#the newcomers

[loverblaze]

sotr poster being painted with blood because haymitch + the newcomers did ultimately paint the capitol's poster with their blood and fueled the capitol's propaganda. november 2026 is going to hurt BAD.

[fortesque]

2000: Judd in The Newcomers

Chris Evans filmography

[glass-dagger]

The Careers are a metaphor for the Capitol and the Newcomers are a metaphor for the revolution

The Capitol scrubbed any mention or evidence of the Newcomer alliance because it would have sent the message to the districts that the weak are stronger together.

Wyatt says that the Careers always have good odds but these Games are different because of the alliances. Normally, the Careers have better odds not just because of their strength and training, but because of their alliance. The Careers are always outnumbered by the rest of the tributes but they stick together and they make plans. They are organized. The other tributes biggest weakness isn’t really that they are physically weaker or less trained, it’s that they are often on their own and fighting each other as well as the Careers.

Throughout the book, the oppressed are mentioned to outnumber those in power multiple times: the Newcomers to the Careers, District 12 to the peacekeepers, the tributes in the the training compound to the peacekeepers, and (obviously) the districts to the Capitol.

The tributes from 6 say no to the alliance at first because they don’t want to be targeted by the Careers. This seems so irrational because of how the Games work. The Careers would still try to kill then eventually so why not join the Newcomers to have better odds? But this is exactly what keeps people in the districts from rebelling: fear of retaliation from the Captiol. People know how brutally rebels and their loved ones are punished. But is avoiding being targeted actually better in the end if the Capitol is still in power?

Plutarch asks Haymitch why they submit to the peacekeepers and the Capitol. And when Haymitch says they don’t want to end up dead he responds:

“And yet, I still don’t think the fear they inspire justifies this arrangement we’ve all entered into. Do you?”

The Newcomers are the districts after they unite during the revolution. They find their strength through binding together against a common enemy. The Capitol had purposefully pitted the districts against each other because they knew if they stop fighting each other, they might finally unite and overthrow them.

They edit the 50th Hunger Games to make it look like Haymitch was a selfish jerk who played the Games alone and drove his only ally away in the end. The Games with the biggest tribute alliance ever was completely erased and replaced with a story of a victor who only looked out for himself.

The Capitol wants to push the narrative that it’s every man for themselves. Even the Careers will turn on each other eventually because there can only be one victor. They push individualism because it keeps people weak and under control. Unity will always be the most powerful advantage.

[graymalkinrogue]

IS THAT ONE OF MAYSILEE'S NECKLACES?????

[jabberbaird]

boom i made this

[thehungergamesconfessions]

The Newcomers don't make sense. They act like their on a summer camp and not the child murder death games. Like let's say that the able to kill all careers, are they prepared to turn on and kill each other? Why is there seemingly no internal conflict whatsoever? Do they even understand that they will kill each other?

Not to mention that the alliance consists almost every non-Career tributes. Not one tribute thought it was better to go it alone, with these two alliances forming? That they could slip under the radar? Every mentor was fine with this? Why did the Fives side with Careers and no one else?

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[fictionaltrvlr]

courtesy of the capitol

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