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districtscare · 2 months

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yes i am the biggest advocate of surrogate father haymitch & adopted daughter katniss but like. they're so Awful. they've not got a mother/daughter relationship, they've got that father/daughter relationship where the dad is both reaching for a connection and rejecting the thing that he made because she's too much like him, too close to what he is and far away from it because of her potential and the daughter rejects because she doesn't understand him. understanding him is understanding herself. caring for him is caring for herself. and then she's awful to him because she doesn't understand and doesn't want to understand. and he's rejectful of her because she's got so many traits that are for the worse and not for the better. their similarities don't hurt nearly as much as what their differencee impale them with. it will always be what katniss could be (haymitch), and what haymitch prevented/could've been (katniss.)

#“haymitch treats katniss a certain way because he sees himself in her”#which is true!#haymitch objectively is tough on her in ways he would've been with himself #and he cares for her because he sees what wounds she has and knows that support and care will slowly patch them #he's dismissive of her often and doubtful and a little cruel tongued when it comes to her #but it always circles back to a fondness and love #katniss constantly rips the patches off. she isn't trying to understand his care or wants it inherently #she treats him surface level. he goes under the iceberg and they both find things they don't like #she's prejudiced to him because of his outside traits. she waits until she's forcefully sucked into his real face to be sympathetic #haymitch knows her real face. which looks an awful lot like his and *feels* like his to the point where he projects onto her #but she's different. and it's again the empathy/lacking empathy conversation and such #i could bring up every moment of their agrees/disagrees and the times where they tear each other down #but the thing is that it's not JUST because they're the same. it's because they're so different and still HAVE similarities #haymitch abernathy #katniss everdeen #the hunger games #thg #catching fire #mockingjay #the hunger games trilogy #thg analysis

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