#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

[zenkor123]

Peeta’s journal entries by date

Katniss opens Peeta's journal

October, 1, 75 ADD

October, 3, 75 ADD

October 3 75 DD

October 4th 75 ADD

October 4th 75 ADD

October, 5, 75 DD

October 5 75 DD

October, 8, 75 DD

October, 10, 75 DD

October 12, 75 DD

October 12, 75 DD

October 13, 75 DD

October 15 75 ADD

October 16 75 ADD

October 18 75 ADD

October 21 75 ADD

October 22 75 ADD

November 1 75 ADD

November 2 75 ADD

Katniss closes Peeta’s journal

A mutt in service of the rebellion

(Fic in which Katniss returns to Peeta’s life far earlier)

Concept

Timeline

Older Peeta fics

Peeta's journal is subject to regular updates and even revisions.

A Mutt's Worth.

Timeline

(Fic in which Katniss returns to Peeta's life even earlier then in a Mutt in Service of the Rebellion)

For reference

[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.

[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!

[buttercups-revenge]

The (un-fucking-hinged) conversation that Snow had with Haymitch REALLY puts Peeta’s hijacking (SPECIFICALLY against Katniss) into perspective. Snow could have hijacked him to hate the rebellion, or district 12 or even himself. But no, that old loser just HAD to finally prove to one of those district 12 boys that their girl didn’t really love them, JUST like his didn’t really love him. Was it a smart move to potentially have Peeta attack Katniss on sight? Yes. But more importantly, it allowed Snow to control Peeta in a way that let him live out his own fantasies about being unloved and having power over his girl.

[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

[starrrbakerrr]

i read this really insightful post by @thesmileykate and it made me realize how sunrise on the reaping adds a whole new layer to snow’s “convince me.” katniss easily “convinced” the majority of panem and all of the capitol of her love for peeta in the 74th games. but not snow, because he thinks all covey women are deceiving to their lovers. he thought there was no possible way katniss truly loved peeta. he wanted to believe all of her choices were for her own self-preservation. but when he saw katniss’s reaction to peeta’s heart stopping in the quarter quell his belief about covey women was proven incorrect. and once peeta was captured he knew he couldn’t take away katniss’s love for peeta, but he could take away peeta’s love for katniss.

[triassictriserratops]

when they got Peeta back from the Capitol, do you think Haymitch was terrified that they'd be getting a body double?

[introspectivememories]

all sunrise on the reaping has taught me is that the same way katniss is haymitch's not-daughter, peeta is effie's not-son

[disgurrr]

Maysilee Donner reminds me so much of Johanna Mason. Both cruelly nickname people, both full of rage and hatred. But, my gosh whenever they open their mouth, you can’t help but listen and applaud them. They are fearless, but tragic and layered.

[bibbibib]

In the first book, Peeta is stung by tracker jackers, has the presense of mind to go back and find Katniss, shoos her away when Cato (who has also been stung) arrives, and gets severely injured but somehow not killed. (I think that's because both of them were hallucinating/willing to get out of there before their symptoms get worse).

He then proceeds to walk far enough for Katniss to have to track him for a while, find a good hiding spot close to a water source and camouphlage himself so well that even Katniss, a skilled hunter, couldn't find him. He did all that with a severely injured leg and three tracker jacker stings. He pushed the collapsing in hallucinations part for a long time. And then he stayed there for a week, infected, with no food, and didn't die.

In Catching Fire, Peeta gets electrocuted by the force field early on, and Finnick resuscitates him. He's young and healthy, and he wakes up, but electrocution alone would have left him painfully sore for a long time afterwards. All of his muscles would have contracted extremely hard and possibly spasmed when he was hit by the current, not to mention he was thrown forcefully back unconscious. I read a post a long time ago that described it as "feeling like he had the most brutal workout in his life". And then CPR is having someone literally pound on your sternum with enough force to get your heart to pump, multiple times. It hurts A LOT to be at the recieving end of it. And the muscle soreness takes days to go away.

Peeta literally spent the following days continually hiking, in the heat, with no water (until they figured it out), after all of that. He barely got any chance to recover, and a couple days later he was also taking turns with Finnick carrying Beetee on his back. Not to mention everything else that the others also went through. Oh, yeah, and he's got an amputated leg.

Talk about a strong constitution.

[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.

[bugcuti3]

He’s a lover your honor 🍞

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[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.

[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.

[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?