( In spite of wearing one of their Jewels, Katniss feels very little sympathy for the Blood. They seem too much like the Capitol to her, sneering down their noses at the landens who don't have magic. When she hears about landens vandalizing the city and joining up in gangs to terrorize the Blood by night, it reminds her of how the rebellion started in 8 and how everyone fought to keep it going. She's in favor of it.
Still, she's living in the Queen's residence right now and she wears one of their Jewels, so she's not really sure how to indicate to the landen guilds that she's on their side and not on the side of the Blood. Katniss sneaks out at night and manages to catch the landens vandalizing a Blood-owned shop, writing "bleeder" along the storefront. They panic when she shows up but she holds up a hand. )
I'm with you. I'm a Stranger, not Blood. I wouldn't even wear this thing if it didn't make my aim better and my reflexes faster. I'm not doing any Craft or magic with it, that's for sure.
( Someone approaches from behind her and Katniss whips around. She could really get used to the fact that her hearing is a little advanced by this Jewel. She wears it in a little pin. It's not her Mockingjay pin but it serves well enough for now. )
Are you with us or against us?
ii. poisoned gnature
( Katniss is more comfortable with animals than people sometimes. She's a hunter, yes, but part of being a hunter is understanding your prey and what spooks them. She doesn't have any experience with horses other than the ones that pull the chariots at the opening ceremonies but these horses are a lot more skittish than those; she guesses the Capitol's horses have to be immune to pyrotechnics and dramatics. She has a partner with her, someone she recognizes vaguely from breakfast, and she starts slathering the paste on the foreleg of the horse closest to them. )
Mosquitoes that cause poison? Sounds like what we call mutts back home. Nice little tricks from our government. I was hoping we wouldn't have stuff like that here.
air time: etiquette
( Katniss scoffs a little at the idea of protocol and using titles. She didn't want to do it back in Panem and it really chafes here. She didn't like the idea of calling her peers "Soldier" in 13 and it rankled every single time she had to address Snow by his title of President. She's heard people call her Lady, taking her for Blood, and she's corrected them every single time. She's not here for that. Calling people Healer and Priestess is a little different. There's no religion in Panem but she thinks Prim might have liked to be called Healer. )
What about people who have these titles and don't earn them? I'm not calling anyone Lady or Lord or Prince if they're not worthy of it, no matter who they are or what family they were born to. There's a lot of crooked people who demand respect and there's a lot of good people who don't get the respect they deserve. It's like that where I come from and I have a hard time believing it doesn't happen here, too.
katniss everdeen | the hunger games | summer sky
( In spite of wearing one of their Jewels, Katniss feels very little sympathy for the Blood. They seem too much like the Capitol to her, sneering down their noses at the landens who don't have magic. When she hears about landens vandalizing the city and joining up in gangs to terrorize the Blood by night, it reminds her of how the rebellion started in 8 and how everyone fought to keep it going. She's in favor of it.
Still, she's living in the Queen's residence right now and she wears one of their Jewels, so she's not really sure how to indicate to the landen guilds that she's on their side and not on the side of the Blood. Katniss sneaks out at night and manages to catch the landens vandalizing a Blood-owned shop, writing "bleeder" along the storefront. They panic when she shows up but she holds up a hand. )
I'm with you. I'm a Stranger, not Blood. I wouldn't even wear this thing if it didn't make my aim better and my reflexes faster. I'm not doing any Craft or magic with it, that's for sure.
( Someone approaches from behind her and Katniss whips around. She could really get used to the fact that her hearing is a little advanced by this Jewel. She wears it in a little pin. It's not her Mockingjay pin but it serves well enough for now. )
Are you with us or against us?
ii. poisoned gnature
( Katniss is more comfortable with animals than people sometimes. She's a hunter, yes, but part of being a hunter is understanding your prey and what spooks them. She doesn't have any experience with horses other than the ones that pull the chariots at the opening ceremonies but these horses are a lot more skittish than those; she guesses the Capitol's horses have to be immune to pyrotechnics and dramatics. She has a partner with her, someone she recognizes vaguely from breakfast, and she starts slathering the paste on the foreleg of the horse closest to them. )
Mosquitoes that cause poison? Sounds like what we call mutts back home. Nice little tricks from our government. I was hoping we wouldn't have stuff like that here.
air time: etiquette
( Katniss scoffs a little at the idea of protocol and using titles. She didn't want to do it back in Panem and it really chafes here. She didn't like the idea of calling her peers "Soldier" in 13 and it rankled every single time she had to address Snow by his title of President. She's heard people call her Lady, taking her for Blood, and she's corrected them every single time. She's not here for that. Calling people Healer and Priestess is a little different. There's no religion in Panem but she thinks Prim might have liked to be called Healer. )
What about people who have these titles and don't earn them? I'm not calling anyone Lady or Lord or Prince if they're not worthy of it, no matter who they are or what family they were born to. There's a lot of crooked people who demand respect and there's a lot of good people who don't get the respect they deserve. It's like that where I come from and I have a hard time believing it doesn't happen here, too.