#ive changed so many things about the hunger games irs barely the hunger games any more

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I've been sitting on this one for a while so prepare yourselves for a long post and some word vomit:

Third/Last life Hunger Games AU.

"To celebrate fifty years of the hunger games, this years the best and brightest of Panem will be representing their districts. Handpicked by President. Schlatt himself - the seventeen tributes will battle for the half a century Victor!"

This AU would follow a lot of the rules that are present in the hunger games universe, but I've changed a few things around in order to better fit the characters and in order to give the alliances a reason to exist as they do in the series.

All creators from both Last life and third life would be present, but it's a mixture of several key events, alliances and rivalries. I haven't figured the whole alliance thing out yet, but I did do some "maths" in order to figure out where people stood in different seasons, so it'd be a combination of the two. The au would follow Grian's perspective as his cinematic victory in third life is still too good for me to let go of sorry Scott, so he would be the winner of the hunger games.

Also Jimmy would die first. I don't make the rules, Mr.Gaming is dying first in this au, and his is the only death I will not negotiate.

As there aren't enough players in the series to follow the 12 (13) districts with 2 tributes from each, I decided that in order to make it better fit having 17 (18) districts with one tribute picked would make more logical sense.

District details are as follows:

District 1 is Luxury. This is Pearl's district. The architecture of the district would be similar to the style of the renaissance.

District 2 is Masonary and Defence. This is Etho's district. I imagine the architecture being inspired by stuff from the iron age.

District 3 is Technology. This is Mumbo's district. Definitely has modernised Sci-fi architecture.

District 4 is Fishing. This is Jimmy's district. The architecture is definitely more basic English village.

District 5 is Power. This is Impulse's district. Think of Cold war era buildings and architecture here.

District 6 is Land Transportation (Trains and wagons). This is Scar's district. 100% has steampunk architecture.

District 7 is Air Transportation (Blimps and aerial hubs). This is Grian's District. The architecture here is also steampunk.

District 8 is Lumber. This is Bdub's district. The architecture is more rustic here.

District 9 is Textiles. This is Lizzy's district. I like to think the architecture would either be heavily inspired by Chinese buildings or Aztec buildings.

District 10 is Grain. This is Martyn's district. The architecture here is inspired by ancient Egyptian mythology.

District 11 is Livestock. This is Scott's district. I imagine it would be more South European/ Italian architecture here, don't know why.

District 12 is Agriculture. This is BigB's district. Architecture similar to district 4, of more basic village style.

District 13 is Mining. This is Skizz's district. Post war/industrial revolution architecture is a must here.

District 14 is Nuclear weaponry. This is Joel's district. Russian architecture - no I will not elaborate.

District 15 is Brewing. This is Tango's district. The architecture in this distinct is Medeval England.

District 16 is Mob testing/ spawning. This is Cleo's district. Again I feel very industrial architecture needed here.

District 17 is Enchanting. This is Ren's district. The architecture here would be quite whimsical, fairytale-esque.

And district 18 was Exploration. Known as The End. All that is left of the districts architecture is the tall ruins of towers.

This AU would also include the creators from the MCC championship or from former series' Grian has been in, for example an EVO and YHS ensemble in District 7 - to represent Grian's past, and in The Capitol you'd have members of the Dream SMP. The viewers of the hunger games would also be known as 'the watchers', and the Game keepers are known as 'the listeners'.

Instead of focusing on district 12, the main focus would be District 7: "Where you can see the height of success". The main issues in this district being class division of the industrial workers in the Workhouses at the base of the vallies, where downed blimps are repaired and created (known as The Nest) and the merchants who live higher on the mountains and push economic Sales. In District 7, Grian is closest to Taurtis, Netty, System Zee and Tomohawk (EVO cast), and has a history with the mayor's son Sam Gladiator (YHS). Whilst I was stuck between having either Techno or Philza as the mentor, I also thought it'd be cool if Philza was Grian's mentor ultimately as he is known as the 'crow father'. With a group of crows being called a murder I thought it was funny lmao.

Whilst I doubt they'd be mentioned it's fun to mention that if there were peacekeepers they would be the Yakuza, and that Callahan would be an Avox if he were included in the AU.

The DSMP members would be mainly posted in chapters or situations regarding The Capitol. I don't have the details planned to a 'T' yet, but I was thinking something similar to:

Foolish being the Arena Designer.

Jschlatt being the President.

Quackity, Tommy, Tubbo and Ranboo as the Game Keepers.

Karl as Grian's designer.

Niki and Puffy as Assistant Stylists.

Sapnap and Dream as the Trainers.

Bad as the TV Show host.

George and Jack as the commentators.

And finally Wilbur as the Capitol Escort.

Having said that I'm going to further elaborate on the whole "handpicked by the president thing". I honestly think that if the hunger games were a reality, whilst they would be beyond awful, that people would most certainly become desensitised to some degree after 50 years. It would just be a natural thing for the kids and i honestly believe people would become more apathetic, and as such would bend more rules with less fear. Which is where the creators would come in.

The reason the 50th anniversary is chosen in order to make an example of the rule breakers is because it's memorable. It's a massive milestone, and what better time to temporarily change the rules in order to remind people why they should be afraid and obedient?

In each district you'd have individuals deviating from the status quo. They're not doing massive things, but they're getting comfortable despite the fact that 16 children are killed every year. For example, in District 11 Scott encourages community competitions, in District 3 Mumbo builds small robots and sells them, in District 16 Cleo free's some of the mobs and in District 7 Grian steals water and dresses in the capitol's image in order to prove a point. Small things would build up in each district to form the collective sense of a lack of control. These children would be providing hope and would be well-known in their districts - so killing them would act as a sedative AND it would remind all the districts that their actions are being watched.

No volunteers accepted.

This would THEN lead us to why the alliances form despite the structure of the hunger games as a system. I'd have to disregard a lot of the alliances if I followed the regular hunger games system as I feel like I'd either have to add extra unnecessary characters to kill off, or go ham on the blood bath in the Cornucopia. Neither seem ideal, so I thought about what would bring the tributes together. A common enemy.

We know for a fact that people in the third/last life SMP don't take BS, so being purposefully chosen to be put to their death KNOWING that it's to make an example of them would certainly make them less inclined to follow the Capitol's system. So the alliances would form, and it would be fairly realistic. It would also be a way of avoiding the blood bath entirely, which would mug the capitol tf off. Hence the back and forth of explosions, wild fires, desert storms and hurricanes etc would begin.

The arena would be based off of the Third Life world map as it has more biomes to experiment with:

I also have images picked out for what the characters would wear during the tribute parade on those chariots, but I'm not gonna include them here. I will say however that Grian would have either a phoenix motif or a parrot motif. The phoenix obviously for rebirth, and being born of flames (a tribute to Katniss) or a parrot purely for the implications that he still wants to mess with the Capitol's weird fashion patriarchy.

And that finally brings me to Grian and the charactisation I have for him as the person being followed through the story.

(the sketches are shocking I apologize)

Grian is 15.

He's prone to violent episodes when provoked.

He was expelled from the district school for instigating a fight with the mayor's son - but he's still knowledge and intelligent despite the restrictions on his education.

He helped Taurtis with Bullies in the school when they were younger, so Taurtis' parents favour him and they turn a blind eye when he sneaks into their house to refill water bottles.

Having said that, Grian lives in one of the workhouses in The Nest and works in the industrial area, so he and his friends avoid the issue of polluted water by keeping water bottles full of clean water from the merchants area.

Grian's parents split up and wanted nothing to do with him, so he was dumped in the Workhouse.

Grian can become someone else fairly easily and he uses this to his advantage in the games.

He wore one of Nettys dresses to the reaping one year because he was scolded for wearing his red jumper the year prior.

I have loads more I could say about this idea but this whole post is just a bunch of word vomit and stream of consciousness coupled with what I could source from my written notes so I apologize.