Tribute: Jeremie Belpois

District Three: Electricity

The 49th Hunger Games Victor

When Jeremie heard his name he's not ashamed to admit that he might've cried. Okay, so he did cry, can you blame him. He was just a nerdy kid from District Three he had no hope of surviving. His partner Milly had a better chance than he did, and she was 12 to his 15.

Jeremie was just smart, he was good at computers and electronics but what good was that when everyone was trying to kill you.

He couldn't fight. He didn't know how to use Tessan fans like the District One victor who sliced throats in the foggy mountain arena. He wasn't strong and skilled like the District Two victor who stabbed his opponents blood spilling across the desert arena, with his lethal katana. Even the goofy District Six winner with his arrows, jumping and climbing from ice berg to ice berg like a cat, shooting down tributes.

No Jeremie isn't like them at all. In fact Jeremie has already accepted his fate, so has his parents not that he blames them, Jeremie has never been all that physically active.

He trembles during the chariot ride, and scores a four for a training score a four! He might as well have shoot me painted on his forehead.

The worst part is Jeremie can't help but tear up during his interview and he knows he just knows that he's screwed.

"Oh sweetheart don't be scared." His interviewer coos.

When the platform starts to rise, his heart starts pounding, and he's about two seconds from hyperventilating when he takes in his arena is what looks like a giant factory, in the center there's a computer, and there's wires everywhere electrical wires, and Jeremie, Jeremie can do this.

He might have a chance. The countdown starts and Jeremie counts down with his fingers taking in his environment. There are weapons, but he knows not to bother with that.

When the countdown starts he grabs a few materials, crafts together an unstable ball of sparking machinery and throws it as fast as he can.

Then runs as fast as he cans (which still isn't fast enough he gets caught up in the ensuring blast...)

Jeremie isn't a fighter. He isn't a killer, but he also doesn't want to die. It's that thought that had him make the bomb and throw. That's what he does making bombs and traps, and he wins by creating this fast acting monstrosity that swallows people whole. He'll never live that down.

But just like that Jeremie is a victor. His bomb killing off everyone sprinting for packs or fighting for weapons. His other traps luring out the rest.

He's so ecstatic he can't believe it. Him, Jeremie Belpois has won.

You'd think that's be the end of it but later he finds out that it wasn't entertaining enough, that he'd made a mockery of the games and when he goes home to find his parents dead he gets it. He understands why the other victors are always so down.

Jeremie isn't a fighter, never has been but when it comes to X.A.N.A he'll fight till his last breath. When he meets Aelita he discovers another damn good reason to get rid of X.A.N.A once and for all.

X.A.N.A doesn't like Jeremie and a kid who wins without fighting no matter how smart would definitely be punished.