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TUC Week + #TUC20
Hello, all! In lieu of a regular TUC Week, this year, we’ve combined forces with #TUC20! You’ll have a year off from our traditional week format, and instead, you’ll receive a prompt dump. As always, your responses can be in any medium: art, fic, poetry, memes, you name it! But instead of posting on a specific day, you can post your responses at any time up to TUC Week next year.
This format is a lot more casual, and in turn, we don’t anticipate the same number of responses we usually receive. We just hope to harness some of the creative spirit brought about by the community (re)read. In 2024, we'll return to our usual format.
Prompts this year are based on Collins’ subtitles for each book. If you usually make a submission for each day of TUC Week and you’d like to do the equivalent for this event, that would mean five submissions total, with one based on the prompts from each of the five books. Choose one prompt from each group of three, or combine two or three into one submission — it’s entirely up to you! As always, the themes are supposed to be interpreted at your will. There’s no right or wrong way to use them, even if you leave the premise of the book they come from.
As always, if you have any questions, please send an ask.
THE PROMPTS: From Gregor the Overlander: The Fall The Quest The Rat
From Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane: The Mission The Hunt The Maze
From Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods: The Plague The Jungle The Mirror
From Gregor and the Marks of Secret: The Crown The Marks The Queen
From Gregor and the Code of Claw: The Code The Ticking The Warrior
"Beware, Underlanders, time hangs by a thread..."
hello hello! this september 1st marks the 20 year anniversary of gregor the overlander, the first book in the underland chronicles series by suzanne collins! i wanted to do something special to celebrate and i thought a little (re)read event would be a lot of fun!
all of the details are in the images above (image descriptions provided), but here are the dates once more:
Aug. 7th-11th --- Gregor the Overlander
Aug. 12th-16th --- Prophecy of Bane
Aug 17th-21st --- Curse of the Warmbloods
Aug 22nd-26th --- Marks of Secret
Aug 27th-Sept. 1st --- Code of Claw
and remember to use the tag #TUC20 during the event to meet and interact with other fans + #TUC spoilers for any new readers we may have during this time. i'll be going through and reblogging posts, so feel free to tag me (@prophecyofgray) as well!
one more thing: i think it'd be a lot of fun if we did something extra special on the anniversary itself, but im not sure what. feel free to share ideas in the tags <3
that's it for now! boost this if u can + spread the underland chronicles agenda to your friends >:)
fly you high!
Thank you for five great years!
It's long overdue, but the navigation page is updated with this year's submissions. This year, we had 42 entries, bringing the total over our five years to 215 new, unique pieces of content based on The Underland Chronicles. Special shoutout to @applesandpavenders, @blanketed-in-stars and @badlydrawntuc for having a contribution for all seven days this year.
It's tough being a content creator in a small fandom for a little-known book series from the early 2000s. It takes all of us to keep it going, even if that just means reblogging someone's work. Thank you for all that you do. See you next year!
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TUC Week 2022 Day 6 - CODE/CLAW
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TUC Week 2022 Day 5 - MARKS/SECRET
Quiet while they take a nap.
A simple one today, partially because I’m sick and don’t have much energy to expend and partially because it’s such a powerful symbol that I don’t know if it needs much else. As you can see there’s a cross along the mark, which is based off of something from @rin-solo’s A Henry Story, which you should totally check out here. https://www.quotev.com/RinSolo/published
Day 5
Not really anything to do with the prompt...but Dulcet deserves more attention so I’m okay with that.
Maybe you could count the note she’s reading as a ‘secret,’ because it’s probably from Gregor about to do something stupid and top secret.
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Gregor and Boots!
Day 3 of tuc week! Bit of a stretch for this prompt but this is supposed to be them at some point during prophecy of Bane but also, most prophecies end up with Gregor and Boots walking around in the dark with a flashlight so that fits.
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TUC Week, Day three!
A very late and very chaotic submission to Day Three: Prophecy/Bane
The prophecy of Bane, and the five senses.
Sight
Ares looks at the two sleeping forms – one his bond, one a pup. One the Warrior, one the Bane. The little rat rolled over in his sleep, into Ares’s outstretched wing. He almost recoiled at that, a lifetime of hating rats behind him. But he was also bonded to Gregor now, he’d protected Boots enough times, to understand why the Bane could not be killed. And so Ares wrapped himself around the pup, to keep it warm.
Against his charcoal wing, its fur looked so much whiter. It was strange, for an all-powerful being to be so vulnerable. White fur in the Underland, Ares could not think of a worse predicament. Had he not used his own dark robe many a time to escape notice? Perhaps it was poetic justice then, that the Bane, who was supposed to have everything – speed, strength, spirit – was easy to spot. Perhaps they would have one advantage, then, if it came down to fighting it. And Ares had little doubt that the Bane would rise to power, eventually. Power, leadership, they were too tempting gifts to refuse (Henry had not). But Ares actually had a little doubt, a small sliver of hope in him, that perhaps this tale would end well. Gregor had given him that.
Ares watches over his bond, his dark skin and hair. They were well-matched, it seemed, after all. For Ares had loved Henry, deeply, but he found himself actually liking Gregor, thinking of him as a good person. In his sleep, the boy looked younger, too young to have lost a sister, only a pup himself. Ares will stand by him, through the trials to come. He settles next to him, his dark fur blending with Gregor’s curls, watches over him.
In dark, in flame, in war, in strife.
Touch
All her life, Twitchip had navigated through scent. Scents were her first memories, her mother’s fur, the warm smell of milk, the familiar scent of her litter. They are her best memories as well: decadent feasts, a lover’s arms, the apples in the Garden. Her worst memories too of course, were driven by smell: the sharp scent of her cave by the serpents, the stench of hate in the air as gnawers encircled her. But now, with her nose smashed, Twitchtip is nothing more than a normal rat, or perhaps even less.
She is stripped of everything here. It has been days since she has eaten anything. They cut off her tongue, and it is so quiet and dark here, it is difficult to rely on echolocation. And even when she can, well, there’s not much to see in the pit.
But she can touch. She can slowly go around it, feeling every crevasse, the sharp edges, the smooth dips in the stone. She explores it’s a great big landscape instead of a few feet of stone. Twitchtip had always seen things others did not, entire worlds wafting in through her nose. And so she curls up in a corner, paw sliding on the wall, breathes in deeply through the pain. She thinks of Queen Luxa fighting back to back with her, of Gregor’s warm leg against her fur, of little Boots trying to tap on her wound to cure her. Ow! I no touch. She thinks of the feeling of Gregor’s life jacket, gripping him for dear life, closes her eyes, and tries to hold on.
Smell
No one asks Temp, but he smells it too.
Something is wrong with the water. They have a word for it in crawler, but in the human tongue he cannot think of one. The water is dancing in strange ways, circling itself, round and round and round again. Temp does not speak up, because no one will listen, besides the Princess of course. The Princess always listens to Temp. And the Warrior might, perhaps, although he is easily distracted, and, as all humans, he trusts his own more.
Temp clings to the princess, ready to defend her, but the fliers are fast, and he distracts her enough so that she does not dive after her brother. When Gregor comes back, coughing up water and holding on to a gnawer, Temp thinks it is not surprising that they are of the same blood.
And so Temp learns his lesson, and speaks up when they reach the island. Twitchtip is right, it is recent. The island still quakes like a young one, eager to grow. But the bugs, oh the bugs. Temp knows their smell. They are… the word is… Yet again, there is no one here to understand the clicking, and so they do not listen. The flier goes down in seconds, like Temp had known she would, because he had seen many a warmblood collapse under thousands of bugs. How they always underestimate the insects.
Flesh-eating. Whirlpool. Temp stores the words away as new vocabulary, and keeps protecting the Princess, waiting for the next danger he will not be able to name.
Hearing
At every pitter-patter of feet in front of their door, Grace jumps up. It’s never them though, never her son and daughter coming home. She sits at the kitchen table for hours in the night, watching the withering shadow of a man who wears her husband’s face. Whenever there’s a little crack or an echo, she’s up, running out, wrenching the door open. But the hallway is empty, and so Grace sits back down, and continues to wait, the faint melody of Christmas songs reaching her from the street. She tries to convince herself that they came back after mere weeks last time, but Jonathan had taken years to come back, long, hollow years.
Sometimes, she sits in the laundry room and stares into the tunnel that has swallowed her children, and listens to the faint hum of the currents. If she scooted a little bit closer, they would swallow her whole. She would join them down there, and defend them, and bring them home. But Grace has Lizzie, and Jonathan, and Grandmother. She has other people sitting on her hunched shoulders. But she does allow herself this moment, to kneel in front of the tunnel and listen to the currents, wait for them to spit her children back.
Taste
Andromeda laid down a few fishes next to him, gave him a sympathetic nudge, and then promptly fell asleep on the raft, wings wrapped around Mareth’s unconscious form. Even if he could not feel it, or her warmth, she still held him close. Because that was what a bond was: devotion, no matter the conditions. That was what Howard should have been, for Pandora. He should have gone after her somehow, he should have helped her, he should have been more careful… Despite the journey, the wounds, the loss of Luxa, nothing feels sharper than the pain of losing his bat.
He carefully scrapes his knife against the scales, cuts through the fish, takes out the innards and rinses the flesh in the clean water. He removes the head, and cuts himself little heaps of it. He leaves a half for Andromeda, and then slowly gulps down the rest, taking bits at a time. He stares out at the Waterway, and weeps. The fish tastes like long afternoons swimming with Pandora, sharing shellfish and squid, afternoons escaping his family always too full of children and crying, Susannah counting her loved ones and always coming up short. Howard was an eldest, and a proud one; he helped people, he loved people, he invented songs. But with Pandora, spending hours eating raw fish and seafood, there he could rest, and think only of himself and his bond for a few hours. He thinks about giving Boots his portion of bread, her indignant yuck! at the taste of raw fish as he chews, the iodine taste spreading on his tongue. Somewhere behind him, Gregor was wandering through a maze, avenging his sister. Howard had not lost a sibling just yet, but he had been old enough when Hamnet had died. He hadn’t been shielded at all, and so he had seen his mother collapse to the ground at the news. Yes, somewhere, Gregor was doing what he could to survive this loss.
The fish is almost done. He pauses for a second, thinking about how he would have good-naturedly bickered with Pandora about getting the last bit. About the fact that she’d died exploring, tasting, the way she would have wanted to.
He knows it’s silly, and wasteful. But he doesn’t take the last bit, drops it into the water, watches it disappear into the deep.
You take it, Pan.
TUC week, Day 5!
Okay, missed a few days, but here I am. The prompt today was Code/Claw, but I mostly focused on the last book in general.
So here's an AU where Gregor actually dies in battle. You have been warned!

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Please message this account if your submissions have not been reblogged yet!
As always, late submissions are accepted! If you do have any, please be sure to tag this account as you post them. Look out for a recap of this year’s event and an update to the nav page at the end of the week.
As always, thank you so much for your participation. Whether you contributed by creating something or by sharing other people’s work, this event could not happen without you. In such a small random, for a book series released nearly 20 years ago, it takes a strong community.
Luckily, we have a strong community.
Fly you high and see you soon!
day 7: free/future!! i’m looking forward to making more bats, especially nike, athena, andromeda, and icarus!! THANK YOU FOR FIVE YEARS OF TUC!!!! @tucweek
posting for the last day of @tucweek ! lizzie & ripred <3
Day 7!
Older Gregor. College Gregor. Gregor training to be a social worker so he can help people in impossible situations without having to fight anyone. Pacifist Gregor who is trying not to get into fights but somehow ended up with a black eye anyway. Future Gregor.
Thought it was about time to write some of my headcanons about what happened after the series because I wanted to know more!
Gregor is still The Warrior, but he’s trying to do it a different way. No more wars, no more fighting, no more sides, no more death. Is he bored out of his mind with school and people who just don’t get it? Yes. But that’s why he’s studying so he can help people who went through what he did, kids in wars overseas who make rules with themselves about imaging after, or tell themselves thar this is their last day to live just so they can get up in the morning. Kids who deny themselves hope, because, what’s the point?
Anyway, I loved this week. Can’t believe I didn’t find these books sooner!
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Day 7: Future
For this day I decided to focus on something that definitely happened canonically after the ending of the series. Ripred marries the shrimp that he always loved throughout the entire series ❤️💕💖
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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Underland Chronicles - Suzanne Collins Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Hamnet/Mareth Characters: Hamnet (Underland Chronicles), Mareth (Underland Chronicles) Additional Tags: The Garden of the Hesperides, Pre-Canon Series: Part 6 of TUC Week 2022 Summary:
“You know,” Mareth says quietly, his face hidden, “in truth… we need not fight. We could leave together, you and I.”
A brief pause, and then Hamnet bends slightly, his arm still raised, to look down at him. “And where would we go?”
Day 6
Here’s our girl for the Code of Claw prompt, princess Lizzie! She looks surprisingly confident here, but trust me, she’s got a death grip on that pencil.
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