Still One Of The Greatest Pokemon GIFs Of All Time:

Still one of the greatest Pokemon GIFs of all time:

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so one theory that i do actually really believe is that enobaria was forced to sharpen her teeth right after the games. when we’re introduced to her they say she’s so vicious that she ripped the final tributes throat out with her teeth so to capitalize off that success she sharpened her teeth to points. to memorialize her win. but usually using teeth is a last resort in fighting. i think she was pinned down by the last tribute and as a last ditch effort she bit their throat as hard as possible, tearing it out. now we know the capitol will do non consensual body alterations because in the first book katniss says she hears a comforting voice yelling and cinna tells her they wanted to give her a boob job but haymitch screamed at them not to. so it is very likely that that has happened to many victors. so with enobaria they did that to her to remind her of her weakest, most animal like moment. she was reduced to this act and she is reminded of it daily. and we know for a fact that snow in particular thinks the districts are all animals and the games in particular are to bring out the most animal like qualities to prove that humans are inherently bad.

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so, sometimes i see people saying that victors like cecelia and woof from 8 or the morphlings from 6 or seeder from 11 just waited out their games and didn't kill anyone or only had one kill (i've been in the thg fandom on a variety of platforms i haven't mainly seen it here) and i personally have to disagree.

 "...no one in this arena was a victor by chance. except maybe peeta."

finnick says this in catching fire, and i would reckon that he knows how all the victors won their games. i'm not going to say from this that the victors were evil or whatever, because they were children trying to survive. sure, they killed people, but their situations were very nuanced moral conundrums and, also, they were children.

i think i dislike it because to act as though the "nicer" or "milder" victors didn't kill people seems to me to act as though good people don't do bad things to survive, that the games didn't corrupt people and hurt them. the games changed them, but they continued being themselves.

let's use cecelia as a case study. she fought in her games, she killed people, she survived. years later, she got married and had three children, the model of maternal love. her being a loving wife and mother, a woman whose children held on to her when she was reaped for the second time. that doesn't mean that, when push came to shove, she didn't kill anyone to stay alive. that she didn't do what we consider to be bad things when she was put in a horrible situation. her dying in the bloodbath in the 75th games doesn't mean that she was incapable of fighting to survive in her original games. in fact, it may suggest that she didn't run away from her first cornucopia, but fought in it.

my point is, i don't think that the victors who are more mild-mannered than katniss or died in the bloodbath of the 75th weren't fighters. they were teenagers forced to kill to survive. they did it. but that does not make them evil. but that lack of aggression doesn't mean they didn't fight in their games.