So I saw The Hunger Games and then this happened?
...I'm so sorry.
Spoony wins his Games through paranoia, cleverness, luck, and a surprising affinity for blades he didn't know he had. When the hovercraft collects him, he's blood covered and nearly delirious.
The Capitol doctors wash him and heal up his body, but they can't do anything for his mind. Somehow he makes it through the interview and the crowning, mostly by thinking about being home and trying to forget everything he's had to do to survive.
He vaguely remembers meeting some other Victors, and them giving him sympathetic looks. He ignores them.
His fingers itch to work with wires and metal again in his lab in District 3.
He starts laughing in the train on the ride back to his District to greet everyone as their Victor and finds that he can't stop. It comes out high-pitched and unstable, and someone rests a hand on his shoulder to calm him. Spoony grabs their wrist and throws them into the wall on reflex, but doesn't stop laughing.
He steps onto the stage, grinning fiercely into the cameras. He may be broken beyond fixing, but he refuses to shatter.
Spoony wins his Games through paranoia, cleverness, luck, and a surprising affinity for blades he didn't know he had. When the hovercraft collects him, he's blood covered and nearly delirious.
The Capitol doctors wash him and heal up his body, but they can't do anything for his mind. Somehow he makes it through the interview and the crowning, mostly by thinking about being home and trying to forget everything he's had to do to survive.
He vaguely remembers meeting some other Victors, and them giving him sympathetic looks. He ignores them.
His fingers itch to work with wires and metal again in his lab in District 3.
He starts laughing in the train on the ride back to his District to greet everyone as their Victor and finds that he can't stop. It comes out high-pitched and unstable, and someone rests a hand on his shoulder to calm him. Spoony grabs their wrist and throws them into the wall on reflex, but doesn't stop laughing.
He steps onto the stage, grinning fiercely into the cameras. He may be broken beyond fixing, but he refuses to shatter.