Ada

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## Ada

### Appears in

Bleeding Hearts
Ultimate Crown (as a muttation)

**Ada** is a District 2 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 being one of the most deranged and dangerous tributes to ever participate in the Hunger Games. She was featured as the narrator of two chapters in Bleeding Hearts (Chapters 25 and 31).

### Pre-Games

Ada is first mentioned by Dalia when she observes the Reaping; she is nervous about Ada, as she sees Ada ignore everyone after volunteering in District 2, even her own District partners. Dalia thinks that Ada may not be mentally sound.

Ada is seen again prior to the first day of Training, when she attempts to enter an elevator with her District partners. After seeing that the three District 5 tributes are in the elevator, Ada rolls her eyes and remarks that she will take the stairs instead. Ada's District partners, Orion and Murray, apologize for Ada's behavior, saying that she is "traditional" and only respects Career tributes who are strong.

At lunch on the first day of Training, Lacie overhears the other Career tributes as they eat together. Amethyst asks the two District 2 boys where **Ada** is, but the boys have no idea, indicating a small rift in the Career alliance. Orion remarks that Ada is "insane" and is probably torturing rats in the bathroom.

On the second day of Training, Ada physically attacks Tanner as he exits the bathroom. She is dragged kicking and screaming from the Training Center; after this, it is revealed that Ada despises Tanner's inclusion in the Career alliance, as she believes that a District 10 tribute should not be included. After her attack, the District 1 tributes side with Tanner, banishing Ada from the Career alliance along with her District partners.

The night after Ada's removal from the Training Center, she is seen at dinner with the other District 2 tributes and mentors as they eat dinner. At dinner, Ada uses rat poison to poison her Capitol escort, Divinia Marshall. Divinia is rushed to the hospital; the incident made Capitol headlines, but Divinia ultimately made a full recovery.

Despite Ada's behavior, she is not punished prior to the Games. Instead, she is rewarded with a Training Score of 11, the highest possible (as a 12 is almost never given). This ranks her among the best tributes, on-par with only Tanner and higher than every other tribute.

In Ada's tribute interview with Ross Carmichael, she spends her time trash-talking Tanner and saying that he doesn't deserve to be in the Career alliance, which shocks the Capitol audience.

### The Games

#### The Bloodbath

Ada enters the Arena on a single forked path shared with Rose and Saylee. It is assumed that the other two girls allowed Ada to pass them to avoid being killed.

Ada is seen sometime in the middle of the Bloodbath as she throws a spear at Rose and Jordan. However, Jordan knocks Rose to the ground and out of the way, and the spear hits Nelly, killing her immediately. Ada decides to spare Jordan and Rose, which confuses the other tributes.

At the end of the Bloodbath, Ada is seen approaching Felix, Victoria, and Tanner, likely hoping to kill Tanner. However, the Cornucopia islands begins to shake, scaring all of the tributes away and into the Arena.

#### In the Arena

Ada is not seen for a few days in the Arena. When she is seen a few days into the Games, she can be seen eating worms straight from the ground for food and shooting birds with arrows. She is attacked by bird muttations, which knock her unconscious.

Ada manages to heal herself from the bird attack, and she returns the Cornucopia island to gather more supplies. When she arrives, she sees that Kala, Rose, Maisy, and Greta are already on the island. Ada attempts to kill the girls, almost killing Maisy, but they escape.

A few days, Ada comes across Carlo as he hides in a small cave. Ada gravely wounds Carlo before his ally, Persephone, arrives and attempts to fight Ada. Persephone begs Ada to spare them, and Ada decides to not kill them. However, Ada forces Persephone to give her all of her supplies, and Ada leaves them with nothing. To rub it in, Ada squeezes Persephone's tube of healing cream onto the ground, and Seffie is unable to use it to heal her friend.

Prior to the Feast, it is revealed that Ada's odds of winning are 1:1. Out of the 14 remaining tributes, Ada is ranked the most likely to win. It is also noted by Cressa Vernetti that Ada has the second-most sponsor funds out of all 36 tributes prior to the Feast, indicating that she is very popular among Capitol audiences. Ada only has fewer sponsors than Victoria at this point in the Games.

#### The Feast

At the Feast, Ada continues attacking the tributes, tackling Magdalena to the ground and stabbing her to death. However, Ada's rage makes her tunnel-visioned, and she is unable to see Dalia approaching behind her. Dalia pushes Ada off of Lena in an attempt to save her ally; however, Dalia has no weapons, and Ada quickly pins her to the ground as well. Before Ada is able to stab Dalia, she is attacked from behind again, this time by Soren Murdock, who slits Ada's throat to save Dalia. Ada dies quickly, and Dalia is able to escape with Soren. Ada places 13th out of the 36 tributes.

### Post-Death

As the biggest threat in the Arena during the 125th Hunger Games, Ada's untimely death comes as a major shock to everyone involved in the Games. Many tribues celebrate at the news of Ada's death, as it increases their chances of winning the Games.

Ada is also remembered by Soren Murdock, the eventual Victor of the Games, as she was the first tribute who Soren killed with his own hands. She haunts his dreams following his victory.

Ada is one of the few 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 Ada was introduced into the Arena, alongside replicas of Lacie, Tanner, Robin, Dalia, and more. However, while some of the other tributes are placed on a boat with Soren to attack him, Ada is simply seen on another boat from afar. She is not seen again after this point.