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His family hated Harbinger Rhodes.

Six years ago, the victor killed Daria, Tobias’s cousin, just one day prior to the end. She was so close… his family started to get their hopes up that she might actually return to District Four. Tobias barely knew her, but through his father’s blood he was a part of her. He remembered the night before, when only eight or nine of the tributes were left. Tobias remembered praying, alongside his hopes that the dreams would go away, that she would make it out alive.

The next day, she almost slayed Harbinger Rhodes… she almost finished him. But he still managed to kill her, and that crushed the hopes of his family, and their emotion shifted from optimism to pessimism within the snap of a finger.

He felt an obligated hatred to the victor, even if he’d never spoken a word to him in his life.

Tobias punched at the trainer, using his mother’s advice: fight like you’re beating the daylights out of Harbinger for what he did. It wasn’t the best advice, considering the victor had to do it in order to survive, but Tobias used it as a guideline to channel whatever anger he had to practice.

Hook and uppercut, jab and cross. The trainer was good, but still by the end of the session, his knuckles still hurt.

Tobias probably would’ve lost much sooner than Daria, but it didn’t stop him from trying.