Murray

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## Murray

### Allegiances

Orion
Amethyst (formerly)
Victoria (formerly)
Felix (formerly)

### Appears in

Bleeding Hearts

**Murray** is a District 2 tribute in the 125th Hunger Games, as portrayed in Hunger Games: Bleeding Hearts. He is one of the seven Career Tributes in the Games, and is mostly known for his close friendship with his District partner, Orion.

### Pre-Games

Murray is first seen as he enters an elevator prior to the first day of Training. He enters the elevator with his District partner, Orion. Lacie notes that Orion and Murray don't look like their District's first choice, or even tenth, for the Career spots, but because of this year's twist forcing all tributes to be relatives of past tributes, they were the best options. This indicates that Murray and Orion appear to be weaker than the other Career tributes.

In the elevator scene, Murray's District partner, Ada, refuses to enter the elevator with Velia, Carlo, or Persephone, poorer and weaker tributes from District 5. This angers the District 5 tributes; despite Ada's reaction to the other tributes, Murray and Orion enter the elevator. They apologize for her behavior, labeling her as a traditionalist. This suggests that Murray is more accepting of other, non-Career, tributes.

At lunch on the first day of Training, Lacie overhears Murray as he eats with Amethyst, Felix, Victoria, and Orion. Amethyst asks Murray and Orion where Ada is, but the boys have no idea, indicating a small rift in the Career alliance. Murray tells the others that Ada is mentally unstable.

The next day, Murray and Orion are seen with their District 2 mentors as they eat dinner. Murray's mentor is Camilla Russo, while Orion's is Fangs Blackwell and Ada's is Titania Firestone. The District's Capitol escort, Divinia Marshall, is also present. It is revealed that Murray and Orion are attempting to find new allies in anticipation of the Career alliance fracturing, but the mentors tell the boys that their first choices, Soren Murdock and Lacie Greenly from District 4, rejected their offer. When the Career alliance fractures because of Ada's behavior, Orion and Murray break from the others and form a pair in the Arena.

Murray's Training score is revealed to be a 7, placing him lower than all of the other Careers. His score puts him on-par with Orion, Kala, Jordan, Acacia, and Greta.

Murray's tribute interview is not mentioned in Bleeding Hearts, as it is ignored by Angelica, the narrator for that chapter.

### The Games

#### The Bloodbath

Murray enters the Arena on a single forked path shared with Orion and Della. He is not seen at all during the Bloodbath, but it is assumed that he participated.

#### In the Arena

Murray is one of the last tributes to be seen in the Arena, being shown for the first time one week into the Games. Prior to that, it is assumed that he roamed the Arena with Orion. On Day 7 of the Games, Orion and Murray are ambushed and overwhelmed by Greta, Kala, Rose, and Maisy. Driven by starvation and partial insanity, Greta pins Murray to the ground with the help of Kala and Maisy, and she viciously stabs Murray to death. Orion is tackled by Rose, who allows him to escape. Murray ultimately placed 18th out of the 36 tributes.

### Post-Death

Murray is mentioned a few times after his death. When his death is reveals, Ada thinks that he got what he deserved, as he wasn't as prepared for the Arena as she was. Murray's supplies are stolen by his killers, who are shown splitting them. However, this leads to fights within the group over who should get what among Murray's belongings. These fights ultimately result in Greta betraying and killing Kala. The supplies ultimately are split between Maisy and Rose, who flee the scene.

Murray is mentioned multiple times throughout the Games by Orion, his District partner, who notes how close they were. At the end of the Games, Orion avenges Murray's death by killing Greta.

After the Games, it is revealed the Murray was partially responsible for Amethyst's death in the Bloodbath. He is shown holding her in a headlock, while Orion ultimately shoots the arrow that kills her.