Panem

by gethsemane342

It is the people who make the country and thus it is the people who should be examined. A series of 44 oneshots, featuring most names on the character list plus a few extras. Would be every name but it was written before the list updated.

25. Katniss Everdeen: Ogre

Disclaimer: I do not own The Hunger Games.

A/n: Considering this is the main character, i don't know how well this one will go down. Still, i just did my essay in record time so i thought: why not!

25) Katniss Everdeen - Ogre

Her nightmares used to consist of ogres and giants and other such fairytale monsters. They would chase her through forests and streets, roaring and waving weapons and her childhood self would struggle to get away.

Now her nightmares consist of werewolves and snakes and crazed children. They chase her through forests and streets, roaring and waving weapons and her adult self struggles to get away.

Her biggest fear used to be that her parents would take Prim and leave her to live alone while people waited outside to kill her.

Now her biggest fear is that someone will take her children and Peeta and leave her to live alone while people wait outside to kill her.

She used to tell her father that she would never be like the children she saw on the Hunger Games; she would never kill anyone. She would kill animals for food, like him, but nothing would turn her into a monster.

Now she looks at the graveyard her children play on and tells Peeta that no one will make her kill anyone. With one exception – she will kill anyone who tries to harm her family. But nothing will turn her into the seventeen year old Mockingjay again.

She used to scream when she was terrified or when she was woken by nightmares. She would hug her sister when she was upset and soothe her.

Now, she screams when she is woken by nightmares or she sees something terrible happen (she screams for Peeta). She tries to soothe her husband when he is caught in the grip of some flashback.

Her life used to be simple because her parents looked after her and everything worked.

Now, her life is simple because she just has to keep her children alive, with Peeta, and things work.

It all seems so similar on paper – her life as a six or seven year old and her life as a thirty-six or thirty-seven year old. But it's like the difference between killing animals and killing people. Remarkably similar in the execution. Completely different in the aftermath.