Aiden Wirihana

The Vengeful Victor

**Aiden Wirihana** is a male citizen of District 5. He is a Victor, as he won the 61st Hunger Games. He was also reaped as a tribute in the 75th Hunger Games representing District 5. His District partner is Selene Prosperio.

## Personality

Aiden considers himself to be an introverted guy, and understands that many people would call him lonely. However this doesn’t worry and upset him, because Aiden just prefers his own company. The quietness allows him to think and remain focused on his goals. Aiden isn’t completely socially awkward, he can hold a conversation but would just never be the one to start it. He’s also very observant of his surroundings and is always listening for any information that he can use to his advantage. He’s a secretive guy, who doesn’t like to let others know what he’s thinking or what he’s planning. Aiden also enjoys playing the underdog card and likes people to underestimate him so he can turn the tables on them.

## Fears

Heading into the 75th Hunger Games, Aiden suffers from impostor syndrome, and therefore fears that everyone will discover him to be a fraud. He doesn’t believe that he earned his previous victory, and doesn’t feel worthy to be called a victor alongside his new fellow tributes, who are much more brutal and blood thirsty. Aiden also specifically fears dying at the hands of his own wrong decision making (like falling into someone’s trap) because he considers himself intelligent enough to avoid them. Lastly, Aiden fears the animals and the game makers mutations, especially because he didn’t have any experience with them in his previous games.

## Strengths

Aiden’s main strength is his intelligence. Given his last games, Aiden believes that he knows how and when to make the right decision for himself. He hopes to use this again to his advantage in these games. Moreover Aiden can handle severe dehydration due to his previous experience and considers that an extreme upper-hand over his competitors. Finally, Aiden has kept his body physically in shape since his victory, and can hold an average speed when running as well as average strength in a fight.

## Weaknesses

Aiden’s biggest weakness is that he has no experience dealing with game maker mutts from his previous games; and is very concerned that could be his downfall. Furthermore, Aiden has no abilities in swimming, nor can he use other weapons (besides swords and hand-held knives) to a proficient enough level for these Hunger Games. Aiden also struggles to make alliances and personal connections with others, often leaving him alone to fend for himself.

## 61st Games

### Before the Games

Aiden was reaped for the 61st Games. No much is known about his life prior.

### The Games

The 61st arena was a massive valley and grassy area, with a scarce amount of dense bush land scattered around. The game makers specifically made hydration and ‘shelter’ (places to remain unseen from other tributes) difficult challenges for the tributes in these games.

Aiden had never planned on entering the Hunger Games and therefore had no plans created in advance. It would be surprising if anyone even remembered his interview because he was so plain and average, certainly didn’t stand out by any means. While in the Capitol, Aiden decided that his main weapon would be a long range weapon like poison. A weapon which he could attack without physically putting himself in harms way. However Aiden was smart enough to know that the odds that the game makers would provide poison in the cornucopia was slim, and the chances of him actually getting his hands on it were even slimmer. Yet during training, Aiden discovered that he was talented enough with swords to fight for his life with them. It was still nothing astonishing, only scoring a 7 during training.

Aiden rose into the arena, having made no alliances, and decided to brave the bloodbath and run for a weapon from the cornucopia. Miraculously he escaped the fight unharmed, and was now armed with a machete.

On Day 2 while roaming the arena Aiden came across Max (the D4M tribute). Max was already known by everyone to be the fan favorite of the Capitol citizens to win these games. Max had scored the highest training score of 10, and had blatantly revealed in his interview that he was going to ditch the Careers much to everyone’s dismay (which he did as soon as the games began). Of course when Max ran into Aiden, he was out for blood. Aiden had to put up the fight of his life. In fact the fight was good enough to impress Max, and the two of them both agreed to form an alliance going forward rather than fighting to the death at this moment. Looking back on the games now, Aiden realized that it wasn’t so much that he impressed Max that the alliance was formed, it was more the fact that Max believed an alliance with a random loner would look good for his image to the Capitol.

On Day 3 and 4, Aiden followed Max around as his assistant. Nobody was confused about who was in charge. Max and Aiden hunted loner tributes down to try and rival the body count of the Careers alliance (killing the D3F, D11M and D6M). Although Aiden would always assist in the fights, the actual kills were all credited to Max (and Aiden did not want to get in his way).

By Day 5 all the tributes were on the verge of death by dehydration (and the weaker tributes had already died because of it). Therefore the game makers announced a feast back at the cornucopia of just water supplies. Max was excited to finally face off against the Careers (of which the D1M and D2F were left), while Aiden was just excited for the chance of hydrating himself to another day. The other 7 remaining tributes were the D3M, D4F, D5F, D7M, D9M, D10F, D12F.

At the feast Max managed to kill the D2F (again with Aiden’s help) and the D1M fled before a fight could happen. Aiden managed to obtain his first accredited kill, slicing the throat of the D3M. Aiden also watched as his district partner was axed by the D7M, yet it hardly fazed him.

As Aiden and Max began to stock their water supplies, Aiden realized that his moment had arrived, and it was either now or never if he wanted to act. Out of nowhere, Aiden literally took out his machete and stabbed Max in the back while he was selfishly helping down water. Although Max still put up a good fight considering, Aiden had managed to catch him off guard enough that he wasn’t prepared to defend himself. It was a shocking twist to the spectators in every district. Looking back, everyone (including Aiden) knows that if he hadn’t made this decision in this moment, it would’ve been very unlikely that he would’ve won.

Throughout Day 6 and 7 Aiden remained cautious, and reserved his water supply. He killed the D9M during a bloody sword fight.

By the start of Day 8 it was just Aiden and the D1M remaining, and the game makers ensured the final battle happened quickly because the D1M was close to just dying from dehydration (because he’d fled the feast so quickly and didn’t take enough supplies). Back at the cornucopia the two of them engaged in their final brawl. Aiden came out victorious (because he had the advantage considering he wasn’t as delirious and his body wasn’t as weak from dehydration in comparison).

### Aftermath

Since his victory Aiden has focused on his mentoring of newly reaped tributes and staying up to date on the aspects of the Games. As an only child and not being super close to his parents, Aiden had nothing else to do. In the Capitol and Career Districts he became a propagandatool for education and intelligence, showing what they can provide can provide: Victory (rather than the future tributes just focusing on weapons training). At first Aiden tried to focus on the engineering of his District and working with the top minds for the power sources of Panem, but like a drug he always came back to the Games.

Due to his loneliness Aiden’s become addicted to betting on the Games and predicting what will happen. Before he was reaped a 2nd time for the 75th Hunger Games, he was about to descend into madness. However his 2nd reaping gave him something to fight for and focus on for the time being moving forward. Many believe that he’s excited to be back inside.

## 75th Games

### Before the Games

Aiden was reaped into the 75th Hunger Games. The quell "twist" that year required the tributes to be reaped from the existing pool of Victors. The tributes didn't know it at the time, but President Snow rigged the Quell to silence rebellious Victors. Aiden was an unfortunate casulty to the Capitol, due to his status us a propaganda tool and supporter of the Games.