7th Games: Garret Moore, District 2, age 16


He will not die. He WILL NOT die. The mantra that he repeats to himself, over and over, that keeps him swinging the blade and not caring whether it strikes thick vines, savage mutts or other tributes.

It doesn't matter who they are or how pitiful their story is. Only one of them can come out alive and he's damned sure it's going to be him. Because he isn't ready to die.

Bettany, his girl, is eight months pregnant and needs his support. His father is crippled, a rockslide in the quarry that conveniently killed or injured twenty rebel sympathizers. His kid brother is only eight and needs him for just about everything. And the Capitol started providing monthly food deliveries to the victor's home district and rebuilding houses. All those kids he grew up with, starving, orphaned, living in burned out huts with leaky roofs. He could save them too.

No, he can't die, which means everyone else must.