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Title: Pretty
Fandom: The Hunger Games
Characters: OC - Paisley Webster; OC - Arachne Cardew; OC - Tanner ???
Content notes: Implied canon-typical violence
Word Count: 678 (the exact same word count as the last fic I posted, "As Good a Plan as Any")
Prompt: fandomocweekly "Bite"
Notes: I went to post this week's fandomocweekly round-up and I saw that there were zero fills so I whipped this up so there would at least be something.

( I feel foolish asking for this but it’s not like I’ll have to live with my embarrassment for much longer. )

Title: As Good a Plan as Any
Fandom: The Hunger Games
Characters: OC - Paisley Webster; OC - Tartan ???
Word Count: 678
Prompt: fandomocweekly "Rush"
Content notes: Implications of canon-typical violence, suicide (not graphic)
Notes: This is something Katniss references in the first book, a boy who died when he dropped his token and set off the sensor in his starting pad. I wanted to reclaim that as an active choice, a little rebellion against the Capitol in refusing to let them kill him for fun.
Notes 2: I wrote this whole thing in my head one night when I had a migraine and couldn't look at a screen (or tolerate any light at all) but then didn't get around to writing down what I could remember of it so I could squeak in just under the wire to get this posted before the amnesty closed.

( We play our roles on TV and then, most likely, die. )

name: Paisley Webster
pronouns: she/her
age: 17 (as of Reaping 69)
hometown: District 8
family/relationships: Mrs. ??? Webster (mother); ??? Webster (grandfather - deceased); Penelope "Penny" Fuller (best friend/maybe girlfriend); Dimity Shoemaker (mentor); Weft ??? (other mentor); Tartan ??? (other tribute her year - deceased)

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last updated: 2025/01/20

Title: three can keep a secret
Fandom: The Hunger Games
Characters: OC - Paisely Webster; OC - Dimity Shoemaker; Canon - Cecelia [Beam]; OC - Penelope "Penny" Fuller (Mentioned); OC - Mrs. Webster (Mentioned); OC - Tanner Beam (Mentioned) *Cecelia doesn't have a last name in canon so I gave her one.
Rating: G - General audiences
Warnings: Implication of canon-typical violence
Word Count: 478
Prompt: fandomocweekly "Secret"
Notes: I have post-75th Hunger Games plans for Paisley but I couldn't figure out why she wouldn't volunteer to take the place of Cecelia, a young mother of three children, and still be a good person. So I thought, What if Cecelia had a secret?
Notes 2: Penny and Dimity might eventually need their own character tags.

( “You have to take care of Cally and Cedar and Coral so they’ll have a better future.” )

Title: no martyrs
Fandom: The Hunger Games
Characters: OC - Paisely Webster; OC - Penelope Fuller; OC - Aelia Lockhart; OC - Pearl ????; OC - Maybelline Beam; OC - Brenner Beam (Mentioned)
Rating: T - Teen and up audiences (F-bomb)
Warnings: Implication of canon-typical violence
Word Count: 369
Prompt: tenminutesaday 10 minute timer + fffc S.209: Something new
Notes: Penny got her own character tag. This is a scene I've already written (but never posted), retold from Penny's POV.
Notes 2: Hot off the press! I literally just wrote this on my lunch break.

( How dare Paisley die before me? )