The Bird's Opening
(Cover by the wonderful @connisk! Thank you so much, again!)
Erik knew one thing about the story for sure; even if the Capitol created him, he was no one’s property.
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Erik Lehnsherr’s last reaping was supposed to pass him by easily - as a mutant orphan protecting his kind in the home, his concerns are mostly about finding a job in the mutantphobic district, keeping the kids safe when he moves out and being charged as an adult for regularly hunting outside of the dome.
Everything changes, however, when Charles Xavier, the son of a victor who killed himself, volunteers to save his sister - and then Erik himself gets reaped.
Trapped in the games that represent everything he hates when his very survival depends on him pretending to tolerate them, Erik is starting to feel more and more like he’s part of something bigger than himself and something he can’t control. And it isn’t engineered only by the capitol - but by Charles Xavier himself.
Chapter 1: District 12 - Where You Can Starve Safely
