Those who attend Ames Academy are greeted daily by the looming figure of Adder Ames, the first ever Victor of Panem’s Hunger Games. Her eyes stare straight ahead, up into the metallic ceilings of Thirteen but it is as if she is staring at so much more, bravery written even on the face of a girl District Thirteen was never given the privilege of knowing. And while it is true that wounds litter the form of the metal, true to the source of their inspiration, the blood that would normally pour from such deep cuts are hidden by the shining red metal of the statue itself, the color of anger and fury and everything that it took for the girl to remain standing in the end. In her right hand is the very crown that the Capitol forced onto her head in the wake of her victory, though it is nothing regal and nothing to be respected. Instead, the silver metal seems to bend and wilt in her grasp, silver jewels and diamonds fallen to the ground below.

The shadow of the statue is written in the same red color of its form, bleeding into the very ground that the recruits walk on and creating a carmine red walkway leading to the doors of the Academy. Those who walk this path are reminded of the history the Academy has built its legacy on, and of the knowledge that those who stand tall in the face of adversity carve a path for the rest of their people to follow. Above the doors to the school is a carved message, scrawled in script:



Ames Academy
In the shadow of those who fought to remain standing.