01 - Trance Berrill
Technically, he died.
Ask the doctors, and they'll say they revived him.
Ask Trance, and he'll say it's impossible to resurrect the dead.
10 - Alpha Revere
The fact that a deluded girl gave her life for the very violence she so desperately craved does carry a bit of irony, no?
08 - Necali Reinerston
Within
five years of Necali's death, his brother Laurent and eldest sister
Adelphie both fight and die on Capitol soil in a vain attempt to bring
honor to the Reinerston name. Only when little Alessandra remains as the
sole survivor do Sasha and Opal realize that maybe - just maybe - they've wasted their children on a ridiculous and unattainable fantasy.
17 - Stellar Andrews
Despite Attrition's ardent protests, Stellar's father and mother
choose to let her body remain in the Capitol. Why waste their time
burying a disappointment?
05 - Zeno Atticus
It's a closed casket funeral, and no one says much.
Oddly
enough, Zeno's death brings Jethro and Warrick closer as family. They
could lose each other at any movement, just as they'd lost their
innocent little brother. Might as well be nice to each other in the
meantime.
16 - Rumor Cobalt
Her grandmother doesn't sing anymore.
12 - Nemo Dedecus
Bastard
or not, Aaron Dedecus thought of Nemo as his own. He sheds his tears
behind closed mahogany doors, hidden from the wife who drove their
youngest son to willingly participate in a game built entirely around
death.
02 -Waverly Capri
The
Capitol claims that she almost won. Just a smidge from victory. But the
letter her parents received from Trance Berrill during his victory tour
paints a different story.
They know the truth.
11 - Dominic Monipule
They
chalked his final outburst up to some sort of mental break. His mother
refuses to believe that her darling son could have possibly hated
everyone he'd known.
23 - Mariah Cassel
After
the letter arrives at his doorstep, Mr. Cassel finds himself wondering
if posthumous apologies are possible. He probably needs her forgiveness
more than she ever needed his.
09 - Alder Haynes
Though
his parents can't quite understand what motivated their son to
sacrifice himself for the girl from Twelve, they know that he died a
better person than when he was reaped.
24 - Relly Jay
Sweetest of them all and first to feel the bite of the blade. That's how it usually goes.
06 - Linden Cooper
"Pariah" doesn't even come close.
07 - Flavia Reeves
Sybilla hadn't spoken for five months when she told her sister to come home.
She's since decided that all words are worthless, no matter their meaning.
15 - Wade Odinshoot
Vibia
notices her brother's absence about three weeks after the funeral, when
she finds herself caught between two shipments of morphling.
But
the needles arrive before the grief has time to overwhelm her, and she
gratefully descends into the soft world of muted light and cold veins
and muffled words, filled to the brim with easily-managed non-emotions.
13 - Erizelda Morrison
Who would miss the village slut, anyways?
Well,
Xavier, for starters. Katarina, as well. (She doesn't really mind that
Erizelda took the ribbon; if it brought her sister-in-law some comfort
before she died, then it doesn't much matter if it was stolen, does it?)
Damian
misses Erizelda too, but whenever anyone asks, he pretends not to care.
It's easier than allowing himself to acknowledge the fact that she's
gone and never coming back.
19 - Glen Ackerman
His
elder sister earned herself an overnight stay in jail for knocking out a
man who claimed that Glen's death equated to "cleansing the collective
gene pool".
22 - Pagnotta Millet
Little girls die all the time in the Hunger Games.
Try telling that to her mother, father, or sister. It doesn't matter what her odds were - it matters that she's dead.
03 - Birch Styler
Sometimes, the innocent take their truth to the grave.
18 - Idrial Coven
Idrial's
death finally gives Simon Coven the motivation to divorce his wife. He
takes their surviving daughter to a neighborhood in a far corner of
District Nine, where the old, impoverished crone cannot follow.
21 - Cascade Zephyr
His
parents lost both of their children to the Games, but the district
quickly moved on as if the spilled Zephyr blood held absolutely no
value. Perhaps it doesn't.
14 - Selene Briony
The Sparrow flies no longer.
20 - Taun Navarro
There's
something unspeakably terrible about a nation that devours its young
and returns the mangled corpses to grieving parents in unmarked pine
caskets.
04 - Charcoal Paxton
The
day she dies, her father, mother, and brother burn the piano alongside
seventy-eight pieces of sheet music. Only after three weeks of grief
and self-inflicted starvation does Lena Paxton realize that maybe, just
maybe, some poor kid could have loved that piano just as much as
Charcoal did.
