Magical Hunger Games

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**The Magical Hunger Games** were a morbid and brutal competition which took place annually in a alternate universe in the magical community, enacted upon the districts by the Tribunal after their defeat in the First Rebellion. It was to serve as a punishment and a reminder to the defeated districts of the cost of insurrection and to never again make an attempt to rebel. They were held uninterrupted for seventy-five years.

## Premise

Every year, one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 were selected from each of the twelve districts as tributes by a lottery. They would be taken to the Capitol, where there would be a week of festivities and training, and then they'd be sent into an arena to fight to the death. The event was nationally televised as mandatory viewing for all citizens, and the competition could last several days or weeks. The last living tribute was declared the victor, showered in gifts, and lived the rest of their life in luxury and privilege in the Victors' Village. The winning district also received parcels of food from the Capitol for a year as reward for producing a victor.

## History

### Inception

The Magical Hunger Games were the creation of The Tribunal, but also indirectly by Apollo Madden and Kyra. During Apollo and Kyra's final days at the University, The Tribunal served as teachers there and assigned the class a final project: to create a punishment for one's enemies so extreme that they would never be allowed to forget how they had wronged them.

Being best friends, Apollo and Kyra paired together for the project. Apollo, having a mind for puzzles, began brainstorming the Magical Hunger Games, something which Kyra assured him was just a private joke between the two of them. Apollo, however, was drunk as he fleshed out the project. Kyra then turned the project in to The Tribunal while Apollo was sleeping off the alcohol, leaving Apollo to awake horrified at what had happened and meaning to rip it to shreds. The Tribunal held on to the project and then, following the end of the war, pulled out the proposal and introduced Apollo as the architect of the Games.

The Tribunal saw the Games as a way to demonstrate how the magical community would fall into anarchy without the Capitol to uphold order. They chose children to participate in order to prove that even the most innocent individuals could become lethal killers. Apollo thought the idea would die out quickly, being so ghastly, but The Tribunal took it and ran.

### First Ten Years

The original Magical Hunger Games were particularly brutal in their cruelty. The tributes arrived to the Capitol in cattle cars, and upon arrival, they were held in stables that housed Peacekeepers' horses. For the 10th Magical Hunger Games, they were kept in the Capitol Zoo. Here, they were underfed or even starved, and often mistreated by Peacekeepers. In the 10th Games, a number of tributes died before the Games began.

The first ten installments of the Games were held in the Capitol Arena, an old stadium converted into a fighting arena. Basic weapons were provided, but food and other supplies were not. Tributes were left in the arena to kill one another or starve until a lone victor remained. The winners of the first ten Games were not rewarded or given any special treatment; they simply returned to their home district and the life they formerly lived.

### Final Years

In the 74th Magical Hunger Games, Paris Turner and Wyatt Halliwell of District 12 became the first and only joint victors after an attempted double suicide. This inspired rebellion in the districts, and the unrest grew into uprisings. Eventually, a rebel plot interrupted the 75th Magical Hunger Games, rendering it the first Games to end without the crowning of a victor, and marking the beginning of the Second Rebellion.