Character from The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Victor of the 50th Hunger Games, District 12's only living champion — a drunk, a genius, and the man who kept Katniss and Peeta alive by being three moves ahead of everyone, including them.
Haymitch Abernathy won the Second Quarter Quell — a Hunger Games with forty-eight tributes instead of twenty-four — by being smarter than everyone else and more ruthless than most. He used the arena's force field as a weapon. The Capitol killed his family, his girlfriend, and everyone he loved as punishment for making them look foolish. He's been drunk ever since. As mentor, he's terrible in all the ways that don't matter and brilliant in the only way that does: he keeps his tributes alive. He saw something in Katniss and Peeta that twenty-three years of dead District 12 children hadn't shown him — a pair worth betting on. He played the Capitol, the rebellion, and his own tributes against each other to engineer the Quarter Quell breakout, and he did it while everyone thought he was too drunk to function. He's the architect of the Mockingjay plan. He's also the one who chose to save Katniss over Peeta without telling either of them. He carries that guilt the way he carries everything — silently, bitterly, and with a bottle in his hand.
Middle-aged, paunchy, with dark Seam coloring gone grey and bloodshot. He's perpetually disheveled — stained clothes, unshaved jaw, a knife he sleeps with because twenty-five years out of the arena hasn't cured the reflexes. When he's sober, which is rare, his grey eyes are sharp and calculating. His Victor's house in the Village is a monument to neglect.
Also known as: Haymitch, Haymitch Abernathy