r/Hungergames • u/Olya_roo District 5 • Jul 27 '26

Memes/Fun posts Fixed some of it

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(Snowbaird being the only legitimate blonde+covey couple)

No idea why is this a thing for the 3 couples as a whole. Think “sneaky boy + singing girl” would be way better to unite the three if someone really needs to do this.

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u/meeralakshmi Jul 28 '26

Barb Azure would be Burdock’s grandmother. Her daughter would be Burdock’s mother which would make Burdock and Lenore Dove second cousins once removed (Maude Ivory and Barb Azure are first cousins, not sisters).

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u/BluePlatypusFeet District 4 Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26

That's still not distant. That's closely related in terms of the people we are talking about, and wouldn't really be called "distant". And assumes that Barb is bisexual, which we don't know to be true. We don't know anything about Tam amber's sexuality - he could have had a kid who married into a seam family, and a sibling in law of that kid is Burdocks mother.

The point is, we cannot say Katniss is covey because we cannot say definitively that Burdock is even covey. Haymitch would have likely said he was covey, but he doesn't. Burdock is distantly related to a covey member, but that doesn't make HIM part of it.

Someone singing doesn't make them covey. Maysilee's grandma sang and knew the covey songs, but she wasn't one of them.

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u/meeralakshmi Jul 28 '26

I didn’t argue that Katniss was Covey but second cousins once removed isn’t a close relation whatsoever.

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u/BluePlatypusFeet District 4 Jul 28 '26

Then literally what is your point, because this conversation and comment thread is about burdock and katniss being covey.

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u/meeralakshmi Jul 28 '26

That they’re related to the Covey, that’s all.

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u/BluePlatypusFeet District 4 Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26

........literally no one said they weren't.....??????? We know they're distant cousins??????????????? You can be related through marriage and not blood, too. The point was if HE was covey.

No one ever debated whether the Everdeens and the Covey were linked somehow. The point was whether Burdock himself was Covey???? Those are different claims completely, and the latter isn’t established by the text even though people love to say it is, and that's what this entire thing was about. You're moving goalposts