#The Donner twins

[sydneyofalltrades]

the sick, twisted cruelty of being introduced to maysilee’s twin sister on reaping day as merrilee, like the word merrily, which means to live with joy, when after that particular day, merrilee is never the name she was given ever again

[mariigoldzz]

maysilee ceo i need YOUR thoughts

headcanon time.

Her mother was controlling dictated what her and her sister wore. They had almist no say in their outfits. (Aside from jewelry) Maysilee would paint on her shoes to rebel against it.

Her grandmother (not Lucy gray sorry it just doesn't make sense.) loved music and had pet chickens. She played the flute which Maysilee later picked up.

Her dad is a pushover guy who just follows whatever his wife does.

Had sleepovers at asterid's house all the time. (It was away to escape her mother)

Mean lesbian. Had a crush on one of my OCs (Dorothy Wells. I had to make an oc to ship her with ok) and planned to confess to if she wasn't reaped.

Makes fun of Snow's name. (Coriolanus)

In a Maysilee wins!AU, her and Peeta would make sweets together <33. There would also be a jewelry or clothing line inspired by her in the Capitol.

Beat up a guy for insulting her sister.

Only had 2 pets throughout her life. Her last canary lived to witness Katniss's birth. (They live around 8-10 years)

Had dirt on almost everyone in the district that she could use as blackmail.

Her favorite shoes are Mary Janes.

Talked back to all of her teachers

[mollywog]

So Suzanne Collins does not like twins, huh?

[buggoblin]

the importance of sisterhood in the hunger games series will always devastate me

[piniatafullofblood]

thinking about merillee coming out of her bedroom during the games and sitting by maysilee’s grave to avoid the stream

[reddeluxeedition]

finally started sotr graaahhhh

[so-sick-of-17]

I wonder what was worse for Merrilee Donner after losing her twin: being constantly called her sister’s name, seeing people turn to tell her something before they remember she is a different person, looking in the mirror and seeing her sister staring back at her, or when that stopped.

[theknifegirlfromdistricttwo]

Part of me wonders if Merrilee avoided the mirror after Maysilee’s death? Too afraid to see her sister’s face staring right back at her. Did she avoid the color purple? Too afraid to look any more like her sister than she had to. Did people in town continue to call her Maysilee at times before realizing their mistake? Leaving her with a stark reminder that while she’d always be a twin she was no longer a part of a pair.

[charlunday]

Merri, Marchie, and Maysie

(Maysilee chopped her own bangs. Not so matchy-matchy anymore.)

commissions open!

[justafewberries]

do NOT have a twin in panem you WILL die

[mayfjelds]

we aren’t talking enough about the scene where haymitch tells maysilee that he knows she couldn’t kill him.

“well if it comes to that, i’m on borrowed time anyway. don’t think twice about using those darts.”

“you think i couldn’t?”

i look her straight in the eye. i remember all the years of meanness, but i also factor in how she’s transformed since the reaping. defending louella, helping ampert, looking out for the newcomers. “i think you couldn’t.”

for a section a look crosses her face. young and vulnerable. “thanks for that. i don’t think you could either.”

she’s literally RELIEVED to hear that haymitch doesn’t think she’s a bad person !!! wtffffff !!! maysilee psychoanalysis NOW!!!

[sunnysaystuff]

merrilee suffered from headaches for the rest of her life. when katniss asked madge why her mother didn’t just get medicine from the capitol, madge said, "even the mayor has his restrictions." restrictions, or is this another sick punishment used to quietly torture haymitch for daring to defy the capitol?

[mariigoldzz]

I'm going to write about merrilee. Should I make her a smoker who suffers from nictotine withdrawal or nah. I think they smoke in the districts and she's a Donner + her husband is the mayor she could probably afford it

[flying-ham]

thinking about merrilee donner, a girl with a name based on the word “merrily”, who then spends, “half her life in bed immobilized with terrible pain, shutting out the world,” with morphling by the time katniss knows her (cf).

[buggoblin]

something so devastating to me is haymitch calling out to merrilee at the funeral desperate to have his sister alive again and knowing that merrilee probably feels the same way any time she looks in a mirror

[potatoees]

It seems the world hates me, because as soon as I finish SoTR, crying about Maysille, and her conversation with Haymitch, I decide to go back to listening to Hamnet and I find the next moment:

What is the word, Judith asks her mother, for someone who was a twin but is no longer a twin?

Her mother, dipping a folded, doubled wick into heated tallow, pauses but doesn’t turn around.

If you were a wife, Judith continues, and your husband dies, then you are a widow. And if its parents die, a child becomes an orphan. But what is the word for what I am?

I don’t know, her mother says.

Judith watches the liquid slide off the ends of the wicks, into the bowl below.

Maybe there isn’t one, she suggests.

Maybe not, says her mother.

I'm tears right now.