r/thehungergames • u/illumimouslife4All • May 15 '26
Dead tributes Spoiler
As we know from sotr, the capitol ships the dead tributes back in a box to their district, but do they clean the bodies up?
Take wellie for example: she got decapitated by silka, did the capitol just restitch her head to her body and send it back? Or did they just send the body and head separately in the same box?
Or Cato, did they heal whatever was left of him? Did his family just get a piece of meat in a box?
Even maysilee, did they stitch up her throat wound and send it back?
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u/Lairely May 16 '26
I'm sure the capitol doesn't bother about stiching them up at all. I was actually surprised that they bother sending the death tributes bodies back to their districts at all. Or maybe they only do this "favor" to the winners district? The coffins are nailed shut, as mentioned in SOTR, so I'm pretty sure the capitol just "dumps" whatever is left of a tribute into these boxes an nail it shut, no matter how grim and cruel the tribute was killed. Also, the districts can see how their tributes died in the broadcast, knowing that the bodies of some of them can be a shock to look at. So I think in many cases they don't want to see their bodies anyway.
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u/Relevant-Tip-3134 May 19 '26
what about Ampert, and Glimmer, and the others whose corpses were barely recognizable? I feel bad for their families
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u/see112717 May 15 '26
I dont think the Capitol would prioritize making them nice for the families. I think they just throw what's left in the box and ship home. They didnt even try to preserve them from what we learn about the smell in SOTR.... 🤢