History Fanfic / ThePartsWePlay

1. ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8495634/11/Patchwork Watcher]]'': Completed, Side Story. Peeta learns that everything he's dreamed of is gone.

2. ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8661830/1/Spectator Spectator]]'': Completed, Main fic. Katniss is pregnant at the start of the Hunger Games so Prim volunteers to take her place. Peeta vows to make sure Prim comes home, but there's got to be something more that Katniss can do than just sit around and watch her sister die. The Capitol agrees with her, unfortunately.

3. ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9985077/1/Tribute Tribute]]'': Completed, Side story. Every tribute has a story.

4. ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8495634/8/Patchwork Seeing Red]]'': Completed, Side Story. Foxface is approached with a proposition.

5. ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9876863/1/Forgotten Forgotten]]'': Completed, Side Story taking place after some of the events in Chapter 17. Gale's always known who he was and his place in the world. But when his best friend is taken hostage by the Capitol, he's got to find a new way with the help of an unlikely ally.

6. ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8495634/20/Patchwork Godfather]]'': Completed, Side Story. Gale meets his daughter for the first time.

7. ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11517136/1/Participant Participant]]'': In Progress, Main Fic. There's a quarter quell coming. But that's not the only thing in the air.

8. ''Family'': Forthcoming. During the quell some families take center stage.

9. ''Sacrifice'': Forthcoming, Main Fic. Sometimes you have to take a stand for what you care about no matter the price.

10. ''The Victor's Daughter'': Forthcoming. She needs to tell her story.

** In-narrative, since Katniss watches the 74th Hunger Game on TV, we learn a lot more things about the other Tributes' doings during the game - at least the ones who survive the bloodbath like the Careers, Foxface (called Rani), Axel (the District Three boy), and Clint -the District Ten boy).

* BodyHorror: Katniss remembers a history lesson about how in an early Hunger Games (she thinks it was the Third), the Tributes refused to fight until the Capitol started dropping the severed body-parts of their families into the field until they went along with the Games (and the Capitol naturally talks about how 'generous' they were in the face of such 'treason' that they didn't actually kill any of the Tributes' families).

** Rani, the District Five Tribute known as 'Foxface' in canon, [[spoiler:dies from suicide after Peeta and Thresh decide to dissolve their alliance against the Careers. As Rani is on her own where every other remaining Tribute has a partner, and has fallen for Peeta while knowing he's in love with Katniss, she deliberately eats nightlock berries rather than keep trying to win a Game she can now see will never end well for her no matter how it unfolds]].

* EyeScream: Thanks to Uranium -- the District Five tribute known in the series as 'Foxface' -- Marvel is lured into a trap and suffers serious burns that cost him one of his eyes.

** In District One, Marvel joined the Academy of his own choice with the dream of being a 'hero', while Glimmer is revealed to be a legacy tribute who was pressured into joining by her father as she had a better chance than her brothers.
** Cato and Clove are set up as a new style of 'star-crossed lovers' in contrast to Katniss and Peeta, with the tributes from Two ruthless killers who fight only for each other where Peeta and Katniss's actions are often based around saving others.

* ForWantOfANail: Katniss's pregnancy changes everything from the original course of events.

* GiveAwayTheBride: When the Games conclude, [[spoiler:as part of Snow's 'ultimatum' to ensure that Peeta toes the line after his last-minute defiance, he 'requests the privilege' of giving Katniss away at her and Peeta's imminent wedding]].

* HiddenDepths: While he refers to most of the other Tributes as 'meat' and often talks about his plans to kill them, Cato muses at one point that he'd like to have a garden once he and Clove return to District Two as he likes the idea of [[CaringGardener peacefully tending to it]].

* ImAHumanitarian: A Tribute in the Sixty-Ninth Games started eating his victims before he was killed by mutts, and since then the Capitol swiftly remove the bodies of the dead Tributes to prevent a repeat of that event.

* LikeBrotherAndSister: In contrast to Peeta and Katniss being presented as the 'Star-Crossed Lovers of District Twelve' in canon, in this version of events Peeta sets himself up as Prim's older brother, aided by the fact that they even look slightly alike, and a similar dynamic is expressed between Thresh and Rue.

* ManipulativeEditing: After [[spoiler:Rani kills herself, Katniss notes that the Capitol have edited the subsequent broadcast to present Rani as a lovesick girl who killed herself because she can't be with Peeta while removing her more anti-Capitol statements. The broadcast version of her death even goes so far as to give the impression that Peeta gave Rani the nightlock during their talk rather than her receiving it earlier as a sponsorship gift, although Katniss finds the editing so obvious that she can see that Rani's mouth doesn't match the words she's allegedly speaking]].

* NeverMyFault: In the final confrontation, [[spoiler:Clove basically blames Peeta for nothing more than not dying like he was 'supposed' to, although in this case the only person who could arguably be at 'fault' from Clove's perspective is the girl who was meant to volunteer for Two this year and chose to let Clove get Reaped]].

* OneSteveLimit: It is apparently a recurring joke that there is always at least one tribute with the name 'Taylor' in the Games, but on this occasion both District Eight Tributes have that name.

* RapeByProxy: In ''Participant'', [[spoiler:Snow basically does this when he orders Katniss and Peeta to provide a 'playmate' for their daughter]].

* SanitySlippage: Haymitch reflects that Clove seems to have lost it in the last stage of the Games [[spoiler:after she's forced to MercyKill Cato]], but Johanna observes that she doubts Clove ever 'had it', musing that Two's Tributes are always a bit 'cuckoo'.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Seneca Crane survives]].

''The Parts We Play'' is an AU ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' fanfic that diverges from canon a few months before the start of the first novel. In this version of events, Katniss got drunk and had a one-night stand with Gale a few months before the Seventy-Fourth Games, with the result that she became pregnant. This makes Prim decide to take, which messes up the papers inside the bowl for the Reaping. As a result, Katniss's name is drawn in the Reaping, and Prim volunteers in her place to protect the baby, creating a new kind of love story for Panem to root for.

''The Parts We Play'' is an AU ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' fanfic that diverges from canon a few months before the start of the first novel. In this version of events, Katniss got drunk and had a one-night stand with Gale a few months before the Seventy-Fourth Games, with the result that she became pregnant, As a result, when Katniss's name is drawn in the Reaping, Prim volunteers in her place to protect the baby, creating a new kind of love story for Panem to root for.

* ABirthdayNotABreak: The District Three Tribute for the 74th Games, Radi, was a particularly bleak example of this, as the 74th Games began on her birthday and she gets killed in the opening bloodbath.

* ChildhoodFriends: When Effie was a child, her parents hired Cecilia -- a Victor from District Eight who won the Sixty-First Hunger Games -- as her companion, essentially a non-sexual version of Finnick's contact with other Capitol residents. Despite the circumstances, Effie muses that it worked well for both, as Effie always knew why Cecilia was there and Cecilia knew that Effie wouldn't make a pass at her or anything like that, giving them both a certain sense of 'stability'.

''The Parts We Play'' is an AU ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' fanfic that diverges from canon a few months before the start of the first novel. In this version of events, Katniss got drunk and had a one-night stand with Gale a few months before the Seventy-Fourth Games, with the result that she became pregnant, As a result, when Katniss’s name is drawn in the Reaping, Prim volunteers in her place to protect the baby, creating a new kind of love story for Panem to root for.

* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: [[spoiler:Rani chooses to kill herself with Nightlock rather than go off on her own and get killed by one of the other Tributes, having concluded that there's no point in her fighting to win when she's fallen for Peeta and knows that he doesn't feel the same way while doubting the Capitol will let two Tributes survive]].

* TheBigGuy: Thresh naturally fills this role in Peeta's alliance (Peeta already acting as TheLeader).

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: In ''Participant'', [[spoiler:Katniss's daughter is officially named 'Pulchuria' as a result of the Capitol vote, but everyone in her life calls her 'Willow']].

* TokenGoodTeammate: Calling the Capitol a 'team' might be an exaggeration, but while meeting potential sponsors for Prim Katniss is genuinely touched when she meets with Undersecretary Antonius and his wife Scibonia, who were supporters of Prim in the Games on her own merits, offer to send Katniss their daughter's old things for the baby even if Prim doesn't survive, and even suggest they might sponsor Prim if she decides to go to medical school so that she can study in the Capitol; Effie observes that they might even 'hire' Prim to be a companion for their daughter in the future, thus sparing Prim from becoming a sexual plaything for other Capitol residents. [[spoiler:Naturally they're accused of treason and killed before the Games end]].

* WouldHurtAChild: The various Tributes are all put in a position where they're expected to do this, but their ability to actually do it varies, with Thresh vowing that he won't kill Rue in particular and Piper (the female Tribute from District Ten) trying to psyche herself up for the act by referring to Prim as a lamb.

* BookEnds: The Seventy-Fourth Games open with [[spoiler:Peeta slamming Clove into the Cornucopia, and ends basically the same way, the only difference being that he kills her the second time rather than just giving her a concussion]].

* ChildhoodFriends: When Effie was a child, her parents hired Cecilia -- a Victor from District Eight who won the Sixty-First Hunger Games -- as her companion (essentially a non-sexual version of Finnick's contact with other Capitol residents). Despite the circumstances, Effie muses that it worked well for both, as Effie always knew why Cecilia was there and Cecilia knew that Effie wouldn't make a pass at her or anything like that, giving them both a certain sense of 'stability'.

** Rani, the District Five Tribute known as 'Foxface' in canon, [[spoiler:commits suicide after Peeta and Thresh decide to dissolve their alliance against the Careers. As Rani is on her own where every other remaining Tribute has a partner, and has fallen for Peeta while knowing he's in love with Katniss, she deliberately eats nightlock berries rather than keep trying to win a Game she can now see will never end well for her no matter how it unfolds]].

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The District Five tribute known only as 'Foxface' in canon is now given the name 'Rani'.

* TheLancer: Rani serves as the scout for Peeta's alliance, but she [[spoiler:ultimately commits suicide as she has [[HopelessSuitor no hope of getting the outcome she'd hope for]]]].

1. ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8495634/11/Patchwork Watcher]]'' - Completed - Side Story - Peeta learns that everything he's dreamed of is gone.

2. ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8661830/1/Spectator Spectator]]'' - Completed - Main fic - Katniss is pregnant at the start of the Hunger Games so Prim volunteers to take her place. Peeta vows to make sure Prim comes home, but there's got to be something more that Katniss can do than just sit around and watch her sister die. The Capitol agrees with her, unfortunately.

3. ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9985077/1/Tribute Tribute]]'' - Completed - Side story - Every tribute has a story.

4. ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8495634/8/Patchwork Seeing Red]]'' - Completed - Side Story - Foxface is approached with a proposition.

5. ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9876863/1/Forgotten Forgotten]]'' - Completed - Side Story taking place after some of the events in Chapter 17 - Gale's always known who he was and his place in the world. But when his best friend is taken hostage by the Capitol, he's got to find a new way with the help of an unlikely ally.

6. ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8495634/20/Patchwork Godfather]]'' - Completed - Side Story - Gale meets his daughter for the first time.

7. ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11517136/1/Participant Participant]]'' - In Progress - Main Fic - There's a quarter quell coming. But that's not the only thing in the air. (In Progress)

8. ''Family'' - Forthcoming - During the quell some families take center stage.

9. ''Sacrifice'' - Forthcoming - Main Fic - Sometimes you have to take a stand for what you care about no matter the price.

10. ''The Victor's Daughter'' - Forthcoming - She needs to tell her story.

The series as a whole can also be found [[https://archiveofourown.org/series/47386 here]].