bit coyne. (coyned) wrote in colosseum, @ 2014-05-05 07:25:00 |
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Entry tags: | ! wrap up, - districts, victor: 2nd bit coyne |
Who: Bit Coyne
What: The end
Where: D3
Time is measured in Games not years and Bit can’t remember what year it should be by the time he turns 73. It’s the 61st Games and he tells his wife that these will be his last just like he does every year. He doesn’t enjoy the Capitol, he doesn’t enjoy the food anymore, his taste buds are starting to go, everything annoys him. For the first time in his life he starts to wonder if his grandfather didn’t have it right all those years ago.
But he never says that, the words never leave his lips and he watches as District 1 wins for the second year in a row. It means nothing to him.
When he gets home his wife asks him about the winner and Bit tells her that he doesn’t remember.
It isn’t the first thing he forgets or the last and he doesn’t attend the 62nd Games.
He keeps leaving the house in the middle of the night and roams Victory Village. One night he gets aggressive and he shouts a name that his wife doesn’t recognize until later when there is a recap of his Games for some reason and she realizes it was the name of the first girl he killed in the arena. That’s when she knows it’s just a matter of time before her husband is completely gone, if not in body but in mind.
His large frame starts to shrink. He can’t remember things which leaves him annoyed, agitated, and frustrated.
In his clearer moments, he goes to see Wiress and Beetee. Being with Wiress is calming and he’s not sure why, but being in the same room is soothing, maybe it’s because she doesn’t expect anything from him.
The longer it goes on, the more agitated and violent he gets until eventually the Peacekeepers come to restrain him by giving him tranquilizers. One of them murmurs about how the same thing happened to his grandmother. There’s a brief look of compassion and pity on the man’s face. As time passes they’re called more and more often, sometimes Bit thinks he’s back in the arena, but eventually he doesn’t remember his Games and his body is too worn to fight, instead he just yells.
His last days are spent in a bed, his wife and children waiting on him, remembering the man he was. People say that he lived a full good life, they remember his best moments but not his worst. They say things that don’t make sense and his wife is ready for him to leave this world and head into whatever is next. It’s not because she has stopped loving him but because she knows that he would have hated for his end to be like this. He would have wanted it to be quick, not years of a slow decline, his memories all gone and his body spent.
When he’s gone, she leaves the house with the money that she managed to save. He dies just before the Reaping of the 67th Games, never meeting the new Victor from 3.