🦋 The 20th Hunger Games ➵ Victor: Penny

[SunnyJustice]

➵ Eden Beauregard of District One
➵ Location: Cafeteria
➵ Tagged: Sienna
"Awww," Eden brought a hand to his heart at the mention of hugging trees. A brief thought crossed his mind, he was tall and his favorite color was green. Does that make me 'tree' enough for a hug? I'm tempted to ask!
Before he could make up his mind, the subject shifted back to the Gauntlets. "Oh, yes. That trainer was out for our blood," He said, eyes wide in mock horror. "Best of luck tomorrow! Avenge us poor, unfortunate Careers who were so brutally struck down."
Eden smiled as Sienna accepted his offer. He had the impulse to offer his arm as a gentleman would, but decided against it. Other districts' customs were bound to be different, possibly making for an awkward situation. He was already awkward enough!


➵ Reyna Byrne of District Twelve
➵ Location: Cafeteria
➵ Tagged: Sharnaz, Rieka, Eden, Sienna
Reyna suppressed a snicker, excited to witness what her new best friend had in mind. It wasn't long until the wimpy little kid from District Ten came along. A host of potential insults and slurs swirled in Reyna's head, just waiting to be unleashed. But Sharnaz's idea was even better - she sent that runt flying. And better yet, it looked like an accident. You're a freaking genius! Reyna wanted to say, but remained silent, just staring with a fake shocked expression. God, it was hard to hold back laughter with the look on that loser's face.
As Sharnaz leaned over the kid with false concern, Reyna spotted a couple other tributes coming their way. Of course, that bleeding-heart Career knelt beside Rieka. What a pathetic murderer, trying to ease his conscience with superficial acts of kindness. He could at least be honest about how terrible of a person he was. But no, he had to pretend some morals existed inside that twisted heart.
The moment Eden opened his lying mouth, Reyna slapped him. She didn't need to fake her anger and hatred. It was already there. Before the murderer could react, she threw him with all her might. He landed shoulder-first but didn't cry out in pain - disappointing.
"Get away from her." She stood in front of Rieka, making direct eye contact with the cowardly Career. The faintest hint of tears shone in his eyes. Pathetic. Holding back a laugh, Reyna turned to 'reassure' the kid. "Don't worry. I won't let the Career hurt you."


➵ Eden Beauregard of District One
➵ Location: Cafeteria
➵ Tagged: Sienna, Rieka, Sharnaz, Reyna
All thoughts of manners went out the window when Rieka tripped over an outstretched foot. Judging by the other tribute's shock and concern, it was an accident, but Eden's heart still ached for the tiny tribute. He knelt beside her as a concerned parent would.
"Are you hurt-" The words barely left Eden's mouth before the slap hit him. Eyes wide, he turned to see the District Twelve girl, her face contorted in rage. Rough hands grabbed him by the collar and threw him aside. His shoulder struck the floor hard - he hadn't expected to be attacked before the Games begun. All he could do was grit his teeth and remain silent, preserving some shred of dignity.
"Get away from her," Reyna growled, standing protectively in front of the child. She stared him down for a moment, blazing hazel eyes meeting misty green. Then she turned her back on him and murmured, "Don't worry. I won't let the Career hurt you."
The words struck like a dagger in his heart - but they echoed with truth. Although his intentions were good, Eden's conscience was no clean slate. He rose to his feet, head bowed in shame. She has every right to feel this way. I should go.

[honeybee.]

Caspia Searobin | District 4 | Location: Cafeteria | Tags: Eden, Chaska, The Careers
Caspia answered Chaska’s question as she led the way to the Career’s table, pleased that the grumpy-seeming Career actually wanted to talk.
“Yeah, paella is kinda like one of District 4’s comfort foods. If you’ve had a long day being battered by the wind and saltwater on a boat... or y’know, retching over the side, it’s pretty good to warm you up at the end of the day.”

She laughed at the suggestion that she knew lots about food as they reached the table and she sat down. “I don’t, not really. I just know fish, most of that other food I’m clueless about. Meat is mostly for special occasions. Why import it for the extra cost when we already have a bunch of cheap protein we’ve caught ourselves? That’s why I wanted to t try all this stuff.” She gestured to her tray, where there wasn’t a piece of fish or seafood in site.
“Though it looks as if the Capitol does their fish a lot fancier than ours.” She glanced over to Killick’s food, which he seemed to be enjoying immensely.

She paused to hear Killick’s answer to Chaska’s question before posing her own, curious about District 2.
“Doesn’t your district have any traditional dishes?”

[Runnersback]

➵Sienna Mach-North| D7 |17|Tags:Eden, Reyna
Sienna cracked her knuckles glaring at Reyna,“You got some damn nerve girl.” She grabbed Reyna by the collar and dragged her over to a food table before taking her face and slamming it into a cheesecake.It really wasn’t that easy to get her over there but from her logging days she still managed. Sienna whipped around and grabbed Eden by the arm protectively taking him a long gently. She was madder then a tracker Jacked to say the least and when did she get so protective of a Career, she knew hardly anything about.Next she wondered what was going to happen to shed and her training score for counteracting with a small bout of violence. Sienna gently sat Eden down before checking his face and shoulder over.“Are you ok?” She asked softly pressing a cool cup to his cheek to ease the stinging slap he received from the bitter district Twelve girl.“And I’m sorry for lashing out against her like that... She just made me so mad especially when she hit you and judged with the career stereotype...I know it was your battle but it’s also my enemy.” Sienna said delicately as she checked him over once again noticing the mist in his green eyes.“Would you like to hear a story?” She asked as she sat down on her knees in front of him trying to distract the poor boy from words she knew had stung him.

➵Moses Grandy| D7 |18|Tags:Colby,Zoe
Moses sipped his tea in agony,“You know how you trip in fall sometimes on rocks and you get that gritty taste in your mouth. It’s just like worse but this time it burn.” When he was five he was dared to lick a rock and he did but was he going to mention that no, he was definitely trying to preserve his dignity at the moment as he glanced over to see the district Twelve’s girl face smeared with some sort of dessert he didn’t recognize.“I am now, Thank you! But is my district partner I have no clue especially when District Twelve’s mean machine Is now covered with cake? “ He would figure it out later but as he searched the room for Sienna he found her back by the window nursing Eden.The red head exhaled in ultimate relief and sat back down.

[Zyn]

☣ 𝒮𝒽𝒶𝓇𝓃𝒶𝓏 𝒜𝒹𝓋𝒶𝓃𝒾 ☣
District 5 || Tribute || Female || Seventeen || The False Prophet

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☣ Location: The Cafeteria
☣ Tags: Reyna, Rieka, Sienna
xxxxxxxEden
☣ Mood: Furious
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Things happened so quickly that Sharnaz didn't even know how to react. The next thing that she knew Reyna was being dragged away and smushed into some kind of food. The silver lining to everything was that she was left with the perfect victim to take all her anger out on. Leaning in close to the little girls ear a shark like grin curled her lips up. "You screwed everything up for me and for that you will pay. That boy you seem to have found an alliance with? I am going to take him out first and I'm going to make you watch. And then I am going to take you out. IF you tell anyone I guarantee he will suffer and so will you" She whispered. Her voice was just as scary as the grin that only Rieka could see. Then she stood and with long strides made her way right over to Reyna whose face was covered in some kind of dessert. "Lets get our food and go. There is no point in staying here. I can't do anything with people who don't care about kids" she murmured to Reyna. It could have been a nice sentiment if she didn't mean manipulating them.

🍭 ℜ𝔦𝔢𝔨𝔞 𝔊ü𝔫𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯 🍭
District 10 || Tribute || Female || Thirteen || The Young Wolf

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🍭 Location: The Cafeteria
🍭 Tags: Sharnaz, Eden, Reyna
xxxxxxxSienna
🍭 Mood: Scared, Hurt, Lost
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Everything happened so fast that Rieka's head spun. First the career tribute from district one came over, his name was Eden or something. But then the fire girl from district twelve reacted harshly and shoved him away. She watched in silence as Sienna came over and dragged Reyna by the collar and slammed her into some kind of yummy cheesecake. Then they returned to tend to Eden. Through all of this she was still on the ground tray and food scattered in front of her. She understood why Sienna went to Eden but nobody, not even the district ten tribute had offered her help. It was really starting to sink in that nobody actually cared about her well being, well maybe everyone but Eden. As she started to process this Sharnaz leaned down close and her eyes widened slightly with fear at the shark like smile. A smile she was only privy to. The words that slipped through the red heads lips all too easily sent ice shooting through her veins. Somehow she had gotten Jay involved. she could hardly breath as Sharnaz pulled away. After a moment of quietly shaking she pushed herself up and onto her scrapped knees. Rolling back onto the balls of her feet she pushed herself to her feet. Then with scrapped up palms she leaned down and picked up her tray and started collecting her food. Upon finishing this she made her way over to the trashcan where she dumped all the spoiled food. She wanted to join her food in the trash. Maybe that way Jay would be safe, if she hadn't screwed up so badly her only friend wouldn't be in danger. The usual spark of happiness had died from her eyes and her lips where stuck in a tiny frown. Fear and pain glowed in her eyes and furrowed her brows.

[rose petals.]

GᒪOᖇIᗩ ᒪᗩᑕE
|female|2|career|tags: careers|

Gloria's attention drew to the fight that began to break out, although she had no idea why Eden was involved. Looks like mamma's boy is going to get a chance to prove himself. She thought with a grin. Although it seemed like he had no interest in fighting the aggressive redhead from 12. She couldn't help but laugh as the girl Eden had been talking to shoved her into a cheesecake. "Well she's a feisty one." Gloria with a chuckle, turning back to her fellow careers. "Child's play. If a fight is what they wanted they picked a fight with the wrong district.
she snorted.

ᑕOᒪᗷY ᗰᗩᖇKᔕ
|male|6|tribute|tags: Moses, Zoe, food|

Colby nodded when Moses explained the rock thing. All of a sudden he looked over to see a girl with cheesecake all over her face. "Ah, what happened there?" He doubted Moses knew but followed his eyes to Sienna.

ᑭEᑎᑎY ᔕYᒪᐯEᔕTEᖇ
|female|8|tribute|tags: felix, reika|

Penny saw the girl fall and gasped, and she was going to go to her, but then saw how the boy from district 1 was treated. "II'll be right back." she said to Felix, before hurrying over to Reika shoveling food into the trash can. "Are you okay?" Penny asked.

[honeybee.]

Felix Prestman | District 12 | Location: Cafeteria | Tags: Penny
Felix watched as Penny carefully poured a bright purple liquid into her own glass, wide-eyed. He nodded as she spoke about how watery & flavourless the food was in her District.
“We mainly just stuck with water,” he agreed. “Or if I could find some good herbs for it, tea. As for food, that-” he pointed to a hearty looking stew. “-Is probably the closest to what a good meal would be back home, thought it looks a little bit fancier.”
12 tended not to have a whole lot of complicated dishes, more just a mish-mash of whatever food was available.

Penny seemed distracted by something and Felix followed her eyes to see the youngest tribute, the girl from District 10, on the floor, surrounded by the food from her tray. He hadn’t seen what had gone down to cause it, but quickly followed Penny to where Rieka had now headed to the bin. Penny was already enquiring as to her wellbeing when Felix arrived.
“You’re not hurt, are you?” He added. He hadn’t seen any broken plate on the floor but wasn’t going to rule anything out. A medics first thought was about potential injury’s.
“I didn’t see what happened but it looks like it stirred quite the drama.” He looked back at the destroyed cheesecake and the District 7 girl kneeling by one of the Careers.

[SunnyJustice]

➵ Reyna Byrne of District Twelve
➵ Location: Cafeteria
➵ Tagged: Sharnaz, Rieka, Sienna
Reyna let out a harsh, barking laugh as the District Seven punk cracked her knuckles. "What're you gonna do, tree-hugger?" She taunted, but her rude words were soon silenced as Sienna dunked her face-first into a dessert. "Oh, that. Fiesty!" the jerk from District Twelve chuckled as she righted herself. Curious about the taste, she licked a morsel from her upper lip to try. Not bad!
Unfortunately for the kid from District Ten, both her white-knight saviors were gone now. A faint chuckle escaped Reyna as she watched Sienna lead Eden away. It was too perfect. Reyna had promised the kid she'd protect her from the 'big scary Career', but she said nothing about protecting her from Sharnaz. A vicious grin had appeared on her ally's face as she whispered something into the kid's ear. Judging by the absolute horror on the loser's face, Sharnaz had uttered some juicy words. Now Reyna was curious.
She'd wiped off most of the splattered cheesecake by the time Sharnaz approached her. "Yeah, I was expecting more of a reaction," Reyna murmured in a quiet tone so only her fellow bully could hear. "Anyway, let's grab some bread rolls!"
Turning her back on the other tributes, she returned her attention to the food table. Reyna couldn't pick a favorite, so she took a sample from each district's specialty bread. The flowery-looking one from District One looked the most pathetic. It reminded her to pick on Eden some more once they'd finished getting food. Mommy's little Career wasn't out of the woods yet, far from it.


➵ Eden Beauregard of District One
➵ Location: Cafeteria
➵ Tagged: Sienna
Everything happened in a blur. One moment Sienna smashed Reyna's face into a dessert, the next moment she was leading him away by the arm. Eden stayed still as she checked him for injuries - thankfully nothing more than bruises - and then she pressed something cool against his cheek. He exhaled a sigh of relief as the ache began to fade.
"Thank you." Eden managed a smile. "I'm alright. To be honest, I appreciate your standing up for me back there... it means a lot."
Sienna seemed to recognize something in his eyes. She knelt before him and offered to tell a story, clearly intending to make him feel better. At that moment, Eden realized he could never kill this tribute. How could he raise his blade against someone who'd shown him only kindness and care? Yet even as the thought crossed his mind, he remembered with a twinge of guilt that he'd done it once before.
Maybe he did need a distraction, but something else caught his eye. The small child they'd left behind seemed to be worse off than before. A cold grin was etched on the District Five lasses' face as she whispered something, and Eden could visibly watch all hope drain out of the child's eyes. "A story would be nice. In the meantime, I can keep an eye on the situation." Eden gestured to Rieka. Although he couldn't approach for reasons Reyna made clear, some mother-hen instinct compelled him to stay nearby until he could confirm the child was safe. Thankfully the redheads from earlier were leaving, replaced by a couple of smaller and less malicious tributes.

[Runnersback]

➵Sienna Mach-North| D7 |17|Tags:Eden
Sienna nodded while tapping her lips softly,“Now let me see... Ah here we go! It all started back in District Seven when I was a young child...” She said before getting comfortable again.“My family hailed from a long line of tree farmers and we always planted anything from oak to even pine for the Capital.Well it was a beautiful sunny day with sun spreading so much warmth it would make you melt with joy. Everyday from nine to five the loggers would come in with some peacekeepers to watch over the workers since there had been a accident when one logger became violent from a infection he had suffered from.That’s besides the point, me and all my friends after school would always run through the trees and play, and even sing to the mockingjays to get them to sing back.Well one day I saw some loggers trying to cut down my favorite tree. So I ran up and hugged the tree with all my might and broke down wailing. I ended up making the biggest ordeal over a sick tree that needed to be cut. The peacekeepers weren’t happy and I ended up getting grounded for a few months but that tree is still there.” She chuckled sadly as she finished up her story.“You know I actually have more energy to kill maybe I’ll just do the gauntlets today if you can show me how to do them first.” Sienna suggested and rubbed the back of her neck slightly embarrassed she’s never trained on one of those things before.

➵Moses Grandy| D7 |18|Tags:Colby,Zoe
Moses soon noticed the small child on the floor and looked back over to Colby.“I don’t know but the poor girl spilled her food. Let’s go get her some. I’ll get her some lemonade.” He said getting up and following Colby while he grabbed a cup and filled it with pink lemonade being equally surprised at the color. They only had sweet tea, water, or yellow lemonade in seven but hopefully the girl liked it. He walked over to Rieka.“I didn’t know what you really liked so I got you pink lemonade. Take a few sips to calm down a little. I’m so sorry the tributes from 12 and 10 were so cruel. Are you okay? Do you want us to get you anything?” He asked slowly trying not to overwhelm the small albino little girl. Maybe Reyna was actually a mutt sent from Twelve to terrorize the tributes before the game.

[SunnyJustice]

➵ Reyna Byrne of District Twelve
➵ Location: Cafeteria
➵ Tagged: Sharnaz
A handful of older tributes were now gathering around that loser. Reyna sneered, taking note of the bleeding-hearts currently fussing. Maybe she and Sharnaz could lure them into a trap with a similar premise.
She couldn't stop thinking about earlier. What words did Sharnaz whisper into the kid's ear to freak her out so bad? By the time she'd finished piling her tray with delicious food, the curiosity became too great. "Hey Sharnaz, so what did you say back there? It screwed that kid up pretty good," She muttered to her ally. "Wanna tell me while we find a table?"
She was also hoping they'd walk past the Career table. Reyna wasn't finished with the mommy's boy just yet.


➵ Eden Beauregard of District One
➵ Location: Cafeteria
➵ Tagged: Sienna, Careers
A warm smile appeared on Eden's face as Sienna told her story. District Seven sounded wonderful, a haven of forests both natural and human-engineered. She then recounted the lovely tale of how she saved her favorite tree. Eden smiled, wiping something from his eye once she'd finished. "You really are a friend to trees!" He chuckled. "Who knows, maybe they'll return the favor one day."
Eden looked enthusiastic at the thought of coaching his new friend on the Gauntlets. "That's the spirit! I'll do a quick demonstration, then the Gauntlets are all yours - and your allies'." He'd noticed Sienna briefly interacting with a team of other tributes during training, although she sat alone at lunch. "Anyway, it was nice to meet you. I think it's time we both returned to our alliances now. Thank you for helping me - Career or not, I won't forget your kindness if we meet in the arena."
Eden knelt down and planted a light kiss on the back of Sienna's hand, a gentleman's gesture of courtesy in District One. When he rose to his feet, the realization hit him - Oh no! District Seven must have different customs. I hope she doesn't take it the wrong way, Eden thought in a mild panic. But he hid his uncertainty behind a soft smile as he waved goodbye, then headed off towards the Careers' table.

His heart was pounding for some reason. Alright, Eden, get it together, He scolded himself. You're supposed to be the calm one! Thankfully, the atmosphere was quiet when he returned to the Career table. Madeline and Gloria weren't even trying to impale each other.
"Sorry about the delay," Eden said with a sheepish grin as he took a seat. His tea and food were lukewarm now, but he took a delicate sip from the cup. "I hope everyone is enjoying the food."

[anathema]

(x𝐊 𝐈 𝐋 𝐋 𝐈 𝐂 𝐊x𝐀 𝐂 𝐐 𝐔 𝐀 𝐓 𝐈x)

( district 4 )x( location: cafeteria )x( tags: caspia, chaska, other careers )

Killick put on a faint smile when Chaska asked him what foods he liked. "Oh," he said, trying to think of his favorite dishes and meals. "Pizza's a classic, but I also love fish... of course. He ran a hand through his hair. "I'm also a big fan of sushi, spaghetti bolognese, saltwater taffy, and macaroni and trees... which is, like, macaroni 'n' cheese with broccoli in it!"
He then paused for a moment to think. "Ooh, I almost forgot! I also love paella." He giggled softly and exchanged a friendly glance with his district partner. "Paella reminds me of the only time I went big-game fishing... it's what I had for dinner as they, uh, patched me up. Long story short, not all people from Four are into catching fish as much as they're into eating it."
With that, Killick quieted down again. He was very interested in what food in District Two was like, since it almost certainly differed from some of Four's traditional meals. He highly doubted the masonry district had any seaweed dinner rolls!