#Coriolanus decided to push her down instead so that he'd be the victor. the tribute that won.

[threeeyesslitthroat]

You ever think about how Coriolanus never left the arena either?

"Because if he dies, I'll never go home, not really. I'll spend the rest of my life in this arena trying to think myself out. "

-The Hunger Games.

I wish I could put this together better, or have a poetic zinger to get to the heart of this matter, But I really think that when you think about it, you'll also realize that Coriolanus never left the arena, and this lead to him realizing that he was really good at playing the Hunger Games, and thus made the entire world of Panem an arena. Because if you can control the one and only game, than of course you will always land on top.

I don't think I could go so far as to say that it was his coping mechanism, but since he clearly was a touch traumatized from the up close death of Arachne, the death of his fellow students and the bombing itself, including the fact that over the course of weeks Coriolanus was literally an eighteen year old that was put into the position of plotting other teens deaths in order to come out on top, as well as being ordered to go into the arena itself and had to kill another person in self defense, all leads to how he ended up viewing the world as an entire arena even after the games were over.

He literally betrays his two "allies" in Sejanus and Lucy Grey because he never stopped being inside the arena.*

I do however think that the biggest factor that leads into this is that in Mockingjay, its revealed that he used Game techniques as defenses against the city. With Mutts and pods that killed anyone who triggered them, not just rebels.

that's not really a sign of someone who is viewing the world with even a semi normal brain. Granted, it was an effective defense, but only for very short periods of time, and not very effective against literal armies, or even just several legions. Seriously, If Snow had thought just once outside his arena worldview, he would probably had thought of better strategies against the rebels, or even had seen that he was truly on a losing game and had surrendered far earlier. relying entirely on gamemaker logic was what lead him to such a defeat.

Because maybe we could talk about how Coriolanus never left the arena, while Katniss and every other tribute tried to leave.

#coriolanus snow #meta #tbosas #thg #*i just really like of the idea that Coriolanus thought of Sejanus #and Lucy Grey as fellow Tributes #even though Lucy Grey was clearly the victor #Coriolanus decided to push her down instead so that he'd be the victor. the tribute that won. #also probably could make a joke here about how the hunger games was just Coriolanus's new special interest. #his hyperfixation of 66 years that the rest of the country had to endure.