Ok, this is the interview chapter (duh!) and I'm gonna post the updated schedule here:
Interviews (now)
Strategy, Alliances and Mentors
The Games
The Victor
Obituaries
Review this story with any alliances you want to see, next chapter you'll see the preplanned ones but there is always room for change- chance meetings, desertion, merging, and others!
I've decided that for sponsor gifts, just PM/review with what you wanna send and I'll decide whether to send it, turn it down a notch or not send it if I don't want to or that would ruin the plot thingy I have. Notes from home must be approved by me, K and the submitter. :)
I apologise to MeepBoshiPineBerries for making Manly Waffles, not Waffle.
Ditto Bell8421 with Marcel (Denver, not Denvers!).
I'm gonna add Caramella's magazine article to the end of every chapter if I can. Unless I find it a bit irrelevant or just can't be bothered. Like this time.
I didn't get any better at writing dialogue, so expect a significant lack of it, especially here.
I think that's all, let's dive in!
Venice Liana, D1F
I feel a bit awkward in this revealing dress- a bit like a duck out of water- but I can't deny it's beautiful. It's essentially a red minidress with a low neckline, a cutout in the back and tiny sequins and gemstones along the hem.
Of course, I'll be expected to take up the mantle and act like the typical District One ditzy blonde girl- and play sexy for the interview.
I've heard I'm the favourite to win, though, so it's all worth it.
If the Capitol want me to win, the Gamemakers will give me a helping hand. It's just something they do.
And I intend to use that to my advantage.
Manly Waffles, D1M
Apparently, I'm so egotistical that I won't have any trouble playing off my angle. I don't really understand, but the crowd are loving it and that's all that matters right now.
'Cause I'm only getting closer to winning.
I do wish I was wearing something other than this suit though. It's infuriating, being black and white strips of fabric fashioned into a barely decent suit. It's snug as it is, and that's with no undergarments because 'they're going to take up too much space!' If I wore them though...
I just want to get into the Games. That's what I tell Rosiella Moonshine, and the it's true as well.
I just wanna get going.
Amber Balcen, D2F
I love this dress! It's tight but not too tight, it's a gorgeous blue colour and made of velvet.
My angle- that's what my mentor, Caspian, called it- is 'clever, dreamy, an atypical Career.'
Basically, he said, just be me.
So that's what I do, balancing precariously on heels I never imagined could be in my feet.
Diaz Thompson, D2M
Of course I go for the confident, arrogant District Two Male.
I breeze through the interview and sneak backstage where I get a swig of Amber's mentor's drink before heading to my room and crashing.
Rosiella Moonshine, Games Interviewer
I'm through my first four tributes. I like to think of this year as my first, as last year I only started half way through the interviews- the poison the President and I used on Twyla Pastelle took a little longer than expected.
I try to arouse the audience- after the first Careers, they tend to get a tad bored. A part of this may be because, although Four are often Careers, they generally find Three quite dreary, more so than outer Districts.
Speaking of Three, I'm not quite sure the girl is right in the head. Throughout her interview, and I'm told at other times too, she just kept repeating one phrase- the audience sure got a kick out of that!
Ella Crank, D3F
I have slightly changed my mantra.
My name is Ella Crank. I am 15 years old, and I lived in District Three. Until I was Reaped. The Capitol stripped me of the last few things I had. I hate the Capitol.
Because I do. The Capitol are the worst- they are horrible.
Battery Wilson, D3M
I know it's stereotypical, but I take on intelligent as my angle. However, I tried to throw in a bit of wittiness and charm to make the Capitol like me more.
But they were too busy laughing at Poor Ol' Ella, as she's known back home, who was repeating a rather rebellious phrase continually. They were just jeering at her, I think. They don't understand.
Enough defending Ella, I need to focus on myself and getting out the arena- still have no clue what that is.
I'll admit it, I tried to hack into the database, only to find it wiped clean of files.
Strange.
Liron Aires, D4F
Although the Capitol don't realise it, I'm trying to get Marcel sponsors, not me. Not that it seems to be working.
President Snow and his team of Hunger Games executives have spun Marcel and I into a tragic love story, forever doomed.
The truth isn't far from it.
Marcel Denvers,
I try to gain sponsors for me and Liron- mostly her.
Only one of us can get out alive, and I really want it to be her.
So I play up my angle with all my might, trying to act all dazed and in love- the Capitol have decided I volunteered for Liron, and Ace being Reaped is just an excuse- they saw the stern look she gave Casey and decided it was aimed towards me.
It couldn't have been, because I was in a completely different section.
Rosiella Moonshine, Games Interviewer
The District Four lovebirds are too cute!
The boy tried to pretend he didn't volunteer for her, but his brother, but the telltale blush creeping up his face told otherwise.
District Three was a disaster, but thankfully, the audience loved my play up for the D4 tributes.
I think I'm safe.
Elizabeth Schuyler, D5F
My interview was a blur.
I think I did well, and my escort said she's already gotten a couple of sponsor deals for me and Brad 3.
But I don't remember anything except their 'hearts melting-' Rosiella's words- at my tears when I mentioned Angie.
Apparently, going with the nickname Eliza was a smart move, but really I just hate being called Elizabeth- it was the name of my great aunt, who was a loyalist in the war.
A loyalist is something I am not.
Brad 3 Einstein, D5M
"Why did you volunteer?"
"To win, to kill, to avenge my brother."
One question out the way.
I just answered the questions and tried to come off as brutish- not too hard, I'm a natural.
Ilana Whipple, D6F
Well that was a flop.
I stuttered and told them stuff they already knew and I hit the interviewer with a shoe when she asked for a demonstration in slipper throwing.
I think I lost all sponsors.
Elber Penley, D6M
My angle is friendly and I think I do pretty well.
But not well enough to completely save my life. Just enough for a helping hand.
Rosiella Moonshine, Games Interviewer
The District Six girl almost hit me with her stiletto!
It was expertly crafted and thrown though.
The boy from her District took on an interesting angle for his District. Friendly.
He did it well though, showed the rest of the Capitolites the true meaning of friendship, all in those three minutes he got in the limelight.
District Five was... interesting.
Very interesting indeed.
Fawn Ashwood, D7F
I'm not sure what my angle is, now that I think about it, but the crowds are loving it so I'm good.
I try and incorporate a bit of humbleness and I think I got it. That's not what I was supposed to do though. What was it?
James Grace, D7M
I tell the interviewer a bunch of nonsense that the brainless woman actually believed! Apparently I have twelve sisters, nine brothers, no dad, and my grandfather likes to eat dried pineapple with his coffee, but only if it's been soaked in tepid water before being dried. For God's sake, there isn't even pineapple in Seven! It's something I only discovered yesterday and I kinda fell in love with it.
Anna Blanche, D8F
I don't remember much of the interview... only what happened before.
The gang boy- Ethan- was constantly flirting with me to the breaking point.
I think he may have kissed me but I'm not too sure.
Ethan Spool, D8M
I did it.
I kissed her.
Then I bombed my interview.
Rosiella Moonshine, Games Interviewer
The last few tributes were a disaster.
I refuse to speak of any of them, James or Anna or Ethan.
Fawn, however, was ADORABLE. I'm definitely gonna sponsor her- through my husband, however, as I'm not allowed to sponsor or bet. It's one of the downfalls of working in the Games industry.
Athena Fields, D9F
I sailed through the interview, paying my angle no heed.
I may have a chance in these Games now.
Maximus Stalk, D9M
One smart move. One.
'Please, call me Max. Can I say I love your dress?'
I. Hate. My. Life.
Victoria Renmin, D10F
I play the sassy card. No surprise there.
A surprise, though, is I'm expected to badmouth Jorge.
That was really satisfying.
Jorge Horn, D10M
I flirt a lot with th interviewer and the audience- by the time I'm done, they're practically eating out of my hand.
Score!
Rosiella Moonshine, Games Interviewer
Almost done.
Four tributes left.
The outermost Districts- and they may actually be interesting.
(No more Rosiella Moonshine now!)
Lucky Malone, D11F
For some reason, I am vengeful. According to my mentor, anyway.
Water, Chrissy, this is for you.
Logan Rifter, D11M
I refuse to acknowledge what just happened.
I was told to act desirable and, like the stupid fool I am, I complied.
Amy Scotts, D12F
I do my party piece and get the hell outta there.
Too. Many. People.
Quentin Fake, D12M
I act scared- which I am.
I act meek- which I am.
I act clueless and a bit stupid and like I have no idea about the harshness of this world- which I am not.
Yay! I'm done.
The chapter took a whil. It was a bit of a drag to write.
Do you like it?
Wahoo!'Cause why not?
I think the Games will be here around next week, maybe a bit later,
So YAYAYAYAYAYAY!
Did I mention Yay?
Xoxo,
~CandyRue
Hi. Random thing I suggest you ignore:
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS, MY FRIEND.
AND WE'LL KEEP ON FIGHTING TIL THE END!