#to save prim

[bauhin]

the Liu siblings have no sense of social propriety because of pretty privilege

#liu mingyan #liu qingge #svsss #lqg #scum villian self saving system #think about it though. lqg doesn’t feel the need to act in a socially acceptable way because he has the raw power to dismiss that #lmy (though canonically she’s popular with her peers and isn’t a loner like her simp brother) doesn’t have to be prim and proper #bc she has a lot of soft power in her beauty and she could gut you #like a fish #yknow #so I’m assuming they weren’t raised to really give a shit about all that social propriety #lmy can be polite and stoic from her xianshu peak training. one on one with her brother she is unhinged

[zukkaoru]

sorry i'm thinking abt megumi's incessant desire to be the first to die vs. the narrative keeping him alive despite and how the most tragic ending for him is not actually dying, but being left behind. for megumi, the worst fate is living a long life

#megumi growing up assuming he will be the first to die out of those he loves #bc gojo is the Strongest and tsumiki is a non-sorcerer so they should both be Safe while megumi is just. megumi #vs megumi at 15 having lost tsumiki gojo nobara nanami etc etc and knowing it's only a matter of time before he loses yuuji too #megumi not knowing how to be the survivor because he never thought he'd live long enough to have to say goodbye #also sometimes i think abt that post that was like... remember in thg how katniss' motivation for Everything is saving prim? #and then prim still died at the end because the world they lived in could not allow someone so good to live? it could not allow #katniss the One thing she wanted most #yeah so like. everything megumi is doing and has done has been for tsumiki. it's all been for her #but the world they live in is cruel and tsumiki is too good of a person #and when has megumi ever been granted anything he's wanted? why should the world allow him his one biggest desire of tsumiki's safety? #and what is megumi supposed to do when he outlives the one person who has been by his side - the one person he wanted most to save #how is he supposed to live a long life when everyone he cares about is gone? how is he supposed to care about new people? #what's that one quote that's like. a son or a husband can be replaced but who can grow me a new brother #no one can replace tsumiki. megumi cannot find a new sister #yes losing gojo and yuuji would be devastating. but at the end of the day megumi has known yuuji for only a few months #and gojo was already a replacement for his father #tsumiki has been with him longest and she's always been megumi's main motivation #she's the reason he didn't go to the zenin clan. she's the reason he was trained by gojo. she's the reason they're all in the culling games #trying to fix it from the inside and running on a time limit #and what happens if he CAN'T save her. what happens if. like katniss and prim. despite EVERYTHING. tsumiki still has to die #THIS IS ALL BECAUSE OF TSUMIKI #BECAUSE MEGUMI WANTS TO SAVE HER #DO YOU UNDERSTAND!!!!! DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE TRAGEDY IN BEING ALIVE WHEN EVERYONE ELSE IS GONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #sorry i'm not normal about fictional sibling dynamics. btw if you even care #hello grace here #jjk spoilers #update i just realized it's not even 7am. as you can tell i'm having a great time today

[embryoed]

“Gale Hawthorne is a complex character” I say into the mic

The crowd boos, I slink off the stage in shame

“They’re right” says a voice from the audience

I turn, and there in the stands is Suzanne Collins herself

#save my angry oppressed son #he was a victim too he was never the villain he was just annoying sometimes #and by sometimes I mean anything relating to that stupid ass love triangle #ur telling me that if u were in his position u WOULDNT be pissed at the capitol?? #especially after they bombed district 12???? #his anger towards them was JUSTIFIED idc #he was too real #perhaps the realest #so what if he wanted his oppressors to suffer? go ahead king I support you 🙌‼️‼️ #the way that prim’s death wasn’t even his fault #‘b-but he helped make the bomb!!’ SO DID BEETEE AND NOBODY BLAMES HIM!!!! #(mostly bc they refuse to acknowledge his existence but anyways) #he was a victim of the system #product of war #literally HOW does he have more haters than Snow or Coin #ppl who hate on him excessively and refuse to see his character as anything past the love triangle make me wanna claw my eyes out #Gale Hawthorne number one defender #gale hawthorne #the hunger games #thg

[sewagedumpland]

redraw of that moment right after when katniss volunteered as tribute (based her and effie's appearance off of the books)

also effie's suit is green in the books but the movie outfit is better imo

#my cringe art #katniss everdeen fanart #katniss everdeen #tried to imagine what her expression would be like knowing that she signed up for her death to save prim #idk if i got it right #effie trinket #hunger games fanart #hunger games #thg #thg fanart #the hunger games fanart #the hunger games

[s0undsinmyhead]

I decided to reread The Hunger Games trilogy and I gotta say this trend of absolutely hating Gale and calling him a war criminal and selfish is such a miss.

Gale is by no means a perfect person. But none of the characters are. They all do bad or questionable things. They’re literally in the middle of a war. Even before it’s officially a war.

Yes Gale was jealous of Peeta and Katniss. Yes, there were significantly more important things going on. Gale knew that, he acknowledged that. But end of the day he’s still a teenager with emotions. Just like Peeta and Katniss who both also describe being jealous of Gale - Madge - Joanna. They also know it’s dumb given all the danger and death surrounding them. But surprisingly people still have emotions like love and jealousy during wartime - including teenagers.

As for the war criminal comments that’s a whole long discussion but let’s remember this is a world in which the government has been slaughtering children for entertainment and forcing all the districts that send their kids to watch them be murdered for the entirety of the main trios lives and long before them - it is all they have ever known.

Additionally, year round the capital treats the citizens like slaves and makes them produce whatever is necessary for the capital and then let’s them live in squalor starving to death. This is how Gale grew up. He was the oldest of 4 kids. His dad died when he was a kid and he was responsible for taking care of his mom and all his siblings. He had his name in the bowl for the reaping probably more than almost any boy in 12.

He watched his district and the men women and children he knew his whole life be burned alive while he had to lead as many to safety as he could. He watched his best friend be shoved into the hunger games twice knowing not only that he might lose her forever but that he would have 2 more people to care for and soon he would be forced into the mines full time with little opportunity to hunt.

So when a war breaks out to finally stop the abuses and murders by the capital of course Gale jumps in. Of course he plans to kill. It’s a war. And it’s nice to try and be a pacifist and say give peace a chance but how can you say that to your oppressors and expect anything to change. There had to be a war and there had to be death. Gale fought in the front lines and was willing to die to save his family and free the districts. It’s curious we never hear anyone call Beetee a war criminal when he made more weapons than anyone. Almost like it’s not the fact the Gale made weapons during a war, but that it was Gale.

#long rant no one cares about #this isn’t a shipping thing #I’d guess the reason he gets so much hate is a shipping thing #I just think Gale is a very interesting character and people just hate him now #he wasn’t in the hunger games but that doesn’t mean he didn’t have trauma #I do kinda think the bomb killing prim was a lame plot device used to get Gale out of the way when Collins couldn’t figure out another way #but even in the end Katniss doesn’t hate Gale #she calls for him to save her from imprisonment by killing her but knows he can’t just like she couldn’t #this is just my opinion #I will not be fighting with people #gale hawthorne #thg #the hunger games #js no one ever hates beetee #no one calls beetee a war criminal #Gale’s plans weren’t aimed at killing the most people he just wanted to win the war and save his people #fairly common strategy I would think

[autismmydearwatson]

There are some characters who only make sense when you remember that they are mentally disabled/a parent/an older sibling

#this is me wondering how to write Darcy and Sethy and then realising theyre both autistic #realising Nimo is schizophrenic like oh yeah its all coming together #this abt my own characters but its also about Savage Opress and Thrawn and Katniss Everdeen and Bluestar #Savages story literally begins and ends with him sacrificing his life and sanity for his little brothers #'why is thrawn doing that thats kinda out of pocket' and then i remember that his older sister disappeared #shit Prim is the goddamn catalyst of Katniss' story #bluestar!!!! gave up her children to save her clan from a maniac!!!! and died with them by her side!!!!!! #sorry. #jaspers prattling #character analysis #meta

[dykesbat]

thinking so hard abt the little rebellion of district 12’s silence when katniss volunteers for prim and their funeral salute to her..

#the way the salute is old and rarely used but they all do it for her #(someone who chooses someone else above herself and reflects back what the games and the volunteer system was meant to do in the first #place: breaking those bonds of loyalty/trust) #the way it’s a goodbye to someone you love and the first times we see it are there when katniss is on stage #when rue dies and in district 11 when katniss and peeta are on tour #the way the entire rebellion starts from a little act of love either given to katniss or given by katniss #even the mockingjay pin being something madge gives her as a district token #(the token once belonging to her aunt that died in one of the games and something that was #passed along her family. and madge gives it to katniss so that katniss has a physical reminder that people care for her.) #the way the mockingjay’s imagery and the bird’s tie to the rebellion isn’t even on purpose #and all katniss being forced into being a symbol of the rebellion against her will as the mockingjay when all she wanted was to save prim #thg #OUGHHHH

[monty-glasses-roxy]

24 (What other character from another fandom of yours that reminds you of them?) for Roxy

Thanks for copying the question here buddy I appreciate that a lot (I can't load the post on my phone or my own blogs at all still)

Uhhhh honestly, Roxy's pretty different to a lot of my usual other blorbos. I could compare her to Labrys from Persona 4 Arena in a sense that they're both robots with horrible trauma that have been forced to do things they wouldn't dream of doing otherwise, but that doesn't feel like a great comparison ngl

I could compare her to a lot of blorbos though. Like Bracken from Ni No Kuni 2, Unit #024 and Labrys from Persona 4 Arena, for being chronically underutilized by the devs. Maybe PURL from Kuni 2 but PURL feels more... Like an opposite to Mimic? The first attempt at sentient AI in that world, determined to answer the question of what colour is the sky for herself... Only knows a few things, a child her closest friend, and accidentally takes over the wholeass factory in her attempts to see the sky again after like a decade of being deactivated. And also because the devs couldn't think of anything interesting for a new Broadleaf area so they wanted to make sure you did the wholeass factory again for some fucking reason.

Ohhh then again, I was watching those clips last night and Toothless and Hiccup made me think of Roxy and Cassie in an AU kind of way. Mostly because of the dogisms I like to give Roxy and because of several AUs that are more in line with How to Train Your D/ragon... (Put a slash in it to make extra sure I don't end up in any searches for that) So maybe Toothless? Maybe not?

Honestly I don't think I've ever liked a character that has shown much interest in their appearance before. Maybe Erza from Fairy T/ail? Looks cool and could kill you but has zero braincells whatsoever? Also very traumatised? Koromaru from P3 cause his persona is Cerberus and Roxy is the Cerberus to Mimic? And I can see her running around with a knife in her teeth? I dunno man that's a tough question

Ohhh there was also Blaze from the Sonic games! Not because of Roxy specifically, but because in coming up with a horse for her, many of the ideas for it was giving my Blaze vibes lmao. She has a horse in the Olympic games and it's pure white with light purple tack and possibly eyes I don't remember so yeah that kept popping to mind in coming up with a horse nsjsdj

And I suppose my OC Zephyr somewhat reminds me of her. That whole universe I made was started when I got so deep into a Pupcakes/Roxica Pirates AU that I decided to make it a whole thing and Zephyr is who Roxy in the story became. I like Zephyr she's very cool and has become very distinct from Roxy, but her roots are still there, ya know? I'll always remember where she started.

Jsisjsi I could associate Roxy with Disney's Bolt too just cause he's a superhero dog and a funny lil guy. And for some reason one of the OST tracks for the DS game will plague my mind for the rest of my days. Even though I'm thinking of every track but that one right now. It's the one for Bolt's part of the... Something Temple level. Bolivia? Belize??? I think it has a B in it... But anyway yeah Superdog! Hooray!

P03 from Inscryption too but mostly because it's tech themed, and I had that old AU where I drew her as the Scrybe of Technology. Inscryption is incredible btw I fucking love it. I suck at it apparently though. I got to Act 2 and played a fucking beefed up Ouroborus in the first stage of P03's fight like "oh I've got this fucker now!!" No I did not. I absolutely did that. Stoatal misplay. Could not have fucked that up more lmao anyone that's played or seen this game will know exactly what ended up happening there nsjdjdi I FORGOT okay?? I forgot!!!

BACK ON TOPIC yeah Roxy's a pretty different character to the norm for me. Genuinely can't think of anyone that might be similar to her enough for them to remind me of her if I saw them again. Maybe if I went back and watched the old My Little Pony from the fucking 70s or whatever, but it would just be the standard stereotype of "all girls care lots about their appearance and gasp in horror if you dirty a pretty dress" probably. You know the one. I do my best not to humour that shit in my own Roxy interpretation but it's hard to forget that's absolutely where her written personality stems from :/

#pop rox answers #long post #sorry i kept going off on one I've just had my meds and it's ramble forever time #yeah i fucking. hate that stereotype so much #like with an actual burning passion. maked my skin crawl. #i was a little autistic girl once and i hated it then #fucking. wisteria or however you spell her name from one of the old mlp movies did it best #it was the trope of a princess has to be pretty and a princess has to be prim and proper and a certain way #and she just fucked off to roll around in the mud and made everyone else a princess at the parade too because FUCK you lmao #i remember that film remarkably well lmao #the other one i remember was rarity from another film or at least i think that was her name. early 2000s pink unicorn #from the one where the colours are disappearing from the world. she was a lil shit i could relate lmao #okay i lied i remember all the ones i saw this shit was my thing as a lil kid lmao i remember when the schmooze was ourple #and made by three witches in a castle over a cliff and only the flutter ponies could stop it and there was this random girl for some reason #meghan and two kids i never cared for. north star i miss you. you did nothing i just thought you were neat #fucking BURGER SURPRISE!!! little shit!!!! literally saved the day by being an ass!!! #they had fun names ngl #anyway. i don't remember what i was talking about imma just post and hope for the best sorry or whatever #my blog my rules you're gonna suffer my meds with me hand in catdrugdeal hand

[metallicabirder]

Not that I necessarily buy into the theory that tributes are preselected for every hunger games or, subsequently, that Prim was selected as a punishment for Katniss’ hunting but! There are some really interesting implications for the arena if the capital had intended for Katniss to watch her sister (+ maybe Peeta?) die there.

In the Hunger Games, Katniss mentions multiple times how much the arena reminds her of the woods back home. There are references to how lucky she is that the vegetation is so familiar that she knows what is safe to eat, that she knows how to prepare the different meats so that they are safe. Which then begs the question: how much of that would Prim have known?

Prim in the later books is training to be a healer but I’m not sure how much experience she’d had at the start of the series. If we give her the benefit of the doubt, we can assume that she’d be familiar with some edible plant species and medicinal herbs. Would she recognize nightlock? We can’t be sure. And we know she lacks Katniss’ hunting prowess.

Katniss would have had to have watched the person she loved most in the world struggle to survive in an arena she would have thrived in. If you buy in to the preselection of tributes and the fitting of arenas to different batches of tributes (which I’m not sure I do), that would be a very tailored kind of torture for a girl, like Katniss, that had spent most of her young life fighting to keep her sister alive.

Point being: if prim’s selection was a punishment for katniss, the arena would have made it a very poignant one.

#you can also fit this same logic to peeta #katniss would have to watch the boy that saved her die in a scenario where she could have saved him #I do think he would have tried to protect prim too which would have made it worse #this all got kicked off by me wondering how katniss was so lucky in the 74th games that her arena was familiar #and that the arena in the quarter quell was tailored to Finnick bc most tributes wouldn’t know how to swim #idk just thoughts #the hunger games #thg #katniss everdeen #primrose everdeen

[nocturnalchord]

PSPSPSPSPS did you see the new card - ⭐️

Hello! Yes I did 😭😭😭 I'm very emotional over it... Praying he comes home in the first 10 pull

#thanks for reaching out! #hes so pretty i love the prim roses on his outfit #and the butterfly.... oougughghgg #save me butterfly motif......... #asks #⭐

[ircnwrought]

@hvbris (prim) liked for a clove starter !!

__________⚔    HER KNIVES BURY THEMSELVES INTO THE DUMMIES DOWN THE RANGE. one after another, the thunking reverberates around the training center. hands now empty && pride blooming in her chest, she turns to find herself face to face with her fellow tribute. dark gaze measures the other. despite their difference in age, they are of similar stature && she better than anyone knows that size is not a good indicator of ability. ❛   finally planning on breaking away from your herbs, twelve ??   ❜ a challenge leveled ( a demonstration of skills to assess the threat )

#v; she cannot be saved (thg) #hvbris #reply; primrose everdeen (hvbris) #(( the way i yelled at clove and prim in the games/arena ))

[riverofempathy]

Just sitting here remembering Bonnie and Twill from Catching Fire…

… and how sad it is that we never see them again. We don’t know what happened to them. Which means they probably didn’t make it. It’s realistic for a war-torn, dystopian country. So I understand the choice as a writer. But it’s so sad.

And now I’m relating their story to Prim’s and it hurts.

#catching fire #hunger games #Bonnie and Twill #hunger games Twill #hunger games Bonnie #dystopian YA #Bonnie and Twill got out of their district but they still didn’t make it in the end #Prim was saved from going to the Hunger Games but she still didn’t make it in the end #ugghhhh these books are so good #they hurt so much #and they hurt worse because they could be real #stuff like that happens in the real world #and it’s horrible #well done Suzanne Collins #well fucking done

[eldest-sibling-tournament]

A SUCCESSFUL eldest sibling has safe and well cared for little siblings, just saying

yes if one is successful at protecting ones siblings then ones siblings will be safe and well cared for. thats not the only criterion for voting here though

#katniss is a better eldest sibling character precisely bc she doesnt save prim in the end. imo #asks #anon

[detentiontrack]

I’m drunk and crying about Rue from the hunger games

#she was just a baby #12 years old #and she was so kind #she helped katniss and saved her life even though she didn’t know that katniss was a safe person #she died so tragically in such a traumatic way #she left behind many siblings and family members #she was like prim except no one volunteered for her at the reaping #she deserved better

[noonemonitorsmyscreentime]

If I had been the one adapting The Mockingjay, you know what script change I would've made?

Ofc, you do.

Finnick lives.

#i felt personally victimised by his death #hunger games #the mockingjay #thg finnick #finnick odair #the mockingjay movie #no I wouldn't save prim bc then coin wouldn't die and the system wouldn't be broken #but finnick? #i'd save him in a heartbeat #my boy would live his life happy with annie and their son somewhere on a sunny beach #and yeah yeah what about the vote you ask #finnick could've been in a comma so no vote from him or another pro one last hunger game would've survived #idc my boy deserved to live

[thelittlestspider]

i still hate peeta, and no amount of meta will ever change my mind

#kimi reads #if i could save prim and finnick by sacrificing peeta i would #in a heartbeat