Character from The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
District 12's Capitol escort — wigs, heels, manners, schedules — who pulled children's names from a glass ball with manicured fingers and slowly realized what she was part of.
Effie Trinket draws names from the Reaping ball with genuine enthusiasm because she's been raised to believe the Hunger Games are an honor. She's a product of the Capitol in every way — obsessed with appearances, schedules, and propriety. She says 'may the odds be ever in your favor' without irony. But she grows. She bonds with Katniss and Peeta despite herself. She becomes protective. In District 13, stripped of her wigs and makeup and schedules, she's lost and diminished — and then she makes a new schedule on paper and carries on, because Effie Trinket survives by maintaining order even when the world is on fire.
Never seen without full Capitol fashion: towering wigs in pink, gold, or butterfly patterns, heavy makeup with painted lips and colored skin, elaborate outfits with matching accessories. Everything coordinated, everything excessive. Under it all, she's a thin-faced woman who looks exhausted when the makeup comes off.
Also known as: Effie, Effie Trinket