#i might make a post analysing their relationship and my interperation of it bc their relationship is more complex than just a lovestory

[alicentes]

I initially found it strange that we Lucy Gray doesn’t seem too affected by what happened in the games, she says through music that she’s not going to let the capitol take anything from her and she’s not going to let the games change her or break her. Lucy Gray is a survivor, Because of this you could say that she’s accepted that she did what she had to to survive and she tried to do the least harm as she possibly could. However I find it hard to believe she never got angry or upset about what they put her and the others through, that she never thought about her friend jessup and the other tributes that she got to know, who died horrible deaths.

But then I realised WHY we don’t get to see her feel anything about the games and it’s victims. It’s because we only see the story through Coryo’s POV and he lacks the capacity for empathy. It’s that inability to empathise with people that stops us from witnessing Lucy Gray’s trauma and grief. He doesn’t think about what she went through, he never asks her about how she feels about it or even about how she’s feeling in general. Lucy Gray never confides in him or brings up the games herself because (perhaps unconsciously) she knows he won’t understand or truly empathise and therefore, he wouldn’t be the person she’d choose talk to about how she’s feeling.

We don’t see her trauma because snow never cared about her trauma, he only focuses on how they fell in love during the games, not the horrors of it or what the girl he believes he loves had to go through, despite having a small taste himself of what it would have been like for Lucy during the games despite having a front row seat when he went into the arena and had to kill a person to get out alive, but he lacks the capacity to empathise. Despite his front row seat to Lucy Gray’s trauma as well as the injustices, and poor quality of life that she faces in district 12.

#lucy gray baird #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #coriolanus snow #the hunger games #their relationship was doomed from the start because of his inability to feel empathy or understand their differences #he’d never be able to understand why she sees their world differently and respect her difference of opinions or their different in decisions #no matter if he tries to fight his narcissistic tendacies and his lack of empathy those traits still come through and influence #his relationship with lucy #theres a lot i can say about the power imbalance that shaped their relationship from the start and how he had ownership over her and how he #never stopped feeling ownership over her and how his natural lack of empathy shapes their relationship despite his apparent love for her #but that’s a whole other post #i might make a post analysing their relationship and my interperation of it bc their relationship is more complex than just a lovestory