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The survivors of District 12 singing and dancing at Finnick and Annie's wedding hits so different after reading/watching tbosas. Can you imagine Snow's reaction to that propo? No matter how hard he tried to erase Lucy Gray and to obliterate District 12, she lived on in her music, music which is kept alive by the people of the place she once called home.

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"I never want the Hunger Games to end, I want *insert side character's game etc*"

Where oh, where has media literacy gone? Not to mention, we're literally seeing the stage be set for a real life hunger games...

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Something about all of the victors relationships with each other really gets to me but there's one underrated one that really hits hard.

Haymitch and Chaff we know they were drinking buddies for years. We know about Chaff refusing a prosthetic, refusing to hide what damage the games what damage the Capitol did to him. Did his loved ones pay the same price for his rebellion as Haymitch's and Johanna's did for theirs? Was that part of the reason they bonded so much? Is that another reason why Haymitch was so protective of Katniss after the games, why he fought tooth and nail for her not to be surgically altered in anyway so that she wouldn't have to fight and wouldn't be forced to do so to protect her family?

We learn that Chaff died just minutes before Katniss took out the forcefield of the arena, that he might've made it, had it not been for Brutus. We don't know the exact circumstances of the fight between them or the exact details that follow but we do learn that Peeta is the one who then kills Brutus. Peeta throughout the series is responsible for four deaths; the girl from district 8 in the first games (the careers had already injured her, he essentially ended her suffering so that she wouldn't have a long and painful death and so that the careers namely Clove wouldn't torture her more before killing her), Foxface (a complete accident on Peeta's part. In the books she's severely emaciated and starving and neither of them know that the berries Peeta picked are poisonous. In the film there's an implication that it's a suicide as we see Foxface study plants in the training center in earlier scenes before they enter the arena), Mitchell (Peeta was highjacked and was in no way, shape or form in control of his actions) and Brutus. Brutus is the only person Peeta intentionally kills (apart from the girl from 8 but she was slowly dying as a result of her wounds already inflicted upon her), did he see Brutus kill Chaff and immediately go to avenge Chaff for Haymitch? And if Peeta hadn't fought with Brutus, would he have been rescued along with Katniss, Beetee and Finnick? Is that another reason why Haymitch tells Katniss that he can't believe she let Peeta out of her sight that night? Because had they found each other when they were calling for each other in the arena before Peeta crossed paths with Chaff and Brutus and before Katniss destroyed the forcefield, would Peeta have been rescued too? It would add a whole nother level to the devastation to his failure to get them both out too. Peeta and Haymitch's relationship after the first games is so underrated but it's one of my favorites dynamics, one that I didn't appreciate until my most recent reread. While Haymitch and Katniss are much more similar and understand what the other is saying/meaning without having to verbalize anything, we do see himself and Peeta bond, not just as team but we truly do see him (and Katniss) become the closest things Haymitch has to family. Katniss notes that it's common knowledge that Haymitch and Chaff were friends, that they've been seen drinking together throughout the years during the televised clips of the Victors and of the mentors while the games are unfolding, so even without the countless days the trio spend together accessing their fellow victors, Peeta would've been aware of their closeness. Haymitch losing his friend and failing to save another mere moments apart is gut wrenching and adds to the tragedy.