Feb 5
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inside out if it was filmed in my head:
Everyone arguing Plutarch is a bad person, please go and read up on spy operatives throughout history. The man was a deep cover agent for the rebellion for 20+ years. He worked right under President Snow's nose and managed to successfully plan and execute a rebellion that overthrew an authoritarian government.
Look at Washington's spies during the Revolutionary War. Did he view them as expendable? Absolutely. Was he getting his hands dirty directly? Of course not. The man had a revolution to manage.
You'll argue Plutarch took advantage of the tributes and that he pushed Katniss into the Mockingjay role. How is he any different from Beetee? Yes, Beetee was in an impossible situation after Ampert was reaped, but he still involved Haymitch. He still involved Wiress, who had only just one her Games and couldn't have been more than nineteen. He risked the lives of every child who unknowingly snuck explosives into the arena.
How is Plutarch any different than Cinna? He literally turned her into the Mockingjay by altering the dress for her interview. Cinna designed an entire suit costume for a teenage Katniss that was complete with armor to protect her, meaning he knew the role of the Mockingjay would put her in danger.
Cinna sewed the nightlock pill into the shoulder of the Mockingjay suit to ensure that if Katniss was captured, she would have the ability to end things before she could betray the cause.
Was Plutarch a morally gray man with questionable alliances? Yes, yes, he was. But that's the entire point. There's something called the greater good, and that's what Plutarch helped potential rebels like Haymitch understand. They may risk everything for a future that they would never see, but it didn't stop them. Plutarch himself admitted that they may never manage to succeed in ending the Games in their lifetime, but that it shouldn't stop them from doing everything in their power to make it happen.
Where would we be today if the people who came before us had simply stopped trying to make change happen because they realized it wouldn't happen in their lifetime?
Snow made me wear it
[PATREON REQUEST OF THE MONTH]
My HOTTEST Hunger Games Hottake??
Movie Cinna gives me both the heebies and the jeebies.
I genuinely cannot place the vibes 100% but he gives **creep.** He's always touching Katniss, their gazes linger, he's too soft-spoken, etc. Maybe he and JLaw just had too much actual chemistry irl that they couldn't avoid in the movie (I've never seen them in interviews or other projects together, idk) but it's just...
Book!Cinna? Could not care less about. He's there, he's chill, and that's it.
But Movie!Cinna? He's giving pedo, Capitolite scum, preys-on-tributes, would buy Katniss if Snow pimped her out, etc but like just barely which is the most annoying part??
"Is this allowed?"
"I don't know, but he did it."
Cinna and Haymitch summing up Peeta in two sentences.
So I was doing school this morning and something my readings said broke me.
"American slave owners often gave Roman names to the people they enslaved as a justification for slavery."
Reading that I thought of one thing. The Hunger Games.
Cinna and Cato. Roman names. Slaves to the Capital.
These names are correlated to people who betrayed Julius Caesar, the Emperor who was going to be king. Seen as evil, they betrayed and killed him. Does that sound familiar at all? Katniss may not have had a Roman name, but Cato did. He was a slave to the Capital but little did they realize the man they named him after was one of the reasons Julius Caesars reign ended. Cato was one of the reasons the Rebellion found Katniss.
Suzanne Collins why do you do this to me???
Why can't I live in peace, do my homework without Hunger Games head-cannons!?!?
Art like music, books, film, theater must have been heavily censored in the Capitol, right? There's no way a fascist dictator like Snow would ever grant Capitol citizens the ability to make art freely. Not when it can be used against him.
No wonder they were obsessed with the Games, it's the only entertainment they're allowed to have. (Even though it's also doctored and manipulated). Its the only media safe to consume without fear of retaliation.
I suppose that's why they wore such ridiculous clothes and altered their bodies. Fashion is seemingly the only way they're allowed to express themselves.
Except not really because Cinna and Portia were still killed for styling Katniss and Peeta.
I know it's a shit-ass theory but I will continue to headcanon (not seriously) that Cinna is Magno and Drusilla's child for no other reason than it would be fucking hilarious