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[gamemakers]

Who| Everyone
What| The Capitols oh so exclusive interviews~!
Where| Primarily the common areas, but the interviews would be on every TV everywhere.
When| This evening, at 6 pm sharp
Notes| Use this post to ICly react to the interviews (if you don't make plans of your own!)

The advertisements hit hard today. Tune in at 6 o'clock, you won't want to miss this special! Everywhere a person could look, it was there, and the city was clearly excited for whatever this mystery event was.

As if that wasn't enough, escorts were encouraging Tributes to be in the commons, and a small feast of finger foods was laid out along one wall, extra avoxes available for drinks.

And, as promised, at 6 pm sharp, all the TVs flickered to the ever flashy Caesar, on an equally flashy tabloid-tastick reality style "interview" of the tributes. All the TVs in the common area light up with it, as well as the Districts suites, even if the TV had been off before.

Hope you all enjoy your dose of fame!

Comments

[splendid_roman]

He smiled and relaxed a little at that, getting down off the chair. "You have permission to hit me on the head if I ever show any signs of delusion. Of course I can't tell you what they'll be because I'll be too delusional to tell you I'm delusional." He grinned.

[undercoverprincess]

Cindy laughed. "I guess it'll have to be a judgement call on my part, then. I think I'm pretty good at judging crazy, but being here for awhile might make anyone go crazy, too." She took a sip from the champagne glass she was holding.

"It's nice to see you again. Now, tell me, what were you saying that they totally took out of context and made you look awful with?"

[splendid_roman]

"They were trying to insinuate that I liked men," he said with a sigh. He wasn't sure he wanted to repeat the whole thing if she hadn't heard it.

[undercoverprincess]

Oh, no, she'd heard it. She just wanted to hear him say it. "So you don't like men, is what I guess you're going with? I'm sure all of your female fans are going to be so happy to hear that," She grinned. "Besides, it's not like you actually came out and said you like guys. I think you're in the clear."

[splendid_roman]

He relaxed a little. "I'm glad to hear that." If she believed that he didn't like men, he was sure others did too. "I don't have any female fans," he said confidently, but then added, "Do I?"

[undercoverprincess]

Cindy laughed. "You don't think you have female fans?" This guy was definitely different, to say the least. "Okay, trust me when I say this: you have female fans. In fact, you might get more female fans because of this whole debacle!"

She smirked. "You have female fans. Hope you're ready for that."

[splendid_roman]

"Not really." He was a little confused and wary about the idea of having female fans. "Why would I have female fans?"

[undercoverprincess]

Okay. Okay... really? Was this guy blind and deaf, and only fooling everyone very, very well? Cindy reached forward, taking his hand in both of hers.

"Oh boy. Okay, we're going to go over to that corner over there, and I may be about to tell you some things that you'll find surprising," Cindy grinned, leading him over to a corner. Just to get away from any of the large groups. She didn't know if what she had to say would make him too embarrassed or not.

"First, you're cute. Handsome, actually, whatever word you prefer: you're a good looking guy. And us girls? We like good looking guys," She gave a little flirty toss of her hair. "Second, you're nice. Chivalrous, maybe? You're one of the good guys, or so you seem. I'd say that third was you having a great ass, but I think that goes back to you being handsome. Oh! And you're smart. Nerds have never been more in."

[splendid_roman]

He blushed and resisted the urge to try and twist round and look at his bum. "Well." He coughed. "Er, thank you." He was beginning to wish he hadn't asked. "I am one of the good guys," he confirmed, which was about the only part he was really willing to address.

[undercoverprincess]

"You're welcome." She let go of his hand, laughing behind one of her own. He really was a cutie.

"You are one of the good guys," She agreed with a small nod. "I think everyone can see that. Probably why some people might poke a little fun at you. In a general way. It's one of those... you see someone good, you can't help but want to needle at them a little bit. Too good to be true, you know?"

[splendid_roman]

"I suppose so," he said, but he didn't sound very sure. "Being good just means not doing anything morally wrong. It's not too hard."

[undercoverprincess]

"True." Cindy wasn't too sure on that, though. She considered herself to be one of the good guys, but she'd done some pretty morally wrong things. She considered the guy she worked with to be a good guy (despite his big and bad tendencies). She considered a lot of people to be good, even when they did some really awful things.

Maybe everyone's definition of good was different? "But it's more..." She paused, snapping her fingers, trying to find the right words. "You seem... non-corruptible. You know? You're that kind of good."

[splendid_roman]

He shook his head. "Everyone has their price." He didn't elaborate on what his price might be. Not least because he wasn't sure what he might be, but he could imagine that in a place like this he might end up finding out. "Mine's just higher than most."

[undercoverprincess]

"Good to know you won't give it up for a buck," Cindy smirked, tossing her hair over one shoulder. "I'm still figuring out what my price would be. I'd like to think mine would be pretty high, but... maybe it's good that I'm not as noticeable as others, right now."

They hadn't had their chance to dig their claws into her. Not yet, anyway.

[splendid_roman]

He grinned. "I hope we never have to find out," he said, expression more serious. "But I wouldn't put it past the Capitol to push us, though." Especially given what they'd just done. He looked around them a little nervously, but maybe now that they'd discussed it the Capitol would't do anything like that because they'd have lost the element of surprise.

[undercoverprincess]

Ah, yes. They were starting to push, weren't they? Cindy grew serious, looking down while she twisted a lock of hair. This was her sign that she was nervous about something, and she didn't always know she was doing it.

"I'm sure it'll come up. I mean, what else are they going to do here, leave us all in peace? We're going to be fucked come arena time." She swallowed. "You've been in an arena, yet? I forget."

[splendid_roman]

Ian blinked at language he never expected to hear from her. "I have," he said hesitantly, then pulled himself together. "I doubt they're ever going to leave us in peace for long. There wouldn't be any fun in that."

[undercoverprincess]

She did love blowing people's expectations out of the water. Princesses weren't supposed to curse, but she didn't consider herself a princess. Not anymore.

"No, there wouldn't be any fun," Cindy sighed, giving a little grimace. "You know what's tough? We all have to watch what we say and do here, for obvious reasons." She gestured to the TV. Obvious reasons being they took whatever they saw and put it on TV, so they had to have more of it.

"But we're going to have to watch ourselves in the arena, too. It's not enough to try and survive, you have to do it in a way that the audience will like."

[splendid_roman]

He glanced over to the TV. He'd got the message about being careful what he said and did. But when they were always watching and could take anything out of context it was hard to be that careful.

"I don't see why," he said bitterly. "I didn't ask to come here and be put in an arena. Why should I be entertaining? What's the worst they can do?"

[undercoverprincess]

"Apparently not kill us!" Cindy laughed, rolling her eyes. She was careful when it mattered, and nothing she needed to be careful of at home truly mattered here.

"Torture us, maybe, inside the arena and out? Torture our friends, any family we might have?"

[splendid_roman]

"There is that." He didn't sound quite so confident any more. Torturing him was one thing and it seemed like they were pretty much doing that anyway, if not specifically aimed at him. But bringing in his friends or family and torturing them was another thing altogether. "I hope it doesn't come to that."

[undercoverprincess]

"Frankly, I'd love for them to bring some of my friends from home, here," Cindy said, honestly and bluntly. "They'd tear their asses apart. They wouldn't need more then a day here to mess it up."

God, Bidgby would be just perfect here. He'd blow down the whole fucking Capitol with a huff and a puff. Cindy's friends were not the normal kinds of friends, clearly.

[splendid_roman]

Ian laughed, although he was beginning to think there was more to Cindy than she appeared - based on her swearing and description of her friends at least. "I suppose some of my friends would be similar, given the opportunity." It was not having the opportunity that was the problem.

[undercoverprincess]

She seemed like a shallow person at first, which was exactly what she wanted to look like. But there was a lot more to her, and if anyone took the time to get to know her, well. They'd start to see that. Problem was, she'd have to spend a lot more time with people then she usually did.

The Capitol seemed to be good at making that happen. "One day. The Capitol won't know what hit them when some of our friends show up here," She laughed. "Until then, I guess I get to make trouble all on my own. And by trouble, I mean sit back and watch everyone do their thing."

[splendid_roman]

He gave a wry smile at that. "They have got things all sewn up here to make it as hard to rebel as possible." Monitoring everything they did had a lot to do with that. "One person on their own isn't enough to change anything."