allowed to play it.
  • Listened to Runa talk about her late grandfather.
  • Distracted some paparazzi bothering Rook.
  • Won his Games with Olga as his mentor, which she was deeply proud of.
  • Paid his respects to Vercingetorix.
• O.C. Stand-in: The District Two male Tribute in Catching Fire.
• Red Baron: "The Mudman of the 49th" as his games took place in a muddy arena.
• Switching P.O.V.: His chapter is told from various interactions he had with the previous Victors of Two (plus one from Snow)

Lyme Rabe (51st Games Victor)

• Attack on the Heart: Died taking a shot in the chest from a Capitol sniper.
• The Berserker: Hypnotized to turn in a killing machine when she heard a fingersnap.
• Blackmail Backfire: Olga threatened to pull a bullet in her little brother's head if she wouldn't volunteer. Lyme fired back she would denounce Olga as a murderer on live television for all Panem to hear if she dared.
• Got Volunteered: Told Olga to her face that she wouldn't be the female career that year in spite of being the strongest girl of the Academy. Olga refused to accept "no" for an answer and enlisted Tabbock to hypnotize Lyme into compliance.
• The Hermit: Becomes one following her Hunger Games where she's described to be the quietest and most reclusive Victor among the District Two Victors.

Enobaria Golding (62nd Games Victor)

• Abandoned Area: Her Games took place in an abandoned war zone.
• AB Negative: Her blood type prevented her from being cured of the scorpion mutt venom, leaving her stuck with her new personality.
• Ax-Crazy: The story reveals she wasn't always like this, and went mad following her being stung by a scorpion mutt, and the venom affected her brain to turn her into who she is now.
• Bad Boss: Before she volunteered, her favorite hobby was to torment her maid Malachite by constantly insulting her and forcing her to redo her chores. It was so bad that Malachite outright hoped for her to die in her Games, and had no qualms dropping her in spite of Enobaria begging her to not abandon her.
• Break the Haughty: Originally an entitled rich girl, her new personality she got stuck with during her Games made her drive her friends away and accidentally kill her parents. By the end she's begging her maid to stay as she's the only remnant from her old life.
• Kill Tally:
  • In her original Games, nine - the boy from Ten, the boy from Three, the boy from Six, two unknown, the boy from Four, the girl from Three, the boy from Twelve, and the boy from Seven.
  • In the Quarter Quell, one - Cecelia.
• Non P.O.V. Protagonist: Her chapter is from the perspective of her maid Malachite, who was regularly mistreated by her and ultimately left. She eventually went on to build weapons for District Thirteen.
• O.C. Stand-in: Introduced as District Two's female tribute in Catching Fire, the series expands on her backstory.
• Please, Don't Leave Me: After her new personality drove her friends away and made her kill her parents in a fit of rage, she's reduced to beg her long-suffering maid Malachite to stay besides her. After years of daily abuse at her hands, Malachite refuses to comply with her demand.
• Self-Made Orphan: She killed her parents by accident.
• Spoiled Brat: Originally the haughty heiress of the Golding family and is immensely entitled, treating her maid like dirt until she would rather have anyone win the Games than Enobaria.

Magnus Sterlingshire (73rd Games Victor)

• Gentle Giant: Described himself as quite tall for his age, and completely uninterested in blood sports.
• Got Volunteered: Press-ganged into the career academy at ten years old, and wasn't keen on being the male tribute of his year at all only for his name to be reaped anyway — and it's implied rigging was involved.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: He would have been happy to lead a quiet life, working in a pub, but Olga refused to accept his refusal to enter the Games.
• Loophole Abuse: While the rules state he couldn't sponsor his own tributes, there was nothing stating he couldn't sponsor another District's tributes, so he used his winnings to help fund Haymitch for the next Games, as he'd rather have a Twelve win than Cato or Clove.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: He won the Games right before Katniss and Peeta completely trashed the rulebook, and both the District Twelve Victors acknowledge he quickly faded into the background.
• Properly Paranoid: As Olga relentlessly pressured him to let himself be molded in a proper "patriot", Magnus fired back her patriotic tributes never seem to win and he would rather do things his own way. She gets furious at his cheek but she later learns he was utterly right as the Capitol deemed her indoctrinated careers "boring" and arranged accidents for them.
• The Quiet One: He didn't agree at all with Olga and the career pack's bloodthirst and propaganda but any attempt of him to argue was shut down, so he decided he wouldn't say anything. The Capitol ate it up, thinking he was the "cool and silent" type.
• Small Role, Big Impact: While he doesn't appear much, it's revealed he sponsored District Twelve for the 74th Games, and Haymitch was able to buy the burn cream for Katniss because of it.
• Switching P.O.V.: His chapter switches between his POV and Claudius Templesmith's.
• Trapped in Villainy: Poor Magnus only wanted to be left alone, but was forced into the Games and everything he did to survive and retain a semblance of morals was interpreted as a cunning plan to murder the competition, leaving him stuck in the role of yet another bloodthirsty career.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Was only introduced for one chapter before it's confirmed next chapter he died in the rebellion due to a falling hovercraft.

Fallen Tributes

• No True Scotsman: Olga insisted a true patriot wouldn't die in the Arena, so all these teens who failed to survive obviously were unworthy!

Elias Overwhill

• Anger Born of Worry: When Baron volunteers, his first impulse is to scream at his son for putting himself in mortal danger and listing several gruesome deaths he might suffer.
• Asshole Victim: As the man who perverted his son's loving selflessness into an institution that turned hundreds of youths into indoctrinated murderers and had no qualms plotting his grandson's demise, the fact that he was murdered and unpersoned by the tyranny he supported all his life comes off as just desserts.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: For all his difficulties with his son, he truly loved his wife and was dismayed when she contracted a lung infection.
• Greater-Scope Villain: The man who was first responsible for training careers, getting inspired by his son selflessly volunteering to pay for his mother's treatment and twisting that for his own purposes.
• Gruesome Grandparent: That man had no qualms rigging the Reaping and the Games to throw his teenage grandson in the arena and do anything to ensure he would suffer a gruesome demise there.
• Jock Dad, Nerd Son: Described as militarily inclined, while Baron was of a scholarly bent. They constantly clashed with each other and needed Mrs Overwhill to mediate between them.
• Unperson: After failing to ensure his grandson's death, he's murdered by the Capitol and his name fully erased from District Two's records, with the career academy he built renamed after Olga.
• You Have Failed Me: Snow was rather unhappy when Rhyder survived in spite of all the obstacles thrown in his path by Elias.
• Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: He was very proud that Baron's initiative was followed by so many youths that a career academy was built. Baron himself was nothing but horrified but his unwanted legacy.

District 3

In General

• Theme Naming: As the district of technology, some of the people have tech and knowledge related names (Pi, Code, Wiress, Beep).

Honorius Perthshire (5th Games Victor)

• Better to Die than Be Killed: Swallows a nightlock pill he had on him after he was captured by the Capitol in the Rebellion. He also left a note for Snow taunting him.
• Break the Haughty: Started out very confidant and arrogant, but what happened in his Games left him unable to write without shaking and horrified.
• Captain's Log: His Games are told from his personal journal.
• The Caretaker: Did his best to comfort and shield the depressed Pi from her trauma and insensitive crowds. But ultimately, he couldn't be always there to watch her, and she electrocuted herself as he was absent.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Among the Victors who stayed behind in the Mentors' room to let the others escape.
• Kill Tally: Three: the boy from Five (Abe), the boy from Eleven (Bean), and the boy from Two (Gauntlet).
• The Mourning After: Deeply affected by the fact he couldn't help Pi — the first tribute he brought home alive — to move beyond her trauma. He kept laying black cloth over the chair besides him at public events in her memory for years.
• Primal Fear: His Arena had no daylight at all, and after a while, the Gamemakers shut the artificial moon down so the surviving tributes were left in absolute darkness.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Gained a fear of bats after bat mutts brutally attacked his last opponent.

Pi Orbit (22nd Games Victor)

• Angsty Surviving Twin: She was Reaped with her twin brother Wire, and she knew only one of them would get to go home. That was the beginning of her downwards spiral.
• Born Unlucky: There was no rigging involved in the Reapings that took her siblings. She was just that unfortunate.
• Butt-Monkey: Had a very high level of trauma. Relentlessly bullied over it.
• Driven to Suicide: Having lost her whole family to the Games and constantly insulted and derided for being traumatized over it, Pi willingly electrocutes herself to death after the First Quarter Quell.
• Massive Numbered Siblings: Used to have five siblings who deeply loved her, and whom she loved with all her heart. Emphasis on used to.
• Prone to Tears: Constantly sobbing from trauma caused by the arena and the loss of her siblings. The Capitol wouldn't stop kicking her down for that, calling her a "bad Victor".
• Shrinking Violet: She couldn't stand the idea of exposing a school project in front of her classroom without crumbling into a stuttering mess. She got worse after her Games, and Honorius did his best to keep the paparazzi at bay in order to protect her sanity.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: Between the trauma she suffered in her Games and the First Quarter Quell, Pi found a smidge of happiness as she watched her District enjoying the food granted by her survival.

Beetee Latier (37th Games Victor)

• Darkhorse Victory: Noted to be bespectacled, scrawny and a nerd by the twelve gamblers narrating his Games, with only one betting on him. He stunned everybody by pulling a Total Party Kill.
• Kill Tally: Six, like in canon - the entire Career Pack.
• Jungle Japes: His Games took place in a rainforest.
• Non P.O.V. Protagonist: His Games are told from the eyes of twelve different Capitolians who regularly gamble on the Hunger Games. Each gambler bets on a different district and sponsors them in the hopes of winning.
• Sole Survivor: The last District Three Victor to still be alive.
• Teen Genius: At fifteen years old, he was able to rip the wires from the launch pedestal to build an eletrical gizmo that would allow him to enact a Total Party Kill on the career pack. And he did it without any help.

Wiress Plummer (47th Games Victor)

• Achievements in Ignorance: Took control of the dam in her Arena and used its inner mechanisms to kill everyone else. When interviewed, she thoroughly denies having the slightest idea of a plan, she merely pushed the buttons to see what would happen.
• Darkhorse Victory: Was considered rather slow-witted as she was reaped. A magazine issue reports how amazing her triumph was as a consequence.
• Idiot Savant: Being autistic, Wiress was deemed a retard when she was Reaped only to hijack the complex machinery of a dam. She's also able to produce wonderful machinery to solve the Districts' eternal poverty and starvation — only for the Capitol to immediately confiscate her inventions.
• O.C. Stand-in: The District Three female tribute in Catching Fire.
• Red Baron: The Dame of the Dam, for hijacking the dam in her Arena and unleashing its traps against the other tributes.
• Shrinking Violet: Her high-level autism made her significantly awkward and uneasy around crowds, and when a pushy reporter refuses to back down and accidentally triggers her by calling her a cold-blooded killer, she yells for Beetee to rescue her.
• Tabloid Melodrama: Her chapter takes the form of a magazine issue reporting the Hunger Games, which covers highlights from her Games along with how the Victors back then are doing.

Yohan Fairbane (58th Games Victor)

• Brilliant, but Lazy: Appeared to have been genuinely gifted as a musician but he refused to take anything seriously, to his sister's distress.
• Cain and Abel: A completely accidental and tragic example, as he never meant to run over his sister and sunk into permanent depression afterwards.
• Car Fu: How he killed the last surviving tributes. To his utter horror and unending remorse, his first victim was his own sister.
• Darkest Africa: His Games took place in an African savannah.
• Disappointing Older Sibling: Between him and Meryl, he was slightly older but she was exhausted from constantly watching over him and preventing him from falling too far behind, be it at school or work.
• Driven to Suicide: Hangs himself during the Second Rebellion, with a note saying he deserves it.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Yohan was more focused on enjoying himself by playing music and driving cars than actually having a survival strategy like his sister.
• It's All Junk: Throws his electric guitar into a fire after winning, as he considers his survival worthless after his Accidental Murder of Meryl.
• Non P.O.V. Protagonist: His Games are told from Caesar's eyes which details his usual routine for the Games.
• You Should Have Died Instead: Self-inflicted, as he constantly repeated Meryl ought to have win rather than him.

Fallen Tributes

• Better to Die than Be Killed: Amp chooses to jump off the Tribute Building rather than die in the Arena.
• Death Seeker: Socket was so hopelessly beaten down by poverty and depression that she wanted to step off her pedestal early and get blown to kingdom come. Rook exploits that to recruit her as his ally.
• Morality Pet: Rook shows himself positively angelic towards Socket, promising to give her a painless demise and delivering it, and offering to watch over her family.
• Odd Friendship: Calculus and Homer's alliance from the Twelfth Games becomes this, with the omniscient narrator noting that Homer really, truly became fond of her.
• Painless Death for a Price: Since Socket isn't interested in winning at all, Rook offers to quickly and cleanly kill her if she agrees to be his ally and ensure he will leave the Arena a Victor.
• Serial Killer: Lothar was this.
• When She Smiles: As she learns her death will let her fulfill her dream of flying, Socket happily smiles for the first time ever — and it's mentioned Rook kept the memory with him forever.

District 4

In General

• Theme Naming: Being the district of fishing, some of the people have sea related names (Guppy, Anchor, Tide, Coast)

Museida Selkrik (3rd Games Victor)

• Animal Motifs: Called a "hermit crab" for using said crustacean's shell as armor in his Games, and actually becoming The Hermit out of trauma and guilt.
• Berserk Button: Flat-out refuses to mentor Tide when she admits she's a career.
• The Hermit: After being crowned a Victor, he flat-out refused to leave his new house unless it was the Games season, mainly out of guilt and as self-inflicted imprisonment.
• Life Will Kill You: Ultimately dies of old age a few months before Annie's Games.
• Loophole Abuse: Unable to find a sponsor for Mags? He will merely finance her from his own pocket, and cheekily points the Capitol hadn't explicitly forbid it when they tried to raise a stink.
• When He Smiles: As Mags asks him who sponsored her in the Arena for her to thank them, he's noted to be smiling for the first time since his own Games before confessing it was him.

Mags Flanagan (11th Games Victor)

• Do Not Call Me "Paul": Her full name is Magnolia, but she prefers being called Mags.
• Master Poisoner: She kills almost the whole career pack by slipping poison in her soup then leaving it in the open for them to eat.
• O.C. Stand-in: The District Four female tribute in Catching Fire who volunteered in Annie's place.
• One-Note Cook: Mentions she can prepare a good soup when asked for her skills. It's instrumental in her plan to enact an almost Total Party Kill on the career pack.

Tide Luther (23rd Games Victor)

• Determinator: When this gal is betting on her odds to beat it, she won't let anything stand between her and her goal. She furiously trained and fought in the Games because she needed the money to pay her debts, and it's hinted she let the Capitol torture her to death because she refused to squeal.
• Fatal Flaw: Her greed. She had to throw herself into a deathly competition because she lost too much money to his gambling addiction, and her fellow Victors were disgusted to see how low she would sink in order to feed it.
• Fate Worse than Death: Let's see, being thrown in the debtors' prison in which she was guaranteed to get sexually assaulted or joining the Games and maybe outlast twenty-three other teens bent on murdering her? Decisions, decisions...
• The Gambling Addict: Deconstructed — she volunteered because she would have been thrown in the debtor's prison after losing one bet too much, and she turned quite unpopular among her fellow Victors for running a betting ring regarding their tributes' odds to bite the dust.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Among the Victors who stayed behind in the Mentors' room to let the others escape.
• Lack of Empathy: She was heading a betting ring that would evaluate the odds for a tribute to survive or die more or less gruesomely. Needless to say, it wasn't a popular move among the other Victors.
• Lonely at the Top: In spite of having all the wealth she could dream at her fingertips, Tide quietly longed for a connection with the other Victors — whom she repulsed for being too greedy.
• Prison Rape: She was desperate to avoid the debtor's prison as she feared being sexually assaulted, so she decided to volunteer for the Games instead.
• What You Are in the Dark: The Capitol captured and tortured her when they fell — but she allowed herself to be killed rather than betraying her fellow Victors. The survivors are stunned by the news as they never believed she could care about anything but her addiction and money.

Librae Ogilvy (35th Games Victor)

• It's All My Fault: After making it back to civilization and hearing about the Capitol Games from Annie, she wishes she had been there at the vote, since she would've tied it and the Games would've been held with 12 tributes instead of 24.
• I Know Madden Kombat: Wins her Games by weaponizing her surfboard, that is, by strapping three spikes she got from sponsors to her surfboard then using said spikes to impale Beauty from One.
• Kill Tally: Four - The girl from Seven, the girl from Ten (Millie), the boy from Eleven (Rhett), and the girl from One (Beauty)
• Obfuscating Stupidity: She genuinely is ditzy and far too reckless for her own good, but she also remembers her mother being hanged and her father beaten into a coma for being too smart and asking too much questions so she plays it safe.
• Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: She was presumed dead by the 3rd Quarter Quell, but she was actually just stranded where Hawaii once was.
• Shifting Sand Land: Her Games took place in a desert with black sand.
• Surfer Dude: Surfer girl in this case, but was famous for weaponizing her board for the winning kill.

Anchor Paddock (52nd Games Victor)

• Animal Motifs: Sharks.
• Human Shield: Dies thanks to Ron making him one by force.
• One Degree of Separation: His uncle was the loan shark who drove Tide to volunteer out of desperation to avoid the debtor's prison.
• Palmtree Panic: His Arena took place on a sandy beach.
• Riches to Rags: His family used to be comfortable as they were in the debt collecting business, only for the Peacekeepers to drive them in poverty as they seized the industry for themselves. Anchor decided to train as a career to regain their fortune.
• Treachery Is a Special Kind of Evil: Massively impopular for slaughtering the other career tributes in the bloodbath, and killing his own District partner — who was a bit "simple" and whom he carefully groomed as his ally — for being too powerful.

Finnick Odair (65th Games Victor)

• Big Brother Instinct: Did his best to make the Capitolians focus on him rather than Numi or Crimson when they were bought together for the night.
• A Birthday, Not a Break: He may have won the games on his 14th birthday, it also marked the start of his life as a Sex Slave. He also spent his 16th birthday on one such appointment.
• The Dog Bites Back: Gets to spill every single secret he managed to pry out of the Capitolians who had his way with him, toppling the people and plunging the city that had exploited him and MANY other Victors for so very long.
• Kill Tally: In his original games, seven - his final kill being the boy from Five. In the Quarter Quell, one - Neon.
• The Lost Lenore: For Annie.
• Related in the Adaptation: The male tribute from District Four in the 74th Games was his own nephew, Urchin.
• Teacher/Student Romance: Was Annie's mentor for her Games.
• Sex Slave: His chapter is focused on eight times he was sold, and the secrets he got from them each time to get his revenge.

Ron Stafford (68th Games Victor)

• Death Seeker: He starts off as this after a trigger-happy Peacekeeper kills his brother, but casts it off after learning his opponent in the final two, Lothar, is a Serial Killer. At that point Ron realizes he has to win, or else Lothar will continue to plague Panem with impunity.
• Everyone Has Standards: Essentially why he won his Games despite being a Death Seeker for the vast majority of them. When the only other option for Victor is an established Serial Killer, it was either win or let a bunch of innocents die along with him. Ron, understandably, chose the former.
• Foregone Conclusion: His Chapter ends during his final match with Lothar, and given how Ron's a Victor, it's clear he won.
• Heroic BSoD: Courtesy of his Senseless Sacrifice, he spends almost all his Games in this state and only starts to recover when he understands how Axe-Crazy Lothar is.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Among the Victors who stayed behind in the Mentors' room to let the others escape.
• Kill Tally: Two - The girl from Six and the boy from Three (Lothar).
• The Lost Woods: His games took place in a dark forest with purple mist and fog.
• Senseless Sacrifice: He volunteers to save his brother's life — only for the Peacekeepers to gun said brother in front of him a few seconds later. Later became zigzagged, when his entry in the Games is implied to have been what prevented Lothar from winning.
• Switching P.O.V.: His chapter switches between his POV and ruthless Serial Killer Lothar, who serves as Ron's final opponent.

Annie Cresta (70th Games Victor)

• Bubblegloop Swamp: Her Games were in a wetland with a massive dam.
• Broken Bird: Snapped after her district partner, Swell, was beheaded in front of her.
• Cute Clumsy Girl: How she first started out as, and a reason she loved Finnick was because he didn't mind that.
• Kill Tally: Two - the girl from Two and the girl from Seven.
• O.C. Stand-in: Introduced as Finnick's love interest and previous Victor. Her chapter greatly expands on her character, like how she's a mail girl and how her romance with Finnick began.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: She's deeply traumatized by her Games.
• Someone to Remember Him By: As in canon, her son, named Sinbad here.
• Teacher/Student Romance: Her relationship with Finnick has shades of this, as he was her mentor during her Games.

Fallen Tributes

Wave "Knifey" Igliak and Pearl "Punchy" Pinto (28th Hunger Games)

• Alliterative Name: Pearl Pinto.
• Does Not Like Spam: Pearl's trivia fact is how she cannot stand sushi despite coming from District Four.
• Emotionless Girl: Pearl does not get a reaction from killing other tributes during the Games, Ratchet Park (the District Three girl) committing suicide in front of her, or the siren mutts attacking her allies. Subverted near the end of the Games where she screams and feels afraid after a siren mutt claws her.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Teff kills Wave 1 minute and 35 seconds into the bloodbath.

Starboard Neverland and Shipwreck Fischbach (42nd Hunger Games)

• Meaningful Name: Shipwreck's last name means "fish stream" in German.
• Mercy Kill: Getafix slashes the back of Starboard's neck after she falls into the acid river and pleads for a mercy kill.
• Only in It for the Money: Starboard volunteers so she can get the funding to ensure her dad can walk again.
• Pædo Hunt: Implied with Shipwreck. He is described to "like and love them younger". He knows a friend who can source people who can "satisfy his desires" and "could hardly wait".
• Slain in Their Sleep: Subverted. 30 minutes after going to sleep, Shipwreck wakes up to a slashed throat and sees Spool before choking on his own blood.

Guppy Charles, Beach Pekali, Dylan Keen, and Rod Blacktide (50th Hunger Games)

• Doomed by Canon: It's clear that Haymitch won the Hunger Games, meaning that it's not if they die but when and how.
• O.C. Stand-in: In Catching Fire, Katniss and Peeta notice that the tribute placing fourth in the 50th Hunger Games died from combat. Rod is that tribute where he is decapitated by Patric from District Eight.
• The Rival: Rod becomes one to Patric from District Eight over who would use the sword training station first.

Urchin (74th Hunger Games)

• Related in the Adaptation: Urchin is Finnick's nephew.
• Vote Early, Vote Often: Implied. It's not unusual for relatives of victors (such as Urchin) to enter the arena.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Urchin does not survive the bloodbath.

District 5

In General

• Theme Naming: Being the district of power, several people have electric and mechanical related names (Wattzon, Winch, Sparks, Neon)

Shunt Gaspar (12th Games Victor)

• Cope by Pretending: He soothed his nerves about being Reaped by picturing himself as The Hero in a fantasy adventure, and encourages Bernadette to see herself as a princess.
• Darkhorse Victory: He was that scrawny, bespectacled nerd obsessed by fantasy — and gifted with the knowledge to build a flamethrower.
• Failure Hero: Not only he loses Bernadette, killing tributes with his flamethrower is pretty nasty and pushes him to wonder if he's actually a Villain Protagonist.
• The Insomniac: Would survive on three hours of sleep at night.
• Lady and Knight: Saw himself as the Shining Knight to Bernadette's Bright Lady. After losing her, he very much blackens.
• Massive Numbered Siblings: The eldest of six children. As he took tesserae for them, it raised his odds to be Reaped.
• Murder by Mistake: He was poisoned by champagne thanks to Snow at Librae's victory party, but it was actually meant for Isobel.
• Primal Fear: His Arena is covered in absolute darkness. Shunt got the advantage as his insomnia means he's unbothered by the lack of light.
• Playing with Fire: Dude built a flamethrower, and is noted to be the first tribute to have wielded fire in the Arena.
• Rescue Romance: Downplayed with Bernadette, as he saves her from two other tributes, deems her his "princess" and later gets his first kiss from her.
• The Storyteller: Had a gift for writing fantasy. After winning his Games, he became an acclaimed and extremely popular novelist.
• Survival Mantra: "Heroes don't die." Of course, after watching Bernadette die and having to slaughter several other teens in a rather gruesome way, Shunt wonders if heroes are real at all.

Isobel Sparks (18th Games Victor)

• Boom, Headshot!: How she met her end courtesy of the Grim after Porter's Games.
• Greater-Scope Paragon: As the one who first inspired her fellow Victors to put a stop to the Games.
• Mugging the Monster: The career pack believes the short, unarmed girl is going to be an easy kill — and she demonstrates she doesn't need a weapon to slaughter four of them.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: She wasn't exactly what you would call tall at five feet flat. She also was a karate master able to take on the whole career pack.
• Rebel Leader: The one who first thought about destroying the Capitol's tyranny.
• Straight Gay: Used to have a female lover named Keen — turned into an Avox for Isobel not being fully supportive of Snow's tyranny.
• Together in Death: For attempting to poison Snow, she's shot in the head by the Grim alongside her lover who had been turned into an Avox.
• Vengeance Feels Empty: When Districts have to vote a tribute into the Arena for the First Quarter Quell, Isobel picks the drug dealer responsible for her baby cousin's overdose. However, she admits her cousin freely bought the drugs, death is death, and watching the girl be slaughtered doesn't make feel her better.

Crimson Flanders (29th Games Victor)

• And I Must Scream: She was prevented from killing herself to escape her misery by the Capitol threatening to murder her family.
• Broken Bird: Years of being the Capitol's whore did no favors on her sanity. It's why she voted for the Capitol Games as she sees it at punishment for them.
• The Dog Bites Back: Personally kills Bronze for all the suffering she gave him.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: After decades of being exploited by the Capitol (and Bronze) as a Sex Slave in order to keep her family alive, Crimson gives Bronze a well-deserved Cruel and Unusual Death, survives the rebellion, gets revenge on the Capitol via Capitol Punishment, and spends the rest of her life reconnecting with her remaining family members.
• Kill Tally: Two - The boy from One (Marble) and one unknown.
• The Maze: Her Games took place in a concrete maze.
• Older Than They Look: Kept youthful and perky through plastic surgery, yet another torment for her since it forces her to remain a Sex Slave.
• Prone to Tears: She spends a lot of time weeping in the narrative, as she's forced to see the kids she mentored gruesomely murdered in the arena or is sexually abused by depraved perverts.
• Sex Slave: The whole reason the Victors' prostitution ring was started was because Bronze wanted to have his way with her, and he did. As she says to Katniss, she was "the original Finnick".
• So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Turned in a Sex Slave for a bit less than fifty years old. It drove her to lament her looks, since she wouldn't have suffered that much if Bronze hadn't fell in lust with her.

Porter Tripp (38th Games Victor)

• Abusive Parents: Before they died, her family apparently threw a fit when she "complained" and contributed to her mutism.
• Bond One-Liner: Before she drowns her ex, she tells him "I'm breaking up with you."
• Domestic Abuse: Her ex-boyfriend, Fisher, was abusive to her, which eventually motivated her to secretly flee to District Five to escape him. Unfortunately, they met again when both were Reaped for the 38th Hunger Games...
• Heroic Sacrifice: Died destroying the dam in District Five during the Rebellion.
• Jurisdiction Friction: When she won, Snow distributed food to District Four as this was the place where she was born, even if she was living in District Five when she was Reaped.
• Odd Name Out: The narration explicitely points her name didn't originate from District Five — that's because she was born in District Four.
• The Quiet One: Often described as "mute" and "silent". She's officially diagnosed with selective mutism after years of mistreatment when she opened her mouth.
• Rescue Romance: Meets her Second Love Dezz as she stumbles upon him heavily beaten in the streets, and brings him to the hospital. His grateful family invites her to live with them, and the rest is history.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When her boyfriend Fisher hits her harder than usual after losing money betting on Beetee's Games, she finally concludes he ain't worth it and escapes in the night, jumping on a train to District Five.
• Shoot the Shaggy Dog Story: Apparently had Abusive Parents, was reduced to pickpocket wallets in order to survive in the streets, fell into a relationship with a complete scumbag who beat her when he was in a bad mood, and when she escapes in another District and fall in love with a much nicer boy, she's Reaped with him, forced to watch her Psycho Ex-Boyfriend slaughter him, and left with spinal damage and a broken heart. Yeowch.
• Sickeningly Sweethearts: As the Head Gamemaker decided marrying the tributes would be awesome, Porter and her boyfriend Dezz fully rolled with the idea and spent a lot of time in the Arena acting as if they were on honeymoon.
• Star-Crossed Lovers: Decades before Katniss and Peeta, there were Porter and Dezz. Unlike Katniss and Peeta, their story never got a happy ending.

Neon Erg (48th Games Victor)

• Bring My Brown Pants: Pisses himself as he realizes that yes, the female tributes really didn't enjoy his sexual harrassment and are now bent on gutting him messily.
• Descent into Addiction: After winning his Games, he sought to drown the trauma from all the female tributes ganging against him by drinking to excess.
• Kill Tally: Two - the boy from One and the boy from Ten.
• Never My Fault: As he's desperately running for his life, he complains it's unfair for him to be punished when girls are so hot that he needs to grope them.
• O.C. Stand-in: District Five's male tribute in the Third Quarter Quell, and he attacked Katniss first due to his fear of women.
• Screams Like a Little Girl: Well, more like a little kid who just breathed helium — and that's a pretty understandable reaction when a dozen girls are baying for your blood.
• Switching P.O.V.: His chapter switches between the events of his games and what's going on with Pliny, Vercingetorix, and Duke.
• Trauma Button: After being chased by every female tribute in his Games, including his own District Partner, he turned from a pervert to a boy with severe gynephobia. This is also the reason he puked over the sword training station during the Quarter Quell, since it was their weapon of choice.

Wattzon Holmes (55th Games Victor)

• Butt-Monkey: Is constantly mocked in his childhood, making him the misanthropist he was by the time of the reaping. When he's reaped, he's jeered by the rest of District Five.
• Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: After meeting Arendellian, he's quite focused on keeping her happy and calm.
• Commonality Connection: He grows so protective of Arendellian because nobody believes she will make it, just like everyone assumed he would die.
• Darkhorse Victory: He was deemed "the most useless tribute", with Panem as a whole betting against his survival — so when he won against the odds, Eunicia won a small fortune that allowed her to pay for her daughter's cancer treatment.

• Friendless Background: Universally loathed by his District, he only started to find positive relationships in the Capitol with the Trinkett family and his fellow Victors. Following the Second Rebellion, he flat-out abandons District Five as he's not forced to live there anymore and Arendellian is dead.
• Hailfire Peaks: The arena of his Games is circular and divided into two halves — one side is a frozen forest with lakes and glaciers, and the other side is "a scorched wasteland of steam geysers, lava and endless fire".
• Hates Everyone Equally: He hates everyone equally due to his past of being universally hated in District Five. He tells everyone in District Five when reaped that he hates them as well, tells the Careers to stop wasting their time mocking him because he heard their insults already, unsuccessfully tries to shoo Trevy away, and thinks that Capitolians have disgusting mannerisms. Subverted when he meets Eunicia and Effie during his Victor party, because they reassure him that not everyone hates him.
• Insult Backfire: A lifetime of ostracism by his District left him utterly numb to the career pack's attempt to verbally intimidate him.
• The Jinx: Part of why his District despised him so much before he was reaped, since people wouldn't stop having accidents when he was around.
• Kill Tally: Just one: the boy from One.
• Like Brother and Sister: With Arendellian. He's devastated to say the least after her death in the Third Quarter Quell.
• Madden Into Misanthropy: A lifetime of being pushed around, despised and scapegoated for every mishap in the neighbourhood caused him to develop in a bitter, cynical teen who thinks everybody is rotten and disgusting, and he throws himself into that lot. He softens a smidge after meeting Trevy, but truly breaks out of this mindset when Eunicia praises him for winning and allowing her to cure her daughter's cancer.
• Maternal Death? Blame the Child!: The reason why his father and brother loathed him, to the point they didn't even try to complain when he was reaped.
• Memetic Loser: In-universe, he gains a reputation for being the "most useless tribute" where he's memed by the public.
• Odd Friendship: With Dragon and Augustus.
• Straight Gay: It's mentioned he has a husband, Clarkson.
• Switching P.O.V.: Half of the chapter is from his POV, the other half from the mother who bet on his victory to save her daughter's life.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: He was hated his whole life by everybody out of sheer unluckiness, until he meets Eunicia who actually thanks him for surviving his Games, since betting on his victory gave her the money to cure her daughter's cancer. He actually tears up when introduced to the little girl.
• Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing: Spent most of the Games being a Death Seeker and when he was being chased by the only other remaining tribute he collapsed in exhaustion due to his metal armor making him suffer from dehydration. From there, Wattzon simply kicks the pained boy into the lava below.

Arendellian Spinner III (57th Games Victor)

• Achievements in Ignorance: Courtesy of her schizophrenia, Arendellian has no idea whatsoever she has been reaped for the Games and spends them believing she's playing a holo-game.
• Affectionate Nickname: Called Dell by her Imaginary Friend Aaron and her surrogate older brother Wattzon.
• Darkhorse Victory: Wattzon laments nobody will ever believe she has the slightest chance to win... then remembers people told that about him too, and decides to not lose hope. Sure enough, thanks to some smart thinking on his end, she wins!
• Dead Guy Junior: Named after two relatives who died in previous Hunger Games.
• Hates Being Touched: She will scream and hit you if you touch her. Her stylist is so pissed over her doing that, he sends her in the arena wearing a straitjacket — and accidentally allows her to survive by retaining more body heat since it's freezing. It also makes for a poignant moment when Wattzon comes to bring her home and she hugs him for several hours.
• Imaginary Friend: Aaron, a rather mischievous boy who constantly races her — and always win — and seems to be an outlet for her anger and stress as he often threatens to set what upset her on fire.
• Kill Tally: One - The boy from Two (Pluto).
• Meaningful Name: Survives her Games when almost everyone else freezes to death. Guess the cold never bothered her anyway.
• Mistaken for Badass: Dragon swoons when he watches her wearing a straightjacket in the arena, believing she's actually a Challenge Seeker giving herself a handicap worse than his own.
• O.C. Stand-in: Was District Five's female tribute in the Third Quarter Quell, where she is killed by a wave.
• The Ophelia: Living in her own little world with her Imaginary Friend Aaron courtesy of her schizophrenia, and when you're not pushing her triggers, she's rather sweet and gentle in an absentminded way.
• Serendipitous Survival: Arguably even more so than Snag, as she doesn't even know what the Hunger Games are and just thinks she is on vacation. She ends up having to go into the arena in a straitjacket thanks to her racist stylist, and the only advice Wattzon can give her is to tell her that she is playing a holo-game where she needs to keep from the other tributes as long as possible. In literally any other Games, she would've gotten killed; luckily for her, her Games is the one that has all conditions that she needed to win.
• Slippy-Slidey Ice World: Her Games took place in the freezing cold of Alaska.
• Third Time's The Charm: Zigzagged. She's is the third Arendellian Spinner to enter the Games, and the only one to come home as a Victor. However, the Games end up killing her like her predecessors anyway thanks to the Quarter Quell.
• Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing: Her Games in a nutshell. Due to the cold weather impeding the tributes and no sponsor gifts able to arrive due to the hovercraft being destroyed by the blizzard machines, most of the tributes died freezing to death. After Arendellian accidentally kills the only remaining Career who was still killing tributes (due to believing there were still sponsors), murder in the Games stops all together and she outlasts the other tributes thanks to her straitjacket.

Fallen Tributes

• Better to Die than Be Killed: The tributes from Beetee's Games both step off the pedestal early as an act of defiance to the Capitol.
• Driven to Suicide: Winch decides to step off her pedestal before the gong rings rather than become a Sex Slave.
• Together in Death: Khole and Watts got married before they went into the 2nd Quarter Quell together and died in there.

District 6

In General

• Crazy Enough to Work: All the Victors won like this:
  • Chassis brought down the arena with one kick. He was the only tribute that survived — because he had a metal bucket for a helmet and fell into an air pocket.
  • Bentley managed to survive all the way to the Top 4 without killing anyone, rapping his way into the Capitol's hearts and winning sponsors (a rarity for outlier districts such as District Six). He won because he caused an avalanche that killed his last three competitors... by complete accident.
  • Porsche carefully studied the train tracks of the arena, tricked the Gamemakers into calling a feast for the Career pack by constantly stealing their supplies (using her camouflage skills to hide within their camp), and rerouted several trains straight into the feast — and the Career pack.
  • Numi tricked the criminal alliance and Career pack into riding sabotaged minecarts along a set of rails that only she knew the safe path through, then ran around on a car tyre and took out the last Career standing.
• Grease Monkey: Growing up in District Six means most people have mechanic knowledge.
• Vehicular Theme Naming: Being the district of transport, several people after famous cars and brands (Bentley, Porsche, Ford, Herbie)

Chassis Macalister (31st Games Victor)

• Face Death with Dignity: After his cancer came back before the 71st Games, he chose to participate in one last demolition derby and died in it instead.
• History Repeats: He was related to Chev, the boy Olga couldn't kill in her Games, and was Reaped the same year as Olga's nephew Boris volunteered so everybody expected for their confrontation. However, it's completely subverted when Chassis destroys the Arena with a single kick, never even facing Boris in battle.
• Intergenerational Friendship: With the middle-aged Captain Abe, whom he credits for giving him good survival advice and later invites to participate in his derby rallies.
• Living Legend: Went down into history as the guy who won his Games in six hours top. Years after his exploit, Katniss and Peeta are marveling over his speedrun.
• Non P.O.V. Protagonist: His Games are told from the eyes from Captain Abe, a Capitolian Peacekeeper who's been standing as District Six's Mentor due to lack of Victors at the time.
• Your Mom: As he learned Boris likely would do his utmost to kill him because of his relation to Chev, Chassis did his best to enrage the career by constantly dropping "yo mama" jokes.

Bentley Corduroy (54th Games Victor)

• Actual Pacifist: He really wanted to win without having to kill, and is overjoyed when he believes he was successful. Learning he accidentally triggered a landslide that killed three people causes his Descent into Addiction.
• Cassandra Truth: Accused from being a liar as he tries to unveil himself as DJ Concord Z, since he always was performing in a fully covering costume.
• Descent into Addiction: Turned to morphling when he discovered he accidentally killed three people.
• Hope Spot: He believed he won his Games without killing anyone, only to be informed his rapping had triggered a landslide and killed three people.
• Kill Tally: Three by accident.
• Naughty by Night: Before his Reaping, Bentley was known as this daydreaming, shy and borderline hopeless teen on his workplace, and as the highly talented and charismatic rapper DJ Concord Z when he performed in the evenings.
• O.C. Stand-in: He's the District Six male tribute for the Third Quarter Quell.
• Popularity Power: Decides to win the Capitol's heart by revealing his rapper identity of DJ Concord Z, a minor celebrity in District Six.
• Rebuilt Pedestal: Numi was heartbroken to learn her idol had fallen into morphling addiction and depression following his Games, but nonetheless insists for him to mentor her. Bentley honours her trust by getting sober in order to not disappoint a genuine fan.
• Slippy-Slidey Ice World: His Games took place in a snowy tundra.

Porsche London (56th Games Victor)

• Functional Addict: She's actually thinking better when she gets a shot of morphling.
• Master of Disguise: When she paints her skin, nobody is able to see her unless she decides to be noticed.
• Locomotive Level: Her Games take place in a train yard.
• Naked People Are Funny: Well, she does have a pretty good reason to wander without a stitch of clothing since it enhances her camouflage, but people realistically feel awkward on the matter. And after her Games, she didn't lose the habit.
• Non P.O.V. Protagonist: Her Games are told from the eyes of the head Gamemaker at the time, Odysseus Toot.
• O.C. Stand-in: She's the District Six female tribute for the Third Quarter Quell.
• Stealth Expert: Almost gave the Gamemakers a stroke by posing as a golden statue for hours when she was evaluated. And in the Arena, the careers are unable to find her as she blends with her surroundings.

Numi Marrolto (72nd Games Victor)

• Ascended Fangirl: Huge fan of Bentley's music, who successfully mentors her to victory. He also gave her the idea for her stage name.
• Break the Cutie:
  • As she's first sold as a Sex Slave to a very depraved Capitolian, she's obviously on the verge of losing it and only avoids a full-blown breakdown due to Finnick's presence and support.
  • Then by the Third Quarter Quell, she loses Bentley to the Games, her parents die during the rebellion, and she’s separated from her sister.
• Double Standard: Rape, Female on Female: Averted — she was raped on half a dozen different opportunities by a female Capitolian, and it's portrayed as nothing short of horrific.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Numi is widely held as ditzy and reckless while her twin sister Nuvi is more of a worrywart and ambitions to become District Six's mayor one day. The sisters are nonetheless very close to each other.
• Girlish Pigtails: She wears her hair in pigtails on her Victory picture, and she's also rather bubbly and a smidge immature.
• Kill Tally: Seven - The boy from Ten (Oxford), the boy from Eleven (Shovel), the girl from One (Glamour), the pair from Two, the girl from Eight (Patchwork), and the boy from One (Komodo).
• Mixed Ancestry Is Attractive: She's mentioned to be from Korean and Indian descent — and it unfortunately means she's a very exotic Sex Slave in the Capitol.
• Rollercoaster Mine: Her Games took place in a canyon with mine cart rails, which she used to her advantage to take out the criminal alliance.
• Sole Survivor: The last District Six Victor to still be alive.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: Reunited with her sister Nuvi in the epilogue after spending months freaking over the possibility of Nuvi dying in the Second Rebellion.

Fallen Tributes

• Better to Die than Be Killed: Chev willingly poisons himself to spite Olga and deprive her from the opportunity to kill one tribute from every District.
• Big Sister Worship: Honda got quickly attached to Mercy, and deemed her "best career ever" in her last moments.
• I Am a Humanitarian: Titus was this. It's later revealed he was injected by something on orders of the head Gamemaker at the time, who always held a grudge against District Six.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Chev denying Olga her "perfect" victory drove her to egg her tributes to slaughter the District Six tributes as soon as the bloodbath, causing a thirty years long drought of Victors for them.

District 7

In General

• Theme Naming: The wood themed district people have forest related names (Bloom, Logger, Leaf, Fir)

Pliny Aransio (2nd Games Victor)

• Achievements in Ignorance: Slept through most of her Games and training, and her one kill is a Mercy Kill.
• Actual Pacifist: She would have succeeded in having a full Pacifist Run if the boy from Five hadn't begged her for a Mercy Kill. Cupid expresses deep admiration for her because of that.
• Beneath Suspicion: Capitolians openly discussed important matters when she was in the room because she was always asleep so that wasn't like she could hear them — except when she was faking...
• Doomed by Canon: Due to Johanna being the only living female Victor of District Seven at the time of the Quarter Quell.
• Heavy Sleeper: She managed to nap in a saw mill. Orion was incredulous when he read this tidbit in her file.
• Kill Tally: One - the boy from Five (Shocker).
• Life Will Kill You: Passed of old age shortly after Johanna's Games.
• Mercy Kill: The heavily injured District Five male begged her to put an end to his misery, so she slipped him some poison.
• Non P.O.V. Protagonist: Her chapter is told from the eyes of Orion, the former president of Panem until Snow came into power.
• Obfuscating Disability: She exploited her narcolepsy by pretending to nap around important Capitol officials, allowing her to spy at her heart's content and feed information to the fledgeling rebellion.
• Sleepyhead: Her most infamous trait. In her case, it's justified by her being a narcoleptic — she genuinely cannot help it.
• Stealth Expert: Her strategy boiled down to hide in a chest with food and water, and she teaches her tributes to run away and not being seen.

Fir Buzz (9th Games Victor)

• Blithe Spirit: She loved making people laugh and very much brightened District Seven with her comedy act.
• Doomed by Canon: Due to Johanna being the only living female Victor of District Seven at the time of the Quarter Quell.
• Go Out with a Smile: Played one final prank on Johanna before passing on.
• Greater-Scope Paragon: Her influence among the District Seven Peacekeepers made her this for said District, as she prevented them from growing too rowdy, and they later protected Snag and his family in her memory.
• The Greatest Story Never Told: She actually was born in District Thirteen, but as her parents died in the wilderness and she was unable to remember them, nobody ever learned her true origin.
• Happily Adopted: Was basically raised by the leader of the Peacekeeper patrol who found her in the woods. When he's gunned down in front of her, she's devastated.
• Life Will Kill You: Passed away of old age shortly before Katniss and Peeta were reaped for their games.
• Popularity Power: Her comedy act in the Arena was enjoyed by the Capitol when the slaughter wasn't ongoing, ensuring she wouldn't be eliminated by the Gamemakers.
• Pungeon Master: Loves making a good joke.
• Riddle for the Ages: In-Universe, Panem was unable to solve the mystery of why a nine year old girl would have been lost in the District Seven's woods in spite of their best efforts.
• This Is Unforgivable!: Even the cheery Fir couldn't bear to forgive Logger for what he did to little Bloom.

Jack Tylos (21st Games Victor)

• The Artful Dodger: Before he Got Volunteered, he was stealing wallets in the streets to avoid starvation.
• Commonality Connection: Immediately sees through Johanna's wimpy crybaby act and declares he likes her, from a con man to a con woman. They became best friends after she won her Games.
• Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: Trolled the Capitol hard by revealing he was forced into volunteering by the Chief Peacekeeper and outrageously cheating his way to Victory. President Orion retaliated by slaughtering his friend and Mentor Fir's Parental Substitute alongside several teens in front of him when he went back to District Seven.
• Got Volunteered: He tried to steal the Chief Peacekeeper's wallet only to get caught. After that, it was getting hanged, having a bullet shot in his head, or volunteering for the Games.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Among the Victors who stayed behind in the Mentors' room to let the others escape.
• I Gave My Word: As Snag is fretting about one of his daughters being Reaped somewhere in the future, Jack promises to rob the biggest bank in the Capitol to sponsor his friend's kid if it has to pass. Eleven years after the promise, Bloom Nakamura is Reaped — and the Capitol reports a bank robbery.
• Intergenerational Friendship: Immediately hit it off with Fir, who won twelve years before him. Unfortunately, the Capitol noticed and since Jack had no living family or other acquaintances for them to hurt, they punished Fir by gunning her adoptive father down.
• It's All My Fault: Poor guy didn't take it well that his trolling of the Capitol drove them to retaliate by murdering his Mentor's beloved adoptive father and several youths in front of him and Fir.
• Loophole Abuse: He couldn't directly sponsor his tributes, but he could steal a load of money, send it to his friends of the black market and get it back later as "donations".
• Shifting Sand Land: His Games took place in a desert with tar pits.
• Sticky Fingers: Infamous for being a "master thief", and won his Games with a taser he smuggled into the Arena from a Peacekeeper.
• Taking You with Me: After he Got Volunteered, he cheerfully exposed the Chief Peacekeeper as the man behind his decision and the reason why. Orion was rather pissed about having to sign on the man's arrestation but since the accusation had been broadcasted for all Panem to hear, he didn't have much of a choice.

Snag Nakamura (34th Games Victor)

• A Birthday, Not a Break: Was Reaped on his 14th birthday.
• Anguished Declaration of Love: After being Reaped, he asks to write in his journal one last time and creates a thank you letter to his friends and family, along with a love confession to his crush Paisley Wendell, wishing he could've said it sooner. Subverted later when he survived his Games and they get together.
• Apologetic Attacker: Apologizes to his opponent in the arena before he lands the killing blow.
• Badass on Paper: He survived his Games out of sheer luck, when all the other Tributes got blown up and the last fighter left was too heavily wounded to be a threat to him.
• Darkhorse Victory: Had a training score of one due to suffering from cystic fibrosis that left him unable to walk. Somehow, though, he made it out alive due to one Gamemaker's mistake of having grenades as the only weapon available at the Bloodbath.
• Face Death with Dignity: Fully expected to die in the Games, only to make it out alive.
• Kill Tally: Just one: the boy from Five (Ramirez)
• Happily Married: After returning home, he eventually got married to Paisley and had kids.
• Properly Paranoid: Shares his fears that one of his daughters will be Reaped with Jack as the Second Quarter Quell is about to start. Eleven years later, his youngest Bloom is sent into the Arena, to his complete horror.
• Outliving One's Offspring: His youngest daughter, Bloom, was reaped for the 61st Games and killed by her District Partner, Logger. It's why he votes for the Capitol Games.
• Serendipitous Survival: Chose to run away from the Cornucopia in his wheelchair as he knows he'll be dead either way, which was a good choice as the girl from Six dropped one of the hand grenades stored there, causing a massive explosion. Most of the tributes died in the blast and the rest gravely injured, while he remained unscathed. From there, the survivors succumbed to their injuries and when there was only one other left, he was wounded enough that Snag could take him out in a fair fight.
• Single Sex Offspring: Had four daughters with his childhood sweetheart Paisley.
• Switching P.O.V.: His chapter switches between the POV of him, his parents, and the head Gamemaker at the time.

Blight Jordan (53rd Games Victor)

• An Arm and a Leg: Gets his left hand sliced off as he foolishly approaches the obviously hostile District Eleven male to suggest an alliance between them.
• Bee Afraid: His chapter is about the five times he got stung by tracker jackers.
• Forest of Perpetual Autumn: His Games took place in a forest stuck in endless autumn.
• The Gadfly: Noted to be an infamous prankster who wouldn't stop needling and teasing everybody he met.
• O.C. Stand-in: The District Seven male tribute for the 3rd Quarter Quell.

Logger Barlow (61st Games Victor)

• Black Sheep: The Barlow family had been known for being nice, relatively brave people for three generations when he was born. They quickly got ashamed and disgusted of him for his uselessness and cowardliness.
• Darkhorse Victory: Literally all of Panem wanted to see another tribute win but him. Their prayers weren't answered.
• Dirty Coward: Will sell anybody to the drop of a hat if he thinks it will save his skin. As a consequence, his Districy deemed him utterly untrustworthy, and his own family disowned him.
• Hated by All: Absolutely nobody among the Victors could stand him. Even Mascara got some pity as a Tragic Monster, but him? Nothing but contempt.
• Inelegant Blubbering: Would sob and pathetically beg to be rescued every time he thought his life was threatened. It made him massively impopular compared to Bloom, who was twelve years old and a girl yet much braver.
• Karmic Death: Is beaten by a group that included Bloom's older sister, who then tie him to a tree and leave him at the mercy of wolf mutts that eat him alive.
• Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: When he's catched by the rebels, he blurts everything he knows about the Capitol's defences in order to plead for his life. Aware of how much of a useless trash and a liability he is, the group then leaves him to be devoured by wolf mutts.
• Switching P.O.V.: His chapter switches focus between his Games and what's happening with Librae.
• Would Hurt a Child: Hacked twelve years old Bloom Nakamura to pieces until she wasn't recognizable as human.

Johanna Mason (71st Games Victor)

• Country Matters: It's her favorite curse word, and her chapter is about seven times she called someone that.
• Crazy-Prepared: Actually had different plans every year for when she would be eventually reaped. Pretending to be weak and pathetic was just her latest one when she was reaped.
• Fake Weakness: As in canon, she faked being a crybaby for most of the games then revealed her true colors once there were only a few tributes left.
• I Shall Taunt You: Personally went to Snow to inform him about Coin's plan for a final Hunger Games and how his granddaughter will be dying there. She took great pleasure at seeing his horrified face.
• Kill Tally:
  • In her games, four - the girl from One, the boy from Five, the boy from Eight, and the girl from Eleven.
  • In the Quarter Quell, one - Cashmere.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives one to the District One female tribute before killing her, saying how she wasted her life training to win only to die and just to be forgotten.
• Thirsty Desert: Her Games took place in a rather sandy arena with unbearable heat that drove most of the Tributes insane and caused others to die from dehydration.
• Uptight Loves Wild: In the epilogue, she's invited to dance by the very self-effaced Spud and actually accepts. It's later confirmed their relationship is progressing nicely.

Fallen Tributes

• Bungled Suicide: Acorn and Bushel tried to die the way Amp did, but the Capitol had learned from that time and had a force field installed.

District 8

In General

• Theme Naming: Some of the people have clothing related names due to working with textiles (Nylon, Patchwork, Needle, Thread)

Woof Casino (16th Games Victor)

• Extreme Doormat: Used to follow every single order given to him, until he was ordered to stop.
• O.C. Stand-in: The District Eight tribute for the 3rd Quarter Quell.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: Committed rape on the last surviving tribute for all Panem to see. District Eight was overjoyed when Paige won her Games and gave them a Victor who wasn't a sexual offender, and more than fifty years later, people were still uneasy around him.
• Questionable Consent: His obedient nature is so extreme that it might verge on a mental handicap, so his true willingness to commit sexual assault is rather blurry. However, to Panem, he's just a rapist.
• The Quiet One: Partly because of his Extreme Doormat nature, partly because everyone hates him for being a rapist.

Paige Murphy (30th Games Victor)

• Be Yourself: Her partner encourages her to see herself as beautiful in spite of her anorexia, pointing she doesn't need to envy a female career's physical loveliness as she's a much kinder, morally superior person.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Blew herself up in a suicide charge to let some of the other Victors escape.
• Heroic Willpower: Stranded in a Level Ate and fighting her anorexia at every step to not let herself starve to death like the other tributes.
• Kill Tally: One - the boy from Seven (Wrenard)
• Level Ate: Her Games Arena is a massive beehive where all of the honey and honeycomb is edible, which most of the tributes are unfortunately never aware of and eventually start starving to death as a result. Casear commented it was like being locked in a supermarket and starving to death.
• Nervous Wreck: She's on the verge of having a meltdown and freaking out constantly, and that's before being Reaped. Being thrown in an arena in which she's forced to battle other kids and her anorexia doesn't help.
• Survival Mantra: Two of them — "I am what I am, and what I am is beautiful" and "It's better than dying". Constantly repeating the words to herself when in the arena.
• Victory by Endurance: When she discovers the arena is a Level Ate, Paige hides herself in a pit and waits for starvation and the bee mutts to slaughter the other tributes.

Spool Nylon (42nd Games Victor)

• Achievements in Ignorance: After the dust comes down, Tag cannot help but point his brother has just scammed the Capitol and got away with that — of course, that wasn't Spool's primary intent, he merely wanted to save his twin from dying in the Arena.
• Always Identical Twins: In his and Tag's case, it allows them to impersonate each other without the Capitol being the wiser as there's no physical way to differentiate them beyond the clothes.
• Bad Liar: Zigzagged as he was unable to convincingly claim there wasn't a romantic connection between him and Lammy, but he successfully fooled everybody into believing he was his own twin brother for more than three decades.
• Big Brother Instinct: He pulled a Twin Switch to save his brother from the Arena, and when Tag worries about being reaped again in his new "Spool" identity, Spool is ready to repeat the trick.
• Canon Immigrant: Was actually one of the author's SYOT for another story, Born To Die. He was aged to fit into the story.
• Cruel Mercy: Instead of killing Midas, he left him for dead as a crocodile mutt ate him alive, leaving him as just another dead tribute left forgotten.
• Ear Ache: Loses one ear in the fight that saw his ally Orinoco lose his life. It's implied it was later regrown as he claims the Capitol erased all his scars and he wouldn't be able to pull the Twin Switch yet again with such a distinctive mark.
• Everyone Has Standards: While he does admit the Capitol Games are satisfying as justice, he knew it was right to vote against them when he sees the families of the tributes who had their lives ruined.
• Fire-Forged Friends: Quickly grows close with his ally Orinoco, basically treating him as another brother.
• Guile Hero: Won by figuring out where to obtain water early on in the Games, keeping himself and his ally well-fed, screwing the Career alliance over, and stringing the boy from One along.
• The Greatest Story Never Told: Pulled the wool over the Capitol's eyes by impersonating his brother in the Games, and he could never tell under pain of retaliation. He considers keeping quiet after the Second Rebellion since it's been thirty-five years since he swapped identities, but Lammy persuades him to admit the truth.
• Imposter Forgot One Detail: As he greets Lammy, he happily reminds her of an opportunity in which she visited District Eight with her dad and met the Nylon twins. However, his insistence that he talked with her confuses Lammy, who remembers Tag was too shy to speak so Spool was the one who interacted with her. Oops.
• Kill Tally: Four tributes - The boy from Five (Vuller), the boy from Four (Shipwreck), the girl from One (Shine), and the girl from Ten (Mare).
• The Lost Woods: His Games took place in a dark forest full of acid rivers.
• Official Couple: With Lammy.
• Polar Opposite Twins: Tag was sensitive and shy to the point he sobbed and had an asthma attack when he was reaped, Spool was charismatic and a bit of a con artist. Paige actually comments on "Tag" having a personality entirely unlike what happened at the Reaping when she meets him aboard the train, and Lammy is able to guess his true identity because Tag's Shrinking Violet nature prevented him from greeting her.
• Sheep in Sheep's Clothing: The other Victors tended to be wary of "Tag" as they suspected him from hiding something — when his secret actually was the fact that he swapped places and identities with his brother.
• Sole Survivor: The last District Eight Victor to still be alive.
• Twin Switch: Swapped with his twin Tag so he wouldn't go into the Games and the truth remained hidden until the Victor Party.
• The Unchosen One: He never was properly Reaped nor properly volunteered, yet he nonetheless survived the Games.

Cecelia Mog (60th Games Victor)

• Beware the Nice Ones: A sweet, motherly woman beloved by the orphans she helped to raise. She's also a clinical pyromaniac and will set fire to the first green space she can find when she feels too stressed.
• Bubblegloop Swamp: Her Games took place in a swampland.
• Kill It with Fire: Because of her pyromania's influence, she turned her arena into an inferno and was responsible for eight tributes burning alive.
• Laughing Mad: After setting her arena on fire, she's cackling in such an unhinged way that one of the other orphans wonder if she has been replaced by a mutt.
• Morality Chain: Keeps her pyromaniac urges at bay by focusing on other children's care. She turns her arena in an inferno after losing her District partner, and having to watch the orphans she raised being thrown in the Games cause her to relapse several times.
• O.C. Stand-in: The District Eight female tribute for the 3rd Quarter Quell.
• Promotion to Parent: The other kids at her orphanage affectionately call her "Mama Cecelia", and when several of them are reaped in the following years, she's as horrified as if her own children were slaughtered.
• Pyromaniac: Unlike the common fictional depiction, Cecelia doesn't cause fires in order to feel sexual release — it's a stress outlet for her. When she's able to focus on raising children, she's perfectly calm and controlled — unfortunately, the Capitol won't stop pushing on her buttons by forcing her to watch these children reaped and slaughtered year after year, driving her to relapse time and again.
• Sex Slave: Mentioned by Finnick as one of his fellow victims of the Capitolian prostitution ring.
• Spared by the Adaptation: In Speak Not the Dead, Cecelia doesn't make an appearance in the fanfic. But during the post 126th Hunger Games party, Sock says to Beth that "Old Cecelia" says that most Victors don't enjoy attending post-Games parties. Makes sense as the Third Quarter Quell twist did not happen because of Katniss dying in her arena.
• Switching P.O.V.: Her Games are told from the journal entries of her and the orphans at the care home she grew up in. Along with these passages is Mizar's final letter for Gwenith before his passing.

Sock Northsilk (125th Games Victor)

• Children Forced to Kill: Twelve when she entered and won her Hunger Games.
• Kill Tally: Eight people - all six careers and both District 6 tributes.
• Younger Mentor, Older Disciple: Both of her district's tributes, Button Goose and Pleat Christmas, are fourteen and fifteen respectively.

Fallen Tributes

• Enfant Terrible: Lillian, who liked to peel the skin off her tributes.

Interim President Paylor

• The Needs of the Many: Her reasoning behind the Capitol Games.

District 9

In General

• Shrinking Violet: Except for Tabbock, all their Victors are deeply introverted and would rather lead a quiet life.
• Theme Naming: As the district of grains, some of the people have plant and bread related names (Rosebud, Teff, Loaf, Greener)

Mizar Aldjoy (1st Games Victor)

• Animal Motif: Regularly called a mouse.
• Dead Man Writing: Part of Cecelia's chapter is his final letter to Gwenith before he passed.
• Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Averted — having to sleep with a sponsor for her to pay enough money to save Gwenith's life is an horrific experience, for all his attempts to reassure himself that Gwenith's survival was more important.

• Good Samaritan: His yearly tradition in winter was to go out and distribute food and blankets to the homeless. That's how he met Laurel the winter before she was reaped.
• I Owe You My Life: When Gwenith accidentally saves his sister Maisie by volunteering, Mizar resolves here and now that she will make it home, going as far as selling his body to provide her an antidote.
• Jumped at the Call: Immediately agrees to join Alma Coin's fight when she secretly calls on his phone to inform him of District Thirteen's survival.
• Life Will Kill You: Dies of cancer around the 60th Games.
• Like Brother and Sister: Tells Gwenith in his final letter that he saw her as a sister just like how Maisie was to her.
• Parental Substitute: How Laurel came to see him, after he first saved her from starving in winter and later mentored her in her Games.
• Passing the Torch: Before dying, he handed the title of Rebel Leader over to Gwenith in his final letter to her.
• Rebel Leader: The second leader of the rebellious Victors.
• Shipper on Deck: His final letter to Gwenith states he sees her feelings for Bear and hopes they get together someday.
• So Proud of You: Expresses this feeling towards Bear for being a Reformed Bully who successfully repented for his violent youth and became a good man.

Gwenith Rosebud (13th Games Victor)

• Eye Scream: Loses one of her eyes in the Second Rebellion, but doesn't mind it as she likes her new eyepatch.
• Food Slap: Kills her first tribute in the Arena by stoning him with apples.
• Kill Tally: Two - the boy from Eight (Needle) and the boy from Seven (Bud).
• Nice Guy: A kind-hearted woman who does not seek vengeance in any sort of manner. She still tries to save Maraline, Kernelly, and Norette when they're all reaped in subsequent Hunger Games, despite them tricking her into volunteering for her Hunger Games. That's why she's named the new leader of the Second Rebellion and votes against the Capitol Games.
• Rebel Leader: The leader of the La Résistance Victors following Mizar's death.
• Sole Survivor: The last District Nine Victor to still be alive.
• Ship Tease: With Bear. They ultimately confess their feelings before the Victor Purge fully commences and share a Last Kiss as he holds off the forces in the Mentors' Room, which ultimately leads to his death. She comments at the Victor Party she wished they acted on their feelings sooner.

Teff Withers (28th Games Victor)

• Disability Immunity: Her deafness made her immune to the siren mutt, while the Career pack had no such immunity.
• Go Mad from the Isolation: Was stuck in dark caves for two weeks, and because she was deaf, she was deprived of the cannon sounds that would have let her know time was passing. When she finally emerges from her hideout, she's a shivering wreck.
• Handicapped Badass: Was deaf, but still won her games.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Among the Victors who stayed behind in the Mentors' room to let the others escape.
• Kill Tally: Three.
• Palmtree Panic: Her Arena was an ocean beach with a large cave.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: According to her uncle Mizar's journal, she could no longer stand the darkness and always snacks between meals, afraid of starving to death.

Laurel Flamsteel (36th Games Victor)

• Acquired Poison Immunity: She constantly made herself sick by eating poisonous plants out of sheer desperation to evade starvation. After a while, she gained some measure of resistance to their effects, allowing her to fool the career pack into swallowing poison.
• The Hermit: Was content to stay in her new house with all the food she could eat and regular visits from Mizar.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: A lot of Capitolians were disgruntled when she won, feeling she hadn't been flashy enough. It inspired Tabbock to commit his kills in a much more sadistic and memorable way.
• O.C. Stand-in: The District Nine female tribute for the 3rd Quarter Quell.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Her strategy of poisoning others would give many others ideas on how to use it... including Snow.
• Too Desperate to Be Picky: As she constantly faced starvation in the streets, Laurel stuffed herself with anything looking somewhat edible in her surroundings, such as when she partially consumed her own parade costume (made of genuine bread). It also allowed her to become semi-immune to poison, since her hunger drove her to eat poisonous plants.

Tabbock Summers (43rd Games Victor)

• Attention Whore: So much that he actively relished being publically flogged by a Peacemaker, since everybody was looking at him.
• Black Sheep: Unlike every District Nine Victor before him, Tabbock was quite self-centered and lacking qualms about hurting people to obtain what he wanted.
• Death by Irony: Katniss ruefully comments on Peeta making the Stage Magician disappear by drowning him.
• Lack of Empathy: He doesn't like hurting people, but he doesn't care either. If killing and torturing allows him to rake a bigger audience, that's what he's going to give to the Capitol.
• O.C. Stand-in: The District Nine male tribute for the 3rd Quarter Quell.
• Stage Magician: His gimmick for the Games, but he also genuinely did classical prestidigitation in order to gain fame and adoration among the Capitolians.

Blossom Underwood (98th Games Victor)

• Children Forced to Kill: Fifteen when she volunteered for her Games to escape her sacrifice.
• Cult Defector: Was part of a cult called "Fire Folk". After her cult wanted to sacrifice her for having red hair (an insult to their sun god), she volunteers for the Hunger Games.
• Hero of Another Story: Briefly describes her Hunger Games to Beth on the train ride to the Capitol.

Lisbeth "Beth" Trismegistus (126th Games Victor)

• Cult Defector: Beth grew up in "Village" where her parents make her pretend to summon fallen tributes for money. She volunteers for the Hunger Games and exposes her parents' scam in front of Panem.

Fallen Tributes

Trevy Vex (55th Games Tribute)

• The Artful Dodger: Used to be a street thief before he was Reaped, and used his cunning to switch places with an avox and hide in the sewers for two decades.
• Faking the Dead: Switched places with a Death Seeker avox before it was time to head into the arena, making him the only known non-Victor to survive their Games.
• Platonic Life-Partners: Two decades after their separation, he reappears to protect and hide Wattzon. It's even more notable since they barely had a few days to get to know each other.
• Properly Paranoid: Took Wattzon and his group of rebels to hide in the arena of Arendellian's Games because he didn't trust District Thirteen. Given Coin's true colors, he made a good choice.

District 10

In General

• Animal Theme Naming: Being the district of livestock, some of the people have animal and farm related names (Stallion, Pasture, Piggy, Chickadee)

Stallion March (26th Games Victor)

• Badass Bookworm: He worked in a library, was able to discuss macrobiology or the deeper themes in Lord of the Rings, and could easily lift a bench on which ten kids were sitting.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Among the Victors who stayed behind in the Mentors' room to let the others escape.
• Kill Tally: Three - the girl from Eleven, one unknown, and the boy from Two (Crash).
• Red Baron: Commonly known as "the Stampeder" or "the Bull" for the way he killed the other tributes.
• Southern Gentleman: Hailed from a District located in what used to be the South of the United States, and always nothing short of perfectly well-mannered. Unless you trigger his germ phobia.
• Terrified of Germs: A complete germaphobic and unfortunately for him, the arena is a gritty sewer.
• Trampled Underfoot: How he killed in the Arena, albeit by accident since he was panicking about the germs and asking for hygiene items.

Lammy Phyronix (40th Games Victor)

• Canon Immigrant: Like Spool, she was actually one of the author's SYOT for another story, The Youngest Among Us. She was also aged to fit into the story.
• Death Mountain: Her Games took place in a mountain range with rivers.
• Everyone Has Standards: Thinks Triumph didn't deserve to die the way he did, even though she thought he was the worst of the Careers.
• Fake Weakness: Faked being a crybaby during training so the Careers wouldn't think she was a threat at the Bloodbath.
• Kill Tally: Six as in the entire Career pack (in order of kills) - Coast (girl from Four), Triumph (boy from One), Spitfire (girl from Two), Candy (girl from One), Halibut (boy from Four), and Hermes (boy from Two).
• Like Parent, Like Child: Her father was a famous mutt hunter, and she put the skills she learned from him to good use in the Games.
• Official Couple: With Spool.
• Secret-Keeper: She was the only one outside of Spool's family to know about his Twin Switch prior to the Victor Party.
• Sole Survivor: The last District Ten Victor to still be alive.
• Switching P.O.V.: Her chapter are told from several different eyes: her District Partner during training, the Career Pack who are slowly picked off one by one to her traps, Stallion in the aftermath, and Lammy herself on the train home.
• Trap Master: Wins the Games by killing the entire Career Pack with carefully placed traps without them ever finding her since the first fifteen minutes.
• Underestimating Badassery: The Career Pack zeroed in on her and bullied her during training, ignoring her at the Bloodbath thinking she's weak prey. She proved them wrong when she killed them all without seeing another tribute since she fled.

Pasture Gallows (59th Games Victor)

• Beware the Silly Ones: Her clan practices a lot of baffling traditions — such as dressing like a sea cucumber — and her speech is quite colourful, but she's also the Victor who singlehandedly killed half the other tributes in her Games with nothing but her shoes.
• The Dead Have Names: As she's interviewed regarding Skinner's prowess in his Games, Pasture is rather annoyed by the reporter dismissing other tributes who just died in the Arena, as she can name them and remember a few tidbits like their hobbies.
• Dying Moment of Awesome: She fearlessly laughed when the Careers ganged against her in the third Quarter Quell, fully expecting she would join her ancestors in Heaven, and managing to poison Brutus before her end.
• The Dreaded: Her record for most kills in a single Hunger Games made her the stuff of legends, to the point that the Careers of the Third Quarter Quell specifically targeted her all at once because they were that terrified of her.
• Kill Tally: 12, the record for most kills.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Pasture Gallows, and considering she holds the record for killing the most tributes on her own...
• O.C. Stand-in: She was District Ten's female tribute for the Third Quarter Quell, and the reason she was cut down quickly by the Careers was due to her holding the kill record, making her a threat.
• Redheads Are Uncool: Her hair is described as a "fiery mane", and she's also constantly derided as a crazy hillbilly. Well, until she starts beating a dozen tributes to death with her shoe, firmly cementing her as crazy but badass and The Dreaded.
• Shoe Slap: Those who offend the Gallows family's honour and traditions are to be beaten to death with a shoe, which she did to all her victims.
• Shout-Out: She's basically a female version of Rolf from Ed, Edd n Eddy.
• Small Role, Big Impact: She wasn't around much for the Third Quarter Quell, but she managed to poison Brutus which left him weak enough for Peeta to kill him.

Skinner Alecto (69th Games Victor)

• Crippling Overspecialization: A peerless Hunter of Monsters, but when he wasn't trapping mutts or roaming around the countryside, Skinner was utterly hopeless and barely able to function. He was mainly left to his own devices for that.
• Face Death with Dignity: Before committing a Mutual Kill with the mutt he couldn't best in his Games, Skinner is nothing but composed and serene, having accepted he wouldn't grown old since he wasn't that kind of person but ready to leave the world with a bang.
• The Hermit: Before his Games, he lived on the fringes of his District, with people barely aware of his existence. After his Games, the Capitol left him in peace as his complete lack of social skills meant he couldn't charm his fans in a public setting and it was the easiest way to keep him content and occupied.
• Hidden Depths: For all his obsessive focus on mutt hunting and inability to connect with other human beings, the Third Quarter Quell reveals a more introspective side of him, as Skinner muses he would rather die young after doing a lot in his short life, allowing him to Face Death with Dignity.
• Hunter of Monsters: The greatest mutt hunter who ever graced Panem's landscape.
• Mutual Kill: With the Beast in the third Quarter Quell.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Skinner is already worrying, but he pairs that with Alecto, one of the Classical Myth Furies who would harass and torment sinners in the living world and Hell.
• No Social Skills: Hopelessly awkward and barely able to function in society after being raised in the wild, doing nothing but hunting mutts.
• O.C. Stand-in: He was District Ten's male tribute for the Third Quarter Quell.
• Switching P.O.V.: His chapter switches focus between him and the other Victors of Ten.
• Wild Child: As far as the District knows, Skinner has been raised entirely in the woods, focusing all his energy and skills on slaughtering mutts. It realistically left him unable to interact with other people in more than an extremely stilted manner, and he never truly integrated with society.

Fallen Tributes

District 11

In General

• Edible Theme Naming: Fitting the agriculture district, people have food and garden related names (Spud, Seeder, Apple, Plum)

Bear Redfoot (15th Games Victor)

• Badass Native: Mentioned to have Native American ancestry. He also won his Games in less than a hundred hours in spite of being poisoned, had the moral fortitude to turn his life around no matter how much of a monster he had been in his youth, and ultimately did a Heroic Sacrifice for the woman he loved.
• Bears Are Bad News: Very much a feral brute before he was Reaped, with Katniss and Peeta commenting he "certainly looks like a bear" as they observe his portrait. However, he decided to do a full 180 turn and became a much friendlier person.
• Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Served as this to Chaff alongside Seeder, providing the sensible, exasperated advice while Seeder gave the snarkier commentary.
• Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: Keeps antagonizing the other tributes and Capitolians after being Reaped, only for being injected with a slow acting poison that will kill him in a hundred hours right before he's launched in the arena. And that was the nice choice, as the Peacemakers asked for him to pick between the syringe or the bonesaw.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: The District One male taunts him by asking if his mother is ashamed of having him as a son. Cue Bear beating him to death — you don't talk shit about his ma.
• Hated by All: His District cheered when he was Reaped as they hoped he would die in the Arena, and his own partner tells him she doesn't care about being killed, she just will be happy as long as he loses his life. When he won, District Eleven was dismayed and booed him when he came back.
• Heel Realization: Feels guilt for the first time when his District partner Crow explains she will let him die because he's the reason why her baby brother starved to death.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Among the Victors who stayed behind in the Mentors' room to let the others escape.
• I Need a Freaking Drink: The more Chaff is goofing around and annoying everyone, the more Bear is ogling Seeder's wine bottle.
• Reformed Bully: After being traumatized by his Games, he put serious work in bettering himself and become the antithesis of the murderous, feral brute he used to be. He more than succeeded.
• Reformed, but Rejected: When Seeder won seventeen years after him, Bear was still despised by District Eleven in spite of discreetly using his Victor's money to do charity, his tributes outright spiting his advice to survive in the arena.
• Rejected Apology: As Crow lays dying, he chokes out he's sorry, only for her to hurl a Dying Declaration of Hate at him.
• Ship Tease: With Gwenith. They ultimately do confess before his death in the Rebellion.
• Teens Are Monsters: Very much a savage, murderous brute before his Reaping. It took serious trauma for him to grow out of this mindset.
• There Are No Therapists: Did his best to be an aversion for his fellow Victors.

Seeder Howell (33rd Games Victor)

• Arcadia: After the mess with Dollar's Games, her Arena is a simple fruit orchard to encourage fighting and spend less focus on survival.
• Big Sister Instinct: She volunteered to prevent a twelve year old girl to be Reaped as this year's tribute. Said girl and her family were deeply grateful.
• Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Served as this to Chaff alongside Bear, and is in sheer disbelief over the fact that Chaff actually won the Games.
• Fired Teacher: Worked her ass off to graduate as a teacher, but when she was given the opportunity to be a substitute for an history lesson, she couldn't stand the blatant propaganda and told the students what actually happened. She was immediately expelled and given a public flogging.
• Friendless Background: Nobody wanted anything to do with her after she publically called the Capitol on their propaganda in a classroom.
• I Need a Freaking Drink: Her reaction to Chaff's antics in the 45th Games. And she won't let Bear have any of her wine.
• Must Have Caffeine: She really wasn't happy when Chaff forced everyone awake at 6am and declared she would scream if deprived of coffee.
• Not a Morning Person: Very pissed off when Chaff forced everyone in the training center to wake up — at 6am.
• O.C. Stand-in: The District Eleven female tribute in Catching Fire.

Chaff Mitchell (45th Games Victor)

• Achievements in Ignorance: He killed two of his fellow tributes this way.
  • His first kill in the Games during the Cornucopia Bloodbath is Klink, the nudist activist from District 5. Ironically, Chaff wasn't trying to kill him, just force him to put on clothes.
  • He killed the boy from District 8 by calling him out while he was climbing a cliff and admonishing him for doing it without climbing gear, causing him to get distracted and fall to his death instead.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Sure, he's an insufferable Teacher's Pet with a borderline terminal case of Skewed Priorities, but he's also quite tall and rather muscled from wrestling rulebreakers into submission.
• Cloudcuckoolander: A Rules Lawyer Hall Monitor who is more concerned with making sure the Games is conducted in a "sensible" manner than, you know, surviving them. Ironically, this work towards his favor as the audience found him entertaining enough for the Gamemakers to spare him.
• Insult Backfire: When a career attempted to bully him, Chaff scolded the dude for lacking imagination.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: Getting his left hand sliced off by a career finally does the trick of pissing him into actively fighting back.
• O.C. Stand-in: The District Eleven male tribute in Catching Fire.
• One-Steve Limit: Averted. Chaff was selected as tribute by mistake due to the escort reading the reaping slip wrong (it was originally Chuff Mitchell). There are five Chaff Mitchells of reaping age in District Eleven, but he's the first to step forward and isn't permitted to protest when he notices the others making themselves scarce.
• Pop-Cultured Badass: After hitting his Rage Breaking Point, Chaff starts actively fighting back and winning — while singing the generic of Fiona and Lawrence and Dora the Explorer, and roleplaying Donkey Kong.
• Popularity Power: Basically the reason he won his Games. Despite doing stuff like being a Grammar Nazi to President Snow and criticizing the Gamemakers for their In-Universe Artistic License – Biology when designing the arena and the mutts trying to kill him, the audience find him so entertaining that those in charge of the Games opt to give him a chance instead of killing him outright.
• Skewed Priorities: Spent his Games complaining about the fauna being "misplaced" or his opponents having a messy camp instead of fighting, to his mentors' annoyance and the audience's delight.
• Teacher's Pet: Very proud of being a Hall Monitor. Of course, the Games thoroughly did away with this part of his personality.
• Too Dumb to Live: Hilariously subverted. His chapter is a list of one hundred and one things that should have gotten him killed but, against all the odds, didn't.
• The Unchosen One: Chaff wrongfully reaped due to the escort reading the reaping slip wrong, but still won the Games.

Spud Munroe (66th Games Victor)

• Amazon Chaser: Very much non-confrontational and wimpy, he grows an interest for the much rougher and aggressive Johanna whom he invites to dance at Spool and Lammy's wedding.
• Hidden Depths: During the Victors Party he's seen playing chess with Beetee, and he's surprisingly good at it.
• Hidden in Plain Sight: Survives the Second Rebellion by hiding in the Capitol's garbage dump, and no one bothered to check it the entire time. The only thing that came by was a dog mutt, which he made quick work of with Duke's old pickaxe.
• Kill Tally: One: the boy from Seven.
• O.C. Stand-in: He's the Victor who had a training score of three.
• Slippy-Slidey Ice World: His Games took place in the Arctic tundra.
• Sole Survivor: The last District Eleven Victor to still be alive.
• Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing: Only won by default thanks to the Gamemakers as they didn't want a cannibal to win and Spud had no chance against him.

Fallen Tributes

Chuff Mitchell

• Brick Joke: Over three decades after he wasn't reaped, he's chosen to be a mentor for the Capitol Games. He's not happy in the least.

District 12

In General

• Floral Theme Naming: As in the original trilogy, some names are floral themed (Katniss, St. Rose, Bluestar, Cobbler)

Duke Saint-Rose (6th Games Victor)

• Determinator: For all the tributes who never made it home, Duke nonetheless staunchly kept believing that one day, he would save somebody's life. He was right, as he rescued Pliny and the young Castor and Pollux from a Serial Killer in his last moments.
• Doomed by Canon: Since he's dead by the time of the original series, it fits.
• Face Death with Dignity: In spite of never succeeding to mentor a tribute to victory, he's nonetheless content as he breathes his last, having protected Pliny and the young twins Castor and Pollux from a Serial Killer — it wasn't how he expected to do it, but he saved somebody.
• Kill Tally: Four.
• Mutual Kill: Ajax managed to shoot him, but Duke managed to rip his throat open with his pickaxe.
• Platonic Life-Partners: Considered Pliny his best friend, to the point she swore to mentor District Twelve's tributes in his stead when he died.
• Powerful Pick: In spite of him being a child of merchants (and not miners) and having had no experience with using it, he got a pickaxe at the Cornucopia during his Games and proceeded to use it throughout, taking to it "like a fish to water". He uses it to kill the Career pack, hunger and thirst having removed much of their advantages. Spud would later find it abandoned in the Second Rebellion and put it to good use.
• Switching P.O.V.: His chapter is from the previous Victors' eyes before switching to Duke himself and President Orion.
• Taking the Bullet: Died saving Pliny from Ajax.

Haymitch Abernaty (2nd Quarter Quell Victor)

• The Dead Have Names: No matter how much he drinks, he can still remember the names of all the tributes who died in the poisonous arena of his Games.
• Determinator: Why Pliny was so sure he would win the Second Quell, as she could see his willpower was out of the charts, and favorably compared him to Duke.
• I Should Write a Book About This: After the Capitol Games, he decides to honor the tributes by writing the In-Universe equivalent of Cheating Death.
• Kill Tally: Four - A girl from One (Treasure), a boy from One (Fantastic), a boy from Two (Smolg), and a boy from Six (Subaru).
• Switching P.O.V.: His chapter is mainly about the last nights of all the tributes and victors before the Games.
• You Remind Me of X: Pliny compares his sheer determination to Duke when he asks her why she believes so much he can make it.

Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark (74th Games Victors)

• Audience Surrogate: They're the ones going on the Walk of Victors and reminiscing about them.
• Death by Adaptation: In Speak Not the Dead, Katniss and Peeta die in the 74th Hunger Games.
  • Katniss dies at Cato's hands during the feast.
  • Peeta dies from his leg infection.
• Kill Tally:
  • Five for Katniss - in her original Games, the girl from One (Glimmer), the girl from Four (Marina), the boy from One (Marvel), and the boy from Two (Cato). In the Quarter Quell, Gloss.
  • Three for Peeta - in his original Games, the girl from Eight (Lacey). In the Quarter Quell, Tabbock and Brutus.

Fallen Tributes

• Better to Die than Be Killed: The pair who decided jumping from the roof would be less painful and swifter than facing Mascara.
• The Lost Lenore: Bernadette Love for Shunt. Their potential romance was rather downplayed, but he's haunted by his failure to prevent her death and immortalizes her memory by writing a highly popular and acclaimed fantasy series in which the main character is Bernadette the Warrior Princess.
• Twin Switch: Pulled by Ozzy in order to save his brother Orinoco from being Reaped.

The Capitol

In General

• Innocently Insensitive: In several chapters, it's pointed that a lot of Capitolians genuinely don't realize problems exist in the Districts, being utterly sheltered and pampered since they are born.
• Spoiled Sweet: Some Capitolians are genuinely decent people and show kindness towards the Victors such as Librae's escort Tutti, the Trinkett family for Wattzon, Caesar Flickermann and Cupid Sol.
• Theme Naming: Most people here seem to have by Greek and Roman inspired names (Cupid, Odysseus, Orion, Juniper)

President Skarloey Orion

• Cruel and Unusual Death: Died after being poisoned by Snow, and it's stated that his innards were dissolved over a span of ten hours.
• Fat Bastard: Has been called a "tubby tyrant" on more than one occasion.
• Greater-Scope Villain: As the man who established the tradition of the Hunger Games.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Is easily angered and destroys entire rooms in his mansion whenever he's angry.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: After he's assassinated and Snow becomes the new President, things get exponentially worse for the Districts with Mizar lamenting the new drastic policies.

President Coriolanus Snow

• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Was horrified when he learned from Johanna that his granddaughter Rhonda would be reaped for Coin's Games, and is left begging for her to be spared.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite being willing to kill his own family, he specifically spares Rhonda because he wants to mold her into being his successor.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: From an intern in the Capitol's financial department to Orion's personal assistant and ruthless president himself.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Since he left the 57th Games Arena unguarded, Wattzon was able to hide with Trevy and his group of rebels.
• Kill the Poor: When he becomes President, he immediately starts shutting homeless shelters down, starves the Districts and Peacekeepers are allowed to gun vagrants on sight and slaughter anyone trying to steal food.
• Let Us Never Speak of This Again: Doesn't like to talk about the 57th Hunger Games, which included pre-games being ruined due to a heat wave, the tributes unable to do anything from the cold, most freezing to death, lack of screams, sponsor gifts unavailable due to a ruined hovercraft, and a schizophrenic Victor thanks to her racist stylist giving her a straitjacket that kept her warm.
• Offing the Offspring: No qualms whatsoever to poison his own daughter and son-in-law when they start showing hints of being too ambitious to tolerate him any longer.

The Grim

• Mutual Kill: Between him and Mascara.
• Professional Killer: The personal private assassin of President Snow.

Head Gamemaker Hessian Leblanc

• Killer Game Master: Head Gamemaker for the 34th Games.
• Literal-Minded: Orion ordered him to make the Games "explosive", so he made hand grenades the only weapon available at the Cornucopia. This was a bad move, though, as Honda, the girl from Six, dropped one due to morphling withdrawal and the chain reaction that happened caused a massive explosion that killed most of the tributes. Needless to say, the Capitol was pissed as the Games becoming super short, the Districts were laughing at this mistake, and Hessian was dragged to be executed screaming.

Head Gamemaker Odysseus Toot

• Killer Game Master: Head Gamemaker from the 52nd to the 56th Games.
• Know When to Fold Them: After surviving four unorthodox Games, Toot asks to be allowed to resign from his post as Head Gamemaker, aware his streak of luck won't last forever and the stress on him is just the worst.
• Nervous Wreck: The man lives in terror of the presidential woodchipper, and has a Freak Out when a tribute is doing something unexpected as he wonders if it will cause his demise.
• Properly Paranoid: Immediately pegs Porsche as smarter than she appears and frets over her doing something absurdly messy and spectacular in order to secure her win. The train-a-geddon vindicated his suspicions.

Captain Abe

• Cool Old Guy: Outright described as elderly for the Second Quell, yet it won't stop him from playing rock'n'roll with the District Six tributes or attending demolition derbys.
• Going Native: Serving for District Six made him genuinely care for them.
• Intergenerational Friendship: Chassis considers him the reason why he managed to win his Games, and invites him to join his demolition derby.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: For thirty years, he served as District Six's Mentor and had to watch children come back home slaughtered. When Chassis finally breaks their losing streak, the man is left sobbing in relief and happiness as he will escort a living teen back.

Mortimer Minch

• Game Show Host: The original interviewer for the Tributes before Caesar came along.
• Undignified Death: Dies of ass cancer while he was on the toilet.

Caesar Flickerman

• Game Show Host: The Hunger Games Master of Ceremonies.
• Heel Realization: Following the 58th Games, he starts to feel that every year gets harder to get to know tributes and watch them die and be forgotten by the Capitol.
• The Intern: Was just a sixteen year old intern for the Games setting up spotlights. However when Mortimer died just before interviews of the 26th Games' tributes, he was sent in as a last minute replacement. He became a star overnight.
• Karmic Jackpot: Caesar's secret caring for the tributes spares him from execution after the Rebellion. When a new council is established for Panem with representatives for each District, he's chosen to represent the Capitol.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: After the 58th Games, as his own personal rebellion, since his position is too high to leave or do anything too drastic, he actively makes every tribute shine as best as he can.
• Stepford Smiler: Secretly hates how the Games leave the tributes be forgotten, but keeps an award winning smile on his face. He is finally able to act openly somber during the Capitol Games, no longer playing the energetic host and showing to the audience that the Games are wrong, always have, and always will be.
• Token Good Teammate: Of the other known members of the Capitol, due to his emotional attachment to the tributes.
• We Used to Be Friends: In the interviews for the Capitol Games with the families, Claudius Templesmith is among them and he ends up punching Caesar since he got spared from prison.

Claudius Templesmith

• Game Show Host: The Hunger Games Announcer.
• Lack of Empathy: Unlike Caesar, he doesn't feel any sympathy towards the Districts and their tributes.
• We Used to Be Friends: With Caesar following the Rebellion.

Eunicia and Effie Trinket

• Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: As she watches Wattson's father and brother not even bothering to worry in spite of their relative facing death, Eunicia is horror-struck since her own daughter is slowly dying of cancer and she's barely holding it together.
• Good Parents: Eunicia loves her daughter more than anything, enough to gamble everything on an outlier tribute with the potential to make her gain a small fortune. It also drives her to feel empathy for Wattson, after seeing his blood family couldn't care less about him.
• Littlest Cancer Patient: Effie's cancer drove her mother to bet on Wattson in order to pay for her medical treatment. She's introduced to the new Victor wearing a blond wig to hide her baldness.
• Restored My Faith in Humanity: Wattson was stuck in depression and the conviction he was good for nothing but spreading misery around him, no matter how much he attempted to do something good. Then Eunicia genuinely thanks him for saving her daughter's life, the first unambiguously positive thing he achieved, reducing him to tears and causing him to be more mellow in the following chapters.
• Struggling Single Mother: Yup, they exist even in the Capitol. Eunicia is reduced to bet on Wattson's low odds of survival as a desperate gamble to obtain enough money for curing her daughter's cancer.
• White Sheep: Eunicia is just a sweet woman who loves her daughter, is uneasy about betting on a boy's potential death and happens to live in the Capitol.

Ajax

• Fat Bastard: Morbidly obese, he kidnapped twenty-two kids to have his own twisted version of the Hunger Games, was obsessed by Pliny, and ready to kill anyone not going along with his fantasy.
• Loony Fan: For Pliny, as he always attended events in which she would be present, considered her cute and goofy, and believed it was a fecking shame for her to never have obtained the opportunity to kill more than one person in her Games. When the rightfully horrified Pliny rejects his idea of letting her murder innocent kids, he attempts to kill her.
• Not Good with Rejection: When Pliny expresses how disgusting she finds his idea of holding his homegrown version of the Games, he tries to shoot her dead in spite of calling himself her biggest fan.
• Would Hurt a Child: Abducted twenty-two kids in order to hold his own private Games.

The Twelve Gamblers

• Fetishes Are Weird: The gambler for District Ten is a furry lover and would like people to stop saying he's weird.
• The Gambling Addict: All of them like to place bets on many times, the Hunger Games being their favorite.
• The Hedonist: The gambler for District Five is mentioned to be a frequent customer of Crimson and hopes this year he gets another Victor to indulge in.
• No Name Given: They have no names except for the number they have and the District they support.
• Sore Loser: The first, second, and fourth gamblers are outraged when Beetee pulls out his win and they lose the bet.
• Trademark Favorite Food: The gambler for District Nine is mentioned to really love bread.

Final Games Tributes

• Cruel and Unusual Death: Stinn is killed after falling into a grinder.
• Sins of the Father: Half the tributes were reaped because of their blood relationships with several of the most heinous members of Snow's regime. Rhonda in particular was reaped for being Snow's granddaughter, despite being all of twelve.

Cupid Sol (Final Games Victor)

• Actual Pacifist: Bent on winning the Capitol Games without a single kill to his name, and he succeeds.
• All-Loving Hero: He preaches love and chooses to be kind above all else. He allied himself with other children who were perceived to be weak or doomed, doesn't judge based on people's ancestry and relations, forgave those who hurt or killed his allies in his Games, and is by far the only Victor to have a 'pacifist run', not even mercy kills like Pliny's solo kill. It is acknowledged in-universe that his pacifism symbolizes the start of a new Panem that isn't built on the horrors of violence, war, and slaughter.
• Children Forced to Kill: Is only thirteen when he's reaped, making him the new youngest Victor.
• Down in the Dumps: The arena for the Capitol Games take place in a massive garbage dump.
• Happily Adopted: When all is said and done, Spool and Lammy offer to take him in and he's quite overjoyed to accept.
• Hero-Worshipper: Considers Pliny the greatest Victor ever for almost achieving a Pacifist Run in the Games, failing only because she gave the only tribute left alive a Mercy Kill.
• Love Freak: Preaches about it and runs a blog focusing on romance, no matter if it's fiction or real.
• Meaningful Name: He likes talking about love, and is named after the Roman God of Love.
• Shipper on Deck: Like many Capitolians, he adores "the District Twelve Star-Crossed Lovers".
• Switching P.O.V.: Half of the chapter is from his POV, the other is from his mentor Spool.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Jelly donuts, as shown in the epilogue.
• Trauma Conga Line: Cupid has his home burned down and his parents killed during the riots started by Finnick's broadcast. Then the Capitol Games are announced, and he winds up being one of the unfortunate children reaped. His experience is very traumatizing to say the least.
• Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing: Is the only Victor to win without killing anyone.