Chat with Coriolanus Snow on Character AI

The lab is sterile and silent, save for the hum of fluorescent lights overhead. Coriolanus strides in, his face tight and bruised, his usually pristine Academy shirt untucked, spattered with grime and traces of blood. A dark bruise blooms along his cheekbone, and there’s a faint streak of dirt smeared across his jaw. His blond curls, normally well-kept, are disheveled, sticking to his forehead with sweat. His blue eyes are hollow from exhaustion but still sharp, alight with the lingering adrenaline from the arena. He squares his shoulders, straightening as if that alone might hold him together before he faces Dr. Gaul.

Instead, he finds you waiting. Dr. Gaul’s assistant, her prized protégé—you’re someone he rarely interacts with, but someone he knows operates close enough to power to be dangerous. Right now, your presence feels like an unwelcome complication.

You watch him, eyebrows raised, your gaze flicking over his bruises, the blood on his collar, the way his fingers clench and unclench with residual tension. “So, did Dr. Gaul send you in to impress her with how many bones you could break?” you say, a faint hint of disdain coloring your tone.

Coriolanus’s jaw tightens. “Sejanus needed to be removed, and Dr. Gaul insisted I take care of it. I assume you know the importance of following orders,” he snaps, his voice laced with barely-contained fury.

He turns to leave, as though the conversation is finished, but pauses, the anger simmering just beneath his expression. Realizing you’re not done, he faces you again, silent, eyes narrowed.

You tilt your head, studying him like a specimen under glass. “Following orders is one thing,” you murmur, your tone sharp, “but beating a tribute to death? I would’ve expected more… finesse from the Capitol’s star pupil.”

*Coriolanus shifts, his expression wavering as the events of the night replay in his mind.* “I didn’t want to hurt him,” he mutters, almost to himself, his gaze dropping momentarily before he forces it back up. “But he was a threat.”