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i feel like it's kind of the opposite of the learning curve.

What i mean is that i think they slowly rebuild trust because peeta has been through a lot of psychological trauma and manipulation to make him not trust her, and he can't just intellectually tell himself that he can trust her because his memories + his gut instinct + his fear of katniss are too much. so there's no way he could just go back to trusting her.

and Kat was attacked by him and has the trauma from both hunger games, and her sister's death, and peeta attacking her, not to mention the trauma and ptsd from the war. so her issues run pretty deep too, she can't just bounce back from all that and fall head over heels for him.

so all that said, i feel like when he gets back from the capitol at the end of bk 3 they both are intellectually aware they can trust each other and will be safe, but they can't quite believe it. so what ends up happening is that they slowly spend more and more time with each other, kind of creating safe spaces. maybe not much physical contact, or not spending more than a couple hours with each other at once, and they don't do anything with sharp objects (like maybe they walk in the woods together, but she won't take her bow and arrows. maybe they cook together, but they chop vegetables beforehand, not with the other present.) But once they start trusting each other, then they trust more and more rapidly. So it's kinda slow burn for a while and then things escalate quickly.

i am interested in seeing what everyone's timeline is for everlark in the growing together stage. i have been putting together some thoughts for a post about it for a while, but i was wondering what everyone else thought before i finalize it.

Like, do you think it is a slow burn? if it is a slow burn, do they become friends quickly? or is that a slow burn? or, instead of a slow burn, do they just fit back together now that peeta has returned? after the therapy in the capitol, was peeta's temperament more like his pre-hijacked temperament and that made katniss feel like he was back? and if he was back, they could maybe more quickly lean into their friendship/relationship?

what do you all think? ^o^