YOOO MOMMY ISSUES? Moises… gently holds him.. i remember him being mentioned in Lulu’s intro yeah.. oh god his mom isnt even going to mourn him . AND hes doomed by the narrative oh god… head in hands. What the fuck dyl. Loving his banter with Lulu though this is v fun (‘: reaping recaps oooh! Squinting at Moises’ wish to keep Lulu and Chal separate… actually i think the should kiss /hj oh my god so Ramsey volunteers.. AND was reaped.. oh he so knew. Legend behavior fr.. i think hed be a good influence on mr mo here c: Nishant already marked as a threat by the careers oof.. ohh Myo’s reaping.. Celosia helping them up to the stage waaaugh ;—;

Yknow. I was surprised that there wasn’t a 4m submission for this cast but it all makes sense now :D the real 4m was a dyl 4m all along… (‘: beautiful…

Yooo omg congrats on finishing intros! Super hype for this cast and also very proud of you :blobheart: u fucking killed these, each one was so detailed and vivid and incredible :D really awesome work!

Ok about Nishant.. man their life seems really fucking Exhausting. Like beyond exhausting. Not remembering what it was like before toeing the thin rope… :withered: and are they. An assassin? Yoooo.. wicked as fuck.. cannot wait to delve more into their twisted mind i feel like it will be an absolute treat :D volunteering truly makes so much sense for them i love it

And Myo oh my god! Dude the way you wrote her, I’m in awe.. the fog over her memory comes through so well, even like without directly mentioning it. The bits about her family being just strangers to her.. like Ow but also god damn in their shoes its so unnerving and frustrating ;—; and the whole disappointment bit… :withered: bruh the fact that they dont remember being fucking reaped… head in hands.. the way her memory comes and goes is so fascinating.. she caught one thread of it! One thread of Celosia’s name and who she is to Myo! And then its gone… grrraugh ;—-; not knowing what the fucking hunger games are either.. oh i am Stressed.. im in for it arent i :sob: thank you for writing Myo so well also :heart: and thank you in advance for the emotional devastation hahaha!

Yooo oh my god im obsessed with these two :D :D daddy issues but like. Violent this time :D

Love the vibe of Ramsey’s “fall from grace” so to speak.. pipeline from mayors son to righteous terrorist :D it fucks so hard idc i support him! You write him so vividly too, its really well done :heart: destroying the reaping stage is v fun, gonna be real awkward once hes. Reaped. Oh who am i kidding thats bound to be rigged as hell :sob: he shoulda killed his stupid fuckass dad but i guess he can do that after he wins #ramsey4victor

CHAL HAHAHA.. ofc its her yesss djdjdj given the amount of shittalking she got in the prologue… hell yeah im here for it :D i love a gal who can out bitch a twink :D i saw that little line in there abt her lowkey convincing the chosen vol to like OD :skull: big oof.. gonna be fun as hell to watch these careers interact i cant wait :D also, rly loved how you described the setting of the penitentiary in this pov like again its just so vivid and visceral.. love that shit hell yeah !

Ohh my god Marlowe… she’s so precious stop… her struggle is so real, I think she’s one of my favs so far. Cant blame a gal for having her head in the clouds.. and her little baby crush waaugh ;—; huge step to send a letter.. but I’m scared though. I dont trust this messenger guy, which means I don’t trust the fact that she’s actually been communicating with Summer. This could go. Veeery poorly hhhh.. ;_;

Lulu heelp.. she’s such a free spirit. The mermaid gig is such a fun idea, love the vibe of a four gal covered in glitter and sand KFKDKD.. D4 is just truly full of rizzmasters all the time like what is in the water.. except when i make them apparently LOL. Anyways.. sensing a theme of naivety with these two though which makes me fear for Lulu’s decision making skills… :skull: She’ll be a fun contrast to Yves in the careers though thats for sure fjfj

You fucker… Yves…. Head in fucking hands. I feel like i should’ve known this and yet…. God Yves is so so miserable here ;—; and its only gonna get Worse, yay! (‘: really loving how poetic you make each character’s voices btw.. like the scene with Yves and the piano and connecting it to his grief.. really good ;—;

Man daddy issues must be the theme of this chap huh :skull: i love how rightfully pissed Odi is at his situation w his dad, and how his pride counters it, forcing him to walk the drunk bastard home again.. he’s doing it for his siblings though waah ;—; mad respect.. (vs Yves whos doing it for himself.. bc this is his story :eyes:) love the parallels and themes :heart: last chap we got hearts of gold and this chap we get angry little twinks ckdkfk iconic…

Ooh so Ezren has a bit of a hero complex does he… i like his style of incorrigible though, hes like the bad boy who actually cares.. deemed “incorrigible” because he cares.. very neat cycle. Unforch makes sense that a kid like him would end up in all sorts of trouble for caring ;-; i love his attitude about everything though, its very fun :D good set of friends too waaah.. or. Girlfriend and boyfriend? I can see it…

Isadora omg shes too pure for this world ;—; she seems like a real gem honestly /gen. I love her little water tower hideout and her knicknacks :gently holds: the whole situation with her mother and sister too.. good of her to not take things out on Elisa ;-; though i Do fear what you have in store for her dyl, youre gonna crush her arent you….

Its time to catch up here forreal! Loving the revamp so far :D i really do need to read Lancelot’s fic stat…district fucking two beloved… getting the feeling like things Arent going to go how ms Antonell wishes.. also love that we have a d2 boss nicknamed Nell hehe c: loving this setup v much so far :D

because ofc it’s not a dyl fic without a 4m.

reading this honestly felt illegal because we all know mo is dead as fuck, but he seems to want it so so bad. his mom is a real piece of work, and now he’s worried about bestie, even though she will outlive him probably. this is genuinely such a recepie for disaster.

if this is foreshadowing lulu challenger nightmare yuri, im personally here for it. seeing ramsey say that cringe one liner that I came up with literally 3 years ago made me roll my eyes at him so agressively. Who gave him the right to do anything?

Moises sweetie, I love you. I’m also horrified because I know your death is going to be especially traumatic because idk pretty boys deserve to suffer.

1st off, congratulations on being done w intros! this is a huge accomplishment and you should be so proud of yourself for delivering 10 bangers in a row.

okay, onto these two

nishant: spy/assasin (?) baby is so erik (i mean this in a positive way) and i’m a huge fan. never read six of crows (sue me) but im assuming the tightrope metaphor was a reference to inej because she does something circusy? either way, nishant absolutely slays. i love when a tribute is disillusioned and feels like a weapon/machine in panem with no sense of self and by love I mean I’ll probably be deeply upset abt nishant at some point in the future. i love all the mystery you left in this (and the other) pov. what exactly did they do thats so bad if they’re already presumably killing/spying on people? im a sucker for kids volunteering for their freedom too and i love that nishi sees it as a breaking the cycle type beat (can you tell im still sad about arcane). ending went so so hard w the tightrope snapping

myora: now nell wtf did you do this for? god this is so uniquely fucked up. tf is it with the name asphodel and not knowing what the hunger games are and what’s about to happen huh? this is just so so awkward holy shit. your prose always slays but there were a few lines from this pov that really gagged me beyond belief, esp “Sometimes, she wonders if she is still the same person or if she's just a photograph of the girl they loved?” am I wrong to not trust the doctor even slightly? maybe im reading this wrong but i feel like bro is unethically experimenting considering it’s been a year and myo is still somewhat vegetated for lack of a better word (and haha d11 joke). love the tragic yuri of all this and the slow reveal they’re in the goodbye room because myo was just reaped. but wow, the last few lines, bro really does not remember shit. idk if honey is still mentoring them but if nell’s initial goal was to make somebody honey would hate, she sure fucking succeeded.

okay so surprise surprise I thought favorably of both of them, so im going to I think split my chart so I have ig an even higher tier?

mine: r*msey
faves: ezren, challenger
love: odi, marlowe, myora
like: yves, tallulah, isadora, nishant

that still bodes very poorly for me in the long run. maybe somebody will do something to make me hate them during act 2 but i strongly doubt it. OHHH i think watching them all interact during pregames will be so so fun i am so thrilled for this

Yay!

sorry i'm a few days late, i just needed to re-read and re-absorb my precious little ram ram over and over again because dude you fucking KILLED that shit. all of his big dreams as a child and the way he was taken advantage of because of them plus the fact he never really had a choice about anything in his life until he became a rebel. so so tasty! all the fire symbolism and imagery was super beautiful to me too. like that shit ate so hard and it merged so naturally into the big fire at the end of his pov. shout out to kaya for trying to humble his ass, but it just did not work because daddy-o fucking gagged him. i hate the guy but he really immovable object'd ram's unstoppable force. thank you so much for creating such a beautiful introduction for ramsey and handling him with so much care. you left the perfect amount of intrigue about his past while still giving us a sense of why he is the way he is. UGH i could go on and on. fave line i think is "Once upon a time, Ramsey thought the man a God, unshakeable and true. Now, he knows him to be nothing more than a monster. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree." but also several lines in that confrontation just went so hard. period ramsey, give everyone hell. it's okay because i said so

and then ofc we had miss challenger here! god, i adore her. she reminds me ever-so-slightly of jinx, so that's probably why, but she's also built the fuck different. there's so much intrigue about her and her dead father figure's and why she's Like This TM and i am gnawing at the doors of my enclosure waiting for find out hehe. just like how raze was until she smacked him. she's so strange and unnerving and i think i will become utterly terrified of her, but also i have the fucked up proposition of perchance her and ram ruining everyone's lives together. it could be fun they'd ruin so many lives together as a treat. i feel so bad for whatever NPC is her district partner. bro is so cooked. she is pookie idc i wanna see her do terrible things

and with that, we are 8/10 and i still like everyone! fuck. will resort list after next time but for now

mine: r*msey
love: ezren, odi, marlowe, challenger
like: yves, tallulah, isadora

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Til our Fingers Decompose Keep My Hand in Yours:

Chapter 1:
people bitching back and forth about chal made me teehee so hard ohhhh shes already causing problems BEFORE she's even introduced... god we love to see it… - brooke

Chapter 2:
loved ezren's snarky ass inner monologue and isa's lovely perspective of the world despite it being the world (derogatory) - brooke

Chapter 3:
i just fuck HEAVY w how this whole chapter was written. we was STEEPIN in the apathy with yves's and DRENCHED in the resentment in odi's. amazing work - brooke

Chapter 4:
marlowe's crush is so fckin cute and delightful bruh. baby gay… - brooke

marlowe:
- "She will own her own animal sanctuary, she will publish a book of poems, she will travel the country with…with—" shes got the same random ass list of goals that i do
- her parents are like yes thats nice sweetie LMFAOOO
- "Her parents' voices slowly drift up from the living room, animated and full of praise, no doubt for William." yay sibling favoritism!
- "All they see is a girl with no prospects besides sitting still and waiting to get married off to a man from a wealthy family." eughhh...
- "if Summer intertwines her fingers with her own" is this yuri...
- shes also so wisteria core UGGHH
- A LETTER...
- "Summer's laughter echoes in her mind—light and melodic, the kind that makes her heart skip. She imagines the way Summer's eyes sparkle when she talks about the stars, and how she always seems to find the beauty in everything, even the dust motes dancing in the sunlight." oh girl u obsessed
- "I like you. Like, really like you." WAHHHH?! SHES SOOO CUTE?!
- "I hope we can talk about this more after. No pressure, though. Just know that you mean a lot to me." shes so earnest teenage girl with. a crush im gonna puuukeee
- "With a small smile, she folds the letter carefully, tucking it into an envelope decorated with little doodles of stars and horses." THIS IS RIZZ TO MEEEE
- "Tomorrow, she'll deliver it in person at the reaping" ok. now what if i killed myself
- "She can't help but grin. No matter what happens, at least she will finally muster up enough courage to take the leap." SHE IS SUCH A DARLING SHES SO CUTEEEE AHGGHHHHH CLENCHES MY FIST
- PERFECT... AMAZING... LOVELY... NO NOTES! Marlowe ;;;;;; UWAHHHH

tallulah:
- omg sporty adventurous d4 girl slay?!
- "Tallulah Covel. Four's best entertainer." squints... wym by entertainer...
- "Yet, Tally is proud to say her presence still seems to shimmer in the air around her, an invisible pull that draws people in like moths to a flame." she got dat magnetic rizz :fire: :fire: :fire:
- "She thrives on attention, and she wields her charm with little shame, knowing full well the effect she has on those around her." DARESAY CUNT!
- PART-TIME MERMAID TOUR GUIDE HELP MEE HAHAHAH
- "Fuck off, Edlyn!" Tally yells back, pausing to detach the last of her costume and toss it at his head as she passes his office. "Try to make me the Kraken again, I dare you, asshole." HELP HAHHAA
- perfect persona in front of customers BITCH THAT SHITS ATTITUDE IN THE BACK
- shes real i fear
- "He's about sixty-nine million years old and wears too many ugly button-up shirts, but he's pretty harmless." NOT SIXTY NINE MILLION YEARS OLD LOLL
- "He's too polite to call her out on her frantic appearance, but he deserves her best; one last spar before he volunteers tomorrow. Not that he needs her fully present, considering Moises García is the best trainee the Center has produced in years." interesting... HE volunteers this year?
- "Her abs cast shadows for crying out loud! She was born for that sort of stuff, to be seen and admired and adored." HELP AFJHSVFJK
- "Honestly, she doesn't even know or remember which girl the Center picked—it could be Zarya or someone else, and frankly she could care less." oh gurl u wiiild
- "She hopes they're as exciting as what she has planned." dawg u tryna go in with your bro moises? u gon watch him die man

LOVE: ezren, isadora, odi, marlowe
like: yves, tally

girl u rlly gon make me shelve everyone in the love or like tier...

xoxo booger

cool well goldie is fucking cooked. marlowe is fucking adorable - why did goldie send her to die? she is so me in middle school... the creative sibling off thinking about best friend gayly while some asshole bullies them and brother is a genius. i feel the need to just protect her from all the evils in the world, but alas i cannot! i bet she'll be reaped without even getting an answer from summer, oh this is sick as fuck! i think... i think her and isadora would be cute friends, but i really would prefer if neither of them were in the hunger games tbh. they should go play at the park or something, not die brutally at the hands of other children.

hello tally — idk who made you, but they did a good job! i am so easy to please. i see a hot girl from district 4 who is kinda a fuckboy and has a sense of wanderlust, i immediately stand up and start clapping and shouting "yippee!" the very notion of fish canneries makes me gag, so tally is god's strongest soldier for real. i love you, mermaid girl, even if she's kind of an asshole, it's at least in a sexy way. i don't know if she's doomed or not yet, but challenger (based on what i remember at least) could perchance manipulate her for days, while being gay about it, and i think yves will be greatly unamused. at least her and moises seem to get along. scenery in this intro was beautiful, but i feel like a broken record when i say that about a) district 4 and b) ur writing.

delicious chapter. i think i have seen enough to make a chart, so i will do that now:

mine: r*msey
love: ezren, odi, marlowe
like: yves, tallulah, isadora

really don't anticipate myself disliking anyone, which is both a blessing and a curse ig. anyway, see u next time!

yves:
- cunty name
- "Yves knows a lot about a lot of things. Music. Academia. Isolation. Anger. Fear. Disappointment." what a lovely list of things
- "Love isn't one of them." naturally
- "His affection is a rare commodity, doled out only on terms that he himself sets, and even then, it's often cloaked in a veneer of detached indifference." ouuhhh yummy sentence...
- "He cares for Maelle; she shares his own blood. He wants to get her away from their parents. But is that love?" highkey yes
- "And now she's dead, a broken corpse instead of the hellstorm Yves knew her to be." oop...
- "He's struck by the hollowness in his eyes, a familiar image of the emptiness he had always seen in his father." GOUGES OUT MY EYES FUUCKKK!
- "The sight of his own eyes, so reminiscent of his father's, strike him with a paralyzing fear that he is becoming the man he despises despite his every effort to chart a different path." this trope always kills me man...
- "To think Yves tried to impress the man once upon a time, stayed up all night practicing at the local concert hall until his fingers bled raw." music trauma my beloved/beloathed
- "Imaginary words from a ghost will do him no good, though. Not anymore." withered
- i love piano trauma
- i love how this pov was written. so artfully and detached. u can really feel the disillusionment

odi:
- hi again odi...
- "To ask for help would mean acknowledging weakness, and that is something he is unwilling to face." felt that
- "He wants to throw something. Break something fragile. Destroy anything within his reach. Nails dig into the soft flesh of his palms." normal coping mech for normal boys
- fucking deadbeat dad...
- "They still deserve to have at least one parent in their lives." sobs i love a person who cares for their siblings so bad
- "Odi doesn't hesitate in turning it over and pouring the liquid over his father's head." FHJHSJDJKGJF
- "Odi's father is still unstable on his legs, much like a fawn learning to walk for the first time." i understand the visual perfectly
- "It would be satisfying to see his father face down in the muck, but Odi doesn't want to clean him up any more than he has to tonight." hfhffkjf yyyeahhh...
- "Odi hates her too. Because she left, yes. But also because she left without him." someone save this guy man
- "he feels an ache deep in his chest—a longing for a way out, for a breath of fresh air that doesn't reek of regret." love how this sentence was strung together so bad
- "As they continue on, he holds his ground, resolute in his pride, even as it threatens to swallow him whole." i fw him so heavy i fear

LOVE: ezren, isadora, odi
like: yves

U NEVER MISS MAN! as an empath i can sense you were an english teacher's favorite student

xoxo booger

ezren:
- i think i have met him before...
- hes a nerd i fear
- "Really, all he cared about was the fact that the man wrote out a basic trigonometric equation incorrectly on the chalkboard and had the audacity to pass it off as fine work." BUT HES A NERD WHO'S RIGHT!
- "Ezren refused to allow the old man to compound the already shitty education system of District Six." BAHHAHA
- hes brave as hell for that! a hero.
- "like the smell of nicotine or motor oil, interwoven into his clothes, rooted in his skin, his hair, his very being." ohhhh delicious... goated in the d6 sauce
- "Sure, the pain is pretty shit, but if almost getting your hand blown off brings two of your favorite people together, then sign him up for round two." ohhhh myyy goddd... bro youre crazy sauce (affectionate)
- YESSS I REMEMBER MAIA AND CYPRIAN
- "This place is a proper shit-hole and there is no way out—Ezren will live and die here." joyful
- "This is it for him, nothing more. Though, he's grateful. There are plenty of miserable souls in Six that aren't as lucky." he's pretty optimistic though considering! kind of optimistic.
- "Really, babe? It's like you don't even know me." He wiggles his eyebrows, a truly astonishing feat considering that half his face is spattered in black and blue." CRYIGNMBFHJAVDJ
- hes so snarky its grand
- "And here he is, putting her through another episode of Ezren Wicken Fucks Up Again. No wonder why they've taken so many breaks." HELPPPP
- "He knows Maia is right—-she always is. It's one of the many reasons why he loves her; without her, Ez doesn't know where he would be." wahhh ;;;;
- the hets...
- "Try as he might, Ez can't escape his darkest fears.

An alcoholic like his mother. A deadbeat like his absent father." clutches my head oH FUCK... THE PATTERNS... OHHHHH
- "At this point, he's accepted that he's a walking magnet for bad news and there is nothing he can do about it." BAHHAHA
- "Without him, Cyprian would probably be a new stain on the factory floor. So while he accepts the consequences of his actions, Ez would do it again in a heartbeat." hes real asf idc. they call him the committer
- "The last thing I want to do is leave you." what if i did drastic things to myself
- "Love? More like she can't get rid of your sorry ass." BAHAHHA
- "Sometimes, though, he wonders…what if?" what if... it could get a helluva lot worse?
- it's about to!

isadora:
- "Isadora is known to be a free spirit." KYAAAAA
- "How something so beautiful can withstand the scars of humanity amazes her. It goes to show that even in one of the most begrimed places in Panem, light can shine through." SHES SO LOVELY AND OPTIMISTICC
- shes wisteria core i fear... ive already immediately taken a shining to her
- "Too bad her mother clipped her wings, sentencing Isadora to a life full of rules and crushing expectations." damn thats cruel... her beautiful wings bruh...
- "Isadora finds it funny how her life is split into two halves: Before Elisa and After Elisa." sister? oyhhhhh...
- ohhh the favored child moment i see...
- "She's not most sisters though; refuses to be." THIS IS WHY YOURE BASED!
- i wonder why her mom loves elisa over her. like what's ""wrong"" with isa
- "either she provides for their family or she won't be welcomed back." thats super fucked eughh
- "The wall of muscle that she so easily bounced off of" NOT THE WALL OF MUSCLE. SHE BOUNCED OFF HIM LIKE ILLY DID OFF OF LIO'S TITS BAHAHHAA
- "I'm fine, thank you. Just a little unexpected adventure, you know?" shes so lovely op stoppp ;;;;;
- "She might be trapped by her mother, but Isadora knows that one day she'll make it out of Eight." whats the plan here? becoming a capitol designer or smth?
- love her so bad...

LOVE: ezren, isadora

FANTASTIC ASS CHAPTER DYL! love your writing so bad its soo full of personality and pretty words... seriously delectable

xoxo booger