#ginnee tbosas

[diiwata]

"the tributes from district 6 began a funny dance, and the ring twins got some of the audience to clap along to the rhythm." / ginnee wheeler & otto máquina

coriolanus, just say you don't have rhythm or funk and leave them alone!!!

[zippiedippievippie]

Tbosas characters as unhinged ao3 comments left on my fics

Lucy Gray 💃

Jessup 💖

Mizzen 👹

Lamina 🧚🏻‍♀️

Coral 🫦

Treech 🧟‍♂️

Reaper 🤌

Tanner 🤠

Ginnee 🚙

Bonus: Treemina 🥲

[thatthingilovewith]

TBOSAS Tributes first and last names

District 1

Facet Beauregard (French Meaning Beautiful Gaze, something nice to look at, alternative meaning may be Fair Faced, Facets are a gems face)

Velvereen Zarifopoulos (Greek meaning Golden Son) (Americanized as Greek surnames are gendered)

District 2

Marcus Batungbakal (Tagalog meaning Iron Stone, taken from @diiwata)

Sabyn Ngoc (Vietnamese meaning Precious Stone or Jade)

District 3

Circ Othman (Arabic origin meaning wise)

Teslee Mandic (Maiden name of Nikola Teslas Mother)

District 4

Coral Armstrong (Scottish meaning Strong Fighter)

Mizzen Karppinen (Finnish meaning Carp)

District 5

Hy Saengkaew (Thai meaning light from a crystal)

Sol Fritts (Charles Fritts invented to first solar Cell)

District 6

Otto George-Benz (IDK feels like a two last name guy Karl Benz credited with first practical automobile)

Ginnee Brayton (George Brayton invented the Combustion engine)

District 7

Treech Akamatsu (Japanese meaning red pine)

Lamina Vanderbyl (Americanized) / van der Bijl (Original) (Dutch meaning “from the Axe” or Descendant of woodcutters)

District 8

Bobbin Powers (Angalcized of the french Poer meaning poor)

Wovey Dyer (English, someone who dyes cloth)

District 9

Panlo Niedermeyer (German meaning low farmer, 9 is the lowest farming district)

Sheaf Bumgarner (German farming last name)

District 10

Tanner McCarthy (Real last name of cowboy billy the kid)

Brandy Smithfield (Owners of the world largest Slaughter house)

District 11

Dill Alcaraz (Spanish version of Arabic name Al Karas meaning the cherry)

FYI I used google to get the meanings/origins so if they’re wrong don’t yell at me

[darlingsnow0]

all the tributes with bows

[straightupclownin]

Associating TBOSAS tributes with songs from my playlist because I am bored and decided to do this for fun:

(Note: If any of these are your favorite song then you can say that you are the character I gave the song to.)

Facet: I / Me / Myself by Will Wood

Velvereen: Primadonna by Marina and the Diamonds

Marcus: LOOK DON’T TOUCH by Odetari & cade clair

Sabyn: Teen Idle by Marina and the Diamonds

Circ: Be Nice To Me by The Front Bottoms

Teslee: I Am Not a Robot by Marina and the Diamonds

Mizzen: Home or Boys Will Be Bugs by Cavetown

Coral: She Likes a Boy by Nxdia

Hy: Say It Ain’t So by Weezer

Sol: Cherry Bomb by The Runaways

Otto: Riptide by Vance Joy

Ginnee: Just Dance by Lady Gaga

Treech: Trees by McCafferty

Lamina: Not Strong Enough by boygenius

Bobbin: Bruno is Orange by Hop Along, Queen Ansleis

Wovey: Soldier, Poet, King by The Oh Hellos

Panlo: Lovers Rock by TV girl

Sheaf: Oh No! by Marina and the Diamonds

Tanner: Wrecking Ball by Mother Mother

Brandy: Mary by Alex G

Reaper: Twin Size Mattress by The Front Bottoms

Dill: I Bet on Losing Dogs by Mitski

Jessup: Things to Do by Alex G

Lucy Gray: I’ve Had Enough by Melina KB

[persephoneprice]

“I'm so sick of running as fast as I can

Wondering if I'd get there quicker if I was a man”

ginnee

inspired by @spiralling-thoughts doing one for otto!

i’ve been thinking about miss ginnee lately!! if anyone is reading this and has any thoughts on her (or otto!) let me know :)

[tumblingghosts]

How about a time traveling ginnee?

responding to this as part of the au ask game, but if you meant this as a general ask then lmk - i would be happy to ramble even more about time travelling ginnee!

1) ginnee doesn't remember dying. she barely has enough time to register the explosion before she's blinking awake in the train car to the capitol, shaking from the aftershock of pain that she didn't get to live long enough to properly feel. otto thinks she's just had a nightmare.

2) ginnee convinces herself it's just a nightmare like otto said, right up until she sees that blonde capitol boy again and events start playing out as the did before. she can put the pieces together from there and is incredibly confused and scared to be back. she doesn't want to perform or dance anymore knowing how it ends.

3) otto doesn't know what to do about ginnee who bursts into tears when their mentors are trying to get them to do a dance. apollo and diana feel really awkward when ginnee doesn't even acknowledge them & ends up offering the food they brought to try to cheer her up. ginnee pushes it all to otto and keeps crying.

4) otto can't make himself eat all the food (no matter how hungry he is) and saves a portion of it for ginnee. ginnee ends up confiding to him about bombs in the arena, but otto still thinks that it's just a nightmare that she's having. he does help convince their mentors to move when ginnee gets jittery during the tour though.

5) when the bombs go off, ginnee and otto end up saving apollo and diana's lives. it earns them a lot of goodwill because the ring twins are grateful and talk them up (both to elevate them as tributes for sponsors and because they didn't expect it). with lysistrata also talking about how jessup saved her, there's a louder outcry to "pay them back" for saving their lives. they're able to get the tributes a doctor rather than just a vet with their combined efforts.

i don't think that it'd cause the games to stop, but it does leave apollo and diana feeling much, much worse when ginnee and otto die in the arena & they are grieving hard about it. the other mentors aren't used to the ring twins being so mopey & don't know how to handle it.

thanks for the ask spiral! :D

[catindabag]

This one is for Ginnee in your AU. What's her favourite book genre and does she and Otto talk after the book incident Diana Ring made?

Gin’s favorite book genre is smut. Specifically, ✨comedy-smut✨😉. And if you’re wondering why, just blame the Ring twins (Diana mostly).

[diiwata]

ginnee & otto headcanons

shout out to @persephoneprice for asking me to elaborate and @pottershawkinswp for the dance headcanon!

they didn't know each other, but their names were probably thrown around once in their respective circles b/c otto's brother was involved in some juicy exporter gossip

"yeah, poor guy got cheated on. that's his brother, otto, right there." / "that girl, ginnee, told me who he cheated on your brother with! you won't believe who!"

when they got in the cattle car, ginnee DEFINITELY treats him like a celebrity. it's like when you and your friends choose a random person to worship / follow with / incorporate into your lore bc their lives are so interesting. obviously, otto is confused

they wore clothed masks in the train to combat the intense pollution at home, and only took it off once they left district 6

during the d6 dance in the zoo, ginnee was the one who forced otto on his feet. she was starving and deprived of her favorite liquor, and wanted to use the opportunity to get a flask from one of the capitol citizens. she started off alone, then dragged him by the hand rather desperately! otto tried to look too cool for it/angry at the world/emo, but he remembered his mom teaching him, so he put in a little more effort for her

the dance they did was the lindy hop! they were probably a little sloppy with the footwork, but the capitol doesn't have that sort of funk so they think it's the most outrageous and intriguing thing they've ever seen

they were in awe of the amount of stars in the capitol. it's not as much as the more "natural" districts with less light pollution, but know that they were geeking out so bad. otto joked that he thought stars were a myth. ginnee isn't sure he's joking

they had an unspoken deal to ally. ginnee reminded otto of the co-workers he used to walk home in the dark. otto reminded ginnee of the exporters who were closed off and homesick on their first ride away from d6

when the bombs went off in the arena, ginnee helped an injured otto run to safety, his arm slung over her shoulder. but when a large piece of debris fell down from above them, he pushed her out of the way. otto died from the crush. ginnee died from the smoke.

"the tributes from district 6 began a funny dance, and the ring twins got some of the audience to clap along to the rhythm." / ginnee wheeler & otto máquina

coriolanus, just say you don't have rhythm or funk and leave them alone!!!

[moreespressoformydepresso]

I want the tributes to escape and parkour through the Capitol to escape the cops peacekeepers. Someone films it (as well as the peacekeepers failing hilariously to keep up) and it goes viral.

The kids got away by knocking out the peacekeepers coming to drag them into the cattle car and scatter in all directions, taking the opportunity to wreak havoc across the city. It doubles as a diversion for Circ and Teslee to cause a Capitol-wide power outage and for Ginnee and Otto to hijack them a totally awesome truck to cruise away in.

Mizzen and Sheaf run around causing property damage with their antics, Brandy and Tanner are busy egging the Crane household, Panlo finds news reporters to livestream as many Ways In Which Gaius Breen Sucks And Should Break His Toes Kicking Rocks, Lucy Gray is performing a song (possibly with the help of Treech, Reaper and Velvereen) while actively getting chased, Facet is breaking into Livia’s room to destroy her makeup and deface every possession of hers he can find with it, Marcus is reconciling with Sejanus so they can team up and cause mayhem, Sabyn is cashing in on Forus’ offer to give her fashion products, Dill and Hy are collecting medicine, and generally there is Chaos.

Gaul tries to have the records deleted but it is a lost cause. Everyone remembers.

[thatthingilovewith]

I feel like Ginnee has a stuffed animal collection.

[losingmymindrn]

do u have any hcs for the lesser known tbosas girlies?? like any of the lesser known academy mentors and sol, velvereen, ginnee, sabyn, sheaf? love ur acc btw <3

<33

● Sol seems like the person who is the quiet kid in class, but is actually super friendly if you just talk to her

● Ginnee was a dancer back in 6

● sheaf was very flexible, and if it was a modern au I bet her and ginnee would be really good friends :]

● Juno and Lysistrata are friends

● telsee and circ formed a family like bond (doomed by the narrative)

● Velverereen was rly strong physical

Thats all I have... for now ;]

[persephoneprice]

ginnee got reaped because she was stealing catalytic converters

[catindabag]

TBOSAS on Crack short take (43)

Coral: I’ll be honest, our Menders-

Lucy Gray: Mentors.☺️

Coral: *glares at Lucy Gray* Our Menders might be a bunch of drunk idiots, but their gift baskets and cookies were delicious.

Otto: True. I can’t seem to stop eating the blueberry flavored ones.

Mizzen: Hey, does anyone want to donate their shares to me-

Panlo: For the last time, 4, we are not giving you our shares!

Mizzen: Why?!

Panlo: You know why!

Mizzen: Seriously, I don’t-

Ginnee: You literally stole and ate half of our goods already!

Dill: You also stole and ate Wovey’s last cookie.

Mizzen: That was Brandy!

Brandy: No, it wasn’t! I was too busy stealing and eating Reaper’s-

Reaper: That was you, 10?!

Brandy: See! I told you I was committing a totally different crime at that time.

Mizzen: Fine. It was me.

Reaper: You heartless little shi-

Mizzen: But you guys weren’t eating them!

Treech: Obviously, we were saving them for later!

Mizzen: But I’m hungry.🥺

Reaper: How are you still hungry?! You literally stole all of Lamina’s cookies!

Mizzen: But I thought she didn’t want them-

Reaper: Look at her! She’s still crying over them!

Lamina: My cookies!😭

Mizzen: Well, we can always wait for pretty boy (Coryo) and his rich boyfriend (Sejanus) to give us more food-

Marcus: Please stop mentioning idiot Plinth in front of me and my stale bread.

Treech: Why, Marcus? Are you embarrassed to see your friend again-

Marcus: Idiot Plinth is not my friend!😠

Lucy Gray: But you still ate the cookies he gave you-

Marcus: I ate them out of spite!

Coral: And you’re also invited to their upcoming wedding-

Marcus: Don’t remind me!

Circ: I’ll go to their wedding if you don’t.

Lucy Gray: Me too!

Mizzen: Free food is free food.

Marcus: Ughhh! Why are you supporting crazy Plinth and his pretty blonde boyfriend?!

Lucy Gray: FYI, Coryo’s hair is not blonde. It’s white as snow-

Marcus: You’re even using his stupid nickname!

Lucy Gray: We’re best friends.☺️

Marcus: Since when?!

Lucy Gray: Since the moment I promised Coryo and Sejanus that I’ll sing ✨Snow On The Beach✨ and ✨Lover✨ on their wedding day.😌💅

Marcus: Don’t say his name!

Lucy Gray: Sejanus.

Marcus: I hate you-

Sejanus: Hi, guys!😊

Tanner: What the heck?!

Jessup: How did you get in here?!

Coryo: My fiancé payed the Peacekeepers to let us in.

Coral: That’s allowed?!

Lucy Gray: Hi, Coryo!

Coryo: Hey, Birdy.

Sejanus: Hi, Marcus!

Marcus: I ain’t Marcus!

Sejanus: But-

Lucy Gray: I thought you guys were punished by your Dean for ruining your fancy school’s reputation?

Sejanus: We were!😀

Coryo: And this is our punishment.

Treech: To annoy us?!

Coryo: Unfortunately, no. But we were ordered by ✨The Academy✨ to bring you guys some food and supplies.

Lucy Gray: How did you even get your fancy school to support us?

Coryo: ✨Ravinstill Nepotism✨.

Reaper: Ravinstill?!

Coryo: It’s the most powerful name in the Capitol.

Coral: So where are they, Blondie? Where’s my cheesecake and burgers?

Coryo: Well, I was thinking about asking you guys what you want to eat because Sejanus said that we could order takeouts today.

Dill: What’s a takeout?

Coryo: Basically, you order the food that you want to eat and someone will deliver it here for you.

Lucy Gray: We can order anything?!

Coryo: Anything. My boyfriend is rich AF.

Sejanus: Order what you want, Coryo, my love, my Snow Angel!😍

Coryo: See. I told you he’ll pay for it.

Tanner: Must be nice to be Plinth’s sugar baby-

Coryo: Boyfriend.

Tanner: Sugar-

Coryo: Boyfriend.

Tanner: Baby.

Lucy Gray: Fiancé!😀

Sejanus: Husband!😘

Mizzen: I want a stuffed salmon with lemon sauce on the side!

Coral: One roasted lobster and hash browns for me!

Tanner: Baby back ribs with fries!

Dill: Green Bean Casserole!

Jessup: One stuffed turkey!

Panlo: A grilled cheese sandwich!

Lucy Gray: Smashed Potatoes with love on the side!😘

Lamina: My cookies!😭

Brandy: Chicken! A whole ass chicken!

Coryo: Slow down! I can’t keep up with all of you shouting at the same time!

Wovey: Can we order a whole serving of Apple Berry Pie?

Coryo: Anything for you, sweetie.

Sejanus: How about you, Marcus?

Marcus: I’m on diet.

Sejanus: But-

Coryo: Babe, let me do it.

Sejanus: Ok.😞

Coryo: How about you, Marcus?

Marcus: Give me a hundred chicken nuggets. I’m hungry.🥺

[everlvrks]

naming in songbirds and snakes

authors note: it is 1 am and this is unbataed, apologies for any spelling or grammar errors.

the hunger games is known for its outrageous, futuristic names; one of my favorite pieces of the series. this post does a beautiful job analyzing the names that appear in the original trilogy and categorizing them into 4 different categories. but that post is a little old and we’ve just recently got a lot more content (and names) to pick apart and analyze.

researching these names reminds me how everything suzanne includes in her novels is intentional. she doesn’t pick random names because they sound good but because they mean something. i think that’s important to remember while reading this series. it’s definitely something i will keep in mind during my next reread of the trilogy.

i didn’t cover every name in tbosas. if there’s a name you have thoughts about, reblog and let me know.

potential tbosas spoilers and long post under the cut

names will be divided into capitol and tribute (district) names  

capitol

capitol names take many influences from ancient roman and greek names, but they also tell the story of the character. i will only be discussing major characters, not all will be mentioned.

coriolanus: snow’s first name largely has to do with his story. from the play coriolanus by shakespeare, meaning “conqueror of corioli,” a heroic roman solider, caius marcius, gains his name from a victory at corioli. when he leads the attack on corioli, it does not go well. but he keeps fighting and returns to rome victorious. he brings glory to rome and his mother volumnia. basically summing up his whole story. he tries to lead an ‘attack’ (him trying to win the games) but that fails. he’s reduced to a peacekeeper but he still doesn’t stop trying to be something greater. he wins in the end. he goes back to the capitol, attends university and is mentored dr. gaul.

which brings me to...

dr. volumnia gaul: dr. gaul’s name has two parts. one representing her relationship with snow. the other representing her relationship with panem. volumnia is the mother of caius marcus in shakespeare’s play, coriolanus. volumnia, in the play, uses caius as a means of securing personal prestige aka using snow’s ideas in her games. she wants her games to be better, the best. and she uses snow for that. gaul was also a roman province that embarrassed rome (read: gual’s games not being popular, things going wrong, etc.). but unlike gual, dr. gual was not stop/conquered by panem/rome.

sejanus plinth: sejanus was a close friend and ally of roman emperor tiberius who worked to improve conditions for the empire. he was also strangled to death. sejanus plinth was unable to change anything before his death by hanging. a plinth can be looked at in two different ways. @hutchhitched described it as a platform—a place someone can take a stand and deliver a message. it can also be looked at as a means for climbing. social climbing, if you will. the main ambition of the plinths.

strabo plinth: a wealthy philosopher who allied with the romans and was granted roman citizenship as a reward. seems familiar? plinth: see sejanus.

crassus snow: crassus was a roman general who played a key role in the transformation of the roman republic into the roman empire. just like his namesake, crassus snow was known for his military experience and wrote the proposal for the hunger games, successfully transforming panem into what we know today.

tributes

typically, tributes have names that reflect the industry of their district. there are a few exceptions to this; including sabine, ginnee, jessup and lucy gray baird.

district one

one of the wealthier districts in panem, district one is responsible for producing luxury items, such as jewelry, for the capitol.

male tribute: facet, literally meaning “one side of something many-sided, especially of a cut gem” suggest gemstone that is placed into jewelry but he is merely a part of the captiols larger plan.

female tribute: velvereen, derived from velveteen, meaning “a cotton fabric with a pile resembling velvet.”

district two

another wealthy district, district two is the home of the nation’s quarries and masonry workers. also recruits and trains peacekeepers and produces weapons for their use.

male tribute: marcus, derived from malleus, latin meaning “hammer.” the main tool of a masonry worker.

female tribute: sabyn, derived from sabine, italic tribe located near the tiber river. captured and raped by the romans. parallel to her current situation of being captured by the capitol.

district three

one of the poorer districrs. responsible for technology, district theee manufactures televisions, computers and other electronics. citizens of this district are very adept at engineering.

male tribute: circ, derived from circuit, something which an electric current can flow; used in electronics.

female tribute: teslee, possibly derived from tesla, an inventor and engineer.

district four

it’s major industry is fishing, trains citizens at a young age for their industry.

male tribute: mizzen, literally a part of a ships mast aka ships used for fishing.

female tribute: coral, do i have to explain this one? marine invertebrates that live in the ocean.

district five

it’s main industry is power and electricity.

male tribute: hy, possibly derived from hydroelectric, alluding to the hydroelectric dam that produces power for panem.

female tribute: sol, derived from solis, latin for sun. another producer of power.

district six

responsible for transportation.

male tribute: otto, variation of auto derived from automobile. a form of transportation

female tribute: ginnee, meaning “pure” a reminder that these are innocent children.

district seven

main industry is lumber

male tribute: treech, possibly a styilization of tree, the source of lumber

female tribute: lamina, the blade of a leaf, something trees have ;)

district eight

the textile makers

male tribute: bobbin, a spindle which thread is wound. typically found on sewing machines

female tribute: wovey, possibly derived from woven because textiles are, woven.

district nine

responsible for grain production

male tribute: panlo, derived from pan, meaning bread in spanish. bread is made from grain.

female tribute: sheaf, literally meaning “a bundle of grain stalks.”

district ten

the cattle ranchers of panem

male tribute: tanner, from the verb to tan, meaning “convert animal skin into leather”

female tribute: brandy, a brand is “an identifying mark burned on livestock”

district eleven

agriculture!

male tribute: reaper, to reap, meaning “to cut or gather a crop or harvest”

female tribute: dill, an herb. that you grow

district twelve

the coal miners

male tribute: jessup, derived from hebrew “yosef.” interestingly this is only the second name derived from hebrew within thg. second to johanna. could also be a reference to jessup, nevada; a mining area.

female tribute: lucy grey baird, she explains her own name. baird meaning poet or minstrel.

[cloudy-roro]

Thinking about ginnee again and her friendship with sejanus and Lucy gray because I'm deep diving to Lucy gray psychology