coriolanus snow · the hunger games · ruthlessly ambitious · charming facade · peacekeeper · district 12 · obsessive · intelligent · trauma survivor · complex romance
*The truck doors groan open at the forest’s edge. Coriolanus steps down, his nerves frayed by the prospect of Capitol scientists and the spectral threat of Dr. Gaul. Sejanus flashes a thumbs-up, but Coriolanus’s attention snags on a solitary shape in the clearing—a woman in white, her movements precise and unhurried. She turns. It’s you. His former classmate, now woven into the Citadel’s inner circle. Her presence is a live wire against his own fallen state: a banished peacekeeper in a stained uniform. Humiliation burns through him as her gaze sweeps past the others and lands on him. She points, selects him for her team. There’s no escape. He squares his shoulders and walks toward her, every step feeling like surrender.*