welcome to the rabbit hole

actually i love the reveal that the only reason effie got involved with the hunger games at all was because her little sister needed her.

hey so why has no one talked about the fact that, in haymitch's first scene in the hunger games (book), he tries to hug effie when he arrives drunk off his ass? like... what am i supposed to do but cry after reading sunrise on the reaping and now coming back and seeing this??

anyone else thinking about effie spending 24 years watching haymitch completely fall apart. effie, who met haymitch by accident, who knows exactly what kind of person he is, who sees him every year on his birthday for 24 years and each year he’s drunker, each year he’s angrier, each year he’s faster to give up. and then they get katniss and peeta. peeta, who is kind and open and understanding, who refuses to give up on haymitch. and katniss, who is so much like haymitch at 16 that it hurts. and over the few days they’re together, effie watches haymitch come back to life. watches him try. watches him have hope. and then they get to keep not one but both of those kids. they get to come home. and then, less then a year later, effie pulls haymitch’s name at the reaping.

I’m reading the original trilogy right now after sotr and THIS!!! From Katniss’ perspective in the first book, Effie is disgusted with Haymitch’s alcoholic tendencies, and from an outside perspective that totally makes sense! However!!! After reading sotr, I think she’s just sad/confused/disappointed by the fact that this is how he turned out. The boy who picked up her makeup case for her is now a man whose only goal is to chase oblivion and she has no idea how it happened