Instantly after Haymitch received the fiftieth Starvation Video games for District 12 — turning into the second-ever victor from that impoverished district after Lucy Grey Baird, Rachel Zegler’s main girl from “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” — he was punished for his manuever with the axe. As a result of Haymitch manipulated the power discipline and made the Capitol look silly, officers killed his mom, brother, and girlfriend, leaving him alone and exhibiting that the Capitol is to not be crossed.
From that time ahead, Haymitch sank right into a deep melancholy and developed a dependency on alcohol, mentoring all tributes from District 12 that got here after him … all of whom died within the area. In the end, although, he meets District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) through the 74th Starvation Video games, which is the place the story of the unique books and movies begins. Although Haymitch is definitely pessimistic about Katniss and Peeta’s probabilities at first, he quickly discovers Katniss’ abilities with a bow and arrow in addition to Peeta’s brute energy and affinity for camouflage, and is intelligent sufficient to information them by way of their first time within the Video games.
When Katniss and Peeta, like Haymitch earlier than them, manipulate the Capitol by almost taking their lives as the one two tributes left standing — forcing the Capitol to declare them each winners — they’re punished too and put proper again into the sector for the Third Quarter Quell, whereby solely former victors could be chosen to compete. From there, Katniss, Haymitch, and Peeta all be part of the resistance effort in opposition to the Capitol — so what occurs to Haymitch subsequent?