Victoria

Victoria is a District 1 tribute in the 125th Hunger Games, as portrayed in Hunger Games: Bleeding Hearts. She is one of the seven Career Tributes in the Games, and is mostly known for her domination of the Games, intense rivalry with Tanner, and loss of sanity at the end of the Games. She was featured as the narrator of three chapters in Bleeding Hearts (Chapters 14, 40, and 44).
===Pre-Games===
Victoria is first mentioned by Dalia when she observes the Reaping; Victoria is mentioned as an example of a typical Career, as her parents went so far as to name her Victoria in anticipation of her eventual victory.
Victoria is noticed again by Lacie during training. She notes that Victoria, like the other Careers, looks cocky before training has even begun.
At lunch on the first day of Training, Lacie overhears Victoria as she eats with Amethyst, Felix, Orion, and Murray. Amethyst asks the two District 2 boys where Ada, the sixth Career, is, but the boys have no idea, indicating a small rift in the Career alliance.
The next day, Victoria sees Robin, a District 3 tribute, perform an impressive maneuver in Training, and she approaches the boy with Felix, indicating that they are looking for new allies. However, Robin is approached by Soren Murdock before Victoria has the chance to talk to him. That same day, Victoria is seen sparring with Amethyst; it is noted that neither girl makes a single mistake, showing their impressive fighting abilities.
Later in Training, Victoria encounters Soren; in this encounter, she threatens him, telling him that stealing Robin from her alliance was a bad move and telling him not to make similar moves again in Training. She is shown to be bitter and overly confident in this encounter; she tells Soren that she has been training for this her whole life and can "rip [him] to shreds." It is likely that Victoria was jealous of Soren due to his automatic popularity with the Capitol audience because of his already-famous brother, Roman.
Victoria's Training score is revealed to be a 9, placing her better than Orion and Murray, but below Ada, Felix, and Tanner. Her score puts her on-par with Amethyst and Robin; only five tributes score better than her.
Because the Tribute Interviews for each District are conducted in alphabetical order, Victoria is the third tribute to go. Angelica ignores her interview as she observes it, noting that Victoria echoes Amethyst's approach of explaining how prepared she is for the Arena, but nothing else notable is mentioned.
After the interviews, Victoria narrates one chapter in which she discusses her District partners and the other tributes. She expresses her disdain for the disorganized District 12 tributes, ignoring the fact that they only have one mentor between the three of them. After entering an elevator with Amethyst and the District 6 tributes, Victoria tries to make Marnie and Jomilee uncomfortable by trash-talking the other tributes, including suggesting that Angelica was faking her injury.
The night before the Games, Victoria thinks about her family. She reveals that her brother was supposed to participate in the Hunger Games a few years prior, but he ran away on Reaping Day and was never seen again. Victoria's family is poor due to the untimely death of father, and she intends to win the Games to re-establish her family's honor in District 1 and to earn a Victor's salary which would keep her family secure for the rest of their lives. Because of this, Victoria feels immense pressure to succeed in the Hunger Games.
===The Games===
====The Bloodbath====
Victoria enters the Arena on a single forked path shared with Dalia and Greta. She is seen sometime in the middle of the Bloodbath as she stabs Alf to death with a long knife.
When the Bloodbath is over, Victoria searches for Amethyst with Tanner and Felix after being unable to find her. They come across her body, and it is revealed that she was killed in the Bloodbath.
====In the Arena====
Victoria entered the Arena with only two allies, those being Tanner and Felix. This was rare, as the Career Tributes did not stay in one alliance in the Arena due to Ada's behavior.
Victoria is not seen again until the sixth night of the Games, when she comes across the main protagonistic alliance consisting of Soren Murdock, Lacie Greenly, Dalia, Nia, and Robin. The other group is led by Lacie toward a wall of Hydra Vines; after reaching the vines, Soren shoots an arrow into the vines, activating them. The activated vines act as snakes, wrapping themselves around Felix and strangling him until he is dead. After Felix's death, Victoria and Tanner flee the scene.
After Felix's death, tensions rise between Victoria and Tanner, as both tributes are strong competitors and are not close. The two only aligned originally because of their shared relation to Felix; after Felix's removal, their relationship begins to deteriorate. However, they stay close temporarily for safety.
Prior to the Feast, it is revealed that Victoria's odds of winning are 1:4. Out of the 14 remaining tributes, Victoria is ranked the third most-likely to win, only less likely to win than Ada and Tanner. It is also noted by Cressa Vernetti that Victoria has the most sponsor funds out of all 36 tributes prior to the Feast, indicating that she is very popular among Capitol audiences.
====The Feast====
At the Feast, Victoria is surprisingly absent, and Tanner appears alone. It is revealed that Victoria was attacked by Tanner, who unsuccessfully attempted to kill her. Victoria managed to fight Tanner off, but only after sustaining a serious injury to her face and her right eye. Because of her injury, Victoria is unable to see out of one eye and cannot attend the Feast.
====Post-Feast====
Because of her pent-up anger as a result of her injury and missing the Feast, Victoria begins to lose her sanity. She comes across Persephone in the Arena and kills her brutally. After this event, Victoria is driven to continue in her Games because of her intense hatred of Tanner. Around this time, Victoria receives a sponsor gift from her mentor, Maroon Anderson: an eyepatch. This is because her injury is unsightly for viewers and can affect sponsors. This gift enrages Victoria further, and she refuses to wear the eyepatch, although she eventually agrees to it by the end of the Games. At this point, Victoria is almost completely insane, and is completely focused on her goal to kill Tanner.
The night after receiving her sponsor gift, Victoria stalks the Arena for five hours looking for Tanner. She finally finds him at the outskirts of the Arena, and she ambushes him, stabbing him in the chest repeatedly even after he has died.
====End of the Games====
Victoria is one of the seven tributes to survive to the end of the Games. When the tributes are pushed to the center of the Arena, Victoria is one of the last tributes to arrive; by the time she arrives, Greta has already been killed. Victoria wastes no time, exchanging blows with the ill-prepared Soren Murdock. Victoria knocks Soren to the ground and is about to kill him when she is distracted by a bright light from the sky. The light turns out to be a solar eclipse; in her insanity, Victoria looks directly at the eclipse and is blinded instantly.
After being blinded, Victoria is unable to defend herself as Orion comes behind her and stabs her in the back. Victoria dies instantly as a result of her injury. She placed 5th out of the 36 tributes.
===Post-Death===
As a major character in the Games, Victoria is mentioned a few times following her death. Soren notes that her picture looks weird during his Victory Tour, as she looks 'sane' and has both eyes. He also wonders what happened to her family, as she has no family beneath her portrait. Because of this, it can be assumed that Victoria was unable to redeem her family's honor, and they were too ashamed to show their faces at the Victory Tour.
Victoria's mentor, Maroon Anderson, congratulates Soren at his Victory Tour, remarking that "Victoria was a strong competitor but you truly deserved the crown."
Victoria is one of the four tributes featured in Hunger Games: Ultimate Crown as a part of the 150th Hunger Games; as a twist in the Games, Head Gamemaker Vispania Callendew introduced lifelike muttation replicas of past tributes to scare the participating tributes. As a tactic to scare Soren Murdock, a tribute in the Games, a replica of Victoria was introduced into the Arena, alongside replicas of Lacie, Tanner, and Robin. However, Soren recognizes the tributes as muttations and quickly stabs Victoria's clone with his knife before she interacts with him in any way. Victoria is not seen again outside of this context.
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