Calista Russo

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## Calista Russo

### Allegiances

Amanda Russo
Midas Diamanti
Trent Diamanti

### Related to

Amanda Russo (sister)
Camilla Russo (sister)

### Appears in

Blood Moon

**Calista Russo** is a District 2 tribute in the 117th Hunger Games, as portrayed in Blood Moon: The 117th Hunger Games. Along with her sister, Amanda Russo, Calista is a primary focus of the 117th Games, as she is the sister of previous Victor Camilla Russo. Despite this, Calista struggles to rely on her sister, who becomes more focused on Midas Diamanti than the Games.

### Pre-Games

Prior to the Games, Calista is in the spotlight with her sister, Amanda, as the sisters of previous Victor Camilla Russo. Because of this, the girls act confident and arrogent, and act as if they deserve the spotlight. After Damien Brimstone pulls a stunt during the tribute parade, attracting the attention of the audience, Calista and Amanda are seen glaring at the District 5 tributes for stealing their spotlight.

One night, Luna Brimstone overhears Calista talking to Amanda. Calista tells Amanda that she needs to stop getting distracted by Midas Diamanti, a District 1 tribute in their alliance, and to be more focused on the Games. However, Amanda brushes her off, saying that she is older and knows what she's doing.

### The Games

#### The Bloodbath

Calista is seen briefly in the Bloodbath in Blood Moon, and it is later revealed that she confronted and overpowered Lily Thorsby, one of the strongest tributes, and killed her.

#### In The Arena

Calista is not seen for the first five days of the Games, but it assumed that she hunted for other tributes with Amanda, Midas, and Trent.

On the fifth day of the Games, Calista and the other Career tributes narrowly pass Damien and Luna Brimstone and Sienna and Clay Manilowe. The other tributes see Calista and her allies, but the Career tributes are distracted by a nearby river.

The night after they pass the other tributes, Calista and her allies are approached by Clay and Sienna, who turned on Luna and Damien. Unwilling to kill their own allies, Clay and Sienna tell the Careers their locations and send them to kill them instead. However, Midas kills Clay after he gives out this information. Sienna escapes, and Calista chases her with Amanda. Ultimately, Sienna escapes into the Arena.

#### The Feast

Calista is the only Career tribute not spotted at the Feast, as Amanda and Midas grabbed supplies for her and Trent, respectively. When other tributes arrived at the Feast, Midas and Trent returned to fight them, but Calista stayed behind.

#### Post-Feast

After the Feast, Calista entered the Arena with Midas and Amanda after Trent was killed. There, she opened her sponsor gift, which included a bonus gift as a reward for her lasting so long with her sister in the Games. This gift was a large, sharp knife.

Soon after the Feast, a fire swept across the Arena, trapping all the tributes except for the Career tributes. This showed the Gamemakers', especially Helvius Athanasios', bias towards the Careers. During the fire, Luna Brimstone and Russell Thorsby were chased with fireballs towards the Careers in an attempt to bring the two groups together. Calista overheard the other tributes nearby but was dismissed by her allies.

After encountering the Careers, Luna and Russell followed them through the Arena as Calista and her allies in turn attempted to hunt down Luna and Russell. As the days passed, Calista became more and more insistent that she needed to turn on Midas and eliminate him as a threat, but Amanda refused to follow this plan. Finally, on the forteenth night of the Games, Calista attempted to stab Midas in his sleep despite Amanda's pleading for her not to. However, Midas aticipated this scene and lunged out of the way, rising to his feet and dueling with Calista. Ultimately, Midas caught Calista off-guard, stabbing and killing her. Calista placed 5th out of the 24 tributes.

### Post-Death

Avenging her sister's death, Amanda immediately killed Midas after he killed Calista. She was presumably mourned by her sister after her death.

While watching Calista's death, Luna Brimstone expressed discomfort, as she recognized that Calista was in a similar situation to her in regards to Amanda and Midas' relationship.