"gale hawthorne would be a great gamemaker if he wasn't district!" except he isn't inherently cruel? and gale wouldn't be gale if he wasn't district?
he was brought up in violence and it affected him deeply, that's the whole point of his character. suzanne collins is masterful in the way she explores how the Games Society affects people in the districts, don't boil his character down to "smart guy war crime" bc he wasn't always like that.
like katniss, gale started as a poor, angry kid from the districts– it isn't his fault coin saw that and took advantage. she saw that anger in him and used him to get what she wanted. katniss just had the difference of experience having actually been in the Games to recognize that coin was playing her own– gale didn't.





