User blog comment:Annamisasa/The 102nd Annual Hunger Games/@comment-6042880-20131227133034

1. I love how you gave Kodai character development, how you made him something more than he was. At first he might have been a blank sheet of paper, but slowly he began to become a more notable character that in the end was in love, lost his love, and felt.. empty. Not a blank sheet of paper, but empty. I also love how you didn't do the norm of having Kodai talk like anybody else expect super-fast and funny, and instead you made him a bit more harmless sounding, not talking much but when he did it was.. There aren;t words for what I want to say about this.

2. Dyna, or Lucy. Dyna has done a lot for the sake of the alliance, and now he's still alone despite still having that feeling of being what he was from the start: and anti-career. But that's not why I want him to win, I want him to win because much like Lucy, he's had battles with his own mind and has changed so much to where they almost wish they could all leave the arena as it is now. I also want Lucy to win because her character development is based off who her allie were, what happened, and why she did certain things. Practically confusing herself throughout the games and killing her saviors, she was afraid that she would have to kill Wolf. Now, it's just them and although Wolf is a good tribute, Lucy has more of a prescence to me.

3. "If I am not there anymore, Kodai will have no reason to fight Lynx. And then I can only hope that he runs. Escapes. Kodai won’t leave this battle – not before I am gone."

This quote shows Ophelia's final thoughts, convincing herself that her suicide would ironically save the life of her lover. She knows that Kodai's death would be blood on her hands, and she couldn't live with that so she resorted herself to that sad suicide, the suicide that changed Kodai.

4.“''I don’t need this. You can have the last drops of the medicine. It won’t be enough to safe you, but it might just prolong your life a little longer… I am not sure, though. I am a killer, not a healer,”''

Helena knows who she is, but at the same time she was acting like someone she wasn't and despite being sure of his death, she had mercy on Kodai, something that ironically reflects how she said she was a killer and not a healer. Since that moment, she wasn't either of them. It leaves the question: What is she now?

5. I enjoyed day 6, the turning point in the games. The outcome of most things are like a point and click adventure, a bunch of "what if" questions. It makes us think, "If Janu killed Michael, what would she have done?" or "If Lynx already killed Kodai/Kodai already killed Lynx, what would their next move be?" Many questions that although their answers were revealed in Day 7, could have impacted Day 7 in a different way.

6. I'm not being selfish, but Kodai's death. I saw it coming, but I didn't expect to see it the way it was. I on't know, but I can tell you this. He spent his last moments wondering about his friends, people he cared about, writing names down as if they were invitations to an afterlife party.. and his last thoughts were of Ophelia. Yes, I will say this; they were sad happy thoughts. He knew he was dying, he hoped Dyna would win as much as Ophelia hoped Kodai would win, but he also knew he was leaving a world where he'd have to see more people like him die, more people like Ophelia die, and if they both actually survived, maybe even see their own children die. He knew he was going to finally see Ophelia. Where? He doesn't know, but he's happy.

Unless he went to hell and Ophelia went to heaven which in that case, WTF AFTERLIFE SOCIETY.

7. I liked Lynx's Pov. It was.. with closure, but still mysterious. He had these thoughts, he knew he was dying, but before that he had all these violent thoughts of killing Kodai, of winning, things like that. But when faced with defeat, he almost didn't care. It chilled me, because if Kodai expected to see him in misery, maybe that made Kodai feel worse. I don't know, and since we never got a look into Kodai's mind.. we may never know.