The 224th Hunger Games: It's a Small World After all, An SYOT

by SlytherinPrincessAtWork77

It's the 224th hunger games, and the president of Panem is on the brink of madness... After two years of boring games and a severely declining viewership, Catalina Helios is on the rise. So she decides to make a very useful bargain of sorts; present a useful idea for an arena, you would be given high status in the Capitol. The twist? Districts could also submit ideas. SYOT *CLOSED*

1. An Idea

The 224th Hunger Games: It's a Small World After all, An SYOT

Catalina Helios

I drummed my fingers on the table as I forged another signature on yet another important piece of paperwork. I had only a slight idea of what this paperwork is about and I thanked my lucky stars that my father's trusted adviser had enough common sense to inform me of everything related to running this country, Heaven only knows what father would have done if he attempted to run any kind of business with his declining state of health and his clearly ascension into madness attitude. Someone should've warned me a little earlier though. I guess I should have guessed when the Arena of the previous year was an exact replica of the year before.

I sighed as I looked at the multiple ridiculous plans for this year's arena. I fingered a file titled Rainforest and I rolled my eyes. A rain forest? Really? Yeah, that would definitely make people watch. I threw the file in trash and I wrote down the name of the idiot who had the nerve to send it. I looked at another file which was titled "Caves" and I threw it in the trash as well. I quickly sifted through the remaining ones and they were all absolute bullshit. Desert? Used in the 28th, 124th and 236th games. Waterfalls? Done before in the 12th, 66th and 156th games. Railways? That one was a huge success when it was done but for the fifth time? It would send the viewership into the ground. Out of all the files, only one caught my eyes, and after seeing through the file I found out that it was just as ridiculous. A ruined city was already overdone. It has been used for a Quarter Quell for heaven's sake.

I threw the pile of Files at the wall and screamed for an avox to come. I was so furious at those lazy asses who call themselves game makers. What? Did they think that because my silly excuse of a father was rapidly descending into madness, I wasn't capable enough to run this stupid country?

A small knock on the door pulled me out of my thoughts and I yelled for them to come in. A frightened looking 15 or 14 year old answered the door and bowed her head.

"Fetch me Ariana Temple, and make it quick!"

She bowed her head again and turned to leave until a small thought popped into my head.

"Wait!"

She looked up at me and I looked at her in a calculating way. She looked visibly paler as I stood up and began approaching her.

"What district were you from?"

If it was possible, the girl became even paler. She held up 5 fingers at me and I looked at calculatingly. I nodded as the though entered my mind again. I waved at her to go and get Ariana and I sat back down at my desk. I run my hand through my hair as I sifted the idea through my mind. Granted, it was kind off crazy, but it was crazy enough to work.

Another knock pushed me again out of my thoughts. I looked up to see Ariana coming in and I nodded at her. The Avox bowed her head and was reaching out to leave when I yelled at her to stop.

"Wait!, Come in and Close the door"

The Avox looked at me frighteningly and I nodded slowly. Trembling, she closed the door and stood next to it, shielding her face and looking at the floor. I turned to Ariana and I smiled slowly.

"After much thought, I've decided upon a better way to get an arena idea that doesn't bore every person who's watching to death and is actually entertaining enough to watch.

Ariana looked at me quizzically and I smiled.

"And what's that?"

I smiled again and I gestured her to look at the Avox.

"Avoxes?" She said, looking confused. I shook my head still smiling.

"Districts."

If it's possible, Ariana looked even more confused. She looked at me waiting for me to explain it a little bit more.

"You see, for years, we've only been using Districts and their reisdents for what? Labour work and entertainment. Now, I think that some of these people are not completely useless. In fact, these people tried and almost succeeded in creating an uprising three times. These people are not stupiud. So I say, how about we try and use their smartness in a useful way that benefits us?"

If it was possible, Ariana looked even more confused. "I'm not sure I'm following"

I smiled at her, "Tomorrow, I want hundreds and hundreds of notices to be sent out to the districts and to be distributed among students of reaping ages. I also want these notices to be handed out to capitol children. These notices will advertise of a competition. This competition urges people to submit ideas that could be captured to make the arenas. We will only be accepting submissions by people of reaping ages and 10 people will be chosen as winners. They could be from the Districts or from the capitol. But the chosen ones will be the new Head game makers. Now you might ask why I made it for people of reaping ages and I'm using these because children are much more imaginative and creative than adults. Any why am I using the Districts? Because we never attempted that, we might have a genius or two lurking in the districts."

Ariana was looking at me open mouthed and a little bit confused. "How-how are you going to be controlling these district children?"

I smirked, "Bargaining power Ariana, threaten their families and you could make them do anything. Besides, if chosen they would leave their poverty stricken communities and they would be guaranteed safety from the hunger games along with their families. Who would give away this opportunity?"

Ariana just stared at me for a couple of minutes before opening her mouth.

"This is crazy but-" she stopped and smiled a small secretive smile. "It's crazy enough that it might just work."

I smiled at her and nodded. She stood up and made quick calls on her phone and nodded at me.

"Oh an Ariana?" She looked back at me and I smiled. "Fire all current game makers, but keep the technicians, we would be needing those."

She smiled in return and turned and left the room. I smiled at the ceiling and gave myself a little pat on the back.

Oh yes, this year's games are going to be legendary.

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A.N:

Now that the first chapter is over, it's submission time!

There are three forms of submission. One is the regular tribute Form, the other two are the Gamemakers form. One is if you want it create a Capitol gamemaker and the other if it's a District resident. I already have two of my own, so there are five places left in the gamemakers.

Now please Submit but I have a few rules:

NO Mary Sues/Gary Stues. These make me sick. Any submitted ones will either be ignored or be bloodbath tributes.

I will only be accepting submissions through PM. Sorry Non-members but I'll probably have to interact with you and If you don't have an account I wouldn't be able to.

When submitting, please mention in the subject line the name of the tribute, as well as the District. Same applies if you're submitting a Game maker. In the case of Game makers, Put Game maker between two Parenthesis. This will just make it easier for me to sort out the tributes, so please try to do that.

So an example would be: "Jade Marge, District 2 (Tribute)"

OR "Gamemaker: Stensil Aiden, District 5"

Only three tributes are allowed per person, and one must be a bloodbath.

This isn't a first come first serve, I will be choosing the tributes because I want them to be able to go well with the story.

If you want to submit Victors/Mentors you could.

Remember to Review (that's not an obligation, but it will help me if I take suggestions from you guys!)

Please only submit if you actually plan on reading. It sucks turning down other applicants who were excited for the story for people who got in and then dropped off the face of the earth. Plus, it's lowkey rude.

That's all, happy Submitting!

Tribute Form:

Name:

Age:

Gender:

District:

Appearance:

Faceclaim (MANDATORY):

Personality: (Detailed)

Backstory: (VERY Detailed)

Family:

Friends:

Reaped or Volunteered:

Reaction to reaping/reason for volunteering:

Token:

Preferred Weapon(s):

Strengths: (6 Max)

Weaknesses: (3 Min)

Fears:

Hopes/Dreams:

What stations do they focus on during training?:

What do they do for their private Gamemaker session?:

Games Strategy:

Fight or Flight:

Bloodbath Strategy:

Private Sessions Score:

4-5 Original Quotes (MANDATORY):

Interview Outfit:

Chariot Outfit:

Reaping Outfit:

Anything else that I've forgotten (which I probably have):

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Game Maker Form (District/Capitol)

Name:

Age: (From 11 to 18)

Gender:

District: (Write Captiol if you're submitting a Capitol Resident)

Appearance:

Faceclaim (MANDATORY):

Personality:

Backstory:

Family:

Friends:

IQ:

Ideas for Arenas:

Reaction to Winning as a chosen Gamemaker

Why He/She Applied:

Strengths:

Weaknesses:

Hopes/Dreams:

Weakest Link (The one person they will fight the world to keep safe):