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]

The Hunger Games. The only real games. Pitting the strong against the weak.

[divine_right]

Fascinating. We have no such games where I come from.

Tell me more.

[districttwo]

[And Cato looks up and straightens.]

The outer districts rebelled against the capitol-District 2 did too, but then we saw reason. So every year for the past 75 years they send two tributes-one male and one female to compete for honor and glory-to demonstrate which District is the best. Which one is worthy of the capitol's attention.

[divine_right]

So your rulers punish the rebels by having them play the games?

This is a brilliant idea. It is deadly?

[districttwo]

Yes. It's...

[he hesitates] they build arenas for tributes to fight in. Everdeen spoiled it for Clove and I, but it's still a solid system.

...Of course it's deadly. [amused snort] ...It's a fight to the death. 24 enter, one leaves.

[divine_right]

And I take it you did not leave.

[districttwo]

[His mouth tightens] she won with a stupid trick. It was down to me, her, and her useless loverboy. She cheated.

[Romance like that counts as cheating okay.]

[divine_right]

[pfft] You don't cheat at a fight to the death. You either win and attain glory or lose and attain only dishonor.

[districttwo]

...You can cheat to win. Everdeen did.

[divine_right]

If it's fight or die, then it's by any means necessary.

[districttwo]

...she's a dirty liar and a cheat. The contest was mine. In the bag. I should have won it, not her just because she was sleeping with a kid and the capitol liked it.

[divine_right]

If you were the strongest that should not have mattered.

[districttwo]

...What the hell are you saying?

[divine_right]

[She rolls her eyes] If you're here, you lost. You could attempt to accept that with some grace.

[districttwo]

I don't have to accept anything like that with grace. Everdeen cheated. It's supposed to be about feat of arms and skill no who you're sleeping with.

[divine_right]

So her lover killed you.

[districttwo]

No, she killed me because I was about to kill her lover.

[divine_right]

So you allowed yourself to be distracted.

[districttwo]

It wasn't allowing myself to be distracted! You're a moron! I was being chased by dogs, I had to think fast. I had my arm around his throat and then..

[It goes fuzzy]

[divine_right]

So the strong lived and the weak died.

[districttwo]

[this is where a response would be except Cato has turned the feed off and is kicking the walls and screaming.

Not weak.

NOT WEAK.]