ive been making up past hunger games victors as a hobby and inventing district culture is fun.
i made up a wedding tradition for district 8 where girls will save spare scraps of fabric and ribbons and whatever over their youth and sew it into a wedding dress which will then be unstitched and turned into a marriage quilt <3 and the boys save up to buy an expensive piece of ribbon that the fiancee will use as a girdle for her wedding dress <3 like the girdle of aphrodite or venus ig since panem is neo roman. adaptation of a girl’s hope chest and a wedding ring<3
i gave district 1 an informal caste system :3 its very evil. everyones trying to get to the highest caste but the highest caste isnt even good! its a potemkin village so that when capitol citizens visit for business they dont see any poor people ew
also the training centres of districts 1, 2, and 4 are called a ludus (plural ludi i suppose?) because neo roman :P its also very evil its like what if we got all the school bullies and made them fight each other for the chance to fight and beat a bunch of starved 14 year olds
ALSO LEGACY TRIBUTES katniss mentions the children of victors are suspiciously reaped a lot, plus gloss n chasmere in the 75th. so in 1, 2, and 4 i think this could translate beautifully into fucked up hunger games dynasties #generational trauma. its like those insane american footballers who raise their sons into The Football but it just makes them alcoholics with CTE