#everlarkthorne

[iwannascreameurekaa]

"Did i lose them both tonight" THEY SHOULD HAVE ALL BEEN TOGETHER FUCK YOU

[rrcenic]

hey tumblr hi are there any everlarkthorne shippers still active in the fandom i need everlarkthorne mutuals so i dont feel like im pissing into the void every time i post

[sangrefae]

Hey! Could you do 🍷for everlarkthorne for the most recent ask game you posted?

this took longer than i wanted it to bc peeta is weirdly difficult to write for. also this took a weirdly introspective turn because i thought about him consistently being Weird about alcohol in the series and was like. Time to put him under the microscope. TY for requesting, though, it got me back to writing after a long break 🥹

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The fire bathes the living room in a deep orange wash with its light, the kind he can only get with the rarer, fancier paints he had had far too much access to after the Games. If he were to paint this moment, he thinks to himself, he might have to take some of the sienna and mix it with a yellow, better to brighten it than white. There's no place he could use the white paint in the room, really---wherever the fire's light doesn't touch is drowned in shadow, the only other light from the kitchen doing little than defining the shapes of the furniture. The stark contrast serves to make Gale's angular features sharper, only highlighting the strong curve of Katniss's nose and the slightest edge of her brow because of the angle of her gaze.

Any attempt to recreate the scene would be fruitless, anyway. There's no way for him to capture the brightness of Gale's loud voice with paint, nor Katniss's responding giggles from her place curled up on the armchair. He'd need a different dimensional medium entirely to recreate the warm caress of the fire's heat from across the room, tinted by firelight in the late hour and the new bottle of liquor Gale had brought back from 10. It's called mezcal, he'd said, though Peeta had admittedly tuned the rest out after taking his usual polite sip and leaving the rest of it to the two of them.

It had burned just the same as any of the alcohol he'd ever had, but it's a testament to its strength that both Gale and Katniss have only had a glass each and yet seem as affected as they'd usually be after two drinks on a regular night. He can only tell that Katniss is still awake at all from her intermittent giggles at Gale's story; she's fallen asleep on his shoulder quicker after having far less to drink than she has tonight.

"It's one thing to see horses on TV in the Capitol, okay? It's another to have one, right in front of you... lookin' at you," Gale insists, reaching for his glass as he speaks. He'd recently topped it off, and it shows in his exaggerated, loose movements, his growing volume. He tends to get louder the more he drinks, Peeta has noticed, and his words flow easier than they ever have while sober.

Peeta's eyes flick to the bottle sitting on the table between the three of them, just once, before moving back to Gale. It still takes conscious effort to stop the impulse in its tracks, the only tell the slight twitch of his hand in the bottle's direction.

Dr. Aurelius had told him that it's a fear around alcohol that explains the anger it hides behind, an issue with the lack of control, the unpredictability. He'd never been able to deal with it well, to put it lightly. Another deeply buried and poorly healed wound, the origins muddied even without the tracker jacker venom scrambling his memories; he knows his mother wasn't much of a drinker.

Clearly, those few times she did were more than memorable enough.

At least he can work on it now, with most of the hijacking more or less handled. As much as it ever can be. In more accurate terms, he's working to make it yet another item on the long list of knee-jerk reflexes he's learned to suppress. Just another fear he'd been hardwired to associate with violence, his doctors and therapists working overtime to deprogram.

Maybe it's working. He doesn't feel quite as much like a cornered animal when in proximity to Haymitch anymore, which he'd mistakenly attributed to the hijacking before realizing that mistrust had begun far earlier than the Capitol sunk its claws into him.

"You've seen elk, though, 'n' they're nearly as big," Katniss interjects, slightly slurring her words. She's grinning, a rare enough sight by itself, but paired with her loopy giggle it's so precious that Peeta will always have the urge to run and grab his paints to memorialize it. "How different could they really be?"

Peeta joins in with Katniss's laughter this time, spurred by Gale's utterly incredulous expression thrown into further exaggeration by the flickering light.

"From a distance, do you know how easily an elk could fuck you up--?" He cuts himself off, opens and closes his mouth a few times before seeming to give up and flop back into the plush sofa. Katniss's laughter must be contagious, because Peeta's ribs are quickly growing sore from the strain. He has to press his back into the cushion of his armchair and force himself to breathe, cheeks still aching.

Maybe it's working, because he's scarcely felt safer than he does here, wrapped in warmth and easy laughter with the two people he can trust the most. Across from him, Gale groans in good-natured frustration at Katniss, and Peeta's smile grows.

[hannasational]

i keep rereading this fic by chemicalpixie so here’s a moodboard based off of it

[christinaroseandrews]

Stolen from a friend on FB.

You know I would totally press “My OTP Destination.” it would be glorious.

Reblog and tag with where this button would take you!

[iwannascreameurekaa]

the hunger games should have just ended with a polycule between peeta katniss and gale

[sangrefae]

G, L, and U!!!! you are single-handedly making me want to reread the og trilogy. btw

MY POWER tbh even though it's still very much a YA series, and it's not perfect, the og trilogy stands up pretty well. if for no other reason but the fact that katniss is so unintentionally funny at times with her teenage girl moments

g = getting together; how did it all come about? were there any pre-existing relationships between them?

already answered here, but an extra funny bit--gale originally comes to 12 with his family and stays with them for a bit, but because their house is still being built, that means that his family is Actually staying with haymitch until construction is finished. peeta wonders why gale is dropping by his house in the victor's village so frequently until he sees hazelle and haymitch on a walk and is like. oh. OHHHHHHH

l = lavish; is there anyone who really likes to treat their partners/show them off? how do the rest tend to react - who revels in it, and who’s made shy by it?

tbh i think all 3 of them are very reserved and don't show off their relationship, just bc of how it was flaunted in front of the entire country for so long. in terms of liking to treat their partners, though, peeta is unmatched in showering gale and katniss in affection. his biggest thing is making or getting gifts for them, even small things, ranging from baking them their favorite treats to tracking down a leatherworker to fix gale's jacket to planting the primroses in front of katniss's house. katniss and gale both tend to get kind of overwhelmed by it, and still have that feeling of owing him something in return, but it's one thing peeta insists isn't transactional and makes it a point to remind them of that

u = urge; who’s the most impulsive? who do they loop into their plans, and who entertains their antics?

it's a tossup between gale and katniss for most impulsive tbh, but i think katniss ultimately wins out. for her, acting on impulse was more of a survival tactic than anything else, so she still does impulsive stuff when she feels like she's trapped. however, since there's a lot less immediate danger after the war, she's learning that her impulsivity can be used for fun instead of just purely survival; smearing frosting on peeta's face, pushing gale into the water while they're in the lake, just acting spontaneously in less serious ways now that she can actually Enjoy life (edit: like her and finnick using the skin cream in the quell to scare peeta awake too! i forgot that's a canon moment of katniss being silly impulsive rather than scared impulsive, and i think that after the war she has a lot more of those moments)

[sangrefae]

if you’re still doing poly fluff asks, r s and t?

i absolutely am, tysm <3

r = romantic; is anyone a bit of a sap for their partners?

i mean.... all 3 of them, but i guess the one who's the biggest romantic is peeta. i don't necessarily agree with his method but i absolutely do respect his grind and how dedicated of a yearner he is. also he 100% does the more traditionally romantic things for gale and katniss, whereas the two of them would break out into hives if they tried to do anything romantic On Purpose. you're getting spur of the moment sweetness or nothing

s = sharing; is there anyone who’s particularly territorial of their partners?

gestures vaguely at gale. just like with peeta, i don't really agree with his method but i Do understand why he's so easily jealous in the series and respect it to a point. i feel like after he gets older and goes to therapy he gets less Like That bc he has the space to realize that he doesn't have to resource guard his people anymore, but i do think that possessive streak never really goes away either. i actually think katniss would surpass him in terms of territorial behavior at some point bc where he tries to chill out, she just holds on even tighter ghjkl;'

t = terms of endearment; nicknames! who’s crazy on them, and who do they make cringe? what’re the go-to’s?

gestures at gale again, the king of cringe-y nicknames. catnip is the og ofc, and i think he tries an entire gauntlet of names for peeta; pizza, pita, peter, wheat-a, etc. i feel like katniss has made her peace with the nicknames and just rolls her eyes at most, but peeta would try to come up with nicknames for gale in retaliation. however his proficiency with wordplay does not extend to nickname generation so he gives up after he calls gale "windy" and gale almost throws up from laughing too hard