heaven help me...

[sabaceanbabe]

I can't even believe I'm saying this, but... I think I'm going to sign up for het_bigbang. The stories aren't due until late August. The word count minimum, if I want artwork (and OMG I WANT ARTWORK!!!!) is 25,000 words. *looks at monster* *looks at 7k fic written in 3 days* If I write Hunger Games, I really don't think 25k will be a problem. BUT

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[callmeonetrack]

JOHANNA/GALE- THG SHIP O' MY HEART!

Most fics for them are Post-Mockingjay of course, but I'd love to read a great AU with them. Maybe they go into the games together and CONSCIOUSLY start a revolution! Plotting! Planning! Commiseration! ACTION!

[sabaceanbabe]

That idea... is very intriguing. I'd have to work up a backstory. Probably have some stuff in early chapters before they ever meet. They're both very rebellious in nature, so that consciously starting a revolution could work, but I'd have to clear my head of my existing ideas as to age (5 years difference isn't a "bad" thing when we're talking 25 and 30, but 13 and 18 goes a little weird for me, when I think "shippy." :P Of course, that could be when they start out and then it goes shippy later...

Well, obviously, your prompt is sparking something. I'll have to think about it some more and see if it sparks enough. :D

[callmeonetrack]

I could see them meeting in the training center and getting competitive about getting a better score than each other, but also maybe having a bit of flirtation/mutual admiration for each other! (Maybe it's for a quarter quell and it's not a "repeat-victors" theme but just that they change the age-limits? So that Gale is 19 and Johanna's 23 or 24?)

[sabaceanbabe]

I think they'd have to open it up to all district citizens, including past victors, to make that work, because for me, part of what makes Johanna Johanna is her time in the arena.

Oh.

I kinda like that.

[callmeonetrack]

OH THAT'S AWESOME. That people go into the arena because they WANT TO, making it their choice? And the capitol maybe..naively thinks they're just going to get a lot of hotheads who love violence volunteering or people who just want fame or glory--(Very reality TV of it all, right?)--but they don't count on the fact that Jo and Gale have separate SECRET PLANS to take down the Capitol! Then they realize they have the same goal and join forces?!

Also--you could do some fun variations on the actual books where Jo and Gale have to pretend to have some other motive for volunteering. That'll get complicated with Johanna, because if Snow knows of her contempt for the Capitol--she'll need a good reason to want to go in again.

[sabaceanbabe]

Or they could change up the QQ by making it ages 12 to 25 for reaping and allow volunteers to be any district citizen of any age, so Rory is reaped and Gale volunteers, which he was planning on anyway but that just makes it more believable to TPTB that he'd do it and Johanna gets reaped and there are no volunteers to take her place, but she's okay with that because now she doesn't have to volunteer...

[callmeonetrack]

Oh nice, I like the switch of him volunteering for Rory too!

[callmeonetrack]

Alternatively--if it's too hard to make her a former victor--you could probably easily give her the same backstory (Capitol kills her family) with just a different reason for why they did it.

[sabaceanbabe]

It's not just the Capitol killing her family, though. That cements her hatred, but there's still that whole thing where she's literally an axe-murderer because of the Games, which is going to put her into a whole different mental and emotional state ON TOP OF the one the murder of her family put her into. Kind of a package deal.

[callmeonetrack]

True. I do think there are other ways you could get to the same emotional state if you wanted. But hey, whatever works for you!