starter call! like for a smol thing. mutuals only, specify muse/s, fellow multis pls offer a pairing (or pairings) you're interested in, etc.
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Gale and revolution
Maybe a hot take and people might throw tomatoes at me but I can't get this out of my head after reading THG.
I found it really hard to relate or even sympathize with Peeta because for me, reading the books, Peeta didn't exist as a character outside of his relationship with Katniss.
But Gale, on the other hand, did.
It was obvious to me from the beginning that Peeta was a character made with the intention for everyone to adore him. And don't get me wrong, Peeta is great. Too great. Perfect and flawless like a sterile version of a human person. And I can only assume that since we're seeing him from Katniss's perspective, along with her very obvious crush on the bread boy, that he's very idealic in her mind.
Gale, on the other hand, immediately gets sorta dogged on in the narrative like 5 pages in. He gets mad at Madge for being more privileged, for being well-fed, well-raised, well-dressed, and all other well-verb'ed that he never got to experience. From the perspective of someone who grew up lower middle class, I related immediately to Gale first. He was flawed, and understandable, and real in the most uncensored way possible.
He was brutal, he was angry, and violent, and that made SENSE to me (not that it's not fucked up). Maybe it's because my country has only VERY RECENTLY suffered from American imperialism, but I understand completely his need for violence, retribution, and revenge. And considering this was written during the War on Terror, the kid to extremist pipeline allegory is not missed. In that way, Gale exists outside of the context of Katniss. Gale exists within the context of his people, systemic oppression, and a revolution.
Peeta however was none of that. He wasn't a revolutionary by any means (but of course he wasn't, he was a child). But he seemed almost lacking in that sense of community with his people. This may be because Peeta grew up fed, still. He ate bread, no matter how stale, and he only had 5 slips of his own name in the games. He's a compassionate person, very much so, but only insofar as his immediate surrounding. Peeta could be kind because being kind and passive doesn't cost him his family. It almost, but ultimately doesn't cost him Katniss.
Gale had to care for his own family, Katniss's family during the Games, and became the only other person providing hunted game for the district's market. He got his district out of the burning rubble. He watched family, and friends, and people he's cared about his whole life die in a fire. For a boy who's only know to hunt with his own two hands, how can one expect gentleness.
So when, inevitably, people view Gale explicitly and exclusively through his relationship with Katniss, it robs Gale of being his own character: a brother, a son, a victim, a revolutionary, a child. And I think that's a shitty way to view him LOL.
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moon seventy-six - greenleaf
I couldn't fit it into the panel, but for those who don't play the game: Gorseflower attempted to bring Softkit back to the SerpentClan camp to keep her safe (she'd snuck out and was playing by the border), but a patrol spotted him and assumed he was hostile + killed him :") a patrol event that makes me feel Normal For Sure
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Even if I love Scar right now I still would think a headcanon of her meeting the mc first instead of both of their deadass. Past Scarlett and MC wouldn't suffer from their exs, because Scar seems to be like Saraya 😔
Past!Scarlett was almost exactly like Saraya, in varying ways, you’re correct! She had an inquisitive, almost innocent, wonder about the world around her — I actually have a clear vision of Past!Scarlett visiting a park with someone from her old life and a butterfly landed on her nose (causing her to grin and laugh) — with a gentle warmth that causes people to gravitate towards her like moths to a flame. She was the type to dance through a field of flowers, or tilt her head back in the rain to enjoy the feeling, or sing along to the songs of the birds in the treetops… The world was beautiful to her and she wished to give that beauty back in spades.
Of course, things happened, and she became who she is now, but parts of her old self are still within her… Just damaged.
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