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This might be an unpopular opinion but I doubt they'd have a particularly close relationship.

I think Peeta makes more of an effort to stay in touch with Annie over the years. And I like to think Annie and Baby Odair visit District 12 at some point. (It’s hard to tell if Katniss would ever be allowed to leave District 12, though I headcanon that she’s pardoned at some point.)

I just don’t see Katniss and Peeta being super involved in Baby Odair's life especially during the early years. They have love for him and Annie but I don’t think they’d have the roles of “Aunt and Uncle” in his life.

I think as he gets older, and if he wanted to reach out they would answer any questions he has about his dad.

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Do you think there is correlation of their situation with their action?

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@curiousthg

Hi, I'm sorry it took me so long to answer 😅

One of my favorite things about the saga is that the role of the mother is not sanctified. Suzanne writes mothers with flaws, virtues, and making mistakes but without forgetting that they are also victims of the system and how it affects them. (Mrs. Everdeen by being a healer who has seen the consequences of violence from authority figures, her depression, and her ability to teach Prim. And Mrs. Mellark with her closed-minded and cruel way of looking at the world).

I think Peeta and Katniss' childhood and their relationships with their moms is a very sad topic but so real that it hurts. They both actively try not to be like them. They despise or try to eliminate the "core" characteristics of their moms that they find in themselves. Katniss by repressing her feelings because she thinks they make her weak, and Peeta with his need to keep an iron grip on his reactions. The tragedy is that when they are at their lowest and most helpless moment, they become mirrors of their mothers. But I think, in some ways, it is because of their mothers that they survive everything the story throws at them.

Katniss survives the district thanks to the knowledge she inherited from her father, but she survives the games and the war because of her ability to do what it takes to protect/save others, which she inherited from her mother. It's something all three Everdeen women share. Peeta often tells her "You're the healer" and Katniss always contradicts him, but the truth is that Katniss also shares that gift. She just doesn't see it because, for her, the image of healing is Prim.

Peeta survives the capitol (in all its forms) due to what he learned from his mother, from reacting under pressure to smiling when he's choking with fear. Something little talked about is that one of the reasons Peeta makes it back from the hijacking is because of his mother: She gave him the experience of what it is like to love someone who causes him fear.

Perhaps my point of view is cliché or simple when analyzing Katniss and Peeta's mothers but I think their depth and humanity lie precisely in how they influenced their children and how "simple" it is for us to understand and empathize with the children early on and then understand and empathize (or not) with their mothers as we grow up.

[When translating this answer I feel I rambled a bit so I apologize for that hehe].

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Favorite quote or moment from them?

Please state one (or more) thing which you don't like from them.

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@curiousnonny

My favourite character's Finnick, because he's one of the toughest and most intelligent characters of the series. He's been through a lot because of the cruelty he faced from Snow's tyranny, and unlike Katniss, he doesn't project his feelings onto other people.

Personally, I think Finnick's a bit impulsive, and he's a too transparent with his feelings. The last one isn't so much of a bad thing, just that he can't survive in a world like his because of that one quality.

My favourite quote of his is the fan favourite It takes ten times longer to put yourself together than it does to fall apart. I think he the most qualified to say that, because he's gone through the psychological pain of the aftermath of the games longer than Katniss or Peeta, and neither of them was projected as a sex symbol for the Capitol. I think the only one who can understand what he's been through is Haymitch.

I have three favourite moments of Finnick in the series, and all of them are equally wonderful, if I do say so myself.

When he protected Mags (this showed everyone who initially thought he was nothing more than a pretty boy that he was so much more.)

When he made his broadcast from District 13 (this was one of the bravest things I've ever seen anyone do in the whole fucking series. He is so courageous.)

When he married Annie (my personal most favourite. This was the first time he was genuinely happy since the day he was reunited with Annie)

He deserved so much more.

Yes and no, Peeta will never be his "old self", hijacking and torture aside, he's deeply traumatized from growing up in an abusive household, surviving two games and a war. He's changed in the same way that Katniss has changed. He's different but different doesn't mean bad or less than.

Peeta is still himself in the sense that the hijacking didn't alter every memory about his life just the parts about Katniss. Katniss just happened to be a big part of his life.

The epilogue in both Mockingjay and Sunrise on the Reaping gave us a glimpse into Peeta's long term recovery. (I ugly cried when I saw Everlark in the SOTR epilogue.) He seems to have found peace. Peeta felt safe enough to want children. He felt like the world was finally safe enough for their children. (Peeta never states he wants kids prior to the epilogue, Katniss assumes that about him.)

I like to think his children bring him the sort of joy that make the days imprisoned in Capitol a faint nightmare.

It’s also something I don’t see explored a lot in fandom fics and it’s kind of mostly focused on Peeta and his own healing from the hijacking. But what about Katniss’s trauma from what HE did and said to her when he was hijacked? It wasn’t his fault, but that hurt just doesn’t go away.

Anyway, I guess I was messaging to ask what you think it would be like for them in the aftermath of healing from the war. Do you think Peeta would feel really guilty for the things he said to Katniss, like say if he realizes Katniss internalized some of his “piece of work/not particularly pretty” comments? Or do you think something different and more grey area? Sorry for the essay. Lol. I just rewatched THG and I’m obsessed again. :)

I assume apart of the "growing back together" Katniss refers to at the end of Mockingjay includes an apology from Peeta.

I think they talk, a lot. I think they play “real not real?”, a lot. I can't imagine a scenario where Peeta isn't remorseful.

I don't think Katniss internalized much of Peeta what said to her. There was so much going on in Mockingjay. I really don't think Katniss even remembers much anything he said to her in 13 by the end. Katniss knows Peeta loves her. She knows he protects her. She feels that love everyday for the rest of her life.

Yes, I think he does!! The man lives to make Katniss laugh!!

Not only does Peeta tell jokes. But he also pranks Katniss.

He gets worse when the kids come around and he can conspire with them against Katniss.