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Breaking Pointe by twobraincellkentwell
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
25 Nov 2025
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"Living a lie isn't the best option, but when it's the only thing I can do to survive, when it's my only choice, what else can I do?"
In which Satin Nicholo strives to survive even when the odds are stacked against her because she knows that the Gamemakers are going to make her life particularly challenging; having a knack for knowing her weaknesses before she's even aware of them. Playing a role, making unthinkable sacrifices and living a lie.
It's the price she has to pay for following in the footsteps of her siblings.
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Haven't you seen the ruins of our world? by GoddessofImaginary_Rusalochki
Fandoms: Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
24 Nov 2025
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24 platforms had stood in a circle around a structure so golden it had blinded Ceres’ eyes.
From the bloody snow, a lone survivor had emerged.
Grim and silent, the figure now walked out of the shadows, a trail of the most vibrant crimson red followed behind. She carried her sins with her, her shoulders almost succumbing to the weight of it, but still she stood tall and prideful.
She was a victor, dead nor alive, but a victor nonetheless...
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Or, the story of the 67th hunger games and its victor. But is victory really worth it all?Series
- Part 3 of Foxiesa's district 9 works
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The Head Gamermakership of Charlemagne Royage by crunchy_granola
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins, Sunrise On The Reaping - Suzanne Collins
22 Nov 2025
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The 59th Hunger Games, through the eyes of a veteran gamemaker.
Charlemagne Royage was head gamemaker for a few terrible years. Fulvia spent most of this time hyperventilating, taking deep breaths, and screaming into a pillow. Plutarch spent it building a rebellion.
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- Part 4 of Stories from the Control Room
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Charade by enigma104
Fandoms: Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, The Hunger Games (Movies)
11 Nov 2025
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'Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under't.'
- Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 1, scene 5.Glimmer was never meant to be in the 74th Hunger Games, but one thing led to another, and now here she is, competing in a fight to the death...
...oops?
But though the others might dismiss her as weak, Glimmer has a hand to play, and she will do whatever it takes to win. Even if it means losing herself in the process...
The 74th Hunger Games from Glimmer's perspective.
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- Part 2 of Different Perspectives
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blink of an eye by risingballoons
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games (Movies)
07 Nov 2025
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another games, another year of faces forgotten too soon. mini-syot closed
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The Dare by SusquehannaOwl
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games (Movies)
07 Nov 2025
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Reaping Eve is a holiday in District 4, where no one enters the arena except by choice. The families of young children celebrate their safety; the Elites who will volunteer have been training for this moment all their lives. But on Reaping Eve of the 65th Hunger Games, there's an accident. On Reaping Day, there's a dare. Equal parts cocky and compassionate, fourteen-year-old Finnick volunteers against Mags' instructions. Somehow that's all it takes for the system to start breaking down, especially for the most prominent Elite family in Four: the Crestas. Watching from home as a newly minted celebrity demolishes the competition isn't what they'd planned on.
Or: It's all well and good to live in a Career district and know someone will always volunteer. But someone has to be the person who's been told from birth that his highest calling is to be a human sacrifice.
Shout out to CryptidGrimnoir137 as my sounding board, including prompting the original idea.
Marked complete because the original ending is complete. Alternate ending updates occasionally.
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IV: The Softest Grain Grinds First by st4rgir2
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
28 Oct 2025
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Follow's Mazie Barnette, District 9 Victor of the 69th Hunger Games, from after the 70th Games and onward as an investigation of the nature of compliance derived from fear, continuing themes of finding comfort when possible in light of processing and accepting past and ongoing traumas.
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The Playground in the Sky by SusquehannaOwl
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
27 Oct 2025
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Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Mags Flanagan, the most powerful woman in District 4, returns to the Capitol for the first time after mentoring Haymitch to victory. She walks with a cane. She fears for the safety of her tributes and her fellow victors.
Her longtime co-mentor has a plan to lead District 4 to victory just one year after Mags' punishment, but Mags' attachment to Haymitch makes it even more difficult than usual to strike a balance between Career and Rebel. As Maysilee once said, what's the deal with District 4, anyway?
(If you just want the Haymitch and Mags reunion, that's chapter 3.)
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Kinder Fates by Foreverry
Fandoms: Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
27 Oct 2025
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It takes her ten years, but eventually Cashmere realizes that death is a kinder fate than the life of a victor
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or five times Cashmere wished she could have saved her tribute, and the one time she was thankful she couldn't -
Do You Dream of the Alba Menelmacar? by Something_happens_sometimes
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games (Movies)
26 Oct 2025
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And if you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Day One. If Gloss can make it through one day alive, then he can make it through the next. He wants to forget the Games. And what they did to him.
But it’s just the start of a journey through hell, because who knows what will happen. Maybe he’ll find what he’s been searching for all along. Peace.
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- Part 3 of The Broken Paths
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 800
- Chapters:
- 1/39
- Kudos:
- 2
- Hits:
- 55
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In the Name of Family by glowstick_embers
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
25 Oct 2025
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196 years in, and the Hunger Games have never been more popular, at least in the ratings that matter. With entire dynasties of victors, record breaking performances, and the most unique and exciting arenas ever, the Capitol spends every summer enthralled. Victors stand at the height of celebrity, beholden to the whims of the public. The districts are left to live with the Games however they can.
A career dreams of being a hero and champion for his district. A legacy must survive the consequences for the decisions of victors who came before her. A caretaker cannot allow her dying mother or loving girlfriend to see her give up. A victor is tasked with keeping his first tribute alive while still learning to cope with his own survival.
24 tributes will enter the arena. 24 mentors will guide them. 24 families will watch and hope they come home. In the end, only one can survive.
This is not an NSFW fic, but it does deal with mature themes surrounding the way those in the spotlight are abused.
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- Part 1 of What We Do to Survive
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What would you do for love?/A Finnick Odair x Original Female Character Story by ghosting_awayyy
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
19 Oct 2025
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Adira Lune is District Twos best Career in training, and with all her Familys pressure she Volenteers for the 66th annual Hunger Games.
When she than arrives in the Capitol to be prepared for the Games and meets all the other Tributes her inner feelings come up and she asks herself if thats really what her true wish is.
But when they arrive in the arena, all those feelings will be forgoten. Or will they?Series
- Part 1 of Adira Lune
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,478
- Chapters:
- 1/?
- Kudos:
- 2
- Hits:
- 38
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Different Beasts - Careertober 2025 by Nightscar
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games (Movies)
10 Oct 2025
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A hero’s journey,
Virtuous and brave.
A story told throughout generations.
Passed on as the pinnacle
Of all that is true and righteous.A hero’s journey will guide
And forge the next.
A hero’s journey
Whose quest is to overcome
Even the best.A series of brief stories for SunnyJustice’s Careertober about various Career tributes and their experiences before, during, and after the Hunger Games.
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- Part 6 of The Price of Victory
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A Fragile Game We Play With The Ghosts Of Yesterday - Careertober 2025 by GoddessofImaginary_Rusalochki for SunnyJustice
Fandoms: Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
04 Oct 2025
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Short(ish) chapters about career tributes (and victors) that I'm writing for Careertober 2025 (by SunnyJustice)!
(Updates might be slow sadly, though I do hope to get this finished before next year)
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Of Bonds and Tours by SilentFogCat
Fandoms: The Hunger Games (Movies), Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
04 Oct 2025
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Finnick Odair is the latest victor, and the Capitol's new golden boy. But that status comes at a steep price, one that Zircon Summersong knows all too well.
Navigating the Capitol, especially as a child, is no easy feat. Luckily, Zircon knows a thing or two.
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- Part 1 of Capitol Savoir-Faire
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How to Kill a Princess by Taygeetee
Fandoms: The Hunger Games (Movies), Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (Movie 2023), Sunrise On The Reaping - Suzanne Collins
30 Sep 2025
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Jordyn Hallows is smarter than you. She's got cheating in her blood, and she's got more brains than you'll ever have. She knows that the Hunger Games is all about your image, and she's got them wrapped around her finger.
This is the 69th Hunger Games, and the whole event is a magnificent spectacle. Jordyn is determined to win the Games, and become a beloved Victor. Her district partner might think she's a sociopath, but he won't think that anymore-- when she kills him!
The other idiot careers are thugs, and she's a princess. Everyone agrees. And no-one can work out how to kill a princess. -
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Mazie Barnette emerged from the 69th Hunger Games a Victor, but she did not come away clean after the horrors she witnessed. She quickly learns that the Capitol owns her now, that is apparent from the moment she wakes in the hospital and finds her body is hardly the one she remembers. And on her tour she learns just how far that ownership goes. Follows Mazie from immediately after her Victory and through the 70th Games.
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The Loves and Lives of Taaffeite Spinel, or “Victor Autobiographies are the next new thing.” by TheGooseGanders
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
21 Sep 2025
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Bliss Florentine once dreamt any Capitol writers dream, to work with a Victor. To enshrine in their portfolio the god-given works of their favourite celebrity.
Taaffeite Spinel is more of a trickster fae than any benevolent force. And she loves nothing more than to talk about herself.
And so begins a delicate dance between co-writers, trying desperately to work their way up the Capitol Bestsellers list, manage their own lives and prepare for the looming Games season ahead.
But hey, everyone likes a good love story, right? What could possibly go wrong?
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Prospects of a Career by starshipmagic
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
02 Sep 2025
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After twenty four years of Hunger Games, the districts have settled into a monotonous acceptance of their circumstances. Every year one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 will be reaped and sent into the arena. It is horrific, but it is at least known.
The announcement of the first Quarter Quell turns everything on its head.
Tethys Holloway lives alone by the coast of District 4. She's removed from her only living family as well as her District and she spends her days taking on odd jobs for the elderly and selling the fish she catches. By all accounts, she's never wronged another person. It starts getting hard to believe that when she is unceremoniously voted into the 25th Hunger Games. Betrayed by the only family she has left and set on a journey to the Capitol with the boy she never wanted to remember, Tethys finds it difficult enough to be confident in her survival.
Under the guidance of the seasoned Head Gamemaker, the return of Victors past serves to both help and hinder Tethys and the sceptical alliance she might be building. After all, a wolf pack treasures its strength in numbers, so why should a Career pack be any different at all? -
Songs of War by Jocelyn
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games (Movies), The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (Movie 2023)
23 Aug 2025
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Sequel to Favors. AU of Mockingjay. The Second Rebellion erupts after destruction of the 76th Hunger Games arena and rescue of the tributes, but some of the victors and the rebel victors' families are in the Capitol's hands. Katniss, Haymitch, their fellow victors, and loved ones from home all struggle to make a difference in the chaos and pain of war and keep their eyes on the goal of true freedom and justice for the Districts. And even though it's been two years since Peeta suicided in the 74th arena to hand her the crown, Katniss still has him to lean on.
Chapter 4 Is Up! Katniss and the other victors watch helplessly as Snow turns the truth about Finnick's life in the Capitol into a weapon of torture. But Finnick has a few truths of his own in an arsenal ready to launch in return. Our heroes rage, grieve, and try to rally as our villain readies another salvo.
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- Part 12 of The Phoenix Mockingjay