#mrs everdeen

[yourhighness6]

Peeta Mellark is such a feral idiot for outing his father's crush on national television while trying to impress a girl

#he's so silly #peeta mellark #katniss everdeen #everlark #Mr mellark #mrs everdeen #thg #the hunger games

[wisebeth]

Currently losing my mind at how much Katniss’ parents parallel Everlark.

Mr. Everdeen/Katniss — From Seam. Olive skin. Black hair. Grey eyes. Hunter. Excellent at archery. Singing. Have a voice which could make the Mockingjay stop singing and listen to their voice.

Mrs. Everdeen/Peeta – Merchant's children. Blond(e). Blue eyes. Looked past status and financial differences and fell in love with Mr. Everdeen/Katniss anyways. Especially in love with their singing. Interested in feminine things (healing/baking and painting) in contrast to their spouses’ hunting skills.

Bonus :

Mrs. Everdeen when Mr. Everdeen died :

“Never having been in love, this is going to be a real trick. I think of my parents. The way my father never failed to bring her gifts from the woods. The way my mother’s face would light up at the sound of his boots at the door. The way she almost stopped living when he died.”

— The Hunger Games

Katniss when Peeta was captured :

“I give up. Stop speaking, responding, refuse food and water. They can pump whatever they want into my arm, but it takes more than that to keep a person going once she’s lost the will to live.”

— Catching Fire

Peeta elaborating on his childhood crush on Katniss :

“No, It happened. And right when your song ended, I knew – just like your mother – I was a goner.”

— The Hunger Games

Screaming. Crying. Throwing up.

#hunger games #the hunger games #thg #catching fire #mockingjay #katniss #katniss everdeen #peeta #peeta mellark #everlark #mr everdeen #mrs everdeen

[lovepersevering13]

I hate people saying that Mrs Everdeen was a neglectful mother before Mr Everdeen died like… I may be missing something but I don’t remember any mention of her being absent before he died???

Also I HATE Mrs Everdeen slander all together like you’re clearly missing a big point that was being made about grief, depression and love. Even Katniss knows by the second book that it wasn’t her mothers fault and by the end of mockingjay she has experienced it herself.

#katniss everdeen #the hunger games #the hunger games trilogy #thg #everlark #mockingjay #catching fire #mrs everdeen #mr everdeen

[caesarflickermans]

The destruction of family is a common theme within the trilogy. Katniss’ life is shaped markedly by the death of her father, a man who she often comes to admire and idolise throughout the books. Her father is strongly tied to nature—Katniss learned to survive and hunt from him, and finds comfort in his woods (HG, 1). In contrast, she struggles to emphasise with her mother, who is haunted by her husband’s death and thus incapable to care for her two children (HG, 1).

Notably, there are similar parallels between Mr. Everdeen and Finnick as well as Mrs. Everdeen and Annie.

Outside of the individual deaths, both couples appear as a romantic story in a world where love seems impossible. Mrs. Everdeen leaves her family and social standing behind to be with Mr. Everdeen. Finnick protects Annie at all costs, and “no one seeing them could doubt their love” (MJ, 12). The Everdeen parents are the love Katniss grew up with, Finnick and Annie are the love Katniss seems to envy.

Like Mr. Everdeen, Finnick, too, is strongly tied to nature. Katniss remarks how it seems he had spent his childhood by the sea (CF, 16). Finnick’s proximity to water is reflected in his dress, such as his parade outfit (CF, 15) as well as his general appearance, namely his “sea green eyes” (CF, 15). More strongly than the other District 4 victors Annie and Mags, Finnick embodies nature. Where Finnick learned how to swim because of his District, Katniss learned how to swim because of her father (CF, 3).

In the same manner that Mr. Everdeen has become idolised by Katniss, “Finnick Odair is something of a living legend in Panem” (CF, 15). Panem, and especially the Capitol, have come to idolise Finnick to such an extent that his inherent character is no longer evident. Meeting the ‘real’ Finnick in Mockingjay is a pivotal change of perception that humanises Finnick and contrasts the myth-like victor persona (MJ, 1).

While there are several characters who are shaped by trauma, Mrs. Everdeen and Annie stand out in a parallel manner, too. Both Mrs. Everdeen and Annie had a significant life altering event that changed their mental health for the worse. Katniss follows a similar journey with each character; initially feeling only anger toward her mother until she returns from the 74th arena, where she begins wanting to mend this relationship and become more forgiving around her mother (CF, 3). Annie, too, is only seen as the ‘mad girl’ (CF, 24) until Katniss interacts more with her (MJ, 16) and begins to describe her in more kinder terms. Following each of their husband’s deaths, Mrs. Everdeen and Annie are tasked to take care of their child(ren).

As a war story, the circle closes itself: The story began and ended with a child whose father figure had died.

#thg theory #thg meta #the hunger games #thg #odesta #annie cresta #finnick odair #katniss everdeen #mrs everdeen #mr everdeen

[katnissmellarkkk]

The parallels between Katniss and her mother are quite apparent when it comes to their reactions to grief (as displayed when Mrs. Everdeen lost Katniss’ father and when Katniss lost Peeta and Prim). There’s been posts made about that on here many times before.

But we never really explore the opposition in their choice of man. What I mean is, we’re led to believe (granted, based on very little hints in the first book) that Mrs. Everdeen was with Mr. Mellark in some fashion, at the very least. Enough that he felt it was not only plausible that he could marry her but seemed to be still holding a candle for her all those years later. Mr. Mellark was a merchant, someone from her side of the district, part of the well-to-do class of Twelve. But she instead chose Mr. Everdeen, a poor, coal miner who couldn’t only give her a simple life in the Seam. A life that is much more difficult objectively and in a place that even her own daughter claims she sticks out like a sore thumb in (appearance wise).

Katniss, her daughter, on the other hand, chose Peeta in the end. Even before Mockingjay, it was obvious to anyone really paying attention (in the story or as a reader) who’d she fallen in love with. Gale was a strong, attractive guy from the Seam, who’d lived a pretty parallel life to hers, who was her partner in crime — literally — and her best friend. Everyone expected them to get together. Even the reporters who came from the Capitol took one look at him and thought he seemed like a threat to the idea of the Star-Crossed-Lovers being portrayed on the television screens. And yet, Katniss chose Peeta, not Gale. Peeta, who at the start, she seems to have nothing in common with. Not in terms of their upbringings (she was super poor and starving, he was popular and more comfortable but implied to suffer from heavy child abuse) and not in terms of their mindsets either. But there was an inexplicable attraction between the two, an instinctive pull bringing her back to him no matter how much she tried to fight it. And I suspect her mother had the same feeling, for Mr. Everdeen. That feeling is what led Katniss to choose Peeta over Gale, despite the fact that Gale may have seemed from an outside, detached perspective, like her natural choice of romantic partner. And that feeling is probably what also led her mother to make the same choice all those years before.

Idk I just think it’s interesting that Katniss chose Peeta but her mother — in a lot of ways — chose her Gale. Although there’s a strong argument to be made that her mother was actually choosing her version of Peeta by choosing Katniss’ father but my brain’s not there quite yet.

This post also could have been written and summed up a lot quicker if I’d just said, the love triangle between Katniss, Peeta and Gale and the love triangle between Mrs. Everdeen, Mr. Everdeen and Mr. Mellark are actually parallel love triangles that ended with the woman choosing the opposite type of man.

#it’s so annoying tho that we don’t know their parents names!!!! #i wanna know @suzanne!!!! #everlark #thg #hunger games #Katniss everdeen #gale hawthorne #Peeta mellark #Mrs Everdeen #Katniss’ parents #Katniss’ father #mr Everdeen #Peeta’s father #mr mellark #text post ✨✍🏻🤎 #400

[winters-rose-daughterofcain]

I make the joke that Katniss and Peeta both have insane mommy issues a lot.... because it's true. But like genuinely the relationship with your parents plays such an important role in how you form relationships and how you view love and it's so obvious the ways it's affected them and their relationship and how they interact like I can actually talk for hours and one day when it's not 2 AM I will lol

Edit: I did it lol part one with Katniss here if you're interested and part two with Peeta here.

#katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #everlark #katniss and peeta #the hunger games #thg #mrs everdeen #mrs mellark #mr everdeen #mr mellark

[tellmelater]

district 12 everdeen

catching fire 1/?

chapter 3

#chapter 3 #digital art #artists on tumblr #my art #thg #catching fire #the hunger games #suzanne collins #katniss everdeen #primrose everdeen #mrs everdeen #everdeen family #paper dolls

[buggiebite]

After Mockingjay headcanon:

When District 12 becomes oriented in medicine manufacturing: pills, shots, machines, all become commonplace to everyone. But, despite this, Katniss continues to remain the herbal medicine type. She doesn't do vaccines unless absolutely necessary, or pills to cure things such as headaches. Apothecary/Healer's daughter, Katniss, will find herbs and make some oils and teas. With the instruction of her mother, via the phone. I also feel like Katniss and Peeta would not want to dabble in the medical world at all. They have spent too much time in hospitals and associate those with bad memories, or even good memories, memories of Prim. Peeta would hate shots, needles, etc and you cannot tell me otherwise. By the time Katniss gets pregnant, I feel like she would constantly be urged by townsfolk to get an ultrasound by the local physician and she would refuse. That along with prenatal vitamins and checkups. Out of fear that something bad would happen. She puts a lot of trust into her mother, who I headcanon to come back to 12 for the births of her grandbabies and to help out during the early stages of their lives.

#thg headcanons #after mockingjay #katniss and peeta #mrs everdeen #buggiebite #the hunger games #everlark #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #thg #district 12 #toastbabies

[everlarking-always]

...

My mother is there, checking my vital signs. “How do you feel?”

“A little beat-up, but all right,” I say.

“No one even told us you were going until you were gone,” she says.

I feel a pang of guilt. When your family’s had to send you off twice to the Hunger Games, this isn’t the kind of detail you should overlook. “I’m sorry. They weren’t expecting the attack. I was just supposed to be visiting the patients,” I explain. “Next time, I’ll have them clear it with you.”

“Katniss, no one clears anything with me,” she says.

It’s true. Even I don’t. Not since my father died. Why pretend? “Well, I’ll have them… notify you anyway.”

...

#the hunger games #katniss everdeen #mrs everdeen #eablog gifs #eablog requests #not everlark

[yourhighness6]

Thinking about how Katniss's relationship with her mother gets better as her romance with Peeta progresses. How she is basically saying "I know what it is to love now. I understand the pain you went through when Dad died. I'm sorry"

#katniss everdeen #thg #the hunger games #everlark #mrs everdeen #catching fire #mockingjay

[imasradiantasthesun]

Women (and Girls) of Twelve – part 4

Alys Everdeen, Prim Everdeen, Hazelle Hawthorne, and Effie Trinket

#the hunger games #primrose everdeen #effie trinket #katniss everdeen #mrs everdeen #hazelle hawthorne #rosamund pike #bryce dallas howard #rainbow dickerson #valentina gordon #my thg aesthetics v2 #thg #holding bright #fc #ez's thg aesthetics #character aesthetics

[incorrect-hunger-games-quotes]

Peeta: *holds door open for Katniss* After you.

Katniss: No, after you

Peeta: I insist, after you

Haymitch:*pushes past both of them* After me.

#Haymitch??? More like SLAYmitch 😍 #Slaymitch Abernathy #District 12 kiddies #kiddies #peeta mellark #Katniss Everdeen #Mockingjay #the hunger games catching fire #the hunger games trilogy #catching fire #hunger games #gale hawthorne #katniss everdeen #the hunger games #everlark #thg incorrect quotes #primrose everdeen #finnick odair #Mrs everdeen #The capitol #The odds are never in our favour #Annie Cresta #Cresta #Johanna Mason #katniss x peeta

[littlerosette]

i would love to talk more about how katniss’s codependence on peeta mirrors that of her mother’s codependence on her father but i don’t want to scream right now

#the daughter always becomes the mother #the daughter always becomes what she fears #katniss #katniss everdeen #the hunger games #mrs everdeen #everlark

[oakfarmer]

I’m so excited to share these!! I commissioned @andretries for this big project inspired by Paperwork. These are the three paintings Gale sees above Katniss and Peeta’s mantle in Chapter 3. It was so much fun discussing head canons and watching Andrea develop her version of each of the families. Thank you so much!!

#peeta mellark #katniss everdeen #everlark #thg fanart #the hunger games fanfiction #post mockingjay #prim #rye mellark #mr mellark #Mrs Mellark #Mrs Everdeen #mr Everdeen

[winters-rose-daughterofcain]

Okay It's no long 2AM so Everlark and their mommy issue lets go lol and how their parents have impacted them and their relationship but the first one has a better ring. (This is actually part one it got too long so this is just Katniss sorry Peeta)

First, Katniss. Now I'm not here to just shit on Mrs Everdeen, I think my final opinion of her falls in the 'good person but bad parent' category. She was never malicious or cruel and would never do anything to intentionally hurt her children, she feels awful about how she reacted after Mr Everdeen's death and actively makes strides to improve and work on her and Katniss's relationship. Depression and grief are not pretty and as Katniss says, sometimes things happen to people and they're not quipped to deal with them. She even grows to empathise with and understand her mother eventually.

However her children were still starving, an eleven year old Katniss was still forced as her families main provider with no resources and no help, she was still parentified at a very young age and that had had a great effect on how she forms relationships and how she trusts people. The main way being that she doesn't, not without work. It takes her and Gale months to years of mutually beneficial back and forth and a foundation of a transactional relationship for her to allow him in, and even then never in a way in which she was relying on him for something she couldn't do herself. Mrs Everdeens kindness was a detriment in some ways, as Katniss has now internalised that people still have to capacity to hurt and leaver her no matter how much kindness and softness they show. Kind people are still a weakness to her she says it herself, but I think subconsciously she's a little wary of them. It takes work for Katniss to trust someone, they need to prove themself to be dependable and consistent, and I think that is a core value she looks for in a partner.

And with Mr Everdeen, Katniss has nothing less then positive memories of him, obviously coloured by her losing him as a child and that loss potentially erasing certain flaws in her memory, but regardless it's clear they had a very positive relationship. He taught her to hunt, to provide for the ones she loved and to keep herself alive, he was kind and strong and a man not unfamiliar with sacrifice, but he still retained the fundamental joy of music. He still retained this creative, useless to survival skill because he wanted to, because he valued it as something important to him and even if Katniss dismisses music in the beginning, it clearly holds great value to her as well.

The relationship between her parents before her father's death was honestly quite a good example for her. She grew up in a home where people loved each other, in a house of poverty yes, but a home where her mother lit up whenever she called her farther name, a home where her parents clearly adored each other and her and Prim and made no pretence of hiding or dimming it. The story of her mother's abandonment by her own family showing her early on however that this has not come without sacrifice. I think, due to her limited interactions with other people she internalised this version of love and relationships as the only true one, further confusing her later on when the messy situations she finds herself in and feeling love for do not match this image exactly, even if she's drawing similarities.

We as people are drawn to familiarity, it's the reason why a lot of people from abusive homes end up in abusive relationships, a burnt child loves the fire and all that. When we love, we intrinsically seek out things that feel familiar, because with familiarity comes a sense of safety whether or not that is actually the case. Katniss is drawn to Peeta partially because of the ways in which he reminds her of her father, she draws the connections constantly this isn't even speculation. She describes her father as strong, as kind, as a person who left her feeling safe, a feelings no ones arms have ever given her again until Peeta, again something she explicitly says. He also has the softer, more creative side that her father did, with art and painting instead of music yes, but he still holds room and importance on something seemingly useless and impractical at first glance.

With her mother I think is where Peeta's dependability come into play. Katniss longs for stability, she was never given it with her parents, and while not their fault or something they could control was damaging to her. She wants something unmoving something stable and dependable and reliable, someone who, while she's busy taking care of everyone else will take care of her, the role her mother should have taken. And who fills that for her? Peeta. His love for her, she admits in Mockingjay, was something she had as a given, as something unmovable, dependable. He is stability for her, he's strength and reliability because from the moment she stopped second guessing his intentions him and his love for her has been a constant.

She also draws parallels between her relationship with him and her parents relationship with each other a lot and narratively they parallel each other a lot, but other people have already talked at length about that. Their love may not be as uncomplicated as she remembers her parents being, but the similarities are there regardless. When Peeta is taken by the Capital Katniss loses it. She finally understands her mother. She doesn't say it explicitly, never actually says 'I love him' but it's excruciatingly obvious she does. The Katniss in Mockingjay in a girl in mourning. This also comes with her understanding her mother more, the comparison between Peeta and her father are not for lack of want, but Katniss resents the similarities between her and her mother at first, many girls do especially when their mother has let them down in some fundamental way. The wretched mirror of mother and daughter a curse as old as time. But the more Katniss lives, the more she understands her mother's life, the less she resents being similar to her, the more she grows to forgive her, allowing certain comparisons to come thought even more.

Her parent's and upbringing have played a big role in how she loves and who she loves, and it's so obvious in the progression of her and Peeta's relationship. Her initial distrust, her wanting to like him inspire of herself, their slow growing together, the absolute certainty she has of her care for him, how utterly destroyed she becomes after almost losing him, the fact that after everything, they were able to grow back together and find something worth having. Katniss choses Peeta for a lot of reasons, honestly there was never even a choice, but I think her upbringing and the ways in which she saw or didn't see her parents and their love in him definitely played a role.

#the hunger games #thg #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #mr everdeen #mrs everdeen #everlark #katniss and peeta #part 1 #character analysis #Katniss my darling #deserved so much better #this is so messy but like I think it's coherent #definitely missing things but this is long enough

[sillymonsterman]

Katniss lost her mother again after they lost Prim, she doesn't come back to 12 she throws herself into her work.

she's a healer and she raised prim to be one and now she has to do an awful lot of healing to make up for the fact Prim died doing what she'd raised her to do.

she can't go catatonic again she's got a commitment and she can't go back to 12 after everything and everyone she's ever known is gone. she just goes from hospital to hospital helping people and dressing wounds.

does she keep in touch with katniss? write letters? did she meet her grandkids? do her and katniss meet up and talk about prim and her father.

they probably don't, Katniss tries hard to forgive her mother for disappearing after her father died but she can't push that resentment down. she was civil to her because prim loved her and that's they're mother. but how could she ever look at the mother again without seeing the woman prim would never grow up to be.

#katniss everdeen #mrs everdeen #primrose everdeen #prim everdeen #the hunger games #thg #hunger games #legally had to