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NAME: Haymitch Abernathy

NICKNAMES: None known

AGE: 41

PANEM CITIZEN NUMBER: PNA1C4.D14G1



MARITAL STATUS: Single

SEXUALITY: Straight



OCCUPATION: Mentor

HOMETOWN: The Seam, District 12

CURRENT RESIDENCE: Victor's Village, District 12

PARENTS: Deceased

SIBLINGS: Brother, deceased

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NAME: Katie

AGE: --

AIM: available on request

EXPERIENCE: I used to do this on LiveJournal, so that should tell you something!

CONTACT: PM (or if we're in a game together, you can find my plurk info)

STYLE: Prose or brackets

TIME ZONE: CST
 

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Haymitch


Abernathy

Citizen of Panem. Victor. Mentor. May have been involved in starting the rebellion, and he definitely was involved in plotting it, at least the parts of it that required help from the Mockingjay. Wants nothing more than to go back to living his life in peace.
 

personality

MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES/WARNINGS: PTSD, nightmares

LIKES: Liquor, and certain people (but he'd never admit it), being alone

DISLIKES: The Hunger Games, President Snow, most of Panem

He survived.



He survived because 47 others died, some of them by his hand, when he was just a teenager. And it's eating him up inside.



He hates everyone. He hates them because they're part of the system that sends children off to slaughter each other for entertainment. He hates them because they sit idly by and allow it to happen. He hates them because it's easier than coming to like someone and then watching them die, either because another teenager slaughtered them for entertainment or because their family couldn't afford food or medicine.



He hates them because none of them understand what it's like to know that you're only alive because 47 other children died. Or what it's like to watch for 23 years as children you're supposed to be helping stay alive don't have the resources or the skills to defeat those who are bigger and stronger, and one by one they die. Forty-six of them.



No one can understand that, and he hates them all for it.



Even when he finally ends up with a tribute who has a chance at winning, it's still easier to keep hating. After twenty-three years it's a hard habit to break, and Katniss Everdeen is a hard person to like most of the time. She doesn't let people get close either. He actually puts some effort into his role of mentor, because he sees in her the kind of fighting spirit that might actually get her through this alive, but he's still surly, sarcastic, arrogant, and even (outwardly, at least) indifferent. As he gets to know her better, his opinion of her increases and they grow closer. By the end of her Games, when she wins and manages to save Peeta's life too, they have so much more in common than they do with anyone else. Not only because they won, but because they embarrassed the Capitol in doing so. He finds himself having to coach them through their Victory Tour as well, because he has experience that no one else does. They're the closest thing he has to family now. He's going to do whatever he can to keep them alive. Katniss, specifically, because he does have more in common with her and knows that if it weren't for her Peeta probably wouldn't have made it as long as he did, but for Katniss' sake, he'll devote as much time and energy to keeping Peeta alive as he does to keeping her alive. He even makes an agreement with Katniss to keep Peeta alive in their second Games, not her, even though the basis for the rebellion is already laid out, and their intention is to keep Katniss alive. He understands Katniss better than he understands anyone else he knows, and probably better than anyone else she knows, too.



His opinion of Effie starts to change after the announcement of the Third Quarter Quell. After witnessing how far the Capitol is willing to go, and seeing the reactions of three people she knows well when they realize that two of them will have to go through the worst time in their lives all over again, her support of the Capitol begins to fade. These people are Victors; they're supposed to be safe from the Capitol's scheming, and even they aren't. Once she starts to show her more human side, less brainwashed by the Capitol, he starts to see her as less of a tool of the Capitol and more of a victim in her own way. It's different from what happened to him and Katniss and Peeta, but she is still a victim of the Capitol's policies.



He wasn't always incapable of caring about someone. It's not that he doesn't care now; it's that he won't let himself. He had a family once, and a girlfriend, until the Capitol killed them as retribution. After that, his only friend is alcohol, which helps him get through having to mentor all of the tributes he knows will never make it home again. During the Games, he formed an alliance with one of his fellow tributes from District 12, a tribute who as it turns out had been a friend of Katniss' mother. He is upset by her death, even though it happened after she had ended their alliance. Whoever he is now is who the Capitol made him, by forcing him to kill and then taking away everyone he cared about.



He's canny and calculating. He won his Games by outsmarting his opponents. He discovered the force field around the arena, which he was later able to use to his advantage (although that was what caused President Snow to kill his family). Once he realizes he's got tributes who might actually stand a chance, he starts building a strategy to get Katniss out alive (though he doesn't bother sharing this fact with Katniss). It wouldn't have taken much to convince him to join the rebellion against the Capitol; he hates them and their Games. A strategic mind like his would have been sought after by the rebels (even if it comes in a difficult-to-get-along-with package).



He was able to obtain some necessary items for Katniss in the arena, so he is capable of being polite and negotiating with others when necessary. He just doesn't often find it necessary. He can also cut down on his alcohol consumption, when he has a reason. He just doesn't often have a reason.



He has terrible nightmares after his time in the arena, and doesn't sleep when it's dark. When he does sleep, it's with a knife clutched in his hand. It's best not to be within arm's reach when waking him up.



As for Teleios itself, the fact that it's not Panem with its ritualized murder of children or oppressive government, and that so many of his fellow citizens are there and living better lives than they had in Panem, will be a big point in Teleios' favor. He may even find the nightmares subsiding somewhat, after enough time. It will be a bit of an adjustment that he'll have to have a job though! It will probably take the intervention of those he considers friends before he'll start regularly showing up for work. Being there to pay for crimes he committed is a complex issue. He killed, yes, but he was forced to do it, in a 'kill or die' scenario. He hasn't been able to get the images out of his head ever since, or get over the guilt of having done it, even if he had no choice. He knows that if these kills had happened anywhere other than inside the arena, the punishment would have been severe. As for anything related to his involvement in the rebellion, he won't view these as crimes at all, despite what the government of Panem would have to say about that.

appearance

HEIGHT: 5'11"

WEIGHT: 190

HAIR: Blonde

EYES: Blue
 

He usually looks a little unkempt, like he doesn't spend much time tending to his personal appearance or the state of his clothes. (This is because he doesn't.) His hair could use a trim, but at least his beard is kept trimmed. He wears basically whatever is available, rather than trying to make some sort of flashy statement with his clothes.

history

Haymitch Abernathy was the second victor from District 12, who won the 50th Hunger Games when he was sixteen. He also is the the only living victor in District 12 and he mentored twenty-three years of tributes before the 74th Hunger Games. Later he was reaped in the 75th Hunger Games, but Peeta Mellark volunteered to take his place. Haymitch was reaped in the Second Quarter Quell (or the 50th Hunger Games) along with another male tribute, Maysilee Donner, and another female tribute. During his interview with Caesar Flickerman, Haymitch is asked about what he thinks of the Games having twice as many tributes; he replies by saying he doesn't see much difference as they are going to be just as stupid.



Haymitch and one of District 1's female tributes make it to the final two, and they fight, but both are severely injured. Haymitch, at one point, slices her eye out, and later is disarmed and hit in his stomach by her axe. A weakened Haymitch rushes to the cliff while holding his intestines in and reaches the cliff with the District 1 female right behind him. Haymitch falls to his knees due to his injuries. The District 1 female tribute throws her axe, aiming for his head, but he dodges it. She then just stands there thinking she would outlast him, but the force field returns the axe into the arena, burying itself into the District 1 female's head, killing her and leaving Haymitch the victor.



In Mockingjay, it is revealed that two weeks after he was crowned victor of the second Quarter Quell his mother, younger brother and girlfriend were all killed by President Snow because of the stunt that Haymitch pulled with the axe and force field. For the next 23 years, Haymitch mentors the tributes for District 12 alone. Due to the horror of the Games, his grief over his family's deaths, and the fact that every tribute he trained was killed in the arena, Haymitch turns to drinking and isolates himself from the rest of District 12. He begins sleeping with a knife in his hand and refuses to let anyone into his house. Katniss later mentions that it was as if he had sentenced himself to solitary confinement.



Haymitch first appears when he goes on stage during the reaping. Drunk and staggering, he head-dives off the stage. He is then seen on the train taking Katniss and Peeta to the Capitol, drunk again, and vomits on the expensive floor, which disgusts Effie. Peeta cleans him up, washes him and puts him to bed. The next morning, he eats breakfast with Katniss and Peeta who get into a fight with him. Katniss breaks it up by throwing a knife between Haymitch's hand and his drink glass. He is pleased to have finally gotten a pair who will put up a fight. He examines them and begins to formulate a plan for them.



During the Games, Haymitch helps Effie line up sponsors. He also communicates with Katniss through giving or withholding of her sponsor gifts (he does not send water when she is close to a source, sends broth and medicine when she "plays her part" convincingly). He does not help Peeta during the Games as only one of them could live, and he knew Katniss stood the best chance, although it is implied that Peeta may have told him to help Katniss and not him. He is thrilled when both of them come back alive and hugs them both. Before Katniss goes to her final interview with Caesar, he tells her that the Capitol is furious about her and Peeta's act in the arena with the berries, because the Capitol saw it as an act of rebellion and tells her she must act in love with Peeta so that even Capitol and the rest of Panem will see it was not rebellion. After the interview, he is positive that the Capitol is convinced she was in love and not rebelling. He goes back to District 12 with Katniss and Peeta. When he gets home, he starts drinking heavily again.



When the time comes for the victory tour, Haymitch accompanies Katniss and Peeta along with Effie Trinket and their stylists and prep teams. He coaches Katniss through the "madly in love" facade which she must keep up with Peeta. Haymitch continues to help them throughout the rest of the time until President Snow declares that the third Quarter Quell tributes will be reaped from the existing pool of victors. Haymitch continues drinking, maybe worse than usual.



Haymitch promises Katniss that he will try to save Peeta this time, because he feels as if he owes him, for saving Katniss the first time. Haymitch's name is called by Effie but barely has time to frown before Peeta volunteers. Haymitch begins to plan the rebellion. He jokes and says "stay alive" and urges them to befriend other tributes. When the games begin he works with District 4, and later 3 and 7, since Katniss, Peeta, Finnick Odair, Beetee, Wiress, and Johanna Mason were in an alliance together but are working with Plutarch behind the scenes to help the second rebellion.



When Katniss blows up the force field and is in the hovercraft that rescues Katniss, Finnick and Beetee; he, Finnick and Plutarch gather together and talk about what has happened. When Katniss enters the room, he is annoyed and explains everything that has recently happened. Katniss is enraged with all of Haymitch's lies that she cuts his face with her nails and since he cannot attack her, they both yell at each other until she is taken away.



During the rebellion, he stays behind in District 13, helping to coordinate things (and smooth over incidents between Katniss and President Coin), until the group goes to District 2. There he helps them formulate a plan to take out a military stronghold and gain control of the district, although once again he is not part of the actual fighting. Once the rebellion has been successful and the war has been won, he returns to District 12 with Katniss and Peeta, where he goes back to his old life of drinking, and begins to raise geese.

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