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IC Information;
Character Name; Peeta Mellark
Canon; The Hunger Games Trilogy
Canon Point; Mockingjay- Chapter 2; Following Peeta's interview with Caesar.
Age; 17yo

House; Freya
Power; Charm

Personality; Essentially, Peeta is a good person. He possesses a lot of qualities that people tend to admire. He’s smart, having come up with strategies to keep both himself and Katniss alive during both the 74th annual Hunger Games, and the 75th Games, the Quarter Quell. During the 74th Hunger Games, he sided with a group of Tributes from Districts 1 and 2 (the Career Tributes) who were hell bent on the idea of Katniss’ death at their hands. She’d gotten a better score than any of them from the Gamemakers during the private training sessions, so naturally, she was the one they took a great interest in. His choice to form a tentative alliance with them was simply an effort to keep Katniss alive. He convinced them that he would help them to find her, when really he was trying to keep them away from her (even though they’d separated at the initial bloodbath and he had no idea where she was). He knew that allying himself with the Careers with promises of being able to help them with Katniss was his best bet for keeping track of them.

Peeta’s also smart (as well as skilled) when it comes to words and how to use them. Because of this, it can also be said that Peeta is somewhat manipulative when the time calls for it. He manipulates the people of Panem time and time again during his interviews in the Capitol with Caesar Flickerman. It also helps that he seems to have a natural charisma that causes the audience to simply hang on his every word. Unlike Katniss, Peeta needs no help when it comes to speaking with people. One such interview ended with Peeta feeding the entire country a lie about himself and Katniss. They had been playing at being the star-crossed lovers from District 12 (though it wasn’t a ploy, from Peeta’s side of things), and the lie went even further, from a marriage proposal, to Peeta telling Caesar and Panem that not only had they gotten married before the 75th Games, but that they were expecting a baby. With that in mind, it would make sense for Peeta to protect Katniss during the Games, instead of fighting for himself, as is expected in the Games. He had no intention of leaving the Quarter Quell alive. It could appear to Panem as though he was simply fighting for his new wife and unborn baby, to see that they made it out alive. Who would question the motives of a husband and future father?

With that in mind, Peeta is selfless. He often puts other people before himself, especially when it comes to Katniss. During the 74th Hunger Games, Peeta did what he could to help Katniss, to keep the Careers from killing her as they’d wanted. Because he’d kept his plan to himself and because she didn’t know his motivations, Katniss saw Peeta as a threat. He was attacked with tracker jackers (wasp muttations with poisonous, hallucinogenic venom) along with the rest of the Careers. Despite that, he warned Katniss away from Cato, even though he would end up getting caught for it, possibly killed. He ends up getting attacked by Cato, getting a terrible infection because of a cut with Cato’s sword and once the Games are over, his leg has to be amputated from the thigh, down. But it’s all worth it because he helped to prolong Katniss’ life.

After winning the 74th Games (by sheer luck), during the Victory Tour, Peeta vowed to give up one month of his winnings to the people of District 11, due in part t to what happened to Rue, and in part because of Thresh sparing Katniss’ life when he could have just as easily killed her. He doesn’t know if such a thing is even allowed, he just declares that it’s something he wants to do. Then, once it’s announced that for the Quarter Quell, the Tributes will be chosen from past victors, Peeta decides that he will be going with Katniss, no matter what. If his name is chosen, then so be it. But if Haymitch’s name is chosen, Peeta will simply volunteer to go in his place. All because he plans to do what he can to keep Katniss alive. He wants to give his own life so that she’ll make it out of the Games a second time.

Peeta has proven himself to be bold time and time again, like when he announced his feelings for Katniss in front of all of Panem. He seemed to do it without much fear, too. He was supposed to die in those Games, so what did he even have to lose by that point? All of his interviews with Caesar include bold acts. His marriage proposal, his announcement about the baby he and Katniss were supposed to be having. The second time in his private session with the Gamemakers for the Quarter Quell was when, perhaps, one of his boldest acts took place. On the floor of the training center, Peeta painted a picture of Rue as she appeared just before the hovercraft came to take her away. Rue, surrounded by flowers. It was something of an act of rebellion on his part, as though to remind them that they are the ones being held accountable for Rue’s death, for the deaths of everyone in the arena. Such an act caused the Gamemakers to paint him as a target by giving him a high score (which normally doesn’t bode well among the other Tributes). He had a statement to make, though, and he had a Game to lose. He was done playing by their rules.

Oftentimes, Peeta has proven that he has a deeper understanding of the things going on around him, something that even Katniss doesn’t quite understand until much later. From very early on, Peeta understands that they’re little more than pawns in the Capitol’s game, and not just when it comes to the Hunger Games. Playing by the Capitol’s rules just isn’t any way to live.

Overall, Peeta is kind hearted. He wants to sacrifice everything to see Katniss safe, since he feels that a life without her is no life at all. He holds her through the night when her nightmares get to be too much and he always says the right things when it’s necessary. While Katniss seems to see mostly the bad in herself, Peeta sees all the good. Despite the kind hearted nature, though, Peeta isn’t a push over. He doesn’t let people walk all over him just because it’s the nice thing to do. Like when he finds out that Katniss caring for him during the 74th Hunger Games was just for the Games, he doesn’t try to win her over. He doesn’t accept that and carry on with the façade, he lets her know that she hurt him. He lets things go back to the way they were before the Games, back when they still didn’t speak. He allows the ‘star-crossed lovers of District 12’ to be something for the camera in much the same way Katniss had in the arena. After all, he may be angry and upset about the whole thing, but he’s not about to let anyone know that at least half of it was a lie.