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Anyways. Dino lesbians. And a yeehaw sammy.

Playing around with a different art style tehehe

Happy pride month!!! 🏳️‍🌈

These are personal head-canons for me so don’t take this too literally.

Also, I can get behind Ben being trans.

Yaz = eldest sibling, Kenji = shitty middle child, Darius = youngest child who can Do No Wrong /lh

if they’ve been reckless/made bad decisions, Yaz scolds them like unruly children and They Will Listen

Yaz and Kenji are very protective of Darius. no one hurts their little brother. someone made the mistake of bullying Darius after nublar and Kenji punched the bully in the nose (Yaz sent the bully very psychologically disturbing hate mail)

between jwcc and jwct, Kenji arranges a monthly movie night with Yaz over discord and Darius with Kenji irl

they get together once every few months to hang out and catch up, maybe over drinks

they’re down to do weird shit together, mostly just wandering around somewhere they aren’t supposed to be (some rich asshole’s private property or something) and if they dare, bringing a picnic and drinks

after Nublar, Darius and Kenji took Yaz to an abandoned theme park to wander around (she canonically loves theme park related deaths, this would be a dream for her)

their parents made them take Brand with them as the Designated Responsible Adult, so he tagged along. it was a super fun day

Darius’s dad put a $10 bill in an envelope a week or so before he died so he could buy Darius his first alcoholic drink, but Yaz and Kenji wanted to take Darius to get his first beer when he turned 21 (he was very good at not drinking before then) so the three went out and took Darius for his first ever drink

the fuckers up of shit ever. they’re at an Event with annoying people (some kinda sponsor event to do with Yaz’s track or Kenji or something) and at some point Kenji whispers to them “i put a stink bomb in the vents” or “i put laxatives in the punch bowl” and Darius and Yaz have to plan an escape route for when the shit inevitably goes south

they aren’t very physically affectionate with each other, but when they are, it means a lot 🫶

they’ve cuddle piled a few times; order goes: Darius, Yaz, Kenji, from inside spoon to outside

Yaz gets very concerned about Kenji. especially after how he got in season 2, she often starts worrying whenever he’s being reckless. usually it gets to the point Darius notices, and then he helps Yaz calm down

A somewhat continuation of this post. Starting with his home district: District 4:

District 4 (Fishing):

District 4, being a career district, has a lot of victors.

Despite all that, he's worried; he knows his games weren't entertaining enough for the gamemakers, and he himself wasn't a Victor they were enthused about, so he thought they'd set it so he'd be reaped.

It's worse, Kenji gets chosen and Darius finds himself volunteering to protect his brother, however, looking back he knows Kenji was reaped on purpose because they knew him and Darius were close, and none of the other District 4 Victors liked Kenji enough to volunteer for him, so it forced Darius's hand to volunteer so that Kenji couldn't take his place to protect him.

The female tribute from his district is Ronnie, a Tribute Darius is familiar with from his childhood, who was once a fisherwoman turned Victor several years before Darius was old enough to be reaped and forced to watch the games.

Kenji still travels with them to the Capitol to mentor Darius again. Most of the other District 4 Victors assist Ronnie, but avoid Darius because they found his victory disrespectful to their district.

District 1 (Luxury):

The male tribute is Earnest, someone Darius doesn't know well; he's a late 20s guy whom Darius has only seen in passing with other Victors.

Darius can recall Earnest's games were he managed to recruit several tributes from Districts 2 and 4 to do most of his dirty work; he then killed his fellow tributes in their sleep during his watch duty.

He Charismatic, but he's also ruthless.

The female tribute is a woman named Serena, but Darius can't recall her games. She comes off as a typical District 1 tribute, always adorned in luxurious fabrics and jewels.

District 2 (Masonry):

The male tribute is Rio, a large masonry worker who won his games a long time ago. Darius doesn't personally remember it, but he recalls the older members of District 4 saying Rio was known for blunt weapons and beating his competing tributes to death, including killing his own district partner early in the games. He holds the record for most kills during a day 1 bloodbath.

The female tribute's name Darius doesn't hear, but he recognizes her as a Victor known as "The Hander" who won her games by somehow befriending the Capitol made muttans and ordering them to attack her fellow tributes.

District 3 (Technology):

The female tribute is originally a young woman named Gia, whom Darius recognizes as a Victor from the 72nd games. However, an older woman, "Nonna," volunteers to go in her place.

The male tribute is Ben Pinus, Victor of the 69th Hunger Games, though Darius points out he looks far different now, glamorized by the Capitol into having a much larger build and lighter hair.

Darius remembers Ben's games, as Ben was known for creating devices that exploded and caused several dealths and injuries from his games.

Other than that, the Capitol advertises him as charismatic and charming; however, he himself looked horrified when Gia was reaped and even more so when Nonna volunteered.

District 5 (Power):

An older couple named Mitch and Tiff, who were victors who won their games one after the other, and then married.

District 6 (Transportation):

Mateo is the male Tribute, an older gentleman who Darius remembers as having a daughter who cries as soon as he's reaped for the Quarter Quell.

The female tribute is Lana Molina, an angry woman who resorts to cursing out the Capitol once she is reaped again. Darius vaguely recalls people talking about her games in District 4, saying they were surprised she wasn't a Career with how brutally she held her own in the arena.

District 7 (Lumber):

An older man named Vito is the male tribute. Darius notes he looks like a lumberjack and recalls him winning years ago.

The female tribute is an older woman by the Name of Allison Miles, she is far more timid than Vito.

District 8 (Textiles):

Yasmina Fadoula is the female tribute (and the only female victor at the time of the 75th games reaping). Darius remembers watching her games when he was 12. Despite everyone in District 4 claiming she was stupid for getting angry about "how the games worked," and laughing at her crashout, which led her to kill four of the tributes. Darius secretly rooted for her to win because he remembered how scared he was during his first reaping, despite being a career, and often thought that if he were reaped, he'd want someone like her as an ally before he was killed.

The male tribute is Rich, while Darius doesn't recall his games. However, Rich seemed scared to be reaped again.

District 9 (Grain):

The Male tribute is a young man named Zappa

The female tribute is a woman named Pilot.

District 10 (Livestock):

Sammy Gutierrez is the female tribute. Darius remembers her from her games as being one of the kindest people who entered the arena. She is known for mercy-killing her district partner after he was left to bleed out by a career district kid.

Carl is the male tribute, a grumpy, angry man who quickly throws profanities at the Capitol the second he is reaped, almost causing a riot in District 10.

District 11 (Agriculture):

Zayna Mballo is the female tribute. Darius recognizes her as the 14-year-old who won the games before his. She took advantage of her small appearance to hide and attack other tributes from a distance. She is the youngest Victor in the Quarter Quell at 15 years old.

Mo is the male tribute. A senior-aged farmer who appeared to be retired.

District 12 (Coal/Mining):

The male tribute is a gruff-looking man named Delgado

It was revealed that District 12 had no female victor, so the Capitol pulled 2 male victors.

Decided to put this under the cut because it does mention some of the darker themes in The Hunger Games series.

Darius and Yaz are so brave in season 1, it really isn't talked about enough how these two put their lives on the line right away to save people they don't know that well (and with the drama and Yaz being mad at Sammy but still almost dying for her and Darius.)

Like and I bet Darius and Yaz don't even remember Ben freezing during their Toro encounter but I bet Ben remembers it, he remembers becoming more brave after, he remembers almost letting two people who would later become his best friends die because he was too weak to protect them.

His face off against Toro meaning so much to him because he became strong enough to protect his friends after failing them.

The reason we think he’s doing it (in both cc & ct) out of deeper love for Ben/Brooklynn is because the writers like to particularly put the B characters into near-death scenes.

(Ben ‘dying’ at the monorail, Brooklynn getting kidnapped by Wu, bumpy getting chipped by DK, Ben almost dying when trying to free bumpy, Brooklynn being ‘dead’ and undercover in ct, Bumpy teased to be dying in ct s1, Ben getting electrocuted in ct s1, Bumpy being taken by Biosyn, Brooklynn almost dying in 4x05 … there’s probably more.)

Sure, the others have gotten hurt too, but it never lasted more than one episode, ie Sammy’s injury. Yaz went to get the injury cause she’s the fastest and obviously Yasammy ship building; but if Yaz couldn’t have, kenji would have for sure gone instead. (Okay, Yaz was disabled throughout many episodes, though the writers never teased her to be dying or in need of urgent help. Also there was a whole episode of Kenji helping disabled Yaz.)

Making it look like Benji & Kenlynn in a love corner thing at that point, cause kenji always cares the most about rescuing them. But he’d for sure do the same if the other characters were in that near-death situation.

This is hinted in the episode in Senegal when they ‘left’ Yaz alone at night, and Kenji then hugs her first once she’s safe with them.

Like if Darius got stung in s4 instead, we might’ve not gotten a similar heartfelt conversation in the hyperloop simply because they are already close and talk a lot, and Darius doesn’t have the same uncertainties as Ben, but he’d for sure have done the elevator scene to save Darius. If Brooklynn got stung instead, there would be no necessity for Kenji to be with her, cause I’m sure anyone is able to carry Brooklynn; Kenji however is the second strongest physically, so it was sorta necessary for him to stay with Ben.

He also proposed to go alone to the chicken farm, just so Zayna (and the others) won’t be harmed. And we can all agree on that that was not out of potential romance.

The only reason why he didn’t go after Brooklynn to Malta, apart from not completely trusting her, is cause he got at his limit. Which he told Darius earlier in the car ride. Then why would he have played the hero for Ben in s4? Because he was there when it happened. For Brooklynn, he’d needed to travel to Malta and then hope first that she wants to be rescued; there was no certainty, the whole rescue mission could’ve gone totally wrong/been useless. But Ben did need rescuing, needed to quickly get medical help, out of the dinosaur forest, and was very close to death. Big difference.

I’m not saying that romantic feelings can’t develop when someone plays a hero for another person all the time because that one person just loves being tortured like that by the writers. So, yeah, sure, Kenji (and Ben too) might have totally fallen in love during all that heroism action scenes.

I now have a shop where you guys can get the Brooklynn, Yaz and Sammy chibis as keychains and stickers! I will be working on adding more on there!