I read the first Hunger Games book for the first time (yeah, I know I know) and now all I can imagine is a Descendants Au of it.
Like, the villains keep having children, and the children are having children. The isle of so overpopulated, very quickly, and the only solution that the villains think of is making a group of children fight to death each year. This is eight years into the Isle. The goblins row the kids out to the Isle of Doom, and go back at the end of each week. Some are done in that first week, the longest went two months.
The first few times the kids tried not to, they are kids, but then the adults just killed them all.
Unlike the Hunger Games, they allow one male and one female to come out alive (this proves their worth, and their children could be "strong". Remember, these are villains trying to get off the Isle)
Jay ends up in three times, he comes out each of them just a little more haunted.
Mal goes in at ten, she comes out without her wings and half dead. Gil was in that year, and he saved her life. (He found out about her dad, because Mal's flames showed themselves and she survived too many attempts on her life. He becomes a shadow to her, and not even Uma's wrath will make him stop)
Evie ends up in there at 15, going in Dizzy's place. It was the quickest game the Isle ever had. She poisoned the remaining food and water, and thanks to her mother, she was able to go without it while waiting.
Uma and Harry were in together. Uma was 11, and Harry was 12. Ever since they've been inseparable, but they don't talk about what happened in there.
Carlos is a lucky one. His cousin Ivy took his place, and she burned the Isle of Doom to the ground. She's one of the few never allowed back there, as the next year's games weren't as entertaining for the oldest villains. (But that's the year they found out there's just a smidge of magic on the isle, because the few trees that were there grew back)
Many VK's try to disappear to avoid the games. Some live under the Isle in the tunnels, which has driven a couple mad.
And yet Auradon doesn't realize what is happening - or they just don't care.
do you ever think how weird it is that disney thought
"hmm yes lets make a film, lock ALL villians on an isle, yeah murderers rapist and literal canonical *child abuse*, horrible traumatic childhoods all round, very dark and gritty concept.....but, like-its totes pg!!
Claudine does not know either her age or her birthday.
Jay knows how old he is, but not his birthday; all he knows is that he was probably born sometime in the winter.
Evie knows her birthday, but not her exact age, because the Evil Queen always refused to admit that she could have a child as old as Evie, and would always bring Evie's age down by a year or two, sometimes even by as much as five years, such as the time Evie turned ten three years in a row. Evie doesn't actually know how old she is, because she's unsure which time, if ever, her mother told her the truth.
Harry knows how old he is, and that he was born in the summer. CJ knows how old she is, and her exact birthday too, because by that time Harriet was old enough to remember what day it was and not just the season. Harriet does not know her own birthday.