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omg I'm in love with your hunger games au. how do an of the gang's Victors behave while in the capitol for their respective games? like how do their interviews and trainings go?

!!! I’m vibrating /pos so happy people love this au!

I’ll go through the Victor’s one by one with the thought of it just being the interviews and trainings because I have the intent of writing out how they each fared in the games (have I posted Dally’s yet? Or is that one still saved away yet? I think it’s still queued).

But here we go!

Two-Bit

Two-Bit is naturally a jokester, and this did not start after the games! He was 13/14 years old when he entered the games. He had the crowd laughing, at himself and at themselves, during his interview. People thought he was hilarious, even if they saw this, at the time, scrawny little kid and thought he was going to die the minute that the games started. He had fans in the capitol, especially since he had a more ‘youthful’ness to him. It caught interest and that interest spread.

Two-Bit made himself out to be this ‘happy go lucky kid that wasn’t scared’, a little trap for the other Tributes who all laughed at him during his trainings. Two-Bit was absolutely not the best with any sort of weapons, however he was smart, he was intelligent, he knew how to look out for danger and he knew how to get people to let down their guards. Nevermind he was also incredibly good at stealing. He was fast too, which was his only true advantage in his arena (more on all the arenas coming soon).

Dally

Dally’s interviews had a lot of questions about why he’d left District 7 and ‘moved’ (read: ran away) to District 12. Dally’s only answer was ‘family’. He left because of family and he ‘moved’ to District 12 because of family. He wouldn’t elaborate, and it ended up making him into something of a mystery that the capitol citizens wanted to know more about. Him being 14 at the time only made that more so. But Dally, having only been in District 12 for like, 4 or 5 months, really didn’t know what made him want to stay in 12, so he made himself act aloof the entire time. Other Tributes didn’t… like that. He very narrowly avoided getting beat up before the games.

His trainings were pretty uneventful, and people avoided him for the most part. He was decent at throwing knives, but he much preferred the ax. He had to make it seem like he was hesitant to try different weapons, and yes, his little psychological war on the other tributes helped him win the games. He found he was pretty decent with a bow and arrow too.

Steve

Steve made himself out to be a cocky asshole during his interviews. He did that on purpose so that it looked like he was ‘untouchable’, advice given to him by both Dally and Two-Bit. He had a natural strength to him from working for the last four years. At 15 he’d had plenty of practice lifting incredibly heavy things from being in the working side of the District, and he and Sodapop used to see who could lift/throw the heaviest things. Both of them had pulled or strained something nearly monthly, more so Steve than Sodapop because Steve was 100 percent showing off a little… He did mention having a best friend and having a girlfriend (Sodapop and Evie) and he had no intentions of leaving them behind. He would make it home.

His trainings had people watching him like a hawk, trying to pick him apart as they watched and analyzed him. They spent so much time watching him, trying to find his weaknesses, that the other tributes barely trained, or at least didn’t train as well as they should have. He was incredibly good at throwing knives, however he was also pretty good with an axe since the gang had started ‘training’ once Dally got back from his games. Two-Bit was a tiny bit paranoid and that was a good thing.

Johnny

Johnny was a nervous wreck during his interviews, he was 15 years old and honestly thinking that he was going to die. He cried during two of his interviews and a lot of the tributes genuinely thought he wasn’t a threat because he was ‘weak’. Johnny talked of their friend group a little, and it was obvious that he was particularly close with Dally and the ‘unnamed youngest’ of their group. The capitol citizens ate up the ‘middle brother’ role that Johnny portrayed. Or, no, they ate up the ‘little brother’ role that Johnny portrayed when talking about his relations with the rest of the gang, but they loved his ‘big brother’ role with the unnamed youngest (Ponyboy).

Trainings had Johnny throwing knives (yes, the gang has a theme of using throwing knives) though he wasn’t the best at throwing knives. Johnny was actually much better at hand to hand combat, not that anyone finds that out until way way later in the games. Johnny also tries his hand at the bow and arrow and ends up accidentally making a fool of himself. Which was probably for the best. He was also found to be incredibly fast (a huge advantage) during his trainings.

Sodapop (a little more on Sodapop)

Sodapop! Poor little guy. His charisma has him winning over the capitol citizens with how much genuine emotion comes from him. He teared up when talking about his brothers, and he laughed when talking about Steve and Dally, and there was excitement and energy when talking about Two-Bit and all the of the gang’s (legal) shenanigans from when they were children when asked about it. He gets all mushy when it’s mentioned that Steve had given Sodapop his ‘RANDLE’ ring and it comes out that Sodapop and him also had matching friendship rings, of which he was wearing still (he had both rings on a necklace so that they counted as ‘one item’, it barely passed as acceptable). Sodapop genuinely cried when asked about his parents, and how Ponyboy (the now named ‘unnamed youngest’ from Johnny’s games) had nightmares about it, and he was so young. Sodapop is 100% a Peeta and he plays the Capitol.

His trainings have people sizing him up, people having finally begun to realize that something wasn’t right about an entire friend group getting reaped, even if Sodapop wasn’t initially drawn he and Ponyboy were still part of the same exact friend group. He lets himself show off his ability with a Bow and Arrow (what he’s best at), and that he knows how to fight hand to hand (but he doesn't show his strength). It’s very clear he’s not a pushover, but he is also so kind and helps some people figure out their best skills for the games.

And we don’t talk about what happens in Ponyboy’s games (yet).

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[witchyleehibernates]

random thought I just had about the hunger games AU (this is just a random idea I had and I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t even fit in your AU but I still thought I’d share)

So the Capitol is on their little rampage where their trying to kill off the Curtis gang, and the only person they have in this like sense of security is Darry. Darry can’t get reaped cause he’s too old. But either Ponyboy or Soda’s games happen right before a quarter quell.

That years quarter quell they shift the age from 12-18 to 19-25. And it gets announced and everybody immediately knows Darry is fucked and they’re after him because there’s no way that being the quarter quell is a coincidence. So Darry gets reaped.

AND, hear me out. Darry ends up being the youngest person in the arena that year. Darry, who’s usually the strong invincible one, is thrown into this role where everybody just sees him as ‘the young one’. He’s strong, and he’s pretty big, but everyone looks at him against this arena where a lot of the tributes are well into adulthood and have fully developed brains, and he gets underestimated as hell. And he hates it.

I absolutely love that idea, and I want to incorporate that into my AU somehow, but I have no clue how yet, making me cry haha /pos

I can just imagine the relief Two-Bit had when Darry aged out of the reaping age; because Two-But 100 percent thought he was going to die when he was reaped. there was no doubt in his mind that he was going to die, and then he lived. he won. and then he realized, belatedly, that he'd pissed off the capitol and he has no idea on how to fix that.

The next like, three people he thought would die in a games was Darry, Sodapop, and Ponyboy, and Johnny too when Johnny got to District 12. And then Darry aged out, so Two-Bit was relieved... Oh the irony of the capitol being pissed about Darry aging out before they could get him and then the quarter quell comes around... The President would be jumping for joy about finally getting revenge on Two-Bit Mathews... only to realize that there was someone labeled 'before two-bit mathews' and they learned that Darry taught Two-Bit a lot of what he knew, because his dad was the ultimate jokster, so Darry knows somethings, not as well as Sodapop who takes after there dad ten fold, but there was a 'teacher' of sorts for Two-Bit...

And even Darry would be worried that he wouldn't live / survive the games and the first thing he says to Two-Bit after he gets Reaped would be to 'look after our brothers for me', of which he also tells Dally this, because after Two-Bit, who's mentored every single one of his friends, Dally is the oldest and the toughest in the gang. If anyone was going to lead the gang through danger it would be Dally.

And then Darry lives? Oooh, maybe that could be what kicks off the revolution route... Poor Darry is not going to have a good time and I would like to say thank you. Thank you so much.

[witchyleehibernates]

Absolutely obsessed with your HG AU!! How do you think Ponyboy fares watching Soda’s games? Do you think Darry (fruitlessly) tries to stop him from watching them? How does it look from their end?

Aaaah! I get so happy and smiley whenever anyone says that they love my AU, it’s become my little brain child and it makes me so happy when others love it too!

I think Ponyboy mentally torture’s himself a little bit. His name was originally drawn and so he feels guilty for Sodapop being sent in his place, and this ends up causing one fight which was between him and Steve. The day after Sodapop leaves Ponyboy was still distraught of being, essentially, torn away from Sodapop by Steve during the reaping, and Steve was trying his absolute best to try and explain that Ponyboy could have been arrested or hurt had the peacekeepers decided to force Ponyboy back or away from Sodapop, but Ponyboy just doesn’t get it (yet). The two end up in a screaming match off in a secluded-esque area of the District, and there is a physical altercation, but Dally and Darry manage to put a stop to it. Johnny takes Ponyboy on a really long walk to help him calm down, and Steve goes off to go hunting with Dally as his own form of calming down.

Ponyboy, at home, is just really numb? Like, out in public he can be so… not energetic, but he’s able to put up a wall to block off all the warring thoughts in his head about how it should have been him and that Sodapop was probably going to die. This family has such low thoughts on the other’s chances of survival 😭. Darry doesn’t try stop Ponyboy from watching the games, because he knows and understands that it was just going to torture Ponyboy. Well, he did the first day, and that night Ponyboy had such a vivid nightmare that Darry, Johnny, and Dally were unable to fully calm him down. He was nearly inconsolable afterwards. Even Steve coming by when Darry got desperate, was only able to make it so that Ponyboy wasn’t crying anymore. Darry will forever stand by the fact he’d prefer his brother crying than the blankness that consumed Ponyboy. Watching the games made it so that his nightmares were just the one he didn’t remember and not his imagination and fear and guilt hurting him.

Darry also had his own nightmares but he never reacts to them? He had a lot of nightmares for the first, like, three months after their parents death that he ignored long enough that they ‘went away’ (this didn’t, they just didn’t phase him anymore). His mind kept replacing Sodapop with some of the dead tributes, and it tortured him a little, his mind making him think Sodapop had died. It helped being able to check on Ponyboy, and Johnny when he stayed the night, and during the day he had the knowledge that Dally and Steve were alright too. Darry does not like his family being in danger, and every year for nearly the last five years someone has been in danger nearly every month. He found his ways to cope, even if there was more pain at it being Sodapop this time.

I started just… rambling in that last paragraph, i’m so hoping that it marks sense because I think, like Darry at night, I spaced out a little as the thoughts just escaped me as fast as possible 😂

[witchyleehibernates]

hi I LOVE LOVE LOVE your hunger games AU and had a question

How do you think the trauma from the games affects Soda after he gets out? And how does he deal with everything and what does his life as a victor look like in general?

Aaaahh!! I’m so happy to hear that people are loving this AU! That makes my day to hear!

First night back, the three brothers curl up together and they hold each other all night long, Darry didn’t get much sleep, but Sodapop and Ponyboy were out so quickly. Sodapop was so relieved to be home that he slept all night without stirring once. And waking up to Darry making a sorta big breakfast for the gang made Sodapop cry a little (he really didn’t think he was going to make it home).

Sodapop absolutely tries to brush off the trauma caused by his games, though his brothers (and Steve) can see right through his lies. Two-Bit, Johnny, and Dally let Sodapop lie to himself because they’d both been there too, though they know that they shouldn’t be letting him lie to himself, there were worse coping mechanisms and Two-Bit would contest to that himself.

He definitely has nightmares that he’s still in the arena, and there was once where he’d accidentally hurt Ponyboy when Ponyboy tried to help Sodapop center back in the moment to realize he was safe and at home. Sodapop feels so absolutely guilty that he’d hurt Ponyboy, and mopes in his own room for nearly a week. Ponyboy’s nightmares had come back in full force and it left Darry trying to pick up the pieces because Sodapop was still scared of himself and his own reactions.

Steve ended up finding an outlet for Sodapop that helped reduce some of his ‘outbursts’ (there was a good month/month and a half where Sodapop was so out of character because he was trying to bury his trauma). Sodapop started gardening again (headcanon that Mrs. Curtis loved to garden and as a small child, Sodapop would join her, it was “his mama time”). And the two of them started sparring/wrestling to help calm him down throughout the day. Sodapop also has a job that help give him a focus so that he has other things to think about.Also, after the first week, he breaks down because while his brothers were attempting to get along (and Sodapop could see that, he could acknowledge that) and he yells at them and he breaks down both perspectives and almost essentially everything that he does in canon, so that happens much earlier in canon, just like the Curtis Parents death.

Also, i'll absolutely try to make another post about life as a Victor for Sodapop later, but I need to think about that a little more! And if there's anything you'd like expanded upon, feel free to ask!

[witchyleehibernates]

hungergamesau!darry internal thoughts when soda volunteers as tribute for pony?

Darry is internally panicking, because at first he was panicking about, and mourning, his baby brother, and then his other kid brother volunteers, and Darry can see, even from where he’s standing with other bystanders / watchers, that Sodapop has no idea what’s going on. There was a sort of ‘fuzziness’ on Sodapop’s face, and his speech was a little delayed, but you’d only know that if you knew Sodapop. When they are given 5 minutes to say goodbye before the train leaves, Darry took one look at Sodapop and realized that Sodapop was panicking when Sodapop volunteered. He doesn’t know what to say, and instead just holds Sodapop and Ponyboy.

After Sodapop had left, Darry realized that his silence could have been taken as Darry being upset with him, and the quiet ‘I love you, please come home’ didn’t feel like enough to have said, but Ponyboy had been crying and he was fighting his own tears (fighting and losing against his own tears) as he held both of his brothers for what he thought was the last time. Ponyboy ignored him the entire journey home after fighting to get back to Sodapop until the train was gone before just falling limp (and scared the fuck out of Darry as he did so).

And the first night that Sodapop was gone, Ponyboy was wearing some of Sodapop’s clothes and he and Darry spent that night together while Darry wondered how he was going to support the both of them when the two of them had their spats nearly every other day, he wasn’t good at the emotional side of things and it was too clear that the two of them didn’t see eye to eye. (surprisingly, Ponyboy listened to everything that Darry asked him to do while Sodapop was gone).

I… feel this didn’t exactly answer the question, but I started wondering how the gang handled Sodapop volunteering and it got thoughts turning and this is what appeared haha.

also, also, thank you so much for asking!! Made my day seeing your ask!

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Hiya! I'm Lee, or WitchyLee if you like, and I'm a fanfic writer for a multitude of fandoms. I use They/Them, He/Him, and Neo pronouns interchangeably! Any and all neos are welcome! Even if they sound inherently feminine, I just don't like she/her in regards to myself for personal reasons.

This is my main blog where I talk about my aus, headcanons, and reblog a shit ton of things that aren't exactly about fandoms I'm into, mainly cats or fun things, or advice, or aesthetic pictures (OCD is trying to make me restart entirely though, fighting it best I can)

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X-Men

The Outsiders

Percy Jackson

MHA (My Hero Academia)

And others!

At least, in the future there will be others. I love and read a wide variety of fandoms (like Hermitcraft, Grian's Life Series, Voltron, Black Butler, Marvel Avengers, ECT...)

I post here on Tumblr, and I post to AO3 and Fanfiction Net. I also have a Wattpad, though I don't have anything up currently, unsure if I'm gonna use it or not (there's some good fics on Wattpad I like to read).

I also participate and write in a lot of writing events, some times I'm posting four five or six times a week, other times I'm silent for upwards of three months, LOL.

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[witchyleehibernates]

I would love to answer questions about my AUs if anyone wants to send asks... this feels so weird to make a post about, but I really would love to talk with people about my AUs and I have no one to talk about them with.

[witchyleehibernates-fics]

i havent managed to go through all of them yet but im dropping by because!!!! your fics are so nice!!!! you do fluff extremely well and after the day ive had you really really help, kudos!!!

I meant to answer forever ago, but thank you so much!! I saw this shortly after it came in and it made me tear up (/pos), thank you so much!