#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]

TBOSAS AU where the tributes get a lot closer in the zoo and decide to fake their deaths in the arena like in @ylvisruinedmylife’s Electric Rebels but this time everyone makes it into the arena and everyone lives. When the tank with snakes was lowered into the arena, Treech (who was the first to react) screams for everyone to run and he and Lamina help the tributes who couldn’t make it into the tunnels climb to the high ground. Now for the fun part:

Snow suffers.

Lucy Gray was a bit miffed at first that the other tributes didn’t trust Snow, but when she gets closer to the other tributes her mentor gets extremely butthurt over it and makes some comments that rub her the wrong way. She can see where they’re coming from now. As she starts to play closer attention, she realizes she really doesn’t want this guy as a romantic partner, but the tributes decide Snow does need that prize money the most and decide to let Lucy Gray win. Well, that goodwill won’t last long. At all. It goes south for Snow before the games even end, as the tributes accidentally destroy both Gaul’s working theory and Snow’s chances at winning the prize. While he never gave Lucy Gray the compact because he’s a jealous dick, he does tell Sejanus about the snakes. The games gave started so Sej can’t do much with this info, but he drops a handkerchief into the tank with Marcus’s scent. This will be relevant later.

Facet, Velvereen, Sabyn, and Marcus essentially become a second big group in the arena to prowl around and give the others a reason to stay out of sight from the cameras for most of the games so they can plot. They use the more trustworthy mentors to get what they need to make fake blood, hiding it under their clothing to sneak it into the arena. They all “die” as planned and narrowly avoid the snakes ruining their life, using Reaper’s morgue as a way to cover up the lack of bodies in the arena, using the cover of night (and Teslee and Circ’s hacking) to place rubble under the flag in place of the “fallen” tributes and hide in the tunnels. More sneaky tributes like Sheaf and Treech help hide the other tributes in small alcoves created by the bombs because they can worm their ways into the smallest crannies without help.

When the final three comes, Treech decides to let out his inner theater kid. “They want a show? They can have a show!” Instead of Treech getting taken out by a snake, Reaper “dies” of rabies thanks to Lucy Gray, at which point Treech “reveals” himself to her. They talk, especially about their district partners, and Treech drops the bombshell that Lamina “was” his girlfriend while expressing his guilt over supposedly letting her die. Lucy Gray comforts him by reminding him he couldn’t have saved them both. One of them had to die and Lamina chose to stay alone.

“I don’t care! I should’ve been there and I wasn’t! Don’t you see? I failed her…”

Finally, Treech quietly confesses he doesn’t know how to live without her. He asks Lucy Gray who she has waiting on her, and she tells him about the Covey and the fact they’re the only ones left. The rest of their people were massacred. With tears rolling down his face, Treech forces a smile and tells her he won’t let her family face yet another loss for him when he feels like an empty husk already. Lucy Gray tries to stop him, but he reassures her it’s fine as he’ll get to see “her” (Lamina) again and hopes she’ll forgive him before telling Lucy Gray to live on for all of them and “slitting” his throat. Lucy Gray stays with him as he “dies” and sings for him before dragging him to the morgue and making sure none of the rubble shows as she places him under the flag. Conveniently, she places him in a spot the camera can’t see properly. She walks to the other side of the beams and sings for the fallen, drawing the attention of the cameras and the Capitol as a whole to give Treech the time to sneak out from under the flag and into the pile of rubble at the base of the beams. Then Lucy Gray pretends to try and hold a funeral for the other tributes and sets the flag on fire. The peacekeepers escort Lucy Gray out and the tributes wait a full day to be absolutely sure they’re in the clear before emerging from their hiding spots and booking it out of the arena.

Now, Snow would’ve won the prize if it was about which tribute survived, but it isn’t. It’s about who was the most entertaining, and that’s a tie between Lucy Gray and Treech. Due to Treech’s heartbreaking last monologue, more people lean towards him. This royally pisses Snow off and he complains a little too loudly about how unfair it all is, accidentally revealing he knew about the snakes attacking based on scent. Sejanus was smarter than Snow and dropped in an unidentifiable handkerchief, so naturally the blame for that handkerchief is placed on Snow and he’s exiled to the districts. He asks to go to 12 and everything with Lucy Gray still happens, but Sejanus is less trusting of Snow and doesn’t pull him into the rebel group and thus isn’t betrayed and hung. When he chases and shoots Lucy Gray, the reason he can’t find her corpse is because the other tributes showed up to save her from him. This is were things truly go downhill for him.

Gaul gets him a position as gamemaker, but then her lab is blown to pieces by some more rebellious mentors and several other citizens who were spurred to stop the games by Treech’s heartbreaking acting skills. Every attempt made to make the next games happen is thwarted and interest has plummeted so much they’re cancelled entirely. The only way to make them happen again is for Snow to become president, except now suddenly Lucy Gray and the Covey are rising stars who subtly diss him every chance they get, completely destroying his credibility. He tries underhanded tactics, especially on his old classmates who are surprisingly harshly against the Games, but it seems like his opposition is always five steps ahead. It has nothing to do with a familiar curly-haired boy that tends to the gardens or a small, limber girl that works in the kitchens who he can’t quite place. He doesn’t see them all that often, it’s like they only work there once every five months or so, but it’s not his business. His ex-wife Livia gave them the job. Completely unrelated, but Vipsania and Androcles know far more than they should about Snow’s less savory affairs. Where are they getting this information from? Gaul dies in a “work accident” that takes her new lab with her, leaving Urban and Io in charge of her sect of the Citadel. They transform it into something else entirely with the blessing of the new president, Livia. That his ex became president and not him stings Snow to this day. Especially given how she keeps finding ways to better the lives for the people in the districts.

With Gaul no longer around to get him a job, Snow’s lack of official qualifications starts to bite him. Especially because nobody wants to hire him thanks to all the dirty laundry that’s been exposed over the years. Finally, he puts his finger on who the boy in the gardens reminds him of. He sees the reason for his ruination in the gardener. A ghost from the past. The boy looks so much like the boy in the arena, sobbing as he slit his own throat and took Snow’s future with him without even realizing. Snow blames Sejanus, he blames his classmates, he blames Highbottom, he blames Lucy Gray, but most of all he blames Vipsania’s stupid little lumberjack for taking the Plinth Prize from him and becoming the start of his downward spiral. But then the gardener stops appearing, as does the girl in the kitchen. Vipsania starts going to 7 with Pup again like they’d done since the end of the games, destroying Snow’s hope that she’d come to her senses again, a hope sTigriss gave up on him a while ago, the Grandma’am is dead, Snow has no job and he’s pushed everyone who loved him away. His life’s over.

And it’s all because of those meddling kids!

[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.

[persephoneprice]

please elaborate

sheaf is like katniss to me

[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

[tumblingghosts]

heyy backpacks!!! i've been having some sheaf time travel thoughts lately, where she tries to stop herself and panlo dying in the bombing so they actually have a chance to participate and work their plan (headcanon that they would've worked together during the games).

it works but she keeps getting so close in the games. seeing panlo die over and over again. she slowly realises that maybe surviving the bombing and playing the games isn't what she needs to do. she - and the other tributes who, begrudgingly, she's become quite fond of - need to escape.

hope u don't mind me leaving this here !!

hi bel!! (sorry it took me forever to reply!)

omg sheaf in a time loop!! here we go-

the very first time sheaf dies (book events), it's succumbing to her injuries after the bombing. she barely lives past otto (who clearly has issues with her for some reason), and wakes up back on the train. it takes her a bit to realize that she's back, rather than just waking up from a horrific nightmare, but as events start to repeat, she starts to plan. she's got a second chance, and she can't afford to waste it!

sheaf tries to subtly save brandy, just to spare herself and everyone from that terrible "funeral", but it doesn't work. she thinks she's subverted the event when brandy gets her hands on the cheese sandwich without slitting arachne's throat, but arachne doesn't magically learn a lesson, and is back the next day taunting brandy again, this time with a bottle of water. sheaf should have expected that brandy would not take the taunts lying down, knife or no knife, and when brandy smashes the bottle on the bars and stabs arachne in the throat, it is almost instinct when she grabs panlo and pulls him to the ground, right before the peacekeepers open fire.

sheaf might not have known brandy, but it's still awful watching the girl get filled with bullets. twice over now. she does manage survive the arena bombing this time, and save panlo too, so that's a plus. she makes it all the way to the arena and thinks the odds are alright. alliances have been made, but she and panlo are working together, so they can make it far, she hopes. she barely makes it a minute into the games thanks to otto, who shoots her with a crossbow. she stumbles, and he shoots her again. sheaf has no idea what his problem is. she dies, and wakes back up on the train.

it's at this point that she realizes that it wasn't a second chance, it was potentially unlimited chances. she's the only one who is being sent back like this as far as she knows, so she must be sent back for a reason, right? maybe this is a kindness, something in the universe saying that she should get to go home. so that's what she plans to do, she will win these games and go home. even if the only people that would have missed her were the others at the orphanage. even if most of d9 didn't want her back.

so she tries again. sheaf has a grudge against otto by this point, because seriously, what is that guy's deal? why is he so intent on hating her when she can't think of a single thing that she's done to him? she tries to save brandy again. it doesn't work. she makes it past the arena bombing, but it isn't enough to save panlo. he gets out with injuries, and the vet the capitol sends doesn't do enough for him, and he succumbs to his injuries. sheaf isn't prepared to go into the arena without him, and ends up dying to coral & co.

she wakes up back at the train again. she tries harder to save brandy, and succeeds! it takes snapping at arachne and shouting until the capitol girl leaves in a huff, but brandy is alive. it sparks up an alliance, and sheaf gets to know tanner and brandy better. panlo is hesitant at first, but more allies means a higher chance of survival, right? that's good, at least at the start. no one wants to talk about the case of what happens if it comes down to the four of them.

things go sideways at the arena bombing. arachne is still bitter that sheaf shouted at her (rightfully so) and makes sure that she and brandy are far away from sheaf/androcles in the arena tour. sheaf manages to save herself and panlo, but arachne and brandy die in the bombing. tanner is not doing well in the aftermath of brandy's death, and the alliance turns shaky. they're still allied when they go in, but when the three of them end up in a fight against coral and mizzen, sheaf gets injured in the process. panlo gets worried over her, and that hesitation is enough for coral to kill him. sheaf doesn't survive much past that.

next time, she tries even harder. maybe the solution here is to ally with coral and mizzen? there is plenty of wariness, especially since they killed her, but if they're allies, then she's safe, right? she tries to get herself and panlo in an alliance with them, but coral rebuffs them, saying that she and mizzen bring more advantage to them than they provide to her. she's not wrong, but sheaf is still put off by it. she gets to talking with brandy and tanner again, who are far more wary thinking that they're her "second choice" after seeing her talking with coral. sheaf isn't able to save brandy this time. tanner joins the pack. sheaf dies to otto again. she's seriously hating the boy from six now.

in the next loop, she confronts him over it when he makes a threatening motion to her. panlo sticks up for her, which only seems to make otto angrier. the argument doesn't go anywhere, but otto seems to kill her in the arena even quicker than that second time. it isn't until she sees the way he's glancing at panlo before glaring at her that it clicks.

she is more than a little bitter that the reason otto hated her so much was because he has a crush on panlo. seriously? if that was the case, then she was far from competition, since she had absolutely zero romantic interest in panlo. she tells him so to his face, because she might as well. maybe he wouldn't kill her over it. and if he did, then she'd just wake up back at the train again. otto denies it all, but it doesn't take much to see that he's lying. panlo is more than a little put off by it, but he's still up to ally with sheaf.

she manages to make it a little further in the arena this time. otto avoids her and panlo this time, but their mentors aren't sending food because they're playing safe. sheaf is annoyed, but she isn't like coral and mizzen. she thinks she can kill if it comes down to that, but she doesn't have the same physical strength that panlo does. making enemies by attacking people first is a sure way to die if they fail to finish them off. it's a slow path to starving, and the snakes that come are almost a mercy.

sheaf wakes up in the train and decides that those rainbow snakes are a terrifying way to die. she tries over and over and over again in dozens of different ways, getting further and further into the games with each iteration of events that she finds working. it's one selfish path that sees her as the victor- not saving brandy, hiding with panlo, taking out anyone sneakily in the tunnels if they cross their paths, and being ready to climb and avoid the snakes. lucy gray sings, and the snakes do not attack her. she's done this once before, but now she knows of the snake that lucy gray is hiding up her sleeve and acts quicker. that's it. there's blood on sheaf's hands, of so many lives that it had taken to get to this point, but the games are over.

she's won. she's finally won, and she can go home.

except, she is declared victor, and wakes up back on the train still. sheaf has a bit of a breakdown at that. so many tries, so many repetitions, she's finally been able to win, and that wasn't it? why was she repeating all this if not to get home? and she thinks she understands. it's the same reason that she was not surprised to hear her name. d9 did not want an orphan like her to come back. they wanted someone useful, someone like panlo. all these loops were to get panlo home, she thinks, and she starts again with that new goal.

except- that isn't it either. sheaf takes a dozen tries and a dozen more to get the right set of events for them to survive through it all. then it's down to only the two of them. sheaf and panlo. panlo does not want to die, but he does not want to kill her either. it's fine. sheaf has died plenty, and she knows all the ways to die first. he'll be the victor. he'll get to go home. sheaf will make sure of it. and she takes herself out of the games. sheaf dies, and she wakes again.

sheaf freaks out even harder than she had when she realized that her being victor wasn't the solution. if her winning wasn't the end, and panlo winning wasn't the end, then what was it? and as she's dumped in the capitol zoo, as she goes through the motions all over again, she comes to her realization. sheaf keeps brandy from killing arachne, and she thinks you deserve to go home. sheaf diffuses the one-sided beef with otto and thinks you deserve to go home. sheaf does her best to get them all through the arena bombing, and that thought rights through her mind with each tribute. you deserve to go home, i deserve to go home, we all deserve to go home.

so she starts off with a new plan. get them all out of hunger games. that loop is a bit of a loss, but she wakes up again and immediately talks with the other tributes in the cattle car she's in. (i'm going with d3 in this case) sheaf lays everything out about the time travel and loops. obviously, they're super skeptical, but she's been through this a lot and had gathered a bit of information about circ and teslee. it's not much, but it's definitely more than a girl from a different district should know about them if they truly "just met". and that's enough to create a tentative alliance.

by the time they reach the zoo, they've brainstormed a few ideas, and try to get the other tributes roped in on it. no one wants to die in the arena, but a risky plan where the capitol might to worse to them and their families if caught? it's a hard sell. no one is going to snitch, but not many are willing to join up. at this point, sheaf knows her mentor is useless (at least in regards to wanting to help her), but there's three that she knows always comes around: lucy gray's mentor, marcus's mentor, and brandy's mentor.

arachne is obviously not an option because she has zero sympathy for their situation. just because she consistently appears doesn't mean that sheaf has any interest in trying to appeal to such an unpleasant person. she's been put off by coriolanus from the amount of times that she's seen him act when hopping aboard the tribute truck (she's pretty sure he's only out to help lucy gray, and would see her dead to support "his" tribute).

so that leaves sejanus, and she knows he'll be around with the sandwiches soon. however, sheaf knows she can't talk to him for long without making it suspicious, so they have to get marcus on board the plan. this turns out to be much more difficult than planned because marcus has some personal beef with sejanus, which is where they learn that sejanus is actually from d2.

downside is that marcus is still resistant to talking to sejanus. upside is that the other tributes learning that sejanus is district gets them on board- there's hope there.

if he's not actually capitol, then he might actually be willing to help an escape plan, right? (ik this is supposed to be sheaf-centric but my brain inserts sejanus into everything) with the power of peer pressure (aka mizzen's puppy eyes), marcus reluctantly agrees to talk to sejanus. he's very on board an escape plan and tries to help them as best as he can. the only issue is that it's a very clunky plan & it crashes and burns hard.

sheaf wakes up back on the train with dampened spirits. she isn't completely ready to give up just yet though, so the next couple of loops are information gathering loops. she needs everyone on board, which means she needs a quick way for everyone to trust her for the "ideal" loop. once she gets enough knowledge, she tries over from the start, getting everyone caught up with the "i'm a time traveller & here's info i couldn't have known unless you told me" bit, and they're off with another try to get the heck out of the hunger games. they ultimately decide that they can't escape all at once.

the plan ends up being a mix of everything. it's shouting at arachne and laying into her about her behavior, which veers into the behavior of other visitors in the crowd who also thought taunting them with food was "funny". most storm off in anger, but some who were only spectating are uncomfortable (it's not much yet, but it builds). it's talking with sejanus and getting him to bring supplies that circ and teslee can use to hack the cameras. it's getting close with more sympathetic mentors for more food (in the absence of the visitors that they shouted away) to get them supplied for their escape, and invested enough in them to turn a blind eye when they're taken in for those questionnaires and more than a few of them slip away.

it's the panic of some tributes managing to get away leading to more mistakes happening. it's treech slipping away with the keys to the enclosure. it's reaper, marcus, and panlo wearing peacekeeper uniforms to give the illusion that the cage is still guarded (in uniform, no one can really tell the difference if they're not paying close enough attention). it's sejanus getting the tools for circ and teslee that "coincidentally" see the cameras at the zoo conveniently broken. it's sheaf working extra hard to get friendly with androcles that keeps the news from slandering them as badly as it might have otherwise. and it's one night where all these factors collide where the enclosure turns out completely empty, with no guards, no footage as to where they went, and no signs of a breakout by force.

sheaf has lived the path of the arena and the games many, many, many times, but this is the first that they're all out. she doesn't know where to go from here, but if this escape doesn't work- well. she's got plenty more chances to make sure that she gets it right the next time (or the next, or the next). she's quite done trying to win the capitol's games. sheaf plans to break the entire game apart.

i like to think that they escape from there! there's a lot of different ideas that could happen- like maybe after the loop where she ensures that panlo wins, he joins the loop with her. (aka victors join the time loop) or maybe the loop is iterative. every time she does something right, she wakes up at a new later point, rather than back at the train every time. like after gaining the other tributes' trust, the next time she dies, she wakes up already at the enclosure post-get-thier-trust (basically there's "checkpoints" for each correct action).

in any case, sheaf gets all the tributes working together & out of the capitol. gaul's lab mysteriously gets destroyed. the mentors who were quite attached to their tributes have no clue how that could have happened. highbottom doesn't care enough to continue the games, and stopping them is easy when their popularity had been dropping & there is no head gamemaker pushing for its continuation.

this got pretty long, but it was fun to think about! feel free to send any more thoughts- and thanks for sending this ask bel!! :D