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The battlefield is no place for a lady
So no one would expect to see you there
And if you use this trick to your advantage, girl
You'll cut them to their knees as if in prayerHannah’s eyes flicked to her. “He said you’re a good captain. I thought maybe he just thinks so ‘cause you’re his captain.”
“Oh, he very much says so because I’m his captain,” Sophie said, oddly cheered at the thought of Excidium talking her up to a surly, suspicious child, “but I try.”
What does it mean to be a female aviator before, during, and after the Napoleonic Wars? A lifetime of balancing acts, living on the periphery, carving out space that would not be granted otherwise. Excidium has many companions, not all of them Rolands, but each of them connected, and all beloved.
Five generations of aviators: their triumphs, their struggles, their friendships, loved ones and those who opposed them, their times of celebration and moments of pain and loneliness, viewed backwards through the years.
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“She’s out of arrows. He’s dying of sepsis. Is she supposed to go down there and punch them with her bare hands? Cato has armour and they’re eating him. She’d get torn to pieces.”
“Okay, but —” Blake mutters a curse into Rowan’s hair. “Yeah okay, fine. But they should send her another arrow so she can end it, then. Nobody wants to watch this.”
Somebody does, Rowan thinks, stomach twisting.
The residential candidates of District 2's Personal Growth and Athletics Centre watch the finale of the 74th Hunger Games.
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- Part 47 of We Must Be Killers: Tales from District 2
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This is what happens when we break the rules.
Alec is twelve, biding his time in District 2. He has one more year before he joins his brother and best friend in the Residential Career program, and whispers of unrest in the districts mean his parents are tense and distracted.
When the Games in his final summer at home have an unusual Reaping and a Two Male tribute who tests the Capitol's limits, old traumas and new fears collide as Alec struggles to understand his father and the world.
Civilian POV of Fixed to a Star.
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- Part 30 of We Must Be Killers: Tales from District 2
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Creed was born for the Arena. Knowing his destiny makes him a little solemn or a little insufferable (depending on whether you ask his parents or his brother), but at least he's not afraid to die. His life runs along its predetermined path until two weeks before the Reaping, when Creed injures his knee in training and gets sent home.
What does a child of indoctrination do with a lifetime of glory-in-death and nowhere to use it?
And what does the younger brother do when, for the first time, he steps into the sun with no one in his way?
(A different Make Us Proud Victor Alec AU where Creed survives)
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“You — want to talk to me about my feelings? Did you lose a bet?”
“Ha, ha.” Selene aims the pillow at his face, but Alec catches it one-handed. “Do you like Claudius?”
Not EVERYTHING is trauma.
Part of the Victor Alec AU.
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- Part 5 of Memory Remains: Victor Alec
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Memory Remains: Victor Alec by lorata, Xanify
Fandom: Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
20 Mar 2023
Summary
look around, look around, how lucky we are to be alive right now
After Creed's death in 71 and Selene's victory in 72, Alec surprises everyone by volunteering in 73. He's not sure how he feels about it. Problem is, that's the sort of thing you need to figure out if you want to live.
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We Must Be Killers: Tales from District 2 by lorata
Fandom: Hunger Games (2012), Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
06 Sep 2024
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Tributes, victors, mentors, people who love them. Their lives, their deaths; who remembers, who doesn't.
Character exploration, missing scenes and backstory for canon and original characters: how the District 2 Career Centre makes its tributes, how they win their Games and how their mentors put them back together. How some rebel, some don't and some never get the chance.
We grew up in golden light
Every chance to get it right
What did we do with it?It’s gone, what I had back then is gone
Can’t get it back againSorry for the things we should have done
Sorry for the kids we pushed too far
Sorry now for all the lonely hearts who can’t move on becauseWe waited
For love, for dreams in the night
For days to come when we’d be all right
I can’t remember why I did the things I did
I was just a kidAll the lines we knew back then, they now are faded
All the laws we once obeyed, they have betrayed us
People that I used to hate, I hardly remember
Forgive the children we once were
- Delta RaeONGOING
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Tharkay is fond of remarking upon Laurence's summer home along a particular river in Egypt, but neither he nor Granby are exempt from vacationing there from time to time.
COMPLETE.
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The Avenger Games by lorata
Fandom: Avengers (Comics), Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, Marvel Avengers Movies Universe, The Avengers (2012)
22 Jul 2014
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Nick Fury brings together some of Panem's best and brightest for a Hunger Game that will, hopefully, kick off the Rebellion and end President Snow's reign of tyranny. But how optimistic is he being? Can people really change? And how much sacrifice is too much?
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My World's On Fire (How 'Bout Yours?): District 2 at War by kawuli, lorata, penfold, Xanify
Fandom: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
15 Jul 2018
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Alma Coin's dictatorial tendencies don't go unnoticed by everyone; over the years, a faction splits from her rebellion and seeds itself through the districts. They have no resources, weapons, or strongholds, but they do have eyes and ears. And so they infiltrate and gather intelligence from both sides, waiting until the time when they can save Panem from President Snow and Alma Coin.
When Brutus is pulled from the 75th Arena and accidentally resuscitated by a squad of District 2 Peacekeepers, the second resistance takes a chance. Coin considers District 2 an acceptable sacrifice -- a convenient scapegoat, full of loyalist traitors -- but after all, one man's trash is another man's treasure.
A fix-it that isn't; nothing is rosy, nothing is easy, but maybe a few lives will be saved along the way. Follows canon through the Quarter Quell and diverges at "A District Upside Down".
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