Lucy Gray Baird was the female tribute from District 12 , a coal mine district in the 10th Hunger Games. Her mentor was Coriolanus Snow, a top-performing student at the Academy. She was the victor of the Games, and was a Capitol favorite.
Summary. Lucy Gray Baird's fate is left ambiguous in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, with theories suggesting that she may have been killed by Coriolanus Snow or managed to escape.
Inside the Capitol, Coriolanus and the other viewers call for her to be let out so Dr Volumnia reluctantly crowns Lucy Gray the winner of the 10th annual Hunger Games. But, when Coriolanus goes to greet Lucy after her victory, he realises he has been found out for giving her rat poison and the handkerchief.
What happened to Lucy Gray Baird at the end of the book?
The question of whether Lucy Gray dies is not definitively answered in The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes. Casca Highbottom does tell Snow during their final encounter that his sources have told him that Lucy has "disappeared," prompting speculation that District 12's mayor killed her after his daughter's death.
No, Lucy Gray has no relation to Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games. When the original novel for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes first came out, some fans suspected that Lucy might actually be Katniss' grandmother.
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Is Lucy Gray Baird related to President Coin?
Fan theories posit that Lucy Gray Baird may be a relative of Katniss Everdeen or President Coin. Director Francis Lawrence told us Baird likely isn't Coin, but could have ties to the character.
Believing Lucy Gray planted the snake to harm him, Snow goes on a rampage, shooting his gun into the woods. For a moment, it seems like he has hit Lucy Gray but then she starts singing “The Hanging Tree,” causing countless Mockingjays to join in chorus.
Is Lucy Gray mentioned in the Hunger Games trilogy?
Either way, no one seems to know what became of the 10th Hunger Games victor. She's never mentioned again in any of the franchise's movies. Keep reading to see how the book handles Lucy Gray's disappearance, theories on what happened to the singer, and whether or not we could ever see more of her story.
However, when the stakes are as high as they are in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, it makes sense why this character would ultimately become the series' main villain. Snow follows a path the audience can't morally follow, and when he kills Highbottom with rat poison, it solidifies his turn to evil and path toward ...
Snow asks her if their romance is real, and she assures him it is. In the book, Lucy Gray tells Snow the only boy her heart has a sweet spot for is him before she kisses him in front of his classmates.
At an unknown point in time years before the 74th Hunger Games, she was personally fired by Snow, the stated reason being due to her being too surgically enhanced.
In the movie, Snow and Baird develop a friendship as mentor and tribute after Lucy Gray saves Snow's life during an attack on Panem. After being sent to District 12 as a Peacekeeper in the aftermath of the 10th Hunger Games, Snow starts to deepen his relationship with Lucy Gray, which develops in a more romantic light.
True to his name, he's icy and has it out for Katniss after she forces the hand of the gamemaker into letting both her and Peeta win. Songbirds and Snakes reveals why Katniss' unwavering confidence in herself and her abilities is a particular thorn in Snow's side: they remind him of Lucy Gray.
These Games were very popular with the Capitol residents because of its brutality and well known to the Districts for the knowledge of the strategies used by the tributes to survive long term. The winner was a 16 year old female named Lucy Gray Baird from District 12.
Lucy and Gray are good friends and members of the same team. Gray cares much for Lucy, going as far as to say that he would rather die than hand Lucy over to Phantom Lord (During the Phantom Lord arc).
Since some of the Covey's songs survived into the trilogy through Katniss Everdeen, who learned them from her father, it's been theorized that they are descendants of the Covey— probably through Maude Ivory, who shared Katniss's ability to memorize music after a listen or two.
In the book (which is told from Coriolanus's point-of-view), during his final chat with Dr Gaul, Coriolanus is told that all recordings of the 10th Hunger Games have been deleted. It was wiped from the record as it led to the deaths of some of the mentors, potentially making the Capitol look weak.
Snow can't stand to see a young woman betray a young man's affection—his view of what happened 65 years ago. And so he takes out his old, festering wound on Katniss.
He married Julia Pompey but their marriage was loveless. It was suggested by many that he poisoned his wife because she tried to kill him and take their sons place.
The correct answer is she had no friends, no companion. The poet suggests that she was a solitary child because she did not have any friend or companion.
Suzanne Collins has never confirmed the theory labeling Maude Ivory Baird as Katniss' grandmother, but it's possible that the upcoming film adaptation of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes will dive deeper into this idea, perhaps retroactively confirming the theory.
He grows up in D12 with the Covey, and eventually at the age of 24 in what would be year 36 he gets married and has a baby boy born in year 37. That baby turns out to be Katniss's father. He gets married in year 57 and Katniss is born in year 58. So Snow could be Katniss's great grandfather.
