I'm sorry but I do not understand how can you ship katniss with Gale Katniss explicitly states that Gale represents war and violence, and that she needs peace. Peeta represents the peace she has been waiting to have her entire life. She never once loves Gale romantically. She only ever kisses him because she thinks that’s what he wants.
I respect your opinion but it demonstrates a huge misunderstanding of Katniss, Peeta, and Gale as characters as well as the message of the book in general. Plus katniss only had feelings for Peeta.
Ok first of all. Learn how to block people. Some rando the thg tag should not have to explain in detail why they like a ship just because you dislike it. This is just extremely rude, if you don't like seeing everthorne block me and the everthorne tags it's really that simple.
Anyway fortunately I do actually like talking about this so you know.
You are fundamentally misunderstanding the point of shipping, I mean I straight up just say in the tags I don't want them endgame, because shipping doesn't mean I want the characters to be together in a happy healthy relationship, shipping just means I like their dynamic in a romantic context, whether or not I think that romantic context is positive or not is up to interpretation. You acting like I'm ignoring end of the book Katniss' feelings for shipping everthorne just shows you don't get very very simple fandom concepts.
Anyway, the reason I ship everthorne is in fact in a way related to a few things you said, Gale being war, Gale not understanding Katniss fully, because their character arcs are what make them interesting as a pair.
At the start of the story Katniss and Gale are narratively pretty much the exact same. The place they fill in the story and their experiences are similar enough that they are basically the same character. This is important because that gives you a frame of reference for how they end up so far apart at Mockingjay.
A primary theme throughout the hunger games is the idea of "remember who the real enemy is" In the districts you are not given any concept of what the other districts are like, or what the capitol is like, outside of what you are forced to see for the games. And there is a class divide, the merchants and the seam and the peacekeepers. And the districts are each treated differently, 1, 2, and 4 are given special treatment allowing them to become careers while 11 is so highly policed you can be shot for saluting and 12 is starved.
The point being, the enemy is the capitol elites , the ones forcing it to be this way, and they want everyone to be focused on each other.
By going to the games Katniss is given a perspective that Gale just fundamentally cannot have by being in 12, she meets Capitol citizens who are kind and on her side (Cinna, Portia) and also ones who are just naively ignorant (the prep teams) and she meets people from other districts, she befriends rue, she decides she would have been friends with Thresh, she watches Cato watch his entire concept of what he's fighting for crumple before her eyes.
Gale doesn't have this context he cannot he is denied any opportunity to connect to, yes the other districts, but more importantly the citizenry of the capitol (see after Katniss saves her prep team in Mockingjay) but he does see the torture the Capitol commits.
Gale's father is killed in a presumably preventable accident and he age 14 becomes the breadwinner for his entire family, his best friend is sent to the games, he is whipped half to death for poaching, his district is starved in the middle of winter, the Hob is burned, his best friend is sent back into a killing game, his DISTRICT IS DESTROYED. And he is responsible for saving every person who lived, and has to live with the deaths of everyone else on his conscience. And he's like 19. Btw.
When you see them in Mockingjay they are such incredibly different people because while they both hate the capitol, Gale cannot possibly understand how anyone could be in the side of the people who have tortured and murdered everyone he loves, and Katniss has learnt to care for people all across panem and learnt that everyone even the clueless frivolous capitol people are victims of propaganda and circumstance. Their experiences have shaped them into completely different people and they're no longer able to understand each other.
The reason I ship them, I'm interested in their romantic relationship, is because they are two of the most interesting characters to follow, their arcs are intentionally mirrored to show the consequences of using your righteous fury wrongly, their relationship is a narrative tool most of all and the narrative is fucking fascinating.
Obviously I don't want them endgame, because they aren't meant to be, they have changed too much to ever go back, but it's the growth and change that makes me like them as a pair, it's the fact that they change that makes them so interesting to me.