Victor of the 44th Annual Hunger Games,
Fuze Lypton!
Victor- Fuze Lypton
Kills: 1
“It's everyone else who has lost their minds. Not me.
Certainly not me.”
Dear Daughter,
I am so proud of you and I love
you.
I know that you will hear me tell
you this each and every day, but no truer words could ever be spoken. I want to
remind you of this each day, so that never will you be able to forget how much
your mother and I care about you. I will not let myself make the mistakes of my
parents, no matter how busy I might be I will always have time for you. I will
not let you have the opportunity to think for even one second that you are not
wanted or loved.
I will love you always, and I
will do everything I can to protect you. You will never have to face the
horrors I have if I can help it. Nothing will harm a hair on your head, so long
as you have me.
Love Always, Fuze.
Fuze’s daughter,
Alia, was born during the year of the 61st Hunger Games when Fuze
was 33 years old and his wife, Jasine, was 31. Alia was Reaped into the 74th
Hunger Games at the age of thirteen. When her name was called, her father
leaped off the stage and tried to run away with her. He was caught and killed,
the Peacekeepers claiming they had no choice. Alia wore her father’s token for
her Games, but unfortunately died only minutes into the Bloodbath.
2nd- Noeah Hazurn
Kills: 3
“I just don't want to be a screw up anymore.”
Dearest Noeah,
I just cannot understand you. No
matter how hard I might try to even though I am certain you never saw my
efforts.
You were so isolated back here in
District Nine, so quiet and reserved. Not at all like the child that should be
born to two charismatic businesspeople. But then I saw you change. Like a
butterfly finally freeing itself from the cocoon. I saw you love, I saw you
fight for the things that mattered, I saw your determination to continue on no
matter what was thrown at you. I saw the son that I could be proud of.
I learned more about you in that
week of watching your fight for life than I did in seventeen years of your
life. I finally saw my son, the flesh and blood offspring of your beautiful
mother and myself. That very day I lost him as well, life works in strange ways
like that. They show me something I should have seen in you all along; just
long enough for me to miss what you should have become.
Love, Dad
3rd- Faye Darson
Kills: 5
“Why is it this difficult to face all the images around me,
when it was me that wanted this in the first place?”
My Faye,
What happened to you? I saw that
moment of fear in your eyes as the pictures screamed around you. You were
trained better than that. A little distraction like that should never have even
caused you a hitch in your step. How could it have broken my daughter who had
ever soul in Panem betting on her?
Your father was furious when he
saw that boy kill you. He screamed and yelled that if that arrow boy won and came
back here for the Victor Tour that he would kill him himself. I don’t think he
meant that but I almost wished he did. It’s a shame your father has always been
more talk than walk. You have always had both, Faye. I don’t think I will ever
understand what was going through your mind when you hesitated.
What is it like to know that one
second of fear cost you everything? To us it feels like losing both a daughter
and a destiny.
Love, Mom
4th- Caddis Tamar
Kills: 1
“I'd like to think that no matter how badly I mess up things
I would only be doing what was destined for me to accomplish and somehow I find
comfort in that notion.”
To Caddis,
I didn’t mean this, even though I
did.
Funny how I can mean both of
these? I meant for your name to be pulled, I have to admit it to you even if I
know it will do nothing but ease my guilt slightly. I did not mean for you to
die. You had so much potential, Caddis! How was I supposed to know that despite
all your training, your excellence, and your strength you would not win. It
seemed like the only obstacle to making you a Victor was willingness, and I was
right.
You were unwilling to volunteer,
and so we did that for you. I thought I had that part conquered, that
everything else from here would be smooth sailing. But it wasn’t. I’m sorry I
did this to you, but I am not at the same time.
I am sorry to see your coffin,
but at the same time after this year it would have been too late for you anyways.
Either way your purpose would have expired for us.
Head Trainer Hult
5th- Maxon Slate
Kills: 3
“I'm not just a
Career, I'm much, much more.”
Dear Maxon,
You told me you were
going into the Hunger Games and I was so happy for you. I didn’t know that you
wouldn’t come back. I didn’t know that you would leave me forever and not just
for a few weeks like you promised. I cried for weeks after you left, you made
me soft, sister.
I promised myself that I would
not let that happen again. From the age of twelve when you left me I trained
harder than ever before. I learned every weapon that you mastered and more that
you didn’t. I now know everything that can be taught here. I am ready, the
trainers have told me already that this is my year.
After so many years of waiting, I
get to have my turn. I will do what you never could, I will replenish our
family name. Not even Uncle Walt can stop me this time.
Poplar (Sister, age 18)
6th- Amaran Luminera
Kills: 0
“I do not need anyone, or so I thought. Funny how quickly
things can change when you're facing the distinct possibility that you will not
live to see another rueful morning.“
Dear Amaran,
Isn’t love beautiful but ugly? Kind
yet evil? Luscious yet bleak?
That is how I felt with him, the
good and the bad balanced out in my eyes, though. I had a place to raise you
and a man to protect me. In return I bore the brunt of every frustration. I was
okay with that, though. I knew he loved me and so I suffered for that.
Just as you suffered for your
love. You and Noeah were star-crossed lovers at their finest, two souls lost in
each other with the knowledge that they could never really be together. I saw
the way you looked at him, a light in your eyes I have never seen before. You
don’t know how happy it makes me to know that your life ended at a good point
in your life I wish you would have come home to me, but there is not much to
come home to anymore.
Love, Mom
7th- Toriton Aszero
Kills: 1
“Finally when my life
seems to match the intense emotions, they stop coming. Funny how when
everything is spiralling out of control, I can feel so calm and, well, normal.”
Dearest Toriton,
Would it be horrible
of me to say that I am relieved?
Neither your father
nor myself truly knew how to deal with your special needs. We are just average
parents, but we tried our best. I could see that it wasn’t enough, why instead
of getting better your moods only got worse! I didn’t know what to do with
myself on those nights that your father would leave for work. I was terrified
that you might become angry and try to kill me. And I knew with your strength
that you could have.
You were
always loved, Toriton, and you still are. You just have to understand that we
couldn’t do it. If a parent cannot understand their own child they are failures.
Now, despite terrible events, we are free of our burdens. Consequently, that
means we must also bury you.
Love,
Mommy
8th- Enya Hale
Kills: 0
“I'm not defeated yet.
I'm still fighting, I will always keep fighting no matter what my body feels.
I'm only going to stay down only when I am physically incapable of getting back
up again.”
To Enya,
I miss your stories,
Enya. Erin does too, she asks me to tell her some that you never finished but I
just can’t bring myself to do that no matter how many times she asks. I think
you would have liked it better this way, kind of a representation of your own
life. The heroine’s story that got cut short before she could ever really
complete her mission.
I wonder if there’s
other girls where you are like Erin and I? Other kids that you tell stories to.
Part of me hopes not, because I always liked the stories just for us. It made
me feel special that we were the only ones to hear them.
I’m trying to think
of new stories to tell Erin, but none of them are ever nearly as good as yours.
I know it’s impossible to ask that you come back to share your dreams, but that’s
what stories are for. An escape from the reality of real life. I can’t face
that quite yet, so I think I’ll just stay lost in fantasy for now.
Your Friend, Rhona
(Friend, age 13)
9th- Alpine Deerden
Kills: 1
“I never thought it
possible that I could miss someone. It was a feeling never sought after by me
and it felt foreign to my withering mind. But it was true, I missed someone. I
missed the only two people that had ever been real friends to me.”
Dear Alpine,
Watching you go
through what you did made my heart break into a million pieces. My own son, the
fruit of my womb and the apple of my eye, somewhere far away that I cannot
touch him or hold him in my arms. Then, when you began to fight with that other
boy I couldn’t bear it. I cried for hours in front of that television screen as
life just went on but you no longer could breathe.
I was a horrible
mother to you. I failed you. I sometimes think that it is my own fault that you
were Reaped in the first place. If I had done my duty to you then no tesserae
would have been taken in your name. If I had kept you instead of handing you
off to your sister when life got too difficult, everything could have been
different.
I’ll never know if it
was me circumstance that killed you, or if it was my own selfish actions.
I’m sorry.
Love, Mom
10th- Cain Frost
Kills: 1
“His smile is serene
and I feel myself becoming calmer and calmer just by his very presence.”
My love,
No matter
that I prepared myself for this day to come, it makes it no easier to accept
the body that lowers into the ground. I knew from the moment I met you that
there was something more to you than what your parents spoke of you, that was
always what intrigued me most about you actually.
I also
had this eerie feeling about you, but I never knew what it was until you were
gone. I love you, Cain, but why did you have to make it so difficult to keep
you?
Your
mother and father are still well, Renee and Raine were hit hard by their loss
and I’m worried about them. They are only still young you remember. This is the
first time they have really experience life’s loss. There will be more, but I
promise to help them through this one at least.
It is the
least I can do for the family of the man I will never be able to love again.
Love,
Marina
11th- Callena Martis
Kills: 0
“They think they can
control me, but they don't even know what I'm capable of.”
Dear Callena,
I understand that
this, all of this, was to prove something to everyone else. But why did it have
to go this far? I stayed out of your life for as long as I could because that
is what your Father said I should do. I didn’t want you to resent me for
ruining your life or limiting you. So I let you do what you wished.
I have no
regrets about that but one, I wish I would have seen the signs that you were
going to do this. That you would volunteer against your Father’s wishes for you
to settle down and get a real hold on your life. It was good advice, Callena,
why could you not have listened to us just this one time.
This
should not have ended like this, you had so much promise, my dear. But as they
say, potential is nothing without proper direction. I guess this holds true in
this case.
Love, Mom
12th- Wyre Felix
Kills: 0
“A chill runs down my
spine and I shiver as my perfect memory comes up with the image of a little
girl pinned up high on a wall by a metal stick. I close my eyes tightly and my
fingers tap harshly against the sides of my head. I hate that picture more than
the other ones, it's so easy to replace the face of the girl with that of my
family, Fuze, or even myself.”
Dear
Sister,
It is not
good for me to cry like this, it is not good for the baby, but I cannot help
myself. How could I even fathom the fact that my little sister is gone from
this world? Not just moved away in my parent’s house away from my eyes but
actually dead and in the ground in a coffin far too large for her frail body?
It was
always my dream to have a big family, like the ones you see on television in
the school with the aunts, uncles, and cousins all coming together for one big
meal on holidays. I always wanted that for us, I was so excited when I found
out I was with child.
But that
doesn’t matter anymore without you. The baby inside me feels as dead as my
heavy heart. I don’t think I will even be able to look at it once it is born.
Right now it only feels like a weight in my stomach that only creates more pain
for me.
Please,
help me to love my baby.
Love,
Maybel (Sister, age 24)
13th- Dove Uppercut
Kills: 0
“Then the scene fades and for the first time I am left with nothing
but darkness. I feel like the boy in my dream, asleep to the world.”
My boy,
I always thought that you
were going to be something else, but not even my wise mind could have predicted
this one. Your parents were horrified, but I didn’t feel anything but
discontent. I have no power over what will happen to you when I leave this
world, and I knew the same of you when you were taken from me.
Haven’t I always told you
that there was no use in worrying about that which you cannot change?
I still watched you every
day and night, make no mistake. I had gathered myself in preparation to witness
your death, but I still wanted with everything inside of me for you to live. No
matter how far to terms you can come with fate, you can’t change your own
agenda.
I taught you that too,
didn’t I? Well you taught me that no matter what I prepare myself for, nothing
can remove the grief of a family member.
Love Always, Grandma
14th- Kiera Maaz
Kills: 3
“I'll kill them if I
can because that's what I need to do. I won't do it because I'm a bad person, I
won't do it because I enjoy it or because it gives me some kind of sick
pleasure. I'll kill them because at this point there's nothing else I can do.”
Dear
Kiera,
I don’t
think anyone really knew you, Kiera. I wanted you to let me in, to show me who
you were, but I was too shy to ask and you never offered. I wish I had pressed,
then maybe I could feel something other than a big gaping hole where my heart
should be. The piece of me that you took into the arena.
I tried to
find your family, but no one I asked claimed to know which household you came
from. I came to my own conclusion that you never really had a home or a family.
Is that why you were always in the lumber yards watching me and the boys work?
It must be, I guess you had nowhere else to go.
I know it
is too late for me to say this, but I really wish that you would have said
something. Then I could grieve you, but now all I can do is wonder if the girl
I knew ever really existed when no one can claim to know her.
Your
Friend, Arar (Friend, age 20)
15th- Miram Rivett
Kills: 0
“I`m competing for the
spotlight again, not with my sister but with the remaining tributes. Not for
the affections of my parents but for the mercy of the Capitol.”
Dear Miram,
I know that you do
not love me anymore than we could ever manage to get along, but I have grown
over the years without you. Mom and Dad have had another baby, a boy this time with
the name of Simian. He is exactly like us, like all of the Rivett children apart
from Chris have always been. I hate him, Miram. For the same reason that you
likely hated me.
You did not feel
loved after I was born, I understand that now. You competed with me because you
needed to know that you were better at something than me. You needed some kind
of redemption for being a forgotten child. Some kind of sign that the life you
lived was not worthless. I wish I could have known that growing up. It’s been
six years since you were Reaped, four years since Simian was born.
If only you could
have been around for that long. I like to think that we could have been
friends, maybe even start to act like the sisters I think we were always
supposed to be.
I miss you, even
though you never would have thought I would. To be honest, I never would have
believed anyone that might have told me I would miss you, until now that is.
Love, Krissie
(Sister- age 14)
16th- Jax Cutrialy
Kills: 0
“His eyes don't leave
mine and every trace of fear that I had seen before in his eyes has vanished.
He's strong, I'll give him that, but not stronger than a hunting knife.”
Jax,
You have
failed me son.
I put
every ounce of my strength and willpower into your training and you have only
disgraced me. Sixteenth place is not the spot for any son of mine. You have
brought shame to myself, District One, and the training that was trusted to
you. I could not accept your body because there is no way that this corpse
could be my son. My son was much stronger than this.
I have no
one to blame but myself, though, because deep down I know that the only reason
you failed is because of me. I was the one who taught you, and it is my mistake
that you died for. I will not make the same mistake with, Kenix; he will learn
and he will not fail like you have.
Father
17th- Sedo Monya
Kills: 0
“My own mind however,
can't help but see her and everyone else in this room covered in blood. In
their own, in that of other tributes.”
Dear Brother,
I miss you still, I don’t know
when you will be home but I hope it is soon enough. I know that the Capitol
took you from us, Daddy told me and Callia that on the night after the
‘Reaping’. He said you probably wouldn’t come home, but I don’t believe that.
You have to come home, this is where your family is. We’ll miss you too much if
you leave forever.
Callia and Daddy pointed you out
on the television screen every time they showed all those kids in that house of
pictures, but none of them was you. The boy they pointed to wasn’t you, he kind
of looked like that and I guess that is what fooled them. Your eyes aren’t that
red, your hands would never move that quickly to hurt another person. I can’t
wait to see the looks on their faces when they see you come home. Please don’t
be too long, I miss a little more everyday and I think Daddy does too.
Love, Violet (Sister, age 6)
18th- Geare Petrol
Kills: 0
“I just want
everything to slow down. I need time to think without interruption of these,
these things. All I ask for is just fifteen minutes of peace, to
understand which of the voices is truly mine.”
My Son,
Geare,
I am so
sorry that I have failed you, as only a mother truly could. I have watched you
since you were born, but not from the usual place above your wooden cradle. In
a place I cannot name I have stared down at my beautiful boy as he grew and matured.
Every mistake you made I blamed myself for, every act of good was a miracle
that your mind was able to conquer through my horrible actions.
If I had
been thinking I would have never taken the drugs offered to me by the men I did
business with. I knew I was pregnant when my belly started to show, but I
couldn’t help myself. I live with this pain every day, the pain that not even
death could take from me.
I don’t
think I am in a better place, I feel as though I have only entered limbo. A space
between consciousness and peace. It is my only living hope that you will not
join me in my place of rest. You were always more pure than I.
Love,
Mommy
19th- Vulcan Crater
Kills: 1
“If this guy expects
to be a decent leader, he should at least try and learn what his allies are
good at.”
Vulcan,
I am so
sorry that I could never protect my baby from him. You could have been so much
more, but instead because of my inability to stand up for you, you are just one
more volunteer who couldn’t make it out alive. I blame myself wholly for your
death, but even I could not have predicted it being this soon.
Duke
broke our television screen on the morning we sat down to watch your premiere
in the Bloodbath. He was so furious, I was so frightened. But underneath I
could feel the relief coursing through me, I would not have to see my baby turn
into a monster. You killed once, but it could have been so much worse.
If the
ending of your life had to be this soon, I cannot express how thankful I am
that you at least got to die being my baby.
Love,
Lana (Mother, age 45)
20th- Lylac Medo
Kills: 0
“My hopes rise and
fall along with the scores, I just want to see how I measure up.”
No letter could be
saved from the friends/family members of this tribute. Everything written by
her mother in the darkness of night were burned for fear that her husband might
find them. No one will ever know their contents but her and her fallen
daughter.
21st- Olive Farah
Kills: 0
“It makes me wonder
how the Games will play out, if already I feel this lost.”
To Olive,
Your
parents never wrote to you, I’m not even sure they knew that you had died. I am
sorry, truly sorry that I could not make them want you. You have to believe me
when I say that I never wanted you to go like this; to be forgotten like this.
They let
you go because you were different, scary even, but I never wanted to let go.
Now they call me deluded because I talk to you still, just like old times when
we slept side by side on those nights that the orphanage was too full to allow
us our own space.
I have
since left the old place. There were too many memories for me to take the job
you offered, too many little children running around that reminded me of you
and me in our younger years. It was never the same without you.
Your new
partner in matters of the insane, Ava (Best Friend, age 19)
22nd- Mayli Dear
Kills: 0
“Everything I
know has been turned upside down, but that's alright, everyone needs to be
challenged once in their life.”
Mayli,
I know you have always rejected
my kindness, but I wanted to let you know that you were never alone in your
grief of Cast. I knew him too, and when he was Reaped, well, I wanted to care
for you like he asked me to. I never expected for you to push me away like you
did. Actually I was hoping it would bring us closer, like sisters.
Now you’re gone too. I failed you
and I failed Cast and I am so sorry, Mayli. I wanted to protect you, but I
didn’t do it. Despite everything I promised your brother before he died I still
could not keep that one true. I still couldn’t save you.
I wish you were still here, I
wish Cast was here too. But I know that the two of you are together and
laughing just like you always did. I took in Kiko after you left, your parents
no longer wanted him for the memories he gave them of you.
He’s getting older, Mayli. I
think the cat is going to join you both soon. Don’t worry, though. I will care
for him until that day comes, I will give him all the kindness you resisted and
maybe that will make you see that I never meant you harm.
-Alexis (Cast’s girlfriend, age
28)
23rd- Rivers Bishop
Kills: 0
“The tears begin to
flow again and once again I don't stop them, let the cameras see it. Let them
realize what they are doing to the tributes, what they are doing to me.”
Dearest
Rivers,
I didn’t
know that this could really happen. Mother always told us that our chances were
slim to none, merchant kids just were not to be chosen. It would always be the
Seam children. That was never fair, but at least we were always safe.
Until
that day, anyways. The day the world stopped singing and all became nothing but
endless darkness for us.
Edie
still talks about you, but of course you probably know that. He’s going to be
twelve next year, his first Reaping will be in the spring and I know he is
terrified. I hope that wherever you are, you have someone to watch over us. Please
don’t let me lose another brother, I can’t go through that again.
Please.
Love,
Holly (sister; age 18)
24th- Areyna Kyte
Kills: 0
“I know why I thought
she looked different. I remember that Areyna's eyes are hazel, this girl's
eyes, they're blue.”
Areyna,
It was never my heart that
persuaded that spear to kill you before you had ever had a chance. Brought on
by both circumstance and the acts of other tributes, I was faced with no other
choice. You were far too young to be trusted with such a secret. There was
nothing I could do to save you, my dear.
Still, though, the decision
haunts me so. I can still see you writhing for freedom in my dreams each night.
I can still see the little girl I saw on the medics table in the Training
Center, the girl whose life drained before my eyes twice. I knew it was two
different girls, but to me you will always be one.
No amount of apology can make up
for it, but if it had been my heart’s choice you never would have been in these
Games at all.
Gamemaker Delia, Head of Traps
and Muttations.
