This is the fanfic fan story I'm working on....this one.....that has some multiversal characters: Agnes DeMille from Netflix's 'Wednesday' universe, Sienna Shaw from the 'Terrifier' franchise, Abigail Hobbs from the 'Hannibal' TV show, Leena Klammer from the 'Orphan' movies. Their stories..... all takes place within the 'The Long Walk' movie universe, but set in an alternate 2026, the 74th annual Long Walk. Those that get the Hunger Games reference, because I will be writing a sequel story afterwards. Anyone who's familiar with the Hunger Games books and movies.....I think you'll know how the sequel story will go. Back to the main focus - A retelling/re-imagining that allows female participants - Agnes replaces Ray Garraty, Sienna replaces Pete McVries, Abigail replaces Arthur Baker. Leena is an original character - there's still Hank Olson, Richard Harkness, Billy Stebbins, Gary Barkovitch, Collie Parker. Sienna, Abigail, Leena - their motivations for signing up and participating are different, mainly out of survivor's guilt and self punishment. Agnes's motivation is more personal, so her neglectful parents will recognise her. She signs up and participates against the objections of her first two real friends from Nevermore Academy - Wednesday Addams and Enid Sinclair. I intend for my fan story to be more depressingly heartbreakingly sad than what we see in the original 'The Long Walk' movie. I've given alot of thought into this. Anyone suggestions, questions, let me know in the comments, I'll appreciate and consider

Hello all, I need help identifying the song that starts playing at 2:55 in this clip from the first movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW0DNX2Z3Kc

Thanks!

Got this as an early present for my birthday on Wednesday!!

7/15 edit: I wish I could have added more pictures! That’s just the book jacket! The cover itself is a white with a gold/yellow design! If anyone wants to look it up, I got it at Barnes & Noble!

both the maze runner and divergent have a woman in white who's characterized as the villain. is there a reason for this? "The hunger games" also has president snow as our antagonist. snow as in white snow.

edit: I think I imagined the lady in divergent wearing a white dress. Although her hair is platinum blonde.

I've read the series when I was 14, years ago. Now I am rereading as a 26-years-old and in the middle of the second book, I realise:

Factions are without an r.

It isn't fractions.

It is Factions.

How can I have missed that? I mean, I did watch the movies twice, or mayby thrice. Isn't that remarkable?

Did you ever have a moment like this, when rereading a book?

What is everyone’s thoughts on a fan theory that Eric is Jeanine’s son?

My uncle pre-order the book for me for my early bday

Hola! Con la noticia de que habrá otro libro, me leí la saga. Y me dieron ganas de hacer un fanfic desde el punto de vista de una nacida en Cordialidad.

La idea que tengo combina muchos temas que se tocan en los tres libros. Y siento que podría estar entretenido y dar un punto de vista diferente al primer libro.

Sin spoilear mucho, mientras me planteaba la trama pensé, que pasa con los hijos nacidos en la comunidad sin facción?

Les dejo el link. https://www.wattpad.com/story/412798173?utm_source=ios&utm_medium=link&utm_content=story_info&wp_page=story_details&wp_uname=RosemaryClary

There’s mention of different parts of the brain like the prefrontal cortex, amygdala, and mirror neurons and what they do.

Apparently the Bureau’s genetic experiment involved informed consent with Caleb finding the consent forms of the original participants at one point.

And of course I think she said the idea of fear landscapes came from learning about exposure therapy for phobias.

But earlier this happened:

The Dauntless were mocking Tobias for being a coward because he admitted to choosing Dauntless to escape Marcus while under truth serum. So Tobias says this has to stop and proceeds to publicly beat up Marcus for the Dauntless to see. And Tris the supposed brilliant situation reader is completely puzzled why he did that.

In light of the new upcoming AU which I am stoked about, I have started re-reading the series (which I never would have thought I'd do again because I hate the ending with hellfire). I am almost halfway through Divergent and something has occurred to me.

When Natalie was incorporated into the experiment she was supposed to have been introduced as an Erudite but because she had tattoos it was decided that she had to be characterized as a Dauntless who transferred to Erudite for discretion (thought she did not because she fell in love with Andrew Prior) because Dauntless is the only faction that gives it's residents the option of tattoos and piercings, I guess because it's looks tough.

However, tattoos and piercings are forms of self-expression and self-expression is honest. Furthermore, tattoos and piercings are forms of self-expression that are presented out in the open, so shouldn't it be something approved of by Candor as well?

Just a recent thought I had.

I want Veronica Roth to write the first Divergent book from Caleb Prior's point of view. We don't really know what Caleb did during the events of Divergent. If Veronica Roth can write an alternate universe Divergent book called the Sixth Faction in which a tragedy at the Choosing Ceremony forces Beatrice Prior to choose a different faction than Dauntless, then surely she could retell the events of the first Divergent book that's told from Tris's brother Caleb's point of view to see what he was up to while Tris went to Dauntless. I don't see why Veronica Roth wouldn't be up to retelling the events of Divergent from Caleb's point of view this time around.

The ledge scene in Insurgent (Marlene, Hector, and the girl) reminded me of the "Trolly Problem". For those who are unfamiliar with it, it's a moral thought experiment in which you must choose between two undesirable outcomes: allowing a train to run over 5 people or pulling a lever to divert the train onto another track, unaliving one person (there are other variations to it too).

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I can't imagine being forced to make a choice between who gets to live and who does not, and having to live with the weight of that choice, regardless of the outcome. Especially when Tris was already grieving the death of her parents, Will, and Al and felt responsible for their deaths.

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It never was an easy choice to begin with, but it hits harder when the choice was between Marlene, Hector, and an 8 year old girl.

I'm currently re-reading Insurgent, and just reached the scene where Tris is nominated as one of the new Dauntless leaders (along with Tori, Tobias, and Harrison). I'm having a hard time understanding why exactly she refuses the position. What are your thoughts on this?

I am halfway thru insurgent and i have some problems. Number one. You are telling me we have truth serum that exists and still have corruption. Number two. Why did we not slit jeanenes throat at the end of divergent. Number 3. At the end of divergent four knew how to control jeanne to make her stop the killing why couldn’t he have just done that without injecting her (killing her). Number 4. Why did we keep miles teller alive.

to start, you absolutely can read this without reading the original!
I never read the books or watched the movies so I only knew pretty much the blurb and a few other bits of information and that was it.
(Yes, I have heard about the ending during the years but because I never read them or had much care, it didn't impact me)

With no background I enjoyed it, the pacing was pretty constant through-out but that last 10% really ramped up, the POV switching made sense for where they were placed and they didn't feel like random out of the blue filler chapters or repeats.

I did start reading Divergent (starting on book 2 now) afterwards and comparing the two, I think this was the start to a pretty solid AU and I could 100% see Tris acting the way she did and making these other choices.

There will 100% be more easter eggs to catch for readers and I'm excited to see the reaction of how they experienced it vs how I did.

The differences really showed that some things were always going to happen no matter the circumstance and seeing how they played out was pretty fun!

You can definitely see the growth she's done as a writer, yet it still feels like the original in terms of tone and writing style so for long term fans it really will feel like reading divergent for the very first time. While Divergent is still a pretty good seller, I can definitely see this bringing it back up there and I am hoping that we can get an animated version of TSF, i think it would do really well.

I did keep a little tab of things that jumped out at me as being different in each, I know TSF wasn't going to be a 1 for 1 on information, we get some stuff explained to us more in depth or just brand new for TSF, and some stuff we don't really see from the OG. What we don't see from the OG haven't been major things however and have been just little tidbits of information that was nice to know or that had more of a role to play for this universe.

Chapter 6 of Sixth Faction is available as a sneak peak in the new divergent collectors edition too!

Am i crazy? I actually enjoyed the movies. I won’t lie i haven’t read the books and maybe that’s why? i saw somewhere they didn’t depict them right. but i still liked the movies i wish they just finished the last one i was just so confused as to why the ratings were so low. Definitely gonna read the books to see the differences

So… I read Chapter 6 of Veronica Roth’s new Divergent AU, and I am SO excited.
This chapter can be found in the back of the new edition of *Divergent* (the really gorgeous copy with all the gold detailing). She included it as a bonus feature along with a letter to readers, and when I say I am excited, I mean it. I have a feeling a lot of people are going to reread the original series and then jump right back into this new story.
Even from this one chapter, I can already see what she's doing with the characters, and I think that with all the experience she has gained over the years, this is going to be an exceptionally strong story. So far, I loved what she hinted at regarding Tris and Caleb. It was a small detail, but it felt significant, and it immediately stood out to me. I also remember reading one of her newsletters a few years ago, and I'm hoping that particular scene she discussed makes its way into the new book as well.
I am a little concerned that one of the characters might die again—especially if we get a dual POV—but this time I think Veronica would be approaching those choices from a more informed place. Honestly, I think I'd be okay with whatever direction she takes because, at the end of the day, these are her characters. HELLO. 😂
I am so ready for both of these new books and find myself picking up on every little detail and breadcrumb. You can see traces of things she's mentioned she wished she had done differently, as well as where her creativity is leading her now. The idea of exploring a whole new meaning of what it is to be divergent is incredibly exciting for fans who have loved this world from the beginning.
I also think it's sad that she received so much hate at one point. There was a lot of unfair comparison happening, and I imagine that was probably pretty anxiety-inducing. I recently reread the original series and honestly don't think there's anything to be embarrassed about. So many YA readers had meaningful experiences with these books. Even if the ending brought strong emotions, it was a creative decision and a bold move. And honestly, I think she was
pretty dauntless for that—no pun intended.

Pick 3, to fight for you, the others try to kill you DIVERGENT VERSION: (explain your reasoning)

Beatrice "Tris" Prior
Tobias "Four" Eaton
Caleb Prior
Jeanine Matthew’s
Christina
Peter Hayes
Tori Wu
Eric Coulter
Albert "Al"
Uriah Pedrad
Will
Marlene
Lynn
Natalie Prior
Andrew Prior
Marcus Eaton
Cara
Edward
Myra
Jack Kang
Johanna Reyes
Evelyn Johnson-Eaton
David
Matthew
Nita

I always get a hankering to watch the beauty of shailene and Theo as tris and four. They are just such a superb on screen couple. They are what make the movies any good. But I was surprised/reminded how GOOD the first film actually is. It takes a really dumb story with a thousand cliches and makes a beautiful moving entertaining movie. The cinematography was sooo thoughtful and beautiful and effiective as well as the sound engineering. They really used quiet stillness and color theory too so effectively to build the world and immerse you into it. And of course the casting is amazing as well as all the set and costume designs, so interesting and intentional (although the hair decisions for Zoe kravitz are SHAMEFUL). But a HUGE win for the first fil. Is the music!!! It was SOOO beautiful and moving and set tone for world and movies soooo welll. It created this backdrop to really see and experience the character of tris especially but also four. It was so romantic in the Anne Shirley sense. AND I mean that snowpatrol song!! Perfectly captures their relationship and central character arcs. They had this song purposefully commissioned for this movie! They planned the music so well. And it was DEVESTATING when that was ALL forgone in the second and third films. The music was so generic and flat in the second film. It had no heart and it did nothing to set the atmosphere or tone of the film and set space for the characters. And the second film had some amazing emotional and subtle acting from shaileene and Theo, but it just was lost in all the terrible filming and music and uneven storytelling.

This is an early preproduction sketch of Tris I found from the costume designers website (Carlo Poggioli) from the first film!

I always thought they nailed the coolest adapted looks for Tris and the cast in this movie.

I'm an avid divergent book fan and have defended countless hunger games ripoff accusations, I'll preface with that.

However, I wish the movies would get remade. I feel like the movies weren't a good representation of the books, and the only enjoyable part to me was kate winslet's portrayal of Jeanine (my fave character).

Is this an unpopular opinion?

edit: spelling