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An escort was a citizen of the Capitol who selected and accompanied the tributes and mentors from their assigned district leading up to the annual Hunger Games.

Tasks[]

Reapings[]

Main article: The Reaping
Effie & Katniss at reaping

Every year, a district's escort selected one boy and one girl to participate in the Hunger Games by pulling their names from the reaping balls. Due to their Capitol upbringing, they saw these occasions as celebrations, and were typically oblivious to the districts' suffering.[1]

The Hunger Games[]

After the reaping, escorts were responsible for making sure that tributes and mentors kept to the schedule throughout the week leading up to the Hunger Games. This began on the train to the Capitol and ran up to the tributes' transport to the arena.[2] In the Training Center, they took their tributes down to the gymnasium,[3] and the day before the tributes' interviews, the escort had four hours of time allotted to help each tribute present themselves onstage.[4] They were also known to talk to sponsors, but only mentors could seal sponsor deals.[2]

If one of the escort's tributes survived the Games and became a victor, they would greet the victor in the hospital upon their recovery. Later that evening, the victor's support team would rise up from beneath the stage for the closing ceremonies. The escort would be the second one introduced, following the prep team.[5]

Victory Tour[]

Main article: Victory Tour

The escort's job also included escorting any new victors from their district on that year's Victory Tour.[6] After this, the escort could be promoted to a higher-ranking district for the next year's Games, or they could choose to stay with the district that they were with previously.[7]

History[]

At the time of the 10th Hunger Games, the position of an escort had not yet been created. Instead, tributes were chosen by their district's mayor, when their names were pulled out of sacks.[8]

For the 50th Hunger Games, District 12 had an unnamed female escort who called out tributes' names at the reaping. This was the second Quarter Quell, so the twist was that twice the number of tributes would be reaped that year: two male and two female from each district. As a result, escorts each called out four names.[9]

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Effie Trinket

The only named escort is Effie Trinket, who worked as District 12's escort for some time up to and including the 74th Hunger Games,[1] Victory Tour,[6] and 75th Hunger Games.[10]

Trivia[]

  • Each district had their own escort. However, only District 12's escorts— Effie Trinket and one of her unnamed predecessors— were ever seen.
    • Both of these escorts were female. This has led some to speculate that it was an exclusively female profession.
  • Some speculate that the escort position was introduced after the 10th Hunger Games' reaping in order to prevent interference from district citizens with personal investment.
    • Mayfair Lipp, the daughter of District 12's then-Mayor Lipp, had her father purposefully call Lucy Gray Baird as tribute due to a personal feud.[8]
    • Sejanus Plinth, a former native of District 2, suspected that his father had requested for him to mentor the District 2 male.[8] He said that his father "bought [his] mentorship" to show Sejanus that he couldn't return to district life.[11] It is unknown, but commonly speculated, that "buying" Sejanus's mentorship also entailed a bribe to District 2's mayor, ensuring Sejanus's old classmate Marcus would be reaped.

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 The Hunger Games, Chapter 1
  2. 2.0 2.1 The Hunger Games, Chapter 6
  3. The Hunger Games, Chapter 7
  4. The Hunger Games, Chapter 9
  5. The Hunger Games, Chapter 26
  6. 6.0 6.1 Catching Fire, Chapter 1
  7. The Hunger Games, Chapter 10
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Chapter 2
  9. Catching Fire, Chapter 14
  10. Catching Fire, Chapter 13
  11. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Chapter 15
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