#mrs everdeen

[lestangestthing]

martin "you died and i won't let it happen again'' blackwood and peeta "save her and not me" mellark

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I feel like something that is lost on many people in the hunger games fandom is that Mrs Everdeen is not an evil character and Katniss feelings toward her mother are justified are two truths that can co exist

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Random quick hunger games sketch-y line up or somethingg

(Edit: forgot to mention the kids are in 'school uniform' that's why it's so drab hhh)

[yourhighness6]

Peeta Mellark is such a feral idiot for outing his father's crush on national television while trying to impress a girl

[madzthemenace]

this is by far my favourite illustration

[wisebeth]

Currently losing my mind at how much Katniss’ parents parallel Everlark.

Mr. Everdeen/Katniss — From Seam. Olive skin. Black hair. Grey eyes. Hunter. Excellent at archery. Singing. Have a voice which could make the Mockingjay stop singing and listen to their voice.

Mrs. Everdeen/Peeta – Merchant's children. Blond(e). Blue eyes. Looked past status and financial differences and fell in love with Mr. Everdeen/Katniss anyways. Especially in love with their singing. Interested in feminine things (healing/baking and painting) in contrast to their spouses’ hunting skills.

Bonus :

Mrs. Everdeen when Mr. Everdeen died :

“Never having been in love, this is going to be a real trick. I think of my parents. The way my father never failed to bring her gifts from the woods. The way my mother’s face would light up at the sound of his boots at the door. The way she almost stopped living when he died.”

— The Hunger Games

Katniss when Peeta was captured :

“I give up. Stop speaking, responding, refuse food and water. They can pump whatever they want into my arm, but it takes more than that to keep a person going once she’s lost the will to live.”

— Catching Fire

Peeta elaborating on his childhood crush on Katniss :

“No, It happened. And right when your song ended, I knew – just like your mother – I was a goner.”

— The Hunger Games

Screaming. Crying. Throwing up.

[triassictriserratops]

Suzanne, Suzanne look at me. Look at me.

I'm being so serious right now...

I am on my KNEES begging you for the Mellark/Everdeen side drama. Even just like a slight mention. WITH first names. I am BEGGING you.

[tellmelater]

in another life

[mollywog]

Slowly, my mother returned to us. She began to clean and cook and preserve some of the food I brought in for winter. People traded us or paid money for her medical remedies. One day, I heard her singing.

And

Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life. I try to follow Dr. Aurelius's advice, just going through the motions, amazed when one finally has meaning again. I tell him my idea about the book, and a large box of parchment sheets arrives on the next train from the Capitol.

[lovepersevering13]

I hate people saying that Mrs Everdeen was a neglectful mother before Mr Everdeen died like… I may be missing something but I don’t remember any mention of her being absent before he died???

Also I HATE Mrs Everdeen slander all together like you’re clearly missing a big point that was being made about grief, depression and love. Even Katniss knows by the second book that it wasn’t her mothers fault and by the end of mockingjay she has experienced it herself.

[googleincognitomode]

U can’t convince me otherwise that katniss’ dad’s name isn’t Heath. Why? It’s an evergreen shrub, founded in the moors n deep into the forest. It’s fitting for the family, since they has very botanical names. It’s also a plant used for medicinal purposes- linked w kidney n heart cleansing/ benefits, something that would links w Mrs Everdeen apothecary career, possibly needing heath (plant) for her healing n Heath (person) because she truely love him so much, she would leave her comfortable world in town.

Now, what would Mrs Everdeen’s name be? Erica. It’s another botanical name, w apothecary uses, what is always founded alongaide the heath plant. Someone told me, u gotta fact check, that when the Heath plant dies, the erica will still grow, but will slowly die off n become different to its initial blossoming. Which in my mind- is so poetic n sad, since it perfectly describes the relationship w mr n mrs Everdeen. She was a different person w her husband, n when he died, she slowly withered away. Though recovered, she still isn’t happy with her life source next to her

I like to also mention, a heath is the light and source of fire of a central force/being= thus, the Everdeen family. And when he died, a small part of everyone was left cold and empty, because they are constantly without their heath of a fire (physically n metaphorically).

And credit to my friend, since there is a Heath of a fire, it connects to katniss cus SHES the GIRL ON FIRE!!

[caesarflickermans]

Do you have any opinions on Mrs. Everdeen as a character, and the parallels/similarities between her and Katniss? She is seriously overhated and isn't given enough credit.

Common readings state Katniss is like her father, and Prim is like her mother. While this is true for appearance and profession, Katniss shares her mother’s emotional nature.

When we first meet Katniss, much of her idea of love and marriage is shaped by the grief of her own mother over having lost Katniss’ father. Mrs. Everdeen is described to be in a “blank and unreachable” state (THG, 1). Katniss is scared of the consequences of love, that being grief, that she prefers death over returning alone to 12 (THG, 25). During the nightlock moment, she recognises that she will never go home, as she will spend “the rest of [her] life in this arena trying to think [her] way out” (THG, 25). 

Katniss’ willingness to sacrifice herself for Peeta’s life is a continued theme throughout all three books. Her wish to keep Peeta alive in the 75th Hunger Games presupposes her own sacrifice (CF, 13), and it is because she needs Peeta to live (CF, 24). She hopes that if she were to die, Peeta could live (CF, 27). When Peeta returns hijacked, Katniss has “accept[ed] deep down that he’ll never come back to [her]. Or [she’ll] never go back to him. [She’ll] stay in 2 until it falls, go to the Capitol and kill Snow, and then die for [her] trouble” (MJ, 14).

Following the 74th arena, Katniss’ aspiration to mend the relationship with her mother can be understood as Katniss having recognised that her mother had not been “equipped to deal with [what happened to her]” (CF, 3). This recognition does not come out of nowhere; if we look at her willingness to sacrifice herself for the life of another, Katniss has gained an understanding for why her mother fell into the crushing depression following Mr. Everdeen’s death (CF, 3). For the first time within the series, the parallels between them are directly brought about, as Katniss, too, has experienced a similar grief at the thought of losing, and eventually assuming she had lost, Peeta.

It is pivotal to recognise that Mrs. Everdeen’s depression due to grief, the one that left her “blank and unreachable” (THG, 1), is mirrored in Katniss when she grieves Peeta. Katniss becomes unreachable herself, refuses to speak, drink, and eat (CF, 27). It is Peeta’s hijacking that has Katniss become lethargic, with nothing to say and incapable of crying (MJ, 13).

Her previous reason to survive, taking care of her family, has been overtaken in her grief, much like Mrs. Everdeen “sat by, blank and unreachable, while her children turned to skin and bones” (THG, 1), as Katniss only learns about her sister’s fate afterward (CF, 27).

While much can and has been said about Mrs. Everdeen’s depression directly impacts her two children, Katniss’ depression in her grief for Peeta expresses itself in a similar lethargy. It is only Peeta’s return that awakens Katniss from the negligence she has applied to her own life and body, no longer withering away (MJ, 27).

While we have had three books to learn the intricacies of Katniss and Peeta’s relationship as well as Peeta’s character to trace Katniss’ grief over Peeta, we know fairly little about Mrs. Everdeen before her grief, Mr. Everdeen’s character, and their relationship. Unfortunately, this leaves fans with fairly little on Mrs. Everdeen other than Katniss’ frustration and anger. As this abandonment defines her on the first few pages, and the understanding occurs much farther in and is less plainly stated, it is easy to be blinded to the parallels between mother and daughter.

[yourhighness6]

Thinking about how Katniss's relationship with her mother gets better as her romance with Peeta progresses. How she is basically saying "I know what it is to love now. I understand the pain you went through when Dad died. I'm sorry"

[madzthemenace]

“Because sometimes things happen to people snd they’re not equipped to deal with them.” (cf 38)

This is easily one on my favourite quotes from the whole series.

[hungergameshyperfixation]

Something with Sunrise on the Reaping that I really hope we might get (if the book focuses on district 12) is young Mrs Everdeen. I actually have a lot of complex thoughts about her (as a character, not just her relationship to Katniss).

And it’s just that she plays a role in the story too. Not just as “Katniss’s Mom” but as a person who lived in twelve. Who lived in the Merchant part of 12, who married someone from the Seam, who helped people in need. Who is, in my opinion, one of the main influences for Prim and what later leads to Prim becoming so advanced so early in medicine. Mrs Everdeen has a name we don’t even know. In fact, she has two names we don’t even know: her first and maiden name.

She had a best friend, who was sent off into the Hunger Games the same year a Víctor from twelve emerged. She knows of Haymitch. Perhaps she knows more of Haymitch than we as the audience already know. Maybe Mr Everdeen and Haymitch were in the same circles. Maybe Mrs Everdeen had rebellious thoughts too; maybe not.

Anyway, I can’t believe I speculated about this stuff casually but now we have a LEGITIMATELY nonzero chance to have these things explored and confirmed. I’m still all over the place with “what I want” SotR to be (it doesn’t matter what I want, SotR will be whatever Suzanne Collins has written it to be; I’m just saying I’ve been thinking about SotR a lot, and how I’m not exactly sure what I’m hoping for with it).

But, it would be amazing to see Mrs Everdeen and Mr Everdeen. To know their names, know more of their stories.

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