#louella mccoy

[trolliworms]

I think the most depressing thing about sunrise on the reaping is how it shifts everything we know so far. We spent so long feeling bad for Katniss and Peeta just to find out they didn’t even have the worst of it. The original hunger games trilogy was just the tip of the goddamn ice berg.

I rewatched the first movie and I cried so much harder than usual because I know this was not the first Prim. Not the first Rue. Not by a long shot. And we have no clue the depths of the cruelty.

[livingfandomly]

I didn’t expect the Louella story line. I really didn’t. And then when it happened, I couldn’t stop thinking about Peeta’s storyline. They both came back changed. Only, Haymitch knew that Louella wasn’t even Louella. Did he think the same about Peeta? At least in the beginning, was he doubting which Peeta came back? Who came back? Can you imagine how terrified he’d have been with the sheer idea of having to tell Katniss that it wasn’t really him?

[generisydtoo]

Lou Lou (aka my Lou Shayla💔)

Lou Lou was truly one of my favorite characters from “Sunrise on the Reaping”. I also see her as a nod to the Black girls/women and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW)— ppl who usually go missing and no one, especially the government, usually notices.

[fluorescentbalaclava]

I was going to do more but I got tired I'm sorry

[triassictriserratops]

I know he doesn't "care" about them in a positive sense, but I would give ANYTHING to know what wild shit he thought when Snow/Coin died.

haymitch didn't have to eat so hard after every character he cares about died... like what do you mean "who will sing your songs now?" "wyatt callow who's luck just ran out. i can't believe how hard it hits me" "whoever lou lou was she's gone now" "buddy? somewhere beetee's heart breaks into fragments so small it can never be repaired" "goodbye maysilee donner, who i loathed, then grudgingly respected, then loved. not as a sweetheart or even a friend. a sister, i'd said." like alright

[like-all-fire]

okay but imagine Haymitch going into the 75th games with Katniss and on the train he goes “so are you going to be my ally or what, sweetheart?”

[madzthemenace]

“I just stare into those burning blue eyes, letting her know she’s not dying alone. She’s with family. She’s with me. In her last moments, she released her grip enough to lock her pinkie around mine. Looking, I think, for a final confirmation of the promise we made to eachother. I not so she knows I understand and that I will try my best to bring the Capitol down, although I have never felt so powerless in my entire life.” (SOTR 307)

In the end, he does fulfils his promise. To Maysilee. To Ampert. And to Lenore Dove.

[malkmaged130]

If by some miracle we had the chance to see that memorials. I want a great tower in the center of every district. And every district member who died in the arena has his name engraved on the tower in his district. So every person could know their names.

Am I the only one who, for some reason, can't not constantly think about the memorials Katniss references in the epilogue?

"The arenas have been completely destroyed, the memorials built."

Is there a memorial for all the children who were murdered in the hunger games? All 1,725 of them? Did someone manage to dig up the names of all the past tributes? Can Haymitch go to the capitol and run his fingers over the L in Louella's name? Can Katniss look at Rue's name, engraved in something permanent?

Is there a memorial for all the rebel soldiers who died while fighting the capitol? Does Finnick's name reside right next to Prim's on a big glossy slab of marble or granite?

[starkju0]

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[mockingjay-sings]

"Now, Louella, what will the Newcomers do if they kill off all the Careers? What will happen to you kids then?" "As is on cue, the snake hisses in a woman's jewel-studded face and Lou Lou growls, "You'll murder us. You'll murder us." So I'm never recovering from what happened to Louella and Lou Lou. How about you?

[whenshe-picksup-a-pen]

People are going to make the hell outta SOTR fan edit videos using Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Lorde and Imma fucking lose it when I see the scenes they use along lyrics like "Acting on your best behaviour" and "So glad we almost made it"

[nefarious-smartass]

can’t believe Suzanne Collins had Wyatt Callow, who knew the odds of all the tributes’ deaths better than his own name, die protecting Lou Lou, who he statistically knew wouldn’t make it anyway. had Louella McCoy, who was immediately ready to try and stick it to the capital any way she could in the games, die before she even reached the arena. had Maysilee Donner, who constantly talked back, who wanted to die with her head up, who didn’t want to be treated like an animal by the capital, die mangled on the ground after having her vocal chords ripped out by a capital-manufactured bird. had Haymitch Abernathy, who from the moment he learned of Beetee’s plan, knew he was ready and willing to give up his life so that his friends and family could live, be forced to live without them, knowing all he did in the arena was for nothing. that everyone died anyway. sick and twisted.

[isthataraccoon]

oh god reading sotr rn and i just connected that haymitch calls katniss sweetheart because she reminds him of louella

[silvverart]

Hide and seek is over!

[gottabescientific]

Hands down funniest part of sunrise on the reaping is when the capitol propaganda minister goes “damn all of this would be so much easier if we just had that old timey technology that let us make footage of anyone anywhere in any situation” and then two chapters later he goes “here’s an exact body double of the kid we killed last night. It’s such a convincing fake that only one person might notice”

[whatevertheywant]

Imagine how awful katniss must feel when she learns about Louella and how "sweetheart" was never meant to be a patronizing nickname