#the tbosas brainrot is so real

[edelwoodsouls]

thinking about the fact that they made a point to tell us that there are no cameras in the vents. like- lucy gray is a performer, she is always performing, it is her calling and her survival mechanism and when we meet her she literally cannot stop performing because she is always on camera or being perceived- by coriolanus, by the capital, by her fellow tributes and the folks back at 12. but for that one, awful moment, in the vents, watching dill drink the poisoned water she laid as a trap- for that one moment in the whole entire movie, lucy gray isn’t being observed. that is the only moment in the entire movie she isn’t performing for someone else, and she uses it to grieve

[starryfox0]

if the ballaf of songbirds and snakes taught us one thing, its that you cant trust a man with a buzzcut

[slightly-ethereal]

thinking about how furious Snow would have been to realise district 13 not only survived but then used the weapons his family funded and lost their whole fortune for to turn against the capitol i hope he had a fit i hope he lost so much sleep over it i hope it filled him with rage and hatred so bad he had a heart attack.

[tumblingghosts]

+ another one for the club

i have never been

and will never be

normal about sejanus plinth

[tbosasincorrect]

tbosas brainrot is real so here's another one

Part l Part ll

[ungrateful-sneeze]

Just watched TBOSAS and now I’ve got irondad hunger games brainrot.

Tony is Haymitch (obviously) and has given up on life, drinking it away after being the only victor from 12 and watching every tribute he’s ever coached die.

Until 13 year old Peter volunteers for his sister Morgan. (Let’s say he’s trans so it actually works that he can volunteer for her cause let’s be real the capitol if def transphobic)

Yada yada yada he wins the 74th hunger games as the youngest victor ever then comes the quarter quell in which the only 2 ever victors of 12, Tony and Peter have to fight each other in the arena.

They don’t of course and along with the other victors (the avengers) they escape and rebel and no one dies and they live happily ever after!

[faebriel]

hgs brainrot has returned due to tbosas .. speaking of hgs here’s an ask abt the hgs au: if things were totally different, and Wilbur were to be a 12 victor, what do you think a possible mentor-tribute dynamic would look like between him & Niki? I feel like it would be similar to Snow & Lucy in the way that he’s just going out of his way to cheat n help her

anon u have in fact struck jackpot because this is a concept i was spinning some thoughts abt before bee mentioned avoxes and we went OOOOH at that!!! so yes i have considered rainduo as a mentor-tribute dynamic and would love to talk about that concept too :]

so for this concept i think wilbur and niki would be close friends throughout childhood from 12, and then in their teens wilbur is reaped and, well, no one has particularly high hopes (he's a writer and a musician at heart, not a fighter) but through sheer trickery and dumb luck, he makes it to the end of the games. wilbur pulled some pretty fucked up tricks to win - when you can't use brute force, you have to use your brain - and partly due to the trauma of the games, partly due to his shame and survivor's guilt, he sinks into the capitol and relishes a new life there as a socialite. to him, the old wilbur died in the games and the new one has taken his place - to niki, and to his other friends in 12, whatever the games did to him made him into every vapid heartless capitol victor there is.

or. niki has her doubts. they all saw how horrible the games were, but surely there is some part of him left, some part that's hurting, even if it's buried deep?

anyway.

like og spin of the au, niki is reaped and this sucks - this time she does expect wilbur as her mentor on the train, and she expects some kind of warm welcome (maybe even an apology for leaving them so suddenly and silently? an explanation?) but she gets jack shit. wilbur is jaded and cruel and unrecognisable and niki entirely hates it. this is the part where i REALLY WISH we got some time of those two beefing with each other directly in canon (or at least interactions while niki was So Mad at him) but it's okay we fly blind. niki feels abandoned, lonely, thrown off of her kilter - she expected an ally in this place, but she doesn't recognise the person wilbur has become. she doesn't recognise his shallowness (...much), his ruthless advice for the arena, the way he doesn't seem to care for anything. she's scared and now she's lonely and it pisses her off - their mentorship is fraught. here are some thoughts from discord on that:

i tend to think of niki as a bit naïve before l'manberg or even doomsday - i think this is an au where this streak would come out real strong, and niki is stubborn that she can get through the games without losing herself. stubborn that she can stop things, that she can protect people. i don't think wilbur is cold enough (or, really, can bear to say aloud) to say that her odds in the arena are slim enough as it is, but he definitely tells her that she's making enemies and that her odds of survival dwindle with the more trouble she causes.

beyond that... hm. niki's trust in wilbur is almost unshakeable until nov 16, even when she outright says she doesn't recognise him anymore. i think she'd reluctantly listen re: don't burn down any buildings, but she would grow bolder each day she had to stay in the capitol. she gets more honest in front of the cameras. she makes more friends in training, and not the ones wilbur recommends. she throws barbs at him every time he makes one of those callous, cold-hearted comments about other tributes and rankings and odds. and besides, she's going in the arena this time, not him. she needs to practice her bravery.

it's like... she hasn't given up on him. she thinks the old wilbur is in there somewhere. (she is wrong. that is not how trauma works.) but she won't hold her tongue just because she

for extra angst points could definitely play up the whole 'feeling abandoned' angle between them as niki goes into the arena - probably due to how fraught their friendship gets leading up to the games. niki wants to focus on them and their friendship, wilbur has stringently cut off (almost) everything from 12 and refuses to let her in; he tells her to behave for the cameras, she tells him she never will. i think the last point in that screenshot would also make for a super tasty argument where niki feels wilbur has gone astray, that he's abandoned 12, and that he'll probably do nothing but sit on his ass and watch her die and he can't even bring himself to care about her anymore, can he? just more fodder for the arena. and honestly, i think wilbur would passively agree with most of that - he values niki's opinion, after all, even now, and if she says he's rapidly descending into a lost cause then she must be right. and it's niki, so she will be fine, and he goes to his bedroom that night and tries to pretend he is sleeping perfectly fine instead of feeling paralysed with fear.

okay now onto the games - YES HE SO WOULD. or at least i think he would go out of his way to help. as for cheating - he's a recent victor for 12 and i think he would value tommy (no doubt a link to him... i think they'd be in touch in this au also) too much to risk the punishment falling onto him as well. i get the vibes this is a games closer to 74th than 10th, so there are far fewer opportunities to cheat and the consequences of getting caught are higher. but schmoozing up sponsors? making stupid ass radio interviews or whatever to talk up niki's odds? sharing anecdotes from their childhood - some real, some entirely fabricated - across capitol airwaves to stoke their sympathy? 100%. with less to lose in this au, i think niki would be far less inclined to play nice for the cameras - i hope you starve, she spits at one of them, and wilbur appears on a talkshow two days later as she scrambles for survival in the arena to talk up how she always saved loaves from the bakery for the poorest mothers and children in 12. he borrows and begs and swindles to the point where it feels like cheating. but hey, this new wilbur is capitol-branded. he knows how to play the game.

if anything he probably sinks into the game a little too much. self-preservation is not his forte. probably wracks up a few heavy debts and favours to owe, but those are not priority until niki is out of the arena, alive. as long as she wins, and as long as the family he has isn't in danger, he will manage. wow it would suck if at some point those two goals became impossible to co-achieve. anyway

i kind of see niki's victory in the arena being similar to the one in the main au - if only because planning out an entire games is hard for meee >-< . she walks in bolder and braver for sure, and with a less strategic pick of allies, but they all get picked off and she spends a few weeks so terrified she can barely sleep and then she ruptures some fuel line and sets the arena alight with a fire that burns brighter and more ravenously than it should. but she wins, and she's airlifted out of a filthy, muddy creek she had resigned herself to die in, and wilbur barges his way through as many peacekeepers so that he can actually see her with her burnt skin and hair and unfocused eyes and trust that what was on the screens wasn't a fluke, and that they made it. and then it's just a matter of surviving the after.

i'm sure there are some other random quirks or tidbits i can think of re: this take on a c!rainduo hunger games au but these are my base thoughts!!

[encntada]

tbosas brainrot is so real please let me offer you an original character in these trying times

✨ SEPTEMBER PLINTH ✨

born in district two to strabo and ma plinth

she and sejanus are faternal twins with september being exactly 15 minutes younger

she has dark curly hair that flows down her back and big soulful brown eyes just like her brother

sejanus and september have been inseparable since birth, they’re one of each other’s best friends.

unlike sejanus, september is desperate to fit in in the capitol and at times will do so to her own moral detriment

she's very timid and unsure of herself. she's constantly craving validation from others, particularly her father as well as students and professors at the academy.

despite her quiet nature, september is fiercely protective of sejanus and always stands up for him (he does the same for her)

she isn't a fan of the hunger games or many of the capitol policies but does not voice these opinions out of fear of compromising her father's position or  being ostracized at the academy

september does not mentor a tribute during the 10th hunger games. instead, she acts as lucky flickerman's assistant during the duration of the games due to her interest in television production

sejanus' stint as a peacekeeper comes as a shock to september but they promise to write one another once he settles in his assigned district

after graduating with honors from the academy, september moves onto the university where she studies television production continuing to work with lucky flickerman. it is during this time where the idea to interview the tributes is further developed as is the idea of a victory interview and tour

the news of sejanus' death completely devastates september causing her to fall into a debilitating depression. she takes a semester off from university to grieve and recoup

after her break, september returns to school and pivots away from television production. she decides to pursue a career in medicine in sejanus' honor since he told her about his goal of becoming a medic in one of his letters home

while at university, september reconnects with sejanus' old friend, coriolanus snow. she feels that being around him makes her feel closer to sejanus but she can sense that he is not the same person from the academy

after graduating from the university, september becomes a pediatric nurse at the capitol hospital until she retires

[blissfqul]

tbosas ending

so coryo brainrot has been taking me over cause hes SO HOT but i wanna talk about the ending where he tries to hunt down lucy gray

i feel like even with the gun, maybe he wouldve still been willing to talk it out, but after he found the scarf which lucy gray swore to like protect but it was in all that dirt and rain and when he smelt it the scent of roses, the scent of his mother was gone. his only few reminders of her was the scarf and he trusted lucy gray w it and instead she not only threw it, threw his trust away but used it to set a trap for coryo. i think that was the real turning point for him. combined w all that paranoia when that stupid asf lucy gray went “EXCEPT ME” LIKE YOU AINT GOTTA SAY THAT but i guess it was a test for coryo and that bitchass failed. i wanted a happy ending for them (i have not read a single thg book prior to when i saw the movie)