The Author Games: Literature

Post-Game Evaluations

The tributes have been evaluated based on their performance in the games to create an overall score of where they landed as a threat/how long they survived. At the beginning of Literature, we offered Pre-Game Evaluations based on the information provided in tribute forms. These evaluations will serve as a reflection of both those first impressions and the performance of each tribute.

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District 1 Male- Flame Pheonix Pirkas

Anticipated Score: 6

Final Score: 6

You are one of very few tributes we managed to pinpoint exactly from the beginning, identify where you would fall over the course of the games. In the end, I think your anger did you in- that deep, flaming rage you constantly carried inside your heart. You let it consume you, Flame, and that was partially what had always scared us- not of you, but of putting our hopes in you. You carried a weight within, and it came out in sparks of fury. You had the potential to bend people, manipulativeness hidden underneath a sea of pent-up wrath, but it just couldn't be found underneath all that aggravation. We're slightly surprised you lasted as long as you did with all that emotion, that your time bomb kept ticking away... you did alright in the end, though, Flame. You never rose from the ashes, became a new person, but you did alright.

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District 1 Female- Ruby Grace Faberson

Anticipated Score: 9.5

Final Score: 4.5

You disappointed us, Ruby Grace. There isn't a nicer way to say it, and besides, your father wouldn't have even tried to say it differently. We had all put our hopes in you, expected greatness- the Gamemakers, your father, even your sisters and countless others in your district. Of course, that was never what you wanted, and that's understandable. But truly, Ruby Grace, you could have gone so much further if that small vial of poison hadn't been dumped into your food, if luck had simply been on your side at that feast. An inner turmoil raged inside you, and we wished we could have seen you battle with it. But death... death was always going to shake hands with you in our arena, and better peacefully than painfully. Perhaps your death will teach Quartz Faberson a lesson.

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District 2 Male- Ares Finn

Anticipated Score: 7.75

Final Score: 4.5

You were never much of anything, Ares, just... there. Always in the middle of the pack, you were never loved by the Capital, never killed excessively, never felt the pull of insanity, never fell victim to anything that put on a good show (excluding the knife in your forehead). We met a boy with far more promise than he displayed once the games begun. Nobody grew attached to you, really, and I wonder if you were always more secluded than you let on. Perhaps that was the fault of your family's death- we'd hoped to see more of their impact on you, but you seemed to have pushed it away. The Gamemakers never really you figured out, Ares- I just wish you'd lived up to our expectations.

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District 2 Female- Slate Welby