Okay but like Mentor!Maysilee AU where she wins the quarter quell instead of Haymitch and thus has to mentor Katniss and Peeta
They play into the āmeanest girl in townā for her victor edit and propaganda
Sheās not sure how but when they watch the recap of the games she sees theyāve somehow spun her meanness and insults and cruel comments as something she was directing towards the districts instead of the capitol they make her seem every bit the one dimensional stuck up rich girl everyone believed her to be they make her seem like a traitor to her district
If people back home, especially from the seam, didnāt hate her before they certainly do now and she can see it in the way the tributes look at her year after year
Itās tough mentoring her peers in the early years, they see her as a traitor and then she realizes any hope of it getting easier is in vain because their children have grown up with the propaganda fueled stories about her
Itās the worst kind of propaganda too because itās rooted in truth and there are some stories of behavior sheās not proud of but that she canāt deny, the capitol hasnāt exactly reinvented her image just twisted it and that makes it so much worse
Her parents and sister are killed, not even the merchant class kids want to associate with her, Asterid tries to comfort her but she can see how her reputation is damaging Asteridās and sheās worried about Snow coming for her too so she wields that meanness again and pushes her away with awful comments about her and Burdock
Asterid sees through it but ultimately decides to keep her distance
When Katniss is born though a small box with a gold Mockingjay pin shows up on Asterid and Burdockās doorstep and the same thing happens with a hummingbird pin when Prim is born
Peetaās Mom had grown up telling him about Maysilee and how cruel and awful she was, how she thought she was better than everyone else, his dad seemed to have more sympathy but any defense he might have spoken his mom made sure to shut down by reminding her husband of all the names she called him too
When Prim and Katniss come home with stories from other kids about Maysilee and her cruelty Burdock simply looks to his wife and without looking at them she simply says that people are complex and Maysilee is no different
When Maysilee waits for them on the train all she can think about is all the horrible things they mustāve heard about her
But sheās surprised when she sees Katniss wearing that gold Mockingjay pin and she realizes very quickly that Peeta takes more after Otho than his mother
When it comes to the actual mentoring sheās even more surprised, usually the tributes, rightfully mistrusting of her, talk to her as little as possible or combat her advice and opinions at every turn or make snide comments about her being a capitol bootlicker until she snaps and inevitably says something insulting or mean and they say something to the effect of how their parents were right about her
But these two are fighters and arenāt deterred by her jabs, in fact, they can dish it back as good as they can take it and it actually becomes fun
She realizes Peeta reminds her of Merrilee
Despite the fact that itās clear she is Asterid and Burdockās daughter the person Katniss reminds her of is actually Haymitch and the familiarity of trading insults hurts more than she expected
Thatās all Iāve got for now, feel free to add on or use as inspiration!
