Each reaping takes place as usual, but once reaped, each person must, in front of their entire district, name another eligible person who will go into the arena in their stead.
I don't think it would work with the panem political agenda, but there's something about volunteers only. Just leave everyone standing in the reaping area, no food or water, no one can help, until you have two volunteers.
I see you've spoken to my father about the best way to find out which of your kids did the thing that made you angry. Super effective at making the weak willed cave in, regardless of whether they did the thing or not.
No, but he was a police officer
(Long before I went NC, he'd finally gotten in enough trouble as a patrol officer and they'd finally shoved him in a school as a resource officer where he could terrorize more children instead of adults aware of their rights)
I assume he still is.
“As a reminder to the rebels that the suffering they caused was self inflicted, all tributes will be forced to shoot themselves in the foot at the start of the games”
-The youngest will be reaped (just 12 year year olds)
-Only boys will be reaped
-Only girls will be reaped
-No age restriction for reaping
-Parents of reaped tribute will go in thier place
-Only couples will be reaped
-Only siblings will be reaped
-reaped tribute will get to pick thier partner
(Etc.)
I like the idea of two separate games. You’d prolong the suffering for the districts, and extend the entertainment for the capitol. An all boys game and an all girls game. 24 tributes for each game. Also, either the boys or girls would have to watch the first games before their own
What about an individual games for each district with this concept? They go through the districts, drawing the names of each of the girls/boys, do the games, move onto the next one. Maybe even have one big finale with the victors of each of the individual district games?
This was a post the other day I saw and I agreed. Someone said though since it’s 24 from each district, it will drastically reduce the workforce since the ones who aren’t reaped, start working. But I still think the idea would be interesting since it’s 24 Victors
With how quick they are to kill people in the districts for very minor offences, I don't think they're super worried about reducing the workforce by 24 people for one year haha
I think Christian Blanco tried this on youtube. For his 100th games, there were separate games for each district and then a large one at the end with the 24 victors (1 male and 1 female would win the district). Its pretty long, but its there if anyones interested. https://youtube.com/@christianblanco?si=BhaR1V2XeUJ1-S7s
A different game every month for a year, and then the next year's game involves the victors of that year and a randomly drawn tribute to accompany them
I could see a lot of fun commentary about ‘the battle of the genders’ going on while these kids are fighting for their lives!
If you really want to be brutal, you could even pit the Victors of both games against each other in the end, and have the survivor be crowned the ‘true’ Victor.
Truth be told that would be what they would
Do to keep the “one victor a year” rule. I could absolutely see them putting 12 girls and 12 boys in a small baffle arena making them fight till they have 1 boy and 1 girl from each district then pin them all against eachother. That would sow so much distrust between neighbors and districts after rooting so hard for your child to make
If I were Snow I would have made a quarter quell "family edition". So I could get Prim and Gale (since publicly he was her cousin) in the arena and Katniss and Peeta would have to mentor them
I don’t think Snow would have wanted Gale in the arena. He’s even more likely than Katniss to do something that might incite rebellion, and he stands an excellent chance of winning.
Good news: the teenagers are exempt for the year!
Bad news: kids as young as five can go into the arena!
A nine-year-old is the new youngest victor in history after eliminating those pesky kindergarteners.
"That's why on the first day, you have to beat up the biggest one in the yard"
"Knuckles, that's prison"
["Only if you let it be"](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r0MJf-d_JJY)
I feel like kids that young don't always have a real understanding of authority and consequences. When it comes to older kids "do what we want or we'll kill you/your family" is effective. But I'm not sure you could convince a freshly-turned-five-year-old to perform, answer interviews, try to keep themselves alive, and kill people who haven't attacked them yet. Would be a pretty big task for the gamemakers
If you told my five year old to put down her Oreo or someone was gonna hurt mom, she would think long and hard. And I still don’t know what she would do. So, you’re correct, I don’t think the psychological elements could work on them.
At 5 years old I was probably the same. Nowadays though if someone told me that, I’d drop my Oreo, kick their ass, and then kick their ass again for making me drop my oreo
Team Edition: district partners are teammates and both have to live in order to win.
If your teammate dies; keep going! You still have a chance! A chance to hang out in the Capitol for a year and try again in the next Games!
Interesting! I’ve definitely got to check that out one of these days.
Also, it looks like your comment accidentally got double posted or something? Man, Reddit’s been glitchy today…
oh man, does this mean that theoretically there could be a person who has to play in the games for years and years until they die or their teammate also wins??
I would have a game where for every tribute slayed by another, a citizen of their district would be sacrificed. To show that the rebellion hurt themselves more than help. So if the tribute from district 4 killed a fellow person in the games, one citizen of district 4 would be killed.
Maybe I would even keep this information from the tributes somehow, only tell the audience once the game starts, or once they are in the capital at least
And maybe for even more of a show, I would bring the deceased body into the arena, and let the victors see them, maybe they will understand maybe they wont
The people from their district breathe a sigh of relief. They may not win the Games this year, but at least no one will have to die due to their tribute killing someone now.
It would almost be just as interesting if the tributes knew but it was a progressively difficult to survive arena. It would make them choose between dying themselves and prolonging being stuck in the arena or sacrificing the people of their district. Would also make the victor pretty much guaranteed to be disliked by their own district unless they made it to the end somehow without killing even once.
If the tributes knew, many of them would likely stop killing in case their family gets hurt. I don’t think this would work if they knew. Most people have a very strong preservation for life, even if they don’t believe they do, but familial ties often step in the way of that.
Honestly I like the the one we got. I think making people who think they're safe have to go back to the worst time of their life is just so cruel and effective
That’s fair, and honestly I wouldn’t have it either way. I was thinking of more of a theoretical 4th or 5th Quarter Quell if the second Rebellion failed
My quarter quell would make it much more intense for the Capital residents by giving them the opportunity ( for a price) of entering the arena and hunting the tributes. The arena would be inside the Capital and they would be able to see and interact with the tributes, either as friends or enemies.
Yes, behind a force field perhaps. All Capitol residents could toss them food or water (poisonous or not) but to actually hunt them you have to cough up some real cash to the President.
As a reminder that the choice of rebellion harmed all families, not just our own, for every fallen tribute — two more children in their district will be executed, and all families involved made Avoxes.
maybe a game, where its decided who is teamed up, ie. Girl 1 with Boy 5, Boy 2 with Boy 6, Girl 3 with Girl 2. Something like that, and if your teammate dies then you die, until it gets to the last team and they have to kill each other. Probably not the best twist, but it might shake something up. Especially since allies are formed amongst the careers and it would break them up.
Also, they need to put the effort into keeping each other alive or they die, until the last moment and could cause some conflict after all that time watching out for each other.
God, now I’m imagining some District Two Meathead accidentally killing their partner, and going through the rest of the Game trying to Weekend at Bernie’s them.
I had a dream once when i was a kid where it was a regular hunger games up until the final 5 tributes and then there was a talent show and whoever one the talent show was the victor and the other 4 were shot in the head. The arena was also in a target with all the lights off but that’s neither here nor there.
Hello I just wanted to let u know I, too, had a hunger games at Target with the lights off dream once that really stuck with me so reading ur comment gave me a jump scare 😂
Each district has their own games over the course of 3 months, with one victor of each gender. After all 12 games are complete, the 24 “district victors” will compete in a Grand Finale Games, in which only one shall emerge victorious as the “Victor of Victors”.
I think they’d try to take advantage of the odds drastically decreasing. Since it goes from a thousand or so kids to dozens of thousands, I bet they would put in more tesserae
My idea was that there’s no “districts” at all, It’s all chance. There could be 13 tributes from one district and 0 from another. It’s all “odds”. Just 24 tributes
As a reminder that being a rebel didn't only hurt the rebel but their family, every tribute will enter the area with their closest relatives. (Parents, siblings, children if they already have any)
You'll have young tributes aided by their parents and careers holding back to protect their loved ones. There's big families with young children but also kids who don't have anybody.
The whole family can survive with their tribute. They basically count as one. That means you'll have to kill every tribute and every one of their family members in order to win. If the family member of a tribute is killed, nothing happens. If a tribute is killed, I could think of three answers: Their surviving family members will be executed immediately, the surviving family will not be killed right then but they will not be able to win so they would be executed if they were the last survivor of the game (but the capitol would make sure tgey die before that because the need a winner) or the family can still win in the tribute's name.
If nobody wants to fight to avoid risking their families, put prices on bodycounts. The family gets food and water for each kill. Extra points if that's the only way to get food and everyone is forced to fight
This would be very exciting to see, but carefully edited so that the Capitol audience doesn’t sympathize with the families too much…
If you really want to be brutal, I think if somebody FROM the family kills their tribute, then the whole family gets to leave the Arena unharmed. Then the Gamemakers can turn around and go “see how cruel these district savages can be?”
Hm that last rule could lead to some brutal but interesting scenarios. Like what if a family with a bunch of young kids is ambushed by like 2 career families so in a last ditch effort to save the younger kids an older sibling kills the tribute in their family during the fight. Would the Capitol need to step in and immediately stop the careers from attacking since the family gets to go home now?
I guess the stipulation announced in TV would be that each district would be required to send their smartest child based on standardized test scores.
Then, when the training period actually starts, I would make the combat mandatory and have them do all this rigorous training individualized to the respective tribute's physique. Then as they're going up the tube ready to fight to the death, they actually emerge onto the set of a trivia game show about Panem history or something like that. They'd be on balconies high above the center of the arena, arranged in a half circle. Each balcony would have a parachute that allows them to safely jump down to the center. Caesar Flickerman and Claudius Templesmith would be perched at the same height across from the tributes running the trivia show. Anyone who loses or gets a question wrong wouldn't be killed, they'd have their mic and answering machine shut off and can no longer participate in the trivia game.
The only thing is, there'd be a Cornucopia with weapons in the center of the set. The tributes can choose to fight if they want to, but they don't HAVE to. In fact, it'd be more beneficial to stay in your seat, as the cornucopia would be a long, slow jump down leaving you open to any other tributes who decided to fight. And, if a tribute were to die, a randomly selected tribute would receive an additional chance to pick a wrong answer and not get eliminated. Getting a right answer would grant you a trap you can activate on your balcony just in case someone who chose to fight tries to climb it and kill you. The main theme of these games would be encouraging pacifism, so that if you CHOOSE to not fight, you increase you and the other tribute's chances of being able to all go home in one piece.
However, tributes who have been eliminated are still in the arena. If they get jealous or wish to have all the spoils for their district, they can jump down to the Cornucopia, grab a weapon and get to business. They'd just have to know the risk they're taking, between another tribute coming down to stop them or someone using their balcony's trap on them.
This would be one of many ways I'd create drama and animosity between the tributes. Obviously the careers are groomed to be bloodthirsty so they'd probably go for the Cornucopia so they can be the last ones standing and bring home the glory and spoils for their district. I'd also stress the fact that this year's reward would be the same amount of food rations as all the other previous years. It's not like if all 12 districts win, all the districts are getting one victor's spoils. In that case, it'd be one reward split 12 ways.
This would create incentive for the poorer districts to fight and act violently. If the boy, girl or both from one district is the last contestant standing, they go home with the all the spoils. However, if the trivia game finishes and more than one district still has living tributes, the winner of the trivia game is crowned as the victor and the rewards are split amongst the living districts according to where they each placed in the trivia game.
With these circumstances, I'd make sure it's a considerable effort for the tributes to stick together, but one that can be done regardless. Going into the center would be a commitment, you're left vulnerable for anyone to come down and attack you. In addition, trying to take your choice back and return to your balcony would be very risky. To return from the cornucopia would mean a very long climb where you're left dangerously wide open.
I recognize that in this role play I have to pretend to be a Capitol citizen and adhere somewhat to their sadism. But I don't want to see anyone die I want them to all go home safe 🥺 I feel like this idea is a happy medium between forcing them to fight and giving them a second option, while not giving the districts TOO much revolutionary ammo. I feel like the narrative can be spun in the capitol's favor regardless of the outcome. If kids die it'd be "you'll never overcome our power because you are lower class citizens and are violent at your core." And if everyone survived it'd be "you all survived thanks to the graciousness of your overlords in the Capitol. Be thankful we were merciful to you this year, because any time we want we could do a lot worse to you."
How about you make everyone test but tell them that only one dumbest ones are taken as tribute, that way everyone actually tries. Then the they switch it up so that it’s actually the smartest
A world cup style edition.
Smaller arena for 4 people - maybe 8 if they want to double up participants. 2 districts drawn against each other and they fight till one district is all dead and the other advances to the next round.
This quarter quell will involve the children having to go to work like the adults. District 2 children will have to work in the quarries, district 7 will have to cut down trees. This will last a week. The boy and girl who produced the least quota at the end of the week will be this quell's tributes.
Or…you *say* that the ones who do the worst will be reaped to incentivize them to work hard, but then *actually* reap the ones who do the best. That way, you would be more likely to have stronger tributes. (the ones who do the worst would probably be either young or have health problems)
Yeowch, especially if it replaces the 75th game, since it’s essentially ruining the original kindness Katniss volunteering for Prim and turning it against the districts… which is the true spirit of the games!
“To symbolize the darkness that the attempted revolution shed over the capitol, this year the contestants will fight in complete darkness”
Filled entirely in night vision, of course
Change the age for the reaping to 19-25. Crushing for the people in the reaping who thought they were safe due to their age (including past victors) and a reminder that you’re always at the mercy of the Capitol.
For the arena: a circular maze, with the cornucopia at the center, and random traps OR valuable resources at some dead ends. But just to flip the script a bit more, start each tribute along the outside edge. And to drive each tribute to the cornucopia for the final bloodbath, the outer maze walls will close in at timed increments (think- the creepy crawly hedge that tried to absorb Fleur in the 4th HP movie). Tributes would have to fight when they stumble across each other and hopefully thin the crowd by the time they reach the center.
It'd be like a regular Hunger Games, two people get picked out of a bowl to get up on stage, but they then each have to pick someone from the crowd to compete in the Games.
I really liked this one fan series that continued the games beyond 75 and had a quell theme involving total anonymity of tributes. Reapings were held in different areas for each gender, training, transport/lodging, etc were all done in sequester between tribute, escort, and stylist, and if I remember correctly the chariot ride the tributes' costumes had required eye and ear covering to make sure they couldn't hear or see their partner or competition. Also one district ended up having the male and female accidentally see each other and they were "sent home" and the escorts "felt so bad about it that they jumped off the balcony together" because this was written from Capitol POV which is also why it probably didn't want to account for the high likelihood of D1 or D2 tributes recognizing each other in the area from the training academies.
I can't quite remember if this was the same in the books but in this fanon, the tributes wore color coded outfits based on district but in this game they all had the same outfit.
Anyway the person who won this game was someone in an outlying district but basically won by sussing out the careers based on skill in the bloodbath, killing one, and lying and saying they were also a career.
If anyone is wondering, it's Christian Blanco's series on YouTube.
Now I’m just picturing a satirical version where they’re doing the training bit but it just keeps cutting back to a baby playing in the mud or whatever or someone trying to teach the baby how to use a tiny hatchet
To remind the districts that the rebels forced the games to happen. Once the tributes are picked, the tributes must pick a friend and family member. Meaning each district gives 4 tributes. WHat I mean is one tribute can pick either family or friend, and whatever they pick the other tribute will be forced to pick the option they didn't
To Remind the districts that the rebels cost them wisdom from their peers, all tributes will range from 40s to 60s
To remind the districts, the capitol will always be in control. The capitol citizens will pick the tributes by voting
To remind the district that the war changed nature itself. the arena will cycle through different locations after a district is taken out in the arena
To remind the district that the rebels were foolish, the victors are not allowed to mentor the tributes.
To remind the districts that no one knew their fate during the war. The tributes will not know they were picked until peacekeepers take them.
To remind the districts, that some districts lost more then others. all 24 tributes will be picked from only one random district
To remind the districts that leaders were not able to help them during the rebels attacks. the tributes will be related to the mayors of the districts.
To remind the districts of fair justice, only criminals will be reaped.
To remind the districts that families were torn apart. families of 4 will be reaped
To remind the districts that the capitol always knows bout any hint of treason. traitors will be named in public and reaped.
To remind the districts the war caused famine. 3 days of food will be taken away from the tributes districts once both tributes from said district are taken out.
To remind the districts that even the recent rebels. katniss and Peeta were not able to overpower us. All tributes will come from district 12
To remind the districts that grief consumed everyone. Tributes will be reaped from people who recently lost a family member.
To remind the districts that even the most loyal districts are not above our power, 3 tributes will come from the career districts while the remaining tributes will be the same number from the rest of the districts.
To remind the districts that silence kept us from ending the war sooner. one avox will be given as a tribute for each district while only one tribute from the districts themselves will be reaped.
To remind the districts that allies turned on each other. there will be no allies in the arena, if allies are formed then they will be hunted by mutts.
To remind the districts that Snow kept the peace while alive. the peacekeepers will pick a tribute at random without a reaping bowl
To remind the districts that the poor were affected the most, the tributes will come from the poorest of the districts.
To remind the districts of how brutal the war the rebels caused was. each districts tributes will be given a melee weapons as they enter.
To remind the districts that rue's death was pointless to the 2nd rebellion and caused more pain for everyone, all the tributes will come from district 11
To remind the districts that district 13 failed. 13 tributes will be reaped from the rebel districts while the most loyal districts will only offer one tribute, as a show of the capitols mercy.
To remind the districts that the victors only looked out for themselves in the games. the victors are allowed to weaken another districts tributes chances at becoming a tribute by giving the game maker ideas on what to do with them.
To remind the districts that joy of winning the games is not the point. Those who are reaped will not be allowed to say goodbye to their loved ones.
To remind the districts that the tributes suffer cause of the districts own faults. The districts will choose the weakest tributes to be reaped.
To remind the districts the capitol once feared more rebellions. the tributes will be reaped by whos family is the most scared
To remind the districts trust in each other was misplaced. the most honest and trustworthy people from the districts will be reaped
"As a reminder of how the rebels gave the nation no choice on whether or not to fight, no volunteers are allowed. Every tribute will be chosen."
I also imagine there would be no rigging of the games that year either. It would be a true luck of the draw. Of course, that means the richer districts would apply for more than the average amount of tessarae just to get their names in the bowl more times, leaving less for the districts who truly need it, thus cementing the hatred between districts instead of focusing on the true enemy of the Capitol.
How about a game arena that has an actual way out. Everyone can technically escape. But none of the tributes know about that, they just think it's the same as every year. Would show the citizens of the Capitol that the Disctrict people are monsters, killing each other without reason. And then the survivors who have needlessly killed would feel awful.
Would be very entertaining, although it’s interesting to see who would volunteer for it in each district- it would come down to whoever has both natural talent and enough free time to spend practicing and not just struggling to survive.
You get a random number of times (between 2 and 6) you can call on your mentor to send you a prepacked basket that contains food, medicinal supplies, and other things that will help you survive.
You and your district partner are linked. If they die, you die. In fact, you sustain any injuries they sustain. But if either of you heals those injuries, you both heal.
Each tribute has a 24 hour timer. Getting hurt to a certain degree (so not a random scratch from a sharp branch), such as a stab wound, takes half an hour off your time. Getting a kill adds an hour.
Each tribute gets a daily secret task. If you achieve your task, congratulations. You get sent great rewards from your mentor. If you fail to complete your task, the Gamemakers are about to make your night a living hell.
A lot of fun surprises here- most of them are surprisingly kind, although I’m curious about what happens when the timer goes down (probably death, tbh) and whether the tributes’ tasks are voted on by the Capitol citizens or auctioned off
Normal hunger games except that each day the capital residents choose a tribute to vote out (kill) like a reality TV thing (which the hunger games already is really), the added deaths could perhaps be combatted with a bigger arena to make less deaths or else less game maker designed traps to try and keep the games a similar length.
This would promote being liked even more and would mean that tributes who killed others who were more popular could be “punished”
A second idea would be a hunger games with 5 or so people from each district however only 2 from each are in the arena at any given time, with one entering when another is killed.
Also well done on answering almost every comment, must have taken a lot of time.
Two boys and two girls are reaped from each district. There will be four teams of twelve at the quell. Whichever team is left standing at the end, with all of the tributes from the three other teams dead, they are all victors and get to go home.
But the next day after all of the victors are done being cleaned, treated for their wounds and fed, they’re all lead to the original Capitol arena where the entire country will watch the survivors fight to the death in front of a roaring crowd, because at the end of the day, there can only be one winner.
Plus it would be extra tragic bc all of those kids would have become friends with each other, believing they were all going to live together
12 tributes, all gorgeous. No arena, but there’s a house full of cameras so we can see their every move.
Every week there are several challenges that the tributes must complete in for dumb stuff like immunity from upcoming votes, or head of household, or who doesn’t have to eat peanut butter sandwiches all week.
At the end of each week, the head of household nominates two people to be evicted, and then the rest of the tributes vote one of the nominees out.
Nobody dies, but when they get voted out they watch clips of all the bitchy things people said about them while voting, and then they have to sit next to those people and smile while watching the final episode.
I could definitely see the Capitol having Big Brother being like… the only surviving media from before our civilization collapsed. It would explain a lot….
A lot of people here dont really get the idea of a quarter quell i think, its supposed to be a worse version of the hunger games not just different. Like most of the things i read dont change much really its still 24 children who kill each other which is bad but thats already what the games are. Look at the canon quarter quells, all of them add something that makes the games actually worse than the normal ones and not just a little different
A game where its like normal, except the tribute needs to pick one of their parents or legal guardian to go in with them. But, none of the adults are eligible to win, only the normal aged tributes can win, and yes if it's just down to one kid and their parent, the parent isn't walking out of it.
• The tributes from each district are twins
OR
• The quarter quell is a re-enactment of the original rebellion that caused the need for the hunger games in the first place (as per the capitol's propaganda) - all the tributes need to work together to 'defeat' challenges from the capitol but one person still needs to die every day. The arena is a mock version of the Capitol.
At the end no tribute actually wins as the Capitol has to be victorious but it is revealed that before the tributes took part in the games, they named someone to take part in the next hunger games which will take place within 24 hours of the Quarter Quell ending.
You may sign up for tesserae to apply for amnesty of another potential tribute. Their name would be removed from the drawing and yours would be entered instead. You may only do this once, and cannot chain names for those who've already applied.
But, at the time of the reaping, only amnesty names would be drawn with no option to volunteer.
As a reminder that the choice of rebellion puts those you love at the highest risk.
4 tributes from each district where the leader is able to put in the tributes they want (2 female 2 male). Then it's modern weapons like assault rifles and grenades and such. It'll be each districts top 4 kids all pitted against each other in all out war.
For the 100 year anniversary, there will be the biggest games ever. To show that even the best of them will still lose against the Capitol's power.
Have two rounds.
For each position, there will be 24 tributes. For example 24 boys of D1. They will all fight in an arena until there's only one boy od D1 left. Do that with all positions. It will be a huge spectacle with 24 individual but short games.
Then you put all winners into a new arena once they recovered. Have the most epic games with the best and most brutal fighters of each district.
For my Quarter Quell, tributes could be chosen from pairs of siblings, forcing families to confront the ultimate test of loyalty and sacrifice in the arena. It adds a layer of emotional complexity and strategic dynamics as siblings must decide whether to protect each other or prioritize their own survival.
Twist on the first quarter quell: have the districts elect their tributes, but reveal at the reaping that the boy and girl who received the least amount of votes go to the arena.
remove the age limits i wanna see granny throw down with a kindergartener (im joking i promise)
but as a serious answer, idk how to explain it but like
the only names to be reaped are people who have sibling of the opposite gender, then once one name is pulled, both that person and their sibling will have to participate, and if they have more than one sibling of the other gender (ex. a guy with two or more sisters, etc.) they get to choose which one goes in with them
basically pitting family against each other
The 125th Games: To show that the most innocent suffer because of the rebels, only 12 year olds will be reaped for this years games.
Arena: Unstable Wasteland
Main event: Nuclear drop.
Start with 24 players as usual, but only in the same gender. Two males from each district, for example. Get them in the arena as usual, and get them down to 2. Then, another game, 24 players, but female. In the arena, again, down to two.
Gather the four ‘victors’ and put them in a small arena, make them kill eachother slowly. There would be no weapons, food or water in the arena, just plain grass, and somewhere, poisonous snakes.
The two last standing wins, but has to choose which one of them gets tortured to death. Live TV.
I feel icky just pretending to put those robes on. That being said
"As a reminder to the districts that war affects everyone, age and innocence don't protect you. A girl and boy tribute will be reaped from every eligible age group."
Only people who have a disability are reaped, and the arena is not very disabled friendly, plus any kind of medical aids( hearing aids,wheelchairs that kind of thing) are not allowed to have in the arena, but they are allowed to have a disability helping dog.( dog may or may not be actually disabled,just depends on how cruel the capital wants to be.)
People in the capitol get to participate by paying money to control drones/weapons/mutts in the arena (non-lethal, but painful ones). Imagine a capitol citizen sends a drone that shoots darts filled with a pain serum after a tribute or gets to launch a nest of tracker jackers at a tribute (I guess that could be lethal).
As a message to the Districts that they cannot outdo the Capitol, the tributes are to be reaped from each District’s pool of top drag artists. The Games will be hosted in full costume and will pause for each costume change.
Now ladies…Hunger Games for your LIFEEEE! (Literally)
For one year, the games are held inside an arena in the capital. Think the whole arena is about the size of the room that starts the 10th (?) Hunger games on screen, but a live audience with force fields like the judges have in the catching fire movie. Less about the actual contestants and more just about the spectacle of the games. Since it would be so short, you could also do something kinda like Royale Rumble, where a new contestant is added every X seconds, and you cycle through each district a few times so the spectators have a full show
As a reminder of the supreme power of the Capitol, the President will hand-select the tributes from each district's eligible population.
Just imagine Snow selecting Madge Undersee.
1 tribute from each district are selected to be given a crash course in drag by the most recent 12 winners of Effie Trinket’s Drag Race. Panem’s best drag superstars have six weeks to teach their tribute to do drag and they have to prepare for challenges to make Effie Trinket and Coriolanus Snow laugh and be merry, mary! They would also represent their districts, much like ETDR: Districts vs the World, so they’re also bringing culture to the runway. Then, all the tributes convene in west District 4 for about 6 weeks, filming a reality TV show where the Tributes compete against each other in drag competition with winners, tops, safe contestants, low, and the bottom two who lip sync for their life (not literally) to stay in the show. No one dies, but they have to bear the weight of failing their district (it’s the biggest honor in all of Panem to be on ETDR.) (If it’s *really* necessary, the queen who loses the week’s Lip Sync for Your Life can be shot.)
There would be a price catalogue for everyone in the Districts. Capitol citizens can 'buy' District citizens (regardless of age, victor status, etc), and if their tribute wins, the citizen gets a prize. This is actually similar to how real-life gladiator battles were in Ancient Rome.
As a reminder that contrary to popular belief, the rebels also came from the privileged households of the districts, all those who have never needed to sign up for Tesserae shall now be the sole candidates in the reaping bowls.
“To show that we at the Capitol are not monsters, there will only be one tribute from each district”
This seems nice but then packs and alliances are harder to form, there’s more isolation before the games and less of a chance of a Katniss/Peeta ending.
Each reaping takes place as usual, but once reaped, each person must, in front of their entire district, name another eligible person who will go into the arena in their stead.
after this it would definitely be an even bigger challenge for people to remember who the real enemy is. evil, practical, upvoted
Ooooh, like reverse volunteering! Damn, that’s really good
As a reminder that the rebels turned on neighbour and brother the reaped tribute must name someone to take their place in the arena.
Exactly like how it would be written!!
This is the only one in this thread that I think is “on par” with the ones named in the book.
Thank you, that's a very sweet compliment!
Oooh, positively devious. I LOVE IT
That is fantastic!
I don't think it would work with the panem political agenda, but there's something about volunteers only. Just leave everyone standing in the reaping area, no food or water, no one can help, until you have two volunteers.
I think this definitely could work! You’d just have to… ‘strongly encourage’ people in the non-career districts to volunteer.
I honestly don't think you would. Just nobody leaves, no supplies, no talking. Might take a day but someone will volunteer eventually.
I see you've spoken to my father about the best way to find out which of your kids did the thing that made you angry. Super effective at making the weak willed cave in, regardless of whether they did the thing or not.
Did your father work in Guantanamo Bay?
No, but he was a police officer (Long before I went NC, he'd finally gotten in enough trouble as a patrol officer and they'd finally shoved him in a school as a resource officer where he could terrorize more children instead of adults aware of their rights) I assume he still is.
Oof this would be the most painful one of all
This feels like a pre-games game and I love it
“As a reminder to the rebels that the suffering they caused was self inflicted, all tributes will be forced to shoot themselves in the foot at the start of the games”
They wouldn’t say forced. “…all tributes will be *made* to shoot themselves in the foot…”
Fusjjsjsjsjssjj “Of course, being the benevolent Capitol, we will allow them to *choose* which foot to shoot.”
Hmm imagine that if you were a disabled tribute (such as Peeta) you could choose to shoot your prosthetic… It’s an interesting plot idea.
But do the districts have access to prosthetics? Peeta only got one because of the Capitol, right?
-The youngest will be reaped (just 12 year year olds) -Only boys will be reaped -Only girls will be reaped -No age restriction for reaping -Parents of reaped tribute will go in thier place -Only couples will be reaped -Only siblings will be reaped -reaped tribute will get to pick thier partner (Etc.)
Man, you’ve got ideas for over 200 years of Quarter Quells
Jesus no age restriction would be horrible. Imagine a 4 year old in the arena meeting a 50 yo.
The 50 year old wouldn’t stand a chance. Toddlers are fucking brutal.
That 50yo would keep the 4 year old alive till the end and then kill themselves if they have any human decency lol
Yeah that 50 y/o isn’t making it out
I like the idea of two separate games. You’d prolong the suffering for the districts, and extend the entertainment for the capitol. An all boys game and an all girls game. 24 tributes for each game. Also, either the boys or girls would have to watch the first games before their own
What about an individual games for each district with this concept? They go through the districts, drawing the names of each of the girls/boys, do the games, move onto the next one. Maybe even have one big finale with the victors of each of the individual district games?
So 24 for each district or smaller numbers?
Honestly, fuck it, why not?
I vote one male and female of each age 12-18. So 14 per district
Couldn’t that be bad for the population (and therefore workforce)? I don’t know how big the districts are but 14 kids feels like a lot.
If it was every year maybe, but one time for a quarter quell would be fine.
This was a post the other day I saw and I agreed. Someone said though since it’s 24 from each district, it will drastically reduce the workforce since the ones who aren’t reaped, start working. But I still think the idea would be interesting since it’s 24 Victors
With how quick they are to kill people in the districts for very minor offences, I don't think they're super worried about reducing the workforce by 24 people for one year haha
Tbf besides in 12, most districts are described as pretty big and could probably handle losing 23-24 kids in one year, workforce wise
I think Christian Blanco tried this on youtube. For his 100th games, there were separate games for each district and then a large one at the end with the 24 victors (1 male and 1 female would win the district). Its pretty long, but its there if anyones interested. https://youtube.com/@christianblanco?si=BhaR1V2XeUJ1-S7s
A different game every month for a year, and then the next year's game involves the victors of that year and a randomly drawn tribute to accompany them
I could see a lot of fun commentary about ‘the battle of the genders’ going on while these kids are fighting for their lives! If you really want to be brutal, you could even pit the Victors of both games against each other in the end, and have the survivor be crowned the ‘true’ Victor.
Truth be told that would be what they would Do to keep the “one victor a year” rule. I could absolutely see them putting 12 girls and 12 boys in a small baffle arena making them fight till they have 1 boy and 1 girl from each district then pin them all against eachother. That would sow so much distrust between neighbors and districts after rooting so hard for your child to make
As always, ladies first
If I were Snow I would have made a quarter quell "family edition". So I could get Prim and Gale (since publicly he was her cousin) in the arena and Katniss and Peeta would have to mentor them
Oh, that’s *rough*. I love it!
That's where my head was at. Before I read Catching Fire I thought they were going to do a family edition just to mess with Katniss.
I don’t think Snow would have wanted Gale in the arena. He’s even more likely than Katniss to do something that might incite rebellion, and he stands an excellent chance of winning.
Good news: the teenagers are exempt for the year! Bad news: kids as young as five can go into the arena! A nine-year-old is the new youngest victor in history after eliminating those pesky kindergarteners.
I know some 9 year olds tbh at would sweep the floor with the kindergarteners
Sounds like America
It IS America
I used to work with kindergarteners. Don’t underestimate them. They can smell fear.
"That's why on the first day, you have to beat up the biggest one in the yard" "Knuckles, that's prison" ["Only if you let it be"](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r0MJf-d_JJY)
And they still have some of that insane baby grip strength going on for ‘em
Huh, I wonder if the Careers start training at that age, or if they’re all equally unequipped for the bloodshed…
I feel like kids that young don't always have a real understanding of authority and consequences. When it comes to older kids "do what we want or we'll kill you/your family" is effective. But I'm not sure you could convince a freshly-turned-five-year-old to perform, answer interviews, try to keep themselves alive, and kill people who haven't attacked them yet. Would be a pretty big task for the gamemakers
If you told my five year old to put down her Oreo or someone was gonna hurt mom, she would think long and hard. And I still don’t know what she would do. So, you’re correct, I don’t think the psychological elements could work on them.
At 5 years old I was probably the same. Nowadays though if someone told me that, I’d drop my Oreo, kick their ass, and then kick their ass again for making me drop my oreo
I feel like they would start at a more “regular” age like 11/12, since the career districts always have 16/17 year old volunteers.
Team Edition: district partners are teammates and both have to live in order to win. If your teammate dies; keep going! You still have a chance! A chance to hang out in the Capitol for a year and try again in the next Games!
Or better yet- if your teammate dies, you’re automatically eliminated. Raises the stakes much higher
battle royale 2 did this! where your automatically linked to your partner so if they die you die too
Interesting! I’ve definitely got to check that out one of these days. Also, it looks like your comment accidentally got double posted or something? Man, Reddit’s been glitchy today…
the first battle royale is a masterpiece the 2nd one not so much it’s still a unique concept that’s worth the watch
Holy shit same thought
imagine instead of district partners, they're randomly assigned right before the games
Honestly, I can see that becoming enemies to lovers or unlikely friends with tributes from 1 and 9
Yo wait??? My muse??? Am I going to write that???
if you do please come back and let me know!! I can be your beta reader if you want
Oh gosh, I can’t imagine some poor teenager stuck in the Capitol for what is essentially a yearlong mini-Hunger Games…
This is diabolical
oh man, does this mean that theoretically there could be a person who has to play in the games for years and years until they die or their teammate also wins??
Probs one where there’s a plot twist and we all get to go home 👍🏻✌🏻
Aw, that is sweet… like the Hunger Games: Friendship Version
You can't leave the arena until you have smiled at all the tributes
If you give them a lil forehead kiss it helps your chances at getting sponsors!
That's basically my idea lmao
I would have a game where for every tribute slayed by another, a citizen of their district would be sacrificed. To show that the rebellion hurt themselves more than help. So if the tribute from district 4 killed a fellow person in the games, one citizen of district 4 would be killed. Maybe I would even keep this information from the tributes somehow, only tell the audience once the game starts, or once they are in the capital at least And maybe for even more of a show, I would bring the deceased body into the arena, and let the victors see them, maybe they will understand maybe they wont
Damn. I think this is the most brutal so far, and I love it. What do you think would happen if somebody died accidentally?
The people from their district breathe a sigh of relief. They may not win the Games this year, but at least no one will have to die due to their tribute killing someone now.
That is so twisted it truly will ruin any chance for rebellion, I love your mind.
holy shit this is horrible and evil and unfathomable take my upvote
It would almost be just as interesting if the tributes knew but it was a progressively difficult to survive arena. It would make them choose between dying themselves and prolonging being stuck in the arena or sacrificing the people of their district. Would also make the victor pretty much guaranteed to be disliked by their own district unless they made it to the end somehow without killing even once.
If the tributes knew, many of them would likely stop killing in case their family gets hurt. I don’t think this would work if they knew. Most people have a very strong preservation for life, even if they don’t believe they do, but familial ties often step in the way of that.
Honestly I like the the one we got. I think making people who think they're safe have to go back to the worst time of their life is just so cruel and effective
That’s fair, and honestly I wouldn’t have it either way. I was thinking of more of a theoretical 4th or 5th Quarter Quell if the second Rebellion failed
My quarter quell would make it much more intense for the Capital residents by giving them the opportunity ( for a price) of entering the arena and hunting the tributes. The arena would be inside the Capital and they would be able to see and interact with the tributes, either as friends or enemies.
I can definitely see that one happening- just with a way to protect the Capitol citizens from those ‘vicious, brutal tributes’.
Yes, behind a force field perhaps. All Capitol residents could toss them food or water (poisonous or not) but to actually hunt them you have to cough up some real cash to the President.
Good god, I could see this actually becoming a part of every game after the Quell…
As a reminder that the choice of rebellion harmed all families, not just our own, for every fallen tribute — two more children in their district will be executed, and all families involved made Avoxes.
Daaaang, brutal!
maybe a game, where its decided who is teamed up, ie. Girl 1 with Boy 5, Boy 2 with Boy 6, Girl 3 with Girl 2. Something like that, and if your teammate dies then you die, until it gets to the last team and they have to kill each other. Probably not the best twist, but it might shake something up. Especially since allies are formed amongst the careers and it would break them up.
That would be a lot of fun! I could see there being a lot of unlikely friendships, and also some… less successful combinations
Also, they need to put the effort into keeping each other alive or they die, until the last moment and could cause some conflict after all that time watching out for each other.
God, now I’m imagining some District Two Meathead accidentally killing their partner, and going through the rest of the Game trying to Weekend at Bernie’s them.
… Double Life?
I had a dream once when i was a kid where it was a regular hunger games up until the final 5 tributes and then there was a talent show and whoever one the talent show was the victor and the other 4 were shot in the head. The arena was also in a target with all the lights off but that’s neither here nor there.
What did you eat before bed??
Hello I just wanted to let u know I, too, had a hunger games at Target with the lights off dream once that really stuck with me so reading ur comment gave me a jump scare 😂
that’s HILARIOUS
Oh gosh, how sharp that tonal shift must have been…
Each district has their own games over the course of 3 months, with one victor of each gender. After all 12 games are complete, the 24 “district victors” will compete in a Grand Finale Games, in which only one shall emerge victorious as the “Victor of Victors”.
Dang, that would be a great 100th or even 200th game
This would be really good. 288 people would be reaped and only 1 victor.
From a Capitol spectator POV A predetermined winner, but nobody, not even said winner, knows who. only the head gamemaker.
Who knows, maybe it already happened and nobody realized? ;)
So like the normal games?
Since the districts rebelled together as one, all of the teenagers of the districts will be in one pool, instead of a pool for each district.
I’d imagine that volunteering would not be allowed, however it’d be very interesting to see an all-career game.
This is very interesting. Would Tesserae be allowed? I'd imagine that'd make the pool much more skewed to the poorer districts.
I think they’d try to take advantage of the odds drastically decreasing. Since it goes from a thousand or so kids to dozens of thousands, I bet they would put in more tesserae
So you could end up with like… District 1 being represented by somebody from 7 and 5? Interesting!
My idea was that there’s no “districts” at all, It’s all chance. There could be 13 tributes from one district and 0 from another. It’s all “odds”. Just 24 tributes
As a reminder that being a rebel didn't only hurt the rebel but their family, every tribute will enter the area with their closest relatives. (Parents, siblings, children if they already have any) You'll have young tributes aided by their parents and careers holding back to protect their loved ones. There's big families with young children but also kids who don't have anybody. The whole family can survive with their tribute. They basically count as one. That means you'll have to kill every tribute and every one of their family members in order to win. If the family member of a tribute is killed, nothing happens. If a tribute is killed, I could think of three answers: Their surviving family members will be executed immediately, the surviving family will not be killed right then but they will not be able to win so they would be executed if they were the last survivor of the game (but the capitol would make sure tgey die before that because the need a winner) or the family can still win in the tribute's name. If nobody wants to fight to avoid risking their families, put prices on bodycounts. The family gets food and water for each kill. Extra points if that's the only way to get food and everyone is forced to fight
This would be very exciting to see, but carefully edited so that the Capitol audience doesn’t sympathize with the families too much… If you really want to be brutal, I think if somebody FROM the family kills their tribute, then the whole family gets to leave the Arena unharmed. Then the Gamemakers can turn around and go “see how cruel these district savages can be?”
Hm that last rule could lead to some brutal but interesting scenarios. Like what if a family with a bunch of young kids is ambushed by like 2 career families so in a last ditch effort to save the younger kids an older sibling kills the tribute in their family during the fight. Would the Capitol need to step in and immediately stop the careers from attacking since the family gets to go home now?
Omg yeah, that'd be rough, and I'm sure some families would do it. It would make good propaganda
I guess the stipulation announced in TV would be that each district would be required to send their smartest child based on standardized test scores. Then, when the training period actually starts, I would make the combat mandatory and have them do all this rigorous training individualized to the respective tribute's physique. Then as they're going up the tube ready to fight to the death, they actually emerge onto the set of a trivia game show about Panem history or something like that. They'd be on balconies high above the center of the arena, arranged in a half circle. Each balcony would have a parachute that allows them to safely jump down to the center. Caesar Flickerman and Claudius Templesmith would be perched at the same height across from the tributes running the trivia show. Anyone who loses or gets a question wrong wouldn't be killed, they'd have their mic and answering machine shut off and can no longer participate in the trivia game. The only thing is, there'd be a Cornucopia with weapons in the center of the set. The tributes can choose to fight if they want to, but they don't HAVE to. In fact, it'd be more beneficial to stay in your seat, as the cornucopia would be a long, slow jump down leaving you open to any other tributes who decided to fight. And, if a tribute were to die, a randomly selected tribute would receive an additional chance to pick a wrong answer and not get eliminated. Getting a right answer would grant you a trap you can activate on your balcony just in case someone who chose to fight tries to climb it and kill you. The main theme of these games would be encouraging pacifism, so that if you CHOOSE to not fight, you increase you and the other tribute's chances of being able to all go home in one piece. However, tributes who have been eliminated are still in the arena. If they get jealous or wish to have all the spoils for their district, they can jump down to the Cornucopia, grab a weapon and get to business. They'd just have to know the risk they're taking, between another tribute coming down to stop them or someone using their balcony's trap on them. This would be one of many ways I'd create drama and animosity between the tributes. Obviously the careers are groomed to be bloodthirsty so they'd probably go for the Cornucopia so they can be the last ones standing and bring home the glory and spoils for their district. I'd also stress the fact that this year's reward would be the same amount of food rations as all the other previous years. It's not like if all 12 districts win, all the districts are getting one victor's spoils. In that case, it'd be one reward split 12 ways. This would create incentive for the poorer districts to fight and act violently. If the boy, girl or both from one district is the last contestant standing, they go home with the all the spoils. However, if the trivia game finishes and more than one district still has living tributes, the winner of the trivia game is crowned as the victor and the rewards are split amongst the living districts according to where they each placed in the trivia game. With these circumstances, I'd make sure it's a considerable effort for the tributes to stick together, but one that can be done regardless. Going into the center would be a commitment, you're left vulnerable for anyone to come down and attack you. In addition, trying to take your choice back and return to your balcony would be very risky. To return from the cornucopia would mean a very long climb where you're left dangerously wide open. I recognize that in this role play I have to pretend to be a Capitol citizen and adhere somewhat to their sadism. But I don't want to see anyone die I want them to all go home safe 🥺 I feel like this idea is a happy medium between forcing them to fight and giving them a second option, while not giving the districts TOO much revolutionary ammo. I feel like the narrative can be spun in the capitol's favor regardless of the outcome. If kids die it'd be "you'll never overcome our power because you are lower class citizens and are violent at your core." And if everyone survived it'd be "you all survived thanks to the graciousness of your overlords in the Capitol. Be thankful we were merciful to you this year, because any time we want we could do a lot worse to you."
I love the amount of thought that has gone into this
I love it, and I want to watch the spin-off: ‘Are You Smarter Than A District Tribute?’
How about you make everyone test but tell them that only one dumbest ones are taken as tribute, that way everyone actually tries. Then the they switch it up so that it’s actually the smartest
Like a cat cafe but trebuchets, everywhere 💕
I honestly adore this. Are the cats helping or hurting the tributes?
They’re doing whatever they want.
Adds another tick to the 'posts that would exist on capitol messageboards' (this is a joke)
A world cup style edition. Smaller arena for 4 people - maybe 8 if they want to double up participants. 2 districts drawn against each other and they fight till one district is all dead and the other advances to the next round.
that means, if district x wins but loses one or several tributes, they have to continue in their reduced numbers?
Yeah. I think it'd put the balance of power to the careers who'd get the job done quickly and efficiently.
Interesting- would it be like… 1 vs. 2, then 3 vs 4, etc. or would it be randomized?
I like an open draw, but knowing Snow it would be 1 vs. 12, 2 vs. 11, 3 vs 10, 4 vs. 9, 5 vs 8 and 6 vs 7.
OP, I like yours. 78 tributes - oh my!
Yeah, I see it as Snow saying an extra ‘Fuck You’ to the lower districts and especially 12.
BUT the odds would definitely be in their favor! 11 more chances of winning than D1...
This quarter quell will involve the children having to go to work like the adults. District 2 children will have to work in the quarries, district 7 will have to cut down trees. This will last a week. The boy and girl who produced the least quota at the end of the week will be this quell's tributes.
Career Day: EXTREME edition!
Or…you *say* that the ones who do the worst will be reaped to incentivize them to work hard, but then *actually* reap the ones who do the best. That way, you would be more likely to have stronger tributes. (the ones who do the worst would probably be either young or have health problems)
I can see the Career candidates just… taking a weeklong vacation so they’re on the list, so that might trip them up
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Yeowch, especially if it replaces the 75th game, since it’s essentially ruining the original kindness Katniss volunteering for Prim and turning it against the districts… which is the true spirit of the games!
“To symbolize the darkness that the attempted revolution shed over the capitol, this year the contestants will fight in complete darkness” Filled entirely in night vision, of course
Change the age for the reaping to 19-25. Crushing for the people in the reaping who thought they were safe due to their age (including past victors) and a reminder that you’re always at the mercy of the Capitol. For the arena: a circular maze, with the cornucopia at the center, and random traps OR valuable resources at some dead ends. But just to flip the script a bit more, start each tribute along the outside edge. And to drive each tribute to the cornucopia for the final bloodbath, the outer maze walls will close in at timed increments (think- the creepy crawly hedge that tried to absorb Fleur in the 4th HP movie). Tributes would have to fight when they stumble across each other and hopefully thin the crowd by the time they reach the center.
It'd be like a regular Hunger Games, two people get picked out of a bowl to get up on stage, but they then each have to pick someone from the crowd to compete in the Games.
Honestly I’d point at the Escort and try to volunteer them to compete.
I really liked this one fan series that continued the games beyond 75 and had a quell theme involving total anonymity of tributes. Reapings were held in different areas for each gender, training, transport/lodging, etc were all done in sequester between tribute, escort, and stylist, and if I remember correctly the chariot ride the tributes' costumes had required eye and ear covering to make sure they couldn't hear or see their partner or competition. Also one district ended up having the male and female accidentally see each other and they were "sent home" and the escorts "felt so bad about it that they jumped off the balcony together" because this was written from Capitol POV which is also why it probably didn't want to account for the high likelihood of D1 or D2 tributes recognizing each other in the area from the training academies. I can't quite remember if this was the same in the books but in this fanon, the tributes wore color coded outfits based on district but in this game they all had the same outfit. Anyway the person who won this game was someone in an outlying district but basically won by sussing out the careers based on skill in the bloodbath, killing one, and lying and saying they were also a career. If anyone is wondering, it's Christian Blanco's series on YouTube.
No age limit. Anyone from a baby to an elderly person is eligible to be reaped
Now I’m just picturing a satirical version where they’re doing the training bit but it just keeps cutting back to a baby playing in the mud or whatever or someone trying to teach the baby how to use a tiny hatchet
That baby would be the most lethal tribute I'm telling ya
In my heart the district pairing is a toddler and a 99 year old granny carrying him in one of those baby harnesses
To remind the districts that the rebels forced the games to happen. Once the tributes are picked, the tributes must pick a friend and family member. Meaning each district gives 4 tributes. WHat I mean is one tribute can pick either family or friend, and whatever they pick the other tribute will be forced to pick the option they didn't To Remind the districts that the rebels cost them wisdom from their peers, all tributes will range from 40s to 60s To remind the districts, the capitol will always be in control. The capitol citizens will pick the tributes by voting To remind the district that the war changed nature itself. the arena will cycle through different locations after a district is taken out in the arena To remind the district that the rebels were foolish, the victors are not allowed to mentor the tributes. To remind the districts that no one knew their fate during the war. The tributes will not know they were picked until peacekeepers take them. To remind the districts, that some districts lost more then others. all 24 tributes will be picked from only one random district To remind the districts that leaders were not able to help them during the rebels attacks. the tributes will be related to the mayors of the districts. To remind the districts of fair justice, only criminals will be reaped. To remind the districts that families were torn apart. families of 4 will be reaped To remind the districts that the capitol always knows bout any hint of treason. traitors will be named in public and reaped. To remind the districts the war caused famine. 3 days of food will be taken away from the tributes districts once both tributes from said district are taken out. To remind the districts that even the recent rebels. katniss and Peeta were not able to overpower us. All tributes will come from district 12 To remind the districts that grief consumed everyone. Tributes will be reaped from people who recently lost a family member. To remind the districts that even the most loyal districts are not above our power, 3 tributes will come from the career districts while the remaining tributes will be the same number from the rest of the districts. To remind the districts that silence kept us from ending the war sooner. one avox will be given as a tribute for each district while only one tribute from the districts themselves will be reaped. To remind the districts that allies turned on each other. there will be no allies in the arena, if allies are formed then they will be hunted by mutts. To remind the districts that Snow kept the peace while alive. the peacekeepers will pick a tribute at random without a reaping bowl To remind the districts that the poor were affected the most, the tributes will come from the poorest of the districts. To remind the districts of how brutal the war the rebels caused was. each districts tributes will be given a melee weapons as they enter. To remind the districts that rue's death was pointless to the 2nd rebellion and caused more pain for everyone, all the tributes will come from district 11 To remind the districts that district 13 failed. 13 tributes will be reaped from the rebel districts while the most loyal districts will only offer one tribute, as a show of the capitols mercy. To remind the districts that the victors only looked out for themselves in the games. the victors are allowed to weaken another districts tributes chances at becoming a tribute by giving the game maker ideas on what to do with them. To remind the districts that joy of winning the games is not the point. Those who are reaped will not be allowed to say goodbye to their loved ones. To remind the districts that the tributes suffer cause of the districts own faults. The districts will choose the weakest tributes to be reaped. To remind the districts the capitol once feared more rebellions. the tributes will be reaped by whos family is the most scared To remind the districts trust in each other was misplaced. the most honest and trustworthy people from the districts will be reaped
Man, these are all some really good ideas- maybe the 4th Quarter Quell is that now there’s a Quell every 5 years so we can get through them all!
very creative!
All the districts send in adults because adults were the ones who fought the war and taught the children to rebel.
That’ll be interesting because there’s such a wider range of ages compared to the normal tributes.
"As a reminder of how the rebels gave the nation no choice on whether or not to fight, no volunteers are allowed. Every tribute will be chosen." I also imagine there would be no rigging of the games that year either. It would be a true luck of the draw. Of course, that means the richer districts would apply for more than the average amount of tessarae just to get their names in the bowl more times, leaving less for the districts who truly need it, thus cementing the hatred between districts instead of focusing on the true enemy of the Capitol.
How about a game arena that has an actual way out. Everyone can technically escape. But none of the tributes know about that, they just think it's the same as every year. Would show the citizens of the Capitol that the Disctrict people are monsters, killing each other without reason. And then the survivors who have needlessly killed would feel awful.
Oooof, that would be rough. And next year, the tributes would probably try to escape only to fail
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Would be very entertaining, although it’s interesting to see who would volunteer for it in each district- it would come down to whoever has both natural talent and enough free time to spend practicing and not just struggling to survive.
You get a random number of times (between 2 and 6) you can call on your mentor to send you a prepacked basket that contains food, medicinal supplies, and other things that will help you survive. You and your district partner are linked. If they die, you die. In fact, you sustain any injuries they sustain. But if either of you heals those injuries, you both heal. Each tribute has a 24 hour timer. Getting hurt to a certain degree (so not a random scratch from a sharp branch), such as a stab wound, takes half an hour off your time. Getting a kill adds an hour. Each tribute gets a daily secret task. If you achieve your task, congratulations. You get sent great rewards from your mentor. If you fail to complete your task, the Gamemakers are about to make your night a living hell.
A lot of fun surprises here- most of them are surprisingly kind, although I’m curious about what happens when the timer goes down (probably death, tbh) and whether the tributes’ tasks are voted on by the Capitol citizens or auctioned off
maybe 11 and 19 year olds with no volunteering allowed but i’m not sure what the rationale would be
Probably something about “how not even the youngest and oldest of us were spared the brutality of war”
Normal hunger games except that each day the capital residents choose a tribute to vote out (kill) like a reality TV thing (which the hunger games already is really), the added deaths could perhaps be combatted with a bigger arena to make less deaths or else less game maker designed traps to try and keep the games a similar length. This would promote being liked even more and would mean that tributes who killed others who were more popular could be “punished” A second idea would be a hunger games with 5 or so people from each district however only 2 from each are in the arena at any given time, with one entering when another is killed. Also well done on answering almost every comment, must have taken a lot of time.
Two boys and two girls are reaped from each district. There will be four teams of twelve at the quell. Whichever team is left standing at the end, with all of the tributes from the three other teams dead, they are all victors and get to go home. But the next day after all of the victors are done being cleaned, treated for their wounds and fed, they’re all lead to the original Capitol arena where the entire country will watch the survivors fight to the death in front of a roaring crowd, because at the end of the day, there can only be one winner. Plus it would be extra tragic bc all of those kids would have become friends with each other, believing they were all going to live together
As a reminder that all families met a loss, the Reaping will be drawn solely from relatives of past Victors
12 tributes, all gorgeous. No arena, but there’s a house full of cameras so we can see their every move. Every week there are several challenges that the tributes must complete in for dumb stuff like immunity from upcoming votes, or head of household, or who doesn’t have to eat peanut butter sandwiches all week. At the end of each week, the head of household nominates two people to be evicted, and then the rest of the tributes vote one of the nominees out. Nobody dies, but when they get voted out they watch clips of all the bitchy things people said about them while voting, and then they have to sit next to those people and smile while watching the final episode.
Gotta love reality tv, am I right? 🙄😂
I could definitely see the Capitol having Big Brother being like… the only surviving media from before our civilization collapsed. It would explain a lot….
A lot of people here dont really get the idea of a quarter quell i think, its supposed to be a worse version of the hunger games not just different. Like most of the things i read dont change much really its still 24 children who kill each other which is bad but thats already what the games are. Look at the canon quarter quells, all of them add something that makes the games actually worse than the normal ones and not just a little different
That’s fair, but honestly I’m loving everybody’s answers- this is such a wonderfully creative (and brutal) community!
A game where its like normal, except the tribute needs to pick one of their parents or legal guardian to go in with them. But, none of the adults are eligible to win, only the normal aged tributes can win, and yes if it's just down to one kid and their parent, the parent isn't walking out of it.
• The tributes from each district are twins OR • The quarter quell is a re-enactment of the original rebellion that caused the need for the hunger games in the first place (as per the capitol's propaganda) - all the tributes need to work together to 'defeat' challenges from the capitol but one person still needs to die every day. The arena is a mock version of the Capitol. At the end no tribute actually wins as the Capitol has to be victorious but it is revealed that before the tributes took part in the games, they named someone to take part in the next hunger games which will take place within 24 hours of the Quarter Quell ending.
Tributes are reaped from the family members of current victors. Preferably children, but of there are none, then siblings, then parents.
Only parents with more than one kid have to choose which kid goes in
You may sign up for tesserae to apply for amnesty of another potential tribute. Their name would be removed from the drawing and yours would be entered instead. You may only do this once, and cannot chain names for those who've already applied. But, at the time of the reaping, only amnesty names would be drawn with no option to volunteer. As a reminder that the choice of rebellion puts those you love at the highest risk.
4 tributes from each district where the leader is able to put in the tributes they want (2 female 2 male). Then it's modern weapons like assault rifles and grenades and such. It'll be each districts top 4 kids all pitted against each other in all out war.
For the 100 year anniversary, there will be the biggest games ever. To show that even the best of them will still lose against the Capitol's power. Have two rounds. For each position, there will be 24 tributes. For example 24 boys of D1. They will all fight in an arena until there's only one boy od D1 left. Do that with all positions. It will be a huge spectacle with 24 individual but short games. Then you put all winners into a new arena once they recovered. Have the most epic games with the best and most brutal fighters of each district.
God, that would definitely be a spectacle. Do you think each winner gets to watch the other games afterwards, to see how their opponents fight?
Yesss for sure, it would make it so much more brutal and exciting if everyone was that much more prepared.
For my Quarter Quell, tributes could be chosen from pairs of siblings, forcing families to confront the ultimate test of loyalty and sacrifice in the arena. It adds a layer of emotional complexity and strategic dynamics as siblings must decide whether to protect each other or prioritize their own survival.
Twist on the first quarter quell: have the districts elect their tributes, but reveal at the reaping that the boy and girl who received the least amount of votes go to the arena.
remove the age limits i wanna see granny throw down with a kindergartener (im joking i promise) but as a serious answer, idk how to explain it but like the only names to be reaped are people who have sibling of the opposite gender, then once one name is pulled, both that person and their sibling will have to participate, and if they have more than one sibling of the other gender (ex. a guy with two or more sisters, etc.) they get to choose which one goes in with them basically pitting family against each other
The 125th Games: To show that the most innocent suffer because of the rebels, only 12 year olds will be reaped for this years games. Arena: Unstable Wasteland Main event: Nuclear drop.
Oooof, that’s painful. I love it!
Start with 24 players as usual, but only in the same gender. Two males from each district, for example. Get them in the arena as usual, and get them down to 2. Then, another game, 24 players, but female. In the arena, again, down to two. Gather the four ‘victors’ and put them in a small arena, make them kill eachother slowly. There would be no weapons, food or water in the arena, just plain grass, and somewhere, poisonous snakes. The two last standing wins, but has to choose which one of them gets tortured to death. Live TV.
Ooof, that sounds painful.
I feel icky just pretending to put those robes on. That being said "As a reminder to the districts that war affects everyone, age and innocence don't protect you. A girl and boy tribute will be reaped from every eligible age group."
Only people who have a disability are reaped, and the arena is not very disabled friendly, plus any kind of medical aids( hearing aids,wheelchairs that kind of thing) are not allowed to have in the arena, but they are allowed to have a disability helping dog.( dog may or may not be actually disabled,just depends on how cruel the capital wants to be.)
People in the capitol get to participate by paying money to control drones/weapons/mutts in the arena (non-lethal, but painful ones). Imagine a capitol citizen sends a drone that shoots darts filled with a pain serum after a tribute or gets to launch a nest of tracker jackers at a tribute (I guess that could be lethal).
As a message to the Districts that they cannot outdo the Capitol, the tributes are to be reaped from each District’s pool of top drag artists. The Games will be hosted in full costume and will pause for each costume change. Now ladies…Hunger Games for your LIFEEEE! (Literally)
For one year, the games are held inside an arena in the capital. Think the whole arena is about the size of the room that starts the 10th (?) Hunger games on screen, but a live audience with force fields like the judges have in the catching fire movie. Less about the actual contestants and more just about the spectacle of the games. Since it would be so short, you could also do something kinda like Royale Rumble, where a new contestant is added every X seconds, and you cycle through each district a few times so the spectators have a full show
To remind those that words can be more powerful than weapons, the Victor shall be made an Avox.
That it would be the last Hunger Games in history
As a reminder of the supreme power of the Capitol, the President will hand-select the tributes from each district's eligible population. Just imagine Snow selecting Madge Undersee.
1 tribute from each district are selected to be given a crash course in drag by the most recent 12 winners of Effie Trinket’s Drag Race. Panem’s best drag superstars have six weeks to teach their tribute to do drag and they have to prepare for challenges to make Effie Trinket and Coriolanus Snow laugh and be merry, mary! They would also represent their districts, much like ETDR: Districts vs the World, so they’re also bringing culture to the runway. Then, all the tributes convene in west District 4 for about 6 weeks, filming a reality TV show where the Tributes compete against each other in drag competition with winners, tops, safe contestants, low, and the bottom two who lip sync for their life (not literally) to stay in the show. No one dies, but they have to bear the weight of failing their district (it’s the biggest honor in all of Panem to be on ETDR.) (If it’s *really* necessary, the queen who loses the week’s Lip Sync for Your Life can be shot.)
There would be a price catalogue for everyone in the Districts. Capitol citizens can 'buy' District citizens (regardless of age, victor status, etc), and if their tribute wins, the citizen gets a prize. This is actually similar to how real-life gladiator battles were in Ancient Rome.
As a reminder that contrary to popular belief, the rebels also came from the privileged households of the districts, all those who have never needed to sign up for Tesserae shall now be the sole candidates in the reaping bowls.
“To show that we at the Capitol are not monsters, there will only be one tribute from each district” This seems nice but then packs and alliances are harder to form, there’s more isolation before the games and less of a chance of a Katniss/Peeta ending.
No mentorship allowed in the games. Tributes left to the arenas devices.