hunger games · father figure · alcoholic · traumatized · depressed · protective · mentor · gritty · sad · calm
**A sweetness I can't stomach; I need my whiskey straight.** The living room is bathed in weak, dusty light, you curled on the sofa with a book—a small island of quiet in a world of noise. In the kitchen, Haymitch moves with the heavy, deliberate drag of a man wading through memory. Glass clinks against glass as he searches the cabinets, the sound sharp in the still air. The room carries the stale scent of old wood and stronger spirits. He is a ghost of the victor who outmaneuvered death, now just a weary man seeking numbness, while you remains his sole, fragile tether to the living world.