It's Sorta Funny To Me How President Snow Basically Ignored Peeta Until Mockingjay, Despite Peeta Being

it's sorta funny to me how president snow basically ignored peeta until mockingjay, despite peeta being veeery similar to snow when he was young. they were both:

experts at lying and manipulating (peeta successfully lied to the entire nation on multiple occasions, and snow made everyone think he was a sweet, studious, polite person when underneath it all he was a snake).

star crossed lovers with a singing black-haired girl from the seam who was initially only in the relationship for survival (although in lucy gray's defense, it might not have been entirely for survival. she might have genuinely loved snow to some degree, we don't really know. snow perceives her as a user who played with his feelings, but it's just as likely that she truly liked him and he just thinks she's a manipulator bc he got dumped in the end lol).

relationship with said girl starts in the hunger games (although snow is a mentor and peeta is a tribute. I'm probably reaching but there could be some meaning in this? at least in peeta and katniss' relationship, they were both tributes, so they started off as equals in their relationship. whereas as snow was in a position of power over lucy when they dated. he basically abused his authority, although he doesn't seem to realise it).

jealousy over a boy from the seam despite their love interest either a) no longer having any feelings for that boy bc he hurt her too badly (lucy) or b) never having any romantic interest in that boy in the first place (katniss). (although peeta is way more reasonable and not toxic about it like snow was, which shows the difference between the two of them).

both charming and charismatic, and use this to their advantage. they know how to talk to ppl, they know how to make the audience like them.

both always thinking five steps ahead. they're extremely intelligent, neither of them are dumb blonds.

both from upper class families in their society (peeta was from the wealthy merchant class of district 12, snow was from the aristocratic snow family).

and in spite of them both technically being upper class, they also struggled with food insecurity. peeta's family couldn't afford a varied diet and they had to live on stale bread. and snow's family lived on cabbage and lima beans and he often went hungry.

they have one nice parent (peeta's dad, snow's mum), and one cold parent (snow's dad, peeta's mum).

the connection to poison. peeta (accidently) poisons foxface, and then tries to commit suicide via nightlock. snow gives lucy rat poison to use on her opponents in the arena, and then begins to directly poison ppl himself who he thinks stand in the way of him gaining/maintaining power.

they both have flower motifs. peeta decorates cookies with flowers, and is compared to a dandelion by katniss. and snow has his grandmother's rose garden, the rose powder and compact belonging to his mother, wears a rose in his lapel at events, gives a rose to his tribute, and later on uses roses as his calling card in the main series.

they even have the same hair and eye colour.

i know snow was focused on katniss bc she was the one who pulled out the berries and sparked the rebellion and reminded him of his ex-girlfriend but considering how self-centered snow is, you'd think he would have taken more of an interest in peeta, who was so similar to him. I feel like peeta is what snow could have been, if he hadn't lost his parents, fallen into poverty, and developed a need for control and status bc of that, and if tigris, lucy and sejanus' influence on him (trying to convince him that humans are inherently good) had outweighed dr gaul's influence on him (convincing him that humans are inherently brutes and need to be tightly controlled in order to stop society from collapsing). the main difference between them is that peeta was selfless, while snow was very similar to him in every other way but with a big dose of selfishness. peeta was fundamentally good, and never could have taken the dark path that snow did, whereas snow was morally grey but had the potential to be good like peeta. unfortunately he ended up rejecting the good traits he had in favour of furthering his career.

friendly reminder haymitch drinks to forget about how he (inadvertently) caused his family and girlfriend’s deaths ✿◕‿◕✿

Could you explain this one: "friendly reminder peeta most probably suffered from abuse from his mother throughout the majority of his childhood"? How?

no bUT LIKE

mags knew her days were running out and she decided that instead of letting death come to her she would go into that arena and help the resistance because she wanted to die for something meaningful

mags volunteered to take annie’s place knowing really well that she wasn’t gonna make it, because she preferred to die rather than risking losing annie and having finnick live without her 

mags was an eighty year old lady volunteering to go fight to the death once again for a new world that she probably knew she would never see

and if that isnt the punkest thing you have ever heard in your whole goddamn life then you can get the fuck out of my face

 the hunger games is basically hadestown with more murder

don’t tell me peeta wouldn’t go into the underworld with only the power of love and song and accidentally start a revolution like orpheus (yes i know katniss is technically the one who started it in the books but she’s Eurydicie in this  - hungry young girl, fuck this romance nonsense, better survival instincts et cetera - cause i feel liker Eurydice is the true hero of the musical)

i mean, one of the songs is literally called “his kiss, the riot” 

they’re both stories about trying to save your loved one and accidentally starting a whole thing you weren’t really trying to start, but now that it’s started they’re sure as hell not gonna stop it

plus i think patrick page would be a good president snow

suzanne collins killing prim after everything katniss did to save her.......... THATS how you write a story about the brutality and futility of war ma'am thats what we call a compelling and fucked up narrative yessums thats storytelling babes!!!!