#katniss and cinna

[imembarressedsohere]

Katniss and Rue, Cinna, Finnick and Prim Edit.

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[anton-wyzek]

Remember what he did to them

[obriy]

He believed in this revolution. He believed in you.

[vasilissadragomir]

one of the most heart-wrenching things about thg universe is that you feel the loss of who each character would be outside the circumstances of their birth almost as acutely as you feel the loss of the characters themselves.

sure, we know what lucy gray and her family would be doing in a different world; she’d be dancing and singing and making music which defines a cultural identity. but what about the others? would haymitch have been a hilarious, loving father with a family had he not been forced to survive 47 other children’s brutal deaths? would finnick have been a charismatic and beloved actor, bringing joy to immeasurable people on his own terms? would beetee and wiress have worked together to develop technology to make it easier to connect loved ones far and wide? what would reaper and annie have given to the world, or thresh, or rue, or even coral or cato or glimmer or clove?

if katniss wasn’t half-starving and forced to spend each day hunting to feed her family, would archery be her true passion? or if she’d been a well-sustained little girl with access to art supplies, would she have spent her time sketching captivating dresses? she picks up ropes and making fish hooks quickly—could her dexterity have lent itself to knitting, sewing, or crocheting with vibrant yarns and fabrics? there’s so much evidence that katniss finds clothing inspiring and empowering, even when she dismisses it as frivolous. she likes being pretty, she just hates the circumstances under which she’s made to look pretty. cinna shows her that beauty has its own power, and there are several moments in her interactions with cinna and his designs that make me wonder who she’d be if she had space for art and creativity in her life.

conversely, peeta has had art in his life since he was a small child, but for him, art has always been entangled with his trauma. he could bake and decorate well because he learned from his mother, a mother who beat him his whole life. but his talent grows, not only as a survival tool in the first games, but when he paints rue on the floor of the training center before the second games. his art becomes not only a symbol of his trauma, but a means of resistance and solidarity. in a world where peeta’s intrinsic kindness and loving heart had been nurtured and welcomed rather than abused, could he have been a painter, helping people find collective meaning in the simple realities of life?

could katniss and peeta have still found each other in another world, a world without the horrors they were raised with, and bonded over their love of art? could they have been each other’s muses?

maybe they find their way to share art, after the events of mockingjay, as part of their process of healing and falling in love with each other. when they’re finally safe and have been for a long time, maybe katniss fashions peeta an easel for him to paint in their living room. after months of watching him gaze out the window and paint the changing leaves, katniss takes to knitting on a rocking chair in the other corner of the living room to steady her restless hands. they work silently as the days go by, quietly exchanging the things they’ve made to give each other the reassurance and love neither could ever fully convey with words.

and maybe one day, when they learn there’s a baby on the way due in midwinter, katniss takes a page from peeta’s sketchpad and starts to plan a series of sweaters and hats and socks she can knit for the baby. and peeta goes to the little nursery upstairs and starts working on a mural, so the baby will have something beautiful to look at every day. they work together to design the perfect baby blanket for their child, to ensure they will always be wrapped in a layer of protection and love by their parents.

but even if they find creativity and beauty in their lives after the end of mockingjay, the art they make will simply never be what that art could have been had they not faced what they faced. art comes from suffering, yes, but the human condition has so much suffering as is, and we’d never know what kind of art they’d make if they hadn’t experienced trauma of a distinctly sadistic and inhuman nature. but maybe their children, raised in a better world with love and protection and safety and joy and creativity and expression, will be the ones to create the art peeta and katniss never could.

[cairaleighexe]

Snow made me wear it

[PATREON REQUEST OF THE MONTH]

[bramblrose]

“What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button? How would I spend the hours I now commit to combing the woods for sustenance if it were so easy to come by? What do they do all day, these people in the Capitol, besides decorating their bodies and waiting around for a new shipment of tributes to rill in and die for their entertainment?”

[heavensbeehall]

“Whose idea was the hand holding?” asks Haymitch. “Cinna’s,” says Portia. “Just the perfect touch of rebellion,” says Haymitch.

Just thinking about Cinna's role in starting the rebellion. I don't think anything he did was on accident. The perfect touch of rebellion.

[mockingjaysnakes]

THG REUNION AT THE GOLDEN GLOBES AWARDS.

[crapload-of-crafts]

‘The Reluctant Victor’

(I don’t really like how this turned out so I might redo it at some point)

[queenofshilla]

THE HUNGER GAMES APPRECIATION WEEK -- day 3 - favourite mentor/mentee relationship - KATNISS & CINNA

[deadringers2023]

@gifhungergames event ◈ day three: favorite mentor/mentee relationship ↳ Katniss and Cinna

[admireforever]

“But his arms are there to comfort me, and eventually his lips. On the night I feel that thing again, the hunger that overtook me on the beach, I know this would have happened anyway. That what I need to survive is not Gale's fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire myself. What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. And only Peeta can give me that.”

[gifhungergames]

The Hunger Games (2012) dir. Francis Lawrence

[thesweetnessofspring]

Katniss: Clothes bore me to tears.

Also Katniss: OMGGGGG look at this outfit Cinna made for me! 😍😍😍 It's absolutely gorgeous and makes me feel beautiful! I'd recognize his stitching from across the room.

[effieotto]

wasn't Cinna's sadness real, as well? I absolutely believe he saw Katniss as human.

Cinna was a revolutionary above anything else.

Before being a stylist, a friend, a person…he was a rebel. Everything he did was aimed to a purpose -to nourish a rebellion, execute Snow and free Panem

When i said Effie was the most human person in the Capitol, i wasn’t saying all the other characters’s feelings were less valid, but that her motivations were raw and human. Her actions were not guided by a greater purpose, but by a genuine sense of belonging and concern for her team’s safety

Now, when Katniss first met Cinna, he already saw her as the mockingjay. He started working for twelve because he saw her potencial, and as much as i trust that he cared and truly respected her as a real individual, he was aware that she was going to be the face of the Revolution before he even spoke to her. All the work he did from that point on was aimed at achieving that goal: to turn her into the girl on fire

so yeah, I believe his sadness were real -Although his feelings were never properly expressed in the trilogy, we know he might have been truly devastated by having to prepare Katniss for another Hunger Games- but we can’t ever forget that Cinna was the rebellion. He sacrificed his life for the cause. He lied to Katniss since they first met, because he was holy invested with their plan. He manipulated scenarios, created situations, built the entire girl on fire concept, and then died because of it. He was a hero. A Martyr, and a player. When he died, he knew exactly for what he was being charged for, because he planed it all from the beginning. Unlike Effie, he waited his whole life to be in that position -to finally become the Martyr of a revolution. The blood dropped so the world could be finally free

The point is, Effie is the most human person in the Capitol because she vowed for Katniss and Peeta without knowing she would be the Mockingjay. Because she bought golden tokens for her team without knowing that by doing it she was making a statement (or she knew and just didn’t give a shit). Because she was imprisoned, tortured and almost killed for informations she didn’t have, and after her rescue she was still in their side. Because after the Capitol and Thirteen had taken everything she ever had, she still supported Katniss -not the girl on fire, not the Mockingjay, not her tribute, but the girl she spent two years trying to save by teaching her how to properly dance and laugh. She was not a rebel, she wasn’t doing it because she wanted the things to change or because she believed or even understood Thirteen’s political statements. She just loved too much to be against any of them…and this is huge

Cinna was a hero. Effie was just a women

[chuuzus]

cinematic parallels