DCBB Fic: Bird of Paradise (Masterpost)

Title: Bird of Paradise
Author: trinityofone
Artist: aesc
Pairing: Dean/Castiel
Rating: R
Word Count: ~34,000
Spoilers: Vague allusions to both works, but no real spoilers
Warnings: Violence, canon character deaths
Summary: When Sam Campbell is chosen as a tribute for the Games—an annual fight to the death between twenty-four of New Eden's unlucky children—his older brother Dean volunteers to take his place. Dean fully expects to die so that Sam can live, but once he enters the arena, Dean discovers that what's at stake in the Games is far more complicated than simple life and death, and nothing and no one is what they seem. (An AU based on Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games.)



Part I / Part II / Part III / Part IV

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Notes: I am indebted, first and foremost, to Suzanne Collins, whose wonderful young adult series inspired this story. fishandcustard listened very patiently while I ironed out early ideas for this adaptation, and bribed me with macarons; bauble worked clean-up shift and helped fix many of the story's lingering problems. siriaeve knows she is always my first and best soundingboard. And the amazing aesc—artist, writer, and jumpin' Jupiter, road buddy extraordinaire—inspired me with her beautiful work and was invaluable in shaping the final product. Thank you all so much!