I'm rereading catching fire and I'm at the scene after katniss snaps at Effie and peeta is showing her his paintings on the victory tour train- and one of them really stuck out to me, more than the others
he paints clove rearranging the knives in her coat, which was very very interesting to me and it made me a little emotional tbh- he painted her in a candid moment, only mildly threatening with the imagery of knives, but he painted her otherwise normally and just within a moment
it really shows how peeta never dehumanized the careers he spent time with or depicted them monstrously, similarly with his painting of mutt glimmer; it really makes me wonder what his time with them was like, before the tracker jackers
peeta painting clove in a moment that feels normal, human, for a girl who likes knives instead of painting her attacking someone or being actively hostile felt very important for both peeta's character and the characterization of the careers
