#baby everlark

[deadboydoodling]

red string theory

[mostofthingsmostofthetime]

Hey THG fans thanks to somone else on here (I'm so sorry but I can't remember the name of your blog) I've kind of become obsessed with making book accurate (or as close as I could get) picrews of The Hunger Games characters & now that I'm mostly done with our fravriote star crossed lovers I wanted to show you all. This is my interpretation of what Katniss looked like as a young child.

Pre papa Everdeen's death

Post papa Everdeen's death

Bonus: little Peeta

[googleincognitomode]

i know some ppl can see katniss as the strict parent, but it has never came into my mind. have you seen how easy she can be w prim? have you seen peeta in cf? strict personal trainer extraordinaire ??!! katniss would look right into her kid’s face- connect something w peeta like her daughters blue eyes or her sons face and would go ‘okay-just don’t tell your father this- please. i don’t want you in trouble my little ducks’ ! allowing them to get away w it. not to say peeta wouldn’t be a fantastic parent- he would just be the more strict on w rule and routine

[katnissmellarkkk]

suzanne collins : “so in the epilogue of mockingjay, katniss only refers to her children as the girl and the boy-”

people who read with one eye shut : “BECAUSE SHE DOESN’T LOVE HER KIDS AND WAS FORCED INTO HAVING THEM BY THE EVIL PEETA MELLARK?”

suzanne collins probably : “because i couldn’t decide on two names i liked.”

[thekayart]

“Real”

So this is how I kind of imagine that this happened. These two 🥺

[liberalk1tsch]

idk why but i don’t see katniss being particularly talented at doing hair. the only thing we know she does/can do is do a straight braid down her back (i’m assuming her mother did the double braids when she was a kid).

when the toast daughter is born, i’m inclined to believe peeta is the one who does her hair. he’s the one who’s spent the majority of his life plaiting anything from 3 strand fletbrød to 6 strand challah. she probably gets his curls too, and katniss doesn’t know the first thing about how to deal with that.

i also just love the idea of them having a shared daddy-daughter curl routine. can’t explain it.

[motherhenna]

Saw this cute pose on pinterest and decided to reference it here for Peeta and his daughter! Doing a little dance in his art studio.

Remember every reblog and tag means the world!

[littlemarianah]

My favorite thing about writing Peeta as a father is the difficulty of breaking the cycle of abuse.

When you are not loved, you do not know how to love. Love and care are taught. Many things that Peeta thought were normal were abuse. I think Peeta is constantly aware when he is repeating the mistakes his parents made. When he raises his voice, when he seems irritated for a small reason, but other things are more difficult to see.

Peeta learned to tie his shoes alone.

He learned to take care of himself. His mother used to say that's what makes a man strong. There were no gentle hands to comb his hair or goodnight kisses to help him fall asleep. He learned to control his tears, swallow his feelings, and keep quiet.

And a lot of times, his first instinct is to tell his kids to do it alone.

But Katniss always arrives first.

Willow knows how to braid her own hair, actually very well. But there's nothing like Katniss' hands stroking her hair and running a comb very gently over her scalp. Rye knows how to peel an orange, but prefers to watch his mother peel it with a knife, because Katniss knows how to make a perfect spiral without breaking the peel.

It's love.

So Peeta stops asking why when the boy asks him to tie his shoes. It's satisfying to hear Rye proudly saying "Daddy, my shoelaces look like two rabbit ears."

[radiant--as-the--sun]

do people really just wanna be fans of the hunger games and not mention palestine at all? like honestly? do you really wanna just support fictional uprisings and fighting back against fictional oppression but don't actually give a shit about it in real life? did y'all genuinely learn and internalize nothing from this series????

[charlunday]

where peeta's child could be safe

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[beautyofattolia]

I think the order of reasons Katniss gives for why Peeta shouldn't be mad at her for playing up their romance is so funny. Like she starts with the fact that they didn't know each other and she was trying to survive and that she doesn't understand what exists between her and Gale. But then she goes into "well I'm never going to get married and he'll just hate me for that!" and "I can't afford love that leads to children or family!"

Girl. Why are you thinking about marriage or children with a man you claim you have no feelings for? Did Peeta ever say he wanted to get married? Did he ever say he wanted children?

NO! Katniss is literally doing this all on her own! She's coming up with a happily-ever-after-domestic-bliss-married-with-kids fantasy in her head with absolutely no input from Peeta and then is like "I could never give him what he wants!"

What he wants? Or what you want, Katnsis?

She's down so bad for him and we're not even in Catching Fire yet.

[buggiebite]

The Mellarks

a family of bakers, hunters, and everything in between.

[atelierlili]

I always wondered why Katniss factored marriage and children into the equation when it came to reciprocating Peeta’s feelings for her. It’s a rather large leap, especially when Peeta himself never expresses wanting children at any point in the story. He uses children as a tool to persuade Katniss and the Capital to save her life, but the only time we see him express any desire/feelings of having one of his own is when he’s crying after the baby bomb. But we never hear his real thoughts.

But you wanna know who does express wanting children? Gale.

It’s one of the first thing he mentions in chapter one. And it pisses her off so much.

(I also want to add that Gale reframes/establishes the dynamic of Katniss and him caring for their siblings from something that is sibling-sibling to parent-sibling. And he is not wrong. Katniss doesn’t refute him. Both Katniss and Gale are surrogate parents to their siblings. Which is also why Katniss love and affection of Prim, is not just sisterly. I’ve seen people say Katniss is only sisterly to Prim- but she’s not. She’s parentified their relationship to the point she subconsciously see Prim as her child, which makes this a tragedy because she’ll loose her first child no matter what she does by the end of the story.)

But Gale’s phrasing here elevates himself as a potential suitor to Katniss by placing them both as the parental roles to these children. (Which irritates her a lot ). Which is why she brings the topic up with her relationship with Peeta. Because she’s subconsciously aware of Gale’s efforts and knows it will be a point of contention between them. It hangs over her head in a way.

With Gale, children are extra mouths to feed. (But Gale will do fine. He can work. He can hunt.) It’s all framed with calculated survival in mind. But it’s also not something she had planned in the future at any point.

But Peeta’s children? Oh they deserve to be born because Peeta deserves to be a father. He would be such a good father. They deserve to exist in a world where they can be safe and happy. (Even if it’s not with her.)

This is also why I think she subconsciously sees Peeta’s baby as her own. And I don’t think of it as a cruel/heartless thing, it’s just you’d be more protective of your own child compared to someone else’s. Katniss sees Gale as a reliable person who’s equipped to look after a kid. She doesn’t express the same kind of maternal instinct/yearning for the Baby Hawthrone’s safety as she does with the idea of Baby Mellark, because she doesn’t think of Gale’s child as her own. She never hopes for a better future for them, but she does with Peeta because he and that baby gives her hope. And she loves him that much.

[laraspearl]

this is my first post in here but i gotta make it known

anyone who says katniss was forced to have kids in the epilogue by peeta because she never wanted kids is gonna have to fight me

how hard is it to realize that all she wanted was to be a mother and care for the ones she loved. it was the only thing that really kept her going through the war, the idea that her family, her children, peeta’s children could have a chance to live in a world of no worries of being reaped (which i’m pretty sure is something she said in catching fire if i’m not wrong)

peeta must of been so relieved 15 years after the war ended when katniss said she wanted children

and not because he’s been wanting them so badly and she finally agreed

because she now believes the world is safe for her children to grow in

anyways i’m going to go find a hole and cry

[deadboydoodling]

I could be a good mother... and I want to be your wife. And yes, that's a primrose in her hair.

[thekayart]

Just a dad and his toastbaby 💚

I think Peeta wears glasses in the future, and I love it!

I don’t know what to say, he is so in love with his baby girl.