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dykesbat · 1 year
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thinking so hard abt the little rebellion of district 12’s silence when katniss volunteers for prim and their funeral salute to her..
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thesmileykate · 8 months
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katniss associates crying with weakness. from the second that katniss volunteers for prim, she refuses to cry. even when prim won't let her go up on the reaping stage (thg, 23). even after seeing her family members for the last time (thg, 34). even when she leaves district twelve for the last time (thg, 40).
why? the cameras. 
in the first book, katniss is obsessed with appearing strong for the cameras. crying is not an option when there are cameras (thg, 34). even when peeta cries because he is showing his emotions, she assumes that it must be some strategy (thg, 40). because no one would so openly show their weakness in front of the audience, right? and although she can't produce tears, she only allows herself to cry the night on the train to the capitol because no one will see the redness on her face in the morning (thg, 54). even after the games, when peeta reveals his amputated leg, she hides her face in his shirt so the cameras don't see her cry (thg, 339).
so, anytime katniss does cry, it is always in private. like in her room after her training session with the gamemakers, sobbing because she feels like they are going to kill her and her family (thg, 103). or when haymitch and peeta take her to her room while katniss's mom reconstructs gale's whipped back (cf, 33). or prim and her mom comfort her after she finds out she is going back into the games (cf, 51). 
the only time that katniss cried in front of the cameras before the quell was when rue died. and even then, she was trying to stop the tears from falling (thg, 234). and when the tears did come, they were soft tears. slowly sliding down her cheeks (thg, 234). 
that is why the forcefield scene in catching fire was so insane. because all of the concern that first games katniss had for the camera and the sponsors melted away under the scorching pink sun of the quell. because the tears that she shed when peeta died were not the same as rue. she didn't have the opportunity to hold them in because they just appeared without her noticing (cf, 79). and these tears run down her face, building up momentum until she is sobbing uncontrollably (cf, 79). her sobs are racked with torment thinking about peeta's death, invoking choking sounds (cf, 79).
these are not the solemn tears she shed for rue (thg, 234). or like the ones that fell from finnick's face as he mourned mags (cf, 89). they are not the tears of tribute losing a partner. these are the tears of a human being who is momentarily broken at the possibility of their lover's death.
and maybe this wouldn't be strange that she cried. of course, she and peeta have gone through a lot of things together and losing him would be hard. but this is the same girl that literally refused to cry when clove was about to skin her alive on national television because she didn't want her sister to see (thg, 286). even in her last moments, katniss is always thinking about the cameras and the audience.
but after peeta's heart stops, she isn't thinking about her survival. or the cameras. or the other tributes in the arena hearing her sobs. all she can think about is the boy beside her. the one with a steady heartbeat she never thought she would hear again. the one whose arms are her only refuge from the realities of panem. the one whose death would leave her broken beyond repair.
note: i actually was digging myself into a hole about the forcefield scene and asked people on tumblr (here) and reddit (here) about their thoughts. the responses are really good and really helped me understand more of the significance of the scene and why finnick knew that katniss loved peeta then. please read!
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caesarflickermans · 5 months
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Aside of the list of natural disasters, the first time we read of fire is the smoky fire from the damp branches back at home (THG, 2), while Prim and Mrs. Everdeen are starving and Katniss is searching for food. Katniss fire is smoky, it's coming from damp branches: Her flames are minimal, and they are dying.
The next time we read about fire, it's the moment that Peeta gives Katniss the bread.
This moment has commonly (and rightfully) been read as an offer of survival, and a life-giving gesture (THG, 2). Of course, him extending the bread to her despite the physical repercussions he went through further mirrors the self-sacrificial nature Peeta has in the 74th Games (THG, 9/THG, 14).
But this moment is significant insofar of its early flames:
It was the boy. In his arms, he carried two large loaves of bread that must have fallen into the fire because the crusts were scorched black. (THG, 2)
I shoved the loaves up under my shirt, wrapped the hunting jacket tightly about me, and walked swiftly away. The heat of the bread burned into my skin, but I clutched it tighter clinging to life. (THG, 2)
Those are Peeta's flames. It's him who throws the bread into fire, and it's his bread that burns into Katniss' skin. As much as the bread as a food item is a means of survival, the bread, too, is keeping Katniss warm when she walks home. The bread is what allowed her to survive until the dandelion, until becoming a hunter and keeping herself and her family alive. Without the heat of the bread that burned into her skin, none of this would have happened.
As much as credit Katniss for being the rebel (be it with Rue, with Peeta, with the berries), the earliest act of rebellion chronologically is Peeta's. It's Peeta who had every reason to look away: No one else cared for Katniss and Prim starving before their eyes. He endured punishment, and had more to lose if he were caught.
But Peeta's kindness and care for Katniss was the fire that had caught her and burned into her skin. It was this moment that gave Katniss the fire to spread to the rest of the nation several years later.
The fire had always been there, and it hadn't been Katniss' flame who was there first.
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inkerii · 1 year
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So I couldn't help but browse the THG tag bc those books own my whole heart. I actually check it now and again, and it's been interesting see how opinions have changed over the years, especially in regards to Gale and Peeta. Going through the evolution of them as just potential love interests to being far more complex than I could have expected has been a wild ride. Crazy how this reads different than from when I was a preteen.
That said, I wanted to give my unsolicited two cents on my boys, because though I have been enjoying the discussion on Peeta and Gale and what they mean to the story, I also feel like reducing them to Peeta = peace and Gale = war is far too simplistic... and oftentimes unfair to one or both of them.
See, I don't think Peeta and Gale are peace and war/destruction. They're compassion and indignation.
Peeta worries about the other tributes, or their families, or how to repay people like Rue and Thresh for what they did.
Gale is indignation at how the Capitol treats its citizens, it's anger at the injustice of inequality and brutality.
Both are needed in a story like THG. You can't have people like even Peeta not say something like "maybe we're wrong about keeping things quiet in the districts", you can't have him not drop the baby bomb, you can't start a revolution without Gale's indignation at the status quo. At deserving a better life but being denied it, at having your kids be mercilessly killed for literal sport.
However, if you start a rebellion and loose sight of your compassion, you end up no better than the people you're fighting against. Gale wasn't a bad person, imo. His heart was in the right place. He was flawed, yes, but so is everyone in this series. Gale, most importantly, lost sight of the line between fighting for the people he cared about and fighting against the people who hurt him.
Reducing Gale's indignation to just revenge and hatred ignores so much of what he stands for. Who hasn't seen laws passed that dehumanize people, who hasn't been angry and furious when someone is elected who fundamentally hates everything you are, who doesn't think some people need to pay for the atrocities they committed? There's a little bit of Gale in every single one of us - and it's important that it's there, because that's what gives us strength to challenge the status quo and make life better for the future generations.
But. You can't let it take over. You can't loose sight of your compassion or your empathy.
That's where Peeta comes in. Peeta is the voice in your head that worries about how many good lives will be lost when they give themselves up for this cause. Peeta is the worry about the people caught in the crossfire. Peeta is rebuilding when it's over and believing that the next generation will have a better life than your own. Peeta is being kind, even to people who may not deserve it.
And Gale... Gale looses sight of his compassion, and he doesn't realize it until it smacks him in the face when the bombs go off and Prim is gone and he's too far gone. Meanwhile, Peeta advocates for the end of the war even though it means the status quo remains - and regardless of what he believes himself, I don't think Suzanne chose him to say those lines by chance. It means both mindsets have their flaws: too kind and things that shouldn't remain will never be challenged and changed, too angry and you may loose sight of what you're fighting for.
And that's just how Suzanne uses her characters, both of them, all of them. Just look at who is with Katniss depending on the situation:
- Katniss chooses to "rebel" after Gale is brutally whipped. She kisses him.
- Katniss realizes that in order for D12 to rebel, everyone would need to be in on it, and she realizes most of them are not like her, that they're scared and she understands, emphasises with them. Peeta walks by her side.
- Katniss finally does it though, shoots the arrow at the force field, and Peeta is taken from her, it's now Gale by her side.
(You can't start a rebellion without indignation, and sometimes you HAVE to do it or things will never change, regardless of the inevitable pain that will come along.)
- Katniss is righteously angry at the Capitol bombing a hospital full of innocents to make a point. Gale remains there.
- Coin twists people's compassion into an army to fight for her own personal gain. Peeta is hijacked and looses his sense of self.
- Katniss and Gale go to District 2 and even though she tries to be like Peeta, she's still shot- reinforcing Gale's views, the person who was with her during that sequence.
- Katniss is angry at Snow, Katniss goes to the Capitol to kill him. Gale is there.
- Katniss gets in way over her head and realizes she is responsible for the death of most of her squad. She shares the lamb stew with Peeta, and later cleans his wounds.
- Finnick dies and she's at her lowest up until that point and all she wants to do is give up and give in to the anger. She kisses Peeta and begs him to stay with her.
... Claiming that Gale is destruction ignores the fact that he's with Katniss through her own moments of strength. Her desire to change things, to fight back, is as important as her compassion. Mockingjay just brutally shows you what war does to your indignation, to your compassion. How easy it is to cross a line between righteous anger and revenge, or how your sense of empathy and compassion can be manipulated into something monstrous by others, or by all the terrible, brutal, painful things you see.
How easy it is to loose yourself- and that goes for both of them.
Peeta and Gale aren't static characters, they go from representations of sentiments regarding an injust government to what happens to those feelings when an extreme situation such as war breaks out. All of that, by the way, while dealing with this duality themselves, because they are still characters who think and feel and struggle and have flaws of their own- and while I love what they stand for, I've seen too many comments that pin everything into what they mean, that they forget that Peeta and Gale are still people, they aren't perfect metaphors. They're human.
Ultimately, Katniss doesn't really choose peace. She wants peace, yes. But what she chooses is compassion. empathy. hope. There's a time and place for anger at injustice. There's a time when fighting back is the right thing to do. There are even times when you wanna give in to your despair and lash out. But if you want peace, then you have to choose Peeta, because Peeta represents what you need to focus on to achieve that peace. You have to let go of the anger or you won't ever rest. So Gale leaves, and does not come back... And yet, Katniss still has her moments of indignation, of making a stand, even as he goes - she still casts her vote at that meeting, she still shoots Coin. Katniss does not abandon that part of who she is. It's just not her main drive anymore.
So then she goes on to make the choice, every single day, to be compassionate to others. To have hope. To rebuild. Of course she chooses Peeta.
... Idk, man. These boys are so much more than what I see them so often reduced to. They're in all of us. There will be times to stand and fight, and times to show mercy and be kind. We just need to find that balance, as Katniss eventually did.
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hpanimatedseries · 4 months
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The thing I love the most about the Hunger Games is Katniss’ character arc.
Katniss Everdeen in book 1 is like Harry Potter in book 7. That is to say, the Katniss we follow in THG is the strong and resilient fighter. She is brave and selfless and tough and she digs deep despite tremendous pain. She has already overcome the loss of her father and the dire circumstances of her youth. And the 74th Hunger Games should have been her boss fight.
The end of THG shows us a Katniss who is a champion, a winner, a Victor. It feels like we are at the triumphant end of a story. Until she is told that the Capitol is not happy.
In Catching Fire we learn about Katniss’ nightmares. We learn that she sometimes can’t look at Prim without seeing Rue. We see her relationships begin to strain and change.
Katniss finding out that she will be going back into the games is one of my all time favorite scenes. Because in THG Katniss is in Survival Mode from the second she steps onto the platform. She holds back her tears and tries to look indifferent for the sponsors. But in CF she shatters. She flees. She cries and drinks and screams. She isn’t strong or resilient or even a little brave. And you just don’t see heroes react like that in other stories. But you can’t tell me it’s possible to read that scene and not feel your own stomach twist at the thought of that reality.
When Peeta hits the barrier and his heart stops Katniss loses it. It’s clear she knows about CPR from watching her mother, the same way she knew about blood poisoning and tourniquets in the last games, but it doesn’t even occur to her until after Finnick starts kissing Peeta. She isn’t sharp and quick and able to think on her feet. She is desperate to keep Peeta and the rebellion alive and that is it. People say that the victors keep Peeta alive because “if they didn’t Katniss would kill everyone and then herself” but Katniss knew her fate. She knew she wasn’t going to survive the arena. And she knew a life without Peeta was pointless. She would have “stopped living” like her mother.
When Katniss is rescued and Peeta is not, there was no “what is the plan? How are we going to get Peeta back? How are we going to save him?” There was only enough energy and emotion to try to claw Haymitch’s eyes out.
And then we get to Mockingjay. I’ve heard people complain that they couldn’t get through the book because it was just Katniss sleeping all the time. But of course she is sleeping all the time. Of course she can hardly qualify to be a soldier. Of course she finds solace in Finnick and his rope tying.
She doesn’t assassinate President Snow on her rogue mission. She gets her friends killed. She can’t even save Prim. Katniss gets knocked out and wakes up with the War already won. She secures the safety of Panem for a time by killing Coin but even that is the act of someone who no longer cares for her own safety and well-being.
I’m not saying she doesn’t do anything, she does an incredible amount for her mental/emotional state. But she isn’t Strong or Brave or Resilient. She doesn’t dig deep because even if she did there wouldn’t be anything left. She is completely broken.
That is what makes her epilogue so beautiful. Because at the end of her story she isn’t a Victor. She isn’t The Hero. She just, learns to be okay. She falls in love and finds peace and happiness and safety. I don’t know if I would say that she ever becomes unbroken but she picks up the pieces she can salvage and does her best with them.
Katniss Everdeen’s character arc is not one of Strength. There are many strong characters. It is a study of weakness and the beauty and love and community that comes from weakness.
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i-upset-to-dead-65 · 5 months
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I've been thinking about what Katniss and Peeta would name their kids and I know for sure they wouldn't name them like Rue or Finnick because aside from the obvious emotional reasons, there's no naming culture in THG of honorific names. No one is a Jr. and the only name passed down from another is a last name. The Covey is different because its song related.
Anyway I think Katniss would keep the theme of plant names for her children, at least her daughter. I've thought about it and I think she'd name her daughter Willow. I think it would have more subtle themes to honor Rue and Prim bc of the meadow song, while still being unique enough to bring comfort. Bc she's definitely sing that song to them as a lullaby.
As for her son, I need to think about more plant names. It's debatable is Peeta would name his kids after bread since he's not really a baker anymore. That being said, I think Rye is a good boy name. Technically Rye is also a plant so that would got with the theme as well. Sort of a marriage between the two family naming conventions.
Idk if there's a fanon set of names of r their kids but this is just my sleep deprived thoughts
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arbitraryfuck · 4 months
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ok so the thing with katniss and kids is that in the first book she mentions that she didn't want to have them specifically because she didn't want to bring children into a world where they could be reaped into the games. to me this reveals that being a mother is something that she would want in another life, but not when living under the capitol's opression. with the way she loves and takes care of prim and rue i do see this a textual support of that idea, that she enjoys being a caretaker and a parental figure. throughout the books she is mostly a fighter and a hunter, but she was these things out of necessity. she was very good at them, but she did them ultimately not only to survive but to care for her sister as well, which was always her priority, so i see her as desiring that role of provider and caretaker if it were not for the reality she lives in. when at the end she has kids with peeta that means that she no longer lives in that reality, the games are over and the capitol is defeated, and she can be a mother with the assurance that her kids will never be reaped, will never face the capitol's opression, will never have to suffer the way she did. in many cases "happily married with kids" is kind of a lame way to end a series since its usually just a generic and easy way to say "ok this is over bye" but in this case i think it's actually deserved since it's something that katniss has been fighting for since the beginning, to just have a safe peaceful life for herself and her family in her home, and seeing her get that ending in a way after all the suffering she went through is something i find to be quite beautiful actually. (also I've seen people claim that having kids is something that peeta forced her into and I just have to say he would never force katniss into anything she doesn't want to, especially something as big as having kids. like all throughout the series he has done his best to be respectful of katniss and her wishes, like his ass is NOT forcing katniss to do anything she doesn't want to, and also I don't remember him ever actively wanting kids so i do think it was mostly katniss' idea.) idk i didn't expect to write this much sorry asjdksjs it's just that THG is one of the very rare cases where im like "let's hear it for straight marriage and nuclear family woohooo" because I think it's actually well written and thought out and not just a case of heteronormative "well now that that's done i guess they should have kids or whatever". these are just my opinions and though i did see the movies recently i havent read the books in a While so this is from what i remember. anyways again sorry for going full essay jsjjsjs i hope you enjoye your rewatch!!
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thgfanfictionlibrary · 4 months
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Abagail_Snow :: ao3, ffnet, tumblr
Popular Fic: All The World's a Stage: They'll never live down the stunt with the berries. They should probably just accept that. Peeta is rescued from the arena along with Katniss (post-Catching Fire/Mockingjay divergence) (@absnow)
aimmyarrowshigh :: ao3, ff.net, tumblr
Popular Fic: How Rue Became the Mockingjay: Katniss Everdeen and the girl from Eleven are ruining their best-laid plans – the Capitol’s and the Rebels’. So Caesar, they say. Announce the change. --- An alternate chronology for The Hunger Games (@aimmyarrowshigh)
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Popular Fic: Come get your man, nothing’s wrong, he just misses you.: Post-mockingjay, canon compliant. Katniss POV. A phone call that occurs with Johanna, Annie, Peeta, and Katniss when Peeta goes to visit Annie, Finn, and Jo with Katniss staying behind in Twelve. Fluff. (@alwaysmypearl)
amelia_day :: ao3, tumblr
Popular Fic: The Bet: When a sorority bet gets out of hand and becomes a campus wide sensation, Katniss and Peeta are both forced to deal with the aftermath. (@awhiskeyriver)
Autumnanox :: ao3
Popular Fic: Time Running Out for the Truth: What if Katniss had realized before their second time in the Arena the depth of her feelings for Peeta? And what if she had found the words to express them? How would they have spent what they believed to be their last nights alone together? This story takes place on the day they make their private presentations to the Gamemakers, after they've returned to the district 12 suite and they are each awarded a score of 12 for their rebellious antics. This story, unlike the books, is told from Peeta's perspective.
Broken_everlark :: ao3
Popular Fic: Capative to the Darkness: Peeta tries to keep his dark passenger a secret but how long can it stay hidden when he works as a detective for the police department and he's head over heels in love with his partner Katniss Everdeen.
Brown_Eyed_Devil :: ao3
Popular Fic: Stop the Clocks: A Modern AU with heaps of jealousy and angst, hints of fluff and good stuff in between, and a potential dash of smut for later on. (Rating and tags will evolve as the story progresses, so keep an eye out for that). Katniss Everdeen sees her ex-boyfriend on the arm of another woman a year after their breakup. She shouldn’t care, because she broke up with him, even so... she still finds herself drawn to him in that impossible way. She knows she's not allowed to think of him as hers anymore, she really thought she should be over this by now (over him really), and yet against her better judgement, she allows him to take her number... Shenanigans ensue...
bellablue27 :: ao3
Popular Fic: Tomorrow Will Be Kinder: A canon-compliant, post-Mockingjay growing together fic from Peeta's POV
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Popular Fic: Oh, I Love You: The moment when Peeta realizes, clear-headed and all, maybe as Katniss sleeps beside him or traipses in from the woods …“oh. I love you.” (@bbyannabeth)
CassandraO :: ao3
Popular Fic: Arranged: Facing the death of her mother, 14-year old Katniss Everdeen and her 10-year old sister Prim move in with their widowed maternal grandmother, the apothecary's wife. In a world in which unmarried women cannot own property, Katniss' grandmother arranges with the town baker to marry off her eldest granddaughter at sixteen to protect her in case she dies before the girl is ready to marry. Luckily for all, Katniss gets to marry the youngest son, her close friend Peeta. Now, married young, the summer is coming, and with it, the 74th Annual Hunger Games.
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realmermaid333 · 1 year
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Hunger Games Book Things That Should Have Been in the Movie!!!
There is sadly a lot of stuff that should have been in The Hunger Games movies but wasn’t and it makes me salty so I am going to make a list lol. Some of the stuff, I understand was likely taken out due to time crunches, but other things there’s simply no excuse except it’s hollywood *eyeroll*
1. Rue and Katniss scenes- they cut out some of their bonding in the movies which took a lot of the tragedy out of her death. Not that it wasn’t super sad in the movies, but we knew more about Rue in the book and we saw her and Katniss bond for much longer. Which in turn made her death so much sadder since we also knew how much Rue reminded Katniss of Prim, how innocent and young Rue was, and how badly Katniss wanted her to win if she didn’t. 
2. Peeta and Katniss Cave Scenes- the scenes were in there, but they were kinda weird tbh. Like they made Peeta’s crush on Katniss seem kind of creepy and it was not at all in the book. Also, Peeta was lightening the mood and being funny in the books, and was not in the movie. Both Katniss and Peeta just seemed slightly out of character in the cave scenes.
3. Peeta’s missing leg!!!!- In the books, Peeta loses his leg from health complications from the blood poisoning in the arena! He had a metal prosthetic leg, he was disabled. They took that out of the movie which is disheartening considering the lovely disability representation that could have been there. They could have hired an actor with a missing leg, gave him a realistic prosthetic and hid it under his pants for the beginning of the movie, then had him wear a metal prosthetic for the rest of the series after Peeta’s injury, that would have been amazing! The least they could have done was have Josh be missing a leg! Also, Peeta’s lack of disability made his struggling in the Quarter Quell make less sense, the reason why Peeta was lagging behind a little and needing more assistance was because the boy was missing a leg! I will forever we upset about this lost opportunity due to hollywood’s bullshit. 
4. The adorable plant book scene and Peeta carrying Katniss to bed- this was wholesome content that made their relationship so much sweeter and really showed how Katniss did care for Peeta and really did like him. I’m not sure why they took this out, I guess it was a time related thing, but tbh the movies should’ve simply been longer because they butchered the books to make them fit into 2 hours, it is annoying af (there’s been loads of super long like 3 hour movies, THG could have been one of them)! Also the cute rooftop picnic scene when they were in the training center, and them cuddling all night afterwards. No wonder tons of people who only watched the movies think Peeta and Katniss’s relationship is lowkey boring, they took out all of their cute bonding moments outside of the arena!!
5. District 2 scene- The part where Gale and Katniss are together in District 2, they makeout and Gale realizes that Katniss is barely paying attention to him and isn’t that into it. This part was crucial I think! It showed that Katniss did not actually like Gale romantically. It explained why they did not end up together. And this isn’t just a THG movie thing, but I really wish this scene was used to explain Gale and Katniss not ending up together instead of Gale being involved in Prim’s death. This could have very easily been the turning point, where they decided to be platonic. I would have loved it if Gale and Katniss would’ve stayed best friends, maybe Gale would find someone else to pursue romantically and him and Katniss could move on. I think they deserved that. 
6. Johanna and Katniss bonding- I really wish we got more of this in the movies, they were roommates in the book! That would have been really easy to throw into the movies to show that they were friends. I like to imagine the two of them stayed in touch after the war :) 
7. Peeta and Katniss’s burn scars- There is no excuse for this! This is just hollywood being stupid and thinking they couldn’t put burn scars on Katniss and Peeta because they’d “no longer be cute” or whatever (they did the same thing with Katniss’s body hair, she was clean shaven even while in District 12, which is inaccurate as Katniss hated having her body hair removed). It would not have been hard to include the scars, they’d be more faint too by the end considering that they had all the fancy Capitol technology used on them. All they had to do was use some makeup to add scars to Katniss’s neck, Peeta’s forehead, and both of their hands. Katniss’ hair was shorter after the bombing  because quite a bit of it was melted off, they could have put Jennifer in a choppy, shorter wig to show that. It also could have been a cool way to measure time passing by when they went back to District 12. Katniss’s hair could have grown out throughout the ending scenes to signify the months that passed because the last 10 mins or so of Mockingjay part 2 is super confusing lol. Like Peeta comes back, then all of the sudden Annie sends a photo of her and her like 5-month-old-looking baby just chilling lmao. 
8. Haymitch parenting Katniss- As we know, Katniss’s shitty mom leaves her at the end, but in the books it is more clear that Haymitch ends up being the adult in her life that parents her. He makes sure she is eating, taking her medicine, he checks on her to make sure she is okay, he talked to her and gave her information even when she wasn’t responding. He helped Plutarch get her pardoned for killing Coin as he knew exactly why she did it. He went back to District 12 with her to take care of her, and he ended up comforting her a lot in the series (they did have this in the movies too), they even argued like a father and daughter in the books lmao. 
9. Katniss’s mental health issues and grief- So many scenes of Katniss’s grief are removed from the movies. She was so emotionally traumatized that she lost the ability to speak for a long time, many nights she’d wake up screaming, and she would wonder the mansion aimlessly and end up in odd little hiding places. She was trying to kill herself after she killed Coin, the poor girl was in absolute mental anguish and I do not think that was accurately shown in the films. She did not brush her hair, change her clothes, or shower for a long time when she went back to District 12. When her and Peeta reunite, she looked sickly and dirty--- enough so that Peeta was sad when he saw her. But, of course, in the film she looked fresh out of a shampoo ad, with flowing, long, not-matted hair. 
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strangesmallbard · 4 months
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OKAY i’ve gathered my post-mockingjay thoughts. common thg discourse speedrun:
“gale is the true villain/gale killed prim” - gale is a child soldier who, like katniss and peeta, was used by adults in power to achieve their political goals. his desire for vengeance on the capitol isn’t a viable strategy to free the districts or promote long-lasting peace, but he’s not a strategist. he’s a justifiably angry 18 year old kid who endured an oppressive regime—and coin put the tools for destruction in his hands, knowing he was too young to fully comprehend their long-term consequences. then coin used his tools to kill prim. katniss understands he did not pull the trigger, but she also can’t exonerate him and this fact devastates them both. to frame gale’s story as a corruption arc + pin prim’s death on him just misses sooo much.
“gale = violence, peeta = peace” - related discourse, but this really oversimplifies both characters. see above for gale’s motivations. peeta, meanwhile, chooses to exit the arena. and this is not a peaceful path. every day was likely a brutal struggle. but what i don’t like about this discourse is the moralistic binary it imposes on these characters. that’s just, frankly, boring as a discussion topic. stepping into the meta-narrative, it is suspicious to equate blonde, blue-eyed peeta with Goodness and Wholesomeness, and gale with Being Brutishly Violent. i don’t think this aspect is present in the books, but it’s certainly common in fandom.
“suzanne collins is a spineless centrist for killing coin” - throughout the book, coin is positioned as snow’s counterpart. like snow. she uses katniss for propaganda and, perhaps, fears the power over public opinion she wields. it’s very likely that coin would also prove authoritarian—especially bc she seizes power with no election. in that context, killing her is definitely not centrist lmao. but i think suzanne collins was less interested in promoting one political perspective over another than completing katniss’ character arc. and katniss wanted to kill coin, for killing prim. it’s her very first premeditated revenge murder. and that’s complex innit.
“snow and coin are two sides of the same coin (lmao)” - yeah, i think collins was going for this perspective. however, i do think its interesting that katniss’ info about coin is based on her own observations and second-hand assumptions; we never learn coin’s internal motivations from her pov. meanwhile, we also know that katniss is an unreliable narrator. while i don’t think snow lied about coin + the capitol bombs, i do think he constructed that narrative about her motivations to confuse katniss—to have the upper hand one last time. in that way, i don’t think coin’s mystery is a deficit, but rather a useful characterization tool for katniss. but i’m also saying: alma coin novella when
“wait, when did rue become black?” during her first character introduction idiot
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clatoera · 1 year
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What's sparked the rebellion? Was it Katniss' volunteering for Prim, Rue’s death, the berries, or was it before all of that?
How does many THG victors joined or being recruited for the rebellion?
Thoughts?
Thank you 😊
@curiousnonny
Alright buckle in besties.
That rebellion was brewing way before Katniss and anything she did. I dont think the rebellion could have brewed and happened in the matter of the year between 74th and the 75th. That unrest was building long before Katniss, probably before she was ever even born.
That being said I think it is a culmination of her actions that she is able to be the symbol. I don't know if it started with her volunteering because it reads very much like she just does it to save her little sister. I think her score was the first indicator. An 11, I never would think a score would go over 10 (i'm guessing it goes to 12 like most things in the book). I think that and her incredible skill is the first hint that she's been stepping outside of the rules of the capitol a long time. How else would this girl who is not from a career district have such insane hunting skills? She's breaking the law to do so. She's already proving to be a bit of a rebel in that way. Rue's death and the way she sends her off is a MASSIVE step forward, which we see as D11 reacts to her death, but also, in the book she is gifted bread from D11 after Rue's death. It's a thank you, it's a sign of recognition, and how often would another district buy something for someone else?
The berries are the proverbial match to the fuse. They openly defy the capitol and NOONE gets away with that. Noone. But they do. Katniss and Peeta pull it off. That sets the rebellion into active action. Katniss throughout the games has proven herself, as snow says it, of Hope. She becomes the symbol for sure in that moment. Because lets be honest, who was buying the act of love angle for Katniss? The girl's face, her mannerisms, her behavior scream act of rebellion.
Obviously by the time they go on the victory tour the unrest is in motion, but she is a symbol at that point. She is a rallying point. District to District she is the face of defiance, more so than Peeta is.
And of course by the quell, we know, she IS the Mockingjay. Katniss has been the Mockingjay long before she openly agrees to it. The games that made her a victor made her the mockingjay.
As for how the other tributes got involved? I think that's hard to know and I have had questions for years. CLEARLY this plan runs deep. Beetee's designs. Plutarch as game maker. Haymitch, Finnick, Johanna..the unrest has clearly gone deep and for way longer than we realize. I think the decision was made in advance and the quell just set it al into motion. I would LOVE behind the scenes of how it all happened. I have wondered for...13 years nearly. It's something I look forward to exploring in a fic im writing right now.
But all that to say I think that rebellion was building, and it took having a symbol like the mockingjay in miss Katniss to light the fuse. A 16 year old cannot run a revolution, but she can be the face of it. And she can inspire the plan to be set in motion.
Thank you!
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dykesbat · 1 year
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sobbing my eyes out thinking abt rue and her sisters and katniss
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thesmileykate · 10 months
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it is no surprise that debt and owing are strong themes throughout the hunger games series. katniss "hates owing people" (thg, 32). because, for katniss and the rest of the people in the seam, relationships are transactional. 
when katniss first meets gale, their entire relationship becomes transactional as katniss offers him "a bow if he had something to trade" (thg, 111). knowledge and goods do not come freely in the seam, and everything must be met with a trade, even relationships. 
so, owing suggests a debt that will have to be repaid, something that can constantly loom over a person who is already pressed to use all of their resources for their immediate needs. this uncomfort with debt is not limited to district 12, but spans across the entire country. this is made clear when thresh spares katniss because of the love and protection she gave rue, making it so that they were "even then. no more owed" (thg, 288). 
it is even ingrained into the rhetoric about the games. the games are put in place because of what the districts "owe the capitol" because of the rebellion (thg, 42). the games are meant (at least in concept) to be an indemnity, a repayment.
so it is not a coincidence that our favorite boy with the bread doesn't live that way. katniss doesn't expect peeta to understand the disdain the people have for debt because he has "always had enough" (thg, 292). and, despite peeta getting annoyed that she thinks he's "too dim to get it," he doesn't get it (thg, 292).
for peeta, he doesn't get why thresh would spare katniss just to get even. and he especially doesn't understand why katniss owes him for the bread. because he gave katniss the bread without any expectation that katniss needs to do anything for him. because he did it because he cared about her, not because of what she could do for him in return. 
and i think that it is interesting that, in the second book, peeta tries to persuade haymitch to save katniss using the rhetoric of debt. 
and i can totally imagine how it must go on in his head. that he remembers how katniss mentioned that people from the seam hate feeling indebted to others. so, he is going to use this against haymitch to get what he wants (cf, 49). and the funny thing is that peeta still shows that he doesn't get it.  he still doesn't understand how these transactions are supposed to work. because he doesn't use haymitch's debt to benefit himself. rather, he invokes haymitch's debt to him to perform another selfless action (cf, 50). to save the girl he loves. and leave it to peeta to take a transactional relationship and still center it around his unconditional love.
and that is what makes peeta's second invocation of debt so heartbreaking. in mockingjay, when hijacked! peeta considers finnick saving his life, he says that it didn't count because it was "for her" and that he didn't owe him anything (mj, 208). this is just another way that hijacked! peeta seems to have changed who peeta was. peeta no longer considers acts that protect and care for katniss as good enough to justify his indebtedness (and that is pretty constant throughout katniss and peeta's feelings about each other).
 so yeah, he finally gets it. he gets how debt is supposed to repayed and how relationships are supposed to be transactional, and it destroys katniss (mj, 208).
but that is what makes peeta's return with the primroses even more precious. because he "went to the woods [that] morning and dug these up. for her" (mj, 325). he did it for prim. for a dead girl who couldn't possibly repay him. because she needs to be remembered in a world that refused to acknowledge her. a world that thought she was disposable. and it signals that katniss's peeta has returned. and now, he understands how debt is supposed to work, but he doesn't invoke it. he does not subscribe to a system centered on transactional relationships.
because, although snow tried so hard to convince him of it, that is not who peeta is. he loves unconditionally. he memorializes children that were deemed disposable. he refuses to forget. and that is why katniss loved him from the start.
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Oh my god the moon thing? Yeah let’s unpack because I think you’ve found a gem here?
For sure I see the Katniss Diana connection you are making!! She’s the best hunter with a bow (maybe in all of Panem) and as you pointed out she stays thinking about the moon.
Diana is a practical and pragmatic deity. There are tons of stories of Greek and Roman gods’ infidelity, jealousy, drama, etc. But the stories I know about Artemis/Diana always center around justice for young girls (including herself) or hunting legendary creatures.
Even just being the Goddess of such a practical every-man activity (as opposed to being the deity of parties or “being in charge.”) is very Katniss! And something about being put on a pedestal and celebrated by an audience? Existing in a pantheon of performers with varying degrees of power and commonality with you?
But really I think the moon connection is the most meaningful here, and there’s an interesting connection with night in general! Something something, she comes alive at night, something something surveillance state?
During the day Katniss works and interacts in the district (always wearing her indifferent mask) but at evening/night she’s at home with Prim (the only place she lets down the mask.)
In the games she’s still more comfortable at night (daring to sleep), relying on the cover of darkness to keep her safe. It also protects her from the surveillance as well, she can finally hide her face under the covers. I think she even mentions some of her kisses with Peeta at night being meaningful because they probably can’t be seen by lack of light? (Idk fact check me on that one)
The moon is how Katniss (who’s lucky to get a few hours of electricity in the evenings) navigates her world during the moments when she is most free. I think night is when she’s most confident, most daring, and most likely to be herself!
She even pulls out the berries at night, without a thought to the implications. Understanding that rule breakers are punished is a day time masked Katniss thought, but this is Katniss at home, at night, under the moon with someone she loves.
Idk?? What do you think bestie?
ooooooh loving ALL of this!!
i want to dig more into the artemis/diana connection -- i love the idea of katniss as the the goddess of the moon, the goddess of the hunt. it has to be intentional -- we KNOW sc makes tons of references to classical mythology in thg. i love your connection of diana's stories surrounding "justice for young girls" because what drives so much of katniss' behavior is her desire for justice for the young girls she so badly wants to protect (prim and rue) (also diana is the goddess of childbirth -- thinking about katniss and her struggle throughout the novels with whether or not she feels comfortable bringing children into a world suffering beneath an oppressive regime -- i think there's definitely something there too!) but then i love the way you're also thinking of the concept of "being deified" in a metaphorical way as well -- because katniss DOES become a goddess. katniss' image becomes something beyond katniss herself, she does become a "deity" in the sense that she becomes a symbol of something (or the symbol of many things, to many people) rather than a human being. (also i'm on the wikipedia page for diana and apparently in classical times one of her sacred places was ... a lake. GUYS.)
i'm super intrigued by this idea that katniss is most herself at night -- i'm inclined to agree with you and i like all the examples you brought out. and can we also tease out a connection to those most perfect opening lines: "when i wake up, the other side of the bed is cold." if katniss is most herself at night, is it not so poetically beautiful that the story begins when she *wakes up*!? the whole story being one that is, in a sense, an "awakening" to discover that prim is gone? that she was never going to be saved? AAH!
and also along the same lines -- thinking about katniss and her relationship to the night -- can we think about the night vision goggles from the first book! because she encounters them early on but doesn't understand their significance until RUE explains them to her? so something something something seeing through the dark, rue being the person to illuminate the path forward and set into motion the events that will define the rest of the books? !!!! and to your point that she pulls out the berries at night -- YES. the berries that are called ...?? NIGHTlock?
i'd also be intrigued to dig more into references to the sun in the books if we're exploring this night/moon symbolism. the most obvious that i can think of is when she "transforms" into the girl on fire, she thinks to herself "i am as radiant as the sun" but then she also says she looks like a "creature from another world." so to that point, if katniss is aligned with the moon, then of course when she identifies herself as being as "radiant as the sun" we're meant to understand that she is NOT herself when she is dressed up like that. that moment is when katniss is at her least authentic, her least REAL. (and then there's something to be said about fire itself here in context of the night as well: fire as something that brings light and warmth to cold, dark nights. and we know that "peeta is a whiz with fires" from the first book.)
OH and if we're going into katniss at NIGHT there's just so much to dig into wrt to her relationship to peeta. of course there's the quote that i pulled out about their final night in the arena when he has her look at the moon and "acknowledge its progress" (there's a great meta on tumblr about that line and how peeta gives her hope in her darkest times and forces her to acknowledge the progress of the world around her -- it's one of my favorite lines in the book although it goes by so quick when you're reading.) but then there's so much more: there's the fact that their "piece in the games" conversation happens at night, the night before the games. then in cf, there's the "nights" on the train -- and wouldn't we say that's when she and peeta are at their most "real" with each other? stripped of any of the costume and performance of their relationship during the rest of the victory tour? and the fact that the moment she accepts her genuine love for him is "on the night i feel that thing again, the hunger that overtook me on the beach" -- it's night when she finally accepts and acknowledges that things are REAL? (also how have i never noticed that the whole trilogy opens with her waking up and closes with the night? UGH why is everything in thg so perfect??)
also in my moon research i just found this blog post from 2011 about the moth that land's on katniss' wrist in the first book. and of course there's a lot to be said about moths and the night and the moon but the author of the blog post identifies that the particular green and silver moth is a kind of moth called... get this... a LUNA moth. a MOON MOTH. THE MOON. i'm having a meltdown.
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(I think my trick or treat sent without anything added to it oops!! here’s my second attempt 😅)
Last Minute Trick or Treat! 🍬🍬 -
What Halloween party games (like apple bobbing, pumpkin carving etc) do you think Everlark absolutely excel at?
Happy Halloween!
This has spun off into a very quick, rough fanfic--some THG characters play the party game "Werewolf" (also known as Mafia).
"What roles are we doing again?" Clove asks. I shift in my seat, glancing at the random bunch assembled here in Caesar Flickerman's basement. From the popular Gale to Thresh and his little cousin Rue, we have nothing in common but that for some reason, Caesar invited us all here for a game of Werewolf. I hadn't wanted to come, but Prim claimed she was too old for trick-or-treating and Gale insisted we come.
The party, hosted by the senior Caesar, mostly consists of high-achievers, do-gooders, and Thresh who had to watch his little cousin Rue. Basically, those not the type to get drunk on Halloween night. And as Gale knew I was one of those, he lowered himself to come to this party with me. Although this smaller group is more my speed, I'm lost in the rules of their game. I understand we have three werewolves to kill and we have to guess who they are, but I don't understand all of the different names people are tossing out for other roles in the game. I sit back as others discuss the particular minutia of this particular game.
"Three werewolves, a witch, a seer, a hunter, a little girl, four villagers," Caesar says, then gives a wide, toothy smile. "Oh, and cupid. They'll pick the lovers."
"Can the witch save someone each night?" Marvel asks.
"No," Caesar said. "One potion to save and one potion to kill the whole game. If they die before they use it, that's never used."
More questions fly at Caesar as he clarifies the roles and what each one does. I try to keep them in mind because I'll end up with one of them. The seer can find out if someone is a werewolf or not each night. The hunter can choose one person to kill alongside them if they're killed. The little girl can peek during play to see who's who, but if they get caught, the werewolves will surely kill them. And the two lovers, chosen by the cupid, will die if the other one does, too. The villagers do nothing but get killed and join in the accusations of who the werewolf is.
"Let's have everyone pick out their roles now," Caesar says as he jostles a bowl of torn-up paper with the roles jotted down. He starts with Glimmer, then goes around the circle of us to hand out the slips of paper. I'm halfway into the circle and I pick out my role.
Witch.
Two potions the whole game. One to save and one to kill. Easy enough to remember, but I don't care for that responsibility.
"Now that everyone has their role," Caesar says, "we can get the game started!"
He steps outside the circle and turns off the lights, so the only light comes from the LED color-changing lights, which Caesar sets to blue. Shadows form around the circle and makes everyone now just a little harder to read.
"Welcome to our little village," Caesar says as he takes center stage in the middle of the circle. "All of us have lived quite peacefully together in our village on the outskirts of the forest. But lately, something's been happening. Sheep and pigs have gone missing, only track marks of being dragged away and finally splatters of blood giving any clue to what this bloodthirsty monster must be. Now, after a long day toiling at your crops and spinning wheel, you retire to bed. Everyone, close your eyes."
I follow the instructions and settle into the darkness behind my eyelids.
"First, cupid will have to choose the lovers. Cupid, open your eyes." Caesar pauses, then says, "Cupid, point to the two lovers." Another pause. "Thank you Cupid, you may close your eyes. As for the rest of you, I'm going to walk around in a circle and if I tap your knee, you're one of the lovers. When I tell you to, you'll open your eyes and see your true love. And remember, if they die, you die, too."
Not me, not me, not me, I chant in my head. It might only be a game, but the thought of being anyone's "lover" makes me uncomfortable. My eyes still shut, I wait as Caesar takes a loop around the circle and then feel a strong tap against my knee so that I can't deny I've been chosen for this.
"Lovers, open your eyes and discover who it is you will die without," Caesar says.
I open my eyes and immediately make eye contact with Peeta Mellark, who is possibly the nicest boy in my grade. The whole school, probably. He gives me a shy smile and my insides become runny and I can't help but smile back and hope I don't ruin his game for him by getting accused first of being a werewolf thanks to my resting bitch face.
"Lovers, close your eyes."
I shut them again. Caesar runs through the werewolves, who make their first decision on who to kill, then offer the seer an insight into whether or not someone's a werewolf, then the witch. I open my eyes and decline to use either potion.
"The sun rises red in the east, you wake up and discover that blood has been spilled this night," Caesar says. "Madge and Cato are on their way to the town's bakery only to discover in the middle of the town square, slashed and gutted: Delly!"
Delly lets out a groan. "The first one!"
"Who were you?" The red-headed Kit asks.
"Cupid," she says, showing her slip of paper. Caesar holds out the bowl an she tosses it back in. I narrow my eyes at her for a moment. So she's who I have to thank for this extra job of keeping Peeta safe.
"Any accusations?" Caesar asks.
"I've noticed in this game," Gale says, "that the first person to die is often closer to one of the werewolves."
I already know where he's going with this. Delly and Peeta are good friends, have been since we were kids since they live next door to each other. And I have to stop it.
"Delly's friends with everyone," I say. "Even me. That doesn't help much."
"But there are some people she's closer to," Gale says.
"You know, I heard Glimmer moving around during the werewolf part," Clove interrupts.
Glimmer gasps and says, "I was scratching my arm!"
"Or you could have been moving your arm to point at someone," Peeta says. He clearly knows what Gale had been thinking, too.
"Are you accusing Glimmer then?" Caesar asks.
"I am," Clove says.
"Seconded," Peeta agrees.
"Anyone else?" Caesar asks.
"Marvel," Cato says.
"What?!" Marvel asks.
"I don't know," Cato says, shrugging. "Gotta have at least two and you're just as likely as any of us."
Glimmer and Marvel have their opportunity to defend themselves, Glimmer giving an impassioned speech about this being just like the Salem Witch Trials, and Marvel shrugging it off with a "Whatever. I didn't do it and Cato's an idiot."
The vote's close, but in the end, it's seven to five, not in favor Glimmer.
"Villager!" she says, showing her paper. "I hope you're happy now!"
Madge gets killed off by the werewolves next, and the accusations around that fly around. Kit ends up on the chopping block, but that was bad news, since she was our seer and now we have no insight into who might be a werewolf. She didn't even get to share with us what she'd learned the first two nights.
The next round, when I open my eyes, planning to turn down using the potion, Rue's little hand waves at me from around Thresh's huge body on the chair next to me. She gestures to herself and I understand she is, aptly, the game's little girl.
"Would you like to save anyone tonight?" Caesar asks.
Rue looks at me with wide eyes. I look at Caesar, nod, and gesture toward Rue. He points at Rue in confirmation.
"Would you like to poison anyone, witch?" Caesar says. "And as a reminder to the little girl, they cannot communicate during the night. Only peek."
With Rue unable to aid me, I shake my head.
"Well, last night was quite an adventure," Caesar says. "Rue was out of bed and spying on the werewolves when they spotted her and ripped her open with their teeth. Leaving her to die, a witch came by and used a potion to revive our Rue back to life. No one has died tonight, and the witch's saving potion is used up. Now, any accusations?"
"Marvel!" Rue says, pointing her finger at him. "I was peeking and he saw me and pointed to me! I didn't get a good look at the others, but I know he's a werewolf!"
"Seconded," Thresh says, the first time he's talked all game.
"Any other accusations?" Caesar asks. No one brings up any other names and Marvel groans, accepting his fate.
"I was a werewolf," he says and puts his slip back in the bowl. Everyone cheers the first successful werewolf kill.
Next round, all I have left is a killing potion, which I don't use. I wish for more saving potion, because clearly the werewolves will be after Rue now, and sure enough, come sunrise, she's the one who's dead.
Now with the accusations, things are desperate.
"Katniss has been quiet," Clove says. "Hasn't talked since the first round."
"Katniss is always quiet," Peeta says. "You can't accuse her because of that. You'd have to throw Thresh in as well."
"I think it's Clove," Gale says. "She's been making bad accusations this whole time."
"Shut up!" Clove says. "Actually, I think it's you. You only voted Marvel because everyone else was and you've been bossing everyone around more than us, but we've only gotten one werewolf."
"I second Clove," I say. She is acting a little too defensive.
"And I second Gale," Cato says.
Gale and I are the only one who vote for Clove, and everyone else votes for Gale.
"Hunter," Gale says. "And I'm taking Clove out with me."
Clove gives a low growl and flips her paper around. "I was a werewolf."
"So there's one left." Cato looks around. "Who else? The witch and two villagers?"
"And the lovers," Thresh says.
I try not to look guilty, but Thresh clocks my expression and squints at me. Oh no, he thinks I'm the werewolf.
"All right, remaining players, close your eyes," Caesar says.
With my eyes shut and Caesar telling the remaining werewolf to choose their kill. Based on the look given to me, Thresh must be a villager. Which means that either Cato or Peeta is the werewolf. If Peeta dies, I die. Even if he is a monster. But maybe, if it's Cato and I take him out with the poison, Thresh won't have to die, too.
"Witch, you may open your eyes," Caesar says. I look up at him, his skin and hair illuminated blue in the light. "Do you wish to use your potion?"
I point at Cato. Caesar confirms, but the pool is so small now it'd be impossible to misunderstand where I'd pointed. I see the "dead" look at each other in despair and realize my mistake. Cato isn't the werewolf.
Peeta is.
"Very well, everyone open your eyes," Caesar says and claps his hands in delight. "Oh, this has been quite an interesting round! Last night, a pair of lovers slipped out in the dark together to commit a double-murder. First, the werewolf ripped Thresh's throat out and ensured his death, while the witch poisoned Cato's beer and he died choking on his own vomit."
Cato throws his hands up and glares between Peeta and me. "Which one of you killed me?"
I raise my hand. "I was the witch."
"And I'm the werewolf," Peeta says.
"So the werewolves won?" Clove asks, holding her hands to her chest in hope.
"No, the lovers won," Caesar said. "It's rare that neither of them gets killed off, but it helps that Peeta, as a werewolf, deterred them from killing Katniss and they stuck together in the game without the rest of you realizing it. With the other two dead, in the end, the lovers prevailed and get to live in their little village in the woods peacefully, with no one to bother their supernatural lives."
I can't help but cheer and when Peeta gets up from his seat and offers me a high-five, I do one better and give him a hug. We are lovers, after all--it's the least I can do.
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heavensbeehall · 3 months
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Yellow Flowers
Yellow is associate with hope in The Hunger Games. In the upcoming chapter 4, Katniss will remember eating dandelions and it giving her hope. The dandelions are linked to Peeta in Katniss' mind. He was looking at her when she saw them. (This will come up again in Mockingjay, if we get there.)
The yellow flowers come up again later. "Rue is a small yellow flower that grows in the Meadow. Rue. Primrose," Katniss thinks, explicitly linking Rue and Prim together.
Rue is a yellow shrub that can be decorative or used as an herb. There is "common" primrose and "evening" primrose. I believe Prim was named after evening primrose. It is also yellow and has some medicinal uses which is apt for Prim who wants to be a healer.
It's worth noting that katniss is white but has a yellow center. It's a flower but also edible, making it a bit more functional than rue or primrose (although rue can be used as an herb) to someone like our Katniss who is looking for food always. (Aren't we all?)
There is also one other character who is a yellow flower that Katniss will never explicitly link with hope but has a symbolic function in the novels: buttercup.
Buttercup the Cat is Prim's guardian. He and Katniss never get along but I always thought it was because they were too similar, both prickly and overprotective of Prim. He also prefers the Everdeen's old house in the Seam, like Katniss does, over the house in Victor's Village.
Buttercup is also a survivor. He doesn't die when Katniss attempts to drown him. He makes it through the firebombing of District 12. He somehow makes it back from District 13 to appear in 12 at the end of Mockingjay. Compare this to what Katniss goes through in the novels, how often she escapes death and her own difficult, winding road back to the house in the Victor's Village.
Anyway. TLDR, there are a lot of flower names in THG. I haven't even gotten to Posy (a "posy" is a bouquet of flowers) or Snow's unnatural, genetically engineered roses that are in opposition to the wildflowers like rue and evening primrose.
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