Interviews

AN: Thanks for the reviews! I decided to skip the bloodbaths since that was the only way to get this chapter up today. I chose their angles based on what I think that their mentors would make them do. Oh and after the headache I got from writing the chariot rides I kind of skipped the clothes too. Enjoy!

Ceaser Flickerman

I walk onto the stage, I can never get used to the lights or the screams from the Capitol citizens. I probably never will, this year I've dyed my hair a metallic blue. It's my favorite color right now, modeled after the head Game-Maker himself. Who I admire greatly, even though the man prefers the unstylish natural look. His arenas have been spectacular so far and we'll miss him for the years he goes to college. I take a seat in one of the plush chairs, prepares to ask all the tributes the right questions. Especially the boy from five who got a twelve, which hasn't been done in a while.

After warming up the crowd the District one male comes out, Talus, who is still the favorite for victor. He isn't nervous at all; playing arrogant obviously wasn't too hard for him. He's completely open with all of Panem, collecting a crowd of fan girls. He's smiling at the crowd the entire time; I'm starting to feel neglected! I voice out my thoughts and the crowd gives a hearty laugh. Look at my queue cards, waiting for the perfect time to ask the big question. Which is usually related to the gossip on the tributes, for Talus, it's who he thinks his biggest threat is. I have forty seconds left on the clock, so I ash him, trying to analyze what he really means when he says answers.

"ha! That's a funny question Caesar, I think I'll go with the fruit salad." the crowd gives a little laugh and eats up his arrogance.

Silver is next, gleaming in the outfit that her stylist gave her. She uses the flirty angle well, making sure that all the attention is on her. Silver flips her hair occasionally, flashing the silver highlights across all of Panem. She's a hit the second she speaks, all her answers having playful comebacks. Silver spends a lot of time talking about her family, which the crowd can relate too. One of her sisters is a genius while the other is a victor. Quite a nice combination if you ask me, for her special question I ask 'which of your sisters do you match most in mental qualities?'

"that's a tuff one, Mr. Flickerman. I'd like to say that I'm a perfect mix of both, I'm smart, pretty and I will be victor." ooh, looks like we'll be having a triple threat in the arena!

Clyde comes up, spending a good portion of his time explaining why he has no allies. I agree that there haven't been any victors from a career district that weren't ever in the careers. But what makes him special? Well that's what the sponsors want to know. Clyde smiles when I ask this, someone's been studying. His reply is in a much more sinister key than the rest of his interview. It sounds do bloodthirsty that it makes me shiver, but the bloodlust doesn't work for him. So it sounds a little fake, it'll still benefit him though, since sponsors will still get that he isn't that bloodthirsty, but it makes him seem tougher.

"I, unlike anyone else who will be in the arena can kill by shoving my fist down someone's throat, and then ripping out their esophagus." It's a powerful bluff, will he deliver?

Next is little Vixen, whose stylist still makes her look fierce. It works since Vixens angle is fierce, she plays it so well that she doesn't even sound twelve anymore. This leaves us to the mercy of her ferocity, which impresses us all. I ask her how she feels about only being twelve, knowing that she would have a higher chance of winning if she waited till she was older. Vixen replies snarkily, she also adds some arrogance to her response, which will help her in the long run. Since she is only twelve and got one of the highest scores I'm curious to see her response. Since I personally am hoping she wins.

"Bah, it was my time; I can't say that for the other tributes though. And it would have been harder to get into the games if I was older. So I actually have an advantage, being younger."

Julian walks to the stage, he's a little nervous but that's just interview jitters. He loosens up a little on the stage, mentioning Olivia in almost every sentence. Oh, I just love lover boys like him, it's so sad that at least one of the lovers must die. But at least all their fans will see them together for their last moments. They're pretty popular right now, but their low scores are scaring away some sponsors. They still have a few though, because the guy from twelve is joining them. Which is the first unexpected twist to happen, and we're not even in the arena yet!

"If Olivia were to die before me, I wouldn't last too long. Jeez, I can't even wrap my mind around losing her." was the last thing the poor soul said before the buzzer went off.

Olivia walked up to the stage; to warm up we talked about the chariot costumes. We were both particularly impressed with the cyborg's, since District three usually has boring consumes, that get repeated to much. To add drama I ask her why they let Koal into their alliance; sure he scored pretty high, but was there any personal reason? It was a shock when we saw the three Allie on TV, I thought that the alliance seemed pretty suspicious. And I think that somebody else must be too, it's the whole reason that I'm such a great interviewer. Olivia thinks before she answers, choosing her words carefully.

"No matter how much Julian and I want to, we know that we can't waltz into the arena on our own. Koal could really help us, and I'm sure that deep down, he needs our help too." We'll have to see about the last part, won't we?

Cotton comes up, he certainly is the best looking tribute this year. Which will give him lots of sponsors, but he'd have a good number anyway, since he had a pretty high score. Cotton plays up the charming angle to the best of his ability, which incidentally works great. I know that by the end of the interview that I'll love him! And so will the Capitol citizens, it'll be hard to see him die in the arena. But I'll watch anyway! He seems to nice to be in the games, it's possible he's hiding something, the idea makes me want to squeal, evil Cotton! He gets many random 'I love you's" on the stage. When I ask him his favorite part of the Capitol, he replies:

"You expect me to choose from all these wonderful ladies? Impossible!"

Next up is Nicole, who is unfortunately the lowest scoring career. But Nicole's upbeat attitude soon makes us forget all about the training scores. I'm guessing this is her intention since she doesn't mention the score at all, I play along but I mention what she did in training and how if she showed that she should've gotten a higher score. She frowns at me mentioning it but quickly gets beck into her cheery mode. For her question I ask about he brother, who died in the Games last year. Could he have won if his allies hadn't turned on him? Nicole sighs before she answers.

"My brother was an idiot for volunteering at fifteen, but yes, I do think he would have won if his allies didn't turn on him."

Fuscous glides out in his vampire costume, the other tributes are confused by the vampire theme given to Fuscous. Considering that they don't know his powers, which the Capitol watched a whole TV special on. He plays the unconventional emotionless angle, since he is technically the robot tribute. To some Capitols he's the perfect tribute, but I disagree, if every tribute was amazingly skilled, then the games would be boring. For the last question I asked Fuscous who his biggest threat would be in the arena, and I'm not taking fruit salad for an answer.

"I believe that the biggest chance I have of losing the game is to one of the pranksters." it's a smart thing to say, since no one is immune to their pranking solutions.

Jude is after Nadia, he takes the stage and I quickly launch questions at him. Firstly I ask about the pranks on the career, Talus, which made all of Panem laugh. He says that the trap itself was meant for anyone climbing the wall, not targeted at Talus. But I see the reluctance in his eyes; I know that he really wants to explain how it worked. His mentor is probably making him hold back all the good stuff to the prank, which is fairly disappointing. Alas, mentors sometimes just want to hold back all the tributes good qualities, so they can surprise us in the arena. The anxiety usually kills me.

"I'd tell you my biggest advantage in the arena without the riddles, but my mentor will have a heart attack if I do. But they don't call me Giant just because I'm tall, don't you dare forget that."

Avalon walks to the stage; she spends most of the time talking about how her favorite weapon (a whip) wasn't in the Game-Maker room. It's obvious to the crowd that she's just telling the Game-Makers to put a whip in the arena. It's probably her last hope since the Games are tomorrow; her mentor is doing the right thing. I'm not sure what to ask her so I try and ask about her family, since she's avoiding that topic. Avalon mumbles something about not having a good relationship with her family but the crowd can't hear her. So I deliberately tell her to repeat the answer.

"I don't have a great relationship with my dad, but I know I love him. And I'm pretty sure he loves me back."

True is after her horrendous partner, who I now hope dies in the bloodbath. The idiot sang the entire interview time; the worst part of it is that he wasn't even that good! True try's to act conceited and arrogant, but I and I alone see through it. It's obviously killing her to whine like this in front of the while country, but she continues like her life is on the line. Apparently this isn't the first time that she's been to the Capitol; her parents are so rich that she has been able to enjoy this glorious place while the others, even the ones from one haven't. She also spends a good time complaining that her parents don't pay attention to her, but that seems to have a little truth in it.

"You know what they did in the justice building? Just sat there and ignored me! Me! Their daughter! Isn't that unbelievable?"

Evangeline's after Fleance, who with his score won't make it far in the arena. We both spend a good amount of time bantering, it starts with me asking a question and her replying with a sarcastic remark or dark humor. It's quite entertaining and I'm easily able to ask her questions, a number of us know Evangeline was in trouble right before reaping, but what did she do? I ask her that and she gives us a detailed explanation of how she set off the fire alarms, and she describes the peacekeeper yelling at her, but that part seems made up for some reason, even if it fits right into the story.

"And the worst part of the whole scolding was that his fly was down, I must admit that it really showed his true character." the crowd laughs and the buzzer goes off.

District nines interviews were the most annoying. With Williams we had to drag him out after yelling delusional things about the Capitol. Apparently Sonya, the volunteer had selective mutinism that stopped her from speaking. So instead she got yes and no questions, it wasn't one of the most fascinating interviews I've ever given but she seemed polite and nice. A polar opposite to her district partner who for the short time that he was on the stage spent it yelling messages of rebellion. Which is absolutely ridiculous, the districts have everything they need and the Capitol provides for them. What's there to ask for? Well apparently William Rossi is just greedy.

Ethan comes up to the stage nervously; the bright lights don't seem to bode well with him. Since he grew up on the streets, we're all very interested as to why he volunteered. Since he comes from ten, one of the poorer districts. He explains how his family kicked him out at a young age; Ethan learned how to find food and provide for himself on his own for a while, but then he met a girl that let him use her work area as a temporary shelter. It's a heartbreaking story that makes all those in the Capitol just want to hug their nearest family member. He also says what happens the day he meets his brother for the first time after years.

"I'm out hiding in the wheat stalks, I just wanted to say goodbye one last time before I volunteered. But we got into a fist fight, I was forced to pull a knife on him and cutting him was probably the worst thing I've ever done."

After Ethan's heart wrenching story Olivia comes up. After Ethan's story I find it hard to keep with up with the twelve year old but I manage. Her popularities gone up after the training scores were revealed, since she beat the other Olivia. People now know her name and want to figure out who ecxactly she is, considering that no one thinks she's a bloodbath anymore after her good score. She explains that she has a lot of siblings and the siblings form their own groups because of the varying ages. She still has got two more siblings to get through reapings and she's worried about them.

"it's quite funny really, the younger kids seem to have their own posse while the older ones have their gang. And sometimes I feel as if we're going to war when the two groups fight."

Dave comes up next, he seems oddly distracted during the interview. He spends most of his time talking about his parents that are doctors. I ask why he's so muscular and he proceeds to talk about his tracker jacket extermination business. It's quite genius really, I wonder why the Capitol hasn't moved the nests away from the districts yet. But they are busy and why should they take away this young mans job, he seems to be getting paid a good amount and he can't do it alone. So more people in his district should take up the job, if he can do it, so can everyone else. He's a smart man for creating that job.

"What I love the most about the capitol is the opportunity, since back in district eleven that's hard to find job wise."

Nightingale walks from the opposite side age is supposed to for the interview, she sneaks right behind me and adds antlers to my head by using her hands and pointing them to out from my ears. I catch her making funny faces behind my back when I look at the monitor. The Capitol had been laughing hysterically the whole time, oops, that means we've lost precious interview time. She jokes around and I'm having a hard time seeing her get an eleven in get training score. It's possible that she has a hidden talent, actually that has to be it, considering she's only like thirteen. I ask her why her alliance members call her zombie and I get what I would call an interesting response.

"I wish I could tell you Caesar, but I can tell you it's not because I can turn green without dyeing my skin and it's not because I was created by a mad scientist." The crowd gives a warm chuckle at her response before we move on to district twelve.

Koal still looks angry when he walks to the stage. It's a wonder why he's in an alliance, considering that no one can be around him when he's mad. This is all the time, but I mean when he's madder than usual. Apparently in a rage he broke some of the vases that were on his floor. I still want to know why he joined the lovers but he just won't tell, he's obviously keeping a secret from us. In some magazines they have a theory that Koal likes the district three lover girl. But I personally think that's bull sh** at it's finest. Koal doesn't seem the type to fall in love at first sight, especially when we know that the girl in question is already taken. After two minutes of me badgering him I finally get some sort of answer.

"Alright! Alright! Please I'll tell you if you promise not to bother me again.
Olivia just looks like a past girlfriend of mine, and I still love that girl. So I'll feel guilty if I don't protect her."