#like… of course she was brainwashed by education and had twisted morality but wasn’t presented as a bad person by katniss

[delizbin]

Okay real talk now

Can someone try to explain to me on a rational level why on earth was Effie Trinket left alive in the mockingjay book?

She literally has no reason to be alive. Everyone linked with the Hunger Games was either killed by the Capitol or the Rebels (except the ones in 13 and Enobaria, randomly). Everyone linked with the Rebellion was executed (mostly publicly) by the Capitol and any Capitol sympathizer was killed after the fall of the Capitol regime. Including victors, escorts, stylist, prep teams, gamemakers and so on.

Okay, Effie survived the capitol and had the condoning by the new regime thanks to Haymitch and Plutarch yada yada, okay, but HOW did she manage to survive the same fate of anyone else during war?

Everyone linked with the rebellion was sentenced to death, no matter their role in it. All Peeta’s team was executed publicly, and not just Portia (that had a closer direct relationship with Cinna), also his prep team was murdered, and by the premises and knowledge we have of Katniss’ prep team we can as well say they were clueless about all of what was going on outside of their little gossip circle. So it wasn’t the fact that she was clueless. War doesn’t really care about it.

Was it because she was a public figure? Doubtly so, every other person linked with the rebellion was killed regardless (Cinna was pretty well known as well by that time and it didn’t take them 2 sec to make him disappear. Or Seneca Crane, if we want a even better example)

Was it because she had connections? I don’t think connection really matters the moment a war explodes and you are directly linked with the opponent, so I think I’ll exclude the option, especially because it is subtly implied that whatever happened during that time scarred her bad.

Like, they killed people that had much less relevance in that part of Katniss’ life, why not her?

I can understand her role play while Peeta was kept in the Capitol, they could have used her to get through him somehow and effectively be her escort while the prep team was *crack noise*, but why keeping her alive after the evacuation? And, once again, if she wasn’t kept with the others where was she? Am I remembering it wrong or was she mentioned by Johanna at some point? Where the hell was she? In a less reclusive place?

Plus, killing the mockingjay escort LIVE? Big time for tv streams wouldn’t it? It would have made a big show, then why not? Did they have something worse in mind? Didn’t they care about execute her?

But what was the point? They were keeping her alive for what purpose, exactly?

Even if we want to take her as pure allegory… was she the symbol of what? That surviving doesn’t change you? That surviving does change you? That no one, not even the most perfect example of a citizen, is safe during war? We don’t know that, we know nothing!

And why WHY Haymitch and Plutarch stubbornly wanted to save her life when they had a lot of more important things on their plate by that moment? Friendship? Camaraderie? Was it driven by a sense of compensation for leaving her behind? Why did they leave her behind in the first place when they saved the prep team? (THEY are the example of perfect frivolous citizens that never asked themselves anything and didn’t change during time, not Effie) WHERE THE HECK WAS SHE WHEN THEY WERE RESCUING PEOPLE?! I don’t even care exactly what happen to her but why didn’t the Capitol kill her?!

I want her alive and well but it is so obvious she suffered somehow and my curiosity is intense here. We know so litttle… maybe it is better this way…

But why Suzanne Collins , why

#like… of course she was brainwashed by education and had twisted morality but wasn’t presented as a bad person by katniss #why did she deserve such fate #was it because she wanted to be known so bad she became basically forgotten? is that it? #why leaving behind such a well constructed character i do not understand there must be a reason #was effie at the toilette while they were evacuating the penthouse? it would be painfully fun #she’s nothing but a shadow #and I can’t with the thought #especially what happened to her after #where is she #someone anyone please give me your thoughts on the matter I can’t wrap my head around it #liz talks