Caesar Flickerman - Blog Posts

bluebird-writing

9 months ago

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Here, have a snippet from Unto the Labyrinth, my Hunger Games OC fic

The cameras cut to Maze posing and acting cute, as well as some of the crowd’s reactions to her. They seemed enthralled by Maze’s actions.

Caesar chortled. “Ho ho, the crowd is just eating Miss Donahue up! And she’s eating them up, it seems. Adorable! I cannot believe this is the same girl who was yelling and cursing at her Reaping. She did a complete one-eighty!”

“I don’t know, Caesar,” Melia replied, clicking her tongue. “She’s posing and acting like you’d expect from someone from a Career district. District 3 tributes are not nearly prestigious enough to show off like that. Like, come on, you’re District 3. They’ve only had like what, four Victors in fifty-seven years? It’s cringeworthy, in my opinion. This girl obviously thinks she’s much hotter shit than she actually is, excuse my language.”

Maze, biting into a giant fried animal leg, let out an indignant noise.

That bitch!

Troy laughed. “Ha! Told you so!”

Caesar looked taken aback. He gave his co-host a side-eyed glance. “Well, that’s certainly an opinion.”

The two commentators moved on as District 4’s chariot appeared on-screen.

“I never liked Melia Ferrero,” Philomena commented, cutting up her meat with her knife and fork. “She always has something negative to say about everybody and everything. People like her are absolutely exhausting.”

She glanced pointedly at Troy as she said that. He didn’t seem to notice, jovially continuing to scarf down his food.