After he won the games Haymitch felt like he had lost more than ever before. He was sent home for the first two weeks to live in the victors village in pure luxury. But he lost them.

Sid, and Lenore Dove. They were Gone. gone. Slaughtered by the very same gumdrops he had given her on his departure. And his brother taken before the reaping pool got their paws on him

He was then thrown into the unfortunate business of victors tours. Being paraded around the Capitol like a piece of meat… until the next games had concluded.

It was there, at a party thrown by the Capitol where he met you for the first time. You’d won the fifty first games, the arena had been filled with parrot-like-mutts which ripped the flesh from the tributes bones.

You had survived off of sheer brutality alone, and come out the other side the same way he did. Ruined.