#hijacked!peeta

[little-lynx]

help me believe it's not the real me

So what if you can see the darkest side of me? No one would ever change this animal I have become Help me believe it's not the real me Somebody help me tame this animal

I can't escape myself so many times I've lied But there's still rage inside Somebody get me through this nightmare I can't control myself

Somebody wake me from this nightmare I can't escape this hell

(c) Three Days Grace — Animal I have become

[thesweetnessofspring]

Do you think Katniss and Peeta have biased opinions of each other?

Yes / No? Why?

Could you give example?

How did Peeta's hijacking affect their views of each other?

Disclaimer : these questions are for textual analysis, it’s not meant to incite fandom war.

Thank you :)

@curiousnonny

Hi nonny! This has taken me some time because I wanted to think on this for a bit. Tldr; their opinion of the other hinges a lot on how they think the other views them.

When Katniss thinks that she was just a random Seam kid Peeta helped once, she can't help but feel he's too good, too pure for Panem. When Peeta only knows Katniss from afar thinking she doesn't pay attention to him, she has an "effect" on people she doesn't herself perceive. When Katniss thinks Peeta views her as his competition, she believes him duplicitous and suspicious. And so it shifts based on whether they believe the other is actually in love with them, or if they're distant, or if they're friends.

The hijacking is definitely really tragic and this rocks how they view one another more than anything else. Obviously Peeta at first views Katniss as a mutt created by the Capitol. Once he's gone through some treatment, his views are still negative and that she's in the very least manipulative, his feelings and relationship to her bring a lot of confusion (did you love me? did you like kissing me? did you like kissing Gale? what happened on the train? are you my friend, lover, my target, or a mutt?).

Here's the thing with Peeta: he will not for the life of him admit when he needs to be cared for. He is the classic "I will take care of you, but don't worry about taking care of me, I'm fine." But underneath that, he just wants love, he wants someone to show him that he is loveable because he fears he isn't. And this personality trait doesn't disappear when he's hijacked. It is his very nature. But in seeing Katniss from a different light, in both his hijacked memories or her and the real ones clouded by the tracker jacker venom, he's broken to the point where he can't find it in him to love anyone (maybe other than Delly) because the memories have reinforced to him that his worst fear is true: he is unlovable. He gave his heart and was used and betrayed in return, never valued by anyone--not Katniss, not Haymitch, not Finnick.

In that anger, though, he is still reaching out for, yearning for Katniss to answer him. To explain everything to him. And I think a large part of him expects her to confirm she'd only used him the whole time. That his perception of her being a girl who enjoyed toying with him and Gale was true. But deeper underneath that layer of resentment, that part of Peeta that always sees the good and hopes, is searching for the reassurance: no, I love you. You are loveable.

When Peeta references the fact that the memory of Darius and Lavinia's torture wasn't "shiny" as well as the nights on the train that weren't touched by the Capitol, we're given to believe that he might have started to sort through some things on his own. And after Haymitch shakes up Katniss, she nicks a tiny crack in offering him a piece of himself back: his favorite color. Then seeing himself in his hijacked state really wakes him up to how far gone he is, how his perception cannot be trusted anymore.

This is I think where it really starts to turn back for Peeta. If he can't trust his mind, then his opinion of Katniss is wrong. So he has to learn about her all over again. And what does he learn? That she won't let him die. Not when he asks for it, over and over. Not when he first proposes it, not after more discussion, not when he's in the middle of his hijacking episode and she kisses him, puts herself in harms way again, to keep him with her.

The trouble is, Katniss has done this before during both Games, refusing to let Peeta be the one to die. So Peeta doesn't know if he is loveable, or if Katniss is simply that good and brave and strong to not let him go. That opinion he offered her about going to kill Snow, reminding her of the effect she can have...he sees now why she became the Mockingjay, why people followed her. And when he believes that she loves Gale, how can he see her sacrifices for him as anything but noble? If he is broken and worthless but she fights for him anyway, then she must be the hope Panem needs in that dark moment.

As for Katniss, well, we have access to her thoughts and some feelings. And she meets Peeta where he's at in challenging her. When he attacks her, calls her a mutt, something she never thought possible, she sees getting him back as impossible. She mourns him as if he were dead, because their relationship has changed so much she can't see it recovering, as she can't see him recovering.

She does get bits of hope, like Finnick and Annie's wedding cake, but when he comes at her with hostility, she sees that right back at him. It takes Haymitch reminding her who Peeta was, what he would have done for her, that brings her back to him. No longer is she meeting Peeta where he is in his hijacked state. Instead, she is remembering who he was, how he loved her, and tries to see him as he would have seen her in the same state. Through everyone helping out with his recovery, she finally gets glimpses into the true Peeta, the one she loves. Remembering her favorite color is green. That she loved the lamb stew. Giving others encouraging compliments. That he promised to always stay with her.

And after he had been conditioned to kill her, the fact that he saved her life as he always used to--that gave Katniss the belief and the hope that her Peeta, her dandelion in the spring, had truly come back to her, if she would only wait for his return. And then, he did.

[zenkor123]

Hijacked Morphling addict Peeta's nightmares on his way back to the capital pt 1

Katniss represented a door he rather not open and the worst part Is he would have to die with her. He already as he went on the train, his capital tormentors who lived in his head continued to torment him, he felt the imaginary whips rip the hairs of his head. His next dream was Katniss mutt using her sexual organs to torture him. Regular Katniss avenged the Larynx by wrapping her neck and suffocating Peeta to death like a snake. Lavnia and Darius glared at him and blamed him for their deaths. He hated how much she was in her nightmares how much the treatment centered around her. His memories were so confusing. Even when Hijacked Katniss owned Peeta. It was unclear if Katniss even cared about him and if he did was that even a good thing, he wondered? He was made to be obsessed(including sexually) with Katniss and he hated her for it. He didn't want to care about her, there was no way she cared about him, he just wanted to numb his pain. he did work hard in his therapy so he could at least get a little better. A month ago Delly Cartwright did a thing known as ghosting in ancient times she stopped seeing him without an explanation. If Delly did this he had no doubt that Katniss would as well. He had no doubt also that Katniss was fine with Gale and truly loved Gale. Katniss was also angry at Peeta for the Larynx and all the insults they had exchanged. If Katniss cared about Peeta, Peeta reasoned she cared about a Peeta that he Visualized in his mind as ruins of a city. She would have nothing but contempt for the Peeta that had no more optimism in him. He believed that any attempt to reunite the Star crossed lovers would only bring him more pain. Yet the only reason Prim, Haymitch hell district 13 in funding the treatment cared or talked to him was the ruins that fascinated him but were just that, ruins. He was glad that whole nonsense was ended a month ago. Delly had seen Peeta for who he truly was: a ruin. Nobody needed him, not now not ever. The only one who saw Peeta and saw the void was Haymitch but he would have Effie and Katniss and he could not save him from being forgotten in an institution alone.

[thgfanfictionlibrary]

Hi I read this fic a couple days ago where Peeta comes back post war, and they have a relationship for while and then Peeta starts to change, developing a sort of split personality and ends up killing Katniss at the end. Can you please find it for me, I'm loosing my mind trying to remember the name😭

Hello @tetheredfeathers!

I may have some that kinda fit based on searching as I have never read a fic like this. Hopefully one of these is correct!

Damage-quothme (ao3) (ff) Summary: Peeta, after. // Dark AU in which they can't find Peeta to rescue him. By the time the Rebellion is over, there’s not much Peeta left.

The Way Back-Katnissinme (ao3) Summary: For Katniss and Peeta, the way back is a winding, challenging road, filled with regret, hope, sorrow, joy, danger, security and discovery. Post-Mockingjay, pre-epilogue.

Cross My Stars and Hope to Die-TheWeekendSinner (ff) Summary: Peeta Mellark loves Katniss Everdeen, but who said love can't kill? Four times Peeta Mellark has a flashback, and one time it goes too far.

Please let me know if one of these is the correct fic! If anyone knows of this fic or a fic like this, please reblog, reply, or send an ask with fics fitting this idea and I’ll add it here!

As always, if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please feel free to shoot me an ask!

Update 9/14/24 @12:30pm EST

Three Shades of Peeta-LeighJ (ao3) Summary: Demons don't just fade and not all wounds scab over. Healing is a beautiful concept and Katniss would like to experience it, that and peace, just for once. She knows better though. The odds were never in her favour.

This is the correct fic found by @tetheredfeathers thank you for letting the blog know!

[zenkor123]

In my fic: Peeta: Does not think that he actually loved Katniss, was just infatuated with her, hypothesizes that he was made into an "assassin mutt" on account of his alleged murderous inclinations, repressed rage, and physical strength.

later sees Katniss breaking down in front of him.

Peeta: What if she's right about her being more then a physical target? No it can't be, it makes no sense!

MOCKINGJAY, CHAPTER 16

[bugcuti3]

He’s a lover your honor 🍞

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[sanjarka]

there is so much more to be said here but peeta's biggest flaw is his strength and kill me if you want but if you really think about it he's an extremely closed of person. and much more than katniss! when do we see him actually opening up to people - the only time he gets taken care of is when he's physically not well and needs help literally. ,,most of my nightmares are about you so i'm okay once i realize you're there” is sure a sweet and romantic quote but i see so much sadness in it. he doesn't want to be a burden. he doesn't know how to be comforted because maybe no one was there to help him after a bad dream when he was a kid - completely unlike katniss's experience. and what about those dreams that aren't about katniss. she retells her nightmares to peeta and he locks them all inside of himself.

[charlunday]

Hijacked Peeta has been on the mind lately so I have to inflict this on all of you

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[andorerso]

rebelcaptain + the hunger games au

When Jyn Erso was eight years old, her mother died and her father left to become a gamemaker for the Hunger Games. Adopted by Saw Gerrera, her mother's friend, she became Jyn Gerrera and was forbidden from ever revealing her true identity to anyone. Ten years later, it's Jyn's last reaping. Saw, the forgotten victor of the 32nd Hunger Games, had rejected every reward the Empire offered him, preferring to live as a recluse at the edge of the forest in District 12, as opposed to the luxury in the Victors' Village. It's been decades since anyone in the district even recalled that Saw was once a victor himself, but he had made sure to teach Jyn all he knew of self-defense and combat training. It's the only thing she has of him left since his passing two years ago. Now, Jyn just wants to get through her last reaping and survive. But when she hears the name of the young girl she trades with sometimes, Jyn doesn't hesitate to volunteer in her place. She has nothing to lose, except her life, and every reason to believe that with Saw's training, she has a chance at winning the games. A chance that 12-year-old Kerri Andor wouldn't have. Things get a little more complicated when Kerri's brother is picked as the other tribute. Jyn is good at surviving, but Cassian, with his quiet cunning and surprising talent with a bow and arrow, could be a threat. Not to mention that Jyn knows he's the sole provider for his young sister and aging mother; a family who needs him. Who may die without him. Nobody is waiting for Jyn back home. When their mentor's plan to make them seem like star-crossed lovers triples the attention and sponsors they receive, Jyn is forced to play along with the scheme and pretend she has feelings for Cassian. Worst of all? She's not sure where pretending ends and where genuine feelings begin. The gamemakers say they can both go home if they're the last two tributes standing, but Jyn knows better than to believe the pretty promises of the Empire. Soon, she'll have to make a choice. Will she do anything to survive? Or will she let Cassian Andor go home to his family - even at the cost of her own life?

[anniecrestalover]

”peeta will never love katniss as much as he used to post-war” SHUT UPPPPPPP

(edited it to clear up everything in the reposts 😭😭)

[everlarksquell]

katniss rubbing the pearl that peeta gave to her in the arena against her lips and remembering how his lips felt??? her clinging to the pearl as if it’s peeta’s life itself and as long as she has it no one can take it???and then grabbing it it to try and remember the boy that peeta used to be and the moments they shared together before he was hijacked, because now all of that is gone???? i’m being so serious when i tell you that that damn pearl will make me go to therapy.

[thesweetnessofspring]

Katniss thinks people don't care about her because when she was eleven and she and her family were dying, there was only one person who stepped in to help her.

It's hard to believe people genuinely like you if they don't show even the slightest care about you at your weakest.

[zenkor123]

Peeta POV of Katniss entering training center 14 October 4

Part of WIP

Trigger warning: violence, reference to cannibalism, and the smell of morphling.

 I was talking with Tong 1. I then saw Katniss enter.  I feel a cold chill enter my body and  I remember what Katniss told  me “you’ve looked better” well look at her now she’s looked a lot better.  Look at her! Look at her!

No  I  should not gloat what the fuck was bothering her well its not my problem unless this maniac kills me. How many people have seen me this way? I'm sure that's how she sees me but the shoes on the other foot now Katniss Everdeen!

Peeta that's sick stop thinking like this, just because she never gave a shit about you does not mean you need to act like her. Why would she give a shit about you, she's a random stranger. Yeah that's correct.

It's confounding how she has everything, yet looks like she one of the avoxes about to be sent into the mutt ring under Snow Mansion! maybe its just a fluke she will be better tomorrow.

An Avox under Snow's mansion! Yeah that's exactly what she looks like except the mutt is me.

I ache feeling sorry for her. I will not kill her unlike the mutts in the mutt ring. I never thought of killing her. Then why did you compare yourself to the myriad mutts Peeta? Its what it looks like to her.

I see her gun, ok Peeta  thinks, "you've been inside Snow’s mansion you’ve eaten human flesh you are strong you will get through this like you have with everything.”  I see the fear on her face but there is nothing  I can do about it, get her off the watch.  I take  deep breaths, “Why?” 

I see  Jackered images no no! Keep your head clear.  I do grounding but  I have gravely hurt her. She will snap,  I and Annie are  not the only nutcases in this room, she thinks she can handle it but she can’t damn you Peeta for hurting her, and damn you Snow for programming me to kill her.

She deserved to live, but did she need her legs? There's no way she can kill  me without her legs and D13 can just get her new ones. Then I think “Peeta what the fuck is wrong with you!” 

I apply grounding 5 things I see Katniss sweating, Katniss biting her lip, Annie entering the room Finnick entering the room, they are waving at me 4 things I can touch, my notebook, my hair, my helmet, my gun, 3 things I can hear,  Boggs calling Katniss, the sound of me breathing, Wrynkal arriving and saying high to Lt ford.  2 things I can smell morphling from the vein node, metal from the bullet I have in my hand 1 thing I can taste, ham from breakfast” 

I begin drawing the jackered implants of Katniss, but then I draw the scene around me opening a new page.” She arrives again, who is she?  The girl called X! That’s who she is, a red fucking X!. That’s not fair Peeta, she has been rude and barbing me constantly,…. and probably wants me dead.

You don’t know that, but if I were her I would want me dead, look at that throat, well it's just a bunch of bruises. Ok back to her legs. WHY CAN’T KATNISS JUST LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE???

Katniss is suffering because of me, because of what I did and now she's going to kill me for it.

I was created to kill her so why wouldn’t she. But why didn’t she try to kill me yesterday? It does not matter but I can’t die, I won’t die!

Yesterday I just barbed her but no! Today she is going to serve her full sentence this time she's going to look in my eyes this time and know why she should never ever be on my watch. She is going to see the flames and fires of hell, which is my home for while I enjoy the flames it will burn her. That's awful, do you have an alternative plan! Imagine having to see your killer every day and that killer has a loaded gun. Do you want to see this scared mess every single day, Peeta, Every. Single. Day. And see the bruises in her throat?

No I don't. Perhaps this is for her own good. She should know more about me then that I am a vile creature who exists to destroy her she should know how this mutt came about, when she sees me, really sees me she will know me.

I feel more like a mutt when I'm around her then I do with anyone else. I hate it. Get her the fuck away from me. I'm usually a mutated human but seeing the one I was designed to kill I feel less human.

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Speaking of that let's go to the core of it she's going to cause fucking episodes.

[gutfaced]

and so what if i said the sacrificial lamb wasn't katniss. it was peeta. he was always doomed, right from when he threw those loaves to her.

sacrificed himself to feed her, and made sure she went home with something, even if it meant he came out with a welt or bruise on his cheek. sacrificed the idea of her love and her feelings for him on a whim to protect them both. made a show of his own truths. joined the careers to temporarily pacify them from killing her. allowed her to sleep in the comforts of his bed so that she wouldn't fear nightmares. went to haymitch right after the quell announcement to ensure that it was her. her survival, her living forever over his own.

he would always sacrifice it all for her.

[jpai0508]

Long post. But I’m rereading parts of Mockingjay and had some thoughts.

When Katniss visits Peeta in Chapter 16, I find a few things interesting. First, Peeta makes direct statements but also asks Katniss a few questions (a little snappily but I’m sure he genuinely wants to know the answers). And the difference in what Peeta states as fact and what he asks Katniss says a lot about Peeta’s character, even hijacked. For one, Peeta directly states that he “must have loved [katniss] a lot.” He also shortly recalls the story of the bread being thrown. Again, he doesn’t ask katniss if these are true, he states these events as facts. Peeta is certain of these memories. He knows the bread story is true, and he knows that he once loved Katniss. The questions that Peeta does ask Katniss refers solely to Katniss’ romantic feelings. Peeta, even hijacked, does NOT presume to know Katniss’s stance on romance unlike some people (*cough cough* Gale MJ end of Chapter 23). Peeta might have hunches, but he doesn’t presume to know katniss’s feelings for fact. He directly asks Katniss if she loved him (“‘And did you love me?’“). Katniss does not directly answer Peeta. (“‘Everyone says I did.’”) And I actually find it a little humorous that during this entire conversation, Katniss is actually quicker to directly admit to trying to kill Peeta in the first arena than to directly admit any possible romantic feelings for Peeta (“‘I was trying to kill all of you,’ I say, ‘You had me treed.’”). Then, Peeta asks about all the kissing. He states, “‘Later, there’s a lot of kissing. Didn’t seem genuine on your part. Did you like kissing me?’” Again, even hijacked Peeta does not presume to know how katniss felt!! Even though he states that the kissing “didn’t seem genuine,” Peeta still asks her! And again, Katniss gives a half answer (“‘Sometimes,’ I admit, ‘you know people are watching us now?’”) Next, Peeta asks about her kissing Gale. Katniss, again, gives a snappy, half answer. (“‘He’s not a bad kisser either,’ I say shortly.”)

Basically, this entire conversation reveals a lot to me about both Peeta and Katniss. The overall thing being that it’s the perfect reminder to readers that KATNISS AND PEETA ARE STILL LITERAL TEENAGERS!

One, hijacked Peeta is still very much Peeta but with every insecurity, jealousy, and fear hanging off of him. Every question that Peeta asks Katniss are probably the exact questions that he has been secretly wondering since after the first games. You can’t tell me that Peeta Mellark, who knows Katniss is a horrible liar from the first book, did not wonder about that kiss on the beach, the day on the rooftop, or the time he caught katniss staring at his eyelashes. Peeta had previously buried those “maybe she does love me” thoughts for katniss’s sake. He buried his jealousy for Gale. So hijacked Peeta is basically Peeta without a filter (and the occasional irrational fear that makes him dangerous). And Peeta Mellark is a hurt teenage boy, and teenage romance is messy and hurtful.

And this conversation also perfectly sums up Katniss. Because Katniss, too, is just a confused teenager! I also think it’s so perfectly Katniss to admit to trying to kill someone rather than admit any possible romantic feelings. It also shows how much katniss values those secret feelings. In this chapter, katniss even internally states that people are watching her and Peeta and that “this isn’t the business of the people behind the glass.” Katniss hates her feelings being exploited. She tells Haymitch this in the first book during interview prep. Katniss even admits this later in MJ when Gale wrongly suggests that Katniss will pick the person she cannot survive without (MJ chapter 23). (“It’s a horrible thing for Gale to say, for Peeta not to refute. Especially when every emotion I have has been taken and exploited by the Capitol or the rebels.” MJ Chapter 24). Her half answers are very complex. Even without a room full of people looking in, questions like those would be hard to answer for anyone, especially for a traumatized teenage girl.

[malinaa]

i’m in such immense amounts of agony . if peeta wasn’t hijacked, katniss would’ve literally lunged herself into his arms and kissed him stupid 🖐️😞