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Throughout the series, Katniss puts this distance between the two of them:

“I don’t have the healing gift, Prim got that”

“I got my dad’s skills, not my mum’s”

“I would NEVER go catatonic and abandon people who need me like that”

And valid, yknow. The trauma Katniss went through was intense and not one many of us can really comprehend and is something that stick with her for the rest of her life.

But they really are just so similar. When Katniss loses Peeta, she becomes depressed and completely unresponsive to her responsibilities. Even Prim.

When Katniss loses Prim she becomes completely catatonic and quite literally attempts to take her life.

The mirror replied "To whom?"

"The miller who made the flour for my bread," the queen would say, or "Whoever spun the thread my shawl was made of".

everything between them is transactional, it was like that from the start, with their hunting and taking care of each other's families. pre- 74th games katniss didn't think anything romantic about gale, and I'm pretty sure she didn't really feel strong (romantic) feelings for him at all even through mockingjay. even while making out with the man her brain is a mile away. but, I think, subconsciously, she's aware that gale likes her in that way. so she sees showing him romantic affection as a way of repaying him (for what? I mean, taking care of her family, but also lots of her guilt revolves around even remotely caring about peeta at least in my opinion)

so gale was right, katniss only shows him romantic affection when he's in pain, because she does care about him, but she's also distantly aware that kissing him or returning his advances even temporarily is what he wants and is what would make him feel better

gale is also immaturely entitled to katniss and feels threatened by her having any sort of relationship with a man not even necessarily close to her age.

he clearly feels some sort of ownership over her, as can be seen with his aggression towards peeta, finnick, and it's implied he wasn't very friendly towards darius. jealousy can be understood, he is/was a teenage boy after all, but voicing those jealousies and by extension putting pressure on katniss to return his feelings because he did so much for her is the harmful part

in a previous post I pointed out how peeta defended gale after he was whipped without any romance-related comments to katniss at all, regardless of if he felt them or felt jealous (which it's implied he does feel at least sad after katniss wakes up from sleeping beside gale) he didn't voice those thoughts and therefore didn't push any guilt onto katniss for not paying enough attention to him, which is the biggest difference between him and gale.

whether it be consciously or subconsciously, I think gale was pushing guilt onto katniss for her not returning his affections, tying back into that entitlement thing. his hostility towards finnick, and saying he's "back on track" after getting Annie back, which means he probably just wasn't spending as much time with katniss anymore, is a wild thing to say about a man 7 years older than she is, and who was her anchor in the weeks/months before getting peeta back

gale apparently just has an entirely different set of priorities from everyone else, and katniss is at least on some level aware that he wants her affections. she feels guilty for not giving him what she and he think is "owed", and that forms the basis of their relationship post-74th games.

“Gale thinks Katniss owes him her love” well yes he views relationships as transactional… because that is how all of his relationships have ever functioned. That’s how district 12 works. Katniss teaches him to hunt, he teaches her how to trap. She takes care of his family, he takes care of hers. Katniss functions in the same way except she’s always worrying about paying back her debts rather than cashing them in

Katniss is constantly thinking about paying Peeta back for acts of love or kindness. It goes back to the bread, even. She feels like she owes him and the Mellarks as a whole because he saved her life, it’s a debt she doesn’t feel like she can ever pay back

Love has only been given to both of them when they give something in return. Katniss feels constantly indebted to Peeta for this reason, and Gale thinks him and Katniss are inevitable because if he’s giving her love, her “duty” is to give it back

It is an entitled attitude to have, but Katniss would think the exact same way if she were in Gale’s position and I don’t think people realize that

Katniss grows out of this mindset while Gale never never does and that is their key difference to me

~The Many Legs of Peeta Mellark, or A Weirdly In-Depth Look at Panem Prosthetics~

Concept art for Peeta’s leg because I can (details below the cut)

Katniss being super cold towards him? The terrible cave scene? The emotionless 'I need you' on the beach? The general lack of chemistry between them? All the Gale angst?? Peeta's entire character being reduced to a damsel in distress and very much feeling like a spare part??? The totally weird and unsatisfying epilogue where the distance between them in the field is emphasised and something about the lighting and framing makes it feel like a Bad Ending????