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▲'''''The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes''''' is a 2020 novel by Susan Collins, a prequel to ''[[The Hunger Games]]''. It features President Snow and the first District 12 tribute to win her games.
 
"Welcome to the 10th Annual Hunger Games!" Once, President Coriolanus Snow was a boy. A student, to be precise, assigned to mentor a tribute in the Hunger Games. He's not looking forward to it, since he got a girl from District 12, one of the underdog regions.
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* [[Anger Born of Worry]]: While Dean Highbottom bullies Snow, he genuinely gets angry at him for getting into the truck with the tributes and the zoo. As he points out, Snow could have easily been injured or killed, and gives him a demerit.
* [[Because You Were Nice to Me]]: The reason why Lucy starts defending Snow from fellow tributes and journalists; she notes how he was the ''only'' mentor that showed up to meet her when they were loaded from a boxcar to a prison truck in the capitol. Despite himself, Snow falls for Lucy for similar reasons. {{spoiler|This ends poorly for them both.}}
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* [[Morality Chain]]: Snow has three of them, and he loses them over the course of the books.
** His cousin Tigris, who always makes sure that Coriolanus is well-fed and dressed. {{spoiler|By the time of the main trilogy, they are estranged. It's implied that Tigris left Snow after seeing the monster he was becoming.}}
** Sejanus CranePlinth considers Snow is [[Only Friend]] and best friend in the Capitol, amid the other old rich. {{spoiler|Snow sells out Sejanus, but thought he wouldn't be hung owing to his father's influence. He is horrified about what he did but only thinks to cover his tracks.}}
** Lucy Gray falls for Snow for real after he goes out of his way to help her survive, and win. Despite himself, he sympathizes and empathizes with her situation. {{spoiler|Then she finds out that he got Sejanus killed, and runs into the woods. Snow tries to shoot her in despair, while not knowing if he killed her as well. Afterward, he takes the first opportunity possible to return to the Capitol, and become the leader we all know in the present.}}
* [[Nice Guy]]: Sejanus Plinth, in part because he arrived to the Capitol under protest after his dad sold out his district. He's the first one to take initiative in feeding the tributes using his mom's sandwiches and tries to keep his friend Marcus alive, even if Marcus isn't willing to cooperate with him.
* [[What Happened Toto Thethe Mouse?]]: In-universe, no one, not even Snow, finds out what happened to {{spoiler|Lucy Gray after Snow shoots her in the woods. She could have bled out, made it to the north to District 13, died making that journey, or returned to District 12 under a fake name. The uncertainty of her fate haunts Snow to the present; it's implied that Katniss resembling her so much, hair and all, made him ping her as a threat.}}
* [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle]]: Snow's main goal is to help Lucy Gray Baird survive the arena, and maybe even win to boost his own social standing. {{spoiler|He succeeds in both goals...and gets busted for helping her cheat to win. Cue Snow being sent to District 12, and dealing with the fallout of his actions in the third act.}}
 
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