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watching a theory video right now that claims that the entirety of the events of the hunger games was planned by coin including primrose getting picked so katniss would volunteer and I’m just like. In shock that someone could be that stupid

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got hit with the random urge to write on @dumbthink does anyone want a chaotic they/them

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Thinkin abt a pjo verse for Peeta and like. hear me out ok. son of Aphrodite

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i made him in stardew valley................

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notes abt my portrayal of hijacked peeta:

I don’t think he lashes out nearly as much as he is portrayed to in the book. It only happens when he is made to feel incredibly unsafe, like when they first take him to district 13, or when he’s first seeing combat (which leads to the death of Mitchell). I see him reacting much more like a caged animal rather than a killer.

he does deal with selective mutism. On some days this means he prefers to communicate via written word, or maybe a little sign he learns from some of the avox. But on really bad days, he will not communicate at all.

one of the first people that he warms back up to is haymitch. Personally, I think haymitch is one of few familial figures that Peeta has felt close and connected to in his life. So despite his messy memories surrounding Katniss, Haymitch still feels safe.

Prim 100% checks on him a lot for katniss and also brings by Buttercup who will just curl up on his lap and sleep. I think this makes him feel a lot more human again.

I don’t rlly vibe with some of the stuff like Peeta talking to two versions of himself or being super dangerous or etc etc. Just feels weird to write someone who is traumatized and tortured like the scary mental illness stereotype. I think he is more afraid of Katniss than determined to kill her.

he does suffer from some amount of auditory and visual hallucinations immediately after being rescued, but these begin to fade the further he gets from his hijacking. most of them are a result of the drug, but there is some that continues on due to the trauma of it all.

he has to relearn to use his prosthetic because it was taken from him at the capital. District 13 provided him with a new one which means adjusting and relearning and etc etc. He struggles so much on that combat mission because of it

more tba.

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Personally, I just think he didn’t kill her and went to be by her side so she wouldn’t die alone. Like without the careers watching him, Peeta would not kill someone. And he would definitely not be so cold abt it if he had. He’s just lying to keep himself safe and went to be the one to check on her in hopes to make her death a little less terrible

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I just keep thinking abt how peeta has a family but not really. How disconnected he is from them already. Hearing that he lost them isn’t even like… earth shattering or devastating? I’m just. Really sad.

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and what if I made Peeta biace????

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peeta and gale chatting while katniss pretends to be asleep lmao

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why did she write them fighting sea monsters in the sewers

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like no matter what the “real or not real” “real” exchanges are all staying because it is some of my FAVORITE dialogue in the series but. more of my divergence might come from how Peeta responds to his fear of katniss and etc etc. We will see we will see……

still rlly torn on the stuff with Peeta and the tracker jacker torture because. I might keep some of it but idk like. I’m rlly torn on like. Kind of liking the vague idea of Peeta losing control but also don’t rlly?? See Peeta as the type to just mindlessly attack and kill ever?? I just…. IDK!!!! I know he’s not himself but he also doesn’t feel like the same character some degree in this movie ://

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still rlly torn on the stuff with Peeta and the tracker jacker torture because. I might keep some of it but idk like. I’m rlly torn on like. Kind of liking the vague idea of Peeta losing control but also don’t rlly?? See Peeta as the type to just mindlessly attack and kill ever?? I just…. IDK!!!! I know he’s not himself but he also doesn’t feel like the same character some degree in this movie ://

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ok I get coin kinda wants katniss to die but why tf did she think sending in Peeta would work he’s just traumatized like LMAO

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peeta’s favorite color is soft orange, he always sleeps with the windows open, and he needs to be protected <3

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The first real conversation Katniss has with Peeta is when he tells her that he wants to die as himself, that he doesn't want the games to change him into something he's not, and that he wants to keep his identity and prove he's more than just a piece in their games because that's the only thing he has left to care about.

The first time we see Lucy Gray she sings a song that basically says that nothing they could take from her was worth keeping. "Can't take my past. Can't take my history... You can't take my charm. You can't take my health."

The capitol has taken everything from them both, but at the same time, they could never take away who they are.

They are both likeable charismatic and funny, with the kindest hearts, and incredibly loyal to the people they care about.

At the same time, everything they do before the games, and during is calculated. Lucy Gray singing a love song and winning the hearts of the capitol. Peeta confesses he's in love with his district partner, therefore cementing her identity as desirable. Both of them know how to sway people with words, how to charm people, and how to manipulate crowds. Neither of them has any problem doing so to keep themselves, and the people they love safe.

Lucy Gray's song The Old Therebefore, about learning how to love and live her life to the fullest before death, a final and calculated stroke in a last-ditch effort to save herself from the arena. This evokes enough emotion in the watchers to get them to rise to their feet and plead for her life alongside Snow.

Snow, watching the 74th and preparing for the 75th Hunger Games sees Lucy Gray in Katniss. A young girl, from the 12th district. Unafraid at the reaping. Selling a false love story, manipulating a boy who loves her in order to get out and supporting the revolution with the mockingjay as her symbol.

He threatens her family to get her to sell that she and Peeta are in love, to prevent the revolution, because obviously, she's pretending. He's had experience with a girl just like her before. He has no doubt that she has the acting ability to sell this story because clearly, she manipulated the first Hunger Games in her favor, the same way Lucy Gray manipulated him.

Watching the interviews for the 75th Hunger Games he realizes-

Katniss is just an impulsive girl, in a Mockingjay dress she didn't know about, made by someone who supports the revolution.

Peeta is a boy who has the ability to move people with just his words. He made Katniss desirable, he was the one who sold the love story, and he was the one to make their romance seem real. Katniss only started the revolution because she would rather risk dying with him than live without him. A concept President Snow was completely unfamiliar with. And it is with all these realizations crashing around him Peeta drops the baby bomb. He knows the baby's not real, and so does Snow. But it evokes enough emotion in the watchers to get them to rise to their feet and plead for the lives of the tributes.

Is it Lucy Gray or Peeta?

By the time Snow realizes he's made a mistake, it's too late.

Peeta is still charming and manipulating the capitol. Katniss is in love.

He goes up against a kindhearted boy expecting to beat Sejanus again, only to find out that it's Lucy Gray he's fighting; knowing he will never be able to escape their ghosts.

-from a conversation i had with @grandtyphoonpoetry breaking down every character in the hunger games.

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sorry i just think constantly abt that post where someone was saying that lucy gray is a parallel for peeta and it makes me want to sob actually </3

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finnick is sooooo pretty in the movies like oh my god I need to-