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“Lou Lou won’t be on the hill with me and Louella. They can’t send back two bodies to District 12 without exposing their incompetence. So where will you go, little girl? Back to 11? Into Capitol soil? Or will they incinerate your body and leave no trace of you behind? Either way, mine will be the last touch of someone who cares about you.”

Haymitch Abernathy to Lou Lou after her death.

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Sunrise on the Reaping (2025): LOU LOU

okay but will we ever find out who lou lou really is? everyone's story in sotr is extremely sad and tragic, but like who was she? nevermind the fact that her face has been actually ALTERED to look like louella so she can never actually be known by her family... but who is she? are there any guesses? all we know is that she's from district 11 but i think hers is the most unjustified and tragic... was she just pulled off the streets? was she there at the wrong place at the wrong time? was she a rebel caught? or was she just so unlucky to be the same build as louella? is her family still alive?

She sure looks like Louella. Same size, same height. Heart-shaped face, big gray eyes, long dark braids. Her fingernails are bitten down and there’s a scar on her forehead that matches the one the real Louella got falling off our cistern. She wears the District 12 training outfit, as if she’d dressed at the apartment with us this morning. Maysilee’s purple and yellow flower bead necklace hangs over her collar. She checks every box. But this isn’t Louella. In the same way you instinctively know the waxed pears on the table lack juice, this girl lacks Louella’s essence.

The way my heart broke when she was finally fed... and it was WIRESS, Wiress who had the FIRST INSTINCT to feed her immediately

We gather around the table in the kitchen, where Wiress ladles stew into our bowls. Mags places a spoon in Fake Louella’s hand. She grasps it in her fist, wraps her arm protectively around her bowl, and begins shoveling in the stew while little whimpering sounds escape her lips. “They’ve starved her,” says Wiress. “Among other things.” She’s right. While Louella’s wrists were lean, Fake Louella’s tend toward bony. No wonder they had to plump up her face. The irrational anger I’ve held against this girl dissolves into pity as she lifts her bowl to lick it clean like a dog.”

AND EVERY MOMENT WE GET A GLIMPSE OF HER REMEMBERING WHO SHE WAS BEFORE SHE WAS TORTURED IS LIKE A SCAR ON MY SOUL... I imagine Haymitch getting flashbacks of Lou Lou when Peeta was returned after being hijacked by the Capitol... Also how did Mags recognize the pump installed in Lou Lou's body? Is that a thing... keeping victors drugged it's literally part of their bodies?

“Bread?” Wiress holds out the basket of assorted rolls to her. Fake Louella stares in fascination at the offering, then her fingers close on a dark crescent-shaped roll dotted with seeds. She holds it to her nose and inhales the scent, her breath coming in short gasps. Wiress and Mags exchange a look. “Are you from District Eleven, child?” Mags says softly. Fake Louella begins to cry, pressing the roll against her lips and pawing at her ear. “It’s all right, little one. Come with me.” She wraps an arm around the girl and leads her out of the kitchen.

Mags returns, troubled. “I put her to bed. There’s some sort of device attached to her chest, pumping a drug into her, I think. I was afraid to remove it. That might kill her. I’ve seen something similar before.” “Why did you ask if she was from Eleven?” says Maysilee. “The roll she chose. With the seeds. It’s theirs.”

Also, the scene at the hovercraft? Maybe that was fear? The most genuine way Lou Lou can actually show fear is by singing their children's harvest songs? That moment was just so heartbreaking

“Do you know who she might be?” I ask. Chicory shakes her head. “We’re a big district. And who knows how long she’s been with them.” She leans toward Lou Lou as much as her straps allow. “Little girl? What’s your real name? If one of us makes it back, we can tell your family.” Lou Lou hesitates, attempts to speak, then grabs her ear and lets out a shriek. Wyatt catches her free hand and tries to soothe her. “We think they put something in her ear to control her,” Maysilee tells them. “That’s why you wanted us to be careful what we say,” says Chicory, putting it together. “They’re listening.” She sits back in her seat, her face sorrowful. “Maybe her people will recognize her.” I don’t say so, but I’ve got a feeling her people are long dead, and if they’re alive, how tragic for them to see her only to lose her again. There’s no good ending to Lou Lou’s story.

Imagine every time you get some grasp of your identity someone hurts you through your ear?

She was truly just sent there to die. Here we find a lost child: altered, tortured, hijacked, and sent to the arena, to die.

The seeded bread, the candle smoke, and now these flowers — all of them must transport Lou Lou back home somehow. Mamaw said that smells stick in your memory the strongest, more than sounds or sights. Didn’t the bean and ham hock soup take me back to 12?

Haymitch, during his moments drowning in grief during his Victory Tour, tried to look for Lou Lou's family, no matter how futile.

“In District 11, I stand on the steps of their Justice Building facing the grief-stricken families of Hull, Tile, Chicory, and the other girl, Blossom. I search the wider sea of faces for Lou Lou’s kin and come up empty.”

And I think the tragedy of it all was that she was not even reaped.

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"I hope you do win. You have no idea what's in store for you then. You know nothing."

Drusilla Sickle to Maysilee Donner on becoming a victor.

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Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins (2025)

The Saddest Chapters [4/?] Chapter 21 "Always," I say without hesitation, imaging Sid watching us. I hope he won't think of himself as an only child. Chapter 26 There's a bad moment when I look up and see my ally, wearing her District 12 black, and start for her. "Maysilee!" Her face crumples into tears, hides in handkerchief. Not Maysilee. Merrilee. Like as two peas in a pod.

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Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins (2025) The Saddest Chapters [3/?] Chapter 2 The moment our hearts shattered? It belongs to us.

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Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins (2025) The Saddest Chapters [2/?] Chapter 26 Does the Capitol always send the fallen back with the victor? Or is this a parting gift for me in particular?

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Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins (2025)

The Saddest Chapters [1/?] Chapter 18

"I promised Beetee I would not let him suffer."

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Suzanne Collins was really pissed when she saw all those edits of Snow as ‘daddy’ and whatever other bullshit after the TBOSAS movie, sat down at her laptop again and started typing “let’s see if you get the message now when HE KILLS 47 CHILDREN”

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“Haymitch finally joins us, contributing twenty-three years of tributes he was forced to mentor.”

Means Haymitch became a mentor at 17. Means he watched kids his age die. Means he probably mentored people he went to school with. Like Sejanus.

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so you’re telling me that after what happened to louella/lou lou haymitch had to watch peeta come back from the capitol as a “mutt version of himself” and question whether the shell of a human with peeta’s face was even peeta at all

and he had to do all that SOBER???

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Suzanne said “here damn” with every name we’ve ever wanted to know 😂

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the way haymitch must have seen it as all his ghosts coming back to haunt him at once when katniss walked onto the train with the face of burdock and asterid, the pin of maysilee, the voice of lenore dove, and a background so devastatingly similar to his own. of course sweetheart slipped out. and of course he did everything he could to keep her alive

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“and while lenore dove will forever be my true love, louella is my one and only sweetheart.”

that line hits so hard when you realize how quickly he was calling katniss sweetheart. through katniss’ eyes, it seemed insincere at first, almost like haymitch was mocking her. but now we truly know haymitch wouldn’t just throw that around. he truly cared for her from the start.

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how do y’all think haymitch felt when katniss came back to him all “i want wiress, beetee, and mags as allies” in catching fire? hand-picking his two and a half men(tors)!!

“of course you do” as his response now means so much more bc he’s not just exasperated he’s like “you really are me with a braid”

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if house md were running in 2024 there would be an episode with a patient who identifies as an ‘online content creator’ (cagily) where house agrees to take the case primarily because when he offhandedly refers to her as an onlyfans model both cameron and cuddy get really offended and say it’s a sexist assumption so he doubles down and becomes committed to finding the patient’s onlyfans and proving it. at some point it would be revealed that chase actually is an onlyfans model and started doing it as a stopgap after his dad died and he suddenly got disinherited but he makes so much money off it that now medicine is basically just a hobby. cameron and foreman both disagree with the concept online sex work but it turns out they disagree for different reasons (cameron thinks it’s exploitative and not-feminist, foreman finds it distasteful and thinks people should get ‘real jobs’) and spend most of their scenes together arguing about this while chase gets continually more shifty. they break into the patient’s house and there’s a full ringlight and camera setup which seems to confirm house’s suspicions. while trying to find the patient’s onlyfans house accidentally finds chase’s onlyfans instead and considers publicly embarrassing him about it like he did with wilson’s sex tape but soon realises that most of the staff at the hospital are already subscribed to chase’s onlyfans so makes fun of him for that instead. it then transpires that the reason why the patient is so cagey about being a content creator is that she’s an ASMR artist and all the soap she’s been shaving on camera has irritated her lungs. cuddy is about to make house give her 20 extra hours of clinic duty as recompense but at last minute it’s revealed that the website the patient uses for some of her bonus commissions is, drumroll…onlyfans, because she’s been banned from patreon. how does house know this? wilson is subscribed to her because the soap videos sometimes soothe him to sleep. something by cigarettes after sex plays. roll end credits.

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Family tree

One hundred Years of Solituude.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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