Knowledge is power. Maize did not feel powerful. This world was often unforgiving and cruel. And yet, she had found the most unsuspecting thing of all in its midst. Love, in the form of a barbed, shadowed smile and haunted blue-green eyes. No one won the Hunger Games. You just survived it. (RATED T/M) (B/c it's the HUNGER GAMES)

"On the 125th Games, to remind us that some relationships aren't forever and our country survived even the worst betrayal, the arena will be made of illusion." (SYOT open)

A darker tale, in an alternate universe, of the final years of the Capitol's reign through the eyes of a previous victor. Certain chapters will have trigger warnings.

Nikki Swift finds herself competing against her crush in a game of death. Will she get the courage to tell him how she feels before sending him back home? Or will she be the only one standing? (Peeta M./ O.C., Katniss E./ Gale)

Post-Mockingjay :: Ten years after the rebellion, Katniss is still plagued by nightmares of all the promises she failed to keep for her sister... :: One-shot :: Hurt/Comfort :: Introspection

(Story Rewrite to add more depth and detail expansion. Enjoy!) Luce is one of the few to win the Games at a young age. Learning she must now return and fight once more, how will she handle it? Will she blame the two responsible for being sent back? Or will she fight alongside them and help bring down the Games.

Who dare dances with the serpentine coil of pressure, twisting and winding until it causes all it's partners to break? [ GOLDEN ROSES VERSE ] [CLOSED SYOT]

Silenced by justice, these are the ones that never escaped. These are their names. These are the stories that have long been forgotten. A compilation of short one shots from 'The Cut Verse'. Prompt list by Nadare Writer.

My foray into the SYOT world

5 years before Katniss and Peeta made a statement in their Hunger Games Lysander a tribute from District 10 volunteers to fight. Will he survive

Several years after Katniss's banishment to Victors Village, Katniss and Peeta have lived secluded in peace until a past revelation disrupts that peace, a familiar foe turned friend tells them of a rogue faction of Snow sympathizers have begun to kidnap Capitol children, taking them to Snow Island, where suspicions have risen about a new Hunger Games taking place.

A Lucy Gray Baird story.

January Jameson is a seventeen year old girl living in District Six, struggling to look after her younger brothers and avoid her former friend and victor Ransom. Until she's reaped and commits the ultimate taboo. She falls in love with her mentor. Will this strategy keep her alive? Or will it only irritate the people of the capitol, the Gamemakers, and her district partner Titus.

Credits to the owner

Annie's just won the 70th Hunger Games, but she soon learns that nobody actually wins the Hunger Games unscathed.

"Between all the giddiness and familiarity of the boy with bread, Katniss can't help but think of the roof when they spent the day enjoying the warmth and playing like children. She remembers Peeta's words to her then, that he wished he could freeze the moment forever. She feels the same way right now." OR the one where Katniss takes Peeta to the lake.

Hunger Games, Canon Divergent. Romance, generally. Incorporates some elements of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes in later chapters

No amount of preparing would have been enough for Ari. Faced with the choice to take on the burden of being this years 70th Hunger Games victor or die trying, Ari is determined to make something of herself and save her sister in the process. No matter what has happened in her past, the man with the sea green eyes will not get in her way.

"Perhaps, we are making history...Only time will tell if we were the heroes or villains." In 64 years the familiar can become unrecognizable. Villains rise and fall, tributes become Victors, and the smallest of choices can echo decades later shaping a new future. Connected stories across 64 years of Hunger Games from tributes, Victors, villains, heroes, & long forgotten voices.

I wrote a fic about the 23rd Games, and that spiraled into a little universe with 22 Victors I had to make up. This will give them backstories I can draw on for future appearances. I'll be adding more Victors as more come from my SYOTs. Canon Victors will get a little something, but I don't want to mess with them, since neither I nor my readers made them up, so they'll be shorter.

In which Katniss misses her shot on Cato and has to climb down from the cornucopia to retrieve the arrow; and confront her former enemy. Extended ending to the first book, canon compliant.

Dakota Grangerford is just a disabled, abandoned child. And that's all she ever would be, until she was reaped for the 54th Hunger Games. All Dakota expects is death. But even in the arena, kindness and goodness can conquer anything. Victor Exchange with AmericanPi

the chosen; they are the 24 hand picked tributes for the 4th quarter quell. they are the strong, the brave, the fearless and everyone in between. [24/24] [SYOT closed]

Modern AU: It's been six years since Katniss Everdeen fled Panem Island after the brutal murder of her mother. The wedding of her best friend, Gale Hawthorne, forces her back home to face the past, including the man she left behind. But when the guests start dying one by one, she realizes the killer has also returned to finish what he/she started. Everlark. Cover by the amazing Ro.

Katniss and Peeta's daughter is 12. The same age that children started getting reaped at. Same age Prim was when she was reaped. Now she is in school learning about the huger games. How will Willow react when she finds out her parents were involved. How will Peeta and Katniss react when they find out their daughter will watch their games?