things we know about Katniss and Peeta’s children:
- their father wanted them badly (they will never have to feel, as he did, like a waste of space)
- their mother has had a primal fear of losing them ever since they first stirred inside her (and before she even conceived them, let’s be honest)
- but … they bring her fear-conquering joy
- they dance
- they seem to have a good relationship themselves, given how the boy traipses after his sister
- they play in the Meadow where so much tragedy happened, their existence a punctuation of hope literally atop a graveyard
- they are well-fed (chubby!!!)
- they don’t know the atrocities that came before them, but their parents are proactively planning to teach them in a way that will make them brave
- their mother is also proactively planning to teach them about her trauma management mechanisms, working to break the cycle of generational trauma she was subjected to, while teaching them about the goodness of humanity that can sometimes be hard to note and appreciate
- their privacy is crucial to their mother (at least, I think that’s why we never get their names)
- their physical features represent the breaking down of class divisions within a once segregated district
- they take for granted being safe and warm and loved because their parents keep them safe and warm and loved (Katniss’s dream came true: Peeta’s children ARE safe)
*** by the way: I don’t understand how people can even suggest Katniss doesn’t love her children after reading that the babies take Rue’s lullaby for granted … you take something for granted because you’ve always had it! just read the lyrics of that song!
- and, as Peeta says, they’re going to be okay, because they all have each other (and the book)
