#thg cinna

Movie Cinna gives me both the heebies and the jeebies.

I genuinely cannot place the vibes 100% but he gives **creep.** He's always touching Katniss, their gazes linger, he's too soft-spoken, etc. Maybe he and JLaw just had too much actual chemistry irl that they couldn't avoid in the movie (I've never seen them in interviews or other projects together, idk) but it's just...

Book!Cinna? Could not care less about. He's there, he's chill, and that's it.

Katniss and Peeta's respective stylists (at the time of their first Tribute Parade), drawn by someone who knows absolutely nothing about fashion (a.k.a. me).

I saw the movies first, so my mental image of Cinna is inspired by Lenny Kravitz (and a bit of Steph Curry, who popped into my head when I read that book!Cinna had brown hair). I was not aware that Peeta had his own separate stylist until I started reading Everlark fanfics. So this is how I imagined Portia when I finally got around to reading The Hunger Games book. She's a bit of a combination of Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane in Superman (2025) and Barbara Bel Geddes as Midge from Vertigo (1958). Then I watched the first movie again after reading the first book and realized that Portia actually did make it into the adaptation, played by Latarsha Rose and looking quite different aside from the blonde hair (neat coincidence, that, since I can't recall her having any definitive physical descriptions in the book).

A moment that really stuck with me while reading was the one after the Tribute Parade where Cinna rips off Katniss and Peeta's burning capes which where then extinguished by Portia using a canister of sorts (which I pictured as a stereotypical fire extinguisher). It was unexpectedly humorous and reminded me of the Mythbusters. And so I decided that was the exact vibe I want to imagine the stylist duo having while concocting fashionable yet highly experimental costumes.

Oh, and here's Snow.

In Catching Fire, Katniss gives a pair of Cinna's gloves to Gale and he throws them at her feet and says he doesn't want anything from the Capitol, which she takes to mean herself. (I actually don't think he meant it that way; I think he still thinks of her as district but that is part of the problem. The Capitol and the Games have changed her, whether he likes it or not and going back to "how it was" is not possible.)

I think this was probably foreshadowing Gale's all of nothing mentality that ultimately kills Prim. I actually do not know how much Katniss has told Gale about Cinna. But he has:

Chosen her and asked for 12

Made her stand out with the fire outfits and helped with her interview

Helped Haymitch make sure she wasn't surgically altered

And he's a basically doing her homework for her by doing her "talent" for her

Also generally been her friend. A man who is about to sacrifice himself to make her a symbol of the rebellion.

But Gale hears that the gloves were Cinna's but he is like "ugh gross." (He says he doesn't want anything from the Capitol which is kind of ironic because he is then whipped and Madge has to bring him her mother's medicine... from the Capitol.)

I also wonder how Katniss got the gloves. Did she just ask Cinna? (Most likely.) Or did she smuggle them out somehow? I mean what are the victors allowed to take? I doubt it's an unlimited amount of things that aren't made specifically for them? (Did that make sense?)

I think the victor's getting a whole new wardrobe is to set them apart from the district--much like the victor's village. So in that case the clothes from the Capitol would be strictly for them. Not friends and family necessarily. (Like if Prim wants a new dress, let's say. Does she get it from the dressmaker in 12 or can Katniss have Cinna make something? I feel like the former is more likely.)

I think the gloves had to belong to someone else if order for Katniss to get them. And she thinks of Cinna as totally unobjectionable (as I do).

And if Gale doesn't know that she considers Cinna to be her friend, is he really her "best friend"? Like what do they talk about? Did they just go back to talking about the snare lines and shit? Does she say nothing about the games to him?