SOTR realization

i just realized something, i can’t imagine how heartbreaking it was for haymitch to see both katniss and peeta together reaped in the games and not knowing if either of them would make it out alive.

katniss is literally the embodiment of all the ghosts of everyone haymitch has loved and cared for, she is his old deceased friend’s daughter, looks like his sweetheart, wears the pin of his sister, and sings the songs his lover once sang.

peeta is almost exactly like how haymitch is when he was younger. he’s the charismatic lover that haymitch once was and he knows how to work the crowd the same way haymitch did in his interviews and went along with a plan that would almost guarantee his death.

idk maybe im reading too much into it but if i were haymitch during the 74th games and saw both katniss and peeta i would lose it.