Character from The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Head Gamemaker of the early Hunger Games — wild-haired, mismatched-eyed, brilliantly sadistic — who invented the mutt creatures, shaped the Games into spectacle, and mentored young Snow into what he became.
Dr. Gaul is a geneticist, weapons designer, and architect of the Hunger Games as entertainment. She created the muttations — genetically engineered creatures designed to terrify and kill — and she views the arena as her laboratory. She mentored Coriolanus Snow at the Academy, recognized his capacity for ruthlessness, and shaped it into something useful. She asks Snow the question that defines the series: 'What are the Hunger Games for?' The answer she wants — control through spectacle, order through fear — becomes the philosophy Snow builds an empire on. She's the ideological mother of everything terrible in Panem.
Wild white hair that seems to move on its own, one blue eye and one milky white, and a face that shifts between grandmotherly warmth and predatory fascination without warning. She dresses in a lab coat more often than Capitol fashion. Her laboratory is full of things that should not be alive.
Also known as: Dr. Gaul, Volumnia Gaul, Dr. Volumnia Gaul