#sid abernathy

[effieotto]

what hurts the most is that Haymitch was not a rebel in the core. He was just a boy who wanted to spend his days lying in the meadow with his girl, watching the stars with Sid and his ma, and eating cake in the new year for as long as the universes allowed him to. He didn’t spend his days dreaming of a free world, or criticizing the government with Burdock like Katniss did with Gale. He was just chilling with his folks and enjoying the little treats the universe guaranteed him

Every single revolutionary act he did was for someone else. He exploded the Arena to make Lenore Dove proud. He stood strong after Ampert’s death so Sid wouldn’t have to watch him break in live television. He kept his head held high so his family wouldn’t be ashamed of being related to him. He fought with Silka to honor Willie’s death. He won the games to keep the promise he made for Maysilee. And he forced himself to survive and fight a whole war, so he could honor all the others who trusted him to break the rules and find freedom…Haymitch was not a rebel, but he did it anyway, cause he made promises for those he loved, and he would keep them

[licorice-and-rum]

Something that really hit my like a punch about SOTR is how Suzanne Collins decided to write Haymitch's relationship with the women in his life because (in a clear contrast with Snow) even in his times of doubt over them, even when he's talking about Drusilla (fuck her btw), he still has a level of respect Snow didn't show for any of the women in his life in TBOSAS.

He sees Maysilee and Louella as sisters and each of them have strengths he admires deeply — in contrast with Snow thinking of Tigris (his actual cousin) as someone whose appearance "invited abuse."

Even Lenore Dove's most worrisome characteristics come for Haymitch from a place of care and love for her, from a desire to keep her safe, not to control her. Haymitch loved Lenore Dove for who she was, regardless of her rebelliousness maybe causing trouble for him. I don't even have to mention the contrast to Snow, right?

Even Effie, whose alienation certainly annoyed him, is talked about in a way thay shows and extensive highlights her empathy beneath her propagandized opinions. Haymitch never disrespects Effie or thinks of her disrespectfully despite the fact that is hinted that she has some behaviors that annoyed him. Snow, however, thinks of his female classmates with a irritated tone that visibly undermines them and their good traits.

Even the contrast between Drusilla and Gaul. Right, Drusilla is not as powerful as Gaul when they're presented to the reader, and Haymitch and Snow come from very different places, but Drusilla is the closes thing Haymitch will get to a powerful ally from the Capitol. Yet, he rejects her (in a quieter way than Maysilee does but still does it) almost right away because of her obvious cruelty. It doesn't appeal to him is the slightest like it does to Snow.

Also, the contrast between how Snow and Haymitch see the sacrifices the women in their lives make with the former disgusted at Tigris and the later showing how much he loves his mom (also) because of all the sacrifices she made to keep him and Sid alive and well, even if it devastates him (like the fact that they don't have a cake in the birthdays in fairness to him not getting a cake or the loss of the shirt his mother had so carefully sewn together for him).

Suzanne Collins didn't just made her mission to say a big fuck you to people who were romanticizing Snow, she showed us what we all should expect from a man (again btw) and you gotta respect her for it.

[witha-boxofscraps]

OH GOD BURDOCK HOLDING HAYMITCH AS HE CRIES WATCHING TWO OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PEOPLE IN HIS LIFE BE MURDERED BY THE CAPITOL ONLY FOR HAYMITCH TO HOLD KATNISS AS SHE CRIES THINKING TWO OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PEOPLE IN HER LIFE HAVE BEEN MURDERED BY THE CAPITOL 25 YEARS LATER. SOMEBODY SEDATE ME.

[hollenka99]

Imagine if Snow decided to let the Abernathys live, if he gave Haymitch a false sense of security. Perhaps targeting Lenore Dove was the punishment. Perhaps Snow is waiting for Haymitch to become a father.

The 52nd Games arrive, Sid's first chance to get reaped. Haymitch is sure Snow is going to make Sid another dead 12 year old to punish him. The Ampert to his Beetee, so to speak.

But he doesn't. Sid grows up, maybe even get his own lover. Haymitch gets new tributes each birthday and subsequently watches them die. Maybe Snow really has decided this is his punishment.

Then Sid is 18, one reaping left until they're in the clear. And of course, this is when Snow strikes. You could fool yourself into thinking an 18 year old tribute has a chance. Even more so when he has his big brother mentoring him. But a tribute from 12 is still a tribute from 12. Haymitch could try to encourage Sid to act like he did in the arena, fucking it up from the inside, but it won't matter.

The next time he sees their mother, he's helping her move Sid's coffin to the group plot. And he knows it's all his fault.

[brynnsasha191]

One of the deaths in sotr that we don't talk about enough is Ma/Willamae Abernathy's. she did so much for her boys, and loved them so much. And then Haymitch got reaped and she thought she'd never see him again, but she was still alive when he won. He didn't die, she thought she'd be able to hold him again. But then she died, and her death was used to torture her first son. She died holding one of her sons, unable to get him out. And she died in front of another of her sons, unable to answer his screams for her.

Haymitch was only 16 when he lost his mother, a child. And he had already been through the most traumatic few weeks of his life. He watch friends die, and he killed. And he thought he'd finally be able to get a hug from his mother, the first comfort he'd ever known. But she died, and he could do nothing but watch and scream

[blondeheartgirl]

the part when haymitch mistakes merrilee for maysilee really hurts because do you think he does that for the others he lost?

does he see a woman carrying washing down the street and want to call out ma?

does he see a skinny boy playing and feels the urge to call sid in for dinner?

does he want to call out louella’s name when he sees katniss in her two braids for the first time? or when he sees burdock’s hunting jacket around her shoulders?

does he see a girl with red hair and long to put his arms around lenore dove, just one last time?

does he see all the tributes that were killed in all the children of district 12?

is that why he couldn’t be sober? because he was constantly haunted everyday by all the people he lost, the people he blames himself for their deaths?

[ella467c]

Sotr/Original Trilogie Parallels

That took soo long but I‘m really happy with it

Also it has the colours of a sunrise 😌🌅

[theballadofthesunandthestars]

After reading SOTR, it was so refreshing and heartbreaking to read from the point of view of a character who loves so openly. Haymitch bleeds love everywhere he goes; not just for the obvious people like Lenore Dove, or Sid and Ma, but for everyone.

His complete and utter adoration of Lenore Dove? How her flaws, her recklessness and impulsiveness just makes him love her all the more. How he can’t always keep up with her, but he doesn’t resent her for it, just tries his best to and loves her when he can’t understand. The contrast between Snow wanting to control Lucy Gray, even going so far as to say that he wishes she was back in the Arena so he could know where she was, and Haymitch wanting nothing more for Lenore Dove than to be free, even trying to tell Lenore Dove to move on from him when he dies in the Arena.

The way Haymitch expresses such adoration for Hattie, how he admires her hard work and hugs her when she gives him his birthday gift. How he tries to protect her during the Interviews.

Haymitch’s love for his family; how he finds them annoying sometimes, but he loves them. He ruffles Sid’s hair and takes on the role of his father, how he lets Sid drag him out on a clear night to look up at the stars. He hugs his Ma and speaks of her with admiration for her work, even as he’s just as annoyed by her work ethic.

Louella McCoy, who crushed on Haymitch for a week, and it just endeared her to him, made him fiercely protective of her. He never looked down on her for being childish, and he did everything in his power to get justice for her.

Lou Lou, whom he despised at first, only to love her anyways. He didn’t even know her real name, didn’t know anything about her except that she was from Eleven and that she was recording what they were saying, but he loved her anyways because he can’t help it. It spills out of him. He protected her and tried to make her death quick, tried to get justice for what happened to her just as much as he did Louella.

Wyatt, Maysilee, and Effie are my favorite examples of how Haymitch sees the flaws in people, but loves them anyways, embraces them even. Wyatt Callow, who he started by resenting him for his father’s gambling practices, only to grow to love Wyatt for his quick wit, then to mourn him when he was killed on the first day. Maysilee Donner who was spoiled and mean in his eyes, yet he could still see her rebellious and determined nature, her kindness for the other Tributes as she wove their tokens, and he held her hand as she died, cementing her in his mind as his sister. Effie Trinket, who despite her Capitol upbringing, despite her parroting Capitol propaganda lines, Haymitch can’t help but notice her empathy and kindness, and she becomes the only one who can seem to care for him after his Games.

Every single Tribute that he adopted as his own, his flock of doves. He never once thought about winning over any of them, choosing instead to do everything in his power to protect them. He kept the fire running and made nightlights for the young Tributes who feared the dark. He tried to play it cool when meeting with Amphert, but when Amphert hugs him, he just drops the act and hugs him right back. He stayed with Wellie and helped to feed her the best he could, reassuring her the whole time and strategizing how he was going to make her the Victor. He blamed himself for every one of their deaths.

Fuck, even the rabbits in the Arena he becomes fond of. He viewed them as allies and felt guilty when he had to use them to determine what was poisoned.

Haymitch Abernathy loves hard and fast. And that’s what Snow took; his ability to love. He trapped Haymitch into the rascal persona he had put on for the Games. The message he sent with Lenore Dove and Ma and Sid and every single Tribute who Haymitch couldn’t save, was that he would kill anyone Haymitch loved. So he drove people away from him. Forced distance between him and the District Twelve tributes. I think that didn’t even stop him from loving them too, only to watch them killed in the Arena. A yearly reminder of that message.

I hope after the revolution, Haymitch felt free to love without fear again.

[graymalkinrogue]

It gets to me how much love is found throughout Sunrise on the Reaping. Haymitch loved his mother and Sid and Lenore and Louella and they loved him. Mags loved every tribute she mentored, she wanted them to create their own fates, even in the games. Beetee loved Ampert so much that he would rather take his own life than see him harmed. The tragedy is that the love didn't stop all the deaths. But in the end, the point was that the fight must continue. Even if the spark flickers out, persevering means the legacies of all those gone won't be forgotten. And that theme echos across the entire franchise. In the end, just like with the book of memories, it's about not forgetting those who fought for a better future they didn't get to see.

[cantpickonefandoms]

I knew Ampert’s death was going to devastate me as soon as I noted that Haymitch saw Sid in him the same way Katniss saw Prim in Rue.

[effieotto]

Haymitch Abernathy being just a silly, lazy, sixteen-years-old boy in SOTR is exactly what i needed. The poor man just wanted to hang out with his girlfriend on his birthday, Maaaaaaaaaa

-Haymitch was less mature than Katniss because his mother was actually a functional women and he could be a teenager instead of a small adult raising his little brother. He won’t be making life change realizations and quoting poetic stuff. He just wants to lay down all day in the woods and have a few kisses with his girlfriend

[ultimate-potato-god]

The fact that Haymitch, Katniss, and Peeta lost all of their family in fires is haunting me.

They were the fire that burned the capitol but they couldn’t stop it from killing their own families as well.

[mirrorofliterature]

people saying that ma and sid's deaths didn't matter to haymitch clearly skipped a few pages of the book

haymitch: comes home, sees it is on fire, tries to go in to help, is held back, becomes hysterical, is forcibly drugged

haymitch at the funeral: numb, clearly in shock, trying to put on a brave face for his ma, so out of it he calls merrilee maysilee

haymitch after the funeral: fuck I cannot lose anyone else I must protect lenore dove At All Costs (becomes hyperfocused on saving her, repressing his grief for his family)

lenore dove: dies

haymitch: so that's my breaking point! time for fully fledged alcoholism ig

lenore dove's death is written as haymitch's breaking point that tipped him irreversibly into his depressive spiral, not the only reason why he did so, and I think reading it otherwise is a bad faith lowkey amatonormative reading

[charlunday]

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[madzthemenace]

People Magazine just released an extract from Chapter 1 of SOTR and here’s what we got from it:

- Haymitch’s birthday is on Reaping Day, 4th July

- His brothers name is Sid, and is 10 years old. 6 years younger than Haymitch

- His girlfriends name is Lenore Dove

- His mother is 35. Meaning she had Haymitch at 19, and Sid at 25

- Haymitch goes to the woods (to do work?)

- Haymitch’s father also died in a coal mining accident

- His mother does Laundry, same as Hazelle

God I am so excited I need the book NOW

[suzieloveships]

Lucy Gray and Maude Ivory

Coryo and his baby sister and Tigris

Haymitch and Sid and baby twins and Louella and Lou Lou and Maysilee and Merrilee 

Katniss and Prim and Rue and Finnick

Suzanne Collins just hate the idea of siblings getting happy ending