Ok, a few things.
1. It will be a while before I work on this, I am doing another SYOC and I want to pretty much finish up that before working on something new
2. With that said, feel free to send in characters, I'll need 42 of them
3. This takes place after the Mockingjay/Second Rebellion
4. Spoilers for the whole series
5. I don't own anything you recognize
Today is the day they send the applications out. Anyone who is anyone will try to apply, to get into the Memorial Games.
Mom told me that when she was younger, they were called the Hunger Games, and kids had to kill each other. Back when the Capitol was mean. Back before Mom became the Mockingjay.
My name is Rye Mellark. I am the son of two Hunger Games winners. Kids would stare at me in school. No one ever bullied me, so that's a plus. But I was a bit uncomfortable with all the attention.
Now the Hunger Games are gone. Now we have the Memorial Games. Supposedly, they're to honor all the kids who died. Really, it's to unify Panem and provide entertainment.
Kids don't die anymore. They compete for medals: gold, silver, bronze. I never really thought about entering. My older sister, Willow, did.
The Mockingjay's daughter, doing archery. She was barely beat out by a boy from Ten and got silver.
Everyone was shocked. Willow didn't really care (second place in the best is still the best, she said).
Mom and I were happy to have her home. Mom always had nightmares, from her childhood. My dad says she did some things she's not proud of. When Willow left, I think Mom thought she would die. But she didn't, and now she's a trainer in One, where I'm headed now.
We can travel between districts pretty easily. Mom said almost no one visited other districts when she was young. She also said people from One mined gems. They still do, but now it's more of an artsy place. Most dancers and fashion designers either come from here or Eight.
Lots of districts have changed. There's less poverty now, so they say. District Twelve still mines coal, but now they also have medicine and a bit of admission power, though their power in the Capitol has faded a bit since Mom died.
Willow has invited me to see the athletes from One off. I'll travel to Two, Three, and Four, then back to Five to help with the coal plants. I don't mind working with coal, honestly.
The train slides to a stop and I disembark.
In case you couldn't tell, Rye is Katniss' son, mentioned in the last chapter of Mockingjay
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If all goes well, this should be updated in about a month. Please be patient, I'll get back to this.
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