Lacie Greenly

This article contains spoilers for **Bleeding Hearts**, the first installment in the Bleeding Hearts series. Bleeding Hearts can be read here: AO3 · FFN · Wattpad

This article contains spoilers for **Ultimate Crown**, the second installment in the Bleeding Hearts trilogy. Ultimate Crown can be read here: AO3 · FFN · Wattpad

## Lacie Greenly

### Allegiances

Soren Murdock
Dalia
Nia
Robin (formerly)
Jomilee (temporarily)
Magdalena (temporarily)
Rex (temporarily)

### Appears in

Bleeding Hearts
Ultimate Crown

**Lacie Greenly** is a tribute of the 125th Hunger Games from District 4, as portrayed in Hunger Games: Bleeding Hearts. She is known for her incredible intelligence, and for her close bond with her District partner, Soren Murdock.

Despite being dead, Lacie returns in a minor capacity in Hunger Games: Ultimate Crown, the sequel to Bleeding Hearts, as a Gamemaker-created clone of herself in the 150th Hunger Games.

## Bleeding Hearts

### Pre-Games

Lacie is a major character from the beginning of Bleeding Hearts, as she narrates the very first chapter. In the first chapter, Lacie views the end of the 124th Hunger Games, as Roman Murdock from District 4 wins the Games. Lacie is happy, not just because Roman is from her District, but because she placed bets on Roman, making predictions that he would win. In the first chapter, Lacie also introduces Soren Murdock, the brother of Roman, who she notes is in her year in school, although the two are not close.

Soon after being Reaped, Lacie is assigned to Griff Cohen as her mentor, the oldest and wisest of the District 4 mentors. Working with Griff, Lacie asks Cressa Vernetti to convince Soren to work with her, and he agrees.

In Training, Soren allows Lacie to take control of the alliance, and she chooses to join forces with Dalia and Nia from District 11. Later in Training, Soren adds Robin to the alliance because of his impressive display in Training, although Lacie disapproves of this addition. Lacie tells Soren that Robin will have to prove himself in his Training Score to join the alliance. It is revealed by Cressa that Soren is very popular among the other tributes because his brother is last year's Victor, giving Lacie and Soren easy pickings of the rest of the tributes. Even Murray and Orion, two Career tributes, attempt to ally with them.

Soren is shown to be more personable than Lacie, and they work to complement each other. While Soren works to bond with many of the other tributes, Lacie guides him with a technical and methodial perspective.

Lacie's Training score is revealed to be an 8, putting her on-par with Soren, Rowan, Rose, Rex, and Dalia. This is an impressive score for Lacie because of her lack of fighting skills; it is likely that her intelligence impressed Head Gamemaker Vispania Callendew.

After the announcement of the Training Scores, Lacie compiles a complete list of all the tributes' scores. She specifically notes that all of the Career Tributes are fierce competition, along with Tanner, Jordan, Kala, Rose, Leon, Jomilee, Rowan, and Acacia.

In Lacie's interview with Ross Carmichael, she takes a technical approach, dismantling the idea of the Gamemakers' training scores to vouch for her ally, Nia, who she thinks was underevaluated for her hunting and foraging skills.

### The Games

#### The Bloodbath

In the Bloodbath, Lacie enters the Arena on a forked path shared with Jordan and Nelly. She is the only tribute to recognize the Ultimate Solvent surrounding the tributes, and she is able to use this knowledge to keep herself and the other tributes around her alive. Nearby, Soren watches Lacie come to this realization, and it helps him make a plan prior to the Bloodbath as well. After the Bloodbath begins, Lacie is not seen again, but it is known that she manages to grab some supplies and escape alive.

#### In the Arena

Lacie is only seen occasionally for the first few days of the Games. On the third day, her alliance receives a bellflower from Cressa, warning them of incoming danger, and Lacie narrowly escapes the Career tributes. However, Nia is killed as they escape. As Lacie runs with her allies, she instructs Soren to shoot an arrow into a wall of Hydra Vines, activating them. The vines swallow Felix whole, killing him. Although Lacie escapes, Hydra Vines temporarily grab Soren, injecting slow-acting poison into his body.

Dalia assesses Soren's injuries, telling him that the poison can only be cures by a lion lilly in its final stage, right before death. Unfortunately, Soren's allies don't have this antidote, and they spend days searching for it.

A few days after escaping from the Hydra Vines, Lacie's alliance is approached by Rex and Lena from District 10. Lacie is hesitant to help any tributes not in her alliance, but Dalia overrules her, as she is still grieving from Nia's death and needs something to distract her. Although Dalia attempts to save Rex from his burn wounds, he passes away, but Soren promises to include Lena in the alliance. This angers Lacie, as she tells him that they don't have a need for any new allies. However, Soren sticks by his promise to include Lena.

In a moment of peace in the alliance, Lacie tells the story behind the bellflower sent by Cressa. It is later revealed in Bleeding Hearts that Lacie's story is actually that of her mentor, Griff Cohen. This story was later explored in further detail in Rising From the Ashes.

Finally, Lacie and her allies come across Jomilee, who supply them with a lion lilly. As Soren's poison reaches the final stage, Lacie watches him closely and feeds him the flower at the right time, saving him from the poison.

Prior the Feast, Lacie's odds of Victory are revealed to be 1:4, placing him fourth out of the remaining fourteen tributes, only after Ada, Tanner, and Victoria. Out of all 36 tributes, Lacie has the fifth-most sponsors prior to the Feast.

#### The Feast

Lacie enters the Feast with his allies to grab supplies. In the Feast, Lena is killed, and Dalia and Soren are almost killed, but Lacie is not seen during the Feast. She grabs supplies and leaves with her allies. After the Feast, Lacie encourages her allies to watch the Feast from the cover of trees to see who attends. After she sees Jomilee die, Lacie rises, her face cold, and tells her alliance that it's time to go.

#### Post-Feast

A few days after the Feast, Robin turns against his allies, drugging them and stealing their supplies. Before he leaves, he ties them to trees, leaving them to be killed by the incoming tidal wave. He ties Lacie up with wire to make it impossible for her to escape without a sharp blade to cut through it. However, after tying up Lacie, he only has enough rope to tie either Dalia or Soren. Robin decides to kill Dalia, saving Soren's life temporarily by tying him to the tree. Robin explains that Soren has always been kind to him, unlike Dalia.

When Lacie wakes up the next morning, she gives Soren step-by-step verbal instructions to untie his knots. After he manages to escape, Lacie reveals that she has a small blade hidden in her pocket that Robin didn't known about. Soren uses this blade to saw through her wire. The two tributes barely escape the tidal wave.

As the Games come to a close, Lacie begins to have doubts about her desire to win the Games. She thinks about advice given to her from Griff Cohen, and she thinks about what life will be like after winning. Lacie worries that her intelligence could be dangerous to the Capitol, and that she could be punished by President Snow as a result. Because of this, Lacie begins to think about not winning the Games, and instead thinks about ensuring that her ally, Soren, wins instead.

#### End of the Games

Lacie is one of the seven tributes to survive until the end of the 125th Hunger Games. Although she has no weapons, as they were stolen by Robin, there are muttation weapons at the end of the Games designed to resemble past tributes, and Lacie is able to grab one. While the other tributes pair off and battle, Lacie does not battle with the only other tribute, Orion, and instead focuses on deflecting incoming weapons from around her. A solar eclipse brightens the sky above the tributes, and Lacie advises Soren to look away; many of the other tributes follow her advice, but Victoria is blinded. Victoria is stabbed in the back by Orion, who stabs down at Soren, but Soren manages to flee and hide in the Cornucopia with Lacie.

After Orion fights and defeats Robin, Soren rushes to battle him to protect Lacie. The two are forced to fight with only their fists, and Orion gains the upper hand, pinning Soren to the ground. He grabs a dagger from the ground, stabbing Soren in the stomach. Soren is on the brink of death, but Lacie grabs a dagger, stabbing Orion in the back and pushing him off. Orion dies on the ground next to Soren. This marks Lacie's first and only kill in the Games.

Soren congratulates Lacie on her Victory, as he is on the brink of death. However, Lacie makes her decision, telling Soren that he deserves to win, as he cared more about the other tributes and has a future ahead of him. For Lacie, she is afraid that her intelligence will get her killed or abused by the Capitol. Lacie jumps into the surrounding Ultimate Solvent, killing herself instantly and leaving Soren as the Victor. Lacie placed 2nd out of the 36 tributes in the Games.

### Post-Death

Lacie's death comes as a shock across Panem, as she was a favorite to win the Games, and she was certainly going to win if she hadn't sacrificed herself. Although she sacrificed herself to avoid suffering under Capitol control, her death is quickly written off as a sacrifice for her close ally and friend, Soren, who she believed deserved to win more than her.

When Soren returns to District 4 following his Victory Tour, he meets Lacie's parents for the first time. They congratulate him on his Victory, telling him that he is their son now. They also gift him some of Lacie's belongings that they believe he should have. Lacie is fondly remembered by Soren and Griff after the Games.

## Ultimate Crown

In Ultimate Crown, the sequel to Bleeding Hearts, Soren comes to terms with what happened in the 125th Hunger Games. By this time, Soren has realized that Lacie shielded and protected him in the Games, preserving his innocence until the very end, and he only realized this after his innocence was lost later in life. However, prior to the 150th Hunger Games, Scarlett Monroe tells Soren that it was clear that Lacie only built their alliance to protect herself from threats, and that she was the only one playing the Games. Soren disagrees, but acknowledges that Lacie deserved to win the Games. Soren says that "I was was intended to play a part by Lacie, and I played it flawlessly. Can I blame her, though?"

Lacie is seen in the 150th Hunger Games as a Gamemaker-created clone of her sixteen-year-old self. After Soren is trapped under an underwater dome and swims to the surface, Lacie is placed by the Gamemakers to lift him out of the water and onto a boat, which is intended to freak him out. She is placed on the boat with three other tributes from the 125th Hunger Games - Victoria, Tanner, and Robin. Lacie is holding a knife, with Soren wrenches from her hands. He uses the knife to kill the other three clones, but Soren leaves Lacie alive.

Although Lacie is a clone, her intelligence and personality are identical to her living self, and Soren uses this to his advantage. Lacie is controlled by the Gamemakers, and she guides him to an island which is intended to be the final battleground in the Games. Lacie uses herself as a buffer for Soren, and she is able to wrap her head around the fact that she isn't a real person. She samples fruit on the island to ensure that it isn't poisonous to allow Soren to have a food source. While hundreds of clones were created to float in boats on the ocean and guide the tributes to the island, it is later revealed that Lacie was the only one that a tribute decided to keep alive.

When Soren comes across Larkin Winters in the Arena, she is severely injured. She begs him to kill her, but Soren can't handle it. Lacie offers to kill Larkin for him, but when she attempts to do so, her arm is held back. She realizes that the Gamemakers are controlling her body, and they are not allowing her to kill Larkin. Because of this, Soren has no choice but to kill Larkin himself.

Although Lacie has her old memories, she no longer has access to her inner thoughts or motivations. Soren attempts to ask her why she sacrificed herself for him; although Lacie is unable to tell him, she helps him work through his emotions on the matter.

When the Feast is announced, Soren is caught in a fight with Decimus Ilyrian, the strongest tribute in the Arena. Soren is close to being killed, but Lacie manages to grab a dagger from the Feast, and she attempts to stab Decimus in the back from behind. She is unsuccessful, but she manages to distract Decimus long enough to give Soren the upper hand, and he is able to kill Decimus.

At the end of the Games, the island is stormed by thousands of clones of past tributes. The herd chases Soren to the middle of the island, but they almost overtake him. Looking to distract them, Lacie sacrifices herself to stall the approaching mob, allowing Soren enough time to make it to the center of the Arena. Lacie is not seen again after this point.