#d12 victors

[thesweetnessofspring]

I mean really Everlark had to be endgame, because who would get Haymitch in the divorce? And Gale as a stepdad would've never really taken.

[starsparks]

#they are all different shades of i am going to cause problems on purpose#president snow every time 12 shows any promise in the games: dear god not another one (via @insignificant457)

reading ballad of songbirds and snakes in preparation for the movie next month, and I love that the blueprint for district 12 victor seems to be just:

16 years old

absolute menace

[guess-i-do-art]

Some traditional art for the soul

[carnationhes]

wanting to include things ab haymitch’s games in my fic but I don’t want it to become incorrect when the new book comes out next year 😔😔

[pinwheelwhirl]

want to put Children Will Listen from Into the Woods in my Haymitch playlist and i've listened to like 20 different covers on spotify trying to find just the right one

[thesweetnessofspring]

Haymitch, for all of his flaws, started a generational change that rippled out.

He didn't have much he could do to protect Katniss and Peeta from going into the Games, from Snow, from the Quell, or the war, but he wasn't going to let them lose each other. He knew what that was like, losing an ally (Maysilee) and a love ("my girl") and he might not be able to save them from all the Capitol put them through, but he pulled out every wile and connection and every minute of semi-sobriety he had in him to help his kids have a better life with each other, to not be alone and miserable like he was.

And how in turn Katniss and Peeta of course can't protect their kids from the pain of life, from their parents' nightmares, from the history they have to learn, from the worry it might happen again, but they built a life of full bellies and safety and love for them, so that in turn their children can have a better life, too.

[brookesophelias]

peeta and the rebellion, with even more nuance (:

post continued from @posthungergamessyndrome; their post here

In The Games training , Peeta preferred to hang around the Camouflage, & it ultimately became his saving grace in Book I. Creativity, to most tributes, doesn't compare higher than physical prowess in significance. In Catching Fire, we see the D6 Morplings go to Camo first.

Peeta Mellark allows himself to be known as Loverboy to almost everyone in the 74th arena, which is him defining himself by emotion. Mostly because that’s what Careers, who D12 tributes hardly ever team up with, called him

Peeta decided to kill himself, even before the Nightlock idea, because he refuses to die at the hands of the Capitol. He seriously felt remorse after killing Foxface & had Katniss explain it to him. Killing others wasn't supposed to be something these tributes felt accountability & care about. "...wanted to hold them accountable, if only for a moment... For killing that little girl. (CF; 238)

Yes, Katniss says to eat the berries on 3, though it's Peeta Mellark who tells her to out-stretch her hands so "...everyone can see." (THG; pg. 338).

Peeta refuses to hold a knife when he could hold a paintbrush. (Katniss replies to Haymitch that 'if he wanted babying, then should've asked Peeta.' His fellow Games Victor called him soft & he just offers her bread [again]). Even in the actual war, he felt so hurt when he killed others.

He has a vivid memory for the horrors of The 74th Hunger Games, to the point where Katniss says she "hates" his paintings. He’s not even offended he just lets her hate on them because they are gruesome.

He always looks out of windows at other people [Katniss on the bakery lawn], places {districts while on tour] as well as the Capitol. He also takes people's baked goods home to evaluate. And doesn't stop.

He also sees the elder from D11 get shot in the head & doesn’t let himself be touched by Peacekeepers after he said he & Katniss would feed Rue & Thresh's families.

Peeta refuses—so vehemently—to drink the beverage to purge his meals. He tells Katniss that maybe they shouldn't squash the Rebellion.

He is the second person to volunteer in years in D12, & at all & he, too earns the highest rating in the Quarter Quell. Before the Mockingjay ever existed, the mockingbird & Jabberjay had to meet. If Katniss is the Mockingjay, Peeta embodies both qualities of both birds individually. Peeta is wholly himself, at his best. When the Panem screams conformity, Peeta doubles on individualism.

[millennium-queen]

Welcome to District 12 - Victors and friends™️

Thought I’d give designing some D12 kids a go!! It’s definitely the most blondes I’ve ever drawn on one page …

[disgurrr]

Peeta scored an 8, which is considered a high score, especially for a D12 tribute. Successfully fought off tributes, shown by Katniss narrating his bruised and limping body when she first saw him in the first Games. Battled with Cato with only his bare hands while Cato had a literal sword, and was able to save Katniss and run away with his life. Able to overthrow Cato with an injured and bitten leg. Fought off and killed Brutus, the most lethal and strongest VICTOR. Countless times used his intelligence and charm to save Katniss and countless lives

Some readers still: Peeta is such a weak ass character, I swear. Katniss literally has to protect him all the time because gosh he’s such a weak, pathetic character. Ugh.

Facepalm, I tell ya 🤦‍♀️

[thesweetnessofspring]

Also the sponsors choose who gets money for gifts. Peeta had obviously consigned himself to death for Katniss, so most of the money was probably sent to her. His hands were tied in more ways than one.

Plus he sent Katniss the sleep syrup to knock Peeta out. She nearly died getting the medicine for Peeta and then 12 wouldn't have had any victor. Maybe he figured Katniss would go anyway, but still--he aided her in her plan to keep Peeta alive.

Yes, Haymitch didn’t sent Peeta any sponsor gifts in the 74th arena before Katniss found him,

BUT

Up until that point, what would Peeta have needed? He was with the Careers who had ample food and weapons. By the time Peeta was injured, Haymitch likely would not have been able to pool enough money to get the medication to save him:

We’ll need strong anti-infection drugs from the Capitol. I can’t imagine the cost of such potent medicine. If Haymitch pooled every donation from every sponsor, would he have enough? I doubt it. Gifts go up in price the longer the Games continue. What buys a full meal on day one buys a cracker on day twelve. And the kind of medicine Peeta needs would have been at a premium from the beginning.

[lolapath]

Lucy Gray is free. No, she’s lost, gone.

I know we all want her to be free. She’s surely free from Coriolanus but being forced to live in exile is far away from freedom. Lucy Gray could never come back to 12 and reunite with her family. It would be too dangerous.

I’ve seen people who claimed Lucy Gray Baird was the only victor who got to experience peaceful life after the Games. Even if she escaped totalitarian regime, being banished without possibility to ever return to your beloved ones is nothing like the Life of a Victor…

There is a corelation to Wordsworth’s poem. Young Lucy Gray got lost in the forest. She was all alone, living only by herself - just like TBOSAS heroine. We don’t know her faith, only the loneliness accompaning her in the woods.

Freedom means being able to decide for yourself and Lucy Gray was forced to run away. If she never did, she’d be arested by the mayor or worse- by Capitol. A choice between survival and death is no choice at all.

Moreover, not only her persona was „imprisoned” but also her art. Any musical performances were prohibited (in D12) and Hanging Tree went on a black list.

The memory of Lucy Gray faded over the years. Yet, this oblivion was the closest to freedom.

[oasinoebe]

The Haymitch and Gale Post Nobody Asked For

Haymitch and Katniss share plenty of similarities, but I can't stop thinking about how Haymitch's circumstances/young Haymitch's personality reminds me more of Gale than Katniss.

Just like Katniss and Haymitch, Gale also belongs to a very poor family and he lost his father in the mines. He has younger sibling(s) that he loves dearly, and he hunts to sustain his family.

Like Haymitch, Gale's mom does laundry and is generally a more present mother than Mrs Everdeen. Being from the poorest part of the district, both Gale and Haymitch (understandably) have some underlying resentment towards the richer people from town, especially the two rich blonde girls who own a ridiculously expensive gold pin (in the sypnosis, Haymitch describes Maysilee as "the most stuck up girl from town"). I am so, so interested to see how Haymitch's perception of Maysilee changes, since we already know that they end up allying in the games.

Gale’s perception of Madge would also have obviously changed when/if he found out that she had run all the way to the Victor's village in the middle of a snowstorm to bring extremely expensive Capitol morphling that managed to ultimately save Gale's life by providing him relief from the pain. Not to mention that Gale was technically a lawbreaker in the eyes of the new Peacekeepers and if they ever found out that she had helped a "criminal", Madge could be severely punished, the fact that she was the Mayor's daughter not really mattering anymore.

Katniss did not have any such prejudices about town/seam, at least not to the extent Gale did. Her best friend is the richest person in D12.

Somehow, Haymitch's persona (at least in the interviews that Katniss saw in CF) reminds me more Gale than Katniss. Katniss is a very quiet, reserved kind of girl, while Gale and Haymitch seem somewhat cockier.

I think that as Haymitch gets older, he becomes much more like Katniss, in the sense that he is more disillusioned and less angry at the world in general. He is also more compassionate. He only voted for the 76th games to lure Coin into a false sense of security because he just KNEW that our girl Katniss had something up her sleeve. He knows her that well.

I wonder if Haymitch ever saw himself in Gale just like he saw himself in Katniss?

(These may or may not be the ramblings of a delusional Gadge shipper who used to have a Haysilee phase)

[thepunkpanther]

THE HUNGER GAMES: THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES (2023) dir. Francis Lawrence THE HUNGER GAMES (2012) dir. Gary Ross THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (2013) dir. Francis Lawrence

(insp.)

[lorata]

I recall in your Rebellion AU that Emory was surprisingly ready to join the rebellion and Brutus even thinks on this after she dies. Why was Emory so willing to join when a lot of the other Twos were hesitant? Was she already radicalized before the QQ similar to Lyme and just waiting for an opportunity? If so, when did that happen?

Emory was sort of like ... born into class consciousness is the thing

Emory grew up poor in a mining town on its last legs. the mine land was community owned and the developers from the munitions companies were always coming around trying to get people to sell so they could close the mine and put up a factory instead, but everyone agreed they would never sell. the capitol gave them this land for the mine years ago. they would hold the line.

so she grew up steeped in loyalty to the capitol, of course, the capitol provides and we trust the capitol and also fear, if we don't obey then there are consequences, but also, maybe even more importantly, loyalty to the community and to each other. we look after each other when no one else does.

and then she won and saw the capriciousness of the capitol in favour of entertainment. and then she did her PR work in-district with blue-collar patriots and realized how many of these people were dirt-poor just like she was and how many of them trusted the capitol just like she had and they gave their children to the program so that people in town could sneer and call them monsters. she knows the numbers now, and quarry kids outnumber townies five to one at least. civilian kids sleep safe in two because uneducated, sometimes illiterate, parents send their kids to the death machine in their stead, and whether they do it without question or crying and praying the whole time it all washes out the same.

and even without the games they work and work and work and for what? to profess loyalty to people who laugh at them and call them unkind names at fancy parties? a government who forgets they exist except to bring them more weapons and more soldiers and more children for slaughter?

(never mind the other districts, it takes baby victor emory about 0.2 seconds to realize that she has more in common with miners in d12 or fishers in d4 than anyone in the capitol. would emory eventually have reached katniss' realization that the capitol citizens weren't her enemy either? i mean, maybe, but that's advanced and she died first)

[zenkor123]

Peeta got his body cleaned up in the capitol or in 13(unless 13 has a weird veneration of "battle scars" and the "authentic body")

But Peeta would simply have used his victors money to have all the scars removed once in the capitol.

If Katniss blamed herself for Peeta’s hijacking and saw his scars she would have a mental breakdown.

Though there's an entire non hijacked Peeta fic I saw where Katniss sees Peeta’s scars and doesn't have an unhealthy reaction.

By the time he returned to D12 the repaired skin would lose any artificial texture and would be indistinguishable from Peeta’s old flesh.

[inarmes]

hiii!! i loved reading your d12 headcannons and was wondering if you have any for d7 or d8? :D

hey!! i so love that you've asked me this because i have headcanons for district 7 (that i've been meaning to share on here for soo long.. ) so here you go!

𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐓 𝟕 𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐋 𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐆𝐇𝐓𝐒

i believe that while district 7 is a beautiful district, the upkeep of trees and keeping forests neat (especially after autumn/winter) is extremely taxing and would be a traditional job for everyone in the district to put their hands in during.

many people go into the lumber industry at the earliest age possible, say maybe 14-15. many parents teach their children how to be handy with axes (in the case of being reaped,) and carrying logs and timber is also a common job in most areas.

like most districts, there's a wealthy area and areas of poverty. the sear is an area populated with working class civilians (who often have okay-off living, but the separation helps in such a bustling district,) while the wealthier side is nicknamed the lacewoods (to attest to the amount of people living there.)

with a good work ethic within the district, this gives most people an inherited determination and independence when it comes to both work (and fighting in the arena.)

victors live in the canopy, a rural area where trees are plentiful and the houses built are secluded from common people (for sense of privacy and respect for their victors.)

7 doesn't exactly hold one religious belief, although some people carried their ideals through from the dark days, and therefore many are spread out and practiced.

jobs are often unisex, but district 7 has a culture of being lenient on women and children amongst dangerous/risky jobs, and will therefore keep their most capable at the helm.

definitely a community through thick and thin — when a hardship is faced, the people go through it together rather than alone.

district 7 has a past victors/fallen tributes burial site named the splinter yard. not accessible to anyone but the familes of the dead/victors themselves.