thecapitol | (no subject)

Who| Mentors, stylist, escorts, and anyone else keeping up with tributes in an official aspect.
What| The green room
Where| The tribute training center
When| start of the arena
Warnings/Notes| none inherent, tags thread subjects as needed.

The green room this round has been decorated with the sensibility of what would be, in our era, a turn of the century sitting room. Dark wood paneling, thick rich red velvet furniture, and plush red curtains drawn back over various monitors with heavy gold cords. Although the room is quiet large to contain so many people, it gives the impression of being intimate. The Avoxes, decked out in vaguely militaristic attire, serve food and drink in silver and crystal dishes, gold alcohol catching the light of the stained glass lamps around the room.

In the center of the room is a holographic projection of the arena, highlighting in flickering lights where each tribute is. Panels hidden discretely in the wood paneling can change the view of any of the screens so a mentor or stylist can pull up their own tribute, or one whom they would like to observe.

The projection can easily be shifted, with the flick of a hand, on to the person's own tablet, or even to be projected on one of the sitting tables placed around the room. On their screens other various information can be easily accessed: current odds, gossip, and even communication from potential bidders.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

"It depends on how much you like being here. But I think it might be both. It's worse for them to be in competition as much as they are, but better because they get to come back in between."

He stares back toward the middle of the room at the various dots moving in the arena model.

"They're not from the Districts the way we are, what do they have to go home to?"

"Home," Barbara suggests, placing slight emphasis on the word. She still didn't feel that pulling anything across universes or realities could have a beneficial payoff, but the chances of her discussing that at any point were around zero. "It's where the heart is, don't you know? We'd have our work cut out for us if we had to guard those too."

Yet it's a pervasive thought in her mind, watching these people she had the chance to know, who she'd see be resurrected for ongoing entertainment and the financial drain and stress on the whole of Panem, to wonder when or why not send all of them home.

She'd told Mindy to ask Johanna about forest fires, when it came to Snow's decision to hold this unending quell. Sooner or later, his breaker would prove inadequate for the blaze roaring along up to it.

She sips her water, closing her eyes just long enough to forget for a moment that she's watching a replay of something closer to her Games than most have been so far. Urban city, museum... well, it had a certain echo.

"I meant to our homes. By trying to make it easier on us, they've made it hard to connect to victors at all. Who cares if some sad little nobody from another world dies in your name and comes back again? They aren't fighting for the Districts the way we did."

Finnick was more maudlin than usual about this. It wasn't his favorite subject in general, but he had just gotten back from a respite in his district and now he has to deal with a whole new set of Mentor challenges.

"You don't think they care a little when running Games this exciting and back to back like we do has people bending over backward to supply the Capitol with more?"

She sounded honestly curious, asking what may have been a misleadingly simple question. No one can connect to these people sparing two of each District's children, and the Capitol makes everyone's lives even worse to support the gluttony of the Endless Quell. In her opinion, this had very little to do with the Tributes themselves, and very much to do with poor damage control.

But she smiled like she meant what she asked to be a passing thought she couldn't quite keep nailed down. "Makes it our job to make people care on top of the rest. Boy! They sure like challenges around here, don't they?" Her very real amusement (the Capitol loved the exact opposite, in her opinion, especially after watching Katniss and Peeta) came through in her tone of voice.

"The Tours were supposed to help with that, I think. I reckon it's awful hard, especially when some Districts are so big, to make the same kind of impact with a stranger that you can with one of your own."