#the careers

[lost-in-beacon-hills]

I think at this point everyone has different opinions on each of the Districts and honestly I love that. It's so fun to read people's thoughts.

(I'm sure I'm not the first person to think or say this but) I have a theory on why District One/Two win so many of the games beyond just being Volunteers in a game full of people going in blind.

It's something I've thought heavily about and even incorporated into my own fanfics.

But District One, I think, they win by raising their volunteers to be pretty. They train them to fight, yes, but I think they pull sponsors by making their kids "sexy." In both the book and movie, Glimmer is heavily sexualized. In the book, she's in a sheer gown that shows everything. In the movie, they tone it down but still show quite a bit of her body during the interview. Even the two victors we get to hear a little more about (Cashmere and Gloss) are mentioned to be pretty. Despite being a sibling duo, they're incredibly popular within the Capitol.

But even after they get 'popular' they don't turn down their attractiveness. She still dresses pretty with make up and smiles like she's been taught to do. He's still beefy and hot. You would think if they had any bodily autonomy they would start to tone themselves down in order to get away from the sex slavery.

I think sex appeal is what makes them a victor. Literally. People 'sponsor' them in the hopes of getting to fuck them. They get told that these people are who they're indebted to and most likely are forced into sex as a way to 'repay' them. Everyone says if Glimmer had won she would become the next Cashmere. Which is true. But no one points out how this is planned and a tactic that one consistently uses. Once they win they realize how fucked they are. They don't know they shouldn't want to win until it's over. It's too late to back out. Part of why Cashmeres life is devastating is because Gloss knew what was coming and he wanted better for her. But it happened away. And now they're stuck repaying the Capitol with their bodies.

In Two I think they raise fighters. They put all their effort into skill, endurance and survival. Out of all of the districts I think they do the best at giving them a chance. They make sure they send the best trained, the most skilled and the smartest. Clove is such a good example of this. She never missed her target. (Except for when Katniss moved the backpack making her miss). She was brilliant. Cato too. He was strong and a fantastic fighter. They only lost because the story demanded Katniss win. Hell there's so many moments where Katniss almost dies at their hands only to **magically** get away. (Thresh owing her, tracker jacker nest, not seeing her a few feet away) all of it. They weren't stupid meat heads. They were warriors. Children raised to kill.

I think they delbrately send plain victors. They don't want want to send "pretty" kids. They tone down any sort of beauty their tributes have. One of my favorite examples is Enobaria. She's pretty. And I think that's her downfall. It's mentioned in the series that she wins by ripping another tributes throat out with her teeth. (A popular theory is she was raped and used the very last thing she had in order to get away.) But she ends up getting her teeth filed down. While a lot of people think it was the Capitol, I believe it was her mentors. They filed them down, knowing she wouldn't be able to be raped again. I mean, who would have sex with her knowing one wrong move and you could be dead? She can bite your dick off in seconds if she wanted to. (Not to say she doesn't get booked) It would sway a lot of people away. I think much like Haymitch fighting against Katniss's breast implants, her mentors fought to get her teeth sharpened.

If they're able to I believe Two will alter the victors in order to make them less desirable. One plays it up, Two tones it down winning off skill and merit alone. Any sponsors they get isn't driven by sex.

It's why they win so much, and why the other districts have such a hard time getting sponsors.

I also think that District Four, the last of the career pack, has it's own way of creating victors. They send tributes like the rest but I think they do something different from the rest. My own headcanon is that they send orphans. It's fucked up but if I remember correctly they never mention Finnick having family.

I think they take the kids with nowhere else to go and put them in a training center. Whoever scores the best goes that year. Unluckily for Finnick, he was picked at 14. He was attractive, and part of me thinks Mags played into that to give him the advantage, thinking he didn't have family to leverage. It would have been fine, but then Annie happened. They use her as a control tactic.

I also think Finnick is the reason it was a one and done on leaning into the sex appeal. It fucked him over. Annie was pretty too but she wasn't used. (No one has ever said ah yes she's crazy let's just not rape her, fuckwads do it anyways.) But I think Mags learned from her mistake and played Annie down. Made her less pretty like they do in Two.

It's fucked. The entire system is fucked. But I think each 'career' district creates winners any way they can. No one in Four would volunteer they're disillusioned unlike one and two. So why not send the kids who have nothing, no one to come back to? In Two why not train them and maim them after to keep them safer? In One why not make them fuckable to win? They won't understand until its too late?

Maybe I've overthought this. Probably have. Idk. Just a thought.

#district two #district one #district four #hunger games #the hunger games #finnick odair #mags flanagan #clove kentwell #cato hadley #marvel #glimmer #enobaria #brutus #cashmere #gloss #haymitch abernathy #katniss everdeen #career apologist #career pack #the careers #hunger games renaissance #hunger games headcanons #headcanons #literary analysis #annie cresta

[thesweetnessofspring]

By the time the anthem plays its final strains, all twenty-four of us stand in one unbroken line in what must be the first public show of unity among the districts since the Dark Days.

Hungertown 7/?

#hungertown #the hunger games #catching fire #hadestown #chant ii #pulling from nytw again #the careers #the victors #enobaria #enobaria thg #brutus thg #cashmere thg #gloss thg #finnick odair #this is mostly for the careers since they bought into the idea of being a victor but it's also for all of the victors in general

[mellarkdandelion]

Hunger Games Behind The Scenes Pics!

+ a bonus gif ;*

working on this set must’ve been so fun :,)

#the hunger games #katniss everdeen #thg #peeta mellark #katniss #team peeta #catching fire #katnissandpeeta #mockingjay #peeta gif #the hunger games gif #katniss everdeen gif #the hunger games books #katniss gif #jennifer lawrence gif #jennifer lawrence #Josh Hutcherson #sam claflin #the careers #the hunger games movie #behind the scenes #jlaw

[freikdreinaslaw]

The whole point of the hunger games is to make me get attached to every character then cry at their deaths

#thg #the hunger games #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #finnick odair #the careers #rue #cinna #primrose everdeen #I get way to attached #fuck snow #lucy gray baird #sejanus plinth #lamina #treech tbosas #reaper ash #foxface #deserved better

[voiddaisy]

i have this little idea in my head that whenever the victors talk to each other, and one asks how the other is doing, and the answer is really ‘not good at all,’ they instead say, “oh, you know. life of a victor.” and EVERYBODY just understands that means they are crashing and burning but there is nothing that can be done about it, so they just reply and agree, “life of a victor.” and for some reason, that solidarity of just understanding what each other is going through means so much to me.

#the hunger games #tbosas #district 4 #finnick odair #headcanons #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the hunger games drabbles #the victor #the victors #the careers #thinking about them makes my fingers tingle with sadness #i hate coriolanus snow #panem #all of the victors live a happily ever after because i said so #they deserved better #the victors of the hunger games need emotional compensation and THERAPY #PLEASE PROVIDE THE VICTORS WITH SOME THERAPY #enobaria definitely says this all the time #and johanna alway laughs #enobaria and johanna solidarity fr

[incorrect-hunger-games-quotes]

Marvel: Who's more clingy?

Clove: *sitting in Cato's lap with her hands wrapped around his neck peppering his face with kisses* Cato obviously.

#Marvel just standing there in corner like: 🧍 #Clove Kentwell #Cato Hadley #Marvel Sanford #the hunger games #thg incorrect quotes #mockingjay #Clato #74th hunger games #District 2 #District 1 #The careers #hunger games #catching fire #thg series #thg fanart #thg meta #thg renaissance

[witchesroad]

i realize that the film pretty explicitly stated that seneca thought katniss earned her tribute training score fair and square, but i’m still in favor of the interpretation that the gamemakers gave her an 11 as a way of putting a target on her back. the careers loathed her from the moment she diverted attention away from them at the tribute parade, but outscoring the entire pack truly marked her for death. no way they were going to let a girl from an outer district out-play them at their own game and live.

#thg #the hunger games #tbosas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #meta #katniss everdeen #seneca crane #the careers #career pack #glimmer #marvel #cato #clove #we know that this is what happened in cf after she made the seneca dummy #but i like to think it happened here too

[thehungergamesmemes]

Cashmere: Gloss has no survival skills, his need to win has replaced them

Enobaria: Nah, that can't be true

Cashmere: Watch this

Cashmere: Hey Gloss, race you to the bottom of the stairs!

Gloss: *Throws himself out of the window*

#hunger games #hunger games incorrect quotes #hunger games memes #cashmere thg #gloss thg #enobaria thg #source: unknown #the careers

[askclato]

Marvel: Truth or dare?

Cato: Dare.

Marvel: I dare you to kiss the hottest person in the room.

Cato: Hey Glimmer?

Glimmer: *blushing* yeah?

Cato: Can you move? I’m trying to get to Clove.

#the hunger games #thg #thg incorrect quotes #cato hadley #clove kentwell #clato #marvel sanford #glimmer belcourt #the careers

[clatoera]

I have this theory that D1 training not only involves media training and choosing angles/how to present themselves in interviews but they also train them in victor talents like congratulations if you win you’ll be a singer or a piano player or a dancer or a painter heres your mandatory lessons

#arwbfb tag #the hunger games #district one #the careers

[transrevolutions]

show me your teeth (lorata) / the hunger games movie (2012) / bad advice (penelope scott) / transrevolutions on tumblr / great wide somewhere (azelmaroark) / mahmoud darwish / ron hicks / the hunger games (suzanne collins) / the hunger games movie (2012) / take me to war (the crane wives)

stuck in my glimmer feels again tonight

#thg glimmer #glimmer #web weaving #the careers #the hunger games #thg #district 1 #sourced #my edit #pigeon.img #I don't like using my own stuff in web weavings #but there is precious little glimmer fanart out there #and by precious little I mean I couldn't find any #other than mine lol

[thesweetnessofspring]

Another Survivor/Hunger Games parallel--in more recent seasons, the contestants are lifetime fans of the show and many of them straight-up train for it. Working out, lighting fires, studying previous seasons for strategies. One guy currently on the show built a Survivor training camp in his backyard with puzzles and obstacles and whatnot.

Suzanne predicted Careers in Survivor way back in 2008 when the contestants still got mad at each other for betrayals and took everything so personally.

#hit by the cherry ball of apollo or whatever that meme is #the hunger games #survivor cbs #suzanne collins #the careers

[fictionaltrvlr]

I had an ask from @curiousnonny that i accidentally deleted, but here it is anyway 😅

Ask: What happened in the Career districts, why would they volunteer for a life or death battle? Do you think this is a parallel to real life?

I definitely think it parallels our current society! Collins said that she came up with the idea wile flipping between channels of reality tv and the invasion of Iraq, and I definitely see both of these as parallels to why the Careers would volunteer.

First, and not so serious, the reality tv angle. Reality tv is so diverse, we have a lot of fairly harmless ones. But we also have a lot that have made us question the ethical implications.

Recently, Jury Duty, where this poor guy was basically Truman Show’d in real life and has stated that it’s been hard for him to move on and that he feels like he’s always being watched and followed. And also the ‘real life’ Squid Games which is currently being discussed, due to the living conditions and lack of compensation most of the tributes contestants, experienced. And of course, the classics, like Fear Factor.

People will put themselves in really weird, dangerous, and at the very least emotionally hazardous situations simply for the promise of a cash reward and fame.

Secondly, more darkly, is the war/military component. Young people are both drafted and volunteer to fight in conflicts that they often don’t fully understand. We can look both in history and to current conflicts and wonder how so many people could support something that to us looks obviously wrong or cruel. But as a society we are often blinded by patriotism.

Even looking at the way the military is, we have so much propaganda geared towards young people about how they will be heroes and welcomed home as such. However, just look at veterans. They often don’t have access to the mental health services they need to cope with their trauma. Many veterans end up homeless because they can’t work a steady job as a direct result of their service.

I think both of these factors go into why the Careers would volunteer. They fell for the shine and the lie that they would return from the games as heroes and be free and almost royalty for the rest of their lives. And yes, they received riches and fame, but at what cost? Mockingjay really highlights how they continued to be used; their lives were not their own.

And I think that’s the same way it is today. People’s lives are often ruined by fame, they never really have privacy again, they are mercilessly mocked by the internet.

And in a more serious vein, those who literally risk their lives often come home to regret their actions, feel they were fighting for a wrong cause, or they end up being be discarded by the very government that used them and promised them a hero’s legacy (the life of a victor, if you will), and now they have to live with pain for the rest of their lives.

The Hunger Games is a brilliant criticism of our society.

#the hunger games #thg #the careers #career districts #the hunger games analysis #curiousnonny #asks and replies #thoughts on things

[voiddaisy]

naming my chickens on stardew valley after career tributes from the hunger games to feel something

#the hunger games #careers #stardew valley #panem #the careers #the hunger games drabbles #i named my first two cato and clove #next is enobaria and cashmere #no one is safe

[thefloatingwriter]

the lack of marvel content on this website is very unfortunate.

#dayne talks #i like actually kind of have a problem with talking about him #it took me like three minutes to become a career apologist lmao #thg #the hunger games #marvel thg #marvel sanford #the careers

[shellyseashell]

the thing about the careers is,,, did they really enjoy the games? did they really? did clove enjoy taunting people before she killed them or did she do it because she’d be an outcast in district 2’s eyes if she didn’t, because it would earn her sponsors? did marvel want to kill rue, or did he do it because she’d destroyed his supplies and he could offer her a quicker death than cato and clove would, because they’re from 2 and they’re told from a young age to make deaths long and brutal? why did glimmer use a bow if she sucked at it? because it’s an elegant weapon and someone that pretty can’t get close to her kills? why did they volunteer? was it really for glory, or was it because they were poor and the career academy might have been the only way to guarantee their families lived?

#thg #the careers #clove kentwell #marvel thg #glimmer belcourt #i have a lot of thoughts #like. the careers are child soldiers. they’ve been trained to kill since childhood!!! #they’re not monsters #and they shouldn’t be treated as such