harmlesssriracha

[harmlesssriracha]

I have never actually posted anything here before so I have no idea if I'm doing it right, but I have to say something about this. I am loving the resurgence of the Hunger Games fandom, but if I see one more person say something like “District 12’s three victors” one more time, I am actually going to lose my mind. Peeta is right there, and he is just as important to the story as the others. One of Snow’s (and Coin’s) greatest downfalls was underestimating Peeta’s influence, and here you all are, doing the same thing. There would be no Mockingjay and no rebellion without Peeta, and once the rebellion was over, there would be no hopeful ending without him either. If Lucy Gray was the kindling, Haymitch was the flint striker, and Katniss was the spark, then Peeta was the one who kept the fire from getting out of hand, and then he was the return of life after the fire. I mean, Katniss says it herself, “That what I need to survive is not Gale's fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire myself. What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction.” Gale was the fuel to the fire with no way of stopping it, until his anger towards the Capital eventually got so out of hand that he became the thing he swore to destroy, killing innocent children in the name of revenge. With Gale, she would have become a raging wildfire. But Peeta, he’s not necessarily the opposite, as that would mean extinguishing the fire altogether, which is not what he does. Instead, just like a baker would, he tended to the fire until it became warm and comforting instead of destructive. So, my point here is that Peeta went through way too much to have his role in the story be completely overlooked, and I better not catch anyone excluding him from the list of D12 victors ever again. Thank you for listening.