1st Hunger Games

The **1st Hunger Games** was the first edition of *The Hunger Games*. Twenty-four tributes from the twelve districts of Panem fought to the death until a winner was crowned. The winner received a years-worth supply of food, water, and other luxuries for their district, while they and their immediate family received the opportunity to relocate to luxurious accommodations in The Capitol permanently while being turned into a celebrity and national hero.

The games began on 1 June 1 PS with The Reapings, and concluded on 30 June 1 PS with Caesar Rudtman of District 2 being declared the winner. The theme for this year's games were *"Let The Hunger Games begin!"*

## Tributes

### Gallery

     – Tribute is alive

     – Tribute is deceased

## Timeline

### Pre-games

#### Reapings

The Reapings began on 1 June 1 PS, as the official kickoff event of the 1st Hunger Games. Twelve escorts visited the twelve districts of Panem, where one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 were randomly selected to take part in the Hunger Games. All individuals residing in the district who were born between 2 June 19 and 1 June 12 AS were eligible to be reaped for the games, with no exemptions. Families could increase their children's odds of being reaped for the games in exchange for additional rations of food.

Volunteering for the games was also made possible. Following the announcement of the reaped child, any individual within the selection criteria could volunteer to take their place in the games, and the reaped child may accept or decline the volunteer's offer. In the Career Districts, designated volunteers are selected by the district's respective academy weeks in advance of the Reapings.

Of the 24 tributes reaped for the games, eight of whom were volunteers:

* Onyx Moss of District 1, who volunteered as the selected male tribute by the Academy of District 1
* Silvertine Samuelson of District 1, who volunteered as the selected female tribute by the Academy of District 1
* Caesar Rudtman of District 2, who volunteered as the selected male tribute by the Academy of District 2
* Circe Clement of District 2, who volunteered as the selected female tribute by the Academy of District 2
* Finn Louman of District 4, who volunteered as the selected male tribute by the Academy of District 4
* Marina Carter of District 4, who volunteered as the selected female tribute by the Academy of District 4
* Celtis Rooman of District 7, who volunteered due to a fascination with the concept of the games
* Diedrik Ellow of District 8, who volunteered to take the place of his younger brother

#### Opening ceremony

Immediately following the Reapings, the 24 selected tributes were transported from their home districts to The Capitol along with their escort. After arriving in The Capitol, they were put up in luxurious accommodations and met with a team of stylists, led by their head stylist, who rehabilitated their public images and gave them makeovers.

On 5 June, the opening ceremony of the games was held in The Capitol. Each of the tributes wore an outfit designed by their stylist team to represent their district, and were introduced to the country while riding on a horse-pulled chariot. The winner of the costume contest was Ellinore Mae, whom had designed costumes for the District 2 tributes depicting them as Greek warriors.

#### Training

On 6 June, training for the games officially began for the tributes. Each tribute could choose to train in a variety of areas, including weaponry, survival skills, and combat. Professionals were also available to train tributes in their areas of expertise.

On 13 June, each tribute demonstrated their abilities in front of the Gamemakers, led by Head Gamemaker Petunia Plutarck. The Gamemakers then assigned a number ranging from 1 to 12 to each tribute; the higher the number, the more likely the tribute was to win. These numbers are used to help the viewing public decide who they should bet on to win.

### Games

#### Day 1

On 14 June, the 1st Hunger Games officially began. In order to introduce the games in a simple fashion, the arena was themed after a forest. The arena consisted of large wooded areas, with a single open field in the center containing the cornucopia.

After the countdown for the start of the games began, Onyx Moss of District 1 attempted a head start towards the cornucopia, but activated the landmines meant to prevent tributes from beginning the games early. The landmines killed Onyx, in addition to a number of tributes standing on platforms near the explosions, including Francis Jensen of District 3, Louisa Frecks of District 5, Celtis Rooman of District 7, and Paulina Eckerhardt of District 10. Tina Frendling of District 6 was also seriously wounded by the explosion.

In the aftermath of the explosions, a number of tributes rushed the cornucopia following the conclusion of the official countdown. The "Careers," consisting of Silvertine Samuelson of District 1, Caesar Rudtman and Circe Clement of District 2, and Finn Louman and Marina Carter of District 4 dominated the cornucopia, taking numerous weapons and supplies while killing a number of tributes. Cinnamon Curdle of District 11 was killed by Silvertine, Lucy Danbridge of District 12 and Otto Pauletz of District 10 were killed by Circe, Samantina Ruse of District 8 was killed by Caesar, Elda Nicolas of District 9 was killed by Marina, and Zachary Sparks of District 12 and Irving Small of District 9 was killed by Finn.

In the midst of the cornucopia bloodbath, the remaining tributes fled in order to seek safety elsewhere, while the Careers were able to set up a camp at the cornucopia, providing them access to the weapons and supplies left unclaimed by the other tributes. Additional alliances were formed on Day 1, with Titus Erickson of District 6 rescuing Tina and tending to her wounds, and Katia Kilo of District 3 and Wesley Pierre of District 5 meeting in the forest and agreeing to work together.

In the night of Day 1, the Careers scoured the arena for lone tributes, finding and killing Chive Long of District 12. Finn was attacked with an axe by Sequoia Rose of District 7, but survived, while Sequoia escaped without capture.

Deaths
1. Onyx Moss – District 1
2. Francis Jensen – District 3
3. Louisa Frecks – District 5
4. Celtis Rooman – District 7
5. Paulina Eckerhardt – District 10
6. Cinnamon Curdle – District 11
7. Lucy Danbridge – District 12
8. Zachary Sparks – District 12
9. Otto Pauletz – District 10
10. Samantina Ruse – District 8
11. Elda Nicolas – District 9
12. Irving Small – District 9
13. Chive Long – District 11

#### Day 2

Early in the morning of Day 2, Caesar tended to Finn's axe wound, using his medical expertise to properly treat him and avoid infection. Marina decided that she would seek out and target Sequoia as revenge for attacking Finn, but Caesar and Finn urged her to not act irrationally. Meanwhile, Titus continued to attempt to treat Tina's wound from the initial landmine explosion, although her condition continued to deteriorate.

Alone in the woods, Diedrik began to re-contemplate his decision to volunteer for the games in his brother's place, and began suffering from reoccurring panic attacks. During a panic attack, he was discovered by Sequoia, who agreed not to kill him out of pity. When Diedrik offered an alliance, Sequoia declined and left him in the woods, having stolen some of his food in the process.

Deaths
None

#### Day 3

While looking for food for him and Tina, Titus stumbles upon Caesar, who is fetching water from a nearby stream for the Careers. While Caesar is prepared to kill Titus, Titus begs for his mercy, citing Tina's debilitating injuries and Titus's desperation to ease her suffering. Caesar agrees to help, but after discovering that Tina's wounds have become infected, kills Tina out of mercy. This angers Titus, believing that Caesar had planned to kill Tina all along. While Caesar's back is turned, Titus picks up a rock and plans to hit Titus over the head with it, but is shot by an arrow to the throat by Silvertine.

Caesar's compassion towards Tina and Titus is ridiculed by the other Careers, with Finn and Circe in particular angry over his decision not to kill them both when he had the chance, particularly as Titus had nearly killed Caesar himself. Feeling unappreciated by his alliance, Caesar sets off at night alone, looking to forge a path on his own without the Careers.

Deaths
1. Tina Frendling – District 6
2. Titus Erickson – District 6

#### Day 4

The next morning, the Careers wake up to discover that Caesar had deserted their camp, taking much of their weapons and supplies with him. Circe, his district partner, feels betrayed and angry, while Silvertine, Finn, and Marina instead attempt to regroup and determine a plan of action. Finn nominates Marina to lead the alliance, angering Silvertine.

Over the past days, Katia and Wesley had worked on mapping out the arena so they know where various natural resources and tribute camps are located, and develop a camp far away from the remainder of the tributes. While practicing with a bow and arrow, Katia noticed that an arrow she shot came back flying towards her, narrowly missing her head. After shooting a second arrow, Katia discovered that the arena was not endless and was instead surrounded by a force field, protecting tributes from escaping it.

Deaths
None

#### Day 5

Silvertine's jealousy towards Marina continued to grow, as Marina began to develop a romantic relationship with Finn. Meanwhile, Circe began to descend into madness, finding delight in torturing woodland creatures with knives and carving patterns into her skin with a sewing needle.

Sequoia has since developed a nomadic strategy in the arena, setting up a camp for no longer than one night and sleeping in trees, stealing supplies from other tribute camps that she finds along the way. Sequoia, who is an expert in edible plants, devised a plan to set up a fake camp designed to mimic the camp of a tribute, stashed with various plants and nuts she found in the arena which were highly poisonous, intending to trick a tribute into finding the camp and stealing its food, only to poison themselves.

Deaths
None

#### Day 6

While traveling through the arena, Caesar stumbled upon Diedrik, who had descended into madness while living in a tree. Taking pity on him, Caesar opted not to kill Diedrik, and continued on his way through the arena.

After spending several days together, Wesley and Katia begin to fall in love with each other. While discussing their mortality and how at least one of them is just days away from their death, Wesley and Katia decide to lose their virginities to each other in the arena, later falling asleep beside one another under the stars.

Deaths
None

#### Day 7

With the Gamemakers unhappy with the lack of action, they created a forest fire in the early morning, located within the bottom right corner of the arena where Wesley and Katia's camp was located. The two were awoken to the flames, and instantly began to flee. During their escape, Katia tripped and fell, breaking her elbow in the process. While Wesley attempted to go back to save her, she encouraged him to save himself and let her die, as they wouldn't both be allowed to survive the games anyways. Wesley listened and continued his escape, while the flames engulfed Katia and left the entire bottom right of the arena uninhabitable.

After searching for food in the wilderness, Silvertine returned to the Careers camp to discover Finn and Marina having sex. She briefly contemplated shooting Marina with an arrow, but ultimately decided not to, although Circe noticed her aiming for Marina's head from a distance.

Beginning to starve to death, Diedrik is saved by a sponsor after he is gifted food and water, helping him regain his energy and his composure after a difficult few days.

Deaths
1. Katia Kilo – District 3

#### Day 8

While the Careers are traveling through the woods, Sequoia launched an ambush and killed Finn after hitting him in the head with a throwing axe. Before Silvertine, Circe, and Marina could respond to the attack, Sequoia disappeared into the trees, taking some supplies with her.

After escaping from the forest fire, Wesley used Katia's map of the arena in order to lead himself to the cornucopia, setting up a camp there.

Deaths
1. Finn Louman – District 4

#### Day 9

In preparation for an upcoming feast, the Gamemakers conjured a pack of vicious wolves to the cornucopia, in an effort to drive Wesley to set up a camp elsewhere. Although he was narrowly able to escape the wolves, he leaves scratched and cut, with his pants torn off from the wolves.

Caesar has been able to survive relatively comfortably, relying on stolen supplies from the other Careers in addition to various berries and nuts he was able to forage from the woods.

Deaths
None

#### Day 10

With her mental state continuing to deteriorate, Circe ventured out in the middle of the night, apart from Silvertine and Marina. While walking, she noticed Sequoia asleep in a tree above her. Circe soon threw a throwing knife into Sequoia's skull, killing her and causing her to fall out of her tree, breaking several bones of her body as well.

Deaths
* Sequoia Rose – District 7

#### Day 11

In the morning, Silvertine and Marine awoke to realize that Circe had abandoned them, taking some of their supplies with her. Marina broke down into tears, reconciling both with the Finn's death and how she must now trust her frenemy as her closest ally in the games.

While exploring the forest, Diedrik found Caesar bathing himself in a local stream. Despite having the opportunity to kill him, Diedrik spared him, much like how Caesar once spared him several days prior.

Deaths
None

#### Day 12

Circe stumbled upon a tribute camp, beginning to steal food and supplies from it, until she is taken by surprise and held at knifepoint. Before her assailant can kill her, they recognized each other, and Caesar and Circe were reunited. Circe apologized for the way things left off with the Careers, and begged Caesar to continue on as a two-person district alliance, to which he agreed.

Silvertine explored the woods with a now-depressed Marina. In a moment of desperation, Marina pled to the powers that be for help to make her experience in the games easier. Almost instantaneously, Marina was showered in gifts from sponsors, ranging from food to supplies to luxuries. Enraged by the popularity of her rival and how Marina seemed to get everything that she wanted out of the games, Silvertine stabbed her in the neck with an arrow, killing her and stealing all of her gifts in the process.

Following Marina's death, the Gamemakers announced to the tributes that a feast would be held the following day to commemorate them reaching the final five.

Deaths
1. Marina Carter – District 4

#### Day 13

In the aftermath of killing Marina, Silvertine was making her way to the cornucopia for the feast when she stumbled upon the fake camp set up by Sequoia several days prior. Not knowing whether she will find any food at the cornucopia, she stole a number of the nuts and berries stashed at the camp and ate them, not knowing they were poisonous. Silvertine began to feel the effects of the poison immediately, and dies.

Ultimately, Caesar, Circe, Wesley, and Diedrik all arrived at the feast, realizing now that Silvertine had died on the way over. Realizing that they would be stronger as allies than as enemies, Wesley and Diedrik joined forces to fight Caesar and Circe, but struggled, with Circe ultimately killing Wesley. Caesar and Circe took the bulk of the supplies offered at the feast and set up camp at the cornucopia, while Diedrik retreated into the woods.

Deaths
1. Silvertine Samuelson – District 1
2. Wesley Pierre – District 5

#### Day 14

Camped out in the cornucopia, Caesar and Circe contemplated whether they want to search the woods for Diedrik, or let him come to them. Ultimately, they decided to live out the next few days in peace, surviving with their supplies and not worrying about Diedrik.

Deaths
None

#### Day 15

After spending the day together, Circe began to get second thoughts about she and Caesar's plan. Knowing that she could easily kill Diedrik, Circe decided to kill Caesar in order to ensure she will be the winner of the games. With Caesar asleep, Circe planned to slit his throat as he slept. However, Caesar anticipated her treachery, and feigns sleep in order to lure her into a sense of security. Before Circe could kill him, Caesar grappled her and bashed her head against a stone on the ground, brutally killing her this way due to her treachery and lack of honor in her attempt to kill him.

Deaths
1. Circe Clement – District 2

#### Day 16

With just two tributes left in the games, the Gamemakers intensified the forest fire affecting the bottom right corner of the arena so that it burned almost the entirety of the arena, forcing Diedrik to come out of hiding and race towards the cornucopia to confront Caesar.

Believing he had little chances to defeat Caesar in combat, Diedrik tried to strike first, throwing a knife at an unsuspecting Caesar, which decidedly missed and alerted Caesar to Diedrik's presence. Caesar raced towards Diedrik, pinning him up against the cornucopia as the forest fire raged on around them. Before Caesar could kill him, Diedrik pled to him that he volunteered for the games to protect his younger brother, and urged Caesar to "think of [his] family" and allow him to go home to see them again. The pleas fell on deaf ears, as Caesar responded to Diedrik by saying "and what about mine?" before slitting his throat with one of Circe's knives, killing him.

Following the death of Diedrik, the gamemakers turned off the arena and announced Caesar as the official winner of the 1st Hunger Games.

Deaths
1. Diedrik Ellow – District 8

### Post-games

#### Victory tour

In the aftermath of the games, Caesar embarked on the first annual victory tour. The tour began in District 3, where Caesar visited the city of Littgart. He then arrived in District 4, visiting Conch Bay, where he met with the families of Finn and Marina. He subsequently visited District 5, but was evacuated shortly after his arrival due to unsafe air qualities. Caesar then arrived in District 6, but was also evacuated quickly due to threats of violence for his killing of Tina.

After visiting District 6, Caesar arrived in District 7, where he visited Morrowbane and several smaller villages. He afterwards left for District 8, where he met with the family of Diedrik, personally receiving their forgiveness for killing their son. Afterwards, he arrived in District 9, where he volunteered on a local farm, before arriving in District 10, where he toured a cattle slaughterhouse. Caesar subsequently arrived in District 11, where he was met with a peaceful protest by residents against the games, and afterwards arrived in District 12, where he toured a coal mine. Caesar then arrived in District 1, where he was given a number of complimentary luxury products after touring a factory, and afterwards arrived in his home district District 2, where he received a medal of honor from District 2 Supervisor Helena Karl.

After completing his victory tour, Caesar and his immediate family relocated from District 2 to The Capitol, as reward for winning the games.