History Fanfic / WhenTheMoonFellInLoveWithTheSun

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8440874/1/When-the-Moon-Fell-in-Love-with-the-Sun When The Moon Fell In Love With The Sun]]'' is a ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' fanfic by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/1699351/Mejhiren Mejhiren]]. It's a ForWantOfANail story where Prim wasn't chosen in the Reaping and Katniss consequently never left home, while Peeta went on to fight in and win the 74th Hunger Games himself, averting the events of the entire trilogy. However this doesn't automatically make everything better, as the freezing winter that blows in afterwards brings Katniss' poor family to the verge of painful starvation. Until the night that the newest Victor of District 12 comes to their door with an offer- if Katniss will come with him to live in his Victor's residence in the woods and keep him company, he'll see that her mother and sister will have everything they could possibly want. Needless to say, Katniss agrees without question- not only to save her beloved sister from a terrible death, but also because she finally sees a chance to repay the boy who, five years ago, saved her life...

** Both [[spoiler:Larkspur]] and, surprisingly, [[spoiler:Foxface]] do make an ''actual'' LastRequest of Peeta as well- [[spoiler:that he survive the Games to go home to the girl he loves]].

-->''"Is this what happens," I whisper, "when the moon falls in love with the sun?"''

** In a variation, he also brings feed for Lady (Prim's pregnant goat). As Katniss notes, this more than anything else wins her over forever.

* CompletelyMissingThePoint: The number and size of mental gymnastics Katniss does to miss the point of every arrow that points to her as the girl Peeta loves is staggering.

* IOweYouMyLife: Katniss is far more insistant about this (thanks to the bread incident) than in canon, but after Peeta keeps his side of the bargain she feels she owes him a lot ''more'' than that.

* EveryoneCanSeeIt: People (Gale, Peeta's father, Pollux) ''repeatedly'' lampshade the fact that Katniss [[ObliviousToLove really doesn't have a clue about how Peeta feels]].
%%** UpToEleven: even ''her own dreams'' try to tell her that she clearly cannot see it.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: at the end of the Games, Peeta can barely move because of the injury to his leg, so when the giant bear charges at him, he just plants a spear on the ground and lets the bear impale itself.

* ObliviousToLove: '''''KATNISS!''''' To an utterly ''absurd'' degree.
** SugarWiki/MostTriumphantExample: in chapter 11, Katniss realizes that Peeta's District Token is a piece of cloth that would have been given to him by a Seam girl (the handkerchief she gave him before he left for the Games). Her first thought is to be angry, because she believes Peeta is just using her as a test run how to best woo that girl. And once she gets over that first thought, even though she's made the cognitive leap to the "impossible" idea that Peeta loves a Seam girl, she still, ''still,''' STILL''''' doesn't make the connection that ''it's her!''

* HypocriticalHumor: In chapter 11, Katniss wonders how Peeta "can be so painfully oblivious" to how attractive he is when he's dressed up in his New Year's party finery and modestly shrugs off a compliment from her. This coming from a girl who ''argues'' with Peeta when he tells her she's beautiful and is the ''SugarWiki/MostTriumphantExample'' of ObliviousToLove.

** UpToEleven: even ''her own dreams'' try to tell her that she clearly cannot see it.

* RuleOfSymbolism: Peeta compares his "sweetheart" with a bird, to feed and give a home to, hoping that she will accept to stay with him forever. [[ObliviousToLove Of course, Katniss completely misses the point.]]

* BearsAreBadNews: Played straight at the end of the 74th Hunger Games when a huge white bear muttation interrupted the FinalBattle between Peeta and Cato and ripped open Cato's throat. Peeta's victory became truly the stuff of legends when ''[[{{Badass}} he killed the bear]].''

* HypocriticalHumor: In chapter 11, Katniss wonders how Peeta "can be so painfully oblivious" to how attractive he is when he's dressed up in his New Year's party finery and modestly shrugs off a compliment from her. This coming from a girl who ''argues'' with Peeta when he tells her she's beautiful and is the ''MostTriumphantExample'' of ObliviousToLove.

** MostTriumphantExample: in chapter 11, Katniss realizes that Peeta's District Token is a piece of cloth that would have been given to him by a Seam girl (the handkerchief she gave him before he left for the Games). Her first thought is to be angry, because she believes Peeta is just using her as a test run how to best woo that girl. And once she gets over that first thought, even though she's made the cognitive leap to the "impossible" idea that Peeta loves a Seam girl, she still, ''still,''' STILL''''' doesn't make the connection that ''it's her!''

** Presumably, knowing that Katniss is a major DebtDetester, he wants to win Katniss' love ''without'' letting her know his feelings for her, aware that if she knew she'd feel ''obligated'' to return them to repay him. While the plan is good in theory, his execution is awful (he's WAY too obvious, any normal girl would realise his feelings in a heartbeat) but he gets away with it because Katniss is [[ObliviousToLove so oblivious that it's laughable]].

** MostTriumphantExample: in chapter 11, Katniss realizes that Peeta's District Token is a piece of cloth that would have been given to him by a Seam girl. Her first thought is to be angry, because she believes Peeta is using her as the means to ascertain how to best woo that girl. And once she gets over that first thought, even though she's made the cognitive leap to the "impossible" idea that Peeta loves a Seam girl, she still, ''still,''' STILL''''' doesn't make the connection that ''it's her!''