Catching Fire: Assume spoilers in comments.

[countermoves]

I'd like to point out that [His voice alters slightly, taking on a higher pitch and tone.] "Oh my gosh I have the best journal name and everything and it'll be great." [He resumes his normal voice instantly]

Not a good reason for doing anything.

In fact it's a very capitol line of thinking.

[He spreads his hands] I can work with that. [And he does, all the time. repeatedly. But. It's hard to tell if that's a compliment or not.]

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[hijackedbread]

You can work with a lot of things.

[countermoves]

[No emotion. No emotion on his face at all]

...You know it's not about me in the end. It's about the audience. What the audience wants to see.

[hijackedbread]

That doesn't make it right.

[countermoves]

...there's nothing right about it son. [Again no emotion. He folds his hands in front of him]

We're the only. creatures. that create. theater. [Each word is emphasized.] It's an aberration.

[hijackedbread]

You know, normalizing the Games is the way to make sure they go unopposed, I'll give you that. But that can only last for so long. People are getting tired of being used.

[catnipped]

Maybe she doesn't want to work with you. [My, someone's bristly tonight.]

[countermoves]

Maybe I don't want to work with her.

There's a lot of people who make common cause with people they don't like here isn't there.

[catnipped]

Looks like it. [Yeah, that was nice and blunt. This is why she would make a terrible figurehead, guys.]

[countermoves]

from what I've observed? that's kind of the essence of this whole hobby don't you think? These guys try and lure one of us in, to throw us against monsters or indulge their twisted fantasies...

What brought you to yours Katniss.

[catnipped]

I'm not going to tell you.

[vainqueurdeluxe]

You do stress quite a bit of difference between the Capitol way of thinking and your way.

As though they are two different things, game maker. With all due respect? You are the Capitol.

[countermoves]

The capitol is like the human body. There are the people like you, the heart and the brains. The beauty, the skin, the perfectly formed hair and features. Then there are the people who protect all of that. The hard bones.

Then there's the blood. The people who keep things going. Who sometimes have to get a little dirty. That's me.

[someone is question dodging]

[vainqueurdeluxe]

How political of an answer.

[ :| Not amused by the dodging.]

Some would argue, but I'm of no mind to make such a fuss right now. But let's not be mistaken, sir, I am not the Capitol, nor will I ever be.

[District One, forever and always. Nothing more, nothing less.]

I merely supplement it when Snow feels it necessary.

[countermoves]

Then can you blame me for criticizing the capitol when we deny ourselves the opportunity to count diamonds amid our ... very rough sense of self?

[and now flirting. SEE HIM DODGE. IT'S MOVES AND COUNTERMOVES MAN]

[vainqueurdeluxe]

[Unphased. :| ]

I can blame you for quite a bit, but that would hardly be productive, would it?

[outexecuted]

I would say that people have done worse for worse reasons, wouldn't you?

[countermoves]

[YEECH. OW.] ...I wouldn't call what you did worse.

First rule of the job. Give them a show. That's really all that matters.

[anniesgonemad]

It... is a good name.

[Annie shifts, looking at her hands.]

[countermoves]

[oh.

Ow. He can't keep the emotionless expression.] Annie Cresta.

I was a second technician on your game.

[anniesgonemad]

[She gives him a small wave, though she does not smile.]

Oh.

But you remember me. [Obviously. She was a victor, everyone remembered them. Though she was always shoved to the side. That's what happened when you were the mad victor. She had been a waste.]

[countermoves]

Of course I do. You moved through the water like a dolphin. It was fantastic.

spontaneous pb change no big deal

[anniesgonemad]

[She can't help it, but she smiles sheepishly, letting her hair fall in front of her eyes.]

Thank you. But... nothing fantastic about everyone watching. Everyone watching you change and hurt people. [The faces of the families of the tributes she'd killed, when she saw them on her victory tour, would haunt her forever.]

[flyfreemockingjay]

Of course you can.

You can play anything in your favor, can't you?

[countermoves]

...It's not my favor. It's the audience's favor.

...You have a twin sister?

[flyfreemockingjay]

I'm starting to think it's the same thing.

No. It's something you get use to in this place.