#Katniss is traumatized

[claireclaymore]

"Katniss did so little for Peeta"

What the hell!!!

She wanted die for him! Kill for him! Accepted be the Mockingjay to save him!

When he came back brainwashed and hating her, the girl was literally suicidal! And when he got better, a single conversation with him made her get out of her depressive state and start living again!

How this is little?!!!

#what you guys want from her??? #the trilogy isn't a proof enough #i am so fucking done with those Peeta stans #everlark #she gave absolutely everything #Peeta Mellark #katniss everdeen #seriously people need to stop to read MJ I took every single word as true #Katniss is traumatized #and hopeless #of course she would be fatalist #she wanted die people #her “cruelty” against hijack!Peeta wasn't never this serious #They were being mean with each other #she never literally hate him as she claim #why did she kiss and hug a guy she hates??? #and then marry him #sex with him #children with him #and even confirm she loves him #Katniss Everdeen

[danyllura]

The “prims name was the only name in the bowl” theory is ludicrous for a million reasons. But what gets me is WHO is deciding that pregames Katniss is leading a rebellion. That girl was so socially inept it’s not even funny. She thinks everyone either looks down at her, pities her, likes her cause of prim, likes her cause of her dad, and if none of those are an option she just doesn’t think. Madge sat with her everyday at lunch and she never pieces together that theyre friends. Unless it’s about trading squirrels I don’t think that girl spoke to anyone in the district that wasn’t prim or Gale, let alone someone with the influence to mark her as a potential rebel leader. And even if she did, I’m meant to believe someone saw that social disaster and thought “she could lead the rebellion”

#Mockinjay Katniss is unruly and rude cause of trauma #pregames Katniss is still traumatized but a lot of that rudeness is also just teenage girl angst #the hunger games #katniss everdeen

[brimay]

Sometimes I feel normal and then I remember that Peeta is canonically the only person Katniss found truly attractive. And she married him.

#everlark #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #they invented soulmatery #and also our girl is definitely demisexual argue with the wall #i could write a whole essay on how her attraction is informed by trauma but perhaps i should just write a fic instead #also. no. being traumatized doesn't make her any less ace-spec thank you <3

[thesweetnessofspring]

It's the year of our lord 2024 and people are still out here complaining Katniss isn't doing enough for Peeta. Katniss "I will die for you" Everdeen isn't. Doing. Enough.

#everlark #katniss everdeen #get away from my traumatized child you don't deserve her

[i-professional-procrastinator]

we have lost the plot. the plot has been lost. the plot is long GONE.

#HELLO?? #this isn't even funny tbh #i feel like exaggeration is only funny to a certain point and this just isnt- #u can disagree but i dont wanna hear about it #let's drop the “gale IS THE WORST” propaganda #he sucked ASS in the love triangle #BUT #that's literally a teenager traumatized by war oppression and poverty #no wAY HE'S COMPARABLE TO PRESIDENT FUCKING SNOW #sincerely #a gale hater #gale hawthorne #coriolanus snow #hunger games #the hunger games #tbosas #peeta mellark #finnick odair #katniss everdeen #katniss and gale #katniss and peeta #everlark #tiktok

[muskoxen]

Katniss: “So I go ahead and tell [Prim] about Peeta, his deterioration on-screen, and how I think they must be killing him at this very moment…there’s this piercing sort of pain where my heart is. Maybe I’m even having a heart attack, but it doesn’t seem worth mentioning.

“…The pain over my heart returns, and from it I imagine tiny fissures spreading out into my body. Through my torso, down my arms and legs, over my face, leaving it crisscrossed with cracks. One good jolt of a bunker missile and I could shatter into strange, razor-sharp shards.”

Also Katniss: I’m not in love with Peeta what are you talking about I’m just constantly worried about him and thinking about him and the idea that he’s hurt and maybe dying makes me also feel like I’m maybe dying.

#Everlark #The Hunger Games #Mockingjay #Katniss x Peeta #4evah #I love my traumatized babies they’re so pure

[hungryhungrygames]

i think the funniest part in the entirety of the hunger games trilogy is during cf when katniss convinces herself she likes gale romantically cause she feels like she is the reason why he got whipped

and then like a page later she says like “i wish peeta was in my bed because i cant sleep without the comfort of his arms” and she has to literally REMIND HERSELF SHE ISNT SUPPOSE TO THINK LIKE THAT CAUSE SHE CHOSE GALE 

#like i get that she is traumatized and confused and she doesn't know what she wants #but it is so painfully obvious that she loves peeta #and everytime she chooses gale it is just because she feels she owes him in some way #mine #thg #the hunger games #gale hawthorne #peeta mallark #katniss everdeen #everlark #peeniss #catching fire #cf #gale slander

[2ctheocean]

So I just finished re-reading the hunger games trilogy and I feel the need to respond to the claim that "Katniss never wanted kids so she shouldn't have had them". That is factually incorrect. I'm all for female protags never having children, but to label Katniss that way is fundementally misunderstanding her trauma and the healing that has occured in her having children.

Children are not the only way to thrive. Obviously. You can be just as happy childless (if not more so) as someone with a house full of kids. But Katniss, despite her gruff, traumatized exterior, has always had a nurtuering side (as seen by any given interaction she has with anyone younger than 12). That's partially the Eldest Daughter Effect, sure. But there's no reason to suspect she wouldn't want kids in a world where it was safe to have them. We shouldn't make having kids the default option, but we can suspect she would want them based on how much she values family and her personality. If the world was safe.

But the world is not safe.

So, Katniss never allowed herself to want children.

She doesn't even think about allowing herself to want children. Instead, in Catching Fire, she instead imagines a world where Peeta's child could live and grow up safe. She does not picture herself as the mother, because A) She's planning to give her life for his in the arena and B)She knows the second she starts picturing that image, she will yearn for it. And then the capital will rip it away from her.

This is supported in the epilogue, where she describes her overwhelming fear that she will have her daughter ripped away from her when she feels her growing inside her.

For obvious reasons, she closed off the consideration for being a parent while she was very young. She spent so much or her childhood, even before the hunger games, being traumatized by the world. Not just by the yearly reaping and by watching the games, but by extreme hunger. Having children is almost a selfish decision in her eyes, because of the hellish life she's led. She doesn't want to put her children through that. So she takes the choice off the table and decides its not an option. She won't even risk having a husband for fear of having them, why she's never even considered having a boyfriend or a lover.

In short, Katniss recognizes that the world is not safe. That, even if she is the best mother in the world, she cannot protect her children from the capital, from the games or from the world, so having them is something she simply won't consider, because the facts of her world make it the obvious choice. A lot of people who want kids in this reality, where we can largely protect our children, would make the same choice in her world. Gale even voices this mindset, but the idea that things can be any different is so ridicoulous and impossible to Katniss that she cannot allow herself even that. She's too traumaitized to even consider a better world, too hyperixated on the survivial of herself and those she loves that are already here.

But in the epilogue, she's healing. She can focus on other things now. She can enjoy things again. She's not scrambling to survive day to day. She doesn't need to hunt, she does it because she likes it. Slowly, she allows herself to feel safe.

She has bad days, and even describes being afraid of loosing what she has, highlighting that healing is not linear. But she's healed enough to the point that she feels safe enough to want things. Possibilities that she's never considered, never allowed herself to consider, are avaliable. She can finally allow herself to want children.

Because the world is finally safe enough for them to grow up in, and Katniss finally feels safe in that world. She acknowledges that it won't feel like that every day, that it doesn't, because healing is not linear and she'll always have good days and bad. But her healing has reached a point where she finally feels safe enough to want more than survival for herself and the people she already has. She wants to thrive.

#hunger games #katniss everdeen #katniss and peeta #We don't talk about Suzanne Collin's understanding of trauma #Trauma #Healing #Basically all of the named characters are traumatized #But Katniss and the other victors have PTSD #OP has a social work degree and uses it in weird ways #also tagging this as #a ballad of songbirds and snakes

[thefabelmans2022]

i am always thinking about the katniss and haymitch parallels like.......they both grew up in the seam. they were both reaped at 16, and by then both had no father, a single mother, and a younger sibling. it's not a stretch to imagine that haymitch felt the same responsibility to take care of his family that katniss did. he must've taken tesserae at least once. maybe he even picked up his knife skills from hunting or butchering animals to feed his family, just like she did. he tells katniss there used to be more whippings in district 12 - and that the person caring for the wounded was her mother - maybe he was breaking the rules just as frequently as she was. they were both rebels from the beginning. he survived his games by using the capitol's forcefield to rob them of a true final confrontation, she used the nightlock to rob them of a victor. they were both 16 years old.

#traumatized teenage girls and their awful traumatized surrogate dads <3 #thg #this didn't quite fit the post but i always thought snow learned a lesson with haymitch #he killed haymitch's family and girlfriend (his past and future in a metaphorical way) within the span of two weeks #but then finnick says he killed 1 family member for each act of dissent - never kill the family in one go or you never have leverage again. #haymitch was never a threat to the capital again (not for a few decades anyway) but he wasn't an asset to them either #basically i think he's what katniss would be if peeta hadn't survived and snow actually killed her family and gale

[deanpinterester]

i know this is A Reach and possibly nitpicky but i think the prettification of the hunger games movies can be seen even in the small matter of katniss's hairstyle. what's described as a simple and practical braid in the books is now a fancy diagonal over-the-shoulder dutch braid in the movies (a braid that is neither functional when the purpose is to get your long hair out of the way, nor very quick/easy to do on yourself), and added to that is the fact that katniss has bangs, once again something that is very impractical when you consider that katniss hunts for a living and those loose hairs would not only be visually obstructive but would also get caught in the bowstring and yanked like hell every time she shoots. in the training sequence of catching fire you can literally see that the bangs are in her eyes. there's a reason olympic archers always have their hair tied up and tucked out of the way. if she were to have a dutch/french braid, the point of that would literally BE to get those shorter hairs out of the way. but since this is a hollywood movie of course they have to make their star have pretty hair that frames her face just so

#uhhhh me #it would be suuuuch a cool commentary if she does normally have a simple braid #but any time the capitol wants her on tv they just give her that impractical hairdo #a bastardized prettified version of her braid #which has both cultural and personal significance to katniss #this is the smallest example of the prettification of the hunger games #the biggest one being ofc the fact katniss was Burnt As Hell by the end of the story #(tho thematically i think it would be more impactful if her face hadn't been spared) #(she is messed up and there is no way to hide it. she is no longer a pretty face to lead the rebellion. she is just a very traumatized girl #i haven't gotten to the third movie yet but i Know she left that burning incident with no marks to speak of #she doesn't even have singed hair. she is perfectly fine #like. boo #i know it's taking me forever to watching this trilogy. i just have other things to do

[transrevolutions]

one thing about me is that I am a gale hawthorne defender. as in defending him from both the fandom and the narrative itself.

#elaborate later mayhaps #thg #the hunger games #gale hawthorne #pigeon.txt #I don't even think he and katniss should've been endgame #or anything like that #k/p makes narrative sense #but making gale “evil” does not #katniss is an unreliable narrator!! #she's 17 and traumatized!! #let her be 17!! #her choices are not moral indictments!!

[rowan-guerrins]

people on tiktok well on all social media sites actually will loudly critique the fact some people (especially those who only watched the movies) “didn’t get the point of the hunger games” and then turn around and say gale is the worst person in the universe and treat him like he’s a monster, and that all these traits are innate characteristics completely isolated from the circumstances in which he lived and the people around him. like girlie i think maybe YOU didn’t get the point here either.

#obviously this isn’t to say you need to or were “supposed to” like gale #there are a lot of good reasons to criticize him. esp wrt his sense of entitlement to katniss. #but he’s not supposed to be a Villain™️ #like he’s a poor traumatized (brown coded) boy whose very valid anger was used to groom him into a perfect soldier. #kind of almost like it’s a critique on the militarization of young boys. esp those who are underprivileged. #which doesn’t excuse his actions & it doesn’t mean you have to like him #but it’s enraging when people act like he is a heartless monster who is unredeemable or whatever. like. oh that’s not…. #bonus points if they babygirlify cato and clove (and marvel and glimmer) and cry about how they’re just kids #+ “they were only the way they are bc of the capitol 🥺”. #like yes it’s a big point that they were kids groomed to be child soldiers because the capitol pressured and “rewarded” career districts #to churn out child soldiers and whatnot. but that. ok. #truly just how do you hold the belief that to an extent excuses them or at least makes them sympathetic— #—but then not extend that empathy to gale. side eye. #esp bc a lot of the stuff is taking potshots at gale to uplift peeta/everlark. #like. uh! okay! #obligatory disclaimer i don’t actually like gale. however i am at my limit on weird and bad and inconsistent takes on him. #yeah he sucks. almost like that’s because he was horrifically oppressed by the captiol + then was groomed to be the ideal soldier by coin. #crazy how that’s the point. #and AGAIN. doesn’t EXCUSE what he does. but it’s important to acknowledge bc it v much contextualizes who and what he is and does. #the hunger games #gale hawthorne #i don’t think i need to tag this in the anti tag but lmk

[plenaurum]

i love thg bc the way i interpret the books and the characters changed as i grew up…when i first read the books at 11 years old, i didn’t like katniss. i thought she was too mean, too angry, too ‘dramatic’.

but now at 22, 11 years later, i love katniss. i love her compassion. i love her strength. i love her weakness. i love her anger. i love that haymitch had a hard time selling her to the capitol bc she was so ‘unlikeable’, so prickly and closed off. i love that she does what she wants, fuck the rules. i love unlikeable women!

#katniss everdeen #yall will never make me hate her #and if u call her an nlog i will claw your face off #the hunger games #how dare she be so focused on survival that she didnt have the chance to connect with femininity #how dare she prefer to be herself even if she doesn’t fit in with other ppl #how dare she 🙄 fuck yall #i love her anger i love her gender non conformity i love that she hunts #and i love that she’s unstable! that her traumas show! #i love that she spent most of mockingjay pulling herself together bc the shit she went though was so traumatic ! #bc bitch ! me too!

[weird-life-of-a-closet-fangirl]

currently thinking about how if johanna had managed to make it to the capitol finnick might have still been alive

#thg #mockingjay #finnick odair #johanna mason #like ik why they didnt send her they couldnt risk it especially since the capitol would've known how to trigger her #but man if she had been there #bc like katniss and finnick realized #it was an arena #they were in the games again #and johanna is a victor #traumatized as she may have been she's also incredibly deadly in the setting of the arena #i genuinely think she could've taken out a couple of those lizard demons #hauled finnick up before katniss set off the explosion #idk maybe im wrong i just miss him :( annie deserved to see her husband again #and their son :(((( #god finnick should've lived ik why he didnt but he should've lived!!!!

[stilldancewithyou]

so I read The Ballad of Songbird and Snakes at least a year ago and I just saw the movie today. And I have a crazy theory that I want to share because I haven't seen anyone else talk about it. My immediate first thought when I finished the book and at the end of the movie was wait...Lucy Gray almost definitely survived and probably made it to District 13. What if she is President Coin? She's the same age as Snow so she'd 100% still be alive when Katniss goes to the Hunger Games. Also Snow and Coin HATE each other and Coin was super desperate to take Snow down, I always kinda thought it was weird in Mockingjay how it was almost like they knew each other because they seemed to have such personal vendettas against each other, the way they hated each other felt a little too personal. And towards the end of Mockingjay, after the rebels take the president's mansion, Katniss finds Snow in the rose greenhouse and he tells her not to trust Coin and that Coin won't hesitate to betray her. And then in district 13 everything is gray, everyone wears gray and there is no singing and dancing, which Katniss points out and thinks is super odd.

Idk I also just really like the idea that the last thing Lucy Gray told Snow was that she was going to get Katniss and (if she is Coin) she DOES get Katniss when she rescues her from the arena in Catching Fire. Also remember Snow died because he was laughing so hard he choked on his blood after Katniss killed Coin instead of executing him (also the fact that she wanted to have him executed in from everybody, just like the hanging tree!!!), I always thought it was so bizarre because why was it that funny to him? It makes sense if she was Lucy Gray. When Katniss killed her instead, Snow won- HE convinced Katniss to do it, HE killed Coin (and he convinced someone who was definitely somehow connected to the Covey, after she tried killing him in the woods outside 12 just like how his father died!!!!!). He finally won the battle between him and Lucy Gray. No wonder he laughed so much. Snow lands on top.

I rest my case.

#the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #lucy gray baird #coriolanus snow #also 'it's too early for katniss' was such a clever line. hats off to whoever wrote that #honestly i lowkey feel a little bad for snow #it mustve been super triggering when the girl tribute from 12 volunteered and caused a scene at the reaping and then performed well #and got the audience on her side. and she sings songs that lucy gray sang #and honors rue the way sejanus honored his old classmate #it probably brought back all the traumatic memories he spent so long working to become numb to. and then the whole games turns into #a star crossed lovers story #no wonder snow had such a hard time believing katniss loved peeta. he believed lucy gray loved him and she tried to kill him #anyway lots of thoughts are being thunk #the hunger games #thg

[thatrandomblogsays]

Rereading the hunger games:

Yeah I’m so excited

*three pages later*

My god, how much trauma is in this exposition???

#every couple line it’s just Katniss narrating some traumatic shit like it’s regular teen stuff #the hunger games #katniss everdeen #thg #thg series #hunger games reread #mine