<P> In the second installment Catching Fire, she is forced to fight in the next year's Hunger Games, an especially brutal edition known as the Quarter Quell which occurs every 25 years . She destroys the force field containing the Games arena, and is rescued along with a few surviving tributes by members of an underground rebellion organized by the supposedly destroyed District 13 . </P> <P> In the third installment, she becomes the Mockingjay, an inspirational symbol of a second civil war against the Capitol . Despite the intent of her limited role as a propagandist, she is drawn into combat by her obsession to kill Snow . As the war progresses, she comes to realize the rebel leader, President Alma Coin, is no less ruthless and power - driven than Snow . Katniss learns that Coin considers her expendable, staged a supposed Capitol atrocity which kills Prim, and after the war, calls for a final Hunger Games using the children of the Capitol war criminals . When finally given the chance to execute Snow, Katniss kills Coin instead . She is deemed not mentally responsible and returns to District 12, suffering trauma and suicidal depression . Peeta's return draws her out of the depression, and she finally realizes she is in love with him . She marries him, but it is fifteen years until she is ready to have children . </P> <P> Peeta Mellark is the male tribute from District 12 in both the 74th and 75th Hunger Games . He is the same age as Katniss, with fair skin, blond hair, and blue eyes, characteristic of the town residents of District 12, whose middle - class merchants are slightly more well - to - do than those of the Seam . Peeta is the baker's son and lives with two brothers, a quiet father, and a strict disciplinarian mother . Peeta's favorite color is orange, like the sunset . His skills include personal charm and charisma, physical strength, baking, and painting . Peeta has been in love with Katniss ever since he first saw her during elementary school, and declares his love for her during the pre-Games interview . Katniss believes this is a ploy to gain the support of sponsors to help them survive the Games . Lacking Katniss' skills with weapons like the bow and arrow, he relies on his charm and physical strength, and teamwork with Katniss, to survive in the Games . </P> <P> Peeta is captured by the Capitol at the end of the Quarter Quell and submitted to "hijacking", a process of torture and brainwashing which gives him an instinctual fear of Katniss and effectively turns him into an assassination weapon against her . During the civil war, he is rescued and eventually rehabilitated by the rebels . After the Capitol is defeated, he returns to District 12 with Katniss and marries her . Twenty years after the war, they have two children . </P>

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