I have been seeing a lot of talk recently about if there was a sixth book what would it be about, and i think i have nailed it down to a few options that I think would be likely.
We know it will be pre 74th games because they end after the 75th and we have seen both of them. we also know that there are no more tributes from district 12. and we know that we have seen the 10th, the 50th, the 74th and the 75th games.
That leaves 71 possible games. but i think we will probably not be seeing the nine before Lucy Gray’s game because that’s when the games became a commodity.
Now we have 62 games left. i think we can assume it will be someone we know of or something we have heard of. That leaves us with about 19 games total, plus two games I think are interesting enough that despite not knowing the names of the victors could be interesting. so 21 options.
of thoes 21 options, i don’t think we will actually see 2 of them because they were created by the movies. (porter millicent tripp and augustus braun) so back down to 19 again.
Now I don’t think we will see some of them for obvious reasons. we won’t see Mags because her game is so close to Lucy Gray’s and there is very little to add to what we already know with her. I don’t think we know enough about Woof, Palladium, Lyme, or Blight. I also don’t see her using a district 1 or 2 victor unless there is a specific reason (and I have two of thoes I will mention) just because her ideas seem to be focused on the more poorer districts (but I could be wrong) so I will also not be counting Brutus or Enobaria. this brings us down to 12 specific games I think we might see.
I think the 25th hunger games could be possible. it was where each district was forced to choose a two children to be victors, but at the same time i don’t see how she can follow any philosophy other than perhaps in order to say “see how you turn on each other” but that doesn’t feel like a thing SC would do for her deep philosophical thinking stories.
Then there is the year where a boy who was going to win resorted to cannibalism and katniss is pretty sure the game makers created an earthquake to kill him. That’s all we really know about thoes games, but it could be interesting to see in a “you are what you do to survive sort of way.
Instead of going in order of winning or district, of the 10 known victors left I am going to be going from least likely in my mind to most likely.
10: Chaff
I don’t think Chaff will actually be involved because his game is so close to Haymitch’s and seems to be similar emotionally/mentally to Haymitch. That said it could be interesting to see someone who chose not to get “fixed” after their games, he is missing a limb and has some other scars even after he has won his games.
9: Finnick
Finnick being this low is probably a bad call on my part, but we already know so much about his games and after his games that I can’t see much new being added. There is the fact that he is from district 4 and either volunteered before anyone else could or the person who was supposed to volunteer didn’t, but otherwise I think we know it all.
8: Wiress
Other than her instability during the games and that she was brilliant, we don’t really know much about her. It could be interesting to see her in the original games, we know she probably was stable during her original games, so that might be something, but I don’t actually see it.
7: Johanna
My beloved. This is a Finnick problem all over again. We know too much about her games! And yet she has some things going for her, we don’t know what happened to her family and we don’t know what he life was like too much after the games. We also know she hides her abilities at first which might be interesting.
6: Seeder
Seeder is an early on player of the game probably between the 25th and 50th games given the description given to us by Katniss. She is also described as one of the few victors who hasn’t turned to some sort of substance. And she is from 11 which I have a sneaking suspicion is a likely candidate for the next place we see characters from.
5: Annie
Honestly Annie and Seeder are almost tied in my head, but Annie living gives her an edge in this fight. But Annie could be interesting because we could see her mental health both pre and post games, and because we could see how mental health is treated in Panem.
4/3: Gloss/Cashmere
Like I said, this is the exception to my no district 1 & 2 argument. Mainly because I think it would be interesting to see siblings back to back. And because I can imagine going into the games, winning them but becoming disillusioned with them, then watching your baby sister have to do the same thing and believing it’s a good idea. Plus it could be interesting if we got to see back to back games maybe.
2: Cecelia
Who? I hear you asking. Cecelia is the most important character introduced in Catching Fire to me. She is from district 8, and most importantly she has kids. She is the only known victor to have kids. When Katniss realizes what the rest of her life as a victor will look like she thinks that having a kid would be a death sentence for them, that they would be forced into the games as a gimmick. But Cecilia has them, and that means either she chose to have them knowing the risk or was forced to, either way I must know more!
1: Beetee
Not only do I find this character incredibly interesting, he is one of the six living victors at the end. He is incredibly respectful and seems to be integral to everything that happens after Katniss and Peeta win. His relationship with Wiress could also be built on, as could the fact that the only thing we know about his game is how he won. Also I like him a lot, so clearly he is the best choice.
