#thg coin

[thatsillything]

The woman in male fields (Dictatorship)

[there-are-many-ways-to-smile]

So Coin sends a hijacked Peeta to distract Katniss and her squad on their mission, and obviously it's a way to get rid of everyone. But my question is why didn't she send Johanna as well? Wouldn't she and Finnick hold the same threat or close to?

[shanrambles]

I recently read A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes--and I hate how much of a mirror Coryo and Dr. Gaul are to Gale and Coin.

I will be honest and say I never found Gale a particularily likeable character, and really didn't like what kind of person his character was in the last two books of the og trilogy.

But it very much felt like the way Coryo describes his "love" for Lucy Gray--which is more about a sense of possessiveness and ownership--has a lot of similarities with how Gale "realized" he loved Katniss, and how they both act after. Gale realized that even as a joke he didn't like the idea of Katniss kissing someone else. Not that he wanted to be the one kissing her, but that he didn't want her kissing other people. Much like how Coryo feels when it came to LG's song in the interview.

Immediately after meeting LG and Coryo begin learning from eachother, and supporting eachother through circumstances they can't control while trying to achieve common goals. Much like how Katniss and Gale do the same over a longer period of time.

Then most of the more intimate moments for both were spurned on by larger events, (the games, of course, but also the Peacekeeper's whipping or fear of being caught for murder) in the down time neither cling together like how the characters who are actually in love through the series do. Neithers love can hold a candle to Haymitch, Peeta, Finnick, or Burdock in that regard.

Most importantly though, is that through Gaul and Coin, they both undergo transformations that turn both them from unsympathetic to villainous.

When working with Beetee, Gale comes up with the double bombing. He has to have imagined various senarios where those kinds of bombs are used--and that Rebels could be hit in the crossfire, even if he didn't imagine Prim to be one of them.

It's echoed in how Coryo helped with the Jabberjays and Mockingjays, especially since Gale got started by making a trap for the hummingbird. And through the birds it kills someone who can be seen as under their care, as Prim was for Gale and how Coryo was constantly taking care of Sejanus.

And neither would have been in those possitions if Gaul or Coin hadn't taken a special interest in them.

Gale even says something to the effect of using the same rulebook as Snow. Whereas suggesting the continuation of the games is straight out of Gaul's rulebook.

Lastly, of course, is that Coryo thought he was heading to 2 after his last encounter with LG in the Woods! Like how Gale went to 2 after the last time he sees Katniss! Gaul was alive to bring Coryo back to the Capital, Coin wasn't alive to send Gale anywhere.