Survival is a Fan Fiction for The Hunger Games written by author Amata le Fay. It is of the Sumbit-Your-Own-Tribute variety, chronicling the 191st Hunger Games.
At the beginning of the story, Gamemaker Amata le Fay is preparing for just another normal Games when she is approached by the president of Panem, who has rigged the Reapings in order to flush out rebels. She gives Amata the names of six tributes that must be killed (painfully) by the end of the Games. The story follows the 24 tributes as they navigate the arena and try to escape their doomed fates.
The story can be found here.
Not to be confused with another fic called Survival (ATLA), which is a Avatar: The Last Airbender fic.
Provides Examples Of:
- Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: Chapter 49, "Requiem," is pretty much devoted to this. Lampshaded by Chantelle.
- Alternate Universe Fic: The second rebellion failed and the Hunger Games live on. The Capitol's savior Commander Gale Hawthorne was involved.
- Annoying Younger Sibling: Mint is a blight on Emerald's existence. Averted with Mouse, whom Parker loves dearly.
- Chekhov's Gun: Noaa's "poem" and district token holds a great deal of significance to the avoxes, and now Teagan recognizes it as a song her parents (who got taken away, presumably by the Capitol) used to sing to her and a rebel code...
- Also how mentor Ivan Chekhov won his Games—everyone else forgot/ignored the cannon in the Cornucopia.
- Disability Immunity: Averted. Link (prosthetic leg) and Anderson (blind) are most definitely not spared from the horrors of the Games.
- Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: Parker notes that Yon has these at his reaping. Granted, they're pretty dull eyes no matter what mood he's in.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: Taken to a new extreme with Eadem's mother. Averted by Eadem himself, who does not, under any circumstances, wish to be a normal kid, as a result of his mother's condition.
- I'll Kill You: Luka's main threat when convincing Ivan to let him volunteer.
- The Pollyanna: Subverted. Parker starts out as this but quickly becomes disillusioned.
- Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Luka likes these. To Mary: "Take your time, sweetheart. You've got the rest of your life."
- Survival Mantra: Anderson has his recitation of the colors. Riley has "confident, confident, confident." Neither of them work for very long.
- The Sociopath: Luka, described by his creator and his reaping chapter title as a "heroic sociopath" (former trope name of Sociopathic Hero), but the "heroic" part of it is all but nonexistent.
- The Stoic/The Spock: Veras Valdez, who has decided that he will deliberately cut off his emotions and make all decisions through logic and rationalization.
- Tempting Fate: Several of the non-volunteers, but especially Emily."I'm not going into the Games. Not this year, not any year. I know of at least twenty girls dying to take that place, and it's a pretty large district, besides."
- "So, you see, Parker, it's even more statistically unlikely that you will get picked this year than the other years, given our escort's tendency to mix it up and then pick from the top. You have three slips-no tesserae-which, combined, take up approximately-"
- Verbal Tic: Amata awkwardly pauses at random moments in her sentences, represented by dashes.
- Wham Chapter: 48, "Tooth and Claw." The Capitol is interrogating Teagan's parents, they sneak in a gun, and the vice president gets assassinated.
