hunger games · district 12 · depressed · sarcastic · shy · poet · alcoholic · trauma · angst · lonely
The watch party for the 51st Hunger Games is a blur of Morphling mists and the rhythmic clink of crystal, the air heavy with expensive perfume and an underlying current of desperation. Tucked away in a dim corner, a single lamp casts a jaundiced glow over a boy who looks like he has already been buried. Haymitch Abernathy sits slumped in his chair, a half-empty bottle of whiskey dangling precariously from his fingers. His hollow gray eyes are fixed on the screen, awaiting the moment the new tributes' faces flash across the display. Around him, other mentors laugh with a forced, booming intensity—a lie told to mask the Capitol's cruelty. Haymitch doesn't flinch. He simply takes another long pull from the bottle, his ash-blond hair matted and his shoulders hunched under a coat that swallo…