#platonic everthorne

[mountainrusing]

Katniss and her best friends, Peeta and Gale, who hate each other. Which sucks, obviously, because they’re both her best friends, so what’s she gonna do now? Does she actually have to stand there while they shuffle awkwardly and try not to make eye contact? They’ll just pretend the other doesn’t exist, which means Katniss has to hang out with both of them separately, and no offence to Peeta or Gale, but she does have other parts of her life to get to, so.

Their petty rivalry is making her tired. Katniss, learning to love herself, figures that things which drain her energy just won’t do.

The solution? Forced proximity. It’s not that toxic. Probably. She’ll just keep putting Peeta and Gale in random, awkward situations, stuck with only each other for prolonged periods of time, and see how that goes. They’ll eventually get along. They have to at some point. Probably…

And when they stare at each other, finally, Katniss knows it’s because they wanna be friends SO bad.

Then they’re all best friends. Who live together. Forever.

[mariigoldzz]

Gale Hawthorne ━ The Hunger Games Trilogy

"The credit for the survivors' escape has landed squarely on Gale's shoulders, though he's loath to accept it."

[lemonluvgirl]

I also support this head canon. Katniss' only friend for years was an older boy, and they hunted in the woods, traded at the local black market, and just regularly broke the law and ignored societal constraints. Homegirl probably knew how to swear like a damn sailor from the age of like 13 and up.

I feel like Katniss probably cusses often, mostly humorously. I could just see her being a swearer. She did it a few times in canon, but I think she didn't really cuss much when she was younger (unless she was alone with Gale in the woods) because she didn't want Prim repeating her and her mom was probably not a fan of cuss words.

[ninjapiratelady]

Madge should have lived so that she and Gale could have had the best background haters to reluctant acquaintances to besties in denial to lovers relationship.

Then Katniss gets to have two people to talk to about her Peeta problems and when she's like "IDK if I love him 😕" and Madge just smiles cause yes, you do, but imma let you figure it out on your own time. And Gale just rolls his eyes and walks away cause ffs Katniss, you idiot, go get your husband.

And then Katniss, instead of having to deal with Gale's bullshit in MJ, she gets the pleasure of watching her besties fall in love with each other in real time and she's trying - horribly - to give them relationship advice. Also that one part where Gale's like "I think Finnick likes you" it's out of genuine concern and not jealousy and then Madge laughs her ass off cause "no he doesn't Gale, he misses his wife and she misses her husband and they're best friend bonding over shared trauma". After that, Gale's jealous of Finnick - not because he thinks he loves Katniss but because bro, that is MY bestie get your own.

Also, with platonic bestie everthorne, Prim's death is that much more heartbreaking. Now, instead of being someone that Katniss is mildly annoyed with consistently because she doesn't know if she loves him or Peeta, they're best friends. She tells him (and Madge) everything and she loves him (platonic). And then, she goes from having him as a constant to not being able to look him in the eye and being devastated knowing it wasn't really his fault but she can't seperate him from that event. They grow apart, and, by extension, so do her and Madge.

But because I like happy endings, Gale and Madge move to D2 and Gale tills part of their backyard so Madge can grow a garden and there's a whole section for strawberries. They get married and have a few kids and they're happy. And they make regular trips to 12 to visit Gale's family and also Haymitch (who has lowkey had a soft spot for Madge from afar her whole life because of her icon of an aunt).

It takes a few years, but Peeta and Madge meet each other at the bakery one day and spend a couple hours catching up. Peeta tells Katniss, who then (she denies it) comes with Peeta to the bakery "to help" (to maybe catch Madge). Madge comes by and they reunite and Madge speaks on Gale's behalf about how awful he feels, but she tells Katniss that she understands why she can't forgive him. They decide to remain friends.

The Hawthornes visit 12 a few more times before Katniss decides she's ready to see Gale again. They meet up (with their spouses in tow so they don't have to be alone) and he apologizes and she maybe slowly starts to heal a little more. As a little more time passes, she forgives him for something that wasn't technically his fault and they all become best friends again just in time for Gale and Madge to be the first toast baby's honorary aunt and uncle.

They all stay besties till the very end and their kids are besties and Haymitch is Grandpa Haymitch to the Hawthorne and Toast babies and they all live happily ever after the end.

[thesweetnessofspring]

I struggle to see the appeal of Katniss and Gale as a couple and it's not just because I ship Everlark deep to my core. I am capable of loving a ship and seeing why someone ships one of those characters with someone else, even if I hate that other ship.

It's because, frankly, Katniss and Gale are boring together. There doesn't seem to be any of the classic romance tropes going on between them. And this, probably more than anything else, is why Everthorne shippers are so few and far between these days because people will ship just about anything as long as it's not boring. Toxic, illegal, annoying, problematic--this will not sway shippers. But boredom will.

Katniss and Gale fight with each other but it's not even "sexy" fighting/bickering. It's boring fighting where you just feel mad at Gale after, but not that great push-and-pull those good antagonistic romantic couples have. It's just push-push-push-push.

They're supposed to be friends, but I can only think of one instance where they share a joke with each other. Their friendship is dull and based solely on "we both need food for our families." That's built a lot of knowledge about one another, but reading the series it's hard to find even genuine moments of friendship between them. Not where one is looking out for or helping the other (I'll never deny they do that), but where it's like, yeah, I can see that they like hanging out with each other because they like the other's company. At least from Katniss's perspective, Gale's company is familiar and known, which is its appeal. But if they were meeting for the first time at 16 and 18 without all the history between them, I cannot for the life of me see them wanting to hang out.

They have no physical chemistry. Katniss's descriptions of her physical contact with Gale are flat at best and uncomfortable at worst. So it's not even like, wow, but their make-out scenes are so hot!

They have no cute or romantic or sexy exchanges with each other. Maybe the one they have after his whipping could be construed as romantic? But Katniss drops that so fast and over three books they have one line each that's just sorta cute. I have seen rarepairs built on more.

Idk, ship and let ship, I just find this one so entirely lacking anything to make it shippable.

[bentknife]

i don’t know if this is a hot take but…….. i LOVE platonic everthorne

specifically platonic everthorne in AUs

if it cannon compliant. no thank you

canon divergent?? depends on how it’s done

AU?? GIVE ME ITTTT

romantic everthorne? no thank you sir

[lemonluvgirl]

Yes! I've said it, and agreed with other posts before but I'm putting this out there again.

It's always a tragedy to lose your best bud!!!

You know what hurts? Katniss and Gale are probably complete strangers by the time of the epilogue. I was rooting for Peeta but it really does hurt to see two great friends who wouldn't have survived without the other fall apart. Their relationship couldn't be preserved, that's the simple truth, even if it never had romantic implications, even if they did love each other in whatever way the audience sees fit, Gale and Katniss couldn't stay in touch after all that. And it's realistic but dam does it hurt to see two best friends drift away to nothing but strangers...

[thestarlightforge]

I don’t think y’all are Prepared for the amount of polycule activity that’s gonna take place in this Hunger Games/TBOSAS fic series—

[mellarked-katnisseverdeen]

I really DO love to think about Katniss, Peeta and Gale being friends Post-MJ.

Mostly because I just LOVE the idea that as the three of them come into adulthood they really do fully come to just laugh at the whole 'love triangle' thing. When things shake out and Gale see's how happy Katniss is, how much happier he is not begging and pleading for any scrap of the kind of love/affection he wants from her and both of them seeing how happy Katniss is getting to have both of them in her life in the way she is comfortable, they ALL just like. Get along great. Perhaps Katniss and Gale still have some of that distance that grew during the war, but they DO all become close and that means so much to me.

[lemonluvgirl]

me too  

Honestly this shit makes me so sad. Like however much Katniss was grieving Prim and associated Gale with how she died, she was clearly still missing him. I like to think that, even if it wasn't mentioned in the epilogue, in the years after the war as she healed they were able to heal their friendship and pick up where it had left off

[mountainrusing]

Gale and Peeta, who both love Katniss so much, so obviously it’s romance. They’ll do anything to keep her from death. How is that not true love? Like, who would do that for ‘just friends’? Clearly, they have to be ‘more than that,’ right? (No. No, they don’t. See, in life or death scenarios, like THG, people are gonna confuse their strong platonic feelings for romantic ones. I mean, people do it all the time even now, you know, amatonormativity; the source of all evil.)

And heteronormativity because she’s a girl and they’re boys so what else could it possibly be? Gotta be romance. (No. Just: no.)

So when Katniss picks neither of them, because no way does she need either of them to survive, they’ll overthink, ‘Is something wrong with me?’ Gale always thought that Peeta was better than him. Kinder. Nicer smile. Peeta always thought Gale was closer to her. Stronger. Tougher mind. They’re both rejected, and dejected, and there’s Peeta’s method of avoiding Katniss, and Gale’s tendency of lashing out. Katniss gets repulsed by Gale’s anger, and Peeta feels sympathy for him.

Gale is a hot-headed explosion and Peeta is a charismatic puppy…

In conclusion, Gale x Peeta is grumpy x sunshine

[mariigoldzz]

I know the love triangle represented Katniss choosing between war and peace but like. I would have loved Gale and Katniss just being besties. Best friends who could tell each other everything.katniss would get home from the victory tour giggling and kicking her feet about Peeta with Gale nodding as he listens to her yap. Gale telling Katniss the tea that happened while she was away. Katniss watching her best friend slowly get radicalized and manipulated by Coin.

Katniss's best friend, who she could tell anything to, being the one who caused Prim's death in the end.

[girlpathetica]

may i know your everthorne thoughts 🎉

EVERTHORNE /HAWTHNISS HEADCANONS

note: i love these two dearly, both platonic and or romantically! if they're not your cup of tea, that's fine!

gale has had several variations of saying katniss’ name: captain, catnip and very rarely, katpiss to annoy her. as time passes, he goes on to call her more cat-like endearments like mittens (to her dismay.)

i believe that post-war, they do take a long time away from each other, whether that's a long stretch of months or even a few years. all in all, i believe that they would never abandon their bond and would find their ways back to each other in slow burn, slowly but absolutely surely.

katniss still looks after the hawthorne kids despite gale being in two — she does this knowing that back in the day, when it was prim, gale had done everything in his power to protect her and keep her safe, both times over when she was in the arena. she trades the loss of her mother (physically) for hazelle, who has always been such to her no matter what, and spends the better part of her healing tending to their relationship.

around post-arena days before catching fire, she'd spend days with gale splitting food that she bought from a merchant storefront; giving him a glimpse into her small luxuries, even if most times he finds himself refusing out of humbleness.

disregarding the epilogue, i think katniss should've had the choice to go through a long procession of healing in twelve until she slowly was able to make sense of her life and what she wanted, eventually coming back to gale to try and emulate the domestic life they might've had if they ran away, allowing friendship to take the forefront firstly.

[edensparty]

If you ship Everthorne (romantically) then please get as far away from me as possible.

If you ship them platonically(friends/siblings/cousins or whatever)then you’re free to be near me.

Gale and Katniss are so sibling coded and maybe in another universe Gale didn’t create the bomb and he would tease Katniss for being head over heels for Peeta.

Gale and Katniss as cousins/friends you will always be in my heart.

Peeta and Katniss as anything as long as they’re together you will always be the very thing that makes my heart beat.

Peeta and Gale as friends,I hope that in another universe,you would tease each other over your crushes(Katniss and Delly).

Delly and Gale,you will always be famous for being the most non canon-canon ship.

Imagine Delly and Gales kids hanging out in the woods with Peeta and Katniss’s kids (and of course little Finn) like omg I’m combusting from the inside out😭😭💔💔

In another universe,hopefully.

This? or That?

[mollywog]

do you hate the idea of platonic everthorne or just romantic?

I like Gale. I don’t enjoy Gale slander. I have a preferred interpretation of him and love finding fics with similar characterizations to the one in my head.

Romantic Everthorne is not my thing, but ship and let ship.

I am a fan of platonic Everthorne, which makes their drifting apart in canon all the more heartbreaking.

Some of my favorite HCs -

In an AU where Prim isn’t reaped - Gale’s romantic interest in Katniss wanes. He’s an attractive guy with options and a desire for a wife and children- without encouragement from Katniss (and him not noticing her interest in anyone else), he points his romantic interest elsewhere. (Curtesy of @daydreamingandprocrastination - ugh I wish I could find this post!)

There’s a running bit in my head (and my drafts) where Katniss will think something in a moment of frustration, but two paragraphs later when Gale says it out loud, she is offended.

In my head I like to pair Gale with Madge, Johanna or Delly (each have a different and fun dynamic.) I also have my own OC for him, Vera (if Gale is fire, then his partner needs to be a soothing balm (subtly be damned).)

Part of Gale’s ‘fancy job’ in 2 is his way of keeping Katniss out of the spotlight (allowing her peace and privacy back in D12.) He’s a recognizable (and attractive) face from the Rebellion with a link to the Mockingjay (but not linked with the assassination) and most of his job is being a trusted figurehead of the new government in the media. Sort of stepping into Katniss’s previous role is a way of paying penance. (inspired by The Ashes of District 12)

[everdares]

Idk but every time i see your username I think of everthorne 😭 i def thought you were a gale/Katniss fan for a while there

WHAT 😭 i was thinking of changing it already but that's uh definitely the push i needed 😀

everdares came from everdair (platonic katniss and finnick, pls) because their dynamic is one of my favorite things in the books and i wish the fandom explored it more, on canon and aus!!! so i wanted to bring that friendship to represent myself here, but i've been considering changing it lately tbh