Creator / Seta Suzume

Seta Suzume is a fan fiction author who has been inactive since 2014 but was once a prolific writer, mainly for The Hunger Games, Fullmetal Alchemist, Final Fantasy, and Suikoden. Most of their works are one-shots, but a handful are longer stories.

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Tropes in Seta Suzume's The Hunger Games stories:

• The Clan: Luna Vetvier's grandfather is the hereditary leader of District 9 and she has a lot of siblings and cousins, at least two of whom die in the Games due to rigged reapings.
• Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Or rather, the PTSD-ridden victor's minder. District 10's first victor, Emmy Polak, is utterly traumatized after winning the Hunger Games and needs her district's escort to help her function around other people.
• Cynical Mentor: District 5's eldest victor, Shy Everett, is practical and sometimes cynical about training Tributes (especially in her old age).
  People thought she wasn't doing enough to save their tributes. Well, it wasn't enough most of the time, but it wasn't like she was purposely holding back. She did what she could. She brought back Valse, hadn't she? You couldn't win them all. You couldn't win most of them. It was intended that way, and Shy wasn't going to break herself over impossibilities like Pal (earth accept his weary body and sky his weary soul).
• Do Not Call Me "Paul": Young District 1 victor Jack Johnson dislikes being called Jack Jr. (District 1's late first victor was named Jack Umber).
• Do Not Go Gentle: Kayta Hiro, the oldest living victor during the 3rd Quarter Quell, spends his last moments on the roof of a lumber mill, shooting at peacekeepers with a rifle.
• Dramatic Irony: Snow forces both Gloss and Cashmere into sex slavery by threatening to do the same to the other if they refuse. Neither realizes that both of them are being pimped out, and so both of them comfort each other during moments of depression without knowing that it's being caused by the sex slavery.
• Family Extermination:
  • Several of Luna Vetvier's relatives are reaped and die in the Games.
  • Pal Fields' mother and sisters die in a mysterious factory explosion after he rubs the Capitol the wrong way.
• I Need a Freaking Drink: Poppy from District 6 gets high on morphling after realizing that she's going back into the Games. Granted, she often gets high on morphling, but that time is preceded by a screaming fit.
• Last-Name Basis: Johanna calls the other District 7 victors besides Blight (Kayta Hiro, Reinhold Meyer, and Khamphan "Champion" Larch) by their last names.
• Machete Mayhem: District 4 victor Song Wen-Goff is called "Song 'pretty with a machete' Wen" in her youth.
• Outdated by Canon: Much of what's said about the arenas, public reception, and victors of the first ten Hunger Games doesn't agree with the prequel novel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
• The Power of Acting: District 4 victor Theo Goff is a talented actor who does a masterful job of playing the role of a dashing romantic hero in the games, while pretending to nearly fall to his death while climbing a mountain so the cameras wouldn't get bored following him.
  He is so skilled that the Capitol all but believes him when the Third Quarter Quell is interrupted and he says he and Song, present as mentors, didn't know anything about it. All but.
• Pragmatic Hero: By the 3rd Quarter Quell, District 5 victor Shy Everett is jaded enough to fit into this role. She works hard for the Rebellion and is willing to die if it will help free Panem, but is prepared to fade into the background and wait to fight another day if the arena plot fails.
• Recursive Fanfiction: The We Must Be Killers stories by Lorata are clearly set in a different universe but feature several of the same original District 4 victors (Tyde, Odysseus, Song, and Theo) as this story.
• Serial Killer: District 8 victor Jeymes Grimm murders many District 8 citizens for fun and is killed by the peacekeepers.
• Scatter Brained Senior: During the interviews, Woof can't remember what year it is, who's about to be sent into the arena, or whether his old mentor is still alive.
  Woof: Who's my tribute this year?
  Caesar: You've switched places, Woof. You're the tribute and Miranda is mentoring you.
  Woof: But Miranda's going to be killer with a razor.
  Caesar: And she was, Woof. But that was over forty years ago.
• Star-Crossed Lovers: Mags falls in love with Jack Umber, a victor from District 1, and they have a stillborn child together. A What Could Have Been story reveals that if their son had lived, he would have been reaped as a tribute twelve years later and died anyway.
• Student/Teacher Romance: During the 3rd Quarter Quell interviews, District 10 victor Dace Liotta is heavily rumored to be in a romantic relationship with his former mentee and current district partner Akane, who also calls him "Daddy" by mistake. However, Ceaser briefly wonders if this is just the two of them playing with the Capitol audience to stir up negative feelings about the Quell and gain sponsors.
• Writer's Block: District 5 victor Hamlet Seff wants to be an author, but his PTSD and alcoholism keep him from finishing a single novel.
• You Should Have Died Instead: The fianceé of Beto's district partner unsubtly indicates that he wishes she'd lived and Beto had died. Beto himself seems to agree (in an Insane Troll Logic way), and feels that he needs to save a District 3 female tribute to restore the balance and make it feel as if his district partner were alive again.