History Fanfic / TheEndOfTheWorldFernWithy

* SeriesContinuityError: The series is a {{Doorstopper}} written in AnachronicOrder, so there is the occasional discrepancy even after the author went back to revise the earlier-written stories. Most are fairly small and easy to disregard, but three stories give contradictory information about District 9's victors. ''The Hanging Tree'' claims there are only two during Haymitch's Victory Tour, a man and a woman (although a second District 9 female Victor, Etta Bossard, is also mentioned in passing in a later chapter), and implies that Darla the woman is the older one. ''The Golden Mean'' and a complete list of Victors in the author's universe temporarily made available on [=LiveJournal=] say there are five Victors from 9, all older than Haymitch, with Darla being much younger than both of the men. ''The Narrow Path'' claims that there were only four: Darla, a woman who won a year after her, and two older men.

* SpeakIllOfTheDead: Philo killed his surviving allies for mocking his District partner after she died saving his life.

** HonoraryTrueCompanion: Toffy's fellow District 10 Victors, Kate, Earl, and Mindwell. Kate and Earl aren't part of the Rebellion but fight alongside of Rebel tributes in the Quell and never betray them. Mindwell is the first to fight the Peacekeepers when they arrive at the Viewing Center to try and arrest Haymitch and the other Rebel mentors.

* UnderestimatingBadassery: Happens a lot, particularly in Finnick and Johanna's Games.

-->It's [Prim's] sister, I realize. The older girl. The one who used to ride on Glen's shoulders and sing at the top of her lungs. I can't reconcile that child with the young woman I see now. Her face isn't hard, but it's closed off somehow, as cold as ice. Whatever's happened to her since her father died, it's made her tough. Hard.

-->'''Haymitch Abernathy''', Chapter 1 of ''The Narrow Path''

* SpeakIllOfTheDead: Philo killed his surviving allies for mocking his District partner after she died saving his life.* StealingTheCredit: During Wiress's Games, a boy back in District 3 talks about how she "helped" him with a patent in a way that makes Haymitch realize it was her invention and he stole it. He tells Beetee and they send a model of that invention as a sponsor gift to Wiress as a PublicSecretMessage to tell her not to trust one of her allies.

** There's a lot of gossip in District 12 that Prim is Danny Mellark's daughter, although both Danny and Glen (Prim and Katniss's father) dismiss this. It's noted that Glen's mother was also blonde, making it less surprising that the genes got through to her.

* ThemeNaming: In addition to the established District theme names from canon, several District 5 Victors and tributes are named after birds (Finch, Tanager, Raven, Robin etc.)

** Many of Peeta and Delly's acquaintances are confirmed dead when Delly says that none of the other merchant kids her and Peeta's age survived the District 12 bombing, and few of the merchant survivors of other ages really know Peeta. However, that does leave the fates of a few {{Bit Character}}s slightly ambiguous due to them either being a few years older or younger than Delly and Peeta (such as Elly Breen, Cyprian Murphy, and Suza Pike), not explicitly being stated to be merchant kids despite that class status being implied (like Jemina Kimberly, Izzrael Tarpley, Clay Geisler, Leonard Blaney, and Pippa Callahan), or both (like Dianner Teets).

* RetiredMonster: Head Peacekeeper Cray was the second-in-command of his predecessor, Lucretia Beckett, during the DayOfTheJackboot where they starved and browbeat the population of District 12 with nonstop whipping and hangings and occasional other acts of brutality like arson. In those days, Cray also engaged in random acts of cruelty for his own amusement, like when he forged a letter from ex-Peacekeeper Justinian Benz to Mir (Justinian’s daughter with a District 12 woman) and called her as a desperate, unintelligent, unwanted bastard who should go to work as a prostitute. By the time of the 74th Hunger Games (like in canon), Cray never bothers to enforce regulations against poaching and other crimes due to laziness and a desire to constantly stuff his face with contraband wild turkey and could almost pass for a benign PunchClockVillain if not for his dark past and how he pays desperate women to have sex with him when their only other option is starvation.

* TwoGuysAndAGirl: Chicory, Baten and Eloise, Haymitch's male tribute, the District 8 boy and the District 7 girl in the 65th Hunger Games.

** Many of Peeta and Delly's acquaintances are confirmed dead when Delly says that none of the other merchant kids her and Peeta's age survived the District 12 bombing, and few of the merchant survivors of other ages really know Peeta. However, that does leave the fates of a few {{Bit Character}}s slightly ambiguous due to them either being a few years older or younger than Delly and Peeta (such as Elly Breen, Cyprian Murphy, and Suza Pike), not explicitly being stated to be merchant kids despite that class status being implied (like Jemina Kimberly, Izzrael Tarpley, Clay Geisler, and Pippa Calhoun), or both (like Dianner Teets).

* UsedToBeASweetKid: While Plutarch Heavensbee remains a heroic character into adulthood, he is introduced as a determined dreamer who doesn't display the same proneness towards being InnocentlyInsensitive or justifying morally dubious actions with arguments about TheNeedsOfTheMany as he does as an adult.

** In ''The Golden Mean'', after meeting the crowds of District 12 survivors, Haymitch comments that he doesn't see any of the families of his past tributes except for [[spoiler:the Everdeens and River Bloodwood's sister]], indicating that most to all of them died in the bombing of District 12. However, he could have easily missed several faces in a crowd of nine hundred people (some in injured or disheveled states), and it's mentioned that Haymitch avoids at least some of the families of kids he can't save (many of whom have kids who might look different all grown up), so his not spotting the relatives of any other tributes doesn't mean that none survived.Further supporting this is how a recently deceased tribute is named Plonia Fisher, and one of the rare merchant survivors of the District survived because she was making a delivery to a family named Fisher which lives away from where the bombs hit.
** Many of Peeta and Delly's friends are confirmed dead when Delly says that none of the other merchant kids her and Peeta's age survived the District 12 bombing and few of the merchant survivors of other ages really know Peeta. However, that does leave the fates of a few {{Bit Character}}s slightly ambiguous due to them either being a few years older or younger than Delly and Peeta and not super close with Peeta (such as Elly Breen and Suza Pike), not explicitly being stated to be merchant kids despite that class status being implied (like Jemina Kimberly), or both (like Dianner Teets).

* ButWhatAboutTheAstronauts: In-universe; ''The Final Eight'' mentions that one of Finch's favorite books is about four astronauts who return from a space mission after the disaster that killed 99% of humanity and experience CultureShock while adjusting to the new Panem.

* BadassPacifist: Finch/Foxface gets this more explicitly than in the original book, being utterly traumatized by thinking she killed Cato (not realizing that his armor saved him).

* CompositeCharacter: Johanna is combined with the unnamed male Victor who scored a three a few years before Katniss and Peeta in the books.

** Rapist, thug, mocker of
The dead,
and anti-District bigot Ausonious Glass is murdered by Rebels in District 4 shortly after his second transfer out of being District 12's escort.

** [[DoomedByCanon As per canon]], {{Jerkass}} loyalist Victor Brutus gets killed by Peeta, Victor he'd constantly mocked and not taken seriously.

* BolivianArmyEnding: One of the one-shots is a WhatIf story where Haymitch went into the Quell instead of Peeta. While initially somewhat more positive (more tributes apparently survive the opening bloodbath) the ending has Katniss wandering into the sector of the arena that the tidal wave strikes, right as the wave aims back and prepares to launch, with her ultimate fate being unrevealed.

** All three of the District 12 Head Peacekeepers over the years (Beckett, Cray and Thread) are sadistic, exploitative figures. One of the [=LiveJournal=] stories shows that Thread was left behind and died in the bombing of District 12, while Beckett and Cray are in The Nut when Gale bombs it (with Cray having an OhCrap moment as he realizes exactly what Gale will do but can't convince Beckett of the need to evacuate) and get {{buried alive}}.
** Ausonious Glass is murdered by Rebels in District 4 shortly after his second transfer out of being District 12's escort.

** Claudius Templesmith is [[PaedoHunt exposed as a pedophile]] during Finnick's airing of Capitol Secrets in ''The Narrow Path''. Although his fate is [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse ultimately not revealed]], he would probably be ostracized at the very least for his crimes if he survived the riots in the Capitol that followed the airing.
** [[DoomedByCanon As per canon]], Brutus gets killed by Peeta, Victor he'd constantly mocked and not taken seriously.

* AmicableExes: ''The Final Eight'' has Jemina Kingery, a merchant girl Peeta went on one somewhat bad date with, actually happy to tell the reporters that he spent a lot of the date talking about Katniss, having no hard feelings and knowing that saying so will help them get sponsors.

* ButWhatAboutTheAstronauts'': In-Universe, ''The Final Eight'' mentions that one of Finch's favorite books is about four astronauts who return from a space mission after the disaster that killed 99% of humanity and experience CultureShock while adjusting to the new Panem.