District 8

"*From the simple, lovely fabrics of the districts to the brocades favoured in the Capitol, District 8 makes it all.*"
―Description of District 8**District 8** was one of the thirteen districts of Panem. Its main industry was textile production, and they had two factories for making Peacekeeper uniforms. During Katniss Everdeen's Victory Tour, she notices that this district, along with District 3 and District 4, showed the most happiness to see her, suggesting that it was one of the most rebellious districts. District 8 played one of the largest roles in the second rebellion, including starting the war itself.

## Description

### General

District 8 was particularly urbanized and did not have much greenery. Katniss corroborated this notion as she described District 8 as "an urban place stinking of industrial fumes, the people housed in run-down tenements. Barely a blade of grass in sight."

Eight was one of the districts that President Snow was concerned would rebel against Capitol rule. On the night when Peeta Mellark proposed to Katniss, District 8 rose up and fought against its Peacekeeping force. The Peacekeepers were caught off guard and overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of the mob. The Peacekeepers' Headquarters, the Justice Building, the armory, and the Communications Center were all secured by the rebels. However, the Capitol responded by sending in thousands of Peacekeepers and using hovercrafts to bomb the rebel strongholds. The rebels began to flee and the forward momentum slowed, then stopped. Everything went into a lockdown mode, and no one was allowed out of their houses for a while. The factories were shut down and the only time the TV played anything other than static was when it showed suspected rebel instigators being executed. Eventually things returned to normal, but the Capitol blew up one large factory when they found out the talk of rebellion started there.

At the start of the rebellion, bread with mockingjays stamped on it became a symbol of revolution in District 8. When the rebellion was well under way, the rebels managed to eliminate all military targets in the district, leaving only the occasional bombing as the Capitol's presence in the area. District 8 was this the first district to be released from Capitol rule.

Katniss went to District 8 to visit the victims of the Capitol bombings and to broadcast the first propaganda video to air in all the districts and the Capitol. When she was leaving, Boggs told her that they needed to get to the airstrip because of incoming bombers from the north. In an effort to fight against the bombers, Katniss and Gale climbed to the roof of a warehouse that had machine gun nests, running into Commander Paylor. Together, they all worked to destroy the other waves of hover planes that flew overhead. After the rebellion, the mayor and military commander of District 8, Paylor, became President of Panem after President Snow was killed and Katniss assassinated President Coin.

### The Hunger Games

The female tributes were the first to be selected in District 8. It was home to one of the most blatant riggings of the Reaping, as the tributes from Eight during the 61st Hunger Games, Trevor and Tuila, were siblings. The tributes from this district usually had the widest range of costumes during the tribute parade, as their stylists could choose anything fabricated from textiles.

Even though the victor of the 1st Hunger Games, Prent, was from District 8, the district didn't often fare well in the Games. However, it had a fair amount of victors for an outlying district, as Districts 7, 10, and 12 all had fewer victors. It is the birthplace of the only Hunger Games tribute to win the Games while pregnant (out of 4 tributes ever who were pregnant during the Games), Cecelia Losa. By the abolition of the Games, the district had gained five victors over the 75-year course.

## Known Inhabitants

### Tributes

* Bobbin
* Cecelia Losa
* Malcolm
* Marissa
* Prent
* Trevor
* Tuila
* William "Woof" Nylon
* Wovey
* District 8 male (75th HG)
* District 8 female (74th HG)

### Non-tributes

* Bonnie (previously)
* Eddy
* President Paylor
* Twill (previously)

## 5 Most Common Occupations

1. Factory worker
2. Teacher
3. Peacekeeper
4. Retail
5. Architect

## Trivia

* The very first official propo was shot in District 8.
* Although the first uprising resulted in a failure, the battle of District 8 resulted in the capture of the district near the beginning of the war. This meant that District 8 was the first district to be released from Capitol rule.