Effie Trinket Effie Trinket is a Capitol woman who was assigned to oversee District 12's tributes in the Hunger Games, specifically Katniss and Peeta in the 74th and 75th Games. She must carry out such tasks as drawing the tributes' names at the Reaping and escorting them to the Capitol. At first, she shows herself brainwashed and clueless. Later, Effie becomes attached to her District 12 charges. During the 74th Hunger Games, Effie appears oblivious to the misfortunes of District 12 and The Hunger Games. She dresses in the expensive, flamboyant manner typical to the Capitol and has a different-colored wig to go with the prevailing color of her clothes, leading Katniss to wonder if Capitol citizens realize "how freakish they look to the rest of us." Mostly interested in moving up in Capitol society and in keeping with her socialite ambitions, Effie is keenly attentive to and highly knowledgeable of customs, courtesies and manners in the Capitol, always showing up on time. Katniss notes in the first book that "although she can be tiresome, Effie has a very keen instinct about certain things" and "a certain determination I admire". Effie's catchphrase in the first book is "Happy Hunger Games, and may the odds be ever in your favor!" During the 75th Hunger Games, Effie's facade of perky civility cracks as she faces the prospect of seeing Katniss and Peeta forced into the arena for a second time. In the film of
Catching Fire, Effie starts off trying to plan out a yellow-gold fashion theme that she, Haymitch, Katniss and Peeta will share. She insists this is to "Show them we are a team!" She then struggles to continue, managing "They can't just-" before becoming too emotional to continue. This leads Haymitch, Katniss and Peeta to each gently express empathy, appreciating Effie's concern. For reasons unknown, however, Effie was not brought in on the scheme to bring down the 75th Hunger Games and rescue the surviving victors to kick off a second rebellion against the Capitol. In
Mockingjay, it is said she was imprisoned after Katniss's escape but unlike many others Katniss knew in the Capitol, she is not executed. She meets up again with Katniss before Snow's execution, and Katniss notes that she now has a "vacant look" in her eyes. The book states Haymitch and Plutarch had some difficulty in keeping her from being executed at the end of the war, but her imprisonment had actually helped in that regard. In the films, Effie's role in the third film,
Mockingjay Part 1, is expanded as, rather than getting captured by the Capitol, she is instead evacuated by the Rebels and taken to District 13. Though initially hesitant, she eventually consents to help Katniss and effectively replaces the role of Katniss's prep team, who does not appear beyond the second film. In the end of
Mockingjay Part 2, Effie and Haymitch shares a kiss while she says goodbye to Katniss, hearing from Haymitch "don't be a stranger". This scene is not in the books. Effie appears in
Sunrise on the Reaping where she's one of Haymitch's stylists for the 50th Hunger Games. She appears in the book after going to help her sister Proserpina Trinket, who was part of Haymitch's preparation team, so she ends up being included in the team and helping the tributes with clothes that belonged to her relatives. Because of this, we know more about her family's past and that her grandparents' uncle had stained the name of the family. She ends up helping Haymitch get into the tubes that lead to the arena, advises him not to leave the place before the time and promises to deliver Lenore Dove's gift back to her if he dies, it is mentioned that he realizes that she is shaking. After the arena, Effie replaces the injured District 12 chaperone Drusilla Sickle in accompanying Haymitch on the Victory Tour and other public events, setting up her taking that escort job. Haymitch also mentions that "The only person who kept an eye on me is Effie Trinket", anticipating what we would see in the future where she tried to help him not to drink.
Cinna Cinna is Katniss's stylist, responsible for her public appearances. After designing the spectacular outfits for the opening ceremony, which include costumes ignitable with synthetic fire, he nicknames Katniss "the Girl on Fire". Cinna is in his first year as a stylist for the Games and specifically requested to be assigned to District 12. His amazing designs immediately win over the audience in favor of the District 12 tributes. Cinna is better than most at seeing through the superficiality and spectacle of the Games to their barbaric core. Cinna's role was also to support and calm Katniss down before entering the arena. Although he did this very subtly, he had a unique nonverbal connection, which gave Katniss much strength. He and Katniss establish an easy, comfortable relationship, and he demonstrates a genuine concern for her well-being. In
Catching Fire, Cinna dresses Katniss for her television interview in her wedding dress, as insisted by President Snow, but alters it so that when Katniss raises her arms and twirls, the white dress burns away to be replaced with a black and grey dress of feathers that resembles a mockingjay, which has become the symbol of the resistance in Panem. Because of this, Cinna is savagely beaten in front of Katniss, right before she enters the arena for the Quarter Quell, which unnerves her greatly. It is suggested that he might have been tortured to death after the arena explodes. Effie Trinket states in
Mockingjay, Part 1, before showing Katniss sketches of her Mockingjay costume made by Cinna, that he is dead. Cinna is very different from the other inhabitants of the Capitol. He does not use surgery to alter his features, wears simple black clothes, and leaves his hair its natural dark brown color, close-cropped. His only concession to the Capitol's fashion style is a small amount of metallic gold eyeliner, applied with a light hand, that brings out the gold flecks in his green eyes. In
Mockingjay he is confirmed as one of the rebels.
Plutarch Heavensbee Plutarch Heavensbee becomes Head Gamemaker following the death of Seneca Crane. He is actually the judge who falls into the punch bowl when Katniss shoots the apple out of a pig's mouth during her scoring in the first book, but Katniss does not formally meet him until the Victory Tour celebration in the second book. He is later shown to be the leader of the rebel movement in the Districts and is the mastermind behind the plan to break the tributes out of the arena in
Catching Fire. He tries to give Katniss hints about the nature of the arena for the Quarter Quell, but Katniss does not pick up on it until much later. In
Mockingjay he has become a "rebel filmmaker", and helps create propaganda featuring Katniss as the Mockingjay for District 13's war against the Capitol. He is elected Secretary of Communications after the war ends. Plutarch appears in
Sunrise on the Reaping as a young cameraman covering the 50th Hunger Games. Plutarch offers Haymitch advice about the arena and reveals his involvement in a rebel movement made up of several victors and tributes, some of whom would later be involved in the rebellion in
Catching Fire and
Mockingjay. Haymitch wonders several times if Plutarch can really be trusted, particularly because he comes out of the failed rebellion fairly well off compared to everyone else. Plutarch tells Haymitch that while their efforts failed, they need someone like him who is luckier and with better timing in the future to succeed, although it may not be in their lifetime. Plutarch speaks of building an army or better yet finding one to that end. When Haymitch accuses Plutarch of exploiting the games for his benefit, Plutarch states that he's no one's idea of a hero, but he's still in the game. He is related to Hilarius Heavensbee, a mentor in the 10th Hunger Games.
Seneca Crane Seneca Crane is the Head Gamemaker during the 74th Hunger Games. The bait-and-switch tactic of proclaiming two tributes could win if they came from the same district was his idea, so when it came back to bite the Capitol in the end, Crane was held responsible for the embarrassment. Near the beginning of the
Catching Fire book, Snow tells Katniss that he had him executed for letting both her and Peeta live. At the end of the first
Hunger Games film, Crane is shown being escorted by Capitol guards and locked in a room containing poisonous nightlock berries to consume. In both the
Catching Fire book and film, Katniss hangs a dummy with the words "Seneca Crane" on it before the judges when her skills test is performed, shocking the judges greatly.
Prep team Octavia,
Venia, and
Flavius are Katniss's prep team. They are residents of the Capitol and sport the radically altered appearances typical of Capitol residents, including pea-green skin (Octavia), aqua-colored hair and a face etched with gold tattoos (Venia), and orange corkscrew hair and purple lipstick (Flavius). At first, it appears they are dull-witted and care only about their appearance. However, they prove themselves less shallow when they begin to cry while preparing Katniss for the Quarter Quell, from which they do not expect her to return. Katniss gleans valuable information from them by listening to them gossip about shortages of supplies, giving Katniss clues about which districts have rebelled. In
Mockingjay, they are kidnapped and taken to District 13 to help with Katniss's styling, and they very quickly run afoul of District 13's draconian rules and end up cruelly punished for stealing bread. Katniss orders them set free and healed. Venia is said to have always been the strongest: for example, in
Catching Fire, Venia is the only one to contain her emotions while working on Katniss's appearance, while Octavia and Flavius both need to leave the room to control their emotions. Katniss's prep team only appears in the first two films (except for Venia, who only appears in the first); their roles in the final two films are filled by Effie.
Caesar Flickerman Caesar Flickerman is the
Master of Ceremonies and commentator for the Hunger Games, along with Claudius Templesmith. He has served as the master of ceremonies since the 50th Hunger Games, but his unchanged appearance leads Katniss to speculate that he had received extensive surgeries to look and be as young as possible. Caesar interviews each Tribute on live television the night before the Games begin and is renowned for his innate ability to create relaxed, insightful conversations, making each Tribute stand out to the audience and potential sponsors. Flamboyantly outgoing and stylish, Caesar is also known for wearing a different color of hair and suit for each Hunger Games, though not all his selections have gone over well, such as a frightening blood-red hair dye that he used at the 73rd Hunger Games (and did not use again). In the films, he is also known for flashing a huge smile and distinctive laugh. He interviews Peeta after the events of the 75th Hunger Games in
Mockingjay and makes no further televised appearances after Peeta's rescue by rebel commandos, his fate unspecified. It is implied that he is a descendant of the first Hunger Games commentator, Lucky Flickerman.
Snow Tigris Snow is a former Hunger Games stylist who later works in a small shop specializing in fur-trimmed underwear in the Capitol. Her face has been altered into a "semi-feline mask" through many surgical operations. It is implied these alterations, too strange for even people in The Capitol, caused her to be shunned and banned as a stylist for the Games; this resulted in Tigris's becoming embittered towards the Capitol. She aids Katniss's squad on their final mission by hiding them in her shop and disguising them. When Katniss offers Tigris food, she says: "I eat next to nothing, and then, only raw meat". After that, Katniss says that Tigris is too into her character. In
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, she is revealed as Coriolanus Snow's cousin (raised as his sister), and is three years his senior. She cooks for him and their grandmother as the rest of their family are dead. In this book, she is training to be a fashion designer, and she and Coriolanus are shown to care deeply for each other.
Volumnia Gaul Dr. Volumnia Gaul is a sadistic and misanthropist mad scientist who is the indirect creator of the Hunger Games. She is the initial Head Gamemaker of the 10th Hunger Games. She developed the Hunger Games from an assignment done by two of her university students before the war, Crassus Snow and Casca Highbottom. She views the Games as a way to represent the lack of control and order without the Capitol in a
Hobbesian fashion. She is also head of the Capitol's Experimental Weapons Division, creating many muttations as part of her job, and a professor of military theory at the university. In
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, she behaves eccentrically and sadistically places mentors in dangerous situations. She specifically takes a particular liking to Coriolanus Snow, due to his ideas for the Games and thoughts on control and order. Eventually, she has him honorably discharged from the Peacekeepers, enrolls him at the university, and even makes him an intern for the Gamemakers. In
Sunrise on the Reaping, taking place forty years later, Haymitch recalls that Gaul hosted the 25th Hunger Games, the First Quarter Quell, with Lucky Flickerman. Haymitch described Gaul as a relic of a woman at that point who was credited with coining the phrase "may the odds be EVER in your favor." The phrase caught on as a way to wish someone good luck, but Haymitch considered it to be a sadistic thing to say to a tribute given that survival's an impossibility for twenty-three of the twenty-four kids.
Casca Highbottom Casca Highbottom is the academic dean of the Academy, the most prestigious high school in Panem, and publicly credited as the creator of the Hunger Games. While attending the university, Crassus Snow got him drunk during an assignment to get him to give him all his ideas for a thought experiment, this assignment later morphed into the Hunger Games. Traumatized and betrayed by his former best friend, Highbottom became a morphling addict, leading to a young Coriolanus Snow to mockingly call him "High-as-a-kite-Bottom" behind his back. He never forgave Crassus for what he did and so he made his son, Coriolanus, the mentor for Lucy Gray Baird out of revenge. Eventually he proves Coriolanus cheated in the Games and forces him to join the Peacekeepers as punishment, clueless that Dr. Gaul was backing Coriolanus from behind the scenes. Just before Coriolanus started at the university, he visited Highbottom one final time, his mere presence back in the Capitol proof that, despite all Highbottom's efforts to finish his hated enemy for good, "Snow lands on top." Highbottom dies soon after as he takes tainted morphling that Coriolanus intentionally left behind, the first to die from Snow's signature weapon of poison.
Minor Capitol characters •
Claudius Templesmith is an announcer and commentator for the Hunger Games with Caesar Flickerman. •
Portia is Peeta's stylist in the 74th and 75th Hunger Games. She is only mentioned a few times in the series. She praises Katniss on a job well done in the first book, when Katniss receives an 11 in her private session. Alongside the other stylists and prep teams for other tributes (except for Katniss's prep team), Portia is publicly executed by the Capitol after the Third Quarter Quell due to their alleged collaboration with the tributes that facilitates their escape from the arena. •
Atala is the training center coach before the Games. •
Cressida is the resident director from the Capitol. She and her camera crew join the rebellion, moving to District 13 after fleeing the Capitol. Cressida is described as "a woman with a shaved head tattooed with green vines". She films propos for District 13 and later accompanies Katniss and her squad during their assault on the Capitol. She becomes upset by the deaths of two of her crew members, Castor and Messalla, but survives the war and begins filming the war destruction in Panem alongside Pollux. •
Messalla is Cressida's assistant from the Capitol. He moved to District 13 after fleeing the Capitol. He assists in filming propos for the rebels in Districts 8 and 13. He joins the Star Squad in the rebellion, on their final mission in the Capitol. When the troops find their way into the Capitol's underground, they are soon found by lizard mutations. While fleeing from the lizards, Messalla is killed by a pod that emits a shaft of impenetrable light, melting his skin off. •
Castor and
Pollux are brothers who comprise Cressida's camera crew from the Capitol. They often wear "insect shells", a wearable carapace to hold the camera. Pollux is a former Avox, having escaped from servitude in the Capitol, and Castor interprets for him. As photojournalists, they are courageous and have an incredible sense for "capturing the right moment" on film. After Katniss sings "The Hanging Tree", Pollux comes to truly accept and admire her. Castor is killed by the lizard mutations, with Finnick and Homes, while Pollux survives and assists Cressida to document the war destruction after the war's end. The brothers' names derive from
the twins of Greek mythology. In the myth, as in
Mockingjay, Castor is killed, while Pollux lives on, alone. •
Clemensia Dovecote is a mentor during the 10th Hunger Games. After the death of Arachne Crane, she is very affected and fails to help Coriolanus Snow write the essay Dr. Gaul had assigned them. When they go to turn it in, she pretends she co-wrote the essay. Dr. Gaul drops the essay into a cage with genetically modified snakes. She forces Clemensia to reach into the cage to retrieve the pages and is bitten by the snakes. She is envenomated and rushed to the hospital where she remains in critical condition for several days. When Coriolanus is hospitalized, she lurks over his bed and it is shown she is extremely pale, her chest is covered in scales and has severe mental alteration. Her family and friends are lied to about what happened to her and told she caught a contagious virus. She is eventually discharged and her scars are fading, though painfully, and her mental stated improved slightly. She developed a phobia of snakes. She is originally angry at Coriolanus for not visiting her, but eventually forgives him. •
Arachne Crane was a mentor in the 10th Hunger Games. She began taunting her District 10 tribute, Brandy, by offering her a sandwich through the bars of the zoo cage, only to then withdraw it. Brandy eventually grabbed her and slit her throat with the knife she used to cut the food. She bled out in Coriolanus Snow's arms. During her funeral procession, her tribute's lifeless body was hanged from a crane and attached to a truck that carried the (shackled) remaining tributes. She is most likely an indirect relative of Seneca Crane. •
Livia Cardew was a mentor in the 10th Hunger Games. Her assigned tribute was the District 1 male, Facet. After Facet died in the arena bombing, she attempted to be given Clemensia Dovecote's tribute, Reaper, arguing that he did not have a mentor as Clemensia was in the hospital at that time. It is heavily implied that Livia ended up marrying Coriolanus Snow in the future, as he stated that he hoped to one day marry someone he disliked so much that he would not feel guilt over manipulating them, naming Livia as "perfect". She is likely an indirect relative of Fulvia Cardew. •
Palmyra Monty was a mentor in the 10th Hunger Games. Her assigned tribute was the District 1 female, Velvereen. •
Florus Friend was a mentor in the 10th Hunger Games. His assigned tribute was the District 2 female, Sabyn. •
Io Jasper was a mentor in the 10th Hunger Games. Her assigned tribute was the District 3 male, Circ. Her parents were scientists, and Coriolanus stated that she "seemed to have been born with a microscope attached to her eye". •
Urban Canville was a mentor in the 10th Hunger Games. His assigned tribute was the District 3 female, Teslee. He was short to be short-tempered, reacting in anger when Lucky Flickerman forgot his name and nearly snarling in contempt at Lepidus Malmsey after his elimination from the Games. •
Persephone Price was a mentor in the 10th Hunger Games. Her assigned tribute was the District 4 male, Mizzen. Her father was railroad tycoon Nero Price. •
Festus Creed was a mentor in the 10th Hunger Games. His assigned tribute was the District 4 female, Coral. •
Dennis Fling was a mentor in the 10th Hunger Games. His assigned tribute was the District 5 male, Hy. •
Iphigenia Moss was a mentor in the 10th Hunger Games. Her assigned tribute was the District 5 female, Sol. •
Apollo Ring was a mentor in the 10th Hunger Games. His assigned tribute was the District 6 male, Otto. His twin sister was Diana, both of whom were killed in the bombing of the Capitol Arena. •
Diana Ring was a mentor in the 10th Hunger Games. Her assigned tribute was the District 6 female, Ginnee. Her twin brother was Apollo, both of whom were killed in the bombing of the Capitol Arena. •
Vipsania Sickle was a mentor in the 10th Hunger Games. Her assigned tribute was the District 7 male, Treech. Her aunt was Agrippina Sickle, and she is likely related to Drusilla Sickle. •
Pliny Harrington was a mentor in the 10th Hunger Games. His assigned tribute was the District 7 female, Lamina. •
Juno Phipps was a mentor in the 10th Hunger Games. Her assigned tribute was the District 8 male, Bobbin. •
Hilarius Heavensbee was a mentor in the 10th Hunger Games. His assigned tribute was the District 8 female, Wovey. He is related to Plutarch Heavensbee. •
Gaius Breen was a mentor in the 10th Hunger Games. His assigned tribute was the District 9 male, Panlo. •
Androcles Anderson was a mentor in the 10th Hunger Games. His assigned tribute was the District 9 female, Sheaf. •
Domitia Whimsiwick was a mentor in the 10th Hunger Games. Her assigned tribute was the District 10 male, Tanner. •
Felix Ravinstill was a mentor in the 10th Hunger Games. His assigned tribute was the District 11 female, Dill. He was then-President Maximinius Ravinstill's grandnephew. In the films, Ravinstill was killed in the bombing of the Capitol Arena. •
Lysistrata Vickers was a mentor in the 10th Hunger Games. Her assigned tribute was the District 12 male, Jessup Diggs. •
Fulvia Cardew is Plutarch Heavensbee's assistant who defects from the Capitol to join the Second Rebellion. Gale notes that she is "so well intended, yet so insulting". She proposes that Katniss would become the center of the propos by reading out speeches written by her, which Katniss vehemently rejects because she does not want to become anyone other than herself. Later, Fulvia suggests for a propo about the fallen tributes with Finnick narrating; this time, her idea is green-lit. Fulvia survives the Second Rebellion and continues to assist Plutarch. She is likely an indirect relative of Livia Cardew. In the films, Fulvia does not appear, her role instead being taken by Effie. •
Lucky Flickerman was the host for the 10th Hunger Games. This was the first time there was a host to interview the tributes and provide commentary during the Games. He made no effort to remember the tribute's and mentor's names and eventually resorted to magic tricks and showing off his pet parrot to entertain the viewers. He is most likely an ancestor of Caesar Flickerman. •
Crassus Xanthos Snow is Coriolanus Snow's father. He died during the First Rebellion. He co-created the idea of the Hunger Games with his former friend Casca Highbottom as part of a university assignment, submitting a thought experiment of Casca's as an actual societal plan. • '''The Grandma'am''' is Coriolanus and Tigris Snow's paternal grandmother. She took care of her grandchildren after they were orphaned. She is extremely patriotic and holds extreme disdain towards the districts and its citizens. She keeps a rose garden in the roof of the Snow's apartment building. •
Pluribus and
Cyrus Bell were the owners of a nightclub in The Capitol. Sometime prior to the 10th Hunger Games, Cyrus was killed in a bombing and Pluribus closed their nightclub in favor of becoming a black marketeer. Bell later lent Coriolanus Snow one of his guitars to give to Lucy Gray Baird. •
Satyria Click was a communications professor at the Academy during the 10th Hunger Games. •
Crispus Demigloss was a history professor at the Academy during the 10th Hunger Games. •
Hippocrata Lunt was a counselor at the Academy during the 10th Hunger Games. •
Agrippina Sickle was the gymnasium mistress at the Academy during the 10th Hunger Games. Her niece was Vipsania Sickle, and she is likely related to Drusilla Sickle. •
Remus Dolittle was a Gamemaker-in-Training and the downstairs neighbor of the Snow family. •
Dr. Kay was a scientist who worked in the Citadel and was the head of the original jabberjay project. •
Dr. Wane was a doctor who worked at the Capitol Hospital and took care of Coriolanus Snow and Clemensia Dovecote while admitted there. •
Lepidus Malmsey was a reporter for Capitol News during the 10th Hunger Games. •
Pontius and
Venus were two children who visited Lucy Gray Baird while she was in the Capitol Zoo. •
Nero Price was a railroad tycoon and the father of 10th Hunger Games mentor Persephone Price. During the Dark Days, in which many families fell upon hard times, Coriolanus and Tigris witnessed Nero chopping off a maid's leg for food. •
Fabricia Whatnot was a fashion designer and Tigris Snow's boss. •
Maximinius Ravinstill was the President of Panem at the time of the 10th Hunger Games. His grand-nephew was Felix Ravinstill. •
Drusilla Sickle is a Capitol chaperone for the District 12 tributes during the 50th Hunger Games. She is married to Magno Stift, the stylist for the District 12 tributes during the 50th Hunger Games. She is likely indirectly related to Agrippina and Vipsania Sickle. After falling down an escalator and breaking her hip before the Victory Tour, Drusilla is replaced by Effie Trinket. •
Incitatus Loomy was the parade master for the 50th Hunger Games. Due to the accident in the parade, he was forced to eat poisoned oysters by Snow. •
Magno Stift was the stylist assigned to District 12 for the 50th Hunger Games. He had little taste in style and had an unnatural obsession with reptiles, something that often got him in trouble. He was married to Drusilla Sickle. •
Proserpina Trinket was a student at Capitol University assigned to Haymitch Abernathy's prep team for the 50th Hunger Games. She was the younger sister of Effie Trinket. •
Vitus was a student at Capitol University assigned to Haymitch Abernathy's prep team alongside Proserpina Trinket. == District 2 ==