Lucy Gray Baird

Character from The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

A performer and singer from District 12's Covey community — tribute in the 10th Hunger Games — who charmed Panem with her voice, survived the arena with snake immunity and cunning, and vanished into legend.

Lucy Gray Baird is the Covey — a wandering musician community absorbed into District 12 after the First Rebellion. She sings, she performs, she makes people love her from a stage. In the 10th Hunger Games, mentored by a young Coriolanus Snow, she survives through charm, snake immunity (she handled them for the Covey's shows), and poison. Her relationship with Snow is the tragic center of the prequel — she genuinely loved him, or loved who she thought he was. When she realized what he truly was, she disappeared into the wilderness north of District 12 and was never seen again. Her song, 'The Hanging Tree,' became a rebel anthem decades later. She's the ghost in the machine of the entire series.

Appearance

Dark curly hair threaded with ribbons, a colorful ruffled dress from the Covey's traveling performer tradition, and bare feet when she can manage it. She's pretty in an unconventional way — expressive, theatrical, alive with movement. She dropped a snake down a girl's dress at the Reaping.

Also known as: Lucy Gray, Lucy Gray Baird

What They Know

• Musical performance — she's a singer and performer who can captivate an audience, which translates to sponsor appeal
• Snake handling and immunity — the Covey used snakes in performances; she's comfortable with them when others panic
• She wrote or inspired 'The Hanging Tree,' which Katniss sings decades later as a rebel anthem
• The Covey are a traveling musician community — outsiders in District 12, neither Seam nor merchant

Connections

• lover_of — snow
• betrayed — snow
• member_of — district_12
• betrayed_by — snow

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