So I saw the Hunger Games

[sapote]

Does anyone want to talk to me about Haymitch/Peeta/(Katniss) with or without parentheses because I am in, like. Physical pain over here.

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[toft]

I haven't seen it yeeeeeeeet

[sapote]

omg omg omg (though I am told by people who notice these things that it's still pretty heavy on the shakycam)

[phnelt]

you've ruined me with this. RUINED.

[sapote]

really.

[phnelt]

Well I never saw it before and now you have impregnated my teenage murdering exploitation dystopia with so much tragedy.

[sapote]

For the record I wrote 1200 words of this this morning and then realized that it was completely not canon compliant. Why is that always my life.

[phnelt]

See, I think timeline is key here. Haymitch/Peeta before the Quarter Quell Games is way different than post-revolution Haymitch/Peeta, but I have no idea which is worse. It's all so hard.

[sapote]

Like all of my ships I have no idea if I want it to be endgame. I had just forgotten that Haymitch must have gained some trust from Peeta in order to make the Romance Strategy with him in book 1. Which is a whole other thing I hadn't thought about but it does not decrease my screaming-forever-about-this.

[phnelt]

God, can you imagine that conversation though? Like, Peeta is basically going to Haymitch and asking him to help Peeta commit heavily stylised hyperviolent suicide. He's asking Haymitch to be so complicit in his death, which I think is a significant difference from Haymitch's currently cultivated strategy of carefully drink cushioned distance from the scared teenagers he is forced to take care of and then watch die.

[sapote]

fdjaldasfjkasdfjk I wish this did not make me ship it more. There is something wrong with my mind.

[phnelt]

Well, I mean, Katniss also did something that Haymitch couldn't even think of when she brought him home. He never managed to save a single one of his tributes, or his family. I feel like Peeta is previous, every day he is still alive is a gift and a symbol of ongoing resistance.

[sapote]

Also this is a super good reason for Haymitch to buy into Katniss's heroism, which is interesting, because we only see things from Katniss's point of view and her point of view is very would everyone please leave me alone please.

[phnelt]

And he's a super acerbic dude. But I like believing that he at least understands why what Katniss did would be significant as an inspiration.