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WE DESERVED MORE PRIM AND HAYMITCH INTERACTIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[districtfourmermaid]

When Katniss meets Finnick and describes how he runs through lovers on his visits to the Capitol, she seems to know that he gets some material benefit out of it, that he isn't just doing it cause he wants to. Or she can't decide how consensual it is, but she knows there is an exchange.

"Because of his youth, they couldn't really touch him for the first year or two. But even since he turned sixteen, he's spent his time at the Games being dogged by those desperately in love with him. No one retains his favor for long... rich or very rich, he'll keep them company and take their extravagant gifts." He suggests she "could have made out like a bandit," and she wonders what he does with his spoils.

It's really unclear how much of his arrangement is public knowledge in the Districts. She must know, somehow, that they pay him in some way, or at least there are rumors, because that's what she thinks until he says he gets paid in secrets. Still, she views him as someone who wants it, not someone forced into it. When he licks his lips, she thinks of Cray preying on the starving girls of 12, and it doesn't cross her mind that he's on the other side of that equation.

Then when Peeta shows up, she mockingly imitates him. It's weird that she hasn't put those pieces together yet, that he's a victim of the Capitol's prostitution just like the girls in her District, not voluntarily promiscuous, after jewels and money. She's been playing a role for the audience for the past year but still hasn't noticed how he does the same thing.

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Testify - Page 209

[sharry-arry-odd]

“I began by making my apologies to the camp. “We came here not to aid you and act as kin, but to learn about dragons. We want this knowledge for our own people—” I caught my phrasing, stopped, and began again. “/I/ want this knowledge for /my/ people. They will respect me more if I learn things they do not know. But they will not respect you for knowing it, because you are of a different people. I was going to present the knowledge as my own, even though you helped me gain it. That is not fair to you, and I am sorry."

The Tropic of Serpents, by Marie Brennan

[quotes-from-oz]

"I see," remarked Dorothy with a sigh of regret; "the woman forgot to give you a heart." "I'm glad she did," retorted the Patchwork Girl. "A heart must be a great annoyance to one. It makes a person feel sad or sorry or devoted or sympathetic—all of which sensations interfere with one's happiness."

Dorothy Gale and Scraps in The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum