#hay aslo goes through a rough patch but we're figuring it out

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okay i’m sorry but yapping in the replies wasn’t enough i need more details

hiiii lily here's the scoop.

haymitch modern headcanons

chaff: born to a working class family & worked long days on their farmhouse. he always dreamed being more and eventually a family member offers to let him move in with their family in the city. he takes up a ton of hobbies, but boxing/fighting of any kind just absolutely stuck. and so he trains for years and years, going up against the greats whilst becoming one himself. his career ends suddenly within his late 20s after he loses his right hand on a vacation, having been bit by a shark. not wanting to give up right away, he agrees to a final fight but however loses. becoming miserable for a small majority of his 30s, he begins to drink heavily. after realizing he needs to get his shit together, he goes into recovery and at some point lands a job at a boxing gym for young kids/teens. retired from boxing professionally, he coaches those younger than him to be the best/be exactly what it is he was unable to be due to circumstance.

haymitch: born to an impoverished family living the city (having migrated from a previously rural home. his parents work themselves to death in order to keep kipley & himself in school, and his father eventually passes away (yet to determine how.) meanwhile his mother is just trying to get them all by. in his late teens, (16-17,) both kipley and his mother die due to a sudden car crash. not long after that haymitch is contacted by his aunt relating to his mother's inheritance & how their father/his grandfather left her a large sum of money which they all didn't have access to up until now. the money goes to haymitch, and with his academic career skyrocketing, he uses it sparingly while also going for a few degrees. skipping past that, he's been in a good couple of jobs (bartender, harm reduction) and then manages to get into a good-paying social work job. he mainly deals with children and working on their cases, and many succumb to misfortune with only few exceptions. he meets chaff during bartending and then again at harm reduction. they purposely have their workplaces close together and move in sometime during their 30s.