Inspired by Sawyer!! (Whose masterlist of amazing fics is available here!!)
These summaries are literally terrible forgive me
Seeds That Bleed
Treech and Lamina growing up together in District 7, spans across ten years
Enemies to friends to lovers type beat
Me inventing District Seven lore bc why not
Treemina warning 🚨 🚨 i am who i am 🤞
Egregiously long oneshot, 16.9k words
Coven In My Oven
The most painful fluffy oneshot to ever exist don’t read this
Treemina warning 🚨🚨
Treech thinks he bewitched his girlfriend into liking him with real witchcraft
Treech is a disaster and Lamina is wonderfully functional
Teeny tiny oneshot, 1.3k words
Ghost Lights On The Water
Because Treech, Coral, Reaper, Mizzen, and Wovey didn’t die in Reaper’s morgue, they become stuck in a brutal cycle of watching each year’s Hunger Games
References to the 74th and 75th Games
Inspired by this Tumblr ask
Oneshot, 8k words
Salt For All The Cuts
Treech is nearly blind. He was born with eyes that didn’t work, and yet he can always see red things
Basically Treech’s struggles with his faulty eyes and the way he gets through life from birth through the Games
Treemina be warned
Oneshot, 3k words
Where Your Eyes Naturally Drift
Treech, Lamina, and the stark differences in their upbringings, ideal, psyches
“Treech came into the world with his eyes pointed towards the sky while Lamina was born with her face in the dirt.”
Parallels galore
Treemina be warned
Oneshot, 4k words
Til Death Do Us Part
A deep dive into the harsh atmosphere of the Capitol’s Academy and all the varying perspectives on the morals of the Hunger Games told from a place of privilege
Character study/my interpretation of each mentor from the Tenth Hunger Games
Compilation of my old TBOSAS tribute art more inspired by the book than the movie (+ Book moments that didn’t make it to the movie), thought it might be nice to just have all of that in one place
coin with the bostonian accent makes her 10x scarier, that's why no one dared to oppose her in d13 🙏🏽 i also wanna raise you: ginnee, otto, treech, and lamina with canadian accents </3 an unfortunate turn of events
now for the reason why i'm really here: do you hc panlo and sheaf having an interest or habit that's just terribly minnesotan?? i hope you get what i mean 😭 for example, coral def uses "hella" in place of "very" as a californian. idk, it feels right
Tributes with regional accents would’ve made the train scene 100x better actually 🫢 imagine all of them staring at one another like 👁️👄👁️ “why do you SOUND like that??? 🤢” Canadian accent kiddos would’ve been brutalized but Southern twang tributes? Eaten alive
This ask made me giggle so much as I thought about all the dumb Minnesotan things that could’ve lived on in the Panem universe (unfortunately I don’t think the Minnesotan State Fair would’ve been allowed by the Capitol, bye bye butter statues 😔). I immediately wanted to say the D9 kids probably partook in cow tipping but that might be more of a D10 thing…one that Brandy and Tanner would try before feeling bad for the cows and then start crying
I like to think that the D9 Minnesotan accents would really show on words that are common in the region nowadays but not in the Panem universe. For example, when Coral’s talking about her job back in Four, Sheaf suddenly goes “wait, what’s a booooat? 🤔” which drove Coral absolutely crazy (yes I’m sure everyone knows what a boat is but Sheaf is ditzy in my head)
Plot twist Coral originally invited Panlo and Sheaf to join the pack but immediately retracted her invitation when they said “oh yeah, you betcha” in unison 💅
I don’t know why I’m thinking of this but it would also be so funny if cryptic legends (think Bigfoot) stuck around in Panem and the tributes started arguing about the legends on the train ride. Picturing Treech and Panlo arguing about whether Bigfoot or the wendigo would win in a fight while poor softhearted Wovey cries and gets nightmares from that discussion
to me, district 4 is a mix of se/east asian, lat-am, and even a bit of black influence. had a bit of help from @blackoutdays13, creds to her too <3
let's dive in (joke intended). more below the cut!
CULTURAL TIDBITS
i like to think dance is an important part of the d4 culture. many artists that contribute to hip-hop culture originate from california, especially dances :) not to mention cultural latam dances, the dragon dance from china, and maybe even tinikling (projecting so hard rn)! movement is how they get through the day.
their diet may consist of mostly seafood, but grains are also a staple. rice, bread, noodles, and tortillas are often paired with meats and vegetables to make meals more fulfilling. of course, they aren't the same to the grains we produce now, but it's close enough to what they are able to get their hands on.
as stereotypical it is to asian culture, i like to think education holds some importance there, too. it doesn't just involve hitting the books, but also street smarts and survival skills. even if you're working, there's some downtime saved for learning/passing on knowledge from the older to younger generation.
there is a large sense of community in the districts. it's a staple in asian culture to identify with your community. your achievements and your failures are not just yours, but is a reflection of the people you identify with. this is touched more on my asian d4/d7 analysis.
since california legalized this, they definitely had... recreational uses for certain substances. you know. mary jane, the 🍃. it's a whole thing in the district and a "hidden gem". it's more popular with the lower class, but the capitol thinks it's used by the best of the best. they don't have to know, though ;)
LOCATIONS
their marketplace is concentrated in the docks! similar to the piers of santa monica and san francisco, there's a lot of street vendors, kiosks, and street performers.
the further away you are from the shore, the more impoverished you are. the people of the "inner lands" probably process the food for safer consumption, or travel to the shore to find work (hence the kiosks and such). grains could also be grown in the inner lands, which is how they're able to supply the district with rice and such w/o having to rely on d9 imports too much.
a train or trolley system helps large capacities of people travel to and fro their work. the trolley might be a bit more for tourists, though.
lots of cliffs. lots of mountains. houses on cliffs and mountains are seen as a privilege. I imagine the victor's village is somewhere here!
the houses in the victor's village look like italianate homes in san francisco (1). houses by richer folks look like malibu/southern californian beach houses (2). inner lands houses are either the older, fenced homes or apartment units (3)!
RELIGION
(i read these in some fics!!) considering that latinos are also big in california, and that a lot of asians share a catholic faith in the state, i could see them using rosaries or crosses. not because of a belief in it, but as an equivalent of a good luck charm.
to add onto this ^ they celebrate ash wednesday, but with their own twist. the ash on their foreheads is instead a reminder of who they lost.
speaking of holidays, the festival that they celebrate during the victory tour months probably closely mimics lunar new year! of course, they don't follow the lunar calendar, but their traditions and rituals to celebrate that day look awfully similar. red envelopes could be passed around, but I highly doubt that there's much in there if you're from the inner lands.
dia de los muertos is celebrated too! possibly during the victory tour months, too. imagine a festival that's just spilling with the golds and reds of lunar new year and the vibrant colors associated with dia de los muertos!
NATURAL DISASTERS
earthquakes. wildfires. droughts. those are the holy trinity of natural disasters in d4. protocols for all three are drilled into the minds of d4 citizens since youth.
thanks to the indigenous practice of controlled fires that persisted during the building of panem, they are often able maintain these wildfires. but sometimes, the wildfires do get out of control and turn the sky orange.
their structures are relatively stable to help accommodate for the earthquakes, but of course, damage will be done especially during a huge one that occurs in california every few centuries.
in my finnick/oc fic, "the big one" occurs before the 65th games. after finnick's victory, they paid more attention to d4.
droughts are not to be taken lightly in d4, especially in the inner lands. don't shower for more than five minutes. turn off the faucet while brushing your teeth. never keep the sink running. fix leaking faucets whenever you can b/c every drop counts.
a water limit is imposed on them. most of the water goes directly to the upper class and the capitol resorts by the coast.
CLASS DIVISIONS
the inner lands' lower class, the coast's merchants, the officials, and the victors are all classes in district four. the lower class harbors some resentment towards the upper class, and it's the other way around, too.
since most of the water travels to the upper class, that's where the main resentment lies. everything is for tourism and to maintain appearances.
because of this maintenance and carefully curated appearance, I can see the capitol citizens romanticizing d4 to an extreme degree. with finnick as the "face" of the district, it only worsens. they think of d4 as beaches, tropical fruits, and a sunny paradise. but once they take the train that passes through the rural lands and the poorer urban areas with the fog limiting their view, they realize that district 4 isn't all what they shaped it up to be.
I also imagine the upper class trying to dismiss the lower class because they don't look appealing enough to the capitol. they ARE a career district, after all. this could tie into the model minority myth, which I discuss in this post using hannah's ask, as well as the d4/d7 hc I linked previously. to summarize, reputation is ingrained in asian cultures. this need for a good rep could bring d4 to try their hardest to appeal to the model minority myth and keep up with the other career districts.
all in all, d4 is my little try-hard district rich with culture, mary jane, and the impending doom of "the big one". I love it with all my heart. if you have anything to add, or things you want me to touch up on, feel free to drop an ask or say something in your rb!
