#Avox

[darlingsnow0]

Lucy gray: "can't take my talkingggggg"

Avoxes: ...

(ᵍᵉᵗ ⁱᵗ,ᶜᵃᵘˢᵉ ᵗʰᵉʸ'ʳᵉ ᵃᵛᵒˣᵉˢ)

#katniss everdeen #catching fire #haymitch abernathy #peeta mellark #the hunger games #mockingjay #coriolanus snow #lucy gray baird #tbosas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #Coriolanus snow #sejanus plinth #snowbaird #lucy gray x coriolanus #avox

[rakeofashovel]

id kms if i was an avox my head game gone!!!!

#the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the hunger games #avox #hunger games avox

[sunset-nymph]

I might be late to the game on this but remember the term “avox” from the hunger games? the people whose tongues had been cut out so they couldn’t speak?

“vox” is latin for voice and to negate or say without you add an “a” in front

“avox” is latin for without a voice…

#thg books #thg #the hunger games #suzanne collins #avox #latin language #latin

[holliesocks]

The worst detail in The Hunger Games was Darius‘ death … tortured to death for information they knew he could never give because they had already ripped out his tongue. How was this a YA book?

The concept of avoxes in general is so horrible. Pollux who didn‘t see the sunlight for 5 years. The avoxes in Dr. Gaul‘s labs, screaming for help with their own cries being echoed back by capitol mutations. This shit haunts me…

#the hunger games #avox #tbosas

[justgayloringeverthrone]

"Oh my god, if I was in a room with my top 5 fictional characters of all time, I'd be so happy!"

Me if I was in that situation: *dials 911* "I need your help, I'm stuck in a room with two serial killers, an autistic fashion designer, a non-verbal dystopian slave and a dead pornstar.

(for reference it's Annie from Misery, Richie from Scream 5, Rachel from Friends, Lavinia from THG and Lorraine from X)

#richie kirsch #rachel green #lavinia #lavinia thg #avox #annie wilkes #lorraine day #friends #rachel green x reader #misery stephen king

[heavensbeehall]

Darius

It's Darius. A huge purple lump pushes through the red hair on his forehead. He's knocked out but still breathing. What happened? Did he try to come to Gale's aid before I got here?[...]

"After about twenty lashes, [Darius] stepped in, saying that was enough. Only he didn't do it smart and official like Purnia did. smart and official, like Purnia did. He grabbed Thread's arm and Thread hit him in the head with his whip."

"Darius" is not a Roman name (like "Romulus"), which makes me think he was from 2 not the Capitol. It's Persian and means "holding firm the good."

#darius #peacekeeper #avox #name meanings

[urthebees-knees]

yes, ofc I love TBOSAS as much as the next person, but besides the incredible characters and writing and world building and Lucy Gray (!!!!!) my favorite is this a very small part, I think it’s just a sentence when Ma Plinth is talking to Coriolanus and an Avox comes in and signs something to her!! it confirms my theory that in Panem they have a sort of ASL hybrid that the Avoxes use, isn’t that awesome!! I can’t recall if any of the other Avoxes use sign (maybe a line or two implying that’s how Pollux communicates, but idk) but now we know at least they used too!! I know everyone is talking about what they want the next THG book to be, and if Suzanne Collins decides to write another I’m really hoping it’ll either

a) be about an Avox, maybe the first or one we didn’t see in the books, because their lore is something super interesting!!

Or b) (my more selfish hope) more backstory on Castor and Pollux, ik this one will probably never happen bc there are soooo many characters to elaborate on and the world to explain, but I love them and want more content of them just existing (together, I might add) :)

#THG #tbosas #Pollux #Avox #ik the backstory on my boys will never happen #But I can dream!!! #and write fanfics in the meantime #teehee

[sleepy-gee]

avox!coryo who wants to kiss you and be with you so badly but he can't because he's a servant and you're his master and it would be wrong :(

avox!coryo who's in such agony because he can't express his feelings for you with words (which he's so good at) so he has to resort to writing you little poems and sonnets, coming up with a fake persona to sign off with in case anyone happens to find them

avox!coryo who truly follows you around like a lost puppy. his eyes tell you he is one, too. you're all he has left and he isn't ready to let you go.. nor will he ever be.

avox!coryo who knows his feelings are so, so wrong and beats himself up over it. he's tried to get over you so many times but he can't.

#sleepy.rambles #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #coriolanus snow #coriolanus x reader #coriolanus x you #coriolanus snow x reader #coriolanus x sejanus #gender neutral y/n #gender neutral reader #avox au #avox!coryo

[snowjanuscentral]

Omg there so much potential Even sejanus reading into things that aren’t there and like thinking Coriolanus likes him more than he actually does and making a romantic move on avox corio lol

Literally I have so many thoughts about Avox!Coriolanus, I have a fic outline but i'm gonna treat you to some headcanons, i'm Not Okay about this

Setting:

(In this au, Gaul is even more psychopathic than she is in the book - she cares so deeply about the perpetual state of war, and a twisted fairness in the games, that she perceives Coriolanus' actions as unforgiveable, and effectively discards him. She can always find another star pupil to take under her wing)

Coriolanus is accused of being a traitor to the Capitol due to his aiding of Lucy Gray in the games. To preserve the sanctity of the games, Lucy Gray is pardoned, as she has been 'manipulated' by Snow's evil rebel tendencies. In reality, she takes a deal to return to District Twelve by throwing Coriolanus under the bus.

The footage of Coriolanus attempting to rescue Sejanus from the arena is heavily edited to make it appear as though Coriolanus snuck into the arena and killed Bobbin to give Lucy Gray an unfair advantage.

Sejanus' role in the arena break-in is forgiven due to Strabo making a sizeable donation to the games.

The Snow family reputation is irrevocably destroyed - thankfully, the Capitol public holds great pity for Tigris and the Grandma'am, as they appear to be such fragile and pathetic creatures.

Plot Points In My Brain That Will Not Leave Me Alone

Coriolanus is utterly broken by the whole situation. Even when he was almost destitute, he could rely on his wit, charisma, manipulations and lies to get him out of trouble. That has all been stripped away. His own selfishness and hunger has ruined everything

Mr and Mrs Plinth are offered Coriolanus by Dr Gaul, and they agree to take him, albeit for different reasons; Strabo, to teach Sejanus the lesson he still hasn't learned about the Capitol, and Mrs Plinth, to try and give Coriolanus an easier life than he would experience elsewhere. They keep this acquisition to themselves.

Coriolanus stays in a room at the end of the servants quarters. In the first week, he doesn't come out of his tiny box room. Sejanus visits him on that first night, but Coriolanus doesn't even acknowledge his presence.

There are other Avoxes in the Plinth household, of course, but they hardly interact with Coryo. He isn't obedient, he isn't anything bar borderline catatonic, and they've learned the hard way what that leads to.

Eventually Coriolanus is coaxed out into the greater Plinth residence, and Sejanus treats him nicely enough, but Coryo cannot bring himself to eat. It's too painful on his throat, the food given to him far too rich, Sejanus far too sweet. He cries.

They settle into a new normal, but Coriolanus struggles to pick up the sign language the avoxes use. Not that Sejanus would understand it. Sejanus procures a notepad and pen for Coriolanus to write out his thoughts. It is confiscated by Strabo.

Sejanus misinterprets Coriolanus' eventual acquiescence to his circumstances as comfort. He thinks Coriolanus is becoming content in his company; instead, he has allowed the overwhelm to consume him. Coriolanus feels safer in Sejanus' presence, but not safe.

Coriolanus has nightmares often, and sleeps poorly. It is late one night in Sejanus' room, and he is reading a book, Sejanus reading out the words. They are sitting next to each other, and Coriolanus tires, eventually nodding off with his head on Sejanus' shoulder.

Sejanus begins to enjoy having Coriolanus at his beck and call, just as Coriolanus becomes accustomed to following orders.

It is another late night when Sejanus' hands begin to wander. It is not something Coriolanus has anticipated. He lets it happen anyway.

(I literally have so many thoughts and feelings, I WILL WRITE THIS FIC I PROMISE!!)

#snowjanus #tbosas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas fanfiction #coriolanus snow #sejanus plinth #tw: dubcon #ask #headcanon #fic idea #Avox!Coriolanus

[f1llory]

i know this all started like 11 years ago but i'm still so mad at how the hunger games movies have removed practically every trace of the avoxes that they can. i know that movies can't include everything from the books, but the avoxes are so important to the story and it does a real disservice to the movies by removing them. also, it would have added maybe a couple minutes per movie to include them the way they were in the books.

there are mentions of them here and there, and we do see lavinia briefly, but the only avox who's there in any meaningful way is pollux. and they couldn't take him out of the movie! not only is he important to include with the camera crew, he has to be there because he's the one who leads the group through the tunnels. if it were possible to cut him out of mockingjay, i think they would have.

removing so many scenes with lavinia genuinely detracted from my enjoyment of the first movie. especially witnessing her capture & carrying the guilt about it. when there are avoxes waiting on her, katniss does treat them politely, but i think it would have been so important & impactful to see her truly recognizing lavinia and her humanity and trying to communicate with her like anyone else. fixing this probably wouldn't add more than like 5 minutes to the runtime, but it would be such an improvement.

and don't even get me started with darius being removed from the movies. maybe he shows us a little less about katniss's character than lavinia would, but the mentions of him in catching fire add so much to our imagination of the hob and illustrate just how different peacekeepers were in district 12. this is also the first time this has happened to someone katniss actually knows. i think this would take maybe a minute and a half to fix? at most. really all we would need to see is darius talking to katniss in the hob, then being one of the peacekeepers getting captured when thread takes over.

obviously they kept pollux in because they literally couldn't remove him from mockingjay. i don't really have any complaints about his portrayal in the movies, which is kind of surprising given how passionate i am about him. also, the movie actually portrayed castor's death better than the book! it wasn't really in the book, basically castor was there and then he wasn't. so the movie version has a lot more impact.

also, it sucks that we didn't get to hear what happened to lavinia and darius. i always have intense second-hand embarrassment at the fact that in the book, peeta realizes pollux is an avox then immediately starts trauma dumping about seeing lavinia and darius tortured to death. if it were done as written in the movie, i might have experienced literal physical pain. but at the same time, i think it's very important that katniss finds out what happened to them. also in the books, squad 451 hears all the avoxes in the tunnels screaming as the mutts kill them. i feel like that would have been really easy to add in.

anyways we are moving on before i write an entire dissertation on pollux.

it was even worse in tbosas! the movie cut the scene where snow sees dr. gaul experimenting on and torturing avoxes. it would have been absolutely horrifying to see that translated to the screen, but it's incredibly important to snow's character development and his transformation into someone who both allows and perpetuates that cruelty. also, justice for ma plinth! i think it would have been incredible to see more of her and the way she treats people. in the book, she is so kind and caring to the avoxes working in her house. they're able to communicate with her, and she cooks food that will be easy for them to eat. since treating the avoxes as remotely human is so unusual, treating them with such love and respect is a revolutionary act, and goes to show what kind of person sejanus was raised to be. i know that this would add quite a bit to the runtime, but it probably should have been two movies anyways.

i know that side/background characters are cut from movies all the time. it happens. but even without getting a lot of lines, the avoxes are incredibly important to the story. these are people who have been enslaved, tortured, and dehumanized more than basically anyone else in panem. once characters truly see the avoxes, they're forced to confront the true brutality of the capitol and what they'll do to keep people in line. i think the movies don't truly force audiences to confront the brutality of this punishment. any rebellion is punished by literally robbing people of their voices and cutting them off from everything they've known. even if there's someone left to buy their freedom, they're physically disfigured for life--even removal of part of the tongue can have catastrophic side effects.

also, characters' perceptions of avoxes can say a lot about the kind of person they are. avoxes are the lowest class in panem, and treated with about as much agency as a piece of furniture. people aren't supposed to treat them like people. they're only supposed to talk to avoxes when giving them an order. despite this, there are certain characters who choose to show them kindness and love.

anyways i'm gonna end this here before i write a post so long it crashes tumblr but pls ask me literally anything about pollux i am in love w him <3

#the hunger games #thg #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #avoxes #pollux #lavinia #darius #peeta mellark #katniss everdeen #sejanus plinth #ma plinth #president snow #coriolanus snow

[hrrystylesbookclub]

as someone who loves to reread books, i feel like the hunger games has some of the best rereadability

i’ve read each of the trilogy each least 5 times each, and tbosas twice, and every time i pick up something new, sometimes about panem as a whole, sometimes it’s character insights, sometimes it’s connections to the real world.

ive said it before, but suzanne such a brilliant author, and she manages to give every character such depth that makes them ALL such compelling characters

i just think it’s incredible how she can write books that fall perfectly into a ya dystopian genre and also provides such profound commentary on society and government

#the hunger games #thg #katniss everdeen #gale hawthorne #peeta mellark #finnick odair #book tumblr #the hunger games might just be my magnum opus #one day i will write down all of my many thoughts and truly there are MANY #i could write an essay on gales character #i used to be his number one hater but recently i’ve been seeing him in such a different light and i think he’s a perfect representation #of young oppressed men and how their oppression can radicalize them #also i am so obsessed with pollux’s character and i want to know everything about his life and how he became an avox his family EVERYTHING #i just want to sit down and talk with suzanne about these books for hours and hours

[adsosfraser]

I have an idea for an angsty-ish everlark one shot (or even longer if something can be built off of it). Peeta could’ve seriously permanently harmed Katniss when he attacked her during their ‘reuinion’ in 13. He could’ve damaged her throat and vocal chords/muscles needed for speech so it would be impossible or difficult for her to ever speak/sing again, effectively clipping the Mockingjay’s wings. District 13 would lose its mouthpiece and even if Snow wouldn’t have planned the outcomes exactly that way, it would be quite the stroke of luck and irony for him. It would devastate Peeta completely once he recovered and is able to make more sense of his memories. But I imagine with his presence and encouragement they would both work together in 12 to heal and learn sign language to communicate. Eventually, Peeta would forgive himself for what the Capitol did to them. I just think it’d be interesting to explore a healing katniss parallel their healing relationship as they get through it together and how she would get through the rest of her life (or months if it went down the path of an injury that could be healed) and learning how to communicate differently. I just don’t have the energy myself to explore that type of fic right now and give it the attention and nuance it would deserve.

#the hunger games #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #hijacked peeta #everlark #everlark fanfiction #katniss and peeta could also help any avoxes that may come to district 12 for a new life and to rebuild

[faebriel]

brrrr rainduo hunger games au

mad shoutouts to bee, beans, daisy and cherry for hopping on the rainduo hunger games bandwagon kdhkdjd

okay so nonnie i have a bit of hunger games knowledge (have watched the first two movies with some pals in the last month, various clips on youtube, etc) so i decided to take this one to my friends in clout farm to bounce some ideas around. niki and wil as tributes? niki as a tribute and wil as an estranged old friend who won the games five years ago and then was swallowed up by the capitol? two coworkers in the world's worst subminimum wage job? then bee comes in with the sledgehammer

for everyone else who also thought oh god i need to google that: avoxes are rebels, traitors or deserters who had their tongues cut out as punishment, and are forced into servitude by the capitol.

alright so. wilbur and niki are two kids in district 12 in the midst of a potential regime change - and they're kids, around ten and fourteen each. to-be-president schlatt is shoving around president dream and it almost seems like this might be a window for change, something wilbur is so passionate about

and then that wrong person overhears, and wilbur is gone.

niki assumes that wilbur is dead. (and tries not to think about how he got taken, because of nothing more than sheer bad luck, and she didn't.) it's awful, but seven years pass and she does her best to cope with it. and then her name is called at the reaping, when she is seventeen years old.

niki has absolutely zero intention of playing along with the games - she thinks they're horrible, just another way for the capitol to terrorise the people of the districts, even if she's learned by now the consequences of actually saying that out loud. she meets her mentor, jack - a year younger than she is, district 12's only remaining victor. he came out of the coal pits at thirteen, with just enough charisma and confidence to win over the sponsors and just enough grit to outlive every other tribute in his games, despite his age.

unfortunately for jack, niki is stubborn as hell when she makes her choices, and she's chosen not to play. fuck the capitol - fuck acting as their entertainment while they burn her entire fucking world down. fuck smiling how they want her to and acting sweet. why should she? she should she, when they've ripped her away from everything she had to lose? niki can hold her own, but not like this - and if she is going to go to her death, she refuses to act pretty about it.

and then she encounters wilbur.

it's one of the dinners for the tributes - one of the early ones, right after they're paired off with their stylists (niki doesn't entirely know what to make of hbomb, who asks her what colour hair dye she'd prefer in one breath and then lays out the most cynical, how-to-get-ahead guide to the games in the second, and then exalts the benefits of a kitty ear motif in the third) but before the interviews and grading. they're eating the fanciest food niki has seen in what is probably her entire life, although it tastes like nothing more than ash in her mouth, and pouring the tributes and their mentors glasses of expensive wine - never mind that almost all the tributes are underage, because when else will they get the chance to drink, hey? niki is still silently fuming, pushing her food around her plate and refusing the sixth damn offer to refill her wine glass and she finally looks up and behind the mask he's wearing, behind the unrecognisable silence, behind seven years of thinking one of her best friends had been horribly killed (and being entirely unable to process that fact) - she sees wilbur.

she immediately asks, wilbur? - not that he responds, and now hbomb and jack are giving her weird looks as hbomb informs her it's just an avox and jack goes oh, yeah, they don't have them in the districts, but -

none of their words matter, because half of niki is solidly trapped in this space between reality and dreams and her worst nightmare - she's only able to pull her shit together once jack has dragged them all back to the district 12 tribute spaces, and gives her the whole spiel about what an avox is, and by extension, what happened to wilbur.

niki is horrified. to think she mourned for all those years, and wilbur was alive - not just alive, but mutilated and tortured at the hands of the capitol. niki didn't think she could become more furious, more enraged with them. she was wrong.

the problem now, then - if niki wants to help wilbur, actually help him, she has to play. she has to win.

(and yes, she does set the forest on fire. she has to win, after all, doesn't she?)

this post is getting so so long so i am putting some more miscellaneous thoughts about The World and more details about niki's games under the cut ⚔️

okay so dream WAS president but was overthrown by schlatt in a "peaceful transfer of power". this was around when niki and wil were 10/14 each - and naturally uprising resulted in a peacekeeper crackdown in the districts, leading to wilbur's capture and arrest :(

2. haven't really nailed down other tributes in niki's reaping (i'm already handwaving the guy from district 12. he doesn't exist to me he is stock image steve) besides uhh ranboo who niki makes brief friends/allies with and then dies horribly. i was thinking aimsey and guqqie because from what i've seen of their content they love a tragedy? but yeah idk

3. sam is the gamemaker for this arena! he was a former victor and has decided to use this knowledge in the worst way possible.

quackity is Also a gamemaker (young upstart with no experience yet in the arena or out of it) and they have terrible workplace drama. is he hooking up with the president? i will not say yea or nay.

4. rest easy in the knowledge that, as a servant to the capitol, wilbur got to see on live television the moment niki was reaped :']

5. niki does, in fact, win the games - by the skin of her teeth. while she is so full of fury at the capitol, i feel like she'd Actually kill like, one career and then feel Extremely ill about it. unfortunately, she has too much on the line to lose. this isn't just about surviving, or going home - she needs to get herself and wilbur home in one piece. she Cannot Afford To Fail.

she ends up winning by setting the arena on fire with use of a match donated by jack and some sponsors he managed to twist the arm of, plus probably some clever digging around in the arena itself to find something flammable (maybe some kind of fuel to power the arena itself?) this fire ends up killing off the remaining few tributes at that point - at least one in front of niki herself - and damages the arena too. niki, already injured before the fire started and now barely clinging onto life past her burns, doesn't even hear the sound of the cannon shots as her victory is announced - she only realises that she's won once the hovercraft descends, perfect steel against a fiery, smoke-filled artificial sky.

she can't really stand the sight of flames after that. unfortunately, fire becomes her new branding.

6. district 13 Is a thing. Eventually. can't overlook niki's beloved anarchist friends :3c

and finally:

#AND THAT IS RAINDUO AVOX HUNGER GAMES AU. #thanks anon i think your ask Awoke something in us #there's a lot of screenshots here but my phone keeps crashing chrome when i try to add alt text so im gonna do it when i can next use my lp #extremely open to further asks and such on this btw and hg aus in gen theyve kind of possessed me. and thanks once again to my lovely cfers #and to nonnie too!! thanks nonnie <3 #asks #hunger games au #aunonnies

[dashing-luna]

Everyone’s yapping about wanting a book on Haymitch’s game or Finnicks game but you know what I want? I want the first ever quarter Quell, the 25th Hunger games. To those who don’t remember the whole premise of the first quarter quell was everyone had to VOTE who got taken into the games! Which is already a horrific concept. This could either take place with the victor themself as the perspective ( a way to explore other districts, preferably one of the career districts, especially 2), OR a personal idea of a perspective from Tigris in her designer days! So not only do we have more insight into the games, and capitol, but the deterioration of Snow and Tigris’s relationship.

#the hunger games #quarter quell #tigris snow #look Haymitch and Finnic are cool and all but their stories are known #I don’t think Suzanne will have anything else to say about them #I just want to see Tigris as a designer and perhaps more insight into other districts and the evolution of the hunger games #I’ve also heard people talk about an Avox story or a first rebellion story which would also be a pretty cool idea #thg #tbosbas

[heavensbeehall]

Katniss: I saw that girl and her brother get captured by the Capitol when I was out in the woods with Gale. They killed the boy! I did nothing. I think I might be a horrible person. Peeta: [Katniss stan since childhood] ... so is Gale your boyfriend?

#incorrect quotes #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #lavinia the avox girl

[haveyoureadthisfanfic]

Summary: “Don’t let them think you have any last humanity left,” he says, and claps her on the shoulder. “You’ll want to keep that to yourself.” He lumbers away to meet Caesar and Katniss is left staring after him, wondering what the hell Haymitch means. It’s another shred of useless advice, surely, but she doesn’t dismiss the note of warning that had threaded through his words. Then finally Caesar is calling her name, and Katniss steps forward to be baptised as a victor, her triumph bathed in Peeta’s blood. (or, Katniss is the lone victor from the Seventy Fourth Annual Hunger Games. Somehow, a rebellion still happens.)

Author: @revelationinthelightofday-writes

Note from submitter: This is my absolute favourite hunger games fic. I read it for the first time this year and have reread it multiple times already

#official fic poll #haveyoureadthisfic #pollblr #tumblr polls #fanfiction #fandom poll #fanfic #fandom culture #internet culture #we are the avoxes who got to keep their tongues #the hunger games #hunger games #thg #thg series