Thinking about tbosas from the other perspective is so funny to me because imagine youโre Lucy Gray and the way you make a living is by singing and being a charming, charismatic performer. The people in your district love you, you have a nice family, sure your parents are dead but things arenโt so bad.
Then you get Reaped because your boyfriend cheated on you - so now you have to fight for your life in an arena.
When you get to the Capitol youโre met by a guy around your age who says his job is to take care of you in the arena, so you figure you should probably use some of those charms you live by on him so you have a better chance at survival. So you flirt with him a little, save his life etc. It works! He helps you! Now youโve won the Hunger Games! You get to go home and see your family! Thank you random Capitol guy for your help, bye bye now.
And then youโre singing on stage, with your family who you literally killed people to see again, thrilled to be alive and this fuckin Capitol guy has followed you home.
Oh and also heโs a peacekeeper now so is legally allowed a gun.
And now he kind of wonโt leave you alone - the charm worked too well and heโs obsessed with you. Brilliant. But youโre a survivor. So you let him get closer, just enough to feel safe. And as you get to know him better, maybe youโre thinking, hey this guy isnโt so bad, heโs kind of cute with his buzzcut and he seems to really like you, maybe this could be something. Also it might be useful to have a peacekeeper on side - everything in your district is about survival.
Things are going well, you write a song about him, he cries, your little cousin loves him.
And then he murders someone in front of you and youโre like oh shit he crazy. And THEN you realise that because of the person he murdered, the mayor is now out for your blood and youโre probably gonna die so you have to get out of there ASAP so you say bye to this guy and he INVITES HIMSELF TO YOUR ESCAPE PLAN and you have to be like โoh sure, thatโs super news, would absolutely love to have you along with me, Iโm so glad you asked.โ So now youโre stuck with him again.
And THEN youโre in the middle of escaping and he fuckin tells you heโs murdered an extra person you didnโt know about and when you ask him who, he says his old self and now youโre thinking oh shit he CRAZY crazy. And THEN he finds the gun he used and you realise that if he destroys that evidence then youโre the only loose end and he has a kind of crazy look in his eye so youโre like, okay time to nip this in the bud, Iโm outta here gotta go pick some katniss. So you run away from him and THEN he follows you again and fuckin shoots at you so you run FASTER and now youโve disappeared and no one will ever find out what happened to you which drives him absolutely crazy for 60+ years.
Oh and also theyโre going to erase all footage of your Games so no one will remember you and heโs going to become a tyrannical dictator who has personal beef with three different sixteen year olds from your district over the years, all because you hurt his feelings one time.
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