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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
13 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 until the 72nd games.
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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
07 Sep 2025
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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. The following vignettes are the memories that the alcohol didn’t bury.
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- Part 4 of Stories from the Control Room
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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? -
Haven't you seen the ruins of our world? by GoddessofImaginary_Rusalochki
Fandoms: Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
31 Aug 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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In the Name of Family by glowstick_embers
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
30 Aug 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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Breaking Pointe by twobraincellkentwell
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
26 Aug 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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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
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First Impressions by sarahwrites1234
Fandoms: Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
19 Aug 2025
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*Part of a series but fine to read as a stand-alone.*
Johanna Mason is 11 years old the first time she sees Finnick Odair. She’s watching TV with her cousin Eleanor – who is an idiot – and Eleanor’s friend Addison – who is an even bigger idiot. It’s the tribute interviews, mandatory viewing, but Johanna would have far preferred to watch alone at home rather than be subjected to Eleanor and Addison’s insufferable stream of commentary and giggles.
Finnick Odair is 20 years old the first time he sees Johanna Mason. She’s a screaming, sobbing mess, having to be dragged up onto the stage by peacekeepers when her name is called at the reaping.
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Johanna and Finnick each watch the other's Games and think they have each other figured out. They will both come to realize that they were wrong.
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- Part 2 of The Hunger Games
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The Silent Games by ValeEmber
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
16 Aug 2025
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There were games outside the official 75. In Panem's darkest corners, civilians created their own. The Capitol erased them from history, but the districts never forgot.
From District 13, to the criminal underworld, to the Capital itself. Nowhere was safe from the corruption.
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Passing Out As Light Turns To Day (Darling, I'm Right Here) by httpsvnoo
Fandoms: Avatar (Cameron Movies)
15 Aug 2025
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Neteyam's eyes portray something strangely familiar yet unfamiliar at the same time.
His gaze holds no malice towards Spider. Not even a bit. He didn't point and laugh or whisper to the other observing victors like others had done without hesitation. The sound of the hands of the clock ticking rang through his head as they stared at one another unmoving.
Neteyam's eyes never left his own. Amber, with specks of light green carving into a cloudy, chocolate brown. A sudden wave of recognition washes over him as he can finally place where exactly he had seen that daunting look.
It was the same look he's seen in his district. A look he too shared at some point in his life. It was a look of want.
And that look of want was fixated on Spider.
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Hunger Games themed alternate universe.
Spider volunteers in place of a younger kid who he knew would never make it out alive in the Hunger Games.
With his kindness in volunteering for a child and his aloofness in not preparing for the fight of his life, he catches the attention of two families who have taken a sudden liking to him.
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sacrifice without glory by planetundersiege
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Sunrise On The Reaping - Suzanne Collins
08 Aug 2025
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Palladium had trained for his games all of his life. It's all too late as a victor that he realizes that his aspirations had been based on lies, and that there's no pride and no freedom in being crowned the winner, when the honor of keeping his life is one given in exchange for autonomy and his complete unquestioned servitude.
Worst of all is seeing naive and prideful Panache being a mirror of himself before his games, knowing what the price would be if he ever let this secret slip.
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The Dare by SusquehannaOwl
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games (Movies)
08 Aug 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 is on hiatus/possibly abandoned.
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Reaped Among Wolves: The 24th Hunger Games by TheWatcherofTheVoid
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
03 Aug 2025
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When Belladonna Nightshade is reaped for the 24th Hunger Games, she expects a volunteer, a noble, a trained girl bred for glory, to step forward. But when the moment comes, silence greets her name. In that silence, a new kind of tribute is born. Victor Exchange 2025
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Heaven's Gate: The 53rd Hunger Games by ClearedPipes
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
03 Aug 2025
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Fifteen year old Lithia Cambrose has been lost for a year, now. Ever since the events that finally ended her family for good - save for her. And maybe she deserves to be alone, but they. They didn't deserve that.
But Lithia's name is up as well - quite literally, up on a slip. So to the Games with a devoted fan, an Escort who doesn't understand and a Mentor who does it is. She wants to do something noble - help someone else, someone more deserving to victory.
Fate has other plans.
Written for Victor Exchange 2025 - Big thanks to Cosmic!
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- Part 6 of The Pipesverse!
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Algumas Crianças Simplesmente Nascem Com Tragédia Em Seu Sangue by Lisamdc
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
01 Aug 2025
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Algumas crianças simplesmente nascem com tragédia em seu sangue. Tamsin Whitlock tinha 8 anos quando ouviu essa frase pela primeira vez. Desde então, essas palavras passaram a assombrá-la, ecoando nos recantos mais sombrios de sua mente. Quando ela é pessoalmente escolhida pelos seus próprios vizinhos para embarcar em uma jornada cujo destino é uma morte praticamente certa, não lhe resta dúvidas de que este é seu lema de vida.
A Vigésima Quinta Edição dos Jogos Vorazes - e, simultaneamente, o Primeiro Massacre Quaternário - só pode ser definida como um espetáculo atroz. Afinal, os Tributos estão mais furiosos do que nunca. Depois de serem escolhidos a dedo para os Jogos, eles não querem só a vitória. Eles também querem vingança.
Em meio a esse banho de sangue televisionado e vendido como entretenimento, alianças são forjadas. Algumas frágeis e performativas, outras conturbadas e relutantes, mas todas amargamente fadadas ao mesmo destino trágico e inevitável.- Language:
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25 years ago, the Second Rebellion shook the very foundations of Panem, all the way down to its rotten core, and challenged the beliefs that have held up the country for more than seventy years. The red horse of War left the country in tattered, irreparable ruins— devoid of hope. The war was won, but at what cost?
New Panem rose from the ashes of War, renewed and reborn. Laws were changed, and the Districts faced better living conditions than ever before— under the rulership of President Nikephoros Vesper.
However, recover demands money. Under the guise of seeking justice, the Capitol Games was held. What was done in the name of retribution, was only for money in the end. All twenty-four children died, before the citizens called for a cease of this madness.
Quests for money can never truly be stopped, so a rerun of the 76th was held a year later, and the Capitol Games were covered up and called a mistake. The Official 76th Hunger Games, with 28 Tributes, were held.
A new law was passed.
To symbolize the now-equal nation, The Hunger Games will continue. Two children from ages 12-18, male and female, will be sent from every District, including District Thirteen and The Capitol.
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- Part 1 of Those of us left (to pick up the pieces)
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Drizzled Blood Upon the Capitol by kravinass
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
20 Jul 2025
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I begin ripping the muttation leeches off of me, tearing out chunks of myself with them. The veins surrounding the open gashes turn black. Blood runs freely from my body, pooling at my feet.
A lofty voice echoes throughout the halls, “Ladies and Gentlemen, the winner of the 72nd Hunger Games: Mania Markhum of District 2!” The cheers of the Capitol overwhelm the area, bouncing and rebounding off every wall. My vision begins to spot, and a smile grows across my face.
I rip off the final leech, crushing it with my black boots, and pound my fist into the sky. The crowd grows even louder, but their celebrations are drowned by the sound of my own laughter.
I have done what I was sent here to do. And now, I may rest. -
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Two years after her victory, Callie is ready to begin mentoring. But much like the arena, she learns that no one is really ready until they try it for themselves.
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- Part 6 of Stories From Victor's Village
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ballad of the brave by snakesandsunflowers
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
17 Jul 2025
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Years after surviving the Hunger Games, Julianna Walsh is a bitter, broken mentor—four Games, zero victors, and a heart full of ghosts. But at the Reaping for the 64th Games, everything that was already unbearable gets worse: the name pulled is Natalie Callahan. Once Jules' first love. Her song. A lamb to slaughter.
Nat isn’t a killer. She’s soft-spoken, full of heart, and far too gentle for the Capitol’s arena. But rules don’t bend for love, and the Games don’t spare the innocent. Now Jules must mentor the one person she was never meant to lose, and maybe, watch her die like everyone else.