Amanda Russo

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## Amanda Russo

### Allegiances

Calista Russo
Midas Diamanti
Trent Diamanti

### Total Kills

5 (Midas Diamanti, Jax McBride, Lindsay McBride, D8 Female, Tina Vasquez)

### Related to

Calista Russo (sister)
Camilla Russo (sister)

### Appears in

Blood Moon

**Amanda Russo** is a District 2 tribute in the 117th Hunger Games, as portrayed in Blood Moon: The 117th Hunger Games. Along with her sister, Calista Russo, Amanda is a primary focus of the 117th Games, as she is the sister of previous Victor Camilla Russo. Despite this advantage, Amanda focuses most of her attention on fellow Career tribute Midas Diamanti, which leads her to miss multiple opportunities to win the Games.

### Pre-Games

Prior to the Games, Amanda is in the spotlight with her sister, Calista, as the sisters of previous Victor Camilla Russo. Because of this, the girls act confident and arrogent, and act as if they deserve the spotlight. After Damien Brimstone pulls a stunt during the tribute parade, attracting the attention of the audience, Calista and Amanda are seen glaring at the District 5 tributes for stealing their spotlight.

One night, Luna Brimstone overhears Amanda talking to Calista. Calista tells Amanda that she needs to stop getting distracted by Midas Diamanti, a District 1 tribute in their alliance, and to be more focused on the Games. However, Amanda brushes her off, saying that she is older and knows what she's doing. In Training, Amanda is often seen laughing at Midas' jokes and spending time with him to the annoyance of her younger sister.

### The Games

#### The Bloodbath

At the Bloodbath, Amanda is seen killing one of the District 8 female tributes to steal a trident. With this trident, she kills Jax McBride, and also kills his sister Lindsay when she comes to his defense. As a result, Amanda kills the most tributes in the Bloodbath of the 117th Games, with three kills (tied with Midas.

#### In The Arena

Amanda is not seen for the first five days of the Games, but it assumed that she hunted for other tributes with Calista, Midas, and Trent.

On the fifth day of the Games, Amanda and the other Career tributes narrowly pass Damien and Luna Brimstone and Sienna and Clay Manilowe. The other tributes see Amanda and her allies, but the Career tributes are distracted by a nearby river.

The night after they pass the other tributes, Amanda and her allies are approached by Clay and Sienna, who turned on Luna and Damien. Unwilling to kill their own allies, Clay and Sienna tell the Careers their locations and send them to kill them instead. However, Midas kills Clay after he gives out this information. Sienna escapes, and Amanda chases her with Calista. Ultimately, Sienna escapes into the Arena.

#### The Feast

At the Feast, Amanda and Midas grab supplies for Calista and Trent respectively. On the way into the Feast, Amanda and Midas run into Tina Vasquez, who Amanda quickly kills her with a spear. When other tributes arrive later at the Feast, Midas and Trent return to fight them, but Amanda stays behind.

#### Post-Feast

After the Feast, Amanda enters the Arena with Midas and Calista after Trent is killed. There, she opens her sponsor gift, which includes a bonus gift as a reward for her lasting so long with her sister in the Games. This gift was a large, sharp knife.

Soon after the Feast, a fire sweeps across the Arena, trapping all the tributes except for the Career tributes. This showed the Gamemakers', especially Helvius Athanasios', bias towards the Careers. During the fire, Luna Brimstone and Russell Thorsby were chased with fireballs towards the Careers in an attempt to bring the two groups together. Calista overheard the other tributes nearby, but her claims were dismissed by Amanda, who assumed that the noises they heard were from the crackling of the fire.

After encountering the Careers, Luna and Russell follow them through the Arena as Amanda and her allies simultaneously attempt to hunt down Luna and Russell. As the days pass, Calista becomes more and more insistent that she needs to turn on Midas and eliminate him as a threat, but Amanda refuses to follow this plan due to her attachment to him. Finally, on the forteenth night of the Games, Calista attempts to stab Midas in his sleep despite Amanda's pleading for her not to. However, Midas anticipates this plan and lunges out of the way, rising to his feet and facing off against Calista. Ultimately, Midas catches Calista off-guard, stabbing and killing her.

With no other choice, Amanda is forced to pick up a nearby bow and shoot at Midas. As he is distracted stabbing at her sister, Amanda shoots Midas with an arrow, killing him. Still in shock from the death of her allies, Amanda flees into the Arena with only her bow. Although is it assumed that she returned to her camp to retrieve her supplies, they were stolen by Luna Brimstone and Russell Thorsby, leaving her with nothing.

#### End of the Games

At the end of the Games, Amanda is left as the only Career tribute and as one of the final three tributes. On the fifteenth night of the Games, the tributes are attacked with bird muttations modeled with razor-sharp beaks. Helvius Athanasios likely designed these birds to give Amanda an advantage; however, these creations worked against him. This was because Luna and Russell, the other two tributes, worked together to protect each other from the birds, with Russell even sacrificing himself and distracting the birds from Luna, while Amanda was forced to face the muttations alone. As a result, Amanda is mangled by the muttations, with one even ripping out her eye. By the time Amanda faces Luna as the last two tributes, she is bleeding out from her injuries. Amanda attempts to string an arrow into her bow and shoot Luna, but she has no strength left. Putting Amanda out of her misery, Luna slits her throat.

### Post-Death

After Amanda's death, Luna Brimstone is poorly received, as Amanda was the favorite to win the Games, especially because of her connection to Camilla Russo. Many Capitol viewers saw Amanda as the 'main character' of the Games and were heartbroken to see her death.

Amanda's death likely played a major part in Helvius Athanasios' abrupt departure from the role of Head Gamemaker after the 117th Games.