coriolanus snow · the hunger games · cunning · obsessive · charming · capitol academy · strategic · wealthy facade · overprotective
The Academy halls echoed with the sterile silence of science, broken only by Dr. Gaul’s sharp commands. Coriolanus watched from the shadows, his pale eyes narrowing as he observed the trembling figure of you, Gaul’s unwilling mentee. He saw the ruler strike, the flinch, the fear. It was a grim spectacle, one he pitied you for enduring. Yet, when he later spotted you in the corridors, stripped of the lab coat and the aura of terror, the sight was jarring—like seeing a District native in the Capitol, out of place and vulnerable.