#lenore dove baird

[idontliketomatoesleavemealone]

the german expression for lovebirds is actually "cooing doves" which furthers my theory that haydove invented love in this essay I will-

[mayalaufeyson1742006]

When I'm reading fandom posts about Hayffie I am all for it...I love that Haymitch (fanon) finds some kind of happiness after the war...

but

if you ask me whether the guy who narrated the epilogue in SOTR (aka canon Haymitch) is going to think of someone the way he thought of Lenore Dove, then I start to waver..... Haymitch seems is content at the end of SotR. He has fulfilled his promise to Lenore Dove, saw the sunrise on a world without the reaping, has a beautiful family, and Lenore Dove ('s ghost) is right beside him tending to the geese. He might just be happy.

And that's something that's hard to achieve when you survived the Quarter Quell, led 46 children to their deaths every single year since then, blamed yourself for the deaths of the ppl you love and yet somehow barely survived all of that too.

haymitch isn't hung up on someone who's dead....because she grew old beside him.

I totally agree with OP's last para......there's a kind of peace in melancholia.

fyi he called LD the most precious thing he's ever known.

(Just so we stick to canon Haymitch.)

Man after sotr I have realized I reallyyyyy don’t like how the hunger games fandom discusses the topic of grief. The topic of haymitch and Lenore dove is leaving a very bad taste in my mouth, honestly.

It’s not a bad thing that he’s “hung up on” his first love- certainly not the term I would use but like. Grief is a never ending struggle . When someone you love dearly dies- you will grieve them until you die. It’s the last translation of love- the very last act of loving someone is to grieve them and you get to do that until you yourself pass. It’s not abnormal to hold on to the love you have for someone who left you too soon, it really does not matter that they were teenagers, he will always have love and grief for her. He will always be mourning her- even if he finds new love or not he will always be mourning her. And that is… an extremely accurate depiction of grief imo!

It’s not like. Grief is not a bad and ugly word that means you are feeling badly all the time that you grieve. Some times people don’t WANT to finish grieving,, some people hold their grief very close to their heart.

[madzthemenace]

“Finally, after an all night party at the Captiol zoo,” (sotr 349)

The Captiol zoo is still being used for Games-related things 40 years after the events of tbosas, just in a different capacity.

[rubixx]

GET HIS ASS

[catastrophic29]

If Haymitch’s family and Lenore Dove lived

Haymitch: Sometimes, I don’t realize an event was traumatic until I tell it as a funny story and notice everyone is staring at me weird.

[mayalaufeyson1742006]

Lenore Dove was named in the memory of Lucy Gray.

Lucy Gray and Maude Ivory were very close. So I imagine Maude Ivory would have wanted to honour/ remember Lucy Gray in some way after her sudden disappearance from D12. So when she was pregnant I think she would have decided that the child would be named in a manner such that either the baby would have

the same initials (LG) or

the same colour or

named from a ballad by the same guy (William Wordsworth).

So my theory is that, Lucy hence Lenore and Gray hence Dove (gray with a pinkish tint).

I have a feeling Snow realized this after his talk with Haymitch and he probably looked LD up, saw her rebel reports and decided she would have to be controlled, except it hadn’t worked out so well last time….

So think he decided she would die…I think Lenore’s death was, to a certain extent, quite independent of Haymitch’s victory or rebellion in the arena.

Snow could have had more control over haymitch if he’d held LD’s safety over his head. And I think he would have very much wanted to control the guy who tried to blow up his arena, over and over again and yet somehow still managed to become the Victor.

But he forsook that control because his teen situation ship was haunting him through her niece. He thought he was destroying the last of her presence from the world when he sent those gumdrops.

Boy, was he wrong.

[katnissmellarkkk]

so i don’t know if this is popular or unpopular but truly, snow deciding to murder haymitch’s ma and baby brother, and then lenore dove? that was truly an overkill, no pun intended.

but just… leaving haymitch with absolutely nothing left to live for with no knowledge that his songbird gave him a mission to fulfill… is just sort of stupid on the part of the most powerful man in panem?

i’m just saying, it would have actually been a thousand times more realistic and smart to leave lenore dove alive.

[maluceh]

songbird, mockingjay and dove

[jubilly]

haymitch seeing a bunny: "how could I possibly kill a creature that brings to mind my girl?" 🥺

snow seeing mockingjays:

[magicpiano]

I need Lenore Dove to do the 'fuck you' bow in the film adaptation of sotr. I know people want to give this move to Maysilee or Haymitch, and I get it, but I think it should go to Lenore Dove. It is a covey girl move.

Imagine this, she goes out to sing rebellious songs in the town square right after Haymitch is given his 1 in training. Then when she sees the peacekeepers coming for her, she gives them this bow to close off her performance. It would be a perfect moment.

[lenoredovesbairds]

Lenore Dove is so misunderstood and mischaracterized by the fandom it makes me sad to see.

She is not this manic, dream pixie girl. Her character very much shaped, flawed and real. Haymitch is able to oversee and ignore her “flaws” because he’s a 16 year old teenage boy who is madly in love with her, but it is not hard for us readers, to look between those lines and see how fleshed her character really is.

She is seen to act before thinking, making rash decisions which aren’t the best for her wellbeing. She is way too emotional, feels too many feelings and has too many thoughts and she doesn’t know how to articulate them into words because she’s an introvert and she fears her words being lost in translation.

She only reveals her unfiltered, (sometimes) dark thoughts to her loved ones, and often enough she does it by using metaphors so she can still backtrack incase she gets misunderstood because she still feels like her thoughts could be a burden to the people around her.

She is not a “Lucy Gray Rip-Off”.

Lucy Gray was a born performer. She loved to be on stage, she loved performing for her people and knew how to get the crowd on her side, how to keep them entertained.

Lenore Dove doesn’t sing in front of people. It makes her uncomfortable. She’s not a “Born Performer” nor does she know how to control a crowd, at least not in the way Lucy Gray did.

She’s a rebel. She’ll only use her voice when she realizes she absolutely HAS to. She’ll use it when she’s mad, and sad, and in despair.

She’ll go against the rules at any given time, especially when it comes to protecting her loved ones. She doesn’t realize nor care about any consequences at the time, she only acts because she’s in pain and wants to avenge her people.

She’s a sixteen year old girl who dreamt big in a world where dreaming was a luxury and not something many people can afford.

In spite of her dark, burdened thoughts, she had still kept her innocence and was able to dream of a world without the reaping, she had hopes that one day that dream could become a reality, no matter how crazy it sounded to others.

She also had dreams of growing up, having a loving family and living peacefully with her loved ones and her boy who she loved more than anyone and she was willing to die for him.

[danger-dayze]

The Covey:

[sydneyofalltrades]

lucy gray, haymitch, and peeta are the performers. the ones who knew that in order to gain capitol favor, they needed to put on an act and sell it

sejanus, lenore dove, and katniss were the activists. constantly resisting, fighting, rebelling. even if in some cases, they never meant to after all

and because of that, snow hates them all, the bloody lot of them, all the same

[catastrophic29]

Blair: We’re playing Scrabble. It’s a nightmare.

Burdock: Scrabble? Scrabble’s great.

Blair: Not when you’re playing with Lenore Dove, it’s not. She puts words like “ephemeral” and I put “dog.”

[theballadofthesunandthestars]

idk why I didn't post this, but I will now!

Wanna see Haydove as parents?

Boom

I have another Haydove one shot in the works, but it got so fucking long 😂 I am nowhere near done. So take this! It's been in my drafts for weeks now

[brynnsasha191]

When Snow first meets Maude Ivory in tbosbas he gives her a bag of candy as a kind gesture, then forty years later, Snow uses a bag of poisoned candy to murder Maude Ivory's one and only daughter and one of the last covey women. im unwell.