Lenore Dove Is So Misunderstood And Mischaracterized By The Fandom It Makes Me Sad To See.

Lenore Dove is so misunderstood and mischaracterized by the fandom it makes me sad to see.

She is not this manic, dream pixie girl. Her character very much shaped, flawed and real. Haymitch is able to oversee and ignore her “flaws” because he’s a 16 year old teenage boy who is madly in love with her, but it is not hard for us readers, to look between those lines and see how fleshed her character really is.

She is seen to act before thinking, making rash decisions which aren’t the best for her wellbeing. She is way too emotional, feels too many feelings and has too many thoughts and she doesn’t know how to articulate them into words because she’s an introvert and she fears her words being lost in translation.

She only reveals her unfiltered, (sometimes) dark thoughts to her loved ones, and often enough she does it by using metaphors so she can still backtrack incase she gets misunderstood because she still feels like her thoughts could be a burden to the people around her.

She is not a “Lucy Gray Rip-Off”.

Lucy Gray was a born performer. She loved to be on stage, she loved performing for her people and knew how to get the crowd on her side, how to keep them entertained.

Lenore Dove doesn’t sing in front of people. It makes her uncomfortable. She’s not a “Born Performer” nor does she know how to control a crowd, at least not in the way Lucy Gray did.

She’s a rebel. She’ll only use her voice when she realizes she absolutely HAS to. She’ll use it when she’s mad, and sad, and in despair.

She’ll go against the rules at any given time, especially when it comes to protecting her loved ones. She doesn’t realize nor care about any consequences at the time, she only acts because she’s in pain and wants to avenge her people.

She’s a sixteen year old girl who dreamt big in a world where dreaming was a luxury and not something many people can afford.

In spite of her dark, burdened thoughts, she had still kept her innocence and was able to dream of a world without the reaping, she had hopes that one day that dream could become a reality, no matter how crazy it sounded to others.

She also had dreams of growing up, having a loving family and living peacefully with her loved ones and her boy who she loved more than anyone and she was willing to die for him.

SGE (first three books) SPOILERS!

Okay so, I know that the film came out a couple of year ago and that the fandom is practically dead but. One thing that I still haven’t forgiven the film for is its treatment of Lady Lesso. I mean 1) the film had her act like a discount Evelyn Tristus, with her being so in love and obsessed with Rafael and all 2) the way she treats Sophie, I mean Lady Lesso sees Sophie like her child practically, she even tells her in TLEA that she saw her as much as her child as she did her own son!!! but in the movies it’s like, none of that is there, like Sophie is just another student that just happens to be a little bit better and 3) HER NAMEEEE! I mean, one of the things I loved the most about Lady Lesso is how we can see that she does’t trust people easily, especially with her name, and the scene where she’s on the verge of death and she tells Dovey and Sophie her name is one of the best of the whole series in my opinion and it just cancels it by having Rafael tell Sophie as it’s nothing important!

Anadil shoul’ve been albino and there’s no changing my mind

DISCLAIMER: I actually really liked the actress they chose to play Anadil in the movie these are just my feelings and don’t reflect on my opinion of the actress.

that being said let me set the scene: little twelve year old me has just been given by my sister a book that she didn’t like a lot (sge) (she has bad taste but that can’t be helped) and I read Anadil being described as albino. Now, at that time, I still hadn’t open access to the internet, and absolutely to no social media, so I had no way of knowing what an albino person was or looked like, but the word makes me curious so I go to my dad and ask him what it means and he explains. I just wonder how many young girls and boys have found out about albino people that way (I’m deliberately ignoring that soman made her being albino what made her “ugly” (when she turned “pretty” at the end of the first book her hair turns brown, and her eyes green)). I also wonder how many young girls are albino and could’ve seen such character and felt represented.

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