Originally Posted by IolantheAlias
Yay for another chapter!

And the PTSD among the winners has to be something fierce. After all, they had to kill to win. Not only do they have survivor's guilt, they have murderer's guilt.

Damn the Capitolites for setting up this situation.

How can Clark redeem himself?
Exactly. The victors have to live with the fact that they outlived twenty-three other kids and the fact that they killed some of those kids themselves. The Capitolites see the Games as entertainment and soon forget most of the "contestants", but the victors have to live with what happened and their part in it.

Clark can't forgive himself for what he did to Lysander and Lois. Everyone in Panem knows what happened to Lysander, but what happened to Lois is a mystery, and Clark can't talk to his fellow victors about it, because that would reveal his powers.

"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”

- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland