Introduction
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The History of Panem
(This is just some history for those who are unfamilliar with the hunger games series or those that need a refresher. You do not need to read. The plot for this RP is at the end of the history titled "Present day")
The First Rebellion
“After all, it was Thirteen that started the rebellion that led to the Dark Days, and then abandoned the rest of the districts when the tide turned against it”
The first Rebellion occured when the thirteen districts of Panem rose up against the Capitol's oppressive rule. The rebellion was orchestrated by District 13.
The Capitol was known to use horrifying muttations as organic weapons, and put down rebelling districts by bombing them into submission with fleets of hovercraft. The rebels were known to use falsified information and the attempted massed invasion of Capitol territory with support from District 13.
It is mentioned that the rebels attempted a mass invasion of the Capitol itself by scaling the Rocky Mountains, which was a brutal job since the natural fortification exposed them. Unfortunately, Capitol aircraft were able to easily find and destroy the rebel contingents trying to reach the other side. This eventually led to the Dark Days.
The Dark Days
"In the seventy-five years since the Dark Days—when 13 was said to have been obliterated in the war between the Capitol and the districts—almost all new construction has been beneath the earth's surface. There was already a substantial underground facility here, developed over centuries to be either a clandestine refuge for government leaders in time of war or a last resort for humanity if life above became unlivable. Most important for the people of 13, it was the center of the Capitol's nuclear weapons development program. During the Dark Days, the rebels in 13 wrested control from the government forces, trained their nuclear missiles on the Capitol, and then struck a bargain: they would play dead in exchange for being left alone. The Capitol had another nuclear arsenal out west, but couldn't attack 13 without certain retaliation. It was forced to accept 13's deal. The Capitol demolished the visible remains of the district and cut off all access from the outside. Perhaps the Capitol's leaders thought that, without help, 13 would die off on its own. It almost did a few times, but it always managed to pull through due to strict sharing of resources, strenuous discipline, and constant vigilance against any further attacks from the Capitol."
The Dark Days is a term commonly used to describe the collapse of the first rebellion in Panem, which occurred 74 years prior to the beginning of the series.
When the rebellion started going badly, District 13 abandoned the other districts to win freedom. Rebel forces in District 13 wrestled control of the Capitol's nuclear missiles away and trained them on the Capitol, hoping to destroy the Capitol even if the result was mutually assured destruction.
The Cease Fire
However, District 13 set up a secret ceasefire deal with the Capitol: they would withdraw their forces from the war and present the illusion that Capitol bombers equipped with toxic bombs destroyed District 13. District 13 withdrew and rebuilt their district underground.
The Capitol's bombers destroyed the district on the surface using toxic bombs. Without District 13's aid, the remaining rebel forces were defeated by the Capitol. It was unknown to the rest of Panem that District 13 survived in an underground civilization.
After The War
After the Capitol defeated the districts in the first rebellion, the Treaty of Treason was put into effect. This founded the Hunger Games event as a reminder of the first rebellion and stated that each district had to select one male and one female between the ages of 12 and 18 by a lottery system each year. The children selected were to fight to the death in an arena until only one remained. The only two named people in the series were known to be alive during the first rebellion were Mags and President Coriolanus Snow, who were 5 and 1 respectively when the games started.
The Treaty if Treason
"He tells of the history of Panem, the country that rose up out of the ashes that was once called North America. He lists the disasters, the droughts, the storms, the fires, the encroaching seas that swallowed up so much of the land, the brutal war for what little sustenance remained. the result was Panem, a shining Capitol ringed by thirteen districts, which brought peace and prosperity to its citizens. Then came the Dark Days, the uprising of the districts against the Capitol. Twelve were defeated, the thirteenth obliterated. The Treaty of Treason gaves us the new laws to guarantee peace and, as our yearly reminder that the Dark Days must never be repeated, it gave us the Hunger Games."
In penance for their uprising, each district shall offer up a male and a female between the ages of 12 and 18 at a public "reaping". These tributes shall be delivered to the custody of the Capitol. And then transferred into a public arena, where they will fight to the death until a lone victor remains. Henceforth and forevermore this pageant shall be known as "The Hunger Games."
The Treaty of Treason is a treaty created by the Capitol to ensure peace after the districts were defeated during the first rebellion, better referred to as the Dark Days. As well as implementing laws to keep peace in the districts, it detailed that the Hunger Games were to take place annually to remind the districts that the Dark Days must never be repeated - and to keep districts further divided, thus preventing a new rebellion. The mayor of each district is required to read the treaty during each year's reaping.
The Second Rebellion
The Second Rebellion began when rebels across the country backed by District 13 rose up in armed conflict against the Capitol's military forces 75 years after The Dark Days. The leader of the second rebellion was officially President Alma Coin, but the rebellion itself began to gain momentum during the 74th Hunger Games when District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark threatened to commit a double suicide. This caused Head Gamemaker Seneca Crane to let them both win, and which showed that they could overcome the power of the Capitol. The common symbol of defiance in the new group of rebels is Katniss's mockingjay, a bird that the Capitol never intended to create. The rebel forces were presumably comprised of militia fighters from the revolting Districts, alongside better trained and equipped District 13 soldiers. The Capitol's forces were primarily Peacekeepers, but they also utilized mutts to fight the rebels, and may have had other security forces.
The first known rebellious activity took place in District 8 after the 74th Hunger Games's Victory Tour. After the train left District 8, a violent riot erupted. Rioters seized control of several strategic positions throughout the district, all while engaging in an active fight with large contingents of Peacekeepers. Although the rebels initially had the upper hand due to the surprise assault, they were unorganized and ill-equipped to engage in sustained fighting between themselves and the better trained and equipped Peacekeeper force. Capitol hovercraft gave air support to the Peacekeepers, bombing rebel positions as the Peacekeepers advanced. Eventually, the Peacekeepers quelled the rebellion and set the entire district under martial law. For a week, no one was permitted outside and electricity and food supply was cut. After this, the martial law was lifted and life was allowed to return to normal. However, a Capitol bomb destroyed the textile factory in the district, after receiving information that the rebellion had been plotted from there.
When the 75th Hunger Games drew near a close, rebel hovercraft from District 13 rescued Katniss Everdeen, Finnick Odair, and Beetee Lantier. The raid was launched prior to Katniss destroying the force field enclosing the arena. Capitol aircraft captured Peeta Mellark, Johanna Mason, and Enobaria. Annie Cresta was also taken from District 4 by the Capitol as a hostage. Enobaria was freed since she was from District 2 and President Snow trusted her.
Shortly after the force field was destroyed, Capitol aircraft launched a massive fire bombing raid on District 12, Katniss's district, burning it to the ground. Only about 800 of District 12's original 8,000 survived the raid. Gale Hawthorne was credited with helping most of the refugees escape into the woods around District 12. After the attack, hovercraft from District 13 appeared and began evacuating the refugees back to 13, where they were granted citizenship and given places to live that far exceeded their poverty-stricken conditions in 12.
Peeta and Katniss were both used to conduct propos, or propaganda spots, for the side they had been taken by. There was a stark contrast in the videos as Mellark's called for a general ceasefire while Everdeen was told to rally the rebels to fight. When Everdeen was taken from the arena, many rebel divisions were struggling to maintain footholds in several districts. However, after one particular propo in which Everdeen stood in front of the wreckage of a destroyed field hospital in District 8 after a Capitol bombing and announced "if we burn, you burn with us," the rebels rallied enough to solidify their forces and launch a major offensive into Capitol-occupied territory.
After the fighting in District 8, President Snow and Mellark had a Capitol propo. Near the end, Mellark accidentally leaked information regarding a surprise Capitol missile attack on District 13. Immediately after Mellark leaked the information, Snow ordered the cameras cut and the start of Mellark's torture. Multiple bunker buster missiles were launched but due to the warning, casualties were reduced to a minimum, if any at all.
During a retribution propo after the bomb raid, Katniss suffered a mental meltdown due to learning that any actions by her caused pain to Mellark. Finnick also suffered one right after Katniss. In response to both Katniss and Finnick's mental meltdowns, rebel forces launched a rescue mission aimed at freeing Annie Cresta, Peeta Mellark, and Johanna Mason. The rescue mission, crafted by Beetee, involved knock out gas, power failures and a bomb explosion as diversions.
General ground fighting and bomber strikes were the hallmarks of much of the rebellion. Soon, every district had sided with the rebels, except District 2, which was the supplier of most of Panem's military force and also served as their primary base of operations. The primary command center for the Capitol's military forces was a mountain known to the rebels as "the Nut" after Plutarch Heavensbee's comment on the district; "it's a tough nut to crack." After several failed attempts at capturing the mountain complex, Hawthorne, who had previously taken part in both the fighting in District 8 and the liberation of the tributes from the Capitol, put forth the idea of causing avalanches with rebel bombers and suffocating the Capitol forces inside. Several rebel bombers began dropping their payloads on the Nut's upper elevations, triggering avalanches that buried most of the exits from the mountain and crippled the base inside. Several trains carrying survivors made it out of the train tunnel, as the rebels had decided to leave that one path open. Fighting began in the central square of District 2, and a rebel offensive secured the square and the surrounding area. Katniss gave a speech despite the fighting that turned District 2's forces to the rebel side, but was later wounded from a gunshot to the spleen.
The destruction of the Nut and 2's defection crippled the Capitol's military forces, forcing the Capitol's military to withdraw to the city itself. Rebel forces then invaded the city, pushing through in intense urban warfare. The destruction of the Nut meant the loss of the Capitol's air force, leaving the defense of the city to the ground forces. The rebel advance was severely hindered by strategically placed traps, called pods, that were positioned all around the city. These pods ranged from automated gun systems to tracker jackers. Midway through the battle for the city, rebel forces set four central routes directly to the heart of the Capitol--A, B, C, and D lines. After intense block-by-block fighting, the rebels reached the City Circle, the center of the Capitol itself. As a final defensive measure, President Coriolanus Snow had a group of children form a ring around the presidential mansion. A hovercraft marked with a Capitol insignia dropped parachutes similar to those that Hunger Games tributes received in the arenas, but these turned out to be bombs that killed most of the children in the ring and rebel medical teams who responded. The Capitol fell that day. It was later revealed that the aircraft was actually owned by District 13, under orders from President Coin to drop the bombs on the children to end the war by shattering what remained of the Capitol's image. In what was supposed to be Snow's execution, Katniss instead shot President Alma Coin in retaliation for killing her sister, Primrose, who was serving as a medic when the parachute bombs went off. Snow was later found dead, and a trial was to be set for Katniss for killing Panem's acting president. Katniss was cleared of her charges in absentee under a plea of insanity until Gale and Beetee's testimony of their involvement of the bombs at Snow's mansion to justify Katniss's action in killing Coin which helped reclaim her reputation as a hero to Panem, and allowed to return to the under-reconstruction District 12, where she later married Peeta and had two children. Katniss's killing of Coin was symbolically seen as the last shot of the war.
Of the 59 known members of the second rebellion, only 30 survived it.
Present Day
There are some who believe what out parents did was right. The Hunger games were an abomination created to keep people in fear and in line, some believe the Games were essential to our way of life, that without them Panem would fall. Small uprisings of those who believed in the games occurred from time to time, but it was nothing serious.
Then President Paylor died. Nobody knows when, why or how, all we were told is that she passed away for undetermined reasons sometime in the night. People die all the time, that is what people do, we are born, we live, and we die. It didn't seem odd. A new President came into play, and with a new President comes changes, but it was never anything drastic, never something like this.
The hunger games were brought back into question, Peacekeepers returned to each District, old laws were being enforced, and then children started to go missing. Some from their beds, some never came back from errands, others never came back from hunting. The children that went missing were mostly children from those who started and succeeded in the rebellion.
They are preparing for a new Hunger Games, but your name will not be drawn from a bowl, you will be taken with no warning, no chance for goodbyes, one day you will just be gone. It was hard to survive in the arena's before, you had to avoid others, allies were only allies until the time came for them to die. They know we won't be killing each other, so they have added more mutt's, more traps, anything that will kill us. Anything to make the statement that the Rebellion was a mistake, and the people who started and aided in it will suffer and pay the price.
The rebellion was the 76th hunger games...Welcome to the 77th.
The Characters
Finnick Mellark || OPEN || Ian somerhalder ||
Status: Unobtained By Capitol
Biological Mother:
Katniss Mellark (nee. Everdeen)
Biological Father:
Peeta Mellark
Primrose Mellark || TAKEN || Chloe Grace Mortez ||
Status: Unobtained By Capitol
Biological Mother:
Katniss Mellark (nee. Everdeen)
Biological Father:
Peeta Mellark
Ebony Mellark || OPEN || Shailene Woodley ||
Status: Unobtained By Capitol
Biological Mother:
Katniss Mellark (nee. Everdeen)
Biological Father:
Peeta Mellark
Jasper Abernathy || OPEN || Torrance Coombs ||
Status: Unobtained By Capitol
Biological Mother:
Effie Abernathy (nee. Trinket)
Biological Father:
Haymitch Abernathy
Casey (Cassandra) Hawthorne || OPEN || Emma Watson ||
Status: Unobtained By Capitol
Biological Mother:
Amelia Hawthorne (nee. Grace)
Biological Father:
Gale Hawthorne
Micah Hawthorne || OPEN || Theo James ||
Status: Unobtained By Capitol
Biological Mother:
Amelia Hawthorne (nee. Grace)
Biological Father:
Gale Hawthorne
Kai (Pronounced: K-eye) Odair || OPEN || Eddie Redmayne ||
Status: Unobtained By Capitol
Biological Mother:
Annie Odair (nee. Cresta)
Biological Father:
Finnick Odair
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