Rip to my moots but I’m in my beyond evil brainrot era
I wish you would write a fic where: Bucky is a vampire in love with a wonderfully wolfy Tony?
How did I forget I have this???
This is a fucking LONG ASS RESPONSE HAHAHAHA. OOPS.
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He’d died in war. He’d been born in war. Throughout it all, Bucky’s main comfort was that Steve was finally healthy - that he wasn’t changed harshly, in the way Bucky was. (Also that Steve was so overwhelmed with learning a new body, with the war, with Peggy Carter, that he was too busy with everything to notice what was changed with Bucky. Bucky was so fucking grateful for that.)
He still ate food, but not as much. That was easy to pass off, easy to hide in a war, with rations and by trading food for other things - chocolate for Steve, once, to give to Peggy Carter as a treat during a rare leave they shared.
the tradition for fire nation names is that most of them have a z in there somewhere, like zuko, azula, and ozai
i just want to meet a firebender named zack
going to be the latine ambassador here and tell all of you kiddos.
miles calling miguel “tio” IS NOT him calling him UNCLE
IT’S A PUERTO RICAN THING. IT’S THE EQUIVALENT OF CALLING MIGUEL “DUDE”
summer is not mine because in this heat I just want to lock myself in the freezer
a common question in the hunger games fandom is how katniss and gale would operate if they had both been the ones in the games instead of katniss and peeta. at first, i thought that we could only think about hypothetical situations based on their reactions to killing and battle.
but, after reading the chapter about the battle in district eight in mockingjay, i think that suzanne was trying to simulate what a games with just gale and katniss would be like.
because, as the bombers from district two appear in the sky, katniss and gale immediately take their positions in the hunt. katniss invokes a common hunting strategy, reminding gale of their hunting strategy for geese (mj, 86). katniss and gale further reduce these planes to foul as katniss and gale puncture their "belly," "wing," and "tail" (mj, 87). it is so genius that suzanne uses these terms because they perfectly describe both the parts of a plane and the geese that katniss and gale base their strategy off of.
and i feel like suzanne was trying to depict what it would be for gale and katniss in the arena. they would revert to their role as hunters. because, "how different can it really be," hunting and killing the enemy (thg, 39). and katniss even realizes that if she "forgets they’re people, it will be no different at all" (thg, 40).
it is not until afterward, when katniss is sitting alone in her hospital bed, that she truly realizes the people that were in the planes (mj, 99). she can not continue to see them as the geese that she would regularly hunt. because she is reminded that they were people too. and she is haunted by that.
in contrast, although i can hope that he feels a little remorse for his role in killing, gale on the outside appears unaffected, getting chummy with coin (mj, 93) and eagerly assisting beetee in weapon development (mj, 98). he demonstrates his insensitive attitude about killing these bombers as he uses it as justification for his death trap in district two. that it is no different.
in many ways, although katniss quickly falls into the dehumanization of the enemy
after the moment, she is also more likely to solemnly process the death. similar to peeta. even with foxface, a person who peeta unintentionally killed, he didn't feel good about it (thg, 324). and what is the entirety of mockingjay but katniss constantly drowning in grief over the thousands that died as a result of her actions, even if it wasn't her directly killing them?
because at the end of the day, katniss is aware of the intrinsic value of humanity. the value of preserving her own. and the value of others. and i am not saying gale doesn't. but he is able to shrug this off if it means he can achieve his ultimate goal.
so, i think that we can assume that this is how katniss and gale would be in the arena. in the moment, they would both revert to their old hunting habits. but while gale would most likely justify the deaths (and hey, i don't blame him. i probably would too. because what else can you do in a death arena?), each of katniss's kills would haunt her until her final breath.
and it is not until peeta gives katniss an outlet to memorialize the people that died that she is able to truly move on. because the weight of killing innocent people takes everything you are (mj, 23) . and that can never really be completely remedied. but perhaps it can be lightened if you resolve to never forget them. to not let their deaths be in vain.
