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Take your characters back to rank 5.
What would they do if they were thrown into the Hunger Games?
How long do you think they'd survive? What would their tactics be? How would they get sponsors? Which of their skills would be most useful in the arena?
What would they do if they were thrown into the Hunger Games?
How long do you think they'd survive? What would their tactics be? How would they get sponsors? Which of their skills would be most useful in the arena?
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Am interested to see how many people's characters would try to take the moral highground and refuse to take part. I'm clearly too disillusioned to gen such noble characters :P
To be fair, Liesl would wait quietly on the pedestal to be killed, accepting death rather than breaking the laws of Vkandis. Which would probably come as a surprise to the viewing public since she would quietly have gone along with training fights. Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's and all that (which, I accept, is an ironic quote in this context).
Onwards. So many characters... Going to have to break this up a bit.
Liana, Ana and Lexi have no chance of winning.
Going on her original rank 5 stats, not accounting for changes in armour rules, Liana scores quite well in training, with the combination of basic coombat skills and healing ability. Liana's status as a widowed mother of two would likely serve well to make her seem sympathetic and appeal to sponsors. It also gives her something to live for but she doesn't quite have the killer instinct. She ends up in an alliance of the younger, more vulnerable Tributes and, working together, they manage to survive for some days but are gradually worn down, killed one by one. Ultimately, Liana would end up sacrificing herself to allow "her people" to survive.
I started writing Ana but then had to rethink - I'm not sure even her boundless optimism would last confronted with the reality of the Hunger Games. She probably does reasonably well in training - she's a capable scout, proficient with bow and sword. However, as the start of the Games gets closer she becomes more erratic, alternating the increasingly fake chatter with long periods of introspection but seems useful enough to be drawn into a small alliance. She nearly breaks down when Flickerman is sympathetic but is likeable enough to appeal to sponsors. Unfortunately, once they get into the Arena, the reality sinks in and the facade of optimism finally breaks. She hangs on, she doesn't want to die, but ultimately she doesn't want to kill anyone else. Her supposed allies are reluctant to kill her themselves as she is helping out with getting food but when the environment turns against them, they have no qualms about leaving her to die.
Lexi's abilities with Weakness see her scoring reasonably well but it is evident she doesn't have the stomach for killing and she receives no offers to join any alliances. She makes it out of the Cornucopia and has enough wilderness knowledge to survive for the first few days alone but her reluctance to kill her enemies, preferring to weakness them and flee, wins her no sponsors and she ends up dying alone to a root or berry which wasn't as edible as she'd believed.
Alara and Blayz would be in with a chance, but not end up winning.
Alara's Reaping starts with controversy as the Capitol's gender categories don't match the District's cultural understanding. Xir obvious combat skills score her fairly highly and the promise of the Rage helps too. I can't imagine Alara in a Hunger Games scenario without another barbarian as xir District partner, so they form a pair and casually discuss how they will fight to the death, if it comes down to it. In the Arena, they are a deadly pair, knowing how to cover each other's backs. They don't risk taking on the Careers straight out but do get away from the Cornucopia with the essentials. They last a few days, succeeding especially well when mages provoke Alara's rage but ultimately they have to face the Pack. They don't survive it.
(to be continued).
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Belladonna is clearly a career Tribute, more likely a Two than a One (she's not that kind of girl). She understands combat, is tough and has a few useful miracles. She doesn't need to make alliances - the Career Pack is a sure thing - and she performs well on camera telling Flickerman about Brilliance and how she hungers for glory and fame. She has no qualms about killing, having done so before in training, and works to guide the direction of the Pack, without actually trying to take charge and risking conflict among the Careers. Unfortunately her impulsiveness and desire for personal glory see her killed in glorious battle taking out the last couple of the outsiders with the two surviving Careers left to fight it out.
Hel and Winterlight are my two real contenders.
Winterlight has a lot of survival skills and knows how to use her knife. She saves her magical skills for the final test and places very highly. At the Cornucopia she is in and out to get only the tools she need, but she is prepared to kill, or at least maim, in the process. She keeps to herself but doesn't avoid the main action, taking out other loners with traps or magic and then, when cornered in an ambush, killing one and injuring the other attacker with her blade. Unfortunately she is wounded in the exchange and her limited sponsors only send minimal first aid supplies but it's enough to keep her able to cast. She has made in to the last few but the Career Pack remain and they're dangerous. The Gamesmakers force her out into a confrontation with them and, without the advantage of stealth, it's a foregone conclusion. She does manages to take one out with darts, then injure the others in melee combat but she is outnumbered and overpowered.
The nature of the Games brings out all of Hel's worst qualities. She does well in training as she is quick, dextrous, stealthy and skilled with two swords. While not being a career, she clearly has potential and makes it clear she would be useful to get herself adopted into their group. She scores reasonably well on the final assessment and is appropriately charming when interview. it's inside that she reveals her last two skills - absolute disregard for anyone else's life and the ability to lie so convincingly - "I didn't see the trap", "she fell", "he couldn't keep up", "they were just behind me" - that her allies believe her and even the Capitol audience doubt the version of events they saw televised. She gladly kills the other Tributes along with the Pack, while slowly weakening them from the inside while making herself indispensible (and teasing them with the implied offer of sexual favours). When there are only three of the Pack left, she coolly kills two of them in their sleep. Unfortunately, without throatslit, the struggle must she is unable to finish the last cleanly but she has thought ahead and removed their weapons. She toys with him, making him think he has a chance, while slowly wounding him then leaving him to bleed out and heads off after the last couple of outliers. One of them she tricks, telling them she has only narrowly escaped the Pack and pretending to be injured, before killing him. The last two she plays off against each other before killing the winner.
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