Orion

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## Orion

### Allegiances

Murray
Amethyst (formerly)
Victoria (formerly)
Felix (formerly)
Rose (unofficially)

### Total Kills

4 (Amethyst, Victoria, Karrie, and Greta)

### Appears in

Bleeding Hearts

**Orion** 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 being the last tribute to be murdered in the Games, as the second-place tribute, Lacie Greenly, sacrificed herself. Orion narrated two chapters in Bleeding Hearts (Chapter 10 and Chapter 29), and also narrated a small portion of Chapter 45.

### Pre-Games

Orion is first seen as he enters an elevator prior to the first day of Training. He enters the elevator with his District partner, Murray. 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 Orion and Murray appear to be weaker than the other Career tributes.

In the elevator scene, Orion'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 Orion is more accepting of other, non-Career, tributes.

At lunch on the first day of Training, Lacie overhears Orion as he eats with Amethyst, Felix, Victoria, and Murray. 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. Orion's mentor is Fangs Blackwell, while Murray's is Camilla Russo 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.

Orion'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 Murray, Kala, Jordan, Acacia, and Greta.

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

### The Games

#### The Bloodbath

Orion enters the Arena on a single forked path shared with Murray and Della. Orion is seen soon after the start of the Games by Nia, who notes that he's one of the fastest tributes. He is one of the first tributes to reach the Cornucopia, and he quickly strings an arrow into his bow, shooting Karrie and knocking her into a pool of Ultimate Solvent. It is later revealed after the Games that Orion also shot and killed Amethyst with an arrow.

#### In the Arena

Orion 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 Murray. 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 shows him mercy and allows him to escape. Despite this, Rose still forces Orion to give her all of his supplies except for his sword, and Orion is forced to flee with nothing.

Prior to the Feast, the remaining tributes' odds are revealed. Out of the fourteen remaining tributes, Orion is the sixth-most likely to win prior to the Feast. His odds of winning at this point are 1:6, equal with eventual winner Soren Murdock.

#### The Feast

Orion is missing from the Feast. He is one of only two tributes to not attend the Feast, the other being Victoria. It is not explained why Orion missed the Feast, but is possible that he adapted well enough to the Arena to not need any additional supplies.

#### Post-Feast

After the Feast, Orion is only seen briefly; in this segment, he expresses regret about killing Amethyst in the Bloodbath and not being able to save Murray, who he now considers a close friend. He vows to find Greta and kill her to avenge Murray's death.

#### End of the Games

Orion is one of the seven tributes to survive to the end of the Games. When the tributes are pushed to the center of the Arena, Orion is one of the first tributes to arrive, along with Greta and Rose. Together, Rose and Orion work to lift up Greta and throw her into a pool of Ultimate Solvent, killing her instantly. After this, Rose and Orion decide to temporarily truce to focus on the other approaching tributes.

As the other tributes arrive, Rose begins to battle Robin, ultimately being killed. Soren also begins to fight Victoria. Instead of fighting the last remaining tribute, Lacie Greenly, Orion opts not to. As a solar eclipse brightens the sky, attracting the attention of Victoria, Orion overhears Lacie advising Soren to look away, and he does the same. After Victoria is blinded by the eclipse, Orion takes the opportunity to stab her in the back. After she falls to the ground, he stabs at Soren, but Soren manages to escape and hide with Lacie in the Cornucopia.

Orion is confronted next by Robin, who manages to outmatch him. Robin knocks Orion's sword from his hands; however, the tributes were surrounded by muttation weapons designed to attack any tributes holding weapons of their own, and after Orion's sword was knocked away, these weapons honed on Robin, killing him instantly.

Forced to fight without weapons, Orion wrestles with Soren and punches him in the face. Orion pins Soren down, grabbing a dagger from the ground and stabbing Soren in the stomach. Before Orion is able to kill Soren, Lacie grabs a possessed dagger modeled after Murray and uses it to stab Orion in the back.

Orion falls to the ground next to Soren. As he dies, he expresses regret in letting Murray down. He also tells Soren that Lacie saved him, and then he dies on the ground next to Soren. Orion is the last tribute to be murdered in the 125th Hunger Games, as second-place tribute Lacie Greenly ultimately sacrificed herself to allow Soren Murdock to win the Games. Orion placed 3rd out of the 36 tributes and was the highest-placing Career tribute in the Games.

### Post-Death

Despite not being a major character for the majority of Bleeding Hearts, Orion's success at the end of the Games was notable, as he was the last tribute to die outside of Soren and Lacie. Because of this, he is mentioned multiple times after his death, although he was not mentioned at all during Soren Murdock's Victory Tour. Orion's fight against Soren Murdock, in which Soren almost died, is referenced multiple times in Hunger Games: Ultimate Crown, the story's sequel. Orion's death is relived briefly in Ultimate Crown in a dream by Soren, but he is not seen again outside of this context.