Victor: Brennen Dwyloe,
District Two
Brennen
returned to District two when his parents were still away on business in the
Capitol, and so he was greeted only by his elderly nanny. He moved into his new
home in the Victor’s Village without sending word to his parents, hoping that
they would visit him when they got home. Months went by and they never came by,
but he was visited the odd time by his nanny who would always lie and say his
parents weren’t at home. After a couple of years, Brennen’s parents tried to
reach out to him and he refused to return their calls. This only lasted a week
or so before they gave up. Brennen was crushed. He started using recreational
drugs to cope with the nightmares that no one would ever ask him about and the
only people he could seek help in were the Victors he brought home in later
years.
2nd: Rict Green, District
Seven
The people of
District Seven hated Rict Green for what he had done in the Games. He was
returned on the chilly day before the final Interviews to parents that were hit
with tomatoes and eggs upon opening their front door. As they brought his
coffin into their house, they cursed his name in angry tears. He was buried
under an anonymous grave stone, and his parents never did visit for fear that he
would be dug up and massacred further. They were forced to disown him
essentially, and they hated what he put them through again.
3rd: Remington Flores,
Capitol
Phineas
Flores hated President Cyrus from the day his son was Reaped. It was played off
as a mere coincidence, but Phineas knew his son had been set up. For what
reason, he would never truly know. Perhaps it was to keep his eye on his work,
but maybe it was simply to keep Phineas in line. Whatever the reason, he would
never hate anyone more. But, as he had always taught his son to do, he hid his
anger well and worked for President Cyrus for many more years to come. No
matter how much Remy would have hated him for doing so.
4th: Zander Flyx, District
Three
No one in
District Three can say that they were surprised when Zander’s tiny corpse was
returned to his family in a wooden coffin. His mother greeted her son with a
heavy heart that she was not better to him. He was buried in the graveyard, his
father requesting that he be placed near Vienna Noble but her family refusing
to have the boy anywhere close to their daughter. Instead, Zander was buried in
a place near the street where his grave could watch Peacekeepers come by and
spit on his dirt blanket. They continue to use the boy’s name as a reminder of
what they can do if you choose to argue with them, whether their reasons are
true or not no one can know.
5th: Veralidaine Vantos,
District Ten
Veralidaine’s
coffin never arrived back in District Ten. It was burned in the Training Centre
along with a note from the district jail. The ashes were thrown into the same
river where she had years ago committed the first of many misdeeds. Her cell
mate, Van, never knew what had become of her after her death, but he hoped that
she had been buried elsewhere. He knew she had always hated District Ten, but
now she would flow through it many times a year. She would forever hate the idea that even in death she would
never escape.
6th: Kor Epson, District
Ten
Unlike his
district partner, the whole district would mourn the loss of such a wonderful
young man. The only living member of his family, Boulder Epson, would meet his
son’s coffin upon its delivery. Heaving it over his head he carried it to his
backyard where a grave had already been prepared for Kor. His father knew that
Kor would never survive, even if his body came home the Hunger Games would take
away any traces of his son’s goodness.
7th: Grace Willows,
District Five
Grace’s
parents were waiting on the steps of their house when their daughter’s coffin
was delivered to their home. Neither of them cried for her until the door
closed behind them, as they brought her coffin into the living room. After a
lot of discussion, they decided that they would not part with their daughter
and kept her coffin in their spare room. Keeping her door closed and bathed in
shadows, they could pretend she was merely sleeping in again, and her three
siblings hated that even now they could never have their sister.
8th: Vienna Noble, District
Three
During the
Final Eight interviews, her father told the cameras that he was not shocked at
her placement so far. With her flair for history, it had only been a matter of
time before she discovered the thirty year secret of the past Hunger Games. He
said that she became obsessed with learning more, and family luck would seal
her fate of being chosen. When her coffin was returned to District Three, her
parents had already arranged for a large procession and all of her family and
friends attended to mourn the girl who had pretty much predicted her own fate.
9th: Juniper Haywood,
District Seven
With no
living relatives to send her coffin too, Juniper was returned to the Mayor of
District Seven for burial. Nothing special was given for the funeral, and only
small groups of children from her orphanage attended to grieve the girl had
nearly escaped the hold of the orphanage worker. A young boy would frequent her
grave often, with his adoptive grandmother in tow. The old woman never knew why
the boy was so attached to the fallen tribute, but she did not find it
difficult to grieve along with him.
10th: Obsidian Nixon,
District One
His aunt, who
raised Obsidian, was appalled by the person he became in the arena. During the
Games, she would go to sleep every night hoping that her nephew would be
returned to her exactly the way he was when he left. After his death, she
didn’t realize that he had been returned as the same person, because Obsidian
had never changed. He had always been dead inside, it was just a matter of time
until his body caught up with him.
11th: Cecilia Howlite,
District One
Before she
had been Reaped, no one had even remembered that Cecilia Howlite was alive. Her
parents had played for both sides during the Rebellion, and the whole family
paid the price. With no one to collect her body when it was returned to
District One, her coffin was given to the mayor and buried in the communal
graveyard right beside her district partner, Obsidian. No one seemed to care
that she would eternally rest beside the very person that killed her.
12th: Soren Lyte, District
Four
In the days
after his brother’s death crushed little Severend Lyte, and he lived every day
like it would be his last because he realized it very well could be. He and his
mother paid their respects to their lost family members once a week, the two of
them buried side by side in the community graveyard. Severend was the shoulder
for his mother to cry on, but he couldn’t bear to give her his tears as well.
He kept them covered by his hair that he let grow too long, and took to alcohol
to take the pain away. To this day, Severend can be found sitting in between
the gravestones with a half-empty bottle in his hand.
13th: Cole Grissom,
District Five
When Cole’s
coffin was buried in the district cemetery, his Grandfather would let no one
else grieve with him. He was crushed that there was nothing he could have done
to save his grandchild, just like when he fell into an electrical fire in his workshop.
No one understood his reasons for the grief that eventually killed him in the
form of a heart attack, but they left him to his own. Cole would never know how
many people wished to visit him, because of his Grandfather, but life went on
for their family and without him to worry about his parents’ business
flourished.
14th: Sheria Maurell,
District Nine
After their
eldest daughter was Reaped, the Maurell family was disoriented. Her mother
could not keep up with the household duties that came with the care of her
children and cleaning of their large, run-down home and she had to quit her job
in the fields. With only one income now to support the family of seven, money
was tight within weeks. Callan, her oldest sister, was terrified as she watched
her family deteriorate. Being very beautiful, she married at the age of sixteen
to a merchant who easily doubled her age. It was the only way she could think
of to support her family, but she had to face the reality that she could never
be Sheria.
15th: Heath Carlile,
District Nine
As Heath’s
mother and two younger sisters watched him die on the screens in the square,
they all breathed a silent sigh of relief. When his coffin arrived, they
mourned for him but the truth was that they were glad to be rid of him. He had
always been the wild card, the one thing that might bring harm to the family
and he was now gone. Heather and Glenna married many years later and left their
mother alone, where she lived in peaceful hatred of herself. For letting go of her
son so quickly that years later she could not even remember the color of his
eyes.
16th: Natalya Marrion,
Capitol
The party
never stopped with Natalya’s death. Her friends considered her dead from the
moment she was Reaped, a few grieved for her but they all moved on eventually. Her
parents could not bear the guilt of the beauty they had instilled in the Hunger
Games in earlier years. They were horrified when Natalya’s coffin came nailed
closed, for they would never see their beautiful angel again. They were still
young and adopted another daughter a year and a half later, naming her Natalya
simply to have a face to the name they would repeat in their sleep each night.
17th: Invidius Regium,
District Two
Invidius’ boyfriend,
Rambin, was waiting with his family when her coffin returned to District Two.
After her burial in the graveyard near his house, her grave was never visited
by anyone except the boy whose name she called in her dreams. No one could
understand what made Invidius attack like she had, it seemed to be the act of
an insane person and she was not loss to their district. Only Rambin would ever
truly understand her, and he joined her in death on the one year anniversary of
her death when he was killed by grave robbers.
18th: Santanna Cromms,
District Eight
No one came
to claim her when Santanna’s coffin arrived in District Eight. For no other
option, her entire coffin was burned and the ashes buried among the graves of
several victims of a factory fire. A young boy, not knowingly related to any
one of the victims cremated, was amoung the few who volunteered to dig the mass
grave. The same boy could be found on countless nights, laying beside the
upturned soil with his head on the stone and his fingertip tracing the ‘S’ in
her name.
19th: Hudson Rienhart,
District Six
When Hudson’s
body was returned to District Six, with the promise of help from a sympathetic
Peacekeeper, his father still would not give up his old ways. All by himself he
dug his son’s grave in their tiny swamp of a backyard, and all by himself he said
his final goodbyes to the legacy he hoped for his family. The kids at school
never found out what had happened to their friend’s coffin, and rumors spread
that his father had rejected his arrival. The one room house was vandalized
more times than one could count, and until the day he died one could pass by
their house and see the old man cleaning paint off the boards.
20th: Evangeline Dyre,
District Eleven
No one quite
understood Evangeline, but her death hit hard with everyone in District Eleven
nonetheless. The schoolhouse was a much quieter place now, without her constant
questions and corrections, and the teachers could not help feeling some relief
that they wouldn’t have to stay countless days past the bell with her any
longer. Her best friend, Luthe, left school and never returned when she died. The
truth was, she had been the only one keeping him there. He would spend his life
trapped in the family business of alcohol and burglary.
21st: Lorcan Raff, District
Eleven
Lorcan’s mother
watched with speared eyes for the length of the Games. She was horrified by
what she saw, the Interviews where she saw her son acting and the Bloodbath
where her baby was standing so secluded and terrified. His death by the
District One male was enough to send her over the edge of her anxiety. She ran
into the streets, a strong army of one woman, calling out the horrors that she
had seen through her son’s eyes. Her husband returned from work just in time to
see her shot and killed by a straight-faced Peacekeeper. He could not bring to
claim either of his family’s bodies for fear of his own career, and they were
buried in a mass grave with much of the large district present.
22nd: Trystan Rayon,
District Eight
When the
coffin arrived at his doorstep, Trystan’s father slammed the door on the
officials who accompanied it. They left his son on the steps, where he stayed
for days until a neighbor offered to have the boy buried in the district
cemetery. With a cheap glass of gin in his hand, he shrugged and agreed,
closing his door for the next fifteen years. Upon an unrelated investigation
after this, the skeleton of a man long dead with a broken rope around his neck
was found with broken bottles coating the floor.
23rd: Seanna Fyera,
District Four
Seanna’s body
was greeted by thrown flower petals by her family and friends in District Four.
Her mother, June, was crushed by her daughter’s death and became ever the more
protective of her other children because of it. Seanna’s older sister Aqua
moved out a year after her sister’s death, not able to bear her own mother for
any longer. Their youngest sister, Reyna, was stuck by herself for years, until
on the anniversary of her sister’s death she ran away from home only to be hit by
a train transporting goods to the Capitol. A couple days later, Aqua hanged
herself, unable to get over the guilt of losing both her siblings. The Fyera
sisters would remain forever at rest in a line of stones in the backyard,
watched by their mother through the window.
24th: Winter Darnish,
District Six
Winter could
have never imagined how many people would come to her funeral upon her return. The
girl was so into her own regret and hate that she never understood just how
much she was surrounded with. The only one who could not seem to offer a tear
to the wooden coffin was her older sister, Lisa, who, like her younger sister,
could now not get over the fact that she might be the least cared for sibling.
