Victors' Tower (universe)

Victors' Tower (often abbreviated as VT) is a the collective name for several fictional universes, initially created by WreakingHavok and expanded upon by various other authors on Discord and Archive Of Our Own. It is often, but not always, a crossover universe, featuring content creators placed into an altered version of the world of the Hunger Games series.

## Premise

As mentioned above, the general premise of the VT universe is that it's a crossover between the Hunger Games books and Video Blogging RPF, featuring a large number of content creators living in a Hunger Games-based universe. However, one of the central ideas of the works in this collective canon was that they would follow the boundaries of said content creators as much as possible; hence, they could not include shipping, graphic violence or death. The latter two were achieved by never actually describing the Hunger Games in any works. Instead, they would largely focus on the lives of the Victors: adjusting to their new lifestyle after the Games, coping with the personas they'd be forced to play to provide entertainment for the Capitol and the districts, and developing friendships with fellow Victors.

The name of this universe came from one of the major worldbuilding changes made from the Hunger Games series: the titular Victors' Tower. This is a building where Victors of the Games would be forced to live out the rest of their lives, split into floors each representing a decade and containing ten Victors, and with very limited contact with the outside world.

## OGVT

The first edition of VT (known later as OGVT) was a collective universe of fanfiction works. It originally spawned from a now deleted work hosted on the website Archive of Our Own by WreakingHavok, "as I get older (floor 6)", and initially started as a crossover between the Hunger Games universe and the now-defunct YouTube group Lunch Club. However, in time, more writers began to write their own works set in the same universe as WreakingHavok's work, and the world expanded to include a large number of other YouTubers, streamers and content creators, as well as getting a large number of substantial worldbuilding changes from the original Hunger Games universe.

At one point in time, the ao3 collection created for hosting works set in the OGVT universe contained almost 100 different works, written by more than 20 individual writers. However, after the deletion of "as I get older" (due to allegations released against CallMeCarson, one of the central content creators featured in the universe), this has decreased back to around 80 due to other writers choosing to delete their works as well.

You can read the remaining works in the OGVT universe here.

## VTRE

Some time after the incident that caused OGVT's discontinuation, WreakingHavok created a new version of the VT universe, which came to be known as VTRE (Victors' Tower Reborn). This version of the universe would focus exclusively on characters from the Dream SMP (placing more emphasis on the fictional characters specifically, rather than the real streamers playing them). VTRE would also be controlled and written exclusively by WreakingHavok; although other writers could contribute their ideas to the world, everything would ultimately be decided by WreakingHavok himself, and he is the only one who can publish works for VTRE. The first work in the universe, "and I said, ‘there is none’ (floor two)", has been published on Havok's ao3 account, and features Tubbo as its main character.

While there are some overlapping characters between the two universes, all of them have experienced changes between the universes, with some having been overhauled much more radically than others.

## Hype House

Hype House is the name given to a version of the VT universe created within the Christin Discord server. This version of the universe features self-inserts and original characters created by the server members. Because it is no longer a work of RPF featuring real people, the boundary restrictions of other VT universes no longer apply - it is allowed and encouraged to describe each Victor's games, portray death and violence, and create romantic relationships between characters.

The Hype House universe is currently in its third major incarnation.