#Sheaf

[moreespressoformydepresso]

Imagine if, while in the zoo, the tributes of the 10th hunger games had spent their time bonding and at some point kinda joked about escaping together? And they all thought out exit strategies and such and even the word they’d use as signal to initiate the plans. They discuss who’s good at what, jokingly dividing tasks between them, with Wovey, Bobbin, and Mizzen getting the task of “stay behind us and don’t die” because they’re the youngest. No one really takes it seriously, they just use the fantasy to escape their horrid reality for a second because it’s nice to imagine all of them can make it out alive, even if they know that’s not the case.

Then the arena bombings happen

Otto and Ginnee probably still die, since they died from schrapnel, but Panlo and Sheaf were far enough away to still be conscious and moving around (that last part is mostly because of adrenaline). Everyone’s caught off-guard, but someone (probably Coral) sees their chance and screams the word they discussed, and all tributes jump into action. Jessup and Lucy Gray still save their respective mentors, but because the tributes are working together the peacekeepers have been taken out so there’s no one to drag them away. Instead, all 21 remaining tributes book it as fast as they can and manage to escape the area before reinforcements arrive. They are now on the run, and cannot show their faces without getting shot on sight, but they’re alive and that’s what matters. Mizzen, Sheaf, and Treech are the best thieves of the group (Mizzen’s small and fast (he was just closer to the snakes than everyone else shut up), Sheaf is described as "a limber little girl", and Treech sneakily stole Dill’s water bottles. That’s my evidence. Also they need more love) and thus go out to scrap together anything that may be helpful.

They, being the overachieving badasses they are, get their hands on futuristic medicine to cure Dill’s tuberculosis faster than the real world ever could and help Hy manage his asthma (because it’s chronic, there’s no way they can find a cure for that just lying around even in the future). I say they’re overachieving, because Sheaf did the back handspring for food, Treech only died because of Lucy’s cheating (still getting 6th(movie)/3d(book) place, and he definitely would’ve killed her and been a real contender for the win if she hadn’t cheated), and Mizzen is 13. A 13-year-old got 5th(book)/4th(movie) place. I rest my case.

They use the newfound supplies to heal their wounds and disinfect them, Jessup doesn’t get rabies because I make the rules here, and things are good. They spend a while utilizing their unique skills to stay hidden until one of two things happen:

1) the mentors, who have gotten quite attached to their assigned tributes, fight for the games to be disbanded and rally the rest of the academy, leading to a better Panem where the Capitol and the districts become a functioning, not-dystopian nation again and everything ends well.

Or

2) the tributes manage to escape the capitol and flee into the woods, letting Lucy Grey lead them to the Covey because ain’t no way they can just go back to their own districts just yet. The covey, being nomadic, is the best place for them to stay until they’ve grown up enough to be unrecognizable from their child selves to anyone who doesn’t actually know them.

Either way, things are better. I wanted to share this because I’m sad that all these wonderful (fictional) children died for the amusement of genuine monsters (and those indoctrinated to believe district people are not people)

Edit because a lot of new people are liking this post: someone wrote it :)

[persephoneprice]

re: #which tribute says this to which mentor

“my trauma made me funny” and the trauma in question is their upper middle class parents getting an amicable divorce. and they’re not funny

--this feels like panlo and gaius

WAIT omfg you’re so right. except panlo is too nice to say it so sheaf says it for him.

[majorsoapfan]

In chapter 11 are panlo and sheaf still injured and need someone supporting them as they walk or have their wounds fully healed?

Hi!

Yes, Panlo and Sheaf are still injured. Now they're both feeling a hell of a lot better than they did two and half days ago at that point (the length of time from when they had arrived at the house to the end of chap 11), but they are still recovering. I do believe that while the duo were badly hurt in the explosion (not as bad as Gaius was obviously, but more severely injured that the other tributes) they still could have survived their injuries if they had been treated by a professional (aka trained to treat humans), had gotten proper medication/supplies meant for humans and were in a location that allowed for proper healing (now the basement wasn't much better, but at least there was no dirt or hay there and they had mattresses/clean sheets).

To sum it up, I think that it was their wounds becoming infected that killed them in the book, and not the injuries themselves.

But now, in this AU, they actually received Capitol medicine to kill any developing infections and their wounds have been cared for by the other tributes, so while the duo are still recovering, they are able to walk some short distances by themselves before they need help.

(The others are aware of this despite the two trying not to make a big deal of it and so neither have heavy bags to carry right now, the stronger tributes are shouldering their load while their injuries heal.)

[askflorus]

why were you so curious about the bombing? weren't you there?

- sheaf.

Hello Sheaf,

I am curious for two reasons. The first, of course, being so that I can document the various experiences. The second, and more important, is because my dear friend Androcles sustained fatal injuries from the bombing. I’m sure you recall him- he was your mentor, correct?

[corvianbard]

#5940

Dear grief, agonizing grief, You tear away every existing belief Yet collecting them into a sheaf. White like a dying mass of reef, I no longer know relief.

[sasdaertg]

The other car going to the zoo

Hy : *coughing cause asthma is a bitch*

Circ : okay who here is the little mother ducker that is coughing?

Sheaf:*has an amused look on her face* a mother what?

Circ : a motherducker! Don't you guys say that when you are annoyed?

Otto *trying to hold back his laughter* no!

Hy : *coughs more*

Facet : okay but seriously who here is coughing?

Hy : asthma is a bitch okay!

Velvereen : oh you poor thing! That must be so hard for you!

Hy : I can't tell if you're sarcastic or not.

Sabyn : of course she's sarcastic you dumb hoe!

Sol : says the bitch who isn't even supposed to be here.

Teslee : can you guys be a little more quit? I'm trying to come up with a idea how to kill somebody slow and painful but not using a weapon!

Ginnee : okay wtf

Otto : please Teslee have mercy with me!

Circ : I'm your district partner you can't kill me!

Panlo : please don't kill me I'm good at making bread!

Facet : that is the dumbest excuse I've heard someone say ever.

Hy : you can kill me if you want I will either way die very slow.

Sol : please don't go emo now hy!

Sabyn : *singing* ~I fell in love with an emo girl~

Velvereen: *also singing*~ I'm in love with an emo girl*

Circ *also suddenly singing* ~I fell in love with an emo girl ~

Everybody(expect for facet) : ~all I want is an emo girl~

Facet : okay wtf is wrong with you people?!

And then they got dumped into the zoo

[tiredvanitas]

Forgot to post it here yesterday but here is a farm girl holding a sheaf for yesterday’s pixel dailies 🌾

[tsvai]

it's here it's here 👀

[blamhammer]

Inertia by Sheaf

[tropichalys]

Solitude - Sheaf

ChillSynth / Dreamwave / Electrowave

[moreespressoformydepresso]

Small, teensie little AU I’m contemplating writing to get back into the ✨vibe✨ so I can update my other fics:

The bars in the zoo are spaced just far enough apart that the slimmest, smallest tributes can fit through. The tributes decide they can use this to escape, but they’re guarded relatively well. So they work around it. On the day before the final interviews, they’re done planning. Bobbin, Mizzen, Sheaf, Teslee, and Treech sneak through the bars one by one and meet up just in front of the main entrance, since that’s an easy place to locate with zero knowledge of the zoo layout. They all have a job.

Teslee fucks with the security system of the zoo and cracks into the citywide system, adjusting it just subtly enough that none of the guards would ever notice. All it will take is one final technical nudge to quietly deactivate the whole thing, looping the cameras and disabling alarms all over the city. Circ will know exactly what to do when it’s time. Later, she also hacks into the Capitol’s peacekeeper tech to basically annihilate any and all tech advantages they had.

Bobbin, Sheaf, and Mizzen? Well, they’re all conspiring towards two goals. Gathering supplies and creating as much chaos as possible. At night, they do a lot of breaking and entering, leaving a trail of destruction and booby traps in their wake to get back at the Capitol for everything they’ve done and they make sure they are front and center on camera. Everyone has to know who did this. The next day is even worse, because now people know they’ve escaped and are on the loose. They amp it up, since they have enough supplies to last them they focus completely on sowing chaos everywhere they go. For a whole day, they terrorize the city.

And as everyone focuses on them, on all the havoc they’re creating and the fact they’re showing their faces all around the city but constantly evading capture, as they realize all their tv’s now constantly play the worst shows ever thanks to Teslee, they fail to notice the absence of the fifth and final missing tribute. As his fellow tributes draw all the attention and create panic, Treech spends the day exploring, jumping between rooftops and slipping through the streets like a ghost as he scopes out the city. All its hiding places, it’s corners no one notices, the weaknesses in the Capitol’s defensive lines and the way back to the districts. Night begins to fall. As Bobbin, Sheaf, Mizzen, and Teslee create one big spectacle right in front of the president’s mansion, the Capitol’s focus is on this show of rebellion. And as they watch the spectacle, they fail to realize a shadow of a boy slipping through the zoo, past the distracted guards, picking the lock of the enclosure’s gate and leading its unwilling inhabitants back out into the streets. No one notices when the systems shut down as a boy with glasses gives it one final nudge, and no one knows the four rebels in front of the President’s Mansion used the fire of the Panem flag they burned to mask their escape until all 24 of them were gone.

And no one ever finds out the train sent to collect products briefly housed 24 extra passengers that night.

[diogenesprintco]

This is a tiny little copy of one of the Polish expressionist painter Feliks Topolski's illustrations for an edition of Pygmalion, featuring Prof Higgins returning from the ball in a rather dishevelled state. Years ago I made a print of one of his drawings of Eliza, and wanted to revisit this gestural style which is really fun to carve.

[thefloatingwriter]

🎁 sheaf... perhaps...

for this ask game!!

sheaf donoma, district nine’s female tribute for the 10th annual hunger games

[darlingsnow0]

all the tributes with bows

[bloodredlolipops]

Associating TBOSAS tributes with songs from my playlist because I am bored and decided to do this for fun:

(Note: If any of these are your favorite song then you can say that you are the character I gave the song to.)

Facet: I / Me / Myself by Will Wood

Velvereen: Primadonna by Marina and the Diamonds

Marcus: LOOK DON’T TOUCH by Odetari & cade clair

Sabyn: Teen Idle by Marina and the Diamonds

Circ: Be Nice To Me by The Front Bottoms

Teslee: I Am Not a Robot by Marina and the Diamonds

Mizzen: Home or Boys Will Be Bugs by Cavetown

Coral: She Likes a Boy by Nxdia

Hy: Say It Ain’t So by Weezer

Sol: Cherry Bomb by The Runaways

Otto: Riptide by Vance Joy

Ginnee: Just Dance by Lady Gaga

Treech: Trees by McCafferty

Lamina: Not Strong Enough by boygenius

Bobbin: Bruno is Orange by Hop Along, Queen Ansleis

Wovey: Soldier, Poet, King by The Oh Hellos

Panlo: Lovers Rock by TV girl

Sheaf: Oh No! by Marina and the Diamonds

Tanner: Wrecking Ball by Mother Mother

Brandy: Mary by Alex G

Reaper: Twin Size Mattress by The Front Bottoms

Dill: I Bet on Losing Dogs by Mitski

Jessup: Things to Do by Alex G

Lucy Gray: I’ve Had Enough by Melina KB

[tsvai]