Happy belated birthday to Katniss Everdeen — the girl who keeps reminding me not to lose hope (which is not an easy task).
What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.
“When the war is over, if we’ve won, Peeta will be pardoned.”
Dead silence. I feel Gale’s body tense. I guess I should have told him before, but I wasn’t sure how he’d respond.
Not when it involved Peeta.
Never looking in a tiktok comment section again because WHY am I seeing people compare Divergent to THG.... and then say that Divergent has a better romance? I can tell you're a movie watcher man 😔
No matter what I do, he won’t go. He circles me, just out of reach, as wave after wave of sobs racks my body, until eventually I fall unconscious. But he must understand. He must know that the unthinkable has happened and to survive will require previously unthinkable acts. Because hours later, when I come to in my bed, he’s there in the moonlight. Crouched beside me, yellow eyes alert, guarding me from the night.
Little rework of this post, since someone apparently neglected to re-read Mockingjay before drawing...
So here it is again, without facial burns <3
Okay so this might already be a well known thing but I only just connected the dots.
Basically, when roses are just on the edge of beginning to mold because they've been stored without being tried properly, a condensation forms on the container (in my case a glass jar) and when you open it, it smells incredibly sickly and sweet.
"There's a rose in President Snow's lapel, which at least suggests a source of the flower perfume, but it must be genetically enhanced, because no real rose reeks like that."
We see sweetness mentioned around Snow, with an almost absurd tone. His character is surrounded by things deemed as 'pure' and 'sweet'. The colour white, the mention of his granddaughter from Johanna, sugar, and (of course) the roses.
"President Snow pours tea for both of us and fills his with cream and sugar."
However, Katniss isn't fooled. She finds the perfume's scent so 'cloying' and 'artificial' that it makes her gag - even from the presence of just the one rose.
"My nose twitches. It's the smell. Cloying and artificial."
"When I begin to gag at the stench, I back away and clear out."
She also takes notice of the fact that his breath smells like blood, almost as if Snow himself is rotting from the inside out.
The sickly rose scent is generally regarded as his attempt to cover up the smell of blood. Katniss almost immediately seeing through this is so important because it allows us as readers to see through it and recognise that almost everything about him is artificial.
Although, I really like how the connection between the perfumed scent and the roses works because, as I mentioned above, roses smell disgustingly sweet when they're just about to rot.
Snow, the entire time, was just about to rot.
Katniss hated the perfume because (from her perspective) he was already rotten.
"The smell of blood... it was on his breath."
Later on in the series, Finnick reveals that Snow often drinks poison in order to poison and kill others. This we generally know to be the reason for his coughing up blood. Katniss notices his sickly state in the greenhouse, which I think is particularly interesting because (if I'm correct) previous physical descriptions of him remained snake-like or plastic. With Katniss taking particular notice of his 'puffy' or 'stretched out' lips. But Katniss notes that:
"In the bright light, his skin's a pale, sickly green."
In that light specifically, now that he is chained to the seat and vulnerable, only then does he truly look like a sick old man. Throughout the series, it is difficult (in my opinion) to view him as a human being - particularly furthered by ballad's third-person narrative. So in this moment, I feel he is particularly humanised - especially since he is informing Katniss of who really killed Primrose.
Dropping the latest Sketch-a-Wish, voted on by my lovely Patreon members for December! Featuring Katniss and Peeta from Catching Fire when they take a day off on the roof of the Capitol training center.
It's been a while since I've seen the Hunger Games movies, and working on this whetted my appetite, so I jumped straight from Catching Fire. It was sad that they skipped this scene though, I could tell the exact moment it was cut. Y'all know how I like symbolism, and I wanted to think that Peeta was a bit more optimistic finding an opportunity to spend some downtime with Katniss (hence, why he's cast in the sunset light), where as I feel like Katniss was just taking solace in the afternoon bubble they carved out for themselves, resting in the shade.
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