"AS HER PALE BODY ROTTED IN THE RIVER, IT HAPPENED (VERY SLOWLY) THAT GOD FORGOT HER, FIRST HER FACE, HER HANDS, AT LAST HER HAIR. THEN SHE WAS CARRION WITH THE CARRION IN THE WATER."

– Bertolt Brecht, 'Concerning A Drowned Girl'

𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐁𝐘 𝐀 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐏𝐄𝐑

There is not just one story to this madness. There is not just one face to the misery and bloodshed. They were not monsters before this story. They were not evil before this history was learned and could not be unlearned.

Too many lives were at stake, too many lives intertwined and built upon. 

Their faces all blend into one after time. All just another young life taken and molded, shifted, changed, destroyed–

Their names are burned into flesh and bone, they were marked before they were ever born. They were made to meet, made to have their names reaped. Fated from their first breath to their very last. Seen through the gods eyes as creations meant to be toyed with, meant to be used for their own pleasure, they were no longer children forced to compete. They were gods in the making, the faces of a world built upon rivals and enemies and opponents.

But she is not the same.

She is not the one they thought they would follow. She isn't anybody to them, until her name was pulled from the glass and she was chosen to be the face of a District who'd forgotten about her amongst the other young and desperate faces. But the Capitol would never forget, nor would its people after the glimmering faces and unyielding cameras. No one could hide from the truth that had plagued the country and in the backs of insolent minds.

She changed the games, and they followed her. Death was her friend, long before she entered the games. She chose a path designed by her own hand, other the Capitol's, and she made sure they knew her name when the blood finally reigned. 

And, oh, how it all reigned down in red. Wrath was not something to be messed with, it was not an emotion to take lightly, and she let it reign down like howls and curses and burning red blood, something that could not be stanched.

𝐒𝐇𝐄 𝐈𝐒 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐖𝐇𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐘 𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐁𝐔𝐓 𝐖𝐇𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐘 𝐍𝐄𝐄𝐃𝐄𝐃

STARRING

marie avgeropoulos, KERES LYKAIOS 

[care–us] [lie–KYE–oss]

━ 18, bisexual, district 10 ━

"the wolf in sheep's clothing"

kathryn newton, BRYN EASTON

━ 17, district 2 ━

"the career princess"

cho yi hyun, PHELIA "LIA" JIN

━ 18, district 5 ━

"the open-hearted"

young skeet ulrich, ADONIS WILDER 

━ 18, district 2 ━

"the bloodthirsty prince"

timothée chalamet, HELIOS LYKAIOS

━ 17, district 10 ━

"the loyal brother"

&&

as described , demetrius lykaios 𐠒

as described , aggie lykaios 𐠒

djimon hounsou & javier bardem , EVANDER & DANTE \ the mentors

deborah ann woll , CYPRESS \ the stylist

milla jovovich , CLOELIA HEMERA \ escort 

as described , the hunger games characters 

ACT I : 

"THE 73RD GAMES"

oc x oc

ACT II :

"THE QUARTER QUELL"

oc x finnick odair

TRIGGER WARNINGS━━blood, gore, graphic violence, war, weapons, alcohol/drugs, strong language, unhealthy coping mechanisms, evil government, sexual content, suicide, mentions of suicide, angst, pain

DISCLAIMERS━━i do not own any of the hunger games. i do own my ocs: keres, the lykaois family, all of the tributes in the 73rd hunger games, the mentors/cypress. i do not own any of the gifs used, all found from google. i do own the moodboards made for the graphics. i will also be creating some of my own lore for the 73rd hunger games because i can and i want to lollll

DEDICATIONS━━ to all my beloveds sunexits paIedeath -Aphrxdite- rhaenryas maybankslighter velvetfilm wishboneflu  darlingmurdock sunsethysteria Izziaa -whiteoak  wheelerslut auguskzt and anyone else who reads this <33

AUTHOR'S NOTE━━obviously this will be going away from canon knowledge of the 73rd games but i wanted to make my own and tie it into the 75th games (the quarter quell) so it'll go into the plot of catching fire!! there isn't a set love interest yet. i want to develop the characters and see where it goes first because i have one idea which i like but theres another that could work too so.....(speaking only on ACT ONE and not act two bc come on....we all know who the love interest is aka golden child finnick odair)

pls pls pls don't be a ghost reader <33 i really appreciate any type of comments+voting

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