RAY NICHOLSONas Ray Hall In Panic (2021)

RAY NICHOLSON as Ray Hall in Panic (2021)

Steve Rogers // Captain America

and his habit of putting his hands on his belt

percy jackson

riff

riff is a son of zeus. he was claimed at twelve. his mom was abusive and he hates her. he ran away at twelve and found the camp with the help of his friend tony. tony is a son of apollo and works in the infirmary. riff is one of the head counselors of the zeus cabin. he's a pretty good guy, but he always seems to be in trouble for one thing or another.

connor

connor is a son of hades that was claimed at age fourteen. he's spent the past three years living at camp half blood and training for—honestly, he doesn't know what he's training for. but he's training for something. life isn't bad by any means. sure, he's got nightmares and sure, he's got adhd on top of all his other issues, but it could be worse. he could be dead. or a monster. (sometimes he thinks he's both, despite knowing that he's not). but yeah. life is good. as good as it can be when you're a half-blood, anyway.

dodge

dodge is a son of nemesis that was claimed at sixteen. his older sister, dayna, was killed by a cyclops while she was trying to get them both to camp, and dodge has been trying to find and kill it ever since. he spends his days at camp training to kill the cyclops. he keeps mostly to himself, but he’s a good friend to have around if things go sideways.

NOW PRESENTING: ROLF LAUTMANN RIFF LORTON, VICTOR OF THE SIXTY NINTH HUNGER GAMES!

this verse is heavily affiliated and is single ship with @extraguys’ niklaus rembrandt.

pre games

riff lives in district twelve, along with his best friend tony and their friends. when he was twelve, he ran away from home. he had planned to get on a train to the capitol, but he didn’t have the money for a ticket. he hid from the peacekeepers in tony’s trash and tony took riff home to his mother after he found him. the boys quickly become inseparable and they, along with other boys in district twelve, quickly become notorious for getting into trouble. they’ve never really been caught, but they’re considered a nuisance by pretty much every adult in district twelve.

when riff is eighteen, he and tony go to the reaping ceremony like they always do. when tony’s name is called for the male tribute, riff wastes no time volunteering for him. this causes a stir in the capitol. no one from district twelve has ever volunteered before. haymitch isn’t much help in mentoring riff and his district partner, an eighteen year old girl named liza verne. riff and liza don’t have much of a plan except to try and stay alive for as long as they can. riff knows their odds of survival are slim, but if he can protect liza, he’s going to try.

everyone in the capitol wants to know why riff volunteered, and he tells them a short version of his history with tony. he’s not quite a favorite, but he gains enough sponsors to turn some heads.

he scores a nine in his training evaluation. he isn’t really skilled in anything, but he knows his way around a knife well enough to get by, and he’s a fairly skilled fighter with his fists. riff and liza scheme as best they can, but they both agree that their best course of action is just trying to survive for as long as they can.

games

the arena for the 69th hunger games is the side of a mountain. the cornucopia is on a platform roughly in the middle of the mountain. there are trees and caves and boulders to hide in or behind, and there’s a small lake at the very base of the mountain. it’s the only source of water in the arena. there are thunderstorms that occur randomly every other day, and fog that rolls in immediately prior to and following the thunderstorms.

liza is killed during the rush for the cornucopia by the male tribute from district two. the other deaths include both tributes from seven, the male tribute from four, the female tribute from eleven, and the male tribute from five. riff grabs whatever’s closest to him—an empty backpack and a knife—and runs. he spends the first night in hiding, trying to count how many tributes have died. he vows revenge for liza, and spends the night scheming and planning a way to kill as many tributes as he can before he’s killed himself.

by the time the fifth day dawns, riff, both tributes from three, and the male tribute from district two are the only survivors. riff and the male tribute from two have killed the other tributes. riff kills the female tribute from three on the sixth day. the male tribute from three is killed by the male tribute from two on the seventh day.

on the eighth day, riff and the male tribute from district two have a knife fight that spans the entire arena. riff eventually kills him, but not before sustaining a deep stab wound to his chest. the medics patch him up and he’s crowned the victor of the 69th hunger games a week later.

post games

when riff was getting patched up, the capitol did some experimenting on him. they were attempting to turn him into a muttation, but he woke up before they could complete the operation. instead of being a full muttation, riff has sharper canines, enhanced senses, and an enhanced bite force. his loyalty to his loved ones has been increased, and he is extremely volatile when angry. he will snap or growl at people if he needs to, both literally and figuratively.

riff doesn’t know the full extent of what the capitol did to him, but he suspects some of it. he returns to twelve to mentor, but he’s not very good at it. he tries for the first year, and then after his tribute is killed, he gives up. district twelve doesn’t produce victors. everyone knows that. riff and haymitch were flukes. and then niklaus rembrandt wins the 73rd hunger games, and riff starts paying attention again.

he hadn’t given nik any special treatment compared to the other tributes he’d mentored. he’d barely paid any attention to nik at all. he only really started noticing him after he won. nik’s victory was a literal bloodbath. it took them a long time to clean him up so he could be crowned the victor.

following nik’s victory, riff learns that there’s a plot to auction him off to the highest bidder. riff is very determined to not let that happen, and he proposes that he and nik get married to at least get the capitol off nik’s back. it works to some extent. nik, according to the capitol, is riff’s pet and has to act as such. riff knows the capitol won’t buy the story otherwise, but he still hates it.

they escape to thirteen as soon as they can, and it’s there that riff learns the extent of what the capitol did to him. when the rebellion happens, riff is helping as much as he can. he wants to see snow dead just as much as anyone else, and he’s very determined to make that happen.

── little things about the mun !

i'm over 5'5 / i wear glasses or contacts / i have blonde hair / i often wear sweatshirts / i prefer loose clothing over tight clothes / i have one or more piercings / i have at least one or more tattoos / i have blue eyes / i have dyed or highlighted my hair (i dyed it pink when i was a kid and then blue when i was a little older) / i have or have had braces / i have freckles (i have some!) / i paint my nails (i can’t paint my nails so my mom does it for me) / i typically wear makeup / i don’t often smile / resting bitch face (i’ve been told i have one but idk) / i play sports (i did cross country in middle school and field hockey in high school and i hated both) / i play an instrument (i used to play recorder and violin in elementary school but i barely practiced and i can’t play anymore) / i know more than one language (i know a little bit of spanish but i can’t carry a conversation in it) / i can cook or bake / i like writing / i like to read / i can multitask (sometimes) / i’ve never dated anyone (it was in middle/high school so idk if it counts or not so i put it in italics) / i have a best friend i’ve known for over five years / i am an only child (i’ve got two younger brothers)

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Tosia is curled in a ball on the seat next to him. She’s been staring at Katniss since she and Peeta got on the train. Riff doesn’t know if she’s trying to eat Katniss’ shrike or if she just doesn’t trust her. Either way, she can’t eat the bird. Riff tears his attention away from his daemon to focus on Katniss. She’s the first person in District Twelve to volunteer since he did. He gets why she did it, but he also knows the chances of her survival are slim. He leans back in his seat a bit and rubs behind Tosia’s ears.

“You got a plan?” He likes to ask all the tributes that. “For once you’re in there?” Most of them don’t. He doesn’t think Katniss will, either. But maybe she’ll surprise him. He doubts it, but maybe it’ll happen.