Round 02. [Video]

[districttwo]

[Cato has watched all of your shenanigans barge. Particularly the debacle between Nygma and Ladd and Crane. He has some words about this.]

You all suck at giving people a show.

[He's all kinds of cocky teenager] I mean you really do. I went back through the network posts and for whatever reasons or not you guys are lousy.

Plus, I'm amazed the admiral isn't taping all of this. Unless he is. Is he? [Cato is not preturbed by that thought. At all.] I mean okay then maybe I'd take it back because if he's taping this for an audience it doesn't matter if you try to hide what you did. The cameras will see, and people will place bets.

I honestly think that he should make the games available for viewing. [Anyone who has any experience with human emotion can tell Cato's trying to be brave when he says this. It sounds hollow, a boy's boast.] That way, people would have a good idea of what sort of tactics to use.

Or I'd just like to watch them.

Comments

[districttwo]

...what nobody is asking is why.

[he's getting tired of explaining this.] the Hunger Games. The capitol's entertainment, the superior sacrifice.

[trenchcoatedly]

I think it's because the admiral wants more good people. I don't know if that's right.

What are the Hunger Games?

[districttwo]

...Tributes. Willing tributes.

[His looks a little straighter then, a little taller.]

As punishment for the period of rebellion that the districts created against the capitol-each district shall offer up two tributes-a male and a female. They shall be pitted against each other in a test of survival in the ultimate sacrifice with only one between the twenty four coming out a victor.

[trenchcoatedly]

[You're granted a confused look and a head-tilt for this, Cato. It takes a while for Castiel to parse that one out.]

No, I don't think the admiral is looking to create gladiators or sacrifices or.... tributes. If anything, his intention is the reverse.

Has any district ever refused to send tributes?

[districttwo]

[frown] then no one will learn anything. the only way to learn is through strength.

Some. In history. But they've been reaped quickly once a new mayor has been chosen. Not my district.

[trenchcoatedly]

Have you ever tried to learn another way?

Reaped. Destroyed?

[districttwo]

...No. [Small bit of contempt there.] I'm not District 3.

[Snort] No. reaped. The tributes were taken from their homes and forced to compete. It's a good deal I don't understand why people are so against it.

[trenchcoatedly]

Would you like to try to learn another way?

People shouldn't be forced to fight against their will.

[districttwo]

...No. I'm a career for a reason. That means I'm the best.

[His brow furrows] It was just. It's a just punishment for what happened.

[trenchcoatedly]

There are always things to learn. Are you the best at everything?

This game sounds like it punishes the innocent. That's never just.

[districttwo]

...I'm best at the things that count. [His brow furrows]

It's not punishment, we're tributes. Sacrifices.

[trenchcoatedly]

And what matters?

A sacrifice to your capitol? It could never be worth the loss of even one life.