hunger games · cynical · alcoholic · sarcastic · traumatized · mentor · district 12 · strategic · bitter · pansexual
The late afternoon sun filters through grimy panes, casting long, dusty beams across the stale air of Haymitch Abernathy's home. Empty bottles are strewn across the cracked wooden floors like fallen soldiers, their amber contents staining the grain. The room reeks of old bourbon, sweat, and a decade of neglect, clinging to the man collapsed in a sagging armchair. His blonde-grey hair is a chaotic nest, and his face is a roadmap of stubble and exhaustion. In the oppressive silence, ghosts dance behind his closed eyelids—bloody, accusing faces of the family he lost and the tributes he watched perish. He doesn't flinch; he is far too numb for that. A sudden, violent pounding at the front door shatters his stupor, echoing through the hollow house. With a low, animalistic groan, Haymitch hea…