Haymitch Abernathy

Haymitch Abernathy was District 12's second and only living Hunger Games victor for 23 years, having won the second Quarter Quell before Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark won the 74th Hunger Games under his mentorship. He worked secretly in tandem with District 13 and other victors in order to incite the Second Rebellion, and was the main drive behind the rebel plot during the 75th Hunger Games. He was also the protagonist of the prequel novel Sunrise on the Reaping. Haymitch Abernathy was born on July 4th, the day of the reaping for the 34th Hunger Games. He lived in the Seam of District 12 with his mother Willamae Abernathy and his brother, Sid, who was six years younger. His father died in a coal mine fire when he was young. At the time of the second Quarter Quell, he was dating Lenore Dove Baird. Haymitch helped support his family by doing odd jobs for people around District 12 and also did manual labor for Hattie Meeney, an illicit moonshiner, though the two were not punished for this behavior on account of steady customers at both the Hob and among the Peacekeepers. He signed up for tesserae every year to support his family, resulting in him having twenty entries by the second Quarter Quell. Haymitch was 16 years old during the 50th Hunger Games. The rules for the second Quarter Quell stipulated that double the number of tributes were to be reaped from the districts for the Games. During the reaping, Haymitch watched Louella McCoy, Maysilee Donner, Wyatt Callow and Woodbine Chance get chosen first. Woodbine decided to run away after his name was called and was subsequently shot dead. In a twist of fate after believing he was safe, another male tribute was needed and Haymitch was reaped instead on his 16th birthday. As there were no living Victors from District 12 at the time, Haymitch and the other three tributes from District 12 were mentored by Mags Flanagan from District 4 and Wiress from 3. After being reaped, Haymitch was permitted to say goodbye to his mother and younger brother due to Plutarch Heavensbee's need for propo footage of their "tearful goodbye". He left all of his belongings with them save for the flint striker given to him by Lenore Dove as a birthday present, which he wore around his neck as his district token. He and the other tributes were then escorted by Plutarch and Drusilla Sickle onto the tribute train, a modest version of the one that appears in the original trilogy. Haymitch and another female Tribute, Louella McCoy, who he referred to endearingly as his "sweetheart", comfort one another and agreed to team up due to their close relationship from being neighbors in the Seam. However, they hesitated at the prospect of including Wyatt and Maysilee in their alliance, the latter because she had a reputation in District 12 for being stuck up, mean, and overly superior to just about everybody, Haymitch and Lenore Dove included. During their trip, they were served by Tibby, an attendant on the train, and Plutarch. At the indignation of Maysilee, who berated them for serving Louella her food with hardly a plate or any silverware, the quality of their service increased. Maysilee advised Louella not to let them treat her like an animal, but with the dignity that she deserves as a person. After their lunch, Plutarch showed the group their segment, which he personally edited for Capitol viewing. He referred to his strategic omission of the disruption of the Reaping and portraying them as attractive and unhesitant as "card-stacking" in their favor. Haymitch recognized that he and his fellow tributes were all just variables for Plutarch to control and serve to the Capitol as TV entertainment, and as a result he adopts Maysilee's superior attitude when Tibby and Plutarch present him a cake for his birthday, and refused to acknowledge or eat it. He was also grateful that none of the other Tributes from 12 chose to indulge the Capitol employees, and was impressed when Maysilee responded to Drusilla looking down on them by ridiculing her outfit, her lowly station as an escort for "the trashiest district in Panem", and even slapping her back when Drusilla assaulted her for her insults. The relationship between the four begins to thaw, but Louella wakes Haymitch in the middle of the night to tell him that she doesn't want Wyatt as an ally because he is a "Booker Boy", as his family is infamous for taking bets not only on district happenings but on reapings and standings in the Games. Haymitch agrees, though the two of them later discover that their conversation was overheard by both Maysilee and Wyatt. Despite this, they stick closely with each other when arriving in the Capitol, handcuffed and subjected to the scrutiny of Capitol citizens, including Academy students. They then meet the Tributes from other Districts, at which point they are all separated by male and female and uncomfortably cleaned and sanitized. Afterwards, Haymitch is met by his stylist team, Proserpina Trinket and Vitus, two undergraduate students from the Capitol University who must work on him as part of their grade. All the Tributes are put into their Parade costumes according to the colors and themes associated with their district, such as "snot green", as remarked by Maysilee on the dress of Silka Sharp, a female tribute from District 1 with whom she did not get along. Their stylist, Magno Stift, being late, inebriated, and uninspired, Haymitch and the other District 12 tributes wore coal miners' outfits for the chariot ride.[3] Due to a firework explosion caused by Capitol onlookers, the horses carrying the District 12's tributes were spooked, leading the chariot on a wild ride. Haymitch thought that he should try to protect Louella, but was too focused on his own safety. Eventually, their chariot crashed into District 6's, flinging Haymitch and Louella. She reached for him just as their chariot collapsed. Haymitch embraced the idea of dying prior to the arena before realizing that the blood belonged to Louella, not him. Haymitch likened her to a dead mockingjay chick that him and Lenore Dove found once before hijacking District 1's chariot, carrying Louella's lifeless body to Snow. It was this action that drew the attention of other tributes, potential sponsors, and more sinisterly, President Snow himself. Afterwards, Haymitch was approached by Ampert Latier, a twelve-year-old tribute from District 3 who commented on his actions during the Parade and invited him to join a blossoming alliance. His relationship with Maysilee also begins to soften, as she too approved of his actions and the attention they brought. Once the tributes were on their pedestals, most people breaths were taken away by the beauty of the arena, which was a fulled with lots of flowers that were poisonous. Once the gong sounded, most tributes were still taken by the beauty of the arena, but Haymitch already had a bag, some weapons, and ran off to the woods. While there, he had to avoid some golden squirrels that were carnivores. In these games, there were 12 careers, in which at least 5 settle in the area of the snow capped-mountain, so they could find tributes to kill. On the 4th day, the volcano erupted, killing 5 careers and 7 other tributes. Along the way, Maysilee had a backpack that contained a bowl, some dried beef, and a blowgun that she was very good with. While in the woods, Haymitch runs into 3 Careers. They're all bigger than him, but Haymitch is very fast and kills two of them with his knife. The third one, Panache, disarms him and is about to slit his throat, but Maylisee shots a dart at him, killing the Career. The two then partner up and steal food from the other dead tributes to eat. They find themselves at the edge of a cliff, so Maylisee leaves and Haymitch leaves, ending their alliance. Haymitch accidentally kicks a rock into a abyss, beyond the cliff. Instead of the rock being gone, the rock shoots back up, letting him know that there is a forcefield there. After that, Maylisee get gets her neck skewered by a candy pink bird mutt. Haymitch holds her hand as she dies. Later that day, the boy from District 4 is killed in combat with the District 8 boy, and he is killed by the golden squirrels.This makes Haymitch the 2nd tribute left, and the other tribute is a career from District 1. Shes bigger than him, and just as fast as Haymitch, so both tributes have a deadly fight, both injuring the other very badly. Haymitch cuts out her eye while she slashes him in the chest with an axe, with his intestines almost falling out. The girl throws her axe and Haymitch dodges it. After that, the axe bounces off the arena force field causing the axe to hit her in the face, leaving Haymitch the victor. 2 weeks after the Games, as a punishment for using the arena as such a weapon, his little brother, mother, and girlfriend was killed for it. He would obviously become very depressed and he would become an alcoholic. For the next 25 years, Haymitch mentors the tributes for District 12 alone. Its unknown why Rummage didn't mentor during this time. Due to the horror of the Games and the deaths of his family and possibly all of the tributes he's mentored that died, Haymitch turns to drinking and isolates himself from the rest of District 12. He then begins sleeping with a knife in his hand and does not let anyone enter his house. Since the Capitol didn't like the fact that he won, they sent a Capitol model named Tizon to replace him. Adult Haymitch is described as having grey hair and olive skin, which makes his appearance similar to that of Katniss Everdeen and her best friend, Gale Hawthorne. However, a sixteen-year-old Haymitch was called a "looker" with dark curly hair and bright eyes. Haymitch is an alcoholic. He has become numb to tributes deaths after having witnessed so many of them dying under his mentorship. He is a gruff man but is not a bad person at heart. He is very private and rarely lets anyone in. He is a mentor for district 12. He is gruff, unmotivated. He will, however, have a soft spot if the tribute is either a super young child or a victor.