Emma

I make hunger games edits and fanfics

[vanillasunsetsss]

Before the world saw the Boy with the Bread, she just saw her big brother.

“For a while, it feels like we’re the only two people on earth. The crowd fades away, the noise dulls to a distant hum, and all I can feel is him. His jacket smells like Capitol soap and something that’s still undeniably Peeta. When I press my face into his shoulder, I feel like I can finally breathe again.”

When Peeta Mellark is reaped for the 74th Hunger Games, his little sister Briella is left behind in District 12 to face a world without him. As the Games unfold on-screen, Briella must navigate a fractured home, a grieving district, and the constant fear that her brother might not make it out alive.

A Hunger Games retelling through the eyes of Peeta Mellark’s little sister.

Read on AO3: The Sister by vanillasunsets

[sippingdaisies]

although katniss is our protagonist and main character i think there's actually a much more fitting throughline when it comes to the presence of covey girls and their acts of rebellion.

lucy gray

lenore dove

primrose

i don't often see prim mentioned when it comes to covey lineage (most likely because her character is so aligned with their merchant mother in the original trilogy) but all three of these girls actively haunt the narrative.

lucy gray is the ghost whose songs of resistance endure in district 12 long after her name is forgotten. lenore dove paints her posters across the district and its haymitch's promise to her that forces him to keep going, keep fighting back until someone 'just like him but luckier' comes along to do what he couldn't. primrose is reason that katniss volunteers, she inspires a love so great that it defies the odds and brings her sister home.

they all have an immense strength but also an inherent gentleness - their love of animals whether this is lucy gray's snakes or lenore dove's geese or prim's refusal to hunt animals (not to mention lady and buttercup) - they are all drawn to creatures that are not widely seen as valuable or lovable.

they share a deep sense of optimism, each believe in the power of hope to transform one's circumstances. they each believe that a better world is not only possible but they are willing to take action to make it so. lucy gray uses her songs and performances, lenore dove engages in acts of sabotage and vandalises property. prim learns how to heal and chooses to enter a warzone in order to help people - in a world governed by violence, prim is first and foremost a healer.

and ultimately they are all taken from those who love them - they are girls frozen in time, forever filled with colour and light. three generations of covey girls, each doomed by their connection to the games.

[vanillasunsetsss]

Prim is one of the most underrated characters in the whole series, and everything was literally for her

[vanillasunsetsss]

I have a Pinterest board full of quotes that remind me of Briella and Peeta. These are my favourites

The Sister by Vanillasunsets

[aamtreeanalogy]

i love love love being a girl. but sometimes when i watch dead poets society, good will hunting, stand by me or read the kite runner, secret history, a little life or when i read about the marauders, i just want to experience living through boyhood.

[honeyfbh]

“what died didn’t stay dead, you’re alive, you’re alive in my head” “all your closets of backlogged dreams and how you left them all to me” and “if I didn’t know better I’d think you were singing to me now” is so haymitch and lenore dove coded

[electrictouchfob]

I think Katniss and Peeta are really goofy inside the comfort of their home. Just like a cat, Katniss rubs her head against Peeta's arm when she wants something. Peeta makes random noises when he's bored or wants Katniss' attention.

[vanillasunsetsss]

I think it’s time I admit that when I read sotr for the first time I pictured Lenore Dove’s geese like this. I was so confused when the first teaser trailer came out

[tshyn]

he kisses the tears off of her.. i'm not okay actually

[vanillasunsetsss]

This entire song is so Haymitch, but this verse specifically

[vanillasunsetsss]

My favourite doomed best friends

[everlarksupremacy]

Contrary to growing popular belief, Peeta is a VASTLY more complex character than Gale.

Shout out to @glimmeringpearl for getting my juices flowing on this, and please check out her post that I re-blogged yesterday.

Anyway, Gale is reflective of the majority of Panem. There are thousands of people around him at any given time that act and think just like him. He fell for the anger and division the games were designed to create on countless occasions. Again, just like the majority of people. He has a revolutionary spirit, yes, but with no gauge within it that could materialize it on his own (more on that later). Katniss conducting more analysis on him ≠ more complex; in fact, it says the opposite.

Peeta utterly puzzles Katniss a number of times. She cannot make sense of him, though we know she rather passionately attempts to, and it’s to the point where she often times just gives up on trying. THAT is how complex he is. PEETA is the radical one in this society for daring to choose humanity over brutality. He broke the status quo. A child abuse victim who has the brute strength to be exactly what the Capitol desires, yet is the designated character to symbolize peace throughout the series. And when he inspires Katniss to tap more into her own similar qualities and showcase them alongside him, THEY are the catalyst that spark the revolution Gale merely rode the wave of. And just like Peeta overcame his childhood of violence, he overcame his hijacking without us ever knowing how exactly he managed to. The important part is that he DID, and his kind nature could never be stomped out for good.

To be clear, both characters are incredibly complex. Suzanne put so much work into crafting their arcs, and I will never set out to indicate otherwise. But it is Peeta who is more often taken for granted and looked over, even by those who love his character sometimes, simply because his actions are often undefinable (again, complexity in and of itself) and less aggressively imposed.

[lokiostasis]

and if I said Haymitch Abernathy

[revslie]

☀️ “As I wait to be sure the coast is clear, I soak up the loveliness of Lenore Dove. She spins around, head back, arms lifted to the sky. It must have been hell for her being locked up. She can‘t stand for anything to be confined. Especially wild things, which, of course, she is.”

guys ignore the background president snow hacked my procreate 🤧

[vanillasunsetsss]

Saw this on tiktok today, this is literally Briella post mockingjay btw

[vanillasunsetsss]

I’m so excited for the illustrated Mockingjay book you have no idea

[vanillasunsetsss]

Are they laughing with you or at you?

[vanillasunsetsss]

Snow would be the first person to buy a one wish willow if they existed in Panem