Head cannons I have about various characters from the original Hunger Games Trilogy
Cato had a single parent and a twin sister. His other parent had died of an long term illness that left his family in large dept. There was talk of his parent having to become Peacekeepers to pay their debt. But peacekeepers are never allowed to stay in their home district, or to contact their families in other districts. So Cato volunteered for the games hoping to be the victor, pay the debts with tribute earnings, and keep his family together.
Clove's parents died in an accident when she was pretty young, and she was raised by her Aunt&Uncle. One of her cousins likes to plan parties/events. When the "Two victors can win if they're from the same district" rule change was announced this cousin looked up Cato's sister and asked her for help planing a party for Cato&Clove 2hen they both returned home. The party was changed to being a double wake/funeral when they died. Cato's sister and Clove's cousin stay friends due to needing someone else who understood understands their grief/loss
Foxface lived in a group home and was a ward of her district. The reason she was so good at sneaking around and stealing was that she did it at home when her tesserac's did not stretch enough. She did not have a legal family, but was really close with 2-3 other kids living at the home. She had promised them that they could move to victor village with her if she won. The district still let them stand on her "reserved for family" spot in district 5 along with the group home staff, when Peeta and Katniss came through district 5.
Rue and Thresh name drawings were both rigged. Rue because someone important (Head peace keeper/Mayor) had discovered that she stole food from the orchard to feed her friends and siblings, and decided to make an example of her. Thresh because he scared some of the district 11 peacekeepers.
I like a theory some one said once said that Cashmere and Gloss were both sent into the 75th games, not for being rebels, but because they stayed close to each other even after two games and Cashmere being forced into prostitution. Snow was mad that their bond lasted through something that his and Tigress's could not.
Cecilia's three kids were dropped at the home of some trusted friends of her's post her name being drawn, with specific instruction to keep them from watching the games until after she had died.
Post the War
Annie names her son Nickolas Fisher Odair.. as more subtle nods to both Finnick and Mags
Katniss and Peeta both live under district arrest for killing members of district 13's rebel forces during the war. Haymitch and Annie both want nothing to do with either side and are left alone because of their mental states. Beetee, Johanna, and Enobaria agree to take part in the rebuilding of Panem/the government.
Johanna and Enobaria have always famously hated each other, but kinda get along in a "we can acknowledge that we are both trapped in the same boat and might as well be allies at this point" post war.
I am not sure if I really see Johanna ever becoming a parent. If she does it would not be until years and years after the war, and only if she learns to come out of her fight to survive/ survive to fight mode. But I kinda like to imagine her maybe going to a feritlity clinic and doing artificial insemination (With how many died in the war it would make sense for Panem to push this, Maybe grant stimulant child support checks to parents/families that are successful) getting pregnant and then teasing Katniss over the phone that she will name her child after her.
Katniss hates how many kids are being named "Jay" or "Rebel" or "Fire", "Spark" or Katniss, She Johanna under no circumstance is she do that. After nine moths Johanna gives birth to a boy whom she names "Hunter".
Beetee probably stays in either district 13 or he moves to the capital. He lives in whatever the heart of the country is. He is the head scientist/inventor in the country. He probably goes back to district 3 semi regularly to give lectures/teach collage classes, but he does not stay. I also think he becomes an author. At First it is just science and engineering books. But he also write manuscripts for Tell All's about the things both the Capital and the Rebels made him invent, the loses he faced :Ampert, his wife, and second child, and the dark ways his inventions where used. He plans to release those to print when he is retired, as a warning to any whom Panem uses after him
Gale takes his entire family with him to 2. The Hawthornes are one of the only families where all the immediate members made it through the war and and they are not losing each other. HE and Hazelle also really want to get the kids back up to the sun and away from any of the traumatic memories of their last year of suffering in 12. When they get to 2 Hazelle picks up jobs cooking and making/fixing cloths for people. Gale gets a pretty high up military job "moping up" peacekeeprs/capital loyaltists, so that he can earn decent pay and benifits for his family. He keeps this job for a couple years and moves up in it. One day a mission goes haywire, a trap of the enemies gets triggered and the explosion and crossfire puts Gale once again in the military hospital. This time he is informed that while he will live and recover from most of it, one of his eyes was badly injured from shrapnel hitting it and was removed.
After this Hazelle is able to convince Gale to leave his current job. She tells him how his siblings are as scared over him always leaving to go fight/coming home hurt as they were of things in 12 , and that after this if he doesn't look for another job she is packing the kids up and they all 4 leaving. She would rather be broke again than cause the kids to keep reliving all of this.
After that Gale uses high up connections (Paylor, Plutarch, Beetee etc) to get honnerable discharge from the military police and starts working on the rebuild and restoration of Panem. Its less money, but the Hawthorne's are able to keep their 3 bed room 2 bathroom house and their government paid benefits. Gale is able to move up in this position too. Best of all no he has non living, more constructive, channels for his fire and anger over Panem's suffering. This helps a lot. After a while he meets Cato's twin sister, I will call her Cleo. They find the other cute, fit, discover they both love to train with weapons and camp outdoors. Through them Bristol (moved to 2 as well, and is now Gale's best friend) and Charmian (Clove's cousin) meet and start dating too. When things get serious Gale tells Cleo that he is helping raise his siblings and introduces them. Cleo lost her whole family in the war, and is happy to be a part of Gale's.
About 8 years post war Gale and Cleo have a daughter. She has Seem looks and is shows the same protective and outspoken spirit Gale did. 3 years after they have twins who remind Cleo so much of her in Cato, except they grow up in a safer world.
Rory Hawthorne has pretty heavy nearsightedness, which is why Gale never taught him to hunt. He is also the smartest of the Hawthorne siblings. Back in 12 Prim would always let Rory copy her notes since he had trouble seeing the board (Town kids usually grabbed all the front seats and Seam kids usually sat in the back of class). In return Rory would tutor Prim in any subject she had trouble with. In 13 Rory is able to see an eye doctor, and finally gets tested and fitted for a pair of glasses. When he gets older Gale is able to use connections from Beetee to get Rory a scholarship to college in district 3 and Rory becomes a tech engineer. He also marries and has 2 kids. Both of whom have district 3 esque names
Vick unfortunately struggles with tramua's and his mental state post war. He does not talk much and will sometimes blank on the present: forgets that he lives in district 2 now and will ask to go to/try to walk to places in 12. He skips meals and does not say anything when his cloths get torn/out grown because of money issues that his family no longer have. When he finishes high school he takes a risky mining job, because that is what he always thought his life would amount to anyway. Just like his father he eventually dies in an accident when his child is around 6. Hazelle moves in to help her daughter in law raise the child. The kid also starts getting a bunch invitations to do things with his Aunts, Uncles, and Cousins, particularly with Gale and Cleo's brood who still live in 2
Posy grows up in district 2 and eventually forgets everything about her life before her family settled there. When she learns about the war in school she makes her family tell her stories about what things were like in district 12. Their stores are all very bittersweet, but they cause Posy to get pretty interested in the rebuilding of district 12. When she grows up she does 3 things. 1.) dates women. 2.) Uses the natural size and strength that her family possess to become a P.E./fitness teacher. 3,) Is the only one of her family to ever move back to district 12, where she and her girlfriend both get teaching jobs in Posy's old town. Both Toast kids have Posy as a P.E. teacher. They love her class. Posy does not remember Katniss at all, and while Katniss remembers who Posy is she cannot equate this tall, muscled, and healthy women with the tiny, sickly, malnourished, toddler she used to help take care of. This means that their is never any drama between the two women. If Posy sees Katniss she just remarks t her about how great her children do in gym class and that they could make for fine athletes. Katniss will smile and thank her for the flattery.
Speaking of the toast babies.
I head cannon that the 5-10-15 years line means that it took 5 years for Katniss and Peeta to heal up enough an for their relationship to grow enough naturally that they started discussing getting married and potentially having kids. It took 10 years for them to feel like the world was safe enough to try for a child and have their daughter. Then it took another 5, so 15 years total, for them to have their son.
I will head cannon that their daughter loves dance, animals, refuses to hunt, but will help her mother gather plants as she inherited her maternal families skills with plants and healing. She knew Haymitch as a baby/toddler. When he died she started taking care of his geese which is where her love for animals (and her refusal to hunt) came from.
I do not care what her first name is, but I will head cannon that her middle name is "Duck" because that was Katniss's affectionate nickname for Prim.
With their son I am going to say that Haymitch died of liver failure while Katniss was pregnant. So Hymitch never got to meet him. Haymitch did know about him, and was happy that Katniss, Peeta, and the kids would be okay when he died. Katniss and Peeta had told Haymitch their choice for a first name, and that they could make the middle name after him, but Haymitch told them to name the child after Sid. As a compromise their son's middle name is "Abernathy" for both Haymitch and Sid.
Toast boy does hunt/use a bow in arrow just like his mom. He is also as creative and artistic as his dad. Great Aunt Effie gets him into fashion, and he develops an interest in designing and making cloths.
Peeta reopens his families bakery in Disctirct 12. He hires a few people who return to disrict 12 as helpers. A food pantary and pharmacy get built as pat of the restoration. Kantiss will gather medical plants for the pharmacy and trade/donate game to the pantry.
Delly finishes school in District 13 but when she graduates she moves back to district 12. She eventually get married to Thom. They, their kids, as well as Greasy Sae plus her grand daughter are Kantiss and Peeta's friends post war. I doubt either Katniss or Peeta are that social afterwards, but I think they would have at least these friends.
Both toast kids plan to move out of District 12 for college once they become adults. The girl wants to go to either districts 1 or 10 depending on if she decides to become a professional dancer or a vet. The boy wants to become a clothing designer in either district 1 or the capital. This scared Katniss and Peeta, but they come to accept that these are their children's dreams, so once their kids become adults Katniss and Peeta will have to prove to the world that they are once again sane, and start leaving their hiding place in district 12 to visit their children as adults.
