#1 hayffie shipper

katniss: i go to a place and do a thing using a skill. also everyone hates me. oh you want to know more about myself? here are four straight paragraphs just describing food instead.

haymitch: so the baker’s in love with my best friends girl and my girlfriend’s uncle is gay and secretly dating the town window-fixer and she’s actually related to lucy gray and has beef with the mayors daughter who bullied me and her social security number is—

But one of my and a lot of people’s parts is Boggs with Finnick in his underwear. It’s a very fun scene. But at the end Boggs admits he had a plan to subdue Finnick if Katniss hadn’t been able to talk him down. Besides Haymitch and his “I’m with the Mockingjay,” none of the adults ever let Katniss do things or make calls on her own. It also shows he is maybe not as willing to just throw people into jail like was done to the Preps. So… that’s good. (No that I think Finnick would’ve been treated as badly since they need him on camera, but you know what I mean.)

The next scene is a button on the underwear joke but it’s also him helping Katniss out in a way she rarely gets. Fulvia talks about how handsome Gale is. This makes Katniss uncomfortable. (Is Fulvia Team Gale?). She doesn’t want to be talking about boys with Fulvia Cardew, period full stop. But it’s also awkward because she doesn’t want to give Gale certain impressions. And she’s not the kind of girl who went around talking about how cute boys are with, say, Madge. She keeps Peeta’s eyelashes to herself.

But Boggs cuts all that off with a joke about Finnick in his underwear. He rescues her from the conversation, something that is often Peeta’s job. Not that I think Boggs wants to talk about how handsome Gale is either. He’s probably like, “I trained my whole life for THIS?”)

Katniss: What?! What do you mean “We’ve lost Peeta”???

Katniss: [reaches out to help]

Peeta: [switches all groceries to one arm to hold Katniss’ hand]

Katniss: That’s not what I—

During Catching Fire, they spend the whole time deciding that, whatever happens, Peeta needs to survive. They’re both willing to die to keep him safe. Haymitch had spent the winter with Peeta, looking after him, we know this because when he asks Katniss to wake him up, Peeta is already there. He comes with bread to make sure Haymitch eats, and there’s such a familiarity in the way they move, as if it’s their routine. We get another hint of their bond when Katniss calls Peeta after the storm and uses Haymitch as an excuse as if she knows Peeta would have been taking care of him. And indeed, Peeta tells her he was already at Haymitch’s house, that he built up his fire and left him bread. For both of them, Peeta is the only thing worth risking everything for.

When they lose Peeta, they can barely look at each other. Katniss is hurt and grieving and turns all her anger against Haymitch — she wants him to hurt just as much as she does. When Peeta gives his first interview, she says she wishes Haymitch were watching, to see how Peeta calls him off. She needs to know that Haymitch is in as much pain as she is.

“I put what was precious in Haymitch’s hands. And he has betrayed me.”