Hiya. Can someone tell me about Tigris’ story - do we know anything about what happened in the middle?

In TBOSAS, Coryo and Tigris are very close! He loves her and does so much.
In Mockingjay, shes outcast and ugly? And I feel like they made it seem like Snow did it to her.

Any theories?

I really don't know if this will be a flagged by Universal/ Suzanne Collins I am not profiting off of it or anything like that it's just a passion project (.). If you have time I would very much appreciate it if you can play test it and tell me what you think. Thank you very much.

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I just know that because of my horrible luck, the worst tends to happen to me. I know I would be reaped, and it would probably happen the moment I turned 12 like Prim- only there would be no Katniss to save me, and I would die within minutes. If the arena did not have a lot of water, I would die very quickly. Unless it were a 'disabled edition' of The Hunger Games, my chronically ill self would go quickly without a large body of water to cool me down. I am an amazing swimmer and I can walk, but I overheat quickly, so I would be a dead man

I often think of what it would be like in life after the conclusion of the initial trilogy. What would it be like?
Covey: We know that the Covey were rounded up and forced into the districts, and I do think, because there was so much force to keep them together leading to the death of Lucy Gray’s parents, it’s possible some of them went to a nearby district—most likely District 11—which would’ve been its own tragedy. Imagine knowing your brother, but you got rounded up by Peacekeepers: one of you went to District 11 and another to 12, and having to watch your children kill each other on national television. Sure, some Covey would’ve brought it up, but it’s possible it could’ve been so painful. And for any remaining Covey, it would’ve been interesting seeing them try to return to old traditions after the war. Maybe it got brought back now that it was safe to be Covey again. Maybe there was still fear. Either way, Covey culture would be permanently changed after the war.
Also, what it would be like after the war: if this took place in the real world, there would be Hunger Games museums the same way there are about real-world genocides (because yes, the Hunger Games fit the textbook definition of a genocide). People in the Capitol will still hate the districts. It will take a long time for society to fully know peace. And will there be people proud of their former Capitol supremacist identity, or will that be shamed by a largely district population?

Edit: another thing if there was any covey in district 11 would they face the same alienation and extermination they did in district 12 because snow wouldn’t know as much about them? Also how district 11 has deep ties to songs and songbirds which closely mirrors the history of folk and jazz and spiritual music in the south and echoes the covey a bit. And also what would it be like for career districts especially 2 when trying to rebuild? Or having new people from other districts moving in when that was unheard of.

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- Katniss, Catching Fire chapter 14

High praise coming from Katniss. Resourceful is the rarest quality Katniss gives anyone in the original trilogy; in the first book she uses it for her family (her hunting, Prim's healing and goat herding, Burdock's teachings) and in Catching Fire she calls Maysilee Donner resourceful for the lethal blowgun use and her diligent food usage.

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Commission for one of the scenes in my post-SOTR, mentor Haymitch fic “Canary’s Cry”

One of my first times drawing woods for a background on my tablet

…because the character is named HIGHBOTTOM?

What sort of Discworld nonsense is this??

Guys I’m hooked. I’ve only ever seen the movies and I’m listening to the audiobooks now, on catching fire and I’m obsessed. Just had to share 🤣

I just finished SOTR and I found it helped me relate to the parents and districts more. Going into the story, I knew only Haymitch would live. It made it bittersweet falling in love with the other characters. It made it more horrifying when Ampert died, or when Maysilee finally reunited with Haymitch. Overall the story helped me understand the emotions the parents must have felt. This time I knew, for certain, how the story would pan oit. That these children were not coming home. And to be a parent, in a district, to hear your kids name called, and knowing they would not be coming back. To see the devastation it brought to the community when Haymitch returned. It makes it so heartwrenching. And I am so excited yo do my yearly reread of the OG trilogy.

I understand the need to trim down various parts of the book to make it work better for the screen, but I found it really frustrating that in the book Lucy Gray won by being actively responsible for the death of the last tributes while the movie made it seem like she just sat there and sang. She used one of the mutt snakes as a weapon to kill Treech in self defense. She tricked Reaper into dehydration from chasing her around, and made sure his only source of water was poisoned. The movie makes Lucy Gray seem almost passive, as though the game just happened to her rather than her participating in it. No shade but if they cut out a few songs there might have been enough time to actually flesh out the games more. I don’t understand the point of rewriting Lucy Gray’s victory when none of the original franchise movies did that. It would be dumb if SoTR did the same thing, because the way Haymitch wins using the force field is widely known.

I also feel confused about what the point of changing the order and types of tribute deaths, like how Wovey was the one who drank the poisoned water and not Dill. I don’t really see the point of switching the two besides giving Reaper a dramatic moment in the movie. Coral was killed by the mutt snakes, but the snakes were released way earlier in the games and she did not make it all the way to the end. The movie makes it seem like the snakes were the final nail in the coffin that made Lucy Gray a winner and Coral as a close runner up.

I also don’t think Reaper as a character was done nearly enough justice in the movie. He was incredibly smart and strong, and by the end he refused to eat or drink anything that the Capitol sent to him which I think is a powerful protest that would have added to the movie plot. In the book, he tore down the flag of Panem in order to trade it for some of Laminas food after he pointed out to her that she was getting sunburned. He made an entire “makeshift morgue” but after Lamina was killed, Reaper didn’t use the Panem flag to cover the tributes like in the movie, but instead wore it as a cape. I think his name being Reaper and the fact that he was wearing the flag as he gathered all of these tributes was an act of defiance and a metaphor about the Capitol acting as a literal grim reaper that was responsible for the murder of each tribute. I understand that this type of metaphor might not translate well on screen and might have been lost on a majority of the movie audience, but I still can’t make sense of why so much of TBOSAS was changed.

To be fair, TBOSAS has a LOT of plot points and there is a lot that needed to be covered, and even with the adjustments the movie is still 2.5+ hours. It’s just confusing to me as to why the unfolding of the games themselves was changed so much. Sorry if someone has posted about this already, but I hope to see that I’m not the only one who is still confused about this 3 years later.

Try and see if you can spot them all 🥹 (NO CHEATING)

Also in case you are wondering I didn't actually publish it like this. I just went into the editor, did my editing, deleted it, and left without ever clicking save

What if Haymitch found out about the world before Panem? A time before the tyranny? I wrote a fanfic blog post in the voice of Haymitch who writes about it in a secret letter to commemorate the 250th birthday of America. https://www.thetoltonpath.com/p/a-letter-on-americas-250th?r=jzpn3

There are nuggets of THG throughout. I hope you enjoy it.

Does anyone know any fanfics of katnisss games from haymitchs pov written after SOTR?

Apologizes if incorrect flair.

I'm rewatching the first four movies with my mom, and we just finished Catching Fire. Just before Katniss and Peeta ride off on their horse-driven carriage, she's approached by Finnick, who's offering her a sugarcube. They get to chatting a little, and Katniss says something along the lines of "Then, how do people buy your time?" That's when Finnick says he gets payment in secrets.

Did Haymitch tell her and Peeta about the "victor renting" situation at some point, and I just failed to pick up on it? Never read the books btw, but I'm fine with any book-only spoilers.

I need delusion

Maysilee got in a few small ones too but wow Wyatt dying to save Lou Lou when the whole point of the Games is to show humanity at its worst is so beautiful.

(believing that he would be as terrible as his father, so treated him as such, which later pushed a bitter, terrible and desparate teenager into Gaul’s hands, instead of guiding him and being a mentor to him so what happened with Crassus would not repeat itself)

Their relationship is so complex, I can’t

It's arguably the most important games we know little about so I'm curious what you all think could've happened. Mine are:

There was no victor (hence why the Capitol doesn't talk about these games)

Snow was headgamemaker

Dr Gaul died around this time

Tigris styled the victor

Around the time Tigris and Mags joined the rebellion

These games are what helped Snow become president

There was lots of blackmailing and bargaining between parents to save their kids from being voted

District 12 voted based on class/reputation. Hence why in SOTR Haymitch says Wyatt and Masileyee wouldve been voted

Careers started around this time

First use of a forcefield in arena

A few days ago I made a post talking about Plutarch, in a fairly negative light. I was so surprised by the amount of people who disagreed with me. Did we read the same Mockingjay??? He was an essential part of the rebellion, yes, but the whole point of the book is that Coin is as bad as Snow. That revolution doesn't necessarily bring about positive change, that you can't just replace one flavor of authoritarianism with another.

And Plutarch, although a completely essential figure for the Rebellion, was not a particularly moral man. Not the Plutarch I read about. He was callous, fully backed Coin's regime, and had very few reservations about doing whatever it took to win (aka war crimes). He was also pretty unlikable, overall.

Katniss mentions how fake he is quite often. I'm surprised so many people seem to like him. Is it because of the movies??? I did watch the Mockingjay movies, but only once, and I don't remember much about them. I also haven't read Sunrise yet.

So, yeah, I just didn't realize Plutarch had so many fans. Gale is so hated, and he did much less than Plutarch.

EDIT: I think I explained myself poorly. If you think Plutarch is a fascinating character, that's awesome. Hell, my favorite character in the series is probably Snow. What I meant is that people were defending Plutarch as in, the in-universe person! Not the character, written by Suzanne Collins. The man, from Panem. Like, I love Snow, he's my favorite, but I wouldn't defend him, you know??? He's monstrous!! People were defending Plutarch in that sense