but yeah sorry for lowk disappearing yall I rlly am only active on this account during the summer then go on hiatus for 9 months bc I usually lose all will to draw once my classes start up again đ
cannot promise when Ill post art again but Iâll be revived at some point!!
WHAAA i thought you were in the thg mines forever! that bebe is so pretty đ
glad to know I was missed lol!!! but yeeeah anon I probably will still be posting a ton of hunger games for the foreseeable future as I am still very much fixated on it But fear not! I donât think Iâll ever fully stop posting south park art bc i never stop having fun drawing it and I can use all my stupid ideas
A rite of passage is trying to google information about a character thatâs from a series you havenât finished yet and the first google autofill being â(character name) deathâ
What do you think Katniss and Peeta would name their kids?
apologies for the convoluted answer im about to give to a simple question but I think about this VERY often and I am incapable of being concise ever
short answerâIâm super basic unfortunately bc I thought the names willow and rye were canon when I first joined the fandom and so now Iâm attached to them buuuttt I do really think they are fitting, especially willow
under the cut is the long answer whoopsie
Iâm really obsessed with naming conventions in the hunger games (like the covey, or most tributes having names that relate to their districtâs industry, and ofc peeta being named after bread, which relates to his familyâs trade as bakers). I especially love how Katnissâs family all have plant names, and I am really partial to the idea she carries on the tradition when naming at least one of her children. I think Willow is perfect for multiple reasons, one obviously being that itâs a plant, but then thereâs also the connection to âdeep in the meadow, under the willowâ. I also think that it could be a subtle nod to covey naming conventionsâi have a niche interest in old folk songs, especially from Appalachia and the Great Depression era, so I recognized a lot of the songs that appeared in the books. Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow is one of my favorite songs and I thought it would be so cute if Katniss named her daughter for it
However I have a more complicated relationship with their sonâs name bc truth be told I actually donât like Rye that much lol. I stuck with it before SOTR came out bc I thought it would be cute to carry on the naming conventions from Peetaâs family. Obviously peetaâs brothers are never named, so most people in like fanfic and stuff come up with bread related names for them (some of which are really ridiculous btw lmao like are we fr) and I used to be on this bandwagon too but after finding out peetaâs dad is named Otho??? Idk if I really believe all of his kids have bluntly obvious bakery themed names, and thus I donât know if there really is an established naming convention among the Mellarks. So while I think Rye is cute, I do not believe in my heart that is their sonâs name. but I havenât really ever been able to think of an alternative!!
additionally, while I havenât spent much time thinking about different names for their kids, I have spent loads thinking about what their kids would be like. One day I was super bored and spent hours drawing out a family tree of katniss and peetaâs descendants for the next 2 generations including all of their personalities, appearances, and general life trajectory, and full names, so embarrassing enough i have a very elaborate internal world of what kind of lives the toast babies lead (this was also because I like to imagine what a post-war district 12 would be like and how kids could grow up to live freer lives). But in a nutshell, my personal hc (because of that one line where Katniss calls her the âdancing girlâ) is that katnissâs daughter revives the covey lifestyle!! I think she would give her own kids covey names which I have all written down (omg this took hours trying to find names and colors that sounded good together but it was also fun bc I was able to draw names from ballads I knew). I think willow would be basically a mini peeta with katnissâs fire when provoked, but also have a performing nature she gets from her distant covey cousins.
On the flip side!! I think their son would take after katniss, real outdoorsy quiet type. Which I think is also a reason I kinda like the name rye, because for some reason I sometimes appreciate the dichotomy when characters have a name that is the complete opposite from the type of person they grow up to be. âOh the bakerâs son was named after a type of bread, but he has absolutely zero interest in the bakery, thatâs funnyâ. But again, I donât really have that much preference for what their son is named, I think there could be some really cute plant names out there!! Fletcher is another popular one but I feel like itâs a little on the nose for Katniss lol
Katniss and Gale arenât the only ones who hunt in District 12.
Katniss says that most people arenât brave enough to go into the woods with only a knife. And some people cross the fence to pick apples.
But Katniss explicitly states âMost of the Peacekeepers turn a blind eye to the few of us who hunt because theyâre as hungry for fresh meat as anybody isâ.
Meaning more than her and Gale. They might not being as successful as them but other people do in fact hunt/ gather too.
Itâs a small detail but an important one.
Itâs speaks the defiant and resilient nature of District 12, people who are pushed so far to the brink of death.
When bent the people of District 12 donât break they snap back.
Yes!!! Iâve always wondered about the other hunters of 12
In Catching Fire, katniss says that when galeâs dad died, âeven then, he [gale] was a skilled trapperâ already. This implies gale had experience hunting in the woods even before meeting katniss or his fatherâs death. He was only fourteen, I wonder how did he learn? Did his own father teach him, like katnissâs? Was his dad a hunter?
Katniss never really runs across anyone else in the woods and her POV generally makes it seem as though the woods are solitary to only her and gal despite that âthe few of usâ comment. But if you really look at it, a lot more people probably enter the woods than it seems. (SUNRISE ON THE REAPING SPOILERS UNDER CUT!!!)
in sotr we see such casual existence of people beyond the fence. Burdock takes Haymitch to the woods several times, theyve skinny dipped, and Iâd assume that he has probably taken other close friends there too. Haymitch doesnât really exhibit or express much fear in these moments, even as a young child. Hattie has her whole bootlegging business stationed in the woods. Lenore Dove is chilling out in the trees as a kid (ofc, sheâs covey and thus probably most likely to ignore the fence regardless lol). Also, Haymitch says that âthe Everdeens are huntersâ, implying there are more hunters than just Burdock!! How did he learn? Has the skill been passed down in his family? Are there other Everdeen hunters out there?
I think I just wish Katniss wasnât such a recluse socially and we actually got more insight into how other kids view the woods lol bc it seems like it was a lot more carefree in sotr. I find it hard to believe there arenât more rebellious groups of friends traipsing under the fence out of curiosity. Then again, it is also possible that the fear mongering surrounding the woods may have been amped up between Haymitchâs time and Katnissâs
im reeeally hoping that the sunrise on the reaping movieâs visual design will build off of the whole retro-futurism styling of the TBOSAS movie and have a 70s or 80s flair in the costuming bc how sick would that be
âWhat color name did this rainbow girl carry to the Tenth Hunger Games? What happened to her after? Did she come home? What did she do to be erased so completely?â
Lowk hate how this one turned out but itâs haymitchâs bday so Iâm obligated to share