75 Games: Meet the Victors!

by Gamemaker97

This is a defictionalisation of the guide to the Third Quarter Quell handed out to members of the audience on interview night, the evening before the Games. Contains tribute profiles, information about mentors and stylists, an exclusive interview with the Head Gamemaker and more! Side-project to '75 Games, 75 Victors, 75 Oneshots'.

22. Tribute Profile: Indiana James

Tribute Profile

Indiana James

Age: 50

District: 10

First Hunger Games: 42nd, aged 17

Mentored By: Jon Kerry (41st Games), Fernando James (75th Games)

Kills in the Arena: 2

Mentoring Record: 32 Games/ 0 Victors

Training Score: 6

Preferred Weapons: Knife

Stylist: Artem Bradley

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If it wasn't for her links to fellow victors in District 10, Indiana might be a victor that we'd all be inclined to forget. During her Hunger Games over three decades ago, all of the attention was focused on the stronger, more athletic tributes in other districts, who all wore each other out before Indiana strolled in for an easy win.

But we all remember her name because, when Indiana won the 42nd Annual Hunger Games, it became the first time in the history of the Hunger Games that two relatives had become victors, after her cousin Fernando's victory six years earlier. Since then, we have had father and son Amadeus and Brutus Cato, twins Cashmere and Gloss Adlington, and even a grandmother and granddaughter pairing from District 4. But the Jameses were the first.

After the arena, Indiana has had her fair share of headlines in the years following her victory, as she has mentored the girl from District 10 every single year since her Hunger Games, and yet she remains District 10's only female victor. Still, she has worked with her cousin Fernando when they successfully returned Toby Denham from the arena in the 51st Games. Since then, however, District 10 has been unable to find another victor in the Hunger Games.

Away from her regular visits to the Capitol each summer, Indiana gained attention in the Capitol for the James-Bryan scandal; that is, the fallout that occurred when it was revealed that Indiana had been in a long-distance relationship with fellow victor Raphael Bryan of District 2. The problem was never the relationship itself - which crumbled underneath the pressure from the media upon it becoming known to the general public, when Indiana was twenty-two. The problem was with the reaction of fellow victors, people taking up both sides of the battle both for and against such interactions between victors, who had gained a reputation in years prior for being open to any takers, not willing to settle down. But here in the Capitol, support was all for the young pair of victors.

The confrontations eventually came to a head during the summer of the 47th Games, when all of this came to light, and many victors were interviewed and questioned about the events, the newspapers almost as full of the James-Bryan interaction as they were of the Hunger Games unfolding around them. The eventual conclusion to the affair came after a fight during an on-stage interview between Fernando James and Raphael Bryan, which ended up coining the phrase James-Bryan scandal.

After that, Indiana chose to keep to herself when returning each summer for the Hunger Games, preferring just to get on with the job of trying to keep her tribute alive without the hassle of the press. Despite being hounded for the first few years after the scandal, in recent years she has been left to her privacy, even here in the busy Capitol.

For the past few years, Indiana has lived a quiet life in District 10 along with fellow victors Fernando and Toby, working on her talent of cooking. Now, the three of them venture to the Capitol again, this time as a team in the Hunger Games. Toby and Indiana competing, with Fernando calling the shots. Considering how well the three of them must know each other, I'm expecting that District 10 stand a decent chance in the Games this year; probably the best chance of victory they've had since Toby won almost twenty-five years ago.

Indiana won her Hunger Games by outsmarting the opposition, waiting for the major players to take each other out, then strolling in to take the win. In an arena that will be filled with some of the Hunger Games' greatest victors, egos are bound to clash in the Third Quarter Quell, possibly enough so that Indiana will be able to take advantages of her circumstances once again and claim victory.

Only time will tell, but I wouldn't count out Indiana yet.