queen/king what are your panem universe treemina hcs?
Omg I have way too many help!! Iāll type up a couple haha, but most of these will probably be from my The Losing Battle (We Wonāt Stop Fighting) fic or in that reality that currently has stupidly slow updates because I couldnāt commit to the bit and decided to rework the entire second half of the fic (as one does :p)
Treech has a pet duck named Bark. Originally named Silver-Bark after the silver birch tree because her feathers are white, but at some point it became a dog pun. No one knows where she came from but it doesnāt cost them anything to keep her around because she finds her own food so they let him keep her. Laminaās favorite thing about the duck is how adorable Treech looks when he plays with and hugs Bark.
Laminaās grandparents donāt approve of their relationship at first because sheās technically marrying down but when they see just how much he would sacrifice for her they warm up to him pretty quickly
They hate each otherās mentors with a burning passion. Treech hates Pup because Pup got annoyed with Lamina for being ātoo emotionalā which is extremely cruel and insensitive given her situation, and nothing Pup does to try and make up for his behaviour will ever negate that first impression for Treech. Lamina hates Vipsania because Vipsania was genuinely a bad mentor to Treech, never showing up and leaving him to fend for himself before she had a change of heart and started slowly helping him out more, but by that point it was too late in Laminaās eyes.
Due to the movie outfits I headcanon Lamina is from the slightly more well off part of District 7 that mostly handles the factory side of lumber, ie processing the wood into paper and furniture and stuff. Treech is from the Fringe, which is my made up Seam area for District 7. They work in the lumberyards but usually have to take up second and third jobs to make ends meet, in Treechās case itās wood carving to create ornaments and decorate products as well as his theater side gig with his friends.
Speaking of, Treech writes music and stage plays to entertain the people in District 7, including the peacekeepers in the Fringe who are generally nicer than peacekeepers throughout the rest of the district because of how poor the Fringe is. When everyone has it rough, you commiserate in the misery and all that.
They meet when Treech is begging for food in a particularly rough winter where there was so little food basically a third of the Fringeās population died of starvation. Heād been so desperate to support his siblings and his dad that he stayed outside too long and wouldāve died of hypothermia if Lamina hadnāt found him and taken him into her home to let him warm up.
When they fell in love with each other varies a bit for me depending on the story, but my favorite one (outside of the soulmate fic I wrote for Hannah/@ylvisruinedmylife way back when) is in The Losing Battle where Treech loved her from basically the day they met because heās a hopeless romantic, but he knew she didnāt like him back at the time so he settled for just being in her life as a friend because he values her as a person and being around her is enough for him. He never confesses because he doesnāt ever expect her to like him back. Lamina has also cared about him deeply for years, but she was oblivious to her own feelings until they spent their nights at the zoo together and she realised that what she felt for him was love. She starts wondering how much more they couldāve had and it makes her realise sheās in love with him.
So basically Treech fell first but Lamina fell harder (even though thatās kinda debatable because Treech is a top tier, gold medal, epicentral mass simp)
People think Treech is the protective one because Lamina cries quite easily, but actually itās Lamina. You misplace one hair on his head and youāre dead
Treech is protective as well but he wonāt tear you limb from limb, making you suffer and burn until you beg for the mercy of death. He ruins your life in other ways
That said both of them are extremely mellow. Treech is pretty quiet in general until heās comfortable enough with you to let his inner theater kid out and Laminaās very kind and gentle with everyone she meets, itās just that if you mess with the other you unleash a hellish beast you shouldāve kept dormant.
In book canon, I think Treech and Lamina made the mutual decision not to stay with each other because they knew one would have to die and they didnāt want the other to see them die if it came down to that. They also didnāt wanna see each other die or be forced to kill the other, obviously.
In the movie, Iām kinda split on why Treech left. Part of me thinks it was to try and not paint a target on Laminaās back, which 100% wouldāve happened if heād said no to Coral. However, part of me also staunchly defends the idea that if you expected Treech to lessen his own chances of survival just to avoid hurting Lamina when one of them had to die anyway, you are a heartless bitch, so I donāt wanna spend too much time justifying that decision when itās justified purely by the fact that he is a child who is about to step into a fight to the death. I apologise for the tangent but I do not understand why people villainised him for it. Yeah Laminaās face when it happens is super sad, but like- what was Treech supposed to do here? Die?? I donāt think we should romanticise straight up killing yourself for your lover because thatās not really healthy. Itās heartbreaking and selfless when a character does something like that, but we shouldnāt expect these children to do that. Letās popularize being okay with a kid not wanting to die lol
Unfortunately I cannot stand on my soap box for too long because of what Iām writing in The Losing Battle, but in my defence itās not supposed to be healthy. Lamina and Treech are both coping poorly by overcommitting and they acknowledge it so I think I still have some ground to stand on here
Treech found a hollow under a tree once and made it a little safe space that he ended up sharing with Lamina. Itās basically a little underground room hidden by the roots of a tree with pillows made from fabric scraps left over from the furniture factory and all sorts of trinkets and knicknacks. First because Treech kept stealing from asshole peacekeepers and later because he and Lamina started making things together for dates.
Treech finds any excuse to help transport lumber to the factories so he can see Lamina during work hours because they physically cannot be apart from each other for extended periods of time
Treech has written an embarrassing amount of songs for Lamina that he will never ever ever play for people in public because of how sappy they are. He performs the less obvious ones though and theyāre still adorable
Lamina knows about the songs. She found the little notebook he keeps them in and occasionally looks through it when sheās feeling down because her sweet boyfriendās lovely words always cheer her right up
Treech knows Lamina found the songs. He was a bit embarrassed at first but he doesnāt mind her reading through them if it makes her happy
Iāve got a lot more obviously but I need to studddyyyy aaagagahahhh send help law school was a mistake omfg what am I doing-
Writing a TreeMina proposal when I should be prepping for exams is what Iām doing but shhhhhhhh
