- "No one speaks. I can’t pretend I knew any of them well.... Even the thought of the glazed-eyed morphling painting my cheeks with yellow flowers gives me a pang. All dead. All gone."
- —Katniss Everdeen remembering the male morphling[src]
The District 6 male (often referred to as "the male morphling") was the male tribute from District 6 who participated in the 75th Hunger Games. He was the victor of an unspecified Hunger Games. He appears to have been young, so it can be presumed he won in the 60s.
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What strategy did the District 6 male use to win his Hunger Games?
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Did the District 6 male and female use the same strategy to win their respective Hunger Games?
Biography[]
In The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Haymitch Abernathy said that the District 6 male and female both won their respective Games with the use of camouflage, hiding until the other tributes were dead.[1] They both developed addictions to morphling to cope with their trauma.[2]
75th Hunger Games[]
Chariot rides[]
Training[]
He appeared during training and made a mess at the painting station along with his district partner. However, he also helped paint Katniss Everdeen into a field of yellow flowers.[3]
Interviews[]
During the interviews, he wore a black leather jacket and matching pants.[1] He joined hands with the other victors at the end of the interviews in a display of rebellion against the Capitol.[4]
Male morphling's death portrait.
Death[]
The District 6 male was killed in the initial Cornucopia bloodbath on the first day of the Games. Like most of the tributes, he ran for supplies. He was likely killed by one of the Career Tributes, as they had gathered around the Cornucopia.[5] He placed around 17th-23rd.
Katniss was dismayed by his death and grieved for him, Cecelia, and Seeder later that night.[6]
Later, when Katniss was on the hovercraft to District 13 after being broken out of the 75th Hunger Games arena, Haymitch revealed that District 6's tributes, among others, had known of the rebellion and were a part of the alliance to save Katniss.[7]
Physical description[]
Due to his morphling addiction, he was bone thin, with sagging yellowish skin and overlarge eyes.[2]
Trivia[]
- Around the time of the 74th Hunger Games, Katniss mentioned there was a recent male victor who only had a training score of three.[8] Some fans have speculated that this was the male morphling.