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FORBIDDEN COLOURS by sylviahughes for EleanorJane0690
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (Movie 2023)
09 Jun 2025
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Summary
Coriolanus Snow is nineteen when the Games end—and this time, he doesn’t win. There’s no scholarship. No ascent. Just a quiet fall from grace, sealed with official silence. Stripped of status, future, and name, he’s left to navigate the Capitol from its forgotten corners where heat is rationed, water runs brown, and no one remembers how to say “Snow” with respect.
He’s a cautionary tale now. A boy who bet on the wrong tribute. Who learned too late that charm doesn't count without power to back it.Then he meets her.
She’s nothing like the Capitol girls he used to impress. Scarred and sharp. A medic with too many secrets and no patience for anyone pretending not to bleed. She’s not impressed by names or how well someone used to speak. And she doesn’t care who he used to be. Only who he is now—and who he’s willing to become.
This isn’t a love story. Not entirely.
It’s a story about survival, and what’s left when it stops being enough. About loyalty that demands more than blood. About the girl who died. The girl who didn’t. And the war—both literal and not—that neither of them expected to fight, but will. Together, or not at all.
Post-war. Post-legacy.
Snow falls quietly.