#I think people try to make Gale into the overall antagonist is because of shipping but he never had a shot and it’s not a secret

[justsomerandom-nerd]

“Gale is the REAL villain of the hunger games-” No. Nope. 100% wrong.

Gale is 18 in the first book. Just 18. Is he a good person? No, and growing up under a fascist regime certainly didn’t help any. The real villains in the hunger games are the people in charge. Gale has no power. The reason Gale is so nihilistic and cruel is because of his upbringing.

Him and Katniss do not belong together, and building the bombs wasn’t right. But he wasn’t the one who killed Prim. Coin did. She had all the power, she made the decision to drop the bombs on the hordes of capital children and then on the responders, her people.

I’ve seen a lot of people villainizing him far past what he is actually guilty of. Gale is 100% a result of his environment. He is young and he is angry. Not just at the capitol, at the richer members of the district. And he has reason. Capitol children don’t have to worry about being reaped, and to an extent, the richer children of the districts have far less chance of being reaped because their names are in there significantly less.

And it’s not just him he has to be worried about. He has three younger siblings. Even though he’s far too young to go into the games, they can. Both Gale and Katniss are forced into the role of provider extremely young, forced to feed their families the only way they know how: by risking their lives to both travel outside the district to hunt and by signing up for tesserae.

The real villains of the hunger games are the adults who made the decisions to put these kids in these situations. Snow, who forced the games to continue and killed thousands of children, who forced Finnick into prostitution (which we have no idea when he started, but we can assume young as he won his games at only 14). Coin who took advantage of Katniss’s trauma, Gale’s rage, and chose to drop the bombs. Gaul, who took advantage of Snows desperation.

#the hunger games #gale hawthorne #katniss everdeen #tbosas #mockingjay #catching fire #coriolanus snow #alma coin #volumnia gaul #I think people try to make Gale into the overall antagonist is because of shipping but he never had a shot and it’s not a secret #this rant is brought to you by dumbasses on YouTube