I think if they ever remake the Hunger Games one thing I would want them to add more in is how much of a pair Katniss and Peeta are.
From the beginning, they’re basically a package deal. From when they’re threatening Haymitch on the train with Peeta throwing the glass, which leads to Katniss and the knife to even how they play off one another when it comes to the star cross lovers act.
Neither of them could have won the games without the other. Peeta, while he had some strengths in the arena, shinned when he played the Capitol. Katniss was the better fighter in the arena, but she needed someone to play off of for social interactions. She would have been quickly forgotten of in that arena if she didn’t have Peeta to help keep their story going and her interactions with Rue.
It will make the devastation of them being ripped apart in Mockingjay so much worse. Katniss’ other half is gone, and they want her to now play a role that he excells at.
It will also make they’re coming back to one another that much sweeter, too. They’re a pair, and they’re gonna stay that way. Always coming back to one another.
(Also can we agree that if Peeta was in 13 from the start with or without Katniss, he would’ve taken control out from Coin in like less than two weeks. Peeta Manipulator Mellark everybody, Coin would be shaken in her revolution needing wig)
Ugh this is so true though! Her other half was gone in Mockingjay! And she was expected to now play both roles! Because they didn’t rescue Peeta and now she has to play his part! But no one could ever play his part! Even Katniss says so in many many subtle ways throughout the book! How many times did my girl long for him! The real him! The one she knew and loved! Because even as he came back he was still gone! Right when she needed him most!
As a fandom, I think we need to talk more about the “you could live a thousand lives and not deserve him” and the “you’re not very big or particularly pretty” scenes a bit more.
Like that has got to have messed Katniss up more than we are led to belive. Her romantic relationship with Peeta is already shaky BEFORE the hijacking; so after (hehe) when they’re trying to get back to each other, they each have their own mountains of insecurities that have been building over time. And I so rarely see these two addressed in fics, or when they are they’re barely brushed over and quickly dismissed.
If that was me, those comments would’ve destroyed me, especially the more time that passed without them being acknowledged.
Katniss already believes that she’s one of the worst people to ever live, and that she doesn’t deserve Peeta’s love and attraction. Despite her quick dismissal to both comments in the moment, I know they must haunt her afterwards.
“Often father and daughter look down on mother together. They exchange meaningful glances when she misses a point. They agree that she is not bright as they are, cannot reason as they do. This collusion does not save the daughter from the mother’s fate”
Ariel and Eric invented “x fell first but y fell harder because yes Ariel fell in love with Eric first but that boy took one look at the strange quiet girl petting his dog and letting him infodump and immediately started thinking about wedding colors
