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Out of the Night: An Interview With a Mockingjay by athousandwinds (Teen and Up)
Fandom: THE HUNGER GAMES
Pairing: Katniss/Peeta
Length: 2,440 words
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athousandwinds
Author Website: her AO3 page
Why this must be read:
The conceit of this fic is that Katniss gives an interview twenty-five years after the overthrow of Snow and the Capitol, and is truthful about the events from her perspective. This fic has GREAT outsider POV, and the style is dead-on something you'd read in The New Yorker or Vanity Fair. It's smart, succinct and there's a thread of sweetness running through it.
Nowadays, the Mockingjay is a slim, dark-haired woman in her early forties. Her hands are covered with faded scars and her eyes are too old for her face. She doesn't smile, but it's not that she's not pleased to meet me. "Smiles are expensive," she says. For a moment she seems lost in those dreadful days, but she recovers swiftly. "That's how it was. Smiling or being happy - well, for a start it cost a lot of effort. And then, of course, they knew they could take something away from you."
"They" - there is only one "they", to Katniss Everdeen. To her, "they" still means the Capitol as a malevolent force, someone who watches your step and takes away your children when you stumble. In this she is no different from many of our parents. Distrust of centralized government is high in the Districts. The fear of losing what we have fought so hard to win is so strong it's almost instinct.
I ask Katniss Everdeen what it was like, being watched all the time. In the arena, of course, it wasn't just political types - she had several million people watching her every move. She doesn't reply for a minute or two. Her eyes are on my recording device. I offer to switch it off and take notes instead, but she refuses. Apparently there's no problem - except there obviously is. Eventually, she answers.
"What was hardest to remember was everything you had to fake."
Out of the Night: An Interview with a Mockingjay
Pairing: Katniss/Peeta
Length: 2,440 words
Author:
athousandwindsAuthor Website: her AO3 page
Why this must be read:
The conceit of this fic is that Katniss gives an interview twenty-five years after the overthrow of Snow and the Capitol, and is truthful about the events from her perspective. This fic has GREAT outsider POV, and the style is dead-on something you'd read in The New Yorker or Vanity Fair. It's smart, succinct and there's a thread of sweetness running through it.
Nowadays, the Mockingjay is a slim, dark-haired woman in her early forties. Her hands are covered with faded scars and her eyes are too old for her face. She doesn't smile, but it's not that she's not pleased to meet me. "Smiles are expensive," she says. For a moment she seems lost in those dreadful days, but she recovers swiftly. "That's how it was. Smiling or being happy - well, for a start it cost a lot of effort. And then, of course, they knew they could take something away from you."
"They" - there is only one "they", to Katniss Everdeen. To her, "they" still means the Capitol as a malevolent force, someone who watches your step and takes away your children when you stumble. In this she is no different from many of our parents. Distrust of centralized government is high in the Districts. The fear of losing what we have fought so hard to win is so strong it's almost instinct.
I ask Katniss Everdeen what it was like, being watched all the time. In the arena, of course, it wasn't just political types - she had several million people watching her every move. She doesn't reply for a minute or two. Her eyes are on my recording device. I offer to switch it off and take notes instead, but she refuses. Apparently there's no problem - except there obviously is. Eventually, she answers.
"What was hardest to remember was everything you had to fake."
Out of the Night: An Interview with a Mockingjay