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Kayda was known as "Karma." She was a very dangerous killer in the arena. But most notably was the fact that she never struck first. The moment someone attacked her or her band of weak and young teammates, they would die an awful death. Her weapons of choice were daggers and brass knuckles. "If I kill anyone, I want it to be close and personal, I want to remember them, I don't want to forget my terrible actions. I don't want to forgive myself." Was a quote from her interview that she still holds deep in her heart to this day. She had managed to charm the audience and give them a great show. So she had been rewarded with sponsor gifts- which is why she is alive today. She didn't kill her teammates- other tributes did. Some say she still mourns their deaths to this day. Alice, Felix, and Charles...

Kayda had a long day. She was thirteen, and on her way home from school. She was early, as usual, she had been cutting classes. Not that her parents ever found out, they were always busy working. She smiles at the front door, expecting her eight-year-old sister to be waiting for her by the door. In her little chair, with a huge smile on her face, excited to share her day with Kayda. Her sister was sick and her medical expenses were expensive. Her family often had to cut meals so that they could afford to take care of her. Kayda didn't mind, she loved her sister. She opens the door, her eyes widening when her sister isn't at the door. She lays on the ground, beaten but fighting. Her father stands above her, gun pointed at her. With a roar of fury, Kayda launches herself at her father. Desperately trying to take the weapon away from him. But she was small and weak, her scrawny arms and tiny knuckles were doing no damage. Her mother drags Kayda off her dad snarling: "This is for the best, we can't afford to take care of her, much less ourselves. We have to let her out of her misery." Tears fall down Kayda's cheeks as she listens to her mother with a horrified expression. She struggles out of her mother's grip and races at her father just as he pulls the trigger. He then turns the gun on Kayda, smacking it against her face hard enough that she is knocked out. When she comes to, she finds that the police have arrived to take her parents away. Her sister had been murdered in cold blood and she wasn't strong enough to stop them.

The 98th Games in comparison, was tame. There were some bloody moments, but it was mostly just another Hunger Games, the real remarkable moment was at the end. The tributes all formed three different teams and worked against the others. Kayda's team was the most desirable. She was like a tigress teamed with sheep and everybody wanted to kill this tigress. But she was clever and managed to turn the other two teams against each other. They wiped each other out, only leaving seven careers alive. But it came with a cost. The larger and stronger career team sought revenge on Kayda, attacking them all one dreadful night.

They set fire to the camp, by the time they were fully awake, there was no escape. The careers went in mercilessly, killing the three kids in front of Kayda before attacking her. She was beaten and stabbed. But once again, Kayda was clever. She played dead long enough that the careers were actually convinced that she was dead, so they left. Kayda had almost died, but her sponsors sent her gifts to save her. After that night, Kayda earned her name. She hunted down the rest of the Careers, who had split up and were turning on each other. She targetted them when they were alone and single-handedly ended up killing the rest of the Tributes. She killed seven people in total and is still haunted by it to this day

Adelaide was selected to enter the games by her Battlemaster, a past victor named Hannibal, when she was 17 years old. The arena she was sent into — an abandoned city — had very few resources, forcing the tributes to scavenge, steal and kill on a daily basis. The environment was dog-eat-dog. You either killed or was killed, starved or stole what little food there was to steal. The 91st Hunger Games, in fact, was the shortest and the bloodiest games, with ten tributes dying within the first three days. Adelaide reluctantly allied with the Careers at first, deeming them the only stable source of resources at the time. However, Adelaide began to develop a relationship with a diminutive girl from District 11, named Clementine Bates - the only surviving non-career.

Originally sent to kill her, she remained largely unsuccessful, with Clementine wittily evading her on numerous occasions. Over time, their relationship transformed from enemies to rivals and even to allies. Clementine reminded her too much of Kardia, Adelaide's girlfriend back home. The two helped each other survive as the number of tributes dropped.

At the end of the week, with just three Careers left, Adelaide discovered that someone had tipped off her hideout with Clementine, and tracked her ally to the horn. Clementine was not dead, though the brutalities were nightmarish, and she died in her ally's arms. Positively blinded by rage, bloodlust, and grief, Adelaide slaughtered the Careers in cold blood with unnerving ferocity, making the air ring with their screams for mercy. The deed done, Adelaide became hence known as Maledictus, the victor of the 91st Hunger Games.

People mostly expected her to repent for her kills, to give some ounce of respect to the four careers she butchered, but that didn't happen. Adelaide allowed the deadly frenzy of brutality to continue, ruthlessly declaring that she would've done it again had she been given the chance without an ounce of remorse. Because nobody comes near what is hers. No one is allowed to take away those close to her. "A lion does not apologize after a hunt. I only pity it once it starves."

Shortly after the 91st Hunger Games, President Snow visited Adelaide's house in the Victor's Village. Impressed by her killing instinct and ruthlessness, but already having doubts about her loyalty, he conscripted her into becoming a Gamemaker, holding Kardia at gunpoint in the process. Left with little option, Adelaide agreed - but not for the reason one might assume. He knew about her defecting from the Careers, but in making her a Gamemaker, he had opened a new set of doors previously closed to the victor. Given a new hand by an unwitting dealer, a new insight into the Games themselves, Adelaide became the fox in the henhouse

With self-loathing and calculation, she settled into her new life (which lasted up until the second reaping) - taking on the sobriquet White Fang. While Adelaide did not show the slightest bit of mercy as a Gamemaker, there is no denying that she began to favor certain tributes, allowing some to live while the rest perished. Keeping herself safely under the radar, Adelaide reached out in secret to victors and mentors, collecting intel, expanding her network of wraiths and spies. She is occasionally called down to do other more dubious jobs, such as assassination or spying, for wealthier, more heartless, clients. Well aware that she ran the risk of being forced into selling her body, Adelaide built up a callous and sharp-tongued personality, a woman known for her heartless acts. She hardly uses the money she receives as pay for herself, and instead sends it back home. Secretly, Adelaide is disgusted at her job and her weakness at being manipulated like a pawn on a chessboard, and vows one day to make the capital pay.

Sorrento volunteered himself to be sent to the arena when he was 18, mentored by the victor of the 95th Hunger Games and the capital's (as well as his own) beau, Julian Solo. From the beginning, Sorrento was not the favourite to win as his scores were quite low. However, his interviews charmed the audience to his side, placing great sorrow on the people to know that such a charming lad would meet his end. The 96th Hunger Games was an anomaly as it was noted as the least violent game of them all, yet it was over before the second day could even end. One by one, non-career tributes committed suicide, turning their own blades on themselves while the careers were wiped out under the cover of night. Cameras were unable to capture any footage as the deed was done under the cover of a dark tarp, concealing the eyes of the world to the horrors that transpired. By the time the final horn blew as the artificial sun rose, only Sorrento remained, sitting on a crate and delicately nibbling on a granola bar almost as if he was unaware of the mass of blood and gore lying under the nearby tarp. No weapons were on his person and his hands were void of blood. He only smiled mysteriously and spoke of nothing that had transpired. To this day, no one knows what exactly happened in the arena. There are rumours that even though he never bloodied his hands, Sorrento killed every single tribute in that arena through his words alone

Unlike many tributes, when Sorrento first emerged victorious from the arena, the citizens were wary as much of the game was surrounded by mystery. Paired with Sorrento's hesitance to speak about the events as well also casts doubts on what truly happened within the arena. This was all swept under the rug, however, as Sorrento's victory speech swayed the people into believing that he had survived through cunningly hiding as the careers were killed before killing the perpetrator once it was safe. Using this testimony, the Capital sought to encourage the non-career districts to see the games as an enriching experience. One did not need combat experience to win for luck and wits could ensure victory, the Capital declared, propaganda with Sorrento's bewitching gaze circulating endlessly, serving to help sway the populous ever so slightly. Profits from this campaign are not recorded but one would assume that the returns were more than enough to shut a few mouths.

With Sorrento's reputation soaring, the capital began to sell him to wealthy capital citizens for personal use. Sorrento being very gay, taken, and not all that into sex naturally objected but under threats to remove his sister from his custody and send a squad to District 4 to clean out its ever-present gang problem, Sorrento submitted to the same fate his betrothed had to endure. Up until his second reaping, Sorrento was passed from buyer to buyer and used in whatever way they pleased, played around with to their hearts content. Among the inner circles of such people, Sorrento became his namesake, a bewitching siren who's beguiling song could tempt even men to bed with him. He garnered a reputation as a well sought after item by both men and women alike much like Julian, the two sometimes sold as a pair for the extravagant ones who wished to be serviced by more than one man.

Because of his position, Sorrento's information network expanded and grew, spanning the entire capital and even snuck into different districts. With such ears everywhere, he easily caught wind of the rebellion. Though what he plans to do with this information... well even he doesn't know. What's for sure is that he will do anything in his power to protect those he holds close to his heart

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Faye is about 5'9, with blonde hair and gray eyes. Faye has several colored streaks in her hair (red, green, blue, white, brown and purple) Her gray eyes are clever and calculating, Faye is a master at hiding how she feels, so her face and eyes don't reveal much.

Faye was often called the angel of strength, or the angel of power, and became known as "Faye Avalon" after taking out about half of the tributes herself. She fought tooth and nail to get back to her sister, crediting Moriah for her win. After a beautiful 10 as her private session score, she started making an impression on people as the "District 4 girl who hated water," due to her reluctance to go near tridents and nets. After she revealed to the capitol how much she loves her sister, and how much she needs to get back to her, people start to feel bad for her.

After about five minutes in the arena Faye had already decided that she hated the careers. She was double teamed by the district two tributes, who were teasing her about her hatred of water and calling her "soft" because of her sister. She turns everything around when she slaughters both District 2 tributes with a trident. And adds to the irony when she slaughters two more tributes with a trident, the very weapon she was mocked for not being especially talented in.

Much later, when there are about 7 tributes left (including her), after she's made an alliance with the district 5 tributes, there camp gets attacked by the rest of the careers. She finds out that she's been betrayed and single-handedly slaughters everyone but the male from her district, who runs away from her. She survives by herself for a little while but gets attacked by the district 3 male, who after a long fight she manages to kill with a knife to the neck, leaving it just her and her partner vying for the crown. She is most famous for this kill, which after many long days of track her finds her partner who wounds her severely with a trident but dies when she thrusts the point clear through the tree they were lying on and through there heart, killing them instantly after they believe they have killed her.

To Faye's horror, Moriah has to go at the age of 15. Faye begs her fellow victors to be her own sister's mentor, and after much pleading they agree. Her sister scores a 9 in training, to Faye's delight, and makes an impression on people as a sweet but powerful young woman. Moriah gains tons of sponsor's after passionately talking about how much she loves Faye and how much she loves home. Moriah wins her games with a total of 6 kills. She kills the district 1 female by spearing her with a trident after the girl mocks Faye, calling Faye "lucky" and "unworthy of being a victor." The rest of her kills occur towards the end of her games where she is attacked by a pack of tributes and against all odds kills them all, making her the winner of the 99th Hunger Games.

Faye Avalon Ischyros is mostly known as the "Angel of Strength" because of her name. Because of her kill methods in the 94th games, she was given the name "Avalon" which means strength. Her surname, Ischyrós, means powerful in Greek and her first name, Faye, which can mean "fairy" or "angel." The capitol men and women also adored her because of her charisma and wit, because she always had a comeback, whether it be slaughter, or an insult.

Because she was considered "desirable" by President Snow, she was occasionally bought and sold to the higher up capitol people. Not as much as many others, mainly because she played on people emotions by expressing her gratitude but need to take care of her sister. She ends up refusing in the end, which Snow responds by rigging the reaping the next year to send her sister to the Hunger Games.

The last two things Faye is known for, is her iconic fear of water and her final kill, where she thrusts her sword blade through a tree branch and into the last tributes heart. Not many people bring up her aquaphobia, because the last people who did she killed. The same can not be said for the final kill, as it has coined the term "Bladed Games of 94."

Faye's theme song would be Fallin' (Adrenaline) by Why Don't We

In the arena, there transpired events that no sane person would like to remember. For Ryan, there are images burned into his mind that sometimes threaten his very being as a person. Once, he would have shrunk into himself and wept, trying to purge his mind of the unforgettable images. Now, however, he's started to use the images to fuel his willpower, using them to soften
the blows of his opponents, to numb his pain. What he's been left with is what follows:

Covered in blood, I watched a devil rise. Blood fell from his mouth, eyes, ears... The blast had caught my only ally in the hunger it demonstrated. Behind him, fire raged. It consumed him, burning on his blood. A cry leapt from his mouth, begging for death that I could not give. My cheeks were hot, slick with the tears of rage. Then, the cries stopped. Horror filled my heart as I watched the bones of my fallen comrade turn to ash. A cackle rang from behind me, an arrow flying past my face. My fist closed around the fiberglass shaft, yanking it from the ground. My feet moved on their own, carrying me towards the culprit, the murderer. They fumbled now, reaching for another arrow. They knocked it, lifting the bow. Then spat up blood, their own arrow rising through their chest, out of their throat. My comrade would have done the same, right?

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I felt the blows speed up, pummeling my body and cracking my bones. I would not fall to this fiend, though. I felt his blows speed again, but they were getting weaker. If I did not win, then nobody would. This fool was dying, killing himself with each movement. I knew, because of the shrapnel in his belly. I had lodged it there, pulling the long strip of metal from the structure it had clung to. Now, the sharpened, rusty spire stuck through his abdomen, out his back. I could not look him in the face, for my arms blocked that view. I could fix my eyes on his weakness, though. He stumbled back, gasping for breath. And now, I started forwards. I swung my hand down, the heel of my palm meeting the blunt edge of the spire. He gasped, beating at my head as I shoved the rust further into his chest. Then, he stopped. Blood poured from his wound, his heart now pierced by the metal. Collapsing on top of me, the fool let out a final gurgle. As I forced him off of me, I watched the blood slickened metal slide from his body. I watched, my face folding itself into an open mouthed smile, a screeching cackle escaping the grin. Then, I knew I had forgotten myself.

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The bloodied creature below me could no longer be called human. I held in my hand a strip of metal, which had gored another just recently. Their belly was slashed open, and their face was torn to bits. Still, they gasped for the air around their dying body, writhing on the ground like a leech. After a moment, I thrust my rusty rapier into the shredded chest of the victim, piercing the beating heart that threatened my escape. Drawing it out, I dropped the metal. And hence, the games ended. The sounds around me were what I had been begging to hear. So why were they so horrible? I stumbled backwards, tears running down my face. Falling down, I curled into a ball. Darkness surrounded me, my arms defending my mind from the light that tried to force itself into my eyes.

Dark haired and dark eyed, Kallo wasn't neglected in the genetic lottery. He has a fairly handsome face he keeps clean shaven, which gives the impression of someone generally put together with his neatly groomed short hair.

Despite being well-built, Kallo isn't the most intimidating person you could come across. He stands at 5'8'' but often appears a bit shorter due to his tendency to stand hunched, which can create a timid impression. He's not particularly fussed about how other might see him though as he's no fan of attention and thus acts and dresses accordingly as well.

Being an orphan with no knowledge of who his parents were, Kallo was a great candidate to train for The Games and he turned out to be an excellent investment and success for District 1.

Kallo was the tribute he was supposed to be. Scoring a 10 in his individual assessment, he went on to start with a bang in the Bloodbath. He killed a District 6 tribute because she was an easy kill and another from District 10 because he came between him and supplies. From then on, he and his female counterpart, Tayla Perrin, went on to form an alliance with District 2 to thin out the numbers of the contestants remaining. They started from the most formidable opponents, most urgently District 4, wasting no time with eliminating the biggest threats.

Once there was only four other opponents left, Kallo and Tayla turned on their allies, ruthlessly stabbing them in the back and taking District 2 out of the game. It was a risky move, considering they were now outnumbered, but they preferred to get an upper hand on their fellow careers by taking them by surprise instead of leaving them last. It was a move that put them in a bit of a disadvantageous position as the other four tributes had banded together while they were infighting. Kallo and Tayla might've been better in skill but the power of numbers is not to be scoffed at. They went on the offensive anyway and set up an ambush for them, which didn't go exactly to plan but worked out perfectly for Kallo.

They managed to execute two tributes, Districts 7 and 12, before they found the tables being threatened to be turned on them. Kallo saw an opportunity. He knew he had to kill Tayla too. It was inevitable. It was what he was told to do. Yet, he dreaded that final showdown so he gave it away. He left her behind and she took the remaining District 3 tribute down with her. That left only Kallo and a District 7 tribute, both of them tired and injured.

He had two options on how to approach the final kill: Either he could wait it out and let the arena kill her or he could hunt her down and force a fight. Objectively, the former was the wiser approach as she was lacking in sponsors and thus far less likely to outlast him. But the latter option made for a better show. The last two tributes facing off in a final fight to the death to avenge their partners that had died in the last clash. Perfect theater.

So Kallo went with option 2 and he made sure to herd her in front of the cameras beforehand for the greatest viewing experience. The fight itself wasn't very balanced in truth but he made it appear more so. Kallo had the upper hand and they both knew it even though the other tribute knew how to handle her axe, but he dragged it out. He let her injure and disarm him before finishing her off with a hidden knife to the heart for maximum dramatic effect. Thus, sealing his victory with a total of 7 kills.

In the end, he was an "ideal" tribute, a favorite who went on to achieve a cold and clean win. But once the adrenaline-filled fight for survival was done with, reality set in and Kallo was truly molded into a different person by the end of it all.

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As Kallo's post-arena life unfolded, the once obedient puppet turned difficult as he found a budding desire to be a person instead of a thing. Previously, no family had just meant no distractions, but now it also meant no blackmail material. Soon, it started becoming apparent that they couldn't whip him up to shape to smile convincingly at the cameras and he wasn't doing great mentoring either. He'd space out and freeze up and generally be of little help.

Lucky for everyone, District 1 actually has other victors to prance around so eventually they let Kallo just fade from the public eye. Lucky or unlucky for Kallo, he still had some wealthy and influential fans who were entertained by his newly acquired uppity defiance so they didn't bother to find an excuse to remove him more permanently. However, as he couldn't find a new path to replace the one he was trying to reject, Kallo lived an empty life of trying to be forgotten after he had achieved exactly what he had thought he had wanted ever since he could remember. That is, until his name was pulled for this blasted Quarter Quell as luck decided his fate was to repeat what shattered his character the first time around.

Unfortunately for the viewers, the Kallo stepping in for another round is a very different Kallo than the one who won the 88th Hunger Games.

The 90th Hunger Games is known to be one of the worst Hunger Games in years. Mostly because after the bloodbath, where 8 tributes died, no other tribute died in combat. It wasn't bloody, but it was bad because some suspect that the victor, Orchid Cleven poisoned 16 tributes, and can be credited for the all deaths after the bloodbath. Orchid seemed while impressive, slightly meek. She scored a 9 in training, because she used some herbs and various things they had on hand to blow up the training room thing. When the gong sounded, Orchid head straight for the trees and started gathering things. After the bloodbath had settled down, and night had fallen, it showed 8 tributes dead in the bloodbath, and all of the careers were still alive. The next morning, when everything could be seen again, all the careers were dead. Again, it was said they suffered from strokes, or from heart attacks. And the next morning? Everyone else was dead. Orchid was no where to be seen, and it turns out she had been "asleep" the entire time. This supposed killing of 16 tributes gave her the nickname "Belladonna" because of the methods of murder she used. Poison.

It turns out, Snow had taken quite a liking to Orchid, and she was invited to live in his mansion with him. It is said that Orchid and Snow created several powerful poisons over the next two years. Some say Snow had taken a liking to Orchid because of her methods. Others say it was because is was everything a victor should be, "gracious" to the capitol, attractive, and very respectful of the gamemakers and capitol people. And all of that she was. While she was considered desirable, she stayed in Snow's mansion because of a deal they had made. As long as she continues to work for him, and do other stuff for him, her younger siblings would be safe from the reaping.

Orchid hates a lot of people, and much like Snow, her enemies usually end up dead. She worked as a gamemaker for a while and supposedly decided it was to informal. While she was well liked, people were wary of her. Because no one knew, but her, if she had actually killed 16 people in the arena. Like Adelaide, she knows a lot of stuff she shouldn't. She hears things in the capitol mansion, she knows things. Orchid is supposedly murdered 66 people, and she's only 23.

Orchid has a special hatred for careers, except for one or two. She believes they are some of the worst people out there, and won't hesitate to kill them. When you get to know her, she seemingly hates everyone. Unlike most victors, she has no survivors guilt and doesn't regret the kills that it took to escape the arena.

Belladonna By Ava Max

Little to no information about the 97th victor is known and for good reason. Vallo at that time had gone by the name of Hollis and thus all records are attributed to Hollis and not Vallo. What is known is that Hollis had survived the bloodbath, being one of the very first tributes to reach the cornucopia. There, Hollis obtained perhaps the one weapon that secured victory and eventually became the symbol of Hollis, an elaborate and mostly decorative claymore with a wicked hook used for disarming and gouging. Because of a life filled with menial work, Hollis was able to use such an unwieldy weapon to great effect, taking advantage of the nature of the bloodbath to great effect to dispatch many tributes including a few careers. Sometime after the bloodbath (and a private breakdown that lasted a day), Hollis and a young girl from 11th, Delilah, teamed up together, with Hollis acting as the vanguard and Delilah scoured the sparse undergrowth for food. But as the nature of these games, the duo was ambushed by the career pack. What is recorded is that Hollis dispatched the pack which attacked them and was able to save Delilah in the process but not unscathed. Dalilah died soon after in Hollis' arms and Hollis stayed by her side until it was picked up by the drones. She was the second to last tribute to die. Soon after, the games ended with Hollis as the sole victor, the ornate claymore shattered on the ground as the tribute knelt by the stream to scrub off the blood splattered over pale skin. Hollis is attributed with at least 9 kills.

Hollis was generally well liked by the capital though there certainly was quite a buzz around the tribute who ended District 4's three year winning streak. A year after, Hollis passed away under mysterious circumstances and Vallo quietly replaced the sweet smiling victor while the capital mourned. Having dyed his hair, Vallo worked with the capital to produce some of the best quality fabrics seen to date, his skills with the needle unhampered by his less than stellar eyesight. The reason for his faked death was simple. Snow wished to have eyes and ears on the lower class workers in the capital, and Vallo was tasked with being his mole, reporting to him the moment Vallo suspected that a rebellion may be brewing. Although he still performs his duties, Vallo has adjusted to a life of anonymity and labour, only known for his marvellous works on clothes of all shapes and sizes. A majority of his designs incorporates the Dahlia flower which has become his motif, capital citizens recognizing his work at a glace from the unique flower. Thus, Vallo's moniker as a designer became Dahlia, becoming a capital household name for the one who would consistently change the fashion industy's expectations. Life resumed as normal for Vallo, albeit under a different name, and he was content to simply live out his life designing and drafting up clothes to his liking, never taking up a blade again. He rarely interacted with his fellow victors but found some comfort being a part of Gamemaster Adelaide's information network, with her being one of the few that is aware of his existence as a victor.