reuben montague | district three | fin [cbd1]

He has been told a hundred times that he is ready, but he is still waiting. He is still carrying a spanner in his hand while his father is counting coins. Reuben wants to be up there with him, in his father’s shadow. Preparing for his future when it is time to have it all handed over to him.

When it was announced that Transport manufacturing was to become one of District Three’s main industries, the Montague family have not stopped climbing. Their sales have rocketed and so has their wealth. A once humble family that tinkered with engines is now amongst the elites. They’re not short of competition though, the Capulet family who has their factory over the road are biting at their heels.

Reuben’s father relishes in the competition and he has put his son in charge of battles with the families that are in their way. From designing the very next best train carriage to battling it out on the racing circuits that have started to evolve across District Three and even in the Capitol. The only goal his father has is to make his family desirable, he doesn’t want his grave to be in Three but rather in a luxurious tombstone in the Capitol.

Meanwhile his son has two desires, to inherit it all and win the hand of Jasmine Capulet. The woman that is only over the road but seems so far from reach. It is the only race he wants to win, the one to her heart.