Where Every Scroll is a New Adventure
The world in front of her was so blurry that she couldn't see Beetee's facial expression. “I'm sorry, Maze.”
“I can't do it.” Her voice broke. “I don't want to—I can't—be the Victor!”
There. She said it. The V word, in reference to herself.
Beetee's words softened even more. “I'm so sorry.”
https://archiveofourown.org/works/56468086/chapters/166324528
Fandom: The Hunger Games - All Media Types
Rating: Mature
Graphic Depictions of Violence, Major Character Death
Relationships: OC & OC, Beetee Latier & OC, Beetee Latier & Wiress
Summary: “Maze Donahue always thought she would be lonely forever. No one wanted to be friends with a troublesome orphan with a penchant for pranks. But when the unthinkable happens and she is Reaped for the 57th Hunger Games, she is shocked to find people taking an interest in her for the first time ever - the Capitol, her mentor Beetee, and even other tributes. She must deal with the impermanence of this social support, including the deaths of her allies, and try to survive the horrors of the Hunger Games and all that comes afterwards.
But no matter what, she won’t ever be alone again.”
NOTE: Read the author’s note at the beginning of this chapter!!! I’ll post it on here as well
I created a fun little personality quiz based on the characters from my fic Unto the Labyrinth!
No need to have read it to take it! Let me know who you all get :)
Anxiety overtook Maze. She thumbed her ring, fingers trembling.
She was up.
Finally, the applause for the District 2 boy began dying down, and someone wearing all black at the side of the stage motioned to Maze, indicating she was next.
She sat up straight and prepared to stand up, moving her thumb over her ring one last time. Her heart pounded in her chest.
“And now, for someone who we’ve been curious about since her Reaping, and even more curious about since the tribute parade,” Caesar announced. “The one and only, Maze Donahue, from District 3!”
Maze took a deep breath, stood up, and walked out onto the stage to thunderous applause.
Fandom: The Hunger Games - All Media Types
Rating: Mature
Graphic Depictions of Violence, Major Character Death
Relationships: OC & OC, Beetee Latier & OC
Summary: “Maze Donahue always thought she would be lonely forever. No one wanted to be friends with a troublesome orphan with a penchant for pranks. But when the unthinkable happens and she is Reaped for the 57th Hunger Games, she is shocked to find people taking an interest in her for the first time ever - the Capitol, her mentor Beetee, and even other tributes. She must deal with the impermanence of this social support, including the deaths of her allies, and try to survive the horrors of the Hunger Games and all that comes afterwards.
But no matter what, she won’t ever be alone again.”
Beetee’s hollow, despaired eyes at his final interview would not leave her mind. The eyes of a man — no, a boy — who had just witnessed an entire week full of horrors. The eyes of a boy who knew that out of the twenty-four sent into the arena, he was the sole survivor. The eyes of a boy who had to live with the fact that he had murdered six other teenagers.
Now, across the table, a calm, collected man sat and ate his dinner. There was no trace of the despair he once had anywhere on him.
Maze wondered just how Beetee had learned to live with it all. How he managed to compartmentalize his negative emotions and memories from the Games. Or if he hadn’t and just learned to mask it well.
She wanted to know what made him tick.
Fandom: The Hunger Games - All Media Types
Rating: Mature
Graphic Depictions of Violence, Major Character Death
Relationships: OC & OC, Beetee Latier & OC
Summary: “Maze Donahue always thought she would be lonely forever. No one wanted to be friends with a troublesome orphan with a penchant for pranks. But when the unthinkable happens and she is Reaped for the 57th Hunger Games, she is shocked to find people taking an interest in her for the first time ever - the Capitol, her mentor Beetee, and even other tributes. She must deal with the impermanence of this social support, including the deaths of her allies, and try to survive the horrors of the Hunger Games and all that comes afterwards.
But no matter what, she won’t ever be alone again.”
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Here, have a snippet from Unto the Labyrinth, my Hunger Games OC fic
The cameras cut to Maze posing and acting cute, as well as some of the crowd’s reactions to her. They seemed enthralled by Maze’s actions.
Caesar chortled. “Ho ho, the crowd is just eating Miss Donahue up! And she’s eating them up, it seems. Adorable! I cannot believe this is the same girl who was yelling and cursing at her Reaping. She did a complete one-eighty!”
“I don’t know, Caesar,” Melia replied, clicking her tongue. “She’s posing and acting like you’d expect from someone from a Career district. District 3 tributes are not nearly prestigious enough to show off like that. Like, come on, you’re District 3. They’ve only had like what, four Victors in fifty-seven years? It’s cringeworthy, in my opinion. This girl obviously thinks she’s much hotter shit than she actually is, excuse my language.”
Maze, biting into a giant fried animal leg, let out an indignant noise.
That bitch!
Troy laughed. “Ha! Told you so!”
Caesar looked taken aback. He gave his co-host a side-eyed glance. “Well, that’s certainly an opinion.”
The two commentators moved on as District 4’s chariot appeared on-screen.
“I never liked Melia Ferrero,” Philomena commented, cutting up her meat with her knife and fork. “She always has something negative to say about everybody and everything. People like her are absolutely exhausting.”
She glanced pointedly at Troy as she said that. He didn’t seem to notice, jovially continuing to scarf down his food.
Hey, so I've been searching endlessly for a hayffie fic on ao3, but it seems to elude me. If anyone can help me to find it, I'd be really grateful.
The premise was that the rebellion happened not on the third quarter quell, but at the second one. Five/six years later, the rebels won and made a final hunger games for the capitol children, and Haymitch ends up as Effie's mentor.
"Haymitch was furious. Dr. Trinket was a good man"
Snow's granddaughter, who I'm pretty sure was named Cassandra, was also in the games. Effie kills her with a mahogany branch.
After Effie wins, she goes to travel around with her father and then returns to Haymitch
"You did promised to take me on a date"
Then they settle down and have a daughter
It was published somewhere around 2015 and 2022, but I haven't been able to find it anywhere in ao3.
check out my finnick x oc fic on ao3. its silver linings by kaiyapapaya
So I really like the popular fanon of the hunger games being a memoir that Katniss wrote and published. But recently I came across an analysis here on tumblr (don’t remember by who) about how Katniss writing and publishing the hunger games is out of character for canon Katniss. That got me thinking about how in the real world people close to and especially the children or parents of a famous person will write or edit a diary of a loved one after they have died.
So here’s the idea what if Katniss wrote down her experiences in a journal in order to process her trauma perhaps around the time of the epilogue. Fast forward years into the future and Katniss and Peeta have died of old age, while going through all their parents stuff the toast babies find the journals and decide to read them.
Together they would publish the journals maybe as a way to preserve their parents story or their might be some misleading rumors they want to stop. Ether way the toast babies publish the books and Katniss stays in character.