- "We're not going by choice. You are our family, I don't see how anyone can love us better."
- —Gloss in the victors' interviews[src]
Gloss was the male District 1 victor of the 63rd Hunger Games. He also participated as a Career Tribute in the 75th Hunger Games, also known as the third Quarter Quell.[1]
Biography[]
63rd Hunger Games[]
Gloss participated in and won the 63rd Hunger Games, the year before his sister Cashmere won the 64th Hunger Games.[1][2] It is possible he volunteered as tribute because he was one of the older tributes, and this is also very common in District 1. He may have mentored his sister through her Games. Because of his Career Tribute status and good looks, Gloss probably had a lot of sponsors and killed a considerable amount of tributes.
75th Hunger Games[]
Gloss was reaped from the pool of existing victors from District 1 to participate in the 75th Hunger Games alongside his sister, Cashmere,[1] and wore a sheer silver tunic at his reaping.[3]
It is implied that both Gloss and Cashmere were friends with some of the existing victors. It's also possible that Gloss and/or his sister mentored Glimmer and Marvel in the 74th Hunger Games.[4]
Training[]
He was present during training and spent a little time with Katniss Everdeen, when he and his sister invited her to practice making hammocks with them. Katniss described them as "polite but cool," and felt her attempts to connect with them were "mediocre at best". He stuck with his sister, and also mingled with the other stronger Career tributes and Peeta Mellark.[4] In the film, he showed exceptional skill with throwing knives.[3] Katniss said he got a very high training score, along with Cashmere.[5]
Interview[]
Gloss was also present during the interviews, where he thanked the people of Panem for showing kindness to him and his sister.[5] In the film, he called the people of the Capitol his beloved family, and claimed that no one could love him better.[3] He and his sister were among the victors who were trying to show how betrayed they all felt through their interviews. He joined hands with the other tributes as a sign of strength.[6][3] He wore a dark silver jacket, black pants, and boots.[3]
Bloodbath[]
He was presumably a good swimmer, since he and Enobaria were the fourth and fifth people to make it to the Cornucopia. In the arena, Katniss noted that he wasn't particularly swift, as he was shot in the calf when he plunged into the waves trying to escape Katniss' arrows. This attack was not fatal; he managed to ignore the pain, and made it to the Cornucopia with his allies.[7]
In the film, Gloss nearly reached the Cornucopia at the same time as Katniss, but he tripped over a stone; when he reached the island, Katniss shot him in the calf.[3]
Alliance[]
Gloss was one of the members in the Career pack with Enobaria, Brutus, and his sister, Cashmere.[7] Soon after Finnick Odair, Peeta Mellark, Mags, and Katniss made their way out of the Cornucopia, Gloss and the other Careers made their way back there to pick off more tributes. After the bloodbath, the Career pack retreated to the jungle.
Death[]
The Career pack later made their way to the Cornucopia on day 2, ambushing the rebel alliance. Gloss slit the throat of Wiress while she was singing alone at the waterside, earning him an arrow in the temple,[8] though in the film, he was shot in the chest.[3] Shortly afterwards, his body was thrown into the water when the Cornucopia spun.[8]
Gloss placed 11th out of 24 tributes, while his sister placed 10th.
Victims[]
Since Gloss was a Career tribute, he most likely killed many tributes in his original Games and during the third Quarter Quell. On Day 2, he killed Wiress, which led to his own death.[8]
Family[]
- "There's the classically beautiful brother and sister from District 1 who were victors two consecutive years when I was little."
- —Katniss on Gloss and Cashmere.[src]
Cashmere, his sister, was the only person mentioned in Gloss's family, both sharing a close relationship. Gloss and Cashmere won consecutive Games, and were presumably highly honored by District 1, as Career Districts honor their victors.
Physical description[]
Gloss and his sister, Cashmere, were both described as being classically beautiful.[1] He had caramel/blonde hair like his sister. Considering that both were Career tributes, Gloss and Cashmere were physically stronger than most of the other victors, being relatively young and from pampered District 1.
Trivia[]
- Cashmere and Gloss are the only known pair of siblings who have both separately won the Hunger Games.
- Enobaria, Gloss, Cashmere, and Finnick consecutively won the 62nd, 63rd, 64th, and 65th Hunger Games.
- On Capitol Couture, it was revealed that Cashmere won the 64th Hunger Games,[2] and since Finnick won the 65th Hunger Games, Gloss had to have won the 63rd.
- In the films, Gloss was the tallest tribute with the biggest build, like Brutus.[3]
- Cashmere and Gloss were interviewed together by Caesar Flickerman in the film,[3] while in the book they were interviewed separately.[5]
- Gloss and Marvel from the 74th Hunger Games are quite similar. They were both shot in the neck by Katniss in the books because they killed Katniss's female ally.[9][8] In the movies, they are both shot in the chest.[3]
- Gloss was the last tribute Katniss killed in the 75th Hunger Games, or in any Hunger Games.
- In a behind the scenes featurette, Gloss's actor Alan Ritchson mentioned that he and Cashmere's actress, Stephanie Leigh Schlund, had quickly developed a "brotherly-sisterly kind of love". They messed around with each other on set, which created the sense of a real sibling relationship.[10]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Catching Fire, Chapter 14
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://capitolcouture.tumblr.com/post/62941926908
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Catching Fire, Chapter 16
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Catching Fire, Chapter 17
- ↑ Catching Fire, Chapter 18
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Catching Fire, Chapter 19
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Catching Fire, Chapter 23
- ↑ The Hunger Games, Chapter 18
- ↑ The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - Catching Fire's New Cast (behind the scenes featurette)