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How I Imagine Annie Cresta’s Hunger Games went!

It is always interesting to read people’s opinions on what they think happened during the 70th Hunger Games, whether or not they think Annie was a career, whether or not she was reaped on she volunteered, etc.

After thinking a lot about it and considering lots of different storylines and possibilities, I have developed what I think happened based on my interpretation of Annie and clues we get in the books. I am very against the idea that Annie is some frail, innocent, damsel in distress, so I am not particularly fond of storylines where Finnick saved her by sending her tons of sponsors. Mentors can’t really do that as far as I know, sponsors are super expensive especially as the game goes on longer. She would have needed to be very charming and popular among The Capitol to get bets and money like that. And even then, most tributes don’t get tons of sponsors, look at Katniss and Peeta, they didn’t get tons of sponsors, and they were the star-crossed lovers of Panem!

I think Annie would have had very average training scores. I think she would have been a little awkward and quiet in her interview, so it isn’t like people would be rushing to bet on her and get her money for sponsors. And I don’t think Finnick and Annie were in love when she was in the games, I have seen some fics make it so Finnick went super out of his way to get her lots of sponsors, but I don’t think that could have happened at all. We have to remember that Finnick was like the “playboy” of Panem, if he liked Annie, no one would be allowed to know that.

I think Finnick and Annie cared about each other and they were kind of friends, I think Finnick was fond of her and really wanted her to win, I can imagine he was very sad when he thought about how she might die. Maybe one or both of them had a small crush, but I do not think they started to like each other non-platonically until months after she won the games. With Finnick saying that Annie “crept up on him”, and with how different they were as people (especially then, at 18 and 19, before they had character development together), and how they differently they each were viewed by Panem, I think they may have even disliked each other for a while. I think they annoyed each other a lot after she won.

But, back to Annie’s games. I do not think she was a Career, I think she joined the Career Pack, but I do not think Annie trained in the academy, or that she volunteered. In my fic, I write Annie as being of lower socioeconomic status, living with her sister, Bethany Cresta, her mother, who I have named Brooke Cresta, and also has her aunt Ariel (I have not given her a last name lol). I also write her as having a father who was abusive, and her mother being someone with severe mental health issues, I think she would have had depression and paranoia (possibly paranoid schizophrenia) that got worse throughout Annie’s teen years. This family history of mental health issues, trauma, and being on the poorer side of District 4-- would have left Annie with a predisposition for developing PTSD with psychotic features, after experiencing the trauma from The Hunger Games. (I also believe Annie Cresta is autistic and I have autistic-coded her in my writing, I can make a post on this too if anyone wants :D)

I believe that Annie was good at spear fishing and used those skills to help her win The Hunger Games. Her and her sister illegally fished sometimes to get extra food for the family, so Annie was already good with spears and was able to train before the games in spear throwing, which I think she would have caught onto pretty quickly. In my fic, I write Annie’s district partner as an 18 year old Career tribute named Merwyn. He and Annie become close and he helps her get better at spear throwing, I think Finnick helped her a little too but I think he would have been too busy with the Capitol selling him to people that he would not have been able to be super present. Her and Merwyn bond in the few weeks they have before the games, and they promise to keep each other alive for as long as they can so one of them can go home.

I think it is important for me to add my two cents on how I think the Career system works in District 4, so I can explain how I view Merwyn. District 4 seems to be like the weakest link when it comes to Career Districts. It seems that 1 and 2 are the most likely to win and 4 is 3rd, or maybe even 4th place, with the number of victors it has. I think District 4 is a Career District because they are 1. Favored by the Capitol a bit because they supply seafood, which makes many of The Capitols luxury dishes, 2. their tributes would be good swimmers, able to use spears, and able to tie nets and get their own food source in the games easier than many other tributes, and 3. Correct me if I am wrong, but District 4 citizens are seen by The Capitol as like exotic mermaids, I remember there being many comments, from Caesar Flickerman I believe, in the Catching Fire book where he described District 4 in this way. So The Capitol may also favor them in almost like a fetishizing way.

So, it would make sense that a District with these advantages would use them. I don’t think they volunteer for The Hunger Games because they like the Capitol or because they see The Hunger Games as an honor, but because it is better to send a prepared, strong, older kid, than a small 12 year old. It also wouldn’t make sense to me if they felt that way about the games, since District 4 was one of the more rebellious districts and one of the first to join in on the uprisings in Catching Fire. So, I like to imagine that Merwyn sees what he is doing as making a sacrifice to protect other kids in his district and hopefully win to bring more food home. I do not think he was bloodthirsty like many careers are.

So finally, after I have given you this long ass background info--- if you have read this far I love you muah!--- Here is how I think it went down.

I will be using Merwyn as the name for Annie’s district partner.

Annie was 18, it was her last reaping and she did not think she was going to be reaped. To her surprise, she was picked, and no one volunteered for her. She was prepared to die, she accepted her fate but promised to try to get back to her mom, sister, and aunt. Merwyn, also 18, volunteered for a young 12 year old boy, and was then the male tribute

I think Mags mentored Merwyn and Finnick mentored Annie (it was probably also Mag’s last year being a mentor since she was 75 years old at the time and I imagine in the future Mags chose to stay home with Annie each year when Finnick left for his mandatory Capitol duties).

Merywn and Annie become chatty with each other once their nervousness eases. They become close friends. Merywn was really good with spears, he helped Annie learn and practice spear throwing. Annie and him become sad as the games grow nearer since one of them will have to die, but they promise each other that one of them is going to win.

Merwyn talks with the Careers and becomes acquaintances with them in training so Annie and Merwyn will have them as possible allies in the games, something I don’t think Annie would have liked the idea of.

I think at the beginning of the games, it was just Merwyn and Annie. They survived the bloodbath and only got as involved as they needed to be to get their hands on a few backpacks and some spears. A week or so into the games they ran into the Career pack and decided to join them to avoid trouble since District 4 is supposed to join the careers.

I am sure Annie would have disliked the other careers, she would have hated how they hunt down the smaller kids and how they are so violent. Annie would not like killing but she would do it in self defense if she needed to. I think there would have been arguments and altercations between the careers, particularly between Merwyn and some of the other boys. I think they would have all disliked Annie because they underestimated her and saw her being sensitive as her being weak. They’d want her dead, but of course could not attack her as long as she had Merwyn on her side. So after a while Annie and Merwyn tried to break the alliance, which led to a bloody battle between the six of them.

Annie killed a few of the other careers with her spears, but not the one with an axe who ended up beheading Merwyn. This led to Annie feeling extremely guilty, wishing she would have thrown her spear at the right person. Then maybe Merwyn would not have died as awfully as he did. This would make sense with how much Merwyn’s death seems to haunt Annie, not only did she watch her friend die in such a horrid way, she felt like it was something she could have prevented if she would have killed the “correct” person.

Annie escaped the last Career tribute, Merwyn’s attacker, and managed to run off by herself where she spent the last few days of the games. I think she would have been in shock, she would have almost died of dehydration because she was so stuck in a trance she was not able to move to get water or do much of anything.

I like to imagine that she got a sponsor from “Finnick, Mags, and District 4″ that was a piece of the seaweed bread from home, thanking her for her loyalty to her district partner, I think District 4 would really value that. I believe this would be the thing that brought her out of her trance and gave her hope, the sound of the silver parachute as it descended from the sky.

Annie survived not just because she was a strong swimmer. I don’t like that people make it seem like her surviving was simply because she got super lucky for some reason, like that isn’t how almost everyone wins the games, luck. I guess I can’t blame them cause the books made it sound like that too (darn you Suzanne!). She was not a completely helpless wimp who only won because of the flood, I think that is highly unlikely. She fought a bit! She killed like most tributes are forced to do at some point!

Annie promised her family she’d try to make it home, and she had a promise to a dead boy. A promise that she’d win if he didn’t, and she was not about to let Merwyn down. The boy who was beheaded, the boy she watched die, the boy who’s death she felt partially responsible for. Annie had the will to live.

So, she was in survival mode, she was running on adrenaline and the fish she was able to catch with her only spear she had left. She hid from other tributes, she was absolutely terrified, but she tried her best. And when the dam burst and flooded the arena, she was the strongest swimmer, the other 4 tributes left died in the flood, and she survived The Hunger Games.

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