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Reading through the first book again, and came across an interesting parallel to Ballad...

After Peeta "betrays" Katniss' trust and teams up with the Careers, she considers him an enemy who will try to kill her. I imagined Snow watching this and comparing it to his own situation in the woods with Lucy Gray.

He betrayed her trust with the lie he told and she determined he was an enemy whom she then had to flee from.

And (from his perspective) she intended to kill him with the snake bite in nearly the same way Katniss intended to kill Peeta with the hive of Tracker Jackers.

But where this inspired vengeance in Snow and made him fully turn against Lucy Gray, Peeta's determination to keep Katniss alive doesn't change. It doesn't change his feelings for her at all.

I sort of just love imagining Snow's reaction to that and how, even from the beginning, these two seem to defy his expectations.

Listening to Billie Eilish's No Time to Die from Snow's perspective. Crazy accurate...

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I should've known, I'd leave alone

Was I stupid to love you? Was I reckless to help?

Was it obvious to everybody else, that I'd fallen for a lie?

You were never on my side

I let it burn. You're no longer my concern

Another lesson yet to learn

There's just no time to die

.° [Wrote a little winter fic for Snow and Lucy Gray. Mostly an imagining of where his mind might've been if he'd actually left Panem behind.] .°

Northern Lights °*.•

Summary:

Coriolanus Snow never found the guns in the cabin and is living his new life up north with Lucy Gray. His feelings for her are starting to fade as he resents the struggle to survive. However, after gaining a fresh perspective, he starts to come to terms with the way things are.

꧁༺࿅ིཽ• –– •❈• –– •࿅ིཽ༻꧂

They will terrorize us

With new confusion

With the fear of life that seeks to bring despair within

And they will paralyze us

With new illusions

Let the dead revive the beast within

And I say, love

Come run away with me

Sweet, falling remedy

Come run away with me

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Sufjan Stevens - Run Away With Me (Lyrics)

This song is giving me some major Coriolanus Snow and Lucy Gray feels. Their relationship...it's such a stroke of genius how complex it is.

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Listening to this just has me wishing so desperately that their ending had been happier. I'm imagining them going through with their plan to run away together. Imagining Snow choosing her over his ambition. They're so beautifully tragic.

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Snow and Lucy Gray living free up north. ❦ Forest life aesthetic.

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"It really was beautiful out here. The crystal clean air. The lush colors. He felt so relaxed and free. What if this was his life: rising whenever, catching his food for the day, and hanging out with Lucy Gray by the lake? Who needed wealth and success and power when they had love? Didn't it conquer all?" - TBOSAS, p. 438

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.•◇° I feel like this, right here, was such a highlight moment for Coriolanus. For both him as a person and in his relationship with Lucy Gray. In this moment, he put aside his needs for hers. He really empathized with her.

That's what I love about this book though. He isn't all villain. It takes time for him to get there. He makes a few decent choices, like he does here. In small ways. Not all of his thoughts were self-centered or manipulative. He really was capable of becoming someone different. Someone better. •◇°.

Big city boy moves to small town where he reunites with the love of his life and...

°. • TBOSAS Part III is a Hallmark movie gone horribly wrong. .•.°

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