What do I do with you dude.

[gamemakercrane]

...[laughs] of course you can't put me in a game. I'm a game maker. It's completely contrary to what I do for a living.

To who I am.

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[omnomnomnomnom]

Don't be so negative! I'm sure you'd still put on a great show, and really, isn't that what we're out to do?

[Just as long as it's you and not him doing the actual playing.]

[gamemakercrane]

[two beards enter a room...He stares and then.]

I suppose it is in the long run. I mean as long as people are entertained.

Except I have a feeling that it won't be as easy as it is in the capitol but. [shrug]

[All the while continuing to stare]

[omnomnomnomnom]

Well, what's easy for one person is difficult for another. We just happened to wind up doing something that we were personally exceptional at.

Do you know what game she has lined up for you to perform in?

[gamemakercrane]

Exactly [He's been dealing with former tributes and ghost tributes and Katniss and finally someone who gets it.] we earned our position.

[at that he snorts] There's only one she was thinking of but I don't need rehabilitation. And she doesn't have the time anyway. Truth be told she's quite terrible at...organization.

[omnomnomnomnom]

Rehabilitation?

[There's a short, bemused pause.]

Because we allowed two winners through? [Was eating the stupid berries and dying not punishment enough for that?]

[gamemakercrane]

[annoyed.] I told you she was a fool. She thinks an argument could be made that I followed a "dystopian regime" and killed people-that we're murderers.

Ridiculous.

[omnomnomnomnom]

Sounds like a woman with a flare for the dramatic. If you and I are murderers, what does that make the winners?

[He chuckles a little fondly.]

Those who die in the games die for the glory of their districts. It's hardly murder.

[gamemakercrane]

Well you've seen what these people like to write and watch. Super heroes. Capes and Tights and pre-capitol nonsense that earlier generations wasted their time with.

Exactly. It's preservation. It's glory and eternal recognition.

[omnomnomnomnom]

It's an institution! And more importantly than that, it's good clean entertainment. Gives people something to root for.

It sounds to me like your mun just has a taste for controversy.

[gamemakercrane]

Absolutely. Much better then any of the other time wasters. It'll get people out of their seats. It's a holiday.

[pause] ...You know I don't think any of us in the house-that's what she calls it-had actually put a finger on it but there it is.

[stillplaying]

[She disagrees so very, very much. Because if anyone deserved being in a game, even more than the Capitol's children, it was the Gamemakers themselves.

And it gets a slight smile. The thought that Seneca Crane might end up in a game.]

[gamemakercrane]

[an eyebrow is raised]

...Something funny? District 12?

[stillplaying]

I don't think you'd do very well in a game.

[gamemakercrane]

[He nods] She should listen to you. I don't play games. I make them. The Capitol's glory is in giving-generously-to all of you.

[stillplaying]

You know she's not going to. [Because she's a Gamemaker, playing a Gamemaker. Oh, how Seneca should know.] These people? They're worse than you.

[gamemakercrane]

...we were hardly as bad as these people. At least they allow us glory instead of...jokes.

[Yes he's seen that his beard has a face book page.]

[stillplaying]

[Such a glorious thing, even if Katniss thinks otherwise.]

You use us as pawns for your entertainment. So do they. I see no difference.

[gamemakercrane]

Then why aren't you refusing to do what they ask?

[stillplaying]

District 11's tribute. She's there.

[The little girl she failed to protect. Rue. She has no choice. Someone has to succeed in watching her this time around.]

[wastheexample]

I don't know. I'd find it entertaining.

I love you dude.

[gamemakercrane]

It's a shame I'm not particularly photogenic Mr. Abernathy. I work much better behind the cameras so to speak. I wouldn't manage to entertain at all.

I love you more so there

[wastheexample]

The beard might attract a few fans. It might even get you a bowl of broth.

[gamemakercrane]

[Harsh laugh, then he rubs his chin.] Hopefully I'll have a dedicated mentor who could get that message across.

[wastheexample]

If you've got someone from the Capitol mentoring you, there's a good chance they'll get distracted by shoes or something.

Sorry to give you that brief ray of hope only to tear it away. That sort of thing happens.

[gamemakercrane]

[lightly] Obviously this won't be right away. Shoes won't be the center of attention. [Since they were this year.]

So far the only mentor who has managed to live up to capitol standards in terms of ability is... [his eyes narrow and all the disgust.] You. Only a capitol citizen would have pulled out two tributes.

[wastheexample]

You're right, my bad. It'll probably be eyelashes. They haven't done eyelashes in a while.

[Oh, such a measured pause] Was there really a need to throw that sort of insult around, Seneca? Whatever did I do to you to deserve that?

[gamemakercrane]

That wasn't meant to be insulting. [He sounds so shocked dude.]

[wastheexample]

It really came across as one. Still. You wouldn't want me on your team. [It would give him a better position to shove the knife in your back]

[calledcatnip]

I don't care what you do, but my mun's ridiculous offer still stands.

[gamemakercrane]

An offer?

[An eyebrow is raised. He missed that offer. he was too busy reading comic books and trying to figure out how to thrust 24 kids into the X-men universe.]

[calledcatnip]

Yes, the suggestion that you come to the game she's sending me to.

[gamemakercrane]

...Don't-

[His writer's interested.] Do they need a game maker there?

[calledcatnip]

[She's adamant about this.]

No, they don't.

[Never mind that her writer would do anything to have a Seneca there.]

[gamemakercrane]

Oh but everyone needs a game maker, a-[he snaps his fingers, looking for the correct term] director. That's the pre-capitol term.

[recoils]

I'm not happy about my mun wanting to find another game to stick me into either.

[gamemakercrane]

what does she have planned?

[fanstheflame]

[coldly] … I don't know, I think it's always a good idea to see life from both sides of the fence.

[gamemakercrane]

...Oh I've read enough. I don't like to get my hands dirty.

[fanstheflame]

Funny, I thought they had more than enough blood on them by now to count as soiled.

[gamemakercrane]

Ouch.

[fly_little_bird]

[Softly]

Because it's what you do that means you can't do anything else?

[gamemakercrane]

[Goddamnit Rue. Seneca stares.]

I could do anything, any other profession if I desired to do so.

[fly_little_bird]

Why don't you want to?

[prettyknives]

Maybe you shake things up, sir.

[gamemakercrane]

[eyebrow raise] What do you suggest?

[prettyknives]

[she wouldn't presume to tell a Gamemaker how to do their job, but...]

Become a leader.

[gamemakercrane]

[A leader? Like Snow. Sure he could have done that. And the words "snow killed you." never cross his mind not once as he shoves them out of the way.

he runs a hand under his chin.]

A leader needs followers.

[prettyknives]

People tend to follow anyone who decides to take charge.