#mrs everdeen

[le-beda]

picture collection

[yourhighness6]

Thinking about how Katniss's relationship with her mother gets better as her romance with Peeta progresses. How she is basically saying "I know what it is to love now. I understand the pain you went through when Dad died. I'm sorry"

[smallpapers]

Random quick hunger games sketch-y line up or somethingg

(Edit: forgot to mention the kids are in 'school uniform' that's why it's so drab hhh)

[wisebeth]

Currently losing my mind at how much Katniss’ parents parallel Everlark.

Mr. Everdeen/Katniss — From Seam. Olive skin. Black hair. Grey eyes. Hunter. Excellent at archery. Singing. Have a voice which could make the Mockingjay stop singing and listen to their voice.

Mrs. Everdeen/Peeta – Merchant's children. Blond(e). Blue eyes. Looked past status and financial differences and fell in love with Mr. Everdeen/Katniss anyways. Especially in love with their singing. Interested in feminine things (healing/baking and painting) in contrast to their spouses’ hunting skills.

Bonus :

Mrs. Everdeen when Mr. Everdeen died :

“Never having been in love, this is going to be a real trick. I think of my parents. The way my father never failed to bring her gifts from the woods. The way my mother’s face would light up at the sound of his boots at the door. The way she almost stopped living when he died.”

— The Hunger Games

Katniss when Peeta was captured :

“I give up. Stop speaking, responding, refuse food and water. They can pump whatever they want into my arm, but it takes more than that to keep a person going once she’s lost the will to live.”

— Catching Fire

Peeta elaborating on his childhood crush on Katniss :

“No, It happened. And right when your song ended, I knew – just like your mother – I was a goner.”

— The Hunger Games

Screaming. Crying. Throwing up.

[lovepersevering13]

I hate people saying that Mrs Everdeen was a neglectful mother before Mr Everdeen died like… I may be missing something but I don’t remember any mention of her being absent before he died???

Also I HATE Mrs Everdeen slander all together like you’re clearly missing a big point that was being made about grief, depression and love. Even Katniss knows by the second book that it wasn’t her mothers fault and by the end of mockingjay she has experienced it herself.

[caesarflickermans]

The destruction of family is a common theme within the trilogy. Katniss’ life is shaped markedly by the death of her father, a man who she often comes to admire and idolise throughout the books. Her father is strongly tied to nature—Katniss learned to survive and hunt from him, and finds comfort in his woods (HG, 1). In contrast, she struggles to emphasise with her mother, who is haunted by her husband’s death and thus incapable to care for her two children (HG, 1).

Notably, there are similar parallels between Mr. Everdeen and Finnick as well as Mrs. Everdeen and Annie.

Outside of the individual deaths, both couples appear as a romantic story in a world where love seems impossible. Mrs. Everdeen leaves her family and social standing behind to be with Mr. Everdeen. Finnick protects Annie at all costs, and “no one seeing them could doubt their love” (MJ, 12). The Everdeen parents are the love Katniss grew up with, Finnick and Annie are the love Katniss seems to envy.

Like Mr. Everdeen, Finnick, too, is strongly tied to nature. Katniss remarks how it seems he had spent his childhood by the sea (CF, 16). Finnick’s proximity to water is reflected in his dress, such as his parade outfit (CF, 15) as well as his general appearance, namely his “sea green eyes” (CF, 15). More strongly than the other District 4 victors Annie and Mags, Finnick embodies nature. Where Finnick learned how to swim because of his District, Katniss learned how to swim because of her father (CF, 3).

In the same manner that Mr. Everdeen has become idolised by Katniss, “Finnick Odair is something of a living legend in Panem” (CF, 15). Panem, and especially the Capitol, have come to idolise Finnick to such an extent that his inherent character is no longer evident. Meeting the ‘real’ Finnick in Mockingjay is a pivotal change of perception that humanises Finnick and contrasts the myth-like victor persona (MJ, 1).

While there are several characters who are shaped by trauma, Mrs. Everdeen and Annie stand out in a parallel manner, too. Both Mrs. Everdeen and Annie had a significant life altering event that changed their mental health for the worse. Katniss follows a similar journey with each character; initially feeling only anger toward her mother until she returns from the 74th arena, where she begins wanting to mend this relationship and become more forgiving around her mother (CF, 3). Annie, too, is only seen as the ‘mad girl’ (CF, 24) until Katniss interacts more with her (MJ, 16) and begins to describe her in more kinder terms. Following each of their husband’s deaths, Mrs. Everdeen and Annie are tasked to take care of their child(ren).

As a war story, the circle closes itself: The story began and ended with a child whose father figure had died.

[katnissmellarkkk]

The parallels between Katniss and her mother are quite apparent when it comes to their reactions to grief (as displayed when Mrs. Everdeen lost Katniss’ father and when Katniss lost Peeta and Prim). There’s been posts made about that on here many times before.

But we never really explore the opposition in their choice of man. What I mean is, we’re led to believe (granted, based on very little hints in the first book) that Mrs. Everdeen was with Mr. Mellark in some fashion, at the very least. Enough that he felt it was not only plausible that he could marry her but seemed to be still holding a candle for her all those years later. Mr. Mellark was a merchant, someone from her side of the district, part of the well-to-do class of Twelve. But she instead chose Mr. Everdeen, a poor, coal miner who couldn’t only give her a simple life in the Seam. A life that is much more difficult objectively and in a place that even her own daughter claims she sticks out like a sore thumb in (appearance wise).

Katniss, her daughter, on the other hand, chose Peeta in the end. Even before Mockingjay, it was obvious to anyone really paying attention (in the story or as a reader) who’d she fallen in love with. Gale was a strong, attractive guy from the Seam, who’d lived a pretty parallel life to hers, who was her partner in crime — literally — and her best friend. Everyone expected them to get together. Even the reporters who came from the Capitol took one look at him and thought he seemed like a threat to the idea of the Star-Crossed-Lovers being portrayed on the television screens. And yet, Katniss chose Peeta, not Gale. Peeta, who at the start, she seems to have nothing in common with. Not in terms of their upbringings (she was super poor and starving, he was popular and more comfortable but implied to suffer from heavy child abuse) and not in terms of their mindsets either. But there was an inexplicable attraction between the two, an instinctive pull bringing her back to him no matter how much she tried to fight it. And I suspect her mother had the same feeling, for Mr. Everdeen. That feeling is what led Katniss to choose Peeta over Gale, despite the fact that Gale may have seemed from an outside, detached perspective, like her natural choice of romantic partner. And that feeling is probably what also led her mother to make the same choice all those years before.

Idk I just think it’s interesting that Katniss chose Peeta but her mother — in a lot of ways — chose her Gale. Although there’s a strong argument to be made that her mother was actually choosing her version of Peeta by choosing Katniss’ father but my brain’s not there quite yet.

This post also could have been written and summed up a lot quicker if I’d just said, the love triangle between Katniss, Peeta and Gale and the love triangle between Mrs. Everdeen, Mr. Everdeen and Mr. Mellark are actually parallel love triangles that ended with the woman choosing the opposite type of man.

[winters-rose-daughterofcain]

I make the joke that Katniss and Peeta both have insane mommy issues a lot.... because it's true. But like genuinely the relationship with your parents plays such an important role in how you form relationships and how you view love and it's so obvious the ways it's affected them and their relationship and how they interact like I can actually talk for hours and one day when it's not 2 AM I will lol

Edit: I did it lol part one with Katniss here if you're interested and part two with Peeta here.

[tellmelater]

district 12 everdeen

catching fire 1/?

chapter 3

[buggiebite]

After Mockingjay headcanon:

When District 12 becomes oriented in medicine manufacturing: pills, shots, machines, all become commonplace to everyone. But, despite this, Katniss continues to remain the herbal medicine type. She doesn't do vaccines unless absolutely necessary, or pills to cure things such as headaches. Apothecary/Healer's daughter, Katniss, will find herbs and make some oils and teas. With the instruction of her mother, via the phone. I also feel like Katniss and Peeta would not want to dabble in the medical world at all. They have spent too much time in hospitals and associate those with bad memories, or even good memories, memories of Prim. Peeta would hate shots, needles, etc and you cannot tell me otherwise. By the time Katniss gets pregnant, I feel like she would constantly be urged by townsfolk to get an ultrasound by the local physician and she would refuse. That along with prenatal vitamins and checkups. Out of fear that something bad would happen. She puts a lot of trust into her mother, who I headcanon to come back to 12 for the births of her grandbabies and to help out during the early stages of their lives.

[yourhighness6]

Peeta Mellark is such a feral idiot for outing his father's crush on national television while trying to impress a girl

[everlarking-always]

...

My mother is there, checking my vital signs. “How do you feel?”

“A little beat-up, but all right,” I say.

“No one even told us you were going until you were gone,” she says.

I feel a pang of guilt. When your family’s had to send you off twice to the Hunger Games, this isn’t the kind of detail you should overlook. “I’m sorry. They weren’t expecting the attack. I was just supposed to be visiting the patients,” I explain. “Next time, I’ll have them clear it with you.”

“Katniss, no one clears anything with me,” she says.

It’s true. Even I don’t. Not since my father died. Why pretend? “Well, I’ll have them… notify you anyway.”

...

[imasradiantasthesun]

Women (and Girls) of Twelve – part 4

Alys Everdeen, Prim Everdeen, Hazelle Hawthorne, and Effie Trinket

[incorrect-hunger-games-quotes]

Peeta: *holds door open for Katniss* After you.

Katniss: No, after you

Peeta: I insist, after you

Haymitch:*pushes past both of them* After me.

[littlerosette]

i would love to talk more about how katniss’s codependence on peeta mirrors that of her mother’s codependence on her father but i don’t want to scream right now

[oakfarmer]

I’m so excited to share these!! I commissioned @andretries for this big project inspired by Paperwork. These are the three paintings Gale sees above Katniss and Peeta’s mantle in Chapter 3. It was so much fun discussing head canons and watching Andrea develop her version of each of the families. Thank you so much!!