telekinesis
Post Canon Alternate Universe - Where Coriolanus Snow makes DIFFERENT choices...and those choices lead to a different future in Panem.
Coriolanus must face the question he's run from all his life:
Can a boy shaped by cruelty learn to choose kindness?
A story of redemption, rebellion, and the long, winding road toward peace - where music becomes memory, love breeds defiance of the Capitol, and freedom demands more than just escape.
Starts at the point in TBOSAS where Lucy Grey asks Coriolanus, "Who's the third?" - and he tells the truth.
I wanted to explore the question that if Coriolanus Snow could change, what would that look like? In TBOSAS, he's always struggling morally with himself on what's "good/kind/selfless" or "ambitious/reputation/power". So I started a story about it.
Very heavy focus on the psychological aspects of who he was in the Capitol, his internal struggles within himself, and how Lucy Gray Baird softens a hard-grown Capitol Boy.
Some AU Details:
The Covey are joining Lucy Gray and Coriolanus in their flight into the wilderness. I think it just works better if I have more interactions to work with. Hope you all agree!
The illegal rifles are not in the lake cabin. They are still in District 12
Coriolanus never took the officer's exam, nor got reassignment to District 2
I also aged up Clerk Carmine to be a teenager around like 16
Maude Ivory is 10
Tam Amber is 20
Barb Azure is 19
Coriolanus just turned 19
Lucy Gray is 17
COMPLETE - I have the first draft of this story done, but I'm still editing and polishing up each chapter before posting it...
DISCLAIMER: This is purely a fanfiction work inspired by The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins. I do not own the characters, world elements, etc., in this story.