It all started with the 69th Hunger Games.
Jasmine Aurora Sinclair (Indiana Evans) of District 7 had come from a family of Hunger Games Victors. From her dad winning the 35th Hunger Games, her mom winning the 38th and her brother winning the 60th, the Sinclair family was a household name in all the districts. But, the downside to this was that her dad died at around the 58th Hunger Games and her mom followed at around the time of the 62nd Hunger Games. Both were 41 when they died. Her older brother, Jakob raised her by himself until he was killed for rebelling against the capitol the year before she got reaped for the games. At age 13, Jasmine was orphaned. Living alone at the Victor's Village in District 7 wasn't hard at all with the other older tributes helping her out but she would've gladly given it all away if it meant getting her family back.
On the year of the 69th Hunger Games, the time came for Jasmine to see if she could continue the family legacy. At the tender age of 14, she was the youngest victor to win next to Finnick Odair. She won her games by killing all of the weaker tributes and making a last-minute alliance with the career pack. She then turned rogue by mixing nightlock juice into the food she prepared for the others and they died instantly making her the victor of the 69th Games. She went home and lived as she normally as she could for a year until she was called back to be one of the mentors for the 70th Games. This is where she met Jessica Edwards.
Jessica Camellia Edwards (Maia Mitchell) of District 7 lived a pretty normal life with her parents until she was reaped for the 70th Hunger Games at the age of 15. She and her partner Luke Michaels met their mentors Blight and Jasmine the day of the reaping. Both decided to train at the same time and developed a close bond with each other and with their mentors. Unfortunately, Luke was killed by a career tribute 2 days into the games. Alone and scared, Jessica came across Annie Cresta who was crying over the dead body of her district partner. Seeing herself in the girl, she and Annie became allies and she protected Annie who looked like she was about to lose it. When it came to the top 3, Annie was killed by the same career tribute who killed Luke. Enraged by this, she vowed to avenge her fallen friends by killing the said tribute, thus making her the victor of the 70th Games.
Seeing her friends being murdered in front of her started to eat away at Jessica and just when she thought she was going to lose herself to the darkness, Jasmine was there to help her get through it. This was the bridge that established the foundation of their very tight friendship. On her victory party at the Capitol, she ended up kissing Finnick Odair and said that it was from Annie who admitted to liking him while they were in the arena. Annie became the link for Finnick and Jessica to end up being close friends.
This friendship did not extend to Jessica's best friend Jasmine, however. The 2 couldn't stand to be around each other for longer than 2 minutes although Jessica suspects that it is because of the undeniable sexual tension surrounding the 2. She often teases them both about liking each other but they deny it all the time.
The last to join the group of misfits was Johanna Mason (Jena Malone). She was a year older than Jasmine and Jessica who were 16 at the time of the 71st Hunger Games. Johanna developed a bond with Jessica first because she was one of her mentors. She won the games by pretending to be weak and frail only to reveal her true identity as a savage killer when only a handful of the tributes were left in the games. This made her the victor of the 71st Games. She was never the same after that and became worse when Snow killed her family after she refused to be one of the Capitol's play things. As a mentor, Jessica stepped in and their bond formed into a deeper friendship. Jessica introduced Johanna to Jasmine and they ended up getting along because of their hate for the Capitol. It was also around that time that Snow started to sell Jasmine out to the highest bidders and she couldn't do anything about it because he threatened to kill Jessica and Johanna if she didn't comply.
Snow also started to bid out Jessica but, being the youngest among the three, Johanna and Jasmine did all they could to shield her from the horrors of the Capitols. Jasmine would take all her customers for her just to make sure she doesn't have to go through that kind of torture and end up almost losing herself again. In exchange, Jessica performs concerts for the Capitol people. She, with the help of Jasmine and Johanna, writes songs and perform them for the people. Because of this, Snow doesn't mind that Jasmine takes care of Jessica's clients for her as long as they all bring him more money.
These three girls won back-to-back-to-back games. They all belonged to the same district which was what made them very well known as not everyone could achieve that feat. The people called them the Golden Girls. The 3 even had nicknames among themselves: Johanna was Buttercup, Jessica was Bubbles and Jasmine was Blossom.
Our story starts after the 72nd Hunger Games.
