#protect katniss

[littlemarianah]

I read a post on Reddit that asked what Katniss would be like if she lived in the real world. And I was so frustrated with the answers. I think people don't understand that Katniss is an extremely realistic character.

A teenage girl who raises her younger sister, is the main breadwinner in her home, and sacrifices her life for someone else's . In the books she literally sacrifices her life for Prim's, but in real life she would sacrifices her childhood and her future. How many Katnisses do you know that dropped out of school, don't have a social life, didn't go to college to be the provider of their house.

Unfortunately there are more Katnisses in the world than I want to admit. Young girls forced to take on very big responsibilities.

I did that, I dropped out of college to take care of my sick mother. I was her and my elderly grandmother primary caregiver at 17 while I was providing for our house.

Katniss is a girl forced to be an woman because other adults around her failed to protect her. Unfortunately realistic, but that's why I love her so much.

#she was just a baby #protect katniss #thg #katniss everdeen #the hunger games #katniss #headcanon

[wierdshenanigans]

Remembering the time Haymitch got into this huge argument with Katniss's doctors to prevent them from SURGICALLY ALTERING HER BODY WITHOUT HER CONSENT (ik thg universe has done worse but-) because he knew she would hate that.

Remembering the time the hunger games organisers forced Cinna to design a dress with paddings near the breasts when they weren't allowed to give her a boob job, only for him to cleverly make the dress so that the padding would serve absolutely no purpose to make Katniss, a MINOR, have big breasts.

Suzanne Collins really did go all out on the cruelty and awfulness of society and Cinna and Haymitch are truly amazing.

#thg #thg katniss #cinna thg #the hunger games #the hunger games trilogy #katniss everdeen #suzanne collins #haymitch abernathy #thg haymitch #the hunger games katniss #hunger games #cinna #mockingjay #catching fire #cinna and haymitch look out for katniss in their own ways #and they both care about her #they both want to protect her and I think they both tried until they couldnt anymore and had to just let her go to protect herself #katniss and haymitch #katniss and cinna #cinna was such an incredible guy

[trobeds]

i know the hunger games isnt about romance i know it isnt a love story but. theres just something so beautiful in the way peeta is the personification of what it means to heal and he /is/ the dandelion and the bread and the hope that things can be better even if they wont be fixed. even if the nightmares dont stop he will still hold her. wake her up and tell her shes alive. shes safe. and when its over and done and theres no more saving or protecting or trying their absolute hardest to die if it means keeping the other alive, the horrors dont stop. but katniss will still find that comfort in peetas arms.

#and peeta Goes Through It too but hes there!!!!!!!! hes always there and hes kind and artistic and peaceful and good and everything that #the games could never destroy (the hijacking couldve but he found his way back. he still wonders whats real sometimes but he knows. he know #who he is. a painter a baker and a boy who loves. she reminds him of that love too) #anyways :( katniss longs for peetas arms and nobodys been this gentle with her since her father died and she stopped letting her mother #hold her. and peeta does #something about the way he holds her so so gently with so much love and care despite all the destruction and how peeta counteracts the fire #in katniss. the one that tells her she needs to protect and defend and prioritize keeping her family alive and keep her guard up. but hes #there to comfort her and hold her and protect her and those r all the things katniss doesnt get the privilege of thinking about because she #always thinking about who she needs to protect #its so personal to me. god i am Not okay rn #i have a rehearsal before school tmr and i am sooooo sleepy but. insane thoughts can never wait #everlark #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #peeniss #< the real ship name #the hunger games #thg #late night thoughts & all that jazz #🫀

[thesweetnessofspring]

The rebellion might have told the other victor rebels to keep Peeta alive for Katniss's sake, but I truly 100% believe Mags and the morphling woman would have sacrificed themselves for Peeta regardless. And not for Katniss or the rebellion, but for him.

He was a 17-year-old boy, just a kid. A kid who has already had to deal with more than he should, who still had a chance of living a good life should the rebellion succeed. After all of the years Mags and the morphling woman spent mentoring other children to watch them die, to be so powerless against such evil, that choice to offer up their lives in place of Peeta's had to have been an easy decision. A relief, even, to finally to stand up against Snow and protect at least one child.

#the hunger games #peeta mellark #mags #thg mags #morphling woman #district 6 woman #mags flanagan #it's a biological imperative to protect the young and i really believe these two women would have protected katniss and peeta no matter wha

[sameschmidtdiffname]

I love the difference in Katniss and Peeta asking for love. Peeta is in full "You don't have to, it's ok!!! Please don't even make eye contact with me, no pressure!!" Mode during 'The Hunger Games' meanwhile Katniss for the rest of the series is just like this fucking goblin crawling out of the pits of hell like "No pressure, but I will kill myself if you don't breathe in my direction"

#i feel like he looks at her like a chihuahua #here is this deranged creature that sometimes wants to kill me #it needs my protection (he needs protection from her) #it needs caring (he is a housewife) #she is a gentle baby who would never harm a soul #(he has had to replace two geese for haymitch for reasons hes not allowed to discuss) #meanwhile katniss is in the corner like “i can get him pregnant” #peeta x katniss #everlark #peeniss #peeta and katniss #the hunger games peeta #katniss x peeta #katniss and peeta #peeta mellark #thg peeta #peeta #katniss everdeen #thg katniss #the hunger games katniss #the hunger games trilogy #the hunger games #hunger games #thg series #thg #cf #mj #catching fire #mockingjay

[cherries-and-knives]

So I had never really thought about this scene that much….because in the long run of the series it was truly kinda an insignificant moment….but Katniss waking up right after being kidnapped and going immediately to ‘where’s Peeta I have to end his life before they can torture him’….is INSANE.

Like just the thought that Katniss woke up, had no idea where she was, and immediately went to Peeta…..again…SHE DIDNT EVEN KNOW WHERE SHE WAS. Yet her first thought was his safety and how she couldn’t stand him being tortured by the capitol.

And the very worst part about it is that that’s exactly what happened. It didn’t even matter that she was willing to end their lives, it was too late. He was beyond her protection. And I think that’s why that scene hits so hard, even though it was such a small moment in the larger scheme of things.

#at this point it seems like I’m babbling #but just….imagine #being so desperate to protect someone that you are WILLING to end their life #just so you don’t have to watch someone you love have to be in more pain #that is a crazy desperate kind of love #and it makes me feel so heartbroken for them #anywaysss #this post might not even make sense to ppl lol #but just….everlark…protecting each other #always gets me #hunger games #the hunger games #thg #everlark #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #thg katniss #thg peeta #the hunger games katniss #thg peeta mellark #thg mockingjay #thg series #thg movies #thg catching fire #katniss peeta #katniss x peeta #hunger games peeta #peeta supremacy #the hunger games peeta #peeta x katniss

[malinaa]

MOCKINGJAY, CHAPTER 21

#THEY PROTECT EACH OTHER. #lit #the hunger games #mockingjay #everlark #otp: real or not real? #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #photo #tais toi lys #thgpost #*

[yellourr]

Katniss gave rue the burial that she couldn’t give prim

#[ ♛ ] ─── 𝘽𝙀𝙃𝙄𝙇𝙎 𝙒𝘼𝙏𝘾𝙃𝙀𝙎 #the hunger games #I get really emotional thinking about the fact that #Katniss’ main reason for being so protective of rue is because of how much she reminded her of prim #like it’s the first thing she notices as she travels to the capital for the first time #the innocence in her appearance and how small she looks #like if she hadn’t volunteered- that would’ve been prim going into the arena and not making it to the end #also to add that in the series the most brutal part in the universe when we’re first introduced to it is the games #and katniss managed to turn the horror show into something honouring (for a brief moment) for a 12 year old who was forced to be involved #children in the hunger games are so important it makes me wanna cry jeez

[hoohoobeanie]

thinking hard about this actually

#the visual #my hunger games brain is going crazy #first court saying spence would be peeta !! then this ?? #spommy everlark vibe?? spencer as peeta who is hopelessly in love and would die if it meant saving tommy #and tommy as katniss who never meant to get feelings involved and was only trying to protect himself but would kill anyone who harms spencer #i am #ricocheting off the walls #spommy #spencer #tommy #smosh

[mellarked-katnisseverdeen]

I've seen the point made several times that Katniss seems to sometimes withhold information from her narration she would want to keep privete. Not only do I think that is VERY true it makes so much sense.

The series is just a run on tale of Katniss and her life being used to further others goals until it destroys most of her. To me her recounting this story and saving some details for herself...that makes sense. Her not wanting to talk or explore much about Peetas personal life and family makes sense. Her not telling us her childrens names makes sense. The details of her and Peeta growing back together makes sense. ALL that kind of stuff that, with all the other details she puts elsewhere make us wonder why she didn't mention any of this?

It almost show to us how important they MIGHT have been because she keeps it from us when we know how detailed she can be. Katniss decides to keep this for herself.

#That said: I will always support anything perhapes detailing GBT in greater depth. AND anything fleshing out Peetas life. #I do think it's sweet though. Katniss protects Peeta even in her narration by not telling us all this stuff #AND her life somewhat by not saying really what she does after getting back to living or where she/her and Peeta live. Like yes Collins #is vauge to allow readers their own flexable narrative at the end. But it also fits that Katniss wouldn't tell us everything. #Everlark #Katniss Everdeen #Peeta Mellark #The Hunger Games

[thewriterlyowl]

Suzanne wrote “Haymitch…passes the bag [of sweets] to a giggling Prim” and this is basically their most positive interaction but it hasn’t stopped me headcanoning that she is one of the few people he’s unreservedly sweet to, that he tells her raunchy jokes when her mother isn’t around, that after he went through withdrawal when the liquor ran out he tried to remind her that he wasn’t always like that.

Haymitch had his brother and mother ripped from him after the Games, so I like to think that he relates to how much she adores Prim and low-key wants to make sure her innocence is protected.

(You know, before Snow announces that he’s going to have them all murdered in the QQ)

#I don’t know if this makes sense #but that line made me so emotional on my latest reread #I can see Haymitch deciding he’s Prim’s bad influence gruncle as a way to protect the sibling of a Victor when he couldn’t #katniss everdeen #haymitch abernathy #primrose Everdeen #the hunger games

[ayyy-imma-ninja]

*me, who has successfully made a tiny wood and rubber band crossbow that shoots toothpicks*

Moon

T a k e t h. T h y. N e w. W e a p o n

A new sword, AND a bow & arrow? You guys are fueling his chaotic side a little too much.

Also gonna make Sun jealous even though he doesn't know how to use such weapons

#answered ask #fairy au #fnaf daycare au #fnaf daycare attendant #moondrop fairy #fnaf moon #fnaf moondrop #moondrop #he is katniss #or merida #he shoots for his own hand #and to protect his brother #he's armed and even more dangerous #dca fairy au

[sanjarka]

i'm gonna start being mean. if you have enough understanding for katniss's depression then how are you calling katniss's mom selfish for her response to her husband's death. you do understand what catatonic depression is right? you understand that she didn't purposely abandon her children?

#i would also argue that she didn't even abandon katniss after prim's death but was actually protecting her #sometimes it seems like some people genuinely feel like she didn't love katniss as much as prim which is so... #she was afraid and she knew that if she were to return to 12 everything would repeat again #and yes as a mother she should take care of her daughter but she's also just a woman #how can two sick people take care of each other like literally how??? #and maybe she should've tried harder and not focused on the fear BUT I AM REPEATING DEPRESSION IS NOT SOMETHING YOU JUST CHOOSE TO HAVE #the only thing she's certain of is that the possibility of disappointing and hurting katniss is to high to risk it #and there are things to criticize her for surely but i just don't see any of her mistakes being a result of not caring for katniss #or not loving her #that's not it #I WILL PROTECT THIS WOMAN UNTILL THE END OF TIME #thg #everlark

[thesweetnessofspring]

Haymitch, for all of his flaws, started a generational change that rippled out.

He didn't have much he could do to protect Katniss and Peeta from going into the Games, from Snow, from the Quell, or the war, but he wasn't going to let them lose each other. He knew what that was like, losing an ally (Maysilee) and a love ("my girl") and he might not be able to save them from all the Capitol put them through, but he pulled out every wile and connection and every minute of semi-sobriety he had in him to help his kids have a better life with each other, to not be alone and miserable like he was.

And how in turn Katniss and Peeta of course can't protect their kids from the pain of life, from their parents' nightmares, from the history they have to learn, from the worry it might happen again, but they built a life of full bellies and safety and love for them, so that in turn their children can have a better life, too.

#the hunger games #haymitch abernathy #d12 victors #haymitch was not perfect in how he did it but for an alcoholic with ptsd and a wall up telling himself to not care #the way that he mentored and protected those two kids is enough to make me cry #the vulnerability he had to find to open up after all of his trauma and care for two kids targeted by the capitol is admirable by itself #everlark #toast babies #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark

[astrobei]

when byler has this conversation in season 5

#hunger games catching fire the movie of all time #the visions…. i’m being plagued by them #like #peeta being like #“nobody needs me” #katniss looking at him n saying ‘i do. i need u.’ #LIKE SHE DOES #SHE NEEDS HIM #she’s always needed him!!! #look i know thg isn’t about the love triangle and the romance plot that’s the whole point i Know #but like #finding safety and comfort in someone #needing someone #wanting to build ur future w that someone once u know the future is safe #someone who calms u down and grounds u and makes u feel protected #i’m just so #tell me this is not the van scene. TELL ME THIS IS NOT THE VAN SCENE !!!! #byler #will byers #mike wheeler #/astro posts

[worldfullofash]

Thinking about Finnick Odair (thg spoilers)

When Annie was captured by the Capitol Finnick realised that he couldn’t protect her this time. He couldn’t help her, couldn’t save her. He blames himself.

“I wish she was dead. I wish they were all dead and we were too”

District 13 gave him a rope to fidget with. Notice how the rope is short? They were probably afraid he would do something to himself. He even told Katniss he wished he was dead in this scene^ (And he joked about it in a deleted scene)

Finnick wishes Annie was dead too. He doesn’t want her to go through more pain. He wants to join her in death. He’s hoping for a more peaceful life there. He wants to see Mags again. He wants to live his life the fullest without feeling like a robot.

Finnick wants to be asleep, doesn’t matter if he has bad dreams. He doesn’t want to wake up if Annie isn’t at his side.

First Finnick had lost himself.

Then he lost Mags.

And now he might lose his Annie too.

Finnick gives Katniss advice. He shows that he has experience with dealing with nightmares. He is only 24 and already has gone through so much trauma. While still processing his grief, he makes the effort to help his friend with hers. While still processing his grief, he contributes to the revolution by sharing secrets about the people who hurt him. Secrets he collected, knowing they would come in handy later. He used the brutal situations he was forced into to his advantage. To get the victors back.

He finally had her back. He finally could help her heal. He finally got the opportunity to shield her from harm by participating in the '76th Hunger games’ to end this war. I like to think he did it for her. And it got him killed.

The right person but not enough time.

#Thinking about how Finnick Odair died while protecting his loved ones #Annie is so pretty #the hunger games spoilers #the hunger games #finnick odair headcanons #the hunger games headcanons #thg #finnick odair #annie cresta #peeta mellark #katniss everdeen #johanna mason #odesta #finnick odair x annie cresta #finnick x annie #the hunger games hc #the hunger games angst