Born to Die

by IneptWriter

Athena Sunspeare had an easy life in District 4 but then unfortunate circumstances ripped it all away. She became accustomed to having nothing but control over her body. The 69th Annual Hunger Games changes her life. Rory, her twelve year old fellow tribute, manages to worm his way pass her defences. Athena wants Rory to win. Can she protect him? Or will life screw up her plans.

1. Author note

Hello readers and thank you for opening my story.

I don't own the Hunger Games franchise obviously. The Hunger Games universe and characters were created by Suzanne Collins.

This is not a self-insert, this is a challenge.

Stubbornly and stupidly I accepted this challenge because of my silly pride.

So bear with me.

My criteria was to write about an orphan. (We were watching batman at the time).

I had to choose a book, movie, anime or TV show randomly from a hat. I picked the Hunger Games and because the Hunger Games is written in a first person narrative, I had to write in a first person narrative which has proved to be a bizarre experience for me. (It feels like I am writing a diary entry, I know in third person I write about someone else too but... it was weird talking as someone else in a story instead of writing like an all-seeing goddess about someone's thoughts and feelings).

I am also relatively new to the Hunger Games books and movies. I have read the first Hunger Games book and I have seen the movie but I haven't read or seen the rest. I know that is bad but I like to read the books first so I'll watch Catching Fire after I have read it. (Right now I am reading Dance with Dragons).

The Games the character is in was randomly picked too. (Random number generator between 1 and 73 because I wasn't messing with the Katniss storyline).

The District the character is from was randomly picked the same way, but obviously picked between 1 and 12 not 1 and 73.

The name of the character was chosen by Lexie. She decided to name my person after a perspective figure and my character has to embody some of the figures... characteristics.

The gender of the character was randomly picked. The age of the character was randomly picked. Hell even the features of the character were randomly picked and influenced by the figure the character is named after.

To make it worse my friend made me make my character embody the traits of her favourite district... no, not District 12, that would have been too easy for me. Instead I had to worry about getting District 11 as the district and having to somehow make my character as strong as a career tribute from District 2. Thanks Lexie.

Volunteer or reaped was chosen by Lexie's coin toss.

Whether the character lives or dies was randomly decided to.

So, this is a challenge and not another self-insert.

Enjoy x