Child's Play, The 82nd Hunger Games

by abbydoggie8

The Mockingjay Rebellion has been destroyed and in the twelve year wake after the war known as the Year of Sorrow the Hunger Games have become more dire and brutal than before insuring no less than fifty deaths a year including the twenty-six tributes who will die in the arena, and a member of each of their families. The Games are about to begin. May the odds be ever in your favor

1. Prologue-Character List-Author Notes

The 82nd promised to be quite the show, and all of the Capitol was buzzing with anticipation, feasts and parties in abundance. Everyone well knew the story, after all, they had lived it. Somewhere around ninety years ago the first Rebellion began leading to the Dark Days. After which, through a devilish stroke of genius, Games had been made, ensuring that every District, every District save for 13 who had the audacity to threaten nuclear war, the war that had seen all life scorched away from the world save for blessed Panem upon the Capitol, had to send one boy and one girl to die for the crimes of their people in most entertaining spectacles of combat.

Thirteen years ago now, a secondary Rebellion, the Mockingjay Rebellion led by none other than Katniss Everdean, the girl on fire, a Tribute from 12 had arisen, leading to a short lived but but bloody conflict known as The Year of Sorrows. Once the rebels had been laid to waste each and every known conspirator was rounded up and executed, Victors, Tributes, Avoxes and all, but not before listening to their precious Mockingjay sing her last as they watched a raging inferno rip the delicate and becoming flesh from her bones. A poetically arranged death to say the least.

Order had now been reestablished, the Districts, quelled and numbers drastically thinned for insurance. Now with the victorious president Snow at the head of an even more bloodthirsty Capitol, having known the rages of war and loss of loved ones, has instituted the Mockingjay clause of the Games in which the family of each and every Tribute must elect one of their own to die if said Tribute should die. If there is only one other member to their family that individual is by default elected, and furthermore if there is no family to be found, a member from within the community is elected by said community to die.

Though, the Capitol is not without mercy, one Tribute and their elected family member will be allowed their lives, only, however, if that Tribute can make it out of the Games alive.

The Tributes:

District 1 - Female, Name: Snowflake Trest, Age: 18

District 1 - Male, Name: Apollo Kovalev, Age: 18

District 2 - Female, Name: Adaria Braud, Age: 16

District 2 - Male, Name: Jordan Howe, Age: 18

District 3 - Female, Name: Idalis "Ida" Circuit, Age: 17

District 3 - Male, Name: Cable Ryam, Age: 16

District 4 - Female, Name: Cicely Martrox, Age: 15

District 4 - Male, Name: Gregor Aqua, Age: 17

District 5 - Female, Name: Annie Elkiss, Age: 12

District 5 - Male, Name: George Davidson, Age: 15

District 6 - Female, Name: Carrie Morris, Age: 15

District 6 - Male, Name: Casey Trackford, Age: 15

District 7 - Female, Name: Eve Pevensie, Age: 16

District 7 - Male, Name: John Brok, Age: 15

District 8 - Female, Name Prine Ivory, Age: 14

District 8 - Male, Name: Weaver Pin, Age: 14

District 9 - Female, Name: Marlow Wedders, Age: 16

District 9 - Male, Name: Bise Nairn, Age: 14

District 10 - Female, Name: Sable Walker, Age: 12

District 10 - Male, Name: Angus Brad, Age: 17

District 11 - Female, Name: Robin Miller, Age: 13

District 11 - Male, Name: Otto Roxen, Age: 16

District 12 - Female, Name: Alodia Selkirk, Age: 12

District 12 - Male, Name: Cole Highs, Age: 13

District 13 - Female, Name: Violet Bombshell, Age: 13

District 13 - Male, Name: Ash Smith, Age: 16

Thank you so much to everyone who submitted Tributes to my story I really appreciate it and can't wait to work with them! :) Also I'm sorry if I wasn't terribly clear on the whole, family members will only die if the Tribute dies thing, my bad!

I have come up with a basic outline for the beginnings of this Hunger Games epic. As of right now I have it plotted to where each character will be getting their own chapter and that chapter can take place anywhere between the week prior to Reaping, and the pre-Games interview, with each new chapter not only introducing a new character's personal odyssey, but also moving the overall plot forward.

What I consider to be the second act of the story, everything after the pre-Games interview, from prep to the grand finale is still very much in the works, but I do plan for each character to get one or more chapters from their POV depending on how long they are in the Games.

Additionally the chapters will be titled as follows: Tribute Name, Chapter Subtitle.

I will be doing it this way so as to denote which Tribute's POV is being written from as it can be very confusing with the story jumping so frequently from character to character, and to help me keep track of who I have, and have not written for at each stage of the story (Pre, and Post Games start).

I have not decided who will win the Games, and likely won't know myself until the time comes, as I'm still developing the characters, their stories, and the overall plot itself, so please don't ask, the answer will truthfully be "I don't know."

Feel free to PM me with any comments, questions, and/or concerns throughout the story.

Also my SYOT finally has a cover! This is thanks to the wonderfully talented and creative Victor64, thank you Victor64! If you're interested in getting a cover by her I'm sure she'll be more than willing to make one, and you can find her under my "favorite authors" list thing! :D

Happy Hunger Games everyone, and may the odds be ever in your favor! :)