The Hunger Games In Numbers

[trovia]

Since stats and math aren't everybody's strong suit, and why come up with a set of figures if you only want to write a short story, I thought I'd share my Games stats. I have these because I'm a geek. (also because I'm currently writing Finnick having had these figures drilled into his head forever and ever by Mags) So you can reference them if you

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[seta_suzume]

Thanks for sharing! This is so interesting to me! (...I kind of want to hear all the names! XD I really like names and name-giving, so almost all of mine have names too)

I have the same thing with Four never having two consecutives, but a spot with only one year in between (35th and 37th for me), and also that Twelve went the longest without having a victor (I have Eve Blackley in the 26th, so their streak was not quite as bad in that regard, but she also died before Haymitch won his Games).

I'm really curious about Three's "most non-Career volunteers" record.

[trovia]

Oh awesome. (and hee! you post your names, I'll post mine

[seta_suzume]

Will do

[trovia]

Awesome!

I'd really love it if you ever wrote something that features the period around Haymitch's Games, what the Games would have been like then. It's so interesting. I find it so interesting in general how history influences people, and I think it says interesting things about Haymitch, who Eve was and how she died and how Haymitch feels about her. Like knowing your Four victors tells us something about Annie, Finnick and Mags, you know?

Heh. I don't know exactly which sixteen victors are dead, but I do know who committed suicide (because my initial reaction to those sixteen was, why didn't much more of them jump off a bridge?? ... figuring in that some would have died of old age or disease or accidents). I know Ralda from Six killed herself, obviously, in MotR, also Twelve' Swagger and then Ten's Bunita, who was the most popular of female victors. She was still being sold in her late thirties when the Quarter Quell came around in CF and killed herself after the Quell announcement. She's gonna make an appearance in my new fic

[sabaceanbabe]

Excellent bit of statistics here. I'll have to polish mine up and post it, although it's not as detailed as either your's deathmallow's. For instance, I had a need to know which district won what when for TW, but I only named the ones that either had a role in the fic or were referred to specifically by one of the characters.

I always had it in my mind that 2 had a couple more victors than 1, because they seem to be even more steeped in the Games and training for them than 1, and that most of the "failed" potential tributes went on to be "officers" among the Peacekeepers.

[trovia]

Ooh, you totally should post yours. But hey, no reason to overdo the background details if you don't need them for the fic, right? I don't usually do it either, it just turned out to be more convenient in this case - I'll always happily switch things around in the fic if they don't turn out to be convenient for the narration. I mean, all this is only meant to serve the story. Sometimes, I find that excessive preparation can distract from the actual story that I want to tell.

It's funny with One/Two. I meant for One to have a couple more victors than Two because they struck me as both fierce fighters and very pretty, expressive people, but then it worked out evenly, mostly for reasons connected to my internal math. But yeah, one can read that both ways and regard Two as better prepared. Plus SC seems to cast Two as the most dangerous opponents in both THG and CF.

[hoshitflyingpig]

I really like this, as it makes your in-universe much more interesting. However, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it stated in canon that Cashmere and Gloss won back-to-back victories? I'm pretty sure that's what it said in the Catching Fire movie - but I'm not sure if that's what's true in the book. Anyway, can't wait to read more of your fics! :)

[trovia]

Ah, nothing makes people creep out of the woodwork like forgetting tiny canon fics. ;) (there are two in "Spin Control" that I know of, but one of them has gone unnoticed as of yet) At the top of my head, I'd say yeah, you're right, that's what it said. Must have been some sort of mix-up; I update things whenever my fic demands a different timeline of events - Lyra Ingram, who's a pretty important character in "Spin Control," isn't on it either.