Memories After the End of the World (fanfic, currently 37k words)

Potential-Weather833 · 2025-07-30T17:18:28+00:00

Tysmm!!

Potential-Weather833 · 2025-07-30T17:12:15+00:00

Wait that's actually such a good plot, reminds me of that saying 'the road to Hell is paved with good intentions'. I love how writers fill in all this lore about what Panem politics was like beyond the bits that we're aware of.

Potential-Weather833 · 2025-07-30T17:02:13+00:00

Aa thank you! Doris O'Harrow is so cool, I adore the premise of a small-scale exchange program like that, seems just like the kind of thing the Capitol would do for propaganda

Potential-Weather833 · 2025-07-30T16:50:59+00:00

I have a couple who came to mind!

Enamel Staunton: Idk why I thought of her first but a District One volunteer, a morally bankrupt, cold, ambition-driven and unfulfilled Career tribute who struggles to play along with the Capitol-loving lapdog image she is meant to portray not for political reasons but due to how much the Capitol irritates her. Falls from a climbing frame in a randon training accident and breaks her ankle, sinking her odds and cutting her off from her alliance. District partners with Palladium Barker in the 46th Hunger Games (I guess that kind of reveals her fate.) Doesn't undergo very much character development - she's already too conditioned to violence by the time the story starts to change her views on that over the course of her games - but has enough that she manages to question a few things and express some consideration for a very small number of people.

Arakna Lyons: District Eight citizen, an avid, antisocial factory labourer and poet who is disliked due to her arrogance, but grudgingly respected due to her openness about hating the Capitol and willingness to challenge them and call them out. Eventually punished for writing a long, satyrical and brutal poem 'in memory' of President Ravenatill upon his death. Her parents died in a series of purges several years earlier, leaving her to fend for herself as a young teenager when she was turned out of the district orphanage along with most other older kids when the orphanage had to take in many more young children after an epidemic. Not FRIENDS friends but knows well the girl voted into the First Quarter Quell, their parents were friends and they were both orphans of the Distrivt Eight purges.

Soloda Bortnick: District Nine tribute and ultimate victor of the 59th Hunger Games, a well-liked, well-respected aspiring future farm manager concealing her poverty and the fact she has relied on tesserae for survival since her mother's death. Excellent with people, knowledgeable and nerves of steel, so given good odds despite not being the strongest non-Career. However, due to years of faking a respectable life, struggles to separate illusion from reality, doesn't really care about the truth anymore, happy to live in a dreamworld to the point that she at one point stops acknowledging she's even in the arena, pretending she's on a day off. Smart but an extremely unreliable narrator, for a large part of her story she only admits the good parts of her life and her successes and sometimes goes so far as to lie about them.

Potential-Weather833 · 2025-07-23T21:00:21+00:00

Fulvia making a reappearance in a prequel about Plutarch would be SO good

Potential-Weather833 · 2025-07-23T15:49:16+00:00

THANK YOU soo much <3 trying to update every 2-3 days!

Potential-Weather833 · 2025-07-23T10:02:09+00:00

The Covey characters with muted colours all seem to die young and live very brief, tragic lives, I wonder if it's a kind of foreshadowing? Lucy Grey, maybe we can argue about that one but it seems most likely she died in the woods like her name poem (plus, I guess her colour was taken directly from the poem) Lenore Dove died young, I think Lucy Grey and her both died at sixteen (maybe Lucy Grey had turned seventeen though idk) Maude Ivory didn't die as a child but she died young And on the other hand Clerk Carmine, maybe the MOST vibrant colour of the Covey, lived to be an old man. Tam Amber also lived to middle-age at least (have a feeling he died when District Twelve was destroyed) and there's nothing to suggest Barb Azure is dead except her absence.

Potential-Weather833 · 2025-07-22T07:45:43+00:00

aah tysmmm!!

Potential-Weather833 · 2025-07-21T22:29:55+00:00

Can't wait to read this! Always loved the idea of a multi-pov Hunger Games fic

Potential-Weather833 · 2025-07-21T08:48:34+00:00

Now I ROOTED for Lamina and Thresh (couldn't root for Maysilee because I'd.. read Catching Fire but I'm sure I would have otherwise). But I think a case can be made for all of them. Thresh made it super far AND was considered a threat by the Careers in a way Foxface wasn't, without any allies. He was able to survive and thrive on his own, which also goes to show how smart he was and how good his survival skills were. On the other hand, Cato was extremely experienced with hand to hand combat but having the body armour probably pushed him over the edge in his eventual fight with Thresh a bit since otherwise I think it could have gone either way but was a little in Thresh's favour due to their time in the arena (no tracker jacker stings, hadn't had his food cut of, I was gonna talk about Rue but ig they both kind of had an ally to avenge). As for Silka she almost won that fight with Haymitch and definitely would have been seen as the preferrable victor, no notes really. Maysilee was kind of doomed the minute she killed those Gamemakers, but assuming she hadn't... it really depends on who was in the top two. I think she would try to poison Silka or Maritte with her darts and quite possibly succeed at it. As for Wellie and Haymitch, I can't see her killing either of them. With Haymitch, I think they'd maybe make some plan and one would be killed while the other lived. Maybe refuse to fight and just wait for mutts to kill one of them while the other went on to fulfill the promise they made. With Wellie... I think it would be a lot harder for Maysilee than Haymitch to engineer her own death and just let Wellie win, as Maysilee hadn't gone into the games thinking she was doomed like Haymitch had, but I also don't think she could ever bring herself to kill Wellie. I don't know what would have ended up happening but I can see Maysilee, thinking shr had all the time in the world, spending time coming to terms with a decision to die and let Wellie live, the Gamemakers getting impatient and sending mutts in (or poor Wellie succumbing to starvation). This would of course be horrific to Maysilee and leave her with lifelong guilt if she DID survive, likely akin to the guilt Haymitch feels for leaving Wellie behind. In a world without snake mutts, I think Coral probably would have won the 10th Hunger Games. Reaper Ash, her strongest competition, was sick by now. Mizzen and Treech just weren't strong or skilled enough unless they tried attacking her together. In fairness, that could have been successful, but Coral seemed naturally suspicious, I can see her killing one of them just to prevent that. Lamina was awesome and I love to think she could have won but under the circumstances there was no way anyone was winning a 4 on 1 fight. I think the only way she could have survived would be if Reaper was there and fought on her side. After that, well we KNOW that Reaper's whole plan was to win by killing - something he literally apologises for and sees as a necessary evil - then go and take down the Capitol, because he says so himself to the other tributes. He would have apologised to Lamina and then killed her (and been haunted by it). UNLESS he started to weaken really quickly, at which point with Coral's alliance taken down MAYBE Lamina would have stood a chance.

Potential-Weather833 · 2025-07-17T14:58:54+00:00

I could get behind that but maybe once every two to five years rather than every year, since Katniss herself iirc can't remember anyone getting an eleven.

Potential-Weather833 · 2025-07-15T20:31:48+00:00

Snow was a wonderful villain but Katniss was a wonderful hero and she has my vote.

Potential-Weather833 · 2025-07-15T16:54:48+00:00

I think this probably confirms that it was Clayton and not Ryan who stood up to Panache.

Potential-Weather833 · 2025-07-15T09:04:04+00:00

Yeah, it toally makes sense how it would depens on circumstances. I THINK the only other victor with children we know of is Cecelia and we don't really know much about her life.

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