Glimmer

Glimmer was the female tribute from District 1 in the 74th Annual Hunger Games.

The Hunger Games
Glimmer was the female tribute from District 1, although it is still unknown if she volunteered or was reaped in the Games. Glimmer took part of the tribute parade along with her district partner, Marvel, and was dressed in lavish clothes representing her district's export which is luxury items.

Glimmer's interview with Caesar went very well, as she did a great job and looked the part wearing a provocative see-through gold dress. Katniss described her as "sexy and lush", and that her mentor didn't have any trouble coming up with an angle for her. Katniss guessed that she would probably get many sponsors. Glimmer's tribute token was the only one of the 74th Hunger Games to be confiscated. The gemstone of the ring she brought, when twisted, revealed a poisoned spike. She didn't get arrested because nobody could prove she had knowledge of the ring being a weapon, but her token was confiscated. Glimmer was not to be underestimated. Being one of the Career Tributes, she had a good chance of survival and was ready to fight, and she was likely one of the older tributes though her exact age is unknown. In the film portrayal, during her private session with the Gamemakers, Glimmer most likely showed the Gamemakers her archery skills (in the book, however, Katniss said that "it is immediately evident that she is incompetent with a bow"), and received a score of 9. At the Cornucopia, she snagged a beautiful silver bow and a quiver of arrows that Katniss wanted and helped pick off the remaining fighters not part of the Careers' Alliance. Katniss mentions that Glimmer was not very good with a bow. At the bloodbath, Glimmer was able to kill the female tribute from District 10. The Careers discovered Peeta and allowed him in the pack so they could get to Katniss. During the first night, the Careers stumbled upon District 8 female who was severely injured and killed by Cato, assisted by Peeta and herself. After the fire havoc, Glimmer and the other Career members were not as fast as before. Later, Glimmer along with the Career pack, found Katniss and chased her up a tree. When Cato decided to go up the tree Katniss was trapped in, Glimmer offered him her bow and arrows, but he refused as he could do better with his sword. When Cato fell out of the tree, Glimmer decided to try, but she quickly realized that the branches wouldn't support her, either. It was obvious that she wasn't familiar with the bow and arrows, as she didn't hold the arrows straight and had a hard time nocking the arrow to the bowstring, however, in the film, she seems to have much more experience with them. When she misses, Katniss teases her by grabbing the arrow and swinging it around to embarrass her for her lack of knowledge. Furious, Glimmer agrees with Peeta that the pack wait for Katniss to come down on her own, as she won't be able to get away without them knowing.

Death
Glimmer was killed by tracker jackers that Katniss, who was originally informed of the nest by Rue, sent down on the Career Tributes by cutting off the branch that held it. Glimmer, Clove, Marvel, Cato, and Peeta were camping at the bottom of the tree where Katniss was hiding. Shocked at the sudden attack, everyone but Glimmer and the girl from District 4 escaped to the lake. Glimmer screamed hysterically for help, but no one came back for her. Cato tries to pull her out but fails. Because of her many stings, Glimmer soon collapsed, and began twitching and moaning from the tracker jacker hallucinations. Unfortunately for Glimmer, her death was not quick, and for several minutes after collapsing, her heart kept beating, and she fell into a coma. When Katniss returns for the bow and arrows, she notes that she could not recognize her, as the venom had bloated her body grotesquely, and her plum sized stings were oozing green pus and bursting. When she touched one of the pimple-like wounds on Glimmer's shoulder, it disintegrated in her hand. However, there is a chance that this did not happen as Katniss had been also experiencing hallucinations. Katniss shielded Glimmer's body from being taken away by the hovercraft and desperately tried to take the bow and arrows from her, breaking many of her mutated, petrified fingers with a stone to do so, and after finally getting her hand on Glimmer's shoulder blade, she pulls Glimmer onto her back to retrieve the quiver of arrows, which she will need to load the bow. In the film, there was no green pus, so this may mean that what Katniss saw in the book was a hallucination. She placed 12th out of the 24 tributes.

Mutt
Glimmer appeared once again towards the end of the Hunger Games to kill the remaining tributes as a mutt. She along with Marvel, Clove, Foxface, Rue, Thresh, and the other 15 unnamed tributes all appeared as muttations from the Capitol, which were a combination of the fallen tribute's DNA and a wolf. She was the first mutt Katniss recognized as each had an attribute of the fallen tribute which their muttations were based on. Glimmer's wolf form was lean with silky blonde fur, shining emerald eyes which were unmistakably human-like, and the number "1" on its jeweled collar. The mutt's eyes tipped Katniss off that the muttations were the fallen tributes. Katniss killed Glimmer's mutt with an arrow through its throat when it tried to climb the Cornucopia.

Catching Fire
In Catching Fire, Katniss and Peeta go to District 1 for their victory tour and see Glimmer's family. Peeta takes up painting as a hobby, and one of the paintings is of Glimmer's mutt attacking.

Throughout the story Katniss has nightmares, sometimes involving Glimmer's bloated body after the tracker jacker attack and her mutt form.

Description
Katniss described Glimmer to be tall, with flowing blonde hair and emerald eyes. She was described as beautiful or "downright sexy". Katniss described her interview dress as gold and provocative. Katniss thought that even though Glimmer was smart, she was incompetent with a bow and arrow. She is described as being 5' 7" tall.

Glimmer showed little consideration in choosing her weapon at the Cornucopia. However, it is not known if the bow would have been her first choice as a weapon, or if she had taken any other weapon from the Cornucopia. As she was keeping guard of Katniss the night of her death, she fell victim to fatigue and passed out beside the base of the tree Katniss was trapped in. As a Career, it can be assumed she was a good fighter with something, possibly a weapon she was unable to acquire during the bloodbath. She was smart enough to know that if she tried to climb the tree after Cato's failed attempt, the branches would break and she would end up injuring herself.

Victims
It is unknown exactly how many people Glimmer killed, but being a Career, it is very likely she participated in the bloodbath at the Cornucopia. In the novel, Katniss never sees her kill anyone. In the film, it was shown that Glimmer killed the female tributes from District 10 and District 6 in the initial bloodbath. Later in the film, she kills the female tribute from District 8 using Cato's sword.

All the tributes she killed were females.

Relationships
Glimmer had no known relationship in the book of The Hunger Games, other than being in the same Career Pack with Cato. In the film adaptation, they are often seen laughing and talking. After killing tributes, they run around in the woods mocking and mimicking the voice of the tributes. Before Glimmer is killed by the venomous tracker jackers, she is shown sleeping on Cato's arm. When the tracker jackers nest fall upon them Cato tries to pull her away from the swarm, but abandons her when the swarm becomes more enraged. This suggests that even though Cato might have had a romantic interest in Glimmer, he eventually values self-preservation over her.

Trivia



 * Glimmer's name means to "shimmer or flicker."


 * Glimmer, Rue, Clove, Foxface, and Thresh were the only five mutts to be specifically mentioned. All other mutts died unnamed.


 * In the film, Glimmer and Cato appear to have a romantic interest in each other. This is not portrayed in the book.


 * Glimmer was mentioned to be killed twice by Katniss, once human, and once as a mutt.


 * Glimmer has three different hairstyles in the movie, during the tribute parade and her interview she wore her hair down and curly. In the training center, her hair was tied into two fishtail braids, and in the arena she wore her hair in two curly braids.


 * In the movie she earns a 9 in training, suggesting that Glimmer is very strong.


 * Katniss killed both tributes from District 1, Glimmer and Marvel.


 * In the book, Glimmer and Marvel are described as being spray painted silver, but in the movie, the District 1 Tributes are wearing fuschia and pink costumes.


 * Being 17 years old, Glimmer is surprisingly the oldest Career in the 74th Hunger Games. In the film, she is the second oldest behind Cato.


 * Glimmer was part of a deleted scene in the Training Center, where the girl from District 3 is running onto the gauntlets when she suddenly falls off and splits her lip on the ground. Glimmer, Marvel, and Cato laugh while others take notice and concern, especially her district partner.


 * On Twitter, Kara Petersen (Who portrays the District 6 female) confirmed that she was killed by Glimmer; she is seen being stabbed at the Cornucopia before Katniss falls with the backpack.

Film portrayal
Leven Rambin, played Glimmer in the film adaption of The Hunger Games.

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