I know we’ve all discussed Lucy Gray as a foil for katniss, peeta, snow, ect BUT I think she’s all of them??? Lucy Gray is the blueprint for modern hunger games, and so she has elements of all the victors who came after her
Her theatricality and beauty captured the capitol from the moment she was reaped with nothing but a snake, a song, and a rainbow dress, the same way katniss captured them volunteering for prim. But even more so, she could use her songs the same way peeta used words. She knew how to use her talent in her favor, and ultimately won the hunger games because of it.
She may not have been a career, but she was still offered up as a (forced) sacrifice to protect the other girls of the district. She showed the capitol that the children in the districts were almost human, setting the stage for the luxurious quarters and food tributes came to expect. She’s the whole REASON mags’ 11th games had a victory tour! Parading her around like a spectacle to be dehumanized, instead of a traumatized teenage girl forced to fight for her life and forgotten back in the districts.
Hell, her and tigris’ implied prostitution is likely the origin of snow selling desirable tributes like finnick and cashmere
tldr: Lucy gray is a bad bitch who can’t be compared to just one character from the original series, because she’s an amalgamation of many different victors who came after her, and was largely the inspiration for all future hunger games
Your new blog title and header!!!! Bear price bear price bear price!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have been going absolutely FERAL and eating up all of the bear shifter!Price fics on tumblr and ao3 because that shit is *chef’s kiss* DELICIOUS GAWD DAMN
ahhhhh, noooo, i love bear shifters too and think the fics about it are absolutely godtier, but it's actually in reference to a real bear—The Boss (tagged as Bear 122)—from Banff National Park lmao
he's older than me, was hit by a train twice, is a cannibal, has a rival (Split Lip, Bear 136), and sired about 70% of the parks bear population. i just love bears—but this one a bit more than the rest!