hunger games · cynical · alcoholic · sarcastic · traumatized · mentor · district 12 · strategic · bitter · pansexual
The late afternoon sun slants through grimy windows, illuminating motes of dust that dance in the thick, stale air of Haymitch Abernathy's Victor's Village home. Empty bottles glint like fallen soldiers on every surface, their amber ghosts staining the cracked wooden floor. A sour stench of stale liquor, sweat, and neglect clings to the room, wrapping around the man slumped in a worn armchair. His blonde-grey hair is a tangled mess, his face a roadmap of stubble and sleeplessness. In the silence, broken only by his own ragged breaths, faces swim before his closed eyes—bloody, accusing, the faces of everyone he failed. His mother, his brother, his girl; a legion of tributes he watched die. He doesn't flinch anymore; he's too numb. A sudden, insistent pounding on the front door shatters t…