Effie Trinket

"Up, up, up! It's going to be a big, big, big day!"

- Effie Trinket

Effie Trinket is the escort of the District 12 tributes.

Biography
"Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor!"

- Effie Trinket at the District 12 reaping

Effie works as an escort for District 12, particularly to Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark in The Hunger Games trilogy. From drawing the tributes at the Reaping to escorting them to the Capitol, Effie Trinket does it all. At first, she detests her job, doing her best to be promoted to a better, richer district. But as time goes by, Effie gets attached to her District 12 acquaintances. During the reapings, she starts the draw with an over-enthusiastic "Ladies first!" When Katniss volunteers for Prim, she tries to congratulate Katniss for her desperate save of her sister by starting a round of applause. Unfortunately for Effie, the entire district is silent, the boldest form of standing up to the Capitol possible without getting beaten, and she is left on the stage clapping and grinning alone. It is speculated that Effie's pink hair was a wig because after Haymitch Abermathy hugged her, the hair or wig, was shifted slightly to the right. Effie was said to be taken by the Capitol in Mockingjay  and Katniss later finds out that Effie was on the rebels' side.

Effie lives in the Capitol, and remains there for most of the year. The only reason she travels to District 12 or other districts is because of the Games or the Victory Tour.

The Hunger Games
During the reaping, she goes on stage in a spring green outfit and begins the ceremony. She starts with ladies first and draws the name for the female tribute for District 12. Effie reads the slip of paper, Primrose Everdeen. Effie along with all of District 12 are in shock when Katniss Everdeen goes on stage and volunteers for Prim. Effie pulls herself back together and tries to make the situation better by asking the crowd to give a round of applause but they are still in shock and do not agree with the reaping. Unfortunately for Effie is ended up being the only one clapping. During the reaping, Haymitch comes in drunk and this angers Effie due to his manners and presentation. Effie is disgusted by Haymitch being drunk. After he face dives on the floor and passes out, Effie's wig is crooked from the hug he gave her before he passes out and she tries to continue the reaping by choosing the male tribute who is Peeta Mellark. She then closes the ceremony and wishes the tribute the odds be in their favor.

Effie takes the tributes on the train to take them to the Capitol. She tells them about the process on the train and her plans. Effie eats dinner with Katniss and Peeta and is relieved when she saw that Katniss and Peeta had manners unlike the last pair of tributes. To toy with Effie, Katniss begins to eat like an animal which upsets Effie. Afterwards, she sits with Katniss and Peeta and watch the recap of the reapings in other districts. Katniss and Peeta play and joke about Haymitch during the reaping which annoys Effie and she yells at them saying he is their lifeline and the only thing that can keep them alive, which Haymitch enters the room and vomits on the carpet. Effie is disgusted and tells them to laugh away about Haymitch and then she runs out of the room due to them and the vomit.

Effie eats breakfast with them and leaves to her room to make arrangements for their arrival at the Capitol. Effie makes everything go well so far. She is filled with joy and celebrates after their amazing performance on the parade through the Capitol. Effie helps prepare them for the training sessions with Haymitch, hoping they'll get high scores for more sponsors. She is shocked and surprised when Katniss tells them about her private session. She can't believe she shot an arrow at the Gamemakers. She attempts to comfort Katniss due to her fear that they'll attack her family. Effie states that it serves them right and it's not nice to ignore Katniss even if she is from District 12. Effie is over flowing with joy and excitement when Katniss and Peeta got a high score from the Gamemakers.

Effie attempts but fails and is annoyed by Katniss when she tries to help her with her interview with Caesar Flickerman. She attempts to teach her how to sit, smile and talk like a lady, but only gets frustrated with this. After the interview and Katniss fight with Peeta about his interview. Effie breaks up the fight and cools her down while Haymitch tells her about his and Peeta's plan. The night before the games begin, she wishes them good luck and is heartbroken because she has grown to like them and leaves the room before she could become more upset. She assists Haymitch line up sponsors for Katniss and Peeta and helps them throughout the games.

Effie is happy and relieved when both of them survive and gives them both big hugs and helps them get ready for their final interview with Caesar. After she says her final goodbye to them before they go back home.

Catching Fire
Effie comes back during Katniss and Peeta's Victory Tour. She told them they have to start off with District 11. On the way there the train made an unplanned stop which angered Effie becuase it changes her schedule and this annoys Katniss and she then yells at Effie and tells her no one cares; this hurts Effie a bit. When Katniss comes back she apologizes to Effie and she accepts kindly. When they arrive to District 11 she is unpleased with the way they are being treated. Later Effie gets everything prepared for the victory speech Katniss and Peeta must give to Rue and Thresh's family. After the elderly man was killed, the Peacekeepers took them all and forced them to leave quickly and this annoys Effie due to their lack of manners. After the victory tour was complete she went to the final dinner for Katniss and Peeta in District 12 and was touched when Peeta proposed to Katniss.

Effie left to go back to the Capitol and soon comes back to District 12 at Katniss' house for the wedding photo shoot and has a good time bossing the crew around and makes them follow her plans. She watches and makes everything go perfectly like her plan. Effie is unaware of the rebellion, President Snow's threats or what's going on between Katniss, Peeta and Haymitch. When the Third Quarter Quell is reveal and is announced to be reaping the victors, Effie had to pull the names out of the bowl. Effie started with ladies first and called Katniss' name since she is the only living female victor of District 12. Effie then calls Haymitch's name but soon after Peeta volunteers for Haymitch, in order to protect Katniss. Effie once again takes Katniss and Peeta to the train that takes them to the Capitol and she begins planning.

Effie and the others arrive to the Capitol on time and pleases Effie. She is joyful when Cinna makes Katniss and Peeta unforgetable yet again with his costume that makes them seem unforgiving to the other tributes. Effie celebrates just like last year when the parade went well. She agrees to let Katniss and Peeta go to the training session alone but to saticfy herself she takes them to the elevator and takes them to the door. Effie is even more shocked then last year about their private training session with the gamemakers. She is almost going to cry when Katniss and Peeta tell her and the others about their show case to them. After they get their training scores she is oveflowing with joy becuase of their score of a twelve until Haymitch explains it is only to get the other tributes to go after them and kill them fast in the Games. She decides to allow them the entire day to themselves before the next day, which is their interview with Caesar Flickerman. After the interview Effie is asked to leave them and she was unable to say her final goodbyes to them.

After Katniss destroys the arena and escapes, Effie is arrested.

Mockingjay
After President Snow is found guilty and is about to be excuted, Effie is released from prison and goes back to Katniss to get her ready for Snow's trial. Katniss noted that Effie had a empty void look in her eyes. Katniss makes a mental note to put her on the list of people to be excused since she didn't want Effie to be killed by President Coin. Effie gets Katniss dressed in her mockingjay uniform and sets everything up to schedule. Effie watches Katniss about to kill Snow but instead sees her kill Coin. Later after Katniss' trial, Effie goes back home in the Capitol.

Physical description
In The Hunger Games, Effie Trinket has pink hair, speculated to be a wig, and during the reaping wears a spring-green suit. As she gives speeches, she constantly has to get it under control.

In Catching Fire, Effie is adorned with brilliant orange locks, just as stunningly freaky as the garish pink. She later changes her hair to a golden color, in order to match Katniss's mockingjay pin.

In Mockingjay, Effie continues to wear her freakish golden wig. It it also mentioned in Mockingjay that she has "a vacant look in her eyes."

Effie is proabably fairly young as she makes multiple refrences to wanting to get promoted to a better district, indicating that she is in the beginning of her career when the books take place.

Personality
"At least you two have decent manners. The pair last year ate everything with their hands like a couple of savages. It completely upset my digestion."

- Effie Trinket, on Peeta and Katniss's manners.

Effie can be a bit of a airhead at times, totally oblivious to the sorrows and misfortunes that fall upon District 12. As the quote above states, she's very strict about manners and being "proper", as that is the Capitol's way. It was no surprise that when Katniss wiped her fingers on the tablecloth in The Hunger Games, Effie pursed her lips. She is a classic Capitol resident with impeccable manners, although in Mockingjay it is revealed she rebelled against the Capitol (which came as a shock to Katniss). She is a perfectionist and extremely punctual, complaining about how a five minute train delay would hugely affect her tightly packed schedule. However, she is known for being bright and bubbly at times when she is not being publicly humiliated or in the presence of undesirable manners.

Katniss Everdeen
Effie annoyed Katniss greatly due to her manners, and appearance. Katniss hated this and often bothered Effie by purposely using poor manners. Effie was upset when Katniss and Peeta joked about Haymitch being drunk during the reaping and making a fool of himself on national television. Effie attempted to teach Katniss manners but she continued to by poor in manners and personality during her preperation for the interviews with Caesar Flickerman. Effie did her best to help Katniss and Peeta. Effie could not bear to say goodbye to Katniss during the 74th Hunger Games since she did care for her. Effie annoyed Her during the Victory tour by flipping out about the sudden stop during the train ride to District 11, which caused Katniss to lose it and yell at Effie. She later apologized to Effie when she cooled down. Effie asisted Katniss again during the Third Quarter Quell. Effie let her make more choices during the preperation for the games. Effie was taken away the night before the Third Quarter Quell, which Katniss felt bad because this could be the last time she saw her and wasn't able to say goodbye to her in person but told Haymitch to tell her she said goodbye and to make it special since it's Effie. Katniss was surprised when Effie came back to her before Snow's trial and that she was on the rebellion side instead of the Catpiol. Katniss made a mental note to give Effie immunity from being killed by Coin, because she likes Effie.

Peeta Mellark
Peeta seemed to get along well with Effie, never giving her much problems. Peeta did anger her when he and Katniss joked around about Haymitch being drunk during the reaping and making a fool of himself on national television. Effie yells at them telling them he is their only life line and the only thing keeping them alive. Peeta is kind to her and always follows her plans. Effie did try to do her best for him and Katniss during the games. Effie was sad the night before the 74th Hunger Games and couldn't bear say her goodbyes because she truly does love him. When he goes back to the training center he hugs her and greets each other. Peeta tolerated her nagging during the Victory tour and was a bit disgusted when Katniss yelled at her. Peeta was a bit annoyed when Effie nags or goes crazy about her plans. When Effie is taken away by the Capitol, Peeta felt bad because it would be the last time he would see her and that he didn't say goodbye. Peeta and Effie do care about each other.

Haymitch Abernathy
Effie annoys Haymitch greatly by her Capitol ways. Since Haymitch isn't fimilar to Effie's ways like manners, dead lnes and appearance he becomes annoyed when she nags him about this. He annoys Effie as well by being at his worst and frustrate her by his appearance and manners like when he eats with his hands and like an animal. The two do have their moments together like the night before the Third Quarter Quell. The two say their final goodbyes before she is taken away and Haymitch shows to care for her. Haymitch and Effie do not start off right. They first encounter each other when Haymitch shows up drunk and in poor conditions at the reaping for the 74th Hunger Games. He throws up and hugs her which messes up her pink wig. He reappears again when he trowsup on the train which only makes Effie more enraged. Haymitch and Effie work together to help Katniss and Peeta and she helps him line up sponsors. Haymitch and Effie are shown to be the same during the Victory tour as he shows poor manners and Effie annoys him with her nagging about his appearance and manners. The two seem to let Katniss and Peeta decide their own choices during preperations for the Third Quarter Quell. The night before the Third Quarter Quell, Effie is taken away but before Haymitch and her say their final goodbyes and this is the first time they show to like each other and care for one and another

Film portrayal
She will be portrayed by Elizabeth Banks in The Hunger Games film.