Favorite Reaping Lines! {a python/kay project}

Hello everyone! In celebration of this brilliant Quell twist and all of its tributes, Baby Wessex d9b [earthling] and I decided to collaborate and choose our favorite lines from everyone's reaping posts! That way, hopefully it wont feel like anyone's writing has been lost in the fray.

Here is our list, starting from the lower districts:


District 12

Sage Scarborough [kap ]: Sage had already allowed those words to be released into the air, sealing his fate, one way or another.

Affron Williams [bailee ]: No one was stupid enough to take on the role of Capitol suicide.
"I volunteer!"
Except that kid.
Wait, I know that kid.
Fuck. That's Sage.


District 11

Salome Izar [marguerite harvard d2a (zori) ]: You shiver when you press your thumb into the book and think, am I just the lines of my thumb, or the numbers after my name?

Tamron Rhodes [ᕙʕ•ᴥ•ʔᕗ ]: Our district might have been secured in terms of food and supplies, but I wasn’t willing to let that girl go into the arena by herself. To have made such a bold decision, she deserved more than someone from home but it was all I could give her as I made my way up the stage to take my place.


District 10

Riven Fowley [solo ]: Perhaps this is my death sentence. And you know what? Perhaps it's better this way.

Ophelia Stromstatt [Rosetta ]: A girl, standing forward, bruised fist high in the air. The screens repeated her words. Mace did it, Ophelia thought, why can’t I?

Lazarus Stroms [pogue ]: Click- bang. Rose petals erupt from the back of his head and the world goes black.

Scarlett Stroms [✨ zozo. ]: "Take me out on a date first, why don't ya?" - and it's instant, in the air before I have time to stop, think, breathe. Poison dripping like acid gloss on my lips and it tastes like the kisses my mother never gave me.


District 9

Zanita Luzell [sbeeg ]: There she was. A teenager on the brink of freedom. If she held her breath for a few more moments she would be safe from the reaping forever to live a life of... To live a life of what?

Helios Delacroix [@fabulousraven ]: "don't do anything stupid." For all these smalls words I've been learning, I think this is a time to break imposed rules. That's the glory of living, huh?

Lucas O’Hara [lance ]: A thought flashed across his mind like a shooting star, bright and wild and ever so tempting, and suddenly he too was in motion.


District 8

Shelby Leviane [heather - d2 [mylee] ]: She was the acute point of thought that she yet yearned for; she was the light in her own darkness that shone no shadow.

Eva Hope [pup ]: In that moment I feel rage surrounding me. They pretend as if we have choice, as if we can control our fate, when really we all know that at some point it all boils down to what they have planned for us.

Gentian Hope [Lyn𝛿is ]: But that thought is cut off, replaced by a truth he had nearly buried and forgotten - neither Lily's nor Paige's name had come out of that reaping bowl, all those years ago. They had both volunteered - and they had both died.


District 7

Marcus Fletcher [uwu ]: "I VOLUNTEER!" I blurt out before I get to finish my thoughts. Damn, mouth. You quick.

Raven Barker [umber vivuus 12b 🥀 [dars] ]: I had no one left.
There was no one to hurt me.
"I volunteer!"
(Except myself.)

Leticia Wheeler [Sleepy Fluttershy ]: As I am escorted to the top of the stage, I feel like the nightmare is never going to end. My brother, sister and mother are yelling something in the distance, but I do not hear them. I have chosen to never wake up from the most terrible dream imaginable.

Seth Brogan [* ]: "I..." I stop and feel the pattering of my heartbeat squalling in my ear. My throat dried up instantly and I wonder where my words had gone until I feel eyes peering at me and realize that I said it already yet was unmoving.

Castor Karmichael [Python ]: She could see half of the world, and it was dark on both ends. The darkness closed in.

Jano Karmichael [rook ]: Dread crawls up my abdomen, an eight legged uneasiness that constricts around my chest, and in a split second I feel that drop in my stomach when speculation becomes a horrendous reality.

Eszter Summit [gamemaker sloane ♕ kaяi ♕ ]: “Whatever,” And I take my place among the five other tributes. The five others who just signed away their lives as well. I know I am nothing. But maybe theirs are worth something, we will never find out.


District 6

Ingran Ansgot [gamemaker kelsier ]: Some of them scream about heaven, the rest about the hell I'm going to. Everyone always gets to see it first and no one ever comes back to tell me about it. Boring, it's boring.

Riordan Einfallen [Tom ]: Floating in the stars as he dreams of one day joining the damned who moved on to better and more important things in life. No more dreams of bloody fields, only dreams of finally reaching them as they stand out waiting for him. Arms wrapping him in a warmth that will feel like safety, but there was still only one problem. Himself.

Anton Ladetto [noodles ]: Part of me, as crazy as it seems, does want to volunteer. Not for the being famous part of being a victor, but I want to figure out every tiny little secret about the Capitol while I am there, and perhaps use that knowledge as currency when I return home. I am not remembered by my family anyways, and if I die, it will still please me, knowing that I helped everyone in the District in some way.

Elvaina Eckhart [я𝑜𝓈𝑒 ]: When I awaken there is black water over my head, no longer fluid but solidified into a thick and fathomless substance. It was once just raindrops, a steady trickle of ink darkness on my skin, but as the body count piled so did the rain.

Elettra Eckhart [ghosty ]: A name; that is all that separates a person and a monster.

Iridium Eckhart [arx!! ]: think they are speaking softly, whispering. I think I see the words I was forbade to ever speak falling from Elettra's lips. "I volunteer." I mimic the movement as best as my untrained lips can manage.


District 5

Callixtus Shim [mat ]: It was a bad idea to stay awake all night, just to be able to see the sunrise. There would be thousands more to see.. wouldn't there?

Lorenzo Ruined [Baby Wessex d9b [earthling] ]: Like any good user, he hunted the best high. If he ran short on supply, he'd think a little harder about the propaganda videos shown during his study hall, or the pittance he made sweating it out at a warehouse after school. He'd think about his fucked up family, orbiting a dead girl.

Eden Turner [florentine, d4b ❁ ]: When I was little, if anyone had asked me what I wanted to be when I grow up, I wouldn't have hesitated to tell them I wanted to be just like my Ma. Despite this, with each passing year I have come closer to the realisation that I want to be nothing like her at all.

Fallon Payne [Stare ]: Everyone thinks I’m broken because of the monsters, but on this day I think they realize that I’m not so wrong after all. They don't like that.

Pollux Cree [♛ scandal ]: Me, I only had family, but now it's like they don't care that I even exist. So when the escort asked for volunteers, the words came so smoothly out of my lips.


District 4

Curse Jinx [@dreamerkid ]: When I arrive at stage I can see the rest of District staring up at me, I can see the individual faces of my brothers and sisters looking up at me, I can see my almost certain death staring up at me.

Lightning O’Hana [Arrows ]: Still I swim and I worry, not because I don't believe in her skill, but because a brother's bond is brutal when it comes to the safety of his sisters.

Ronnie Cheyne [d6a georgie cham 🍓🐢 frankel ]: You couldn’t even save your brother in a dream, what makes yourself so sure that you’ll save him in real life?

Anarchy Brice [flyss ]: I've driven my bike into the ditch again, just like I had as a child, but this time it's bad. This time, I've hit my head on a rock and passed out and nobody is coming for me because I've called wolf one too many times. I'm drowning in my own blood, but I haven't realised it yet.

Brooke Destin [eulalie blake 1a 🍒 tris ]: Death places a pistol in her mouth and she catches the bullet with her teeth — a crack runs across her entirety, but she already knows what it means to break.

Chaos O’Hana: [Cameo {RIP Charlie} ]: All of those brutalities we endured in the past appear null in void. I’m in entire skepticism. I’m suffocating within a nightmare. But Lightning does in deed take the stage…as a Tribute.

Chloriphina Sills [Unitato15 ]: With an eager smirk on her face and a quick glance around at her soon to be competitors, her mind is already at work, thinking up pun strategies that could gain her the wordplay showcase she craves.

Gabrielle Bellamonte [sadniss everdeen ]: But the arena is the last battleground to play exorcist, and if you can't beat the unholiness out of you, you'll let it trickle out with your blood as you die.


District 3

Ave Clayton [Onyx ]: But nature never guided the heart or the mind of such a bright child. The only person she trusted was herself, and she had made up her mind the day that grasshopper had shattered as easily as glass on the floorboards.

Wylla Lysander [D6f Carmen Cantelou [aza] ]: She taught me a thousand things about love. How it is a destructive substance that kills you softly and silently from the inside out; how it grabs your heart by the horns and pulls it left to right until it is mangled and twisted; how it misleads and misguides, and how it breaks a person.


District 2

Asriel Dreamurr [[nyte] ]: Instead, I am a bitter shell of a man with as much reason to live as a flower has to turn away from the sun.

Saummerand Demheaux [thompson harvard - d2b - arc ]: You create your story by damaging yourself; making it known to the world that with every canon, it breaks off another piece of your sanity

Ivar Hammerfell Knuckles ]: His greatest weapon was his disability, and he would use that to his advantage.

Anise Himura [shrimp ]: She wonders if she'll ever see the gray again, or if the rest of her life will be crimson and charcoal.

Cassiopeia Shaw [ali ]: Cassiopeia never thought she would see the day where two was shaken to its core, not like this.

Hela [анзие (Anz) ]: Her lip quirks, a fire starting in her mind


District 1

Atlas Lumiere [kousei ♚ ]: Riptides; confidence running through my veins, white gunshots against deaf ears and crimson instead of gold weeping through my stitched heart, and I feel the threads of fate twist and turn against my limbs- ("Because we knew you'd be strong enough to carry the weight of the world if you wanted to.")

Kyros Moreno [Sunrise Rainier D2 // [Thundy] ]: In truth, the weird part about fearing for your life all the time is that the Grim Reaper himself could take me on reaping day and I would be none the wiser.

Diorite Fray [Gryphon ]: If I don't want to drown in a flood of my own suffering now, then I need to offer my service to everyone and drown in an ocean of my own blood later.

Molly Malachite [MrMista ]: She could imagine it now, travelling across Panem on her victory tour dressed in a full-body gown that shined brighter than her parents’ most prized diamonds.