Hana Schnee, 38, Wife of the Fuhrer

Hana had always enjoyed playing with dolls as a little girl. She enjoyed dressing them up and pretending they were her siblings, taking 'Adolphus', 'Rafaela' and 'Priscilla' around the house, making them do all sorts of tasks. Of course, her mother was very surprised to find Priscilla the doll's head pulled off after the two sisters had gotten into a fight over who would get a certain pink fabric to wear and Priscilla had whacked Hana on the nose, and Hana hid her dolls from the rest of the family after that particular punishment. They were hers to play with, not her family's. And she certainly didn't want them to know that she enjoyed controlling them, pretending that they were her siblings instead of her real ones. She loved being in charge of their fates, either taking pity or punishing them on a whim. She had played with them for years, hiding them under different floorboards in her room in order to hide the fact that she had still played with dolls. But at thirteen, she had stopped playing with her dolls. When she had turned thirteen, she had realized that playing with people was even more entertaining.

The twenty-eight children that would be chosen for the competition weren't any more dolls than her siblings had been. But she still had that control over them as she did her dolls. With enough persuasion to her husband, she could have them perform for her. The children would do what their master told them to do. And if they refused, their fate would be worse than her siblings those years ago. If they didn't perform for her, they would put their lives in her hands. She was the maker of this game, after all.

She had already decided how to occupy the children before the games. A strong protesting in Berlin and the surrounding cities caused Otto to approve two days of training for the tributes, where they would learn how to use weapons and survival skills needed to live in the arena. Personally, she thought it would be more entertaining to let them go into it with no skills whatsoever, but the protests had won them over. Otto couldn't always go against the will of the people.

But to fill the other days, she had planned a beautiful parade, where the children would dress in the traditional costumes of their people. Her friends had already started to design costumes for this parade, where the children would be shown to the public. She had already started to work on the traditional Afrikkaan dress, and she had seen beautiful designs for the Turkish children. With any luck, the children could sway fashion in Berlin. The newspapers had already been approached with deals to photograph the whole parade, and it would be distributed throughout Europe along with the televised event. Hana's genius would be displayed to the world.

And after the training, the children would be taken to a ball, where they would dance the night away, meet the people, and show off their respective skills. Hana had always loved to dance, having taken classes for it when she was young. Many a night had been spent dancing the darkness away in her teens, charming the young men at the dance and becoming the talk of the town as the "girl who didn't stop dancing". It was how she had met Otto, after all. She had taken pity on him after he was rejected by a wench costumed in blue, and had decided to marry him during their third dance that night. It only took three months to convince Otto that she was his ideal wife, and they married only a week after. Yes, a ball was the perfect thing to showcase the tributes to the world.

It had been slightly difficult to find enough builders to make the perfect arena for this new sport, but Hana had managed to get her own way. They were currently finishing up the last touches, all of the stone having been arranged and built in order to make the arena aesthetic. She had chosen the vines and the flowers dotting the paths of the arena herself, leaning towards the more tropical plants rather than the tough, sturdy flora of Germany and Europe. There was something mystical about those plants, something that made them brighter and more beautiful than any of the other plants that she had studied, and the beautiful flowers had been chosen to decorate the arena. They were now scattered throughout the arena, the cameras that she had helped to plant in each corner of the arena showing off their best sides. With any luck, the tributes wouldn't find the cameras or the camera crews that she had made hidden rooms and spaces for them to film the competition during their fight to the death. She wouldn't want to deal with the paperwork that would mean.

Otto had already chosen the mentors for the tributes from each country, easily deciding traitors or confidants to the Third Reich to mentor the tributes of their respective regions. The inclusion of Canada and the United States had thrown a wrench in the well-oiled plans for mentors, but both governments had chosen mentors for their tributes. They were currently on their way to Berlin, soldiers of the Third Reich guarding them in case they tried to escape from their escorts to Berlin. Otto didn't need to lose mentors again, even though he had three backups for each region. It was the hassle to find another that was the problem.

But through all of the problems, all of the controversies that were surrounding the competition, Hana and Otto were still able to strive towards the perfect competition. Every detail, every event, it was all planned to the second. Nothing could destroy the competition.

Otto could have the world. As long as Hana could have her dolls, both would be happy.

And that's the last pov! Wow, time has flown by! We're at a month into the story, but I've gotten all 28 tributes! Thank you so much to the 20 of you who have subbed to this little story, and, without further ado, here are all twenty-eight tributes!

British Isles Male: Norman Bennett, 14~ CragmiteBlaster

British Isles Female: Caoimhe Bryne, 16 ~ EllaRoseEverdeen

Polish Male: Karol Karski,15 ~ Liliblossoms

Polish Female: Dahlia Kachlicka, 13 ~ Awesomewriter177

Iberian Male: Pablo Silva, 18 ~ StephenSwiss

Iberian Female: Andrea Gamper, 12 ~ AmericanPI

Afrikkaan Male: Bosede Okafor, 16 ~ CragmiteBlaster

Afrikkaan Female: Amal Issa, 17 ~ Alice Kingsleighs

Baltic Male: Johannes Stølan, 16 ~ Exotence

Baltic Female: Petra Johansson, 17 ~ IVolunteerAsAuthor

Slavic Male: Luka Novak, 18 ~ David12341

Slavic Female: Milena Kovac, 17 ~ David12341

Turkish Male: Deniz Aslan, 12 ~ MewKitCat

Turkish Female: Elif Kaya, 12 ~ finn15

Italian Male: Ignacio Russo, 18 ~ Fire and Starlight

Italian Female: Maria Bellini, 17 ~

Northern European Male: Antoine Deslauriers, 16 ~ Amy's Bones

Northern European Female: Magdalena Pichler, 18 ~ paperairline

Swiss Male: Alxavier Caspari, 16 ~ raykungfu

Swiss Female: Elia Avinkreiger, 15 ~ raykungfu

French Male: Marius Alain, 15 ~ risingballoons

French Female: Gabriella Meier, 14 ~ Mewkitcat

Russian Male: Pyotr Petrovsky, 18 ~ AmericanPI

Russian Female: Juliet Acres, 13 ~ MysticalPineForest

American Male: Beckett Walker, 16 ~ TheEngineeringGames

American Female: Elaine LaBelle, 18 ~ IVolunteerAsAuthor

Canadian Male: Keenan Atherton, 17 ~ TheEngineeringGames

Canadian Female: Abigail Kuepfer, 17 ~ MysticalPineForest

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It'd be nice to see some of you do blog reviews, but if not, that's fine too ;) Enjoy this chapter, and until the first of our seven intro chapters, TheAmazingJAJ