Bobbin
Okay it’s been a while since i read TBOSAS but I’ll try
He didn’t deserve anything he got </3 Trying to kill Snow was completely justified from his POV, honestly that in itself could be seen as a form of rebellion since the Capitol could bring on something worse for him if he succeeded in killing a student. I’m not sure if it was confirmed in the book that he was aware that Snow and Sej were from the Capitol, he could have mistook them for tributes but I doubt that since I think they were also carrying Marcus if I remember correctly? And yeah it probably wasn’t a rebellion inside his head, more of an instantaneous thing since he had a weapon and his opponents didn’t. Also ofc he was angry at the Capitol, they all were, and he probably already thought he was dead anyway so trying to kill Snow was like, the least he could do. No doubt a lot of the tributes including him were getting desperate. Also his death was so tragic and must’ve been so painful, he was just a kid like the rest of them, and i remember Snow trying to justify his death in the aftermath was sickening to read.
That was the book, i think, and in the movie they didn’t change much I’m pretty sure. I headcanon that he lost his arm while working in one of the factories, and having to go into the Games on top of that is just even more heartbreaking. He did look similar to how I originally imagined him and he was sweet with Wovey. I do think he’s an underrated character, not just by himself but also in how he affects Snow, officially becoming the first kill in his infamous three kills. I just went and reread that part and Snow is definitely more focused on the fact that he is now a murderer who lost his innocence, rather than on the boy he actually murdered. That honestly says a lot(but who didn’t know that right) and the kill does haunt him in the future, and Bobbin did have an effect in Snow’s mind, in a way changing how he views the Games and the tributes/districts forever. To Snow, Bobbin was barbaric and almost feral, which he interpreted as lack of control(but really showed the desperation, fear, and anger of the tributes once they’d been thrown into the terrifying arena), and I do think that helped him in his own crooked mind to dehumanize the districts even further. Also shows how little sympathy(for lack of a better word) he has for the tributes because(i just looked it back up in the book) after he finds out that he ‘underestimated how much they hate us[the Capitol]’, instead of going oh that’s probably because we’re making them kill each other you know I’d probably feel the same way if i were them he says that he wants them dead. And Dr. Gaul’s like well you did just that and he’s not remorseful, not really. Maybe I’m being too harsh but then again also probably not
Overall, Bobbin is an underrated character with a lot of overlooked impact <3
