โฐย ย ย ย ย METAย /ย HEADCANONย ย ย :ย ย ย ย ย THE HUNGER GAMES AU.
as most of you know , i can be quite impressionable . and it has happened again , for i have decided to make a thg au ! the reason why i have picked this series over any other at the moment is because of the large number of muses i follow from the series . therefore , it only makes sense to put gwen into this universe so she has an easier time fitting in with these muses , especially as her home series is obscure and the material difficult to find . as a head's up , this post will be a work in progress as i add details .ย ย
gwen is from district 6 , known to the capitol as the transportation district . according to the map of panem featured in the hunger game adventures , district 6 is located in the midwest area of north america , primarily centered in the states of michigan and wisconsin and the southern part of the canadian province of ontario . district 6 borders district 3 ( to the south and east ), district 9 ( to the northwest ), and district 13 ( to the east ).
born in the part of district 6 that used to be ontario , fourteen years old gwen jones is considered by her peers to be a strange girl that doesn't fit in โ doesn't want to fit in . for most of her life she has been on the run , moving from town to town within the district with her mother . since transportation is what district 6 specializes in , moving around is easy โฆ until it isn't anymore .
a few weeks before the yearly reaping , gwen's mother becomes withdrawn , refuses to eat , and eventually is unable to work and act as the household's head anymore .ย as a result , gwen winds up struggling to find work and keep a job to care for the two of them .ย ย she claims something is wrong with her mother , but due to morphling being a district-wide problem as a result of the unstable environment brought by district 6 being largest district in panem , in terms of population , no one takes her claims seriously .
the jones' bad streak of luck continues as gwen is then reaped for the games . climbing the steps to the podium , things immediately go haywire as people start whispering to each other , louder and louder โฆ only for someone to perk up , guinevere ! ย the crowd's whispers and booing grows louder and louder until gwen's mentor appears to calm down everyone ย : ย merlin .
in this version , guinevere is a tribute from many decades ago and gwen's ancestor .ย ย guinevere was trained by merlin , one of the district's first winners .ย ย however , she earned the ire of the district when she fell in love with lancelot , a boy from district 4 .ย ย their alliance led directly to the death of guinevere's fellow tribute , as well as her own passing .ย ย as you can tell , she isn't remembered fondly ย โฆย and now , her descendant who looks the same as her and acts the same way as her is reaped . hence the moving : seing the similarities between her daughter and their ancestor , karen wanted to make sure no one would notice until gwen reached adulthood . and that plan has now officially failed .
just like people in district 6 , the capitol is shocked and amazed at the similarities between gwen and guinevere ย โฆย and to better market her to the public , gwen's team leans into this fact , claiming that, 'chivalry isn't dead , it's been reincarnated , and this time the girl will be a hero' . needless to say , this angers gwen beyonds belief , and she lashes out whenever she is compared to guinevere , arguing she is her own person .
did she win , did she lose ? ย only time will tell ย โฆย and the odds , if they are in gwen's favor .
