Haymitch Abernathy was District 12 's second and only living Hunger Games victor for 23 years, [2] having won the second Quarter Quell [3] [4] before Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark won the 74th Hunger Games under his mentorship. He was also the protagonist of the prequel novel Sunrise on the Reaping. Woody Harrelson as Haymitch Abernathy. Haymitch Abernathy was born on July 4th on reaping day , the year the 34th Hunger Games were held.
He lived in the Seam of District 12 with his mother and his younger brother, Sid Abernathy , who was six years younger. At the time of the second Quarter Quell, he was dating Lenore Dove. The rules for the second Quarter Quell stipulated that double the number of tributes were to be reaped from the districts for the Games. He and the other District 12 tributes wore coal miners ' outfits for the chariot ride. When the bloodbath of the 50th Hunger Games took place, the tributes were amazed by the beautiful arena , and many were too stunned to get off their pedestals.
Using this to his advantage, Haymitch was able to easily get a knife and a " backpack of choice" from the Cornucopia , while eighteen ultimately fell during the opening act of the Second Quarter Quell. In the forest, Haymitch encountered muttations in the form of fluffy, carnivorous squirrels and stinging butterflies. After the first day, other tributes died from consuming or coming into contact with the arena's many poisonous elements, and on the fourth day, a volcanic eruption killed twelve more tributes, including five of the ten remaining Career Tributes.
At an uncertain point in time into the Games, Haymitch ran into three Careers. Using his speed and skill with his sharp knife, Haymitch was able to kill two of them, but the third managed to disarm him. Just as the Career was about to slit Haymitch's throat, he was shot in the back and killed with a poison dart by Maysilee Donner , saving Haymitch's life.
Maysilee proposed to Haymitch that their odds of survival will be better if he formed an alliance with her, to which he agreed. As the Games continued, the duo formed an effective team, getting more rest, creating a system to salvage rainwater, working together to fight off other tributes, and splitting the food from fallen tributes' packs.
