Ok so everyone is arguing over what they want the next Hunger Games book to be. “Do Johanna’s Games!” “No Finnick’s!” “No Annies!”
No. Give me Effie’s book.
Give me a book, the Games, the propaganda, from a Capitol citizen’s perspective.
Give me a young Effie who believes in the propaganda and all she has to think about is where to get her next meal from- because she’s poor and on the bottom of the social ladder and she knows hunger well- and has to worry about how to get her families name to no longer being scorned.
Give me an Effie who takes care of her sister much in the same way Katniss does, except without the threat of the tesserae looming over her.
Give me an Effie who almost wishes there were a tesserae, just so she’d be able to have a reliable source of food.
Give me an Effie’s who’s whole worldview collapses, maybe because she makes friends with a Sejanus, someone from the Districts, and hear their struggles. Maybe because she watches the Games and it feels wrong, or maybe because she meets Haymitch and watches his Games and then sees what they show the people.
Give me an Effie who gets to look at the inside of the corruption. Who hears people speak out against the Capitol, and the Games, and then they mysteriously disappear.
Give me an Effie who is scared shitless of the Capitol, and does everything in her power to stay far, far away from it.
Give me an Effie who steps in when her sister needs it, even though it throws her into the lions den, and an Effie who breaks down when the door shuts behind her after Snow visits her personally to tell her she’s been “promoted” to District 12 Escort. Effie, who has no choice to say yes.
Give me an Effie who feels her torture at the hands of her Capitol, who swore she was better than the same district scum she’s being tortured alongside
Give me an Effie who breaks free of the propaganda, who has this false perception that comes crumbling down.
I want to feel her anger and disgust. See how she cries herself to sleep every night after sending another two children to her doom. I want to hear her thoughts, all the things she can’t say, or covers up with more Capitol Propaganda.
I want Effie’s book, please. Or at least a book from someone in the Capitol. Someone who sees the corruption from the inside. Watches the Games as one of the “enjoyers”. And someone who breaks free from that mindset.
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