User blog comment:PerniciousFabrication/The 249th Hunger Games/@comment-24692847-20160807012049/@comment-24692847-20160807163818

Finally had enough time to post advice!!!

Nova (Group Training): Nova, you're a strong, coureageous girl so I want you to show your strength during group training. Don't do anything to draw attention to yourself, but don't try to suppress your talents so other tributes ignore you. Just try your hardest at training, and go to as many stations as you are able to. Jump from practicing with a bowie knife to learning how to start a fire to the gauntlets. Be honest about your talents and express it during training, as I do want some tributes to fear you.

Nova (Private Sessions): During the private sessions, I want you to go all out on your skills. Start by using a bowie knife to mutilate dummies, going from dummy to dummy brutally cutting the limbs off of each. If you're in the moment, maybe even rip off one of the dummy's arms and tossing it in the pile of limbs. Once you have a decent amount of discarded limbs, cut off one of the dummy's heads, and hold onto it. Using a smaller knife, carve "Never underestimate a girl" on the skull. Stab a spear into the ground, and place the head on the other end, so it's above all the other limbs. Then, to finish it off, I want you to grab onto a match (or maybe even start a fire on your own), and light the limbs on fire. Do a little bow and leave without comment.

Talia (Group Training): Typically, your shyness would lead to you avoiding other tributes, but during these Hunger Games, I want you to try to open up to other tributes. Stick near the survival stations and the camouflage area, since you'd be more comfortable around them. Lindell will meet you and when she asks to create an alliance with you, I want you to accept. If other tributes approach you, try your hardest to be friendly towards them, but don't stress too much if you fall short. Stay in areas where you are more comfortable, and during one of the lunches, while the other tributes are eating, I want you to learn how to use the bow, so you aren't completely clueless on how to use a weapon.

Talia (Private Sessions): Your private session will be rather mediocre compared to the other tributes, as you aren't really able to show the Gamemakers any offensive mechanisms to help you in the Hunger Games. Instead, you'll be focusing on camouflage, specifically your talents with drawing people. Draw the District 5 female from the previous year before she went into the Hunger Games and then her death scene. Around the outsides, draw nightmare-ish creatures as a way to show how the Hunger Games destroy people's mentalities and forces everyone to run purely on instinct instead of knowledge. I don't know how the Gamemakers will view this, but once you're finished, walk out strongly. But don't have too dramatic of an exit.