#beetee thg

is absolutely the most heinous and cruelest Quarter Quell idea possible and you cannot change my mind. The one 'agreement' from the Games was that Victors were then supposed to exempt from Reapings and singularly miserable in their new lives as Mentors, props for the Capitols, and possibly enemy-stand-ins for the Districts.

And now they're going back into the arena??

There is nothing, and I mean NOTHING more cruel than that. Idk if you changed the number of tributes, changed the ages, made it another voting system, etc. Sending in those who have suffered both in the arena and then outside of it, be it for a year or for the past 60, is fucking heinous.

And just imagine how they all react to it?? Not just the announcement and those 6 months of sheer fucking fear but then being Reaped? Accepting that they'll live and die for nothing? Finding their bodies drawn back into their first arena as they notice what is eerily familiar, what is completely changed, and that the mind-ruining fear for their lives is back?? Killing again?? Watching each other die again?? Deciding they'd rather die quickly than risk winning a second time?

And those who are hopeless from the start? Who know the arena is designed for the 'star' Victors of which they were not?? Can you fucking imagine??

YAYAYAYAYYY!!! i find that ship so fascinating!

“Like a canary in one of your coal mines” ahhhh I love Beetee and Wiress’ relationship <333

His next child (son or daughter, I haven't decided) was Reaped during the 65th Games, at fourteen rather than twelve, bc Snow just loved the idea of letting him think his kid was safe for two years before ruining his life again. Said kid had to go into the arena with none other than Finnick Odair, another 14y/o with similarly great prospects.

Finnick won that year. Beetee, at first, wanted to hate him. After all, Finnick is the direct reason his kid didn't survive (compared to Haymitch who tried his best to save Ampert) but it doesn't take long for the guilt to win him over. He watches Finnick navigate the trafficking, the secrets, the Mentoring, and everything in between and, just a year after Finnick officially 'goes on the market' enlists him to get secrets/leverage from his Capitolite patrons.

Beetee can never look at Finnick without seeing ghosts of his dead child but, at the same time, has a deeply protective side to him bc of how much Finnick reminds him of [kid's name].