it’s not just that he’s wearing the locket to motivate her, okay??? he’s wearing it to motivate himself!!! to remind himself of the people he’s sending Katniss back to!!! Prim, and her mother, and Gale … he puts their pictures around his neck!!! they are his token!!! his willingly-worn noose!!! he’s crazy!!!
(and I’m so sorry Gale my son but ain’t no way Mr. “I don’t want your fiancé’s old gloves” is wearing Peeta’s face in a locket to give him the strength to give up his life)
Despite the fact that Gale looks like he's from the Seam, was also a coal miner and a hunter, Katniss almost never associates him with her father, her most favorite person in the world. The few times she does its usually in reference to the significant loss they shared. The one exception to this is the lake, her last place of refuge.
The person she most often associates with her father (and her mother for that matter) is Peeta. Peeta is the person that always brings up her father's beautiful voice, his squirrel trading and the Plant book that kept Katniss alive. The shared memory of her father's singing voice is one of the things that helps Peeta start to recover his memories. Her father's Hanging Tree song is so closely associated with the tragedy of Peeta and Katniss's relationship. A lot of their physical affection reminds Katniss of her parents.
(Katniss basically takes all her softer emotions and locks them away and usually Peeta is the only person who can help her access them)
((sometimes daddy issues are chic)
"Me ?" I say in disbelief. "I am living proof that the Capitol always wins. I tried to keep that sun from rising on another reaping day, I tried to change things and now everybody's dead. You don't want me." And I don't want him. I don't want help from anybody in the Capitol ever again. I could never trust them. "We do want you. You shook up the Capitol, both figuratively and literally, with that earthquake. You were capable of imagining a different future. And maybe it won't be realized today, maybe not in our lifetime. Maybe it will take generations. We're all part of a continuum. Does that make it pointless ?" "I just don't know. But I do know, you need someone different from me." "No, Haymitch, we need someone exactly like you." "Just luckier ?" I say. "Luckier, or with better timing." — Sunrise on the Reaping, 2025, written by Suzanne Collins.
The Hunger Games (2012) dir. Gary Ross
“I never want to have kids,” I say.
“I might. If I didn’t live here,” says Gale.
“But you do,” I say, irritated.
“Forget it,” he snaps back.
They play in the Meadow. The dancing girl with the dark hair and blue eyes. The boy with blond curls and gray eyes, struggling to keep up with her on his chubby toddler legs.
I did kiss him last night, in a moment when my emotions were running so high. But I’m sure he doesn’t remember it. Does he? I hope not.
“You were dead! Your heart stopped!” I burst out, before really considering if this is a good idea. I clap my hand over my mouth because I’m starting to make those awful choking sounds that happen when I sob.
“Because I’m in pain,” he says. “That’s the only way I get your attention.” He picks up the box. “Don’t worry, Katniss. It’ll pass.” He leaves before I can answer.
I clench his hands to the point of pain. “Stay with me.”
His pupils contract to pinpoints, dilate again rapidly, and then return to something resembling normalcy. “Always,” he murmurs.
“I love you.”
I come up with what must be the worst possible response. “I know.”
So after, when he whispers, “You love me. Real or not real?”
I tell him, “Real.”
i think this scene epitomises katniss’s full feelings for peeta in the movies because she looks exactly like her mum when her dad died. especially afterwards when plutarch was explaining peeta’s hijacking, she looked dead inside and mirrored her mum completely, who throughout the series katniss refers to as “useless” after her dad died and she despises that her mum ended up how she did. but this scene shows how katniss is finally understanding her mum because she’s found someone she loves just as much maybe more than her mum loved her dad and that scares her because she viewed what her mum and dad had as “real love” and it ended with her mum struggling BADLY and she’s afraid that she’ll turn out like her now. after everything that happened to peeta she’s genuinely terrified she’ll be just like her mum - the one person she really didn’t want to turn out to be and that’s probably why she’s so scared of the idea of love and even more scared of the idea that she loves someone as much as her mum loved her dad as she know that their love was (in her eyes) the truest,realest form of love she had ever been exposed to so katniss would be inclined to think what her mum went through was the universal experience of what the after effects of love can do. and that’s what makes everlark so beautiful the way peeta opens up a new form of love for her she never knew existed TWICE.
"Here?" he asks in disbelief, as if I'd asked him to walk barefoot on hot coals or something. I have to remind myself that he's still not used to the woods, that it's the scary, forbidden place beyond the fences of District 12.
"What are you doing?" "I went to the woods this morning and dug these up. For her," he says. "I thought we could plant them along the side of the house." I look at the bushes, the clods of dirt hanging from their roots, and catch my breath as the word rose registers. I'm about to yell vicious things at Peeta when the full name comes to me. Not plain rose but evening primrose. The flower my sister was named for.
