lenore dove baird, the rare and radiant maiden—a short character analysis thread °❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･
lenore dove was born on a cold december night in the year of the 34th hunger games.
her ma, maude ivory, unfortunately died in child birth—so she was raised by tam amber and clerk carmine.
lenore dove grows up with the very same ideals and values that her ma did always finding beauty in everything, constantly trying to keep on the sunny side.
“The Covey believe you’re put on earth to reduce the misery, not add to it.”
she keeps snips of colors on her clothes, a way of carrying the family she so desperately wished to meet but never got the chance to.
she’s one of the last remaining covey, inheriting their voices, hopes and dreams and carrying them with her all the way to the end.
she had so much compassion, and she was able to picture a better world—one which she was willing to fight for.
she wanted to make a change, and like all the covey members, she played a significant role in the rebellion.
tam amber created the mockingjay pin, the symbol of the revolution—the pin that gave katniss her name.
lucy gray’s voice echoes throughout the rebellion.
her songs, her spirit—everything that snow tried to erase—ended up becoming the soul of the revolution.
“Well, you know what they say. The show’s not over until the mockingjay sings,”
lenore dove inherits the same need for freedom, the need to run as wild as the wind.
she yearned for the life the covey had years ago—she wanted to travel with her family, to live life on the open road.
the capitol was like a cage to her.
“The Hanging Tree is a strange song,” offered Coriolanus.
Lucy Gray laughed. “Well, Maude Ivory likes it. She says it has real authority.”
“Like all the Covey, music in her blood. But not like them, too. Less interested in pretty melodies, more in dangerous words.”
“Another song surfaces unbidden. Also forbidden. Lenore Dove plays it for Burdock sometimes. . . .”
“She doesn’t have to tell me which songs.
“The Goose and the Common.”
All the ones she’s forbidden to play in public.”
maude ivory expresses a liking towards the song—and years later, we see her daughter, at just twelve years old, attempting to change the fate of a man who was sentenced to ‘the hanging tree’.
the man was clay chance, a descendant of arlo chance, who inspired the song.
lenore dove got arrested for the very first time because of her meddling.
the second time, was during their first year at the reaping.
she burns the panem flag, knowing it could’ve cost her ten or more years in prison by doing so.
she was only twelve then, not calculating the real danger she could’ve caused upon herself if the peacekeepers had actual proof of what she had done.
she had acted impulsively and followed her heart.
but she didn’t risk anyone else’s life other than hers. no one had any knowledge of what she had done—and no proof, either.
her uncles and her boy didn’t know beforehand.
haymitch only put the pieces together, because he was one of the very few people who knew that this side of her exists—even when she tried to hide it from him.
at sixteen, she does rebel graffiti against the capitol’s propaganda. but she doesn’t tell anyone either, haymitch only figures it out after her death.
her impulsiveness is still there—it’s part of her personality—but it doesn’t show up as much because she’s older now.
the one time she acts impulsively though, is when her boy gets a low score.
she thinks the reaping is her fault, having a tendency to blame herself even for things she cannot control, and she purposefully gets herself in trouble when she sees his odds getting worse.
when she grieves, she grieves loudly. she grieves possibilities, people, and chances.
she grieves the life she could’ve had with her family if the capitol hadn’t rounded them up in district 12.
she grieves her boy before he’s even in the arena—grieves the life she could’ve had with him, and decides she’d rather follow him to his death instead of staying behind.
she loves with everything she’s got, and its that very same love that condemns haymitch to life.
she loves him so much—she wants him to live, to be able to see better days ahead. she knew he deserved it after everything he went through.
lenore dove died, but her beliefs echoed through the entire trilogy.
she played ‘the hanging tree’ for burdock, and he taught it to katniss—the song ended becoming a spark of hope for the rebels.
she continued living through haymitch, and through clerk carmine—her people, the only ones left, that got to experience the world she believed in.
her colors, much like the rest of the covey, fill the pages of the trilogy.
she didn’t get the chance to fight for a better future, but her love for haymitch was what pushed him to live.
he had to fulfill his promise to her, the promise prevent another sunrise on the reaping.
