Sunrise on the Reaping discussion

personally, i think the mutts in the 50th Quarter Quell could track tributes by scent likely because Snow reverse-engineered the idea from Lucy Gray’s 10th Hunger Games. In 'The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes', we saw how Snow manipulated the situation so that Dr. Gaul’s snake mutts would recognize Lucy Gray’s scent, and they wouldn’t attack her. But I actually think it’s plausible that years later, he reverse engineered it to create scent-tracking mutts to specifically attack tributes by sensory means, by the time it was the 50th Hunger Games. If that’s true and I feel 99% sure it is, then Haymitch wasn’t just a victim of the Capitol’s cruelty. Him, Maysilee, Ampert, Maritte and many other I’m sure were directly impacted by the aftermath of Snow’s obsession with Lucy Gray. Which means the ghosts of the 10th Hunger Games were still shaping the horrors of the 50th Quarter Quell.

Sally_BookTokFan wrote: "personally, i think the mutts in the 50th Quarter Quell could track tributes by scent likely because Snow reverse-engineered the idea from Lucy Gray’s 10th Hunger Games. In 'The Ballad of Songbirds..."
Oh. my. god. youre a genius. if you have any other theories im listening!

that Suzanne hates us ........WHY WAS IT SO SAD