The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Characters

Pup is one of Coriolanus’s classmates and mentors Wovey during the Hunger Games. He’s a loud and obnoxious boy who’s constantly picking food out of his braces. He resents having to mentor Wovey and isn’t a good loser when Wovey ultimately dies.

Nero Price is a wealthy man in the Capitol and Persephone’s father. As a child during the war, Coriolanus witnessed Nero hack the leg off of a maid who died in the street of the cold, presumably to feed his family.

Wovey is the female tribute from District Eight; Hilarius Heavensbee is her mentor. Wovey is tiny and sickly; nobody expects her to last long. She dies in the Hunger Games when she comes across an almost-empty water bottle that Lucy Gray poisoned with rat poison.

Beanpole is a Capitol boy who joins the Peacekeepers in District 12 at the same time Coriolanus does. He’s tall and thin—hence his nickname (his real name is Junius)—and he’s terrible at drills. When Sejanus joins the Peacekeepers, he helps Beanpole with his drills.

Smiley is one of Coriolanus’s bunkmates and a fellow Peacekeeper in District 12. He’s adept at bartering and has a friend who’s a nurse at the base’s clinic, so he funnels a lot of gossip from her to his bunkmates.

Tam Amber plays mandolin in the Covey. He’s a quiet boy whom older Covey members found in a box as an infant.

Clerk Carmine is the fiddle player in the Covey. He’s also Billy Taupe’s brother, but he’s loyal to the Covey rather than to his brother.

Barb Azure is the bass player in the Covey.

Vipsania is one of Coriolanus’s classmates and the mentor for Treech from District Two. Coriolanus dislikes her.

Hilarius is one of Coriolanus’s classmates and mentors Wovey in the Games. He has an entitled attitude, and his family is extremely wealthy. Coriolanus dislikes him.

Coral is the female tribute from District Four; Festus is her mentor.

Domitia is Tanner’s mentor.

Io is a classmate of Coriolanus’s, and she’s Circ’s mentor in the Hunger Games.

Circ is District Three’s male tribute to the Hunger Games. Io Jasper is his mentor.

Urban is Teslee’s mentor in the Hunger Games and one of Coriolanus’s classmates. Coriolanus finds him entitled and insufferable.

Treech is the male tribute from District Seven. Vipsania is his mentor. He’s one of the final tributes in the ring; Lucy Gray kills him with one of Dr. Gaul’s neon snakes.

Felix is Dill’s mentor in the Hunger Games. He’s also the president’s son, so Coriolanus suspects Felix receives special treatment.

Juno Phipps is Bobbin’s mentor in the Hunger Games.

Mizzen is the male tribute from District Seven. Persephone Price is his mentor.

Tanner is the male tribute from District 10. His mentor is Domitia Whimsiwick.

Dill is the female tribute from District 11; Felix Ravinstill is her mentor. Though she’s small, she’s menacing when Coriolanus ends up trapped in the cage with the tributes.

Iphigenia is Sol’s mentor in the Hunger Games. When Sol is killed, Iphigenia can’t remember her name.

Sol is the female tribute from District 5; Iphigenia is her mentor.

Professor Demigloss teaches history at the Academy.

Professor Sickle is the physical education professor at the Academy.

Satyria is a professor at the Academy and Coriolanus’s mentor. She’s often tipsy, though Coriolanus appreciates her advice and guidance.

President Ravinstill is the president of Panem.

Cookie is the Peacekeeper cook at the District 12 base.

A tribute from District Three.