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Given the long length of the stories and the widespread character focus, there are many amazingly popular characters who only have notable and significant roles in twelve or fewer chapters of a series that currently spans 160 fanfiction chapters.


  • Abram is probably the fan favorite of the series, despite only appearing in three chapters. Fans like how he Took a Level in Badass so many times across his Games and the Rebellion, and he remains one of the most moral and likable victors throughout it all.
  • Cashmere's Hidden Depths dynamic with Beetee and her eagerness to help bring down Snow and Luster make her pretty popular, even though she only has brief appearances outside of her own chapter and her brother's.
  • Cecelia's little sister Kerry only appears near the beginning and the ending of Fall Into the River, but her adorable interactions with Cecelia are well-liked for adding some light to her bleak storyline, though her reappearance in The Bonds of Blood is bleaker but still powerful.
  • Madame Lucia is pretty popular for being an eccentric, yet caring and extremely skilled stylist and eventual rebel, even though she only appears sporadically after the second quarter of The Lumberjack and the Tree-Elf.
  • Granyte's appearances (about one per ten chapters of The Victors Project) are always pretty welcome, given his arc of transforming from a scared but determined non-Career volunteer out to provide for his family to a Handicapped Badass who's Closer to Earth than his neighbors and serves as a Morality Pet for Ice Queen Boudicca.
  • Dido's only in about ten combined chapters of The Victors Project and The Bonds of Blood, and only has a big role in about half of them. However, her Cloud Cuckoolander antics make her chapter quite possibly the most fun chapter to read and re-read for many fans. Her moments of camaraderie with her fellow Victors, later on, are also appreciated.
  • Cotton invited all kinds of speculation and excitement from the fans long before appearing in person, based on her brief mention in Fall into the River. Her appearance as a Trap Master with a strong moral code is very well-received, even though she's only in one chapter.
  • Gates' technology-based Flawless Victory and Odd Friendship with Ahenobarbus leave a deep impression on the fanbase, even though he's only in three chapters.
  • Nolan's alliance (a Career defector, Nolan's brave Stealth Expert District partner, a District 5 girl who took to a bow Like a Duck Takes to Water, and a rare District 12 tribute to make a good showing) for being a great Five-Man Band and providing some decent novelty, and a great final battle of their sole chapter.
  • Lyme's physical prowess, sense of humor, and going into the Games as a rebel to form connections with rebels in other districts give her a degree of popularity that makes it genuinely surprising to look back and see that she only has dialogue in her chapter of The Victors Project, one chapter of Fall into the River, the District 2 Arrow chapter and a handful of chapters in The Bonds of Blood.
  • Orchus, the Gentle Giant who manages to escape from his Capitol monitors to make a new life for himself and may be the old man who makes the three-fingered-salute for Katniss in the novels, only appears in two chapters. The first of them, the one centered on him, is sometimes considered the Growing the Beard moment for The Victors Project and the moment the story really takes off.
  • Honorius's skill in the arena, respect for his fellow tributes, status as the eldest of a Badass Family, and his gradual disillusionment with the Capitol all give him one of the more thorough and well-liked arcs of the Victors over the eight or so chapters he appears in.
  • The number of chapters where Emrys has dialogue can be counted on one hand, but his Kill It with Fire victory in the arena and stirring speeches in Chapters 33 and 69 of The Victors Project make him one of the most iconic victors of his generation.
  • Knife-throwing Cute Mute Barty's only significant appearances are in his own chapter and Ares', but the drama and occasional tenderness of his chapter make him (and his loving foster family) provide some memorable and refreshing bright spots in the Crapsack World of Panem.
  • From The Lumberjack and the Tree-Elf, Blight's most popular fellow tributes are probably Plautia, the Token Good Teammate of the Careers (who's also a good knife thrower with a sense of humor), Devon (with his insistence on calling District 10 Texas, decent survival skills and friendship with Blight) and Blight's empathetic (yet tough) District partner Charlie and her (loyal) ally Qin Li. Some fans admit to rooting for them as much if not more than Blight despite the Foregone Conclusion nature of the story. While all of them are fairly prominent characters (save for Qin Li), they all only appear sporadically once the Games begin.
  • Of Cecelia's fellow tributes from Fall Into the River, the most popular are Loomer, for being a Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass, and Abundance, for wounding a Career in the bloodbath and her attempt at Victory by Endurance by refusing to take sponsor gifts in order to avoid being beholden by the Capitol. Abundance doesn't have any dialogue and only has a handful of short scenes.


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