I am quite fond of my agrarian cyberpunk dystopia D9 headcanon in general--just because it's so different from the "non-Capitol Panem is technologically backward" stuff that seems to be typical (for the like....very few people who have written ANYTHING about D9).
Hmmmmm, random headcanons not yet in stories: D7 is gigantic, "11 is the biggest" is just dumb and therefore wrong (the author has made a decision, but given that it's a stupid-ass decision, I've decided to ignore it). Lots of lumber camps all through the north, in an arc from Northern Minnesota to the Pacific Northwest, with a few larger towns for things like sawmills, paper mills, IKEA type furniture for the districts and nice stuff for the Capitol, etc.
Haymitch's mentor was a washed up addict from D1 whose job was to make sure he behaved at the truly unreasonable number of parties he had to go to celebrating the Quarter Quell. He went back to One after the Victory Tour and died of a suspicious overdose not long after. Relatedly, Haymitch was not prostituted, because Snow didn't want a kid clever enough to figure out the Arena as well as Haymitch did to be in private rooms all over the Capitol. He did want to make sure Haymitch was co-opted so the Districts wouldn't see him as a rebel, hence many fancy parties, endorsements, TV appearances, etc. Haymitch of course hated all of this, and hated his mentor constantly telling him what to do. So when he has Katniss and Peeta, he figures they'll be fine, they don't need him, whatever. Until D11 on the Tour, when he's like OH MY GOD HOW DUMB ARE YOU, and starts having to care. Caring about people is dumb and only causes pain and uuuuugh but oops, turns out it happens anyway.
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Hmmmmm, random headcanons not yet in stories:
D7 is gigantic, "11 is the biggest" is just dumb and therefore wrong (the author has made a decision, but given that it's a stupid-ass decision, I've decided to ignore it). Lots of lumber camps all through the north, in an arc from Northern Minnesota to the Pacific Northwest, with a few larger towns for things like sawmills, paper mills, IKEA type furniture for the districts and nice stuff for the Capitol, etc.
Haymitch's mentor was a washed up addict from D1 whose job was to make sure he behaved at the truly unreasonable number of parties he had to go to celebrating the Quarter Quell. He went back to One after the Victory Tour and died of a suspicious overdose not long after. Relatedly, Haymitch was not prostituted, because Snow didn't want a kid clever enough to figure out the Arena as well as Haymitch did to be in private rooms all over the Capitol. He did want to make sure Haymitch was co-opted so the Districts wouldn't see him as a rebel, hence many fancy parties, endorsements, TV appearances, etc. Haymitch of course hated all of this, and hated his mentor constantly telling him what to do. So when he has Katniss and Peeta, he figures they'll be fine, they don't need him, whatever. Until D11 on the Tour, when he's like OH MY GOD HOW DUMB ARE YOU, and starts having to care. Caring about people is dumb and only causes pain and uuuuugh but oops, turns out it happens anyway.
OK now I wrote a novel, oops.