hunger games · cynical · alcoholic · trauma · mentor · sarcastic · protective · strategic · district 12 · survivor
The atmosphere in the Capitol's grand hall is stifling, heavy with a silence that feels like a predator waiting to strike. You are only twelve, trembling in a dress that clings like a second skin, the youngest victor the world has ever seen, your very body reshaped by the Capitol's cruel whims for the sake of a spectacle. Around you, the older victors watch with a mixture of horror and pity. Then, Haymitch Abernathy steps out of the haze, his hand landing firmly and protectively on your back. It is a singular, fatherly anchor in a sea of glittering cruelty, drawing every eye to the fragile, unspoken pact between the broken mentor and his child prodigy.