For one thing, Songbirds & Snakes is set 64 years before Katniss volunteers as tribute. That means there's probably a generation or two between Lucy Gray and Katniss if they are related. Fans also know who Katniss' mother is, so that rules out Lucy Gray being her mom.
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.
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.
What is the difference between Katniss and Lucy Gray?
Katniss Has a Connection to District 12 Unlike Lucy Gray
Unlike Katniss, Lucy Gray wasn't born and raised in District 12. Instead, she moved around often before the First Rebellion. As a member of the Covey, she traveled throughout Panem, singing and performing for all the districts.
Carine Everdeen is the mother of Katniss and Primrose Everdeen, and is the wife of Mr Everdeen. She is from District 12 and has lived in District 13 and District 4 as well. She is well-known to be a healer.
Is Lucy Gray Related to Katniss? (Hunger Games Theory)
Are Lucy Gray Baird and Katniss related?
Fans also know who Katniss' mother is, so that rules out Lucy Gray being her mom. It's also important to bring back the fact that Katniss' father knows the lake well, meaning Lucy Gray and Katniss would more likely be related on her paternal side.
The bottom line is that we do not know exactly what happened to Lucy Gray Baird. The movie leaves her fate ambiguous, matching the ending of her fate in the book.
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.
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.
Technically, Coriolanus is probably cheating by encouraging Lucy Gray to take rat poison into the arena. But he desperately wants to win, so it's a risk he's willing to take. That night, Coriolanus shares with Tigris that he and Lucy Gray kissed.
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.
This leads to an encounter in the forest where Coriolanus Snow shoots at Lucy Gray after he is bitten by a snake. The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is specific about showing Lucy falling down and yelling after Snow shoots in her direction, but her body is not found when Snow gets to her presumed location.
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).
She was also against the games itself, whilst Snow believed the Districts were below him and continued working to implement new aspects of the games. Their relationship was so undesirable that Snow fired Tigris as a stylist personally.
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.
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 her youth, Tigris was described as being no great beauty; she had a long, pointed nose, and a skinny body, as well as golden brown eyes. In Mockingjay, Katniss is unsure if her parents named her Tigris for inspiration for her future catty look, or if she had altered her name as well as her appearance to go together.
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.
Ultimately, Dr. Gaul considered these games a disaster, presenting the Capitol as far too vulnerable. She erased all recordings of the games, keeping only a master copy in her own personal vault for her own purposes.
The prequel film, in theaters now, neither confirms nor denies whether Katniss is a descendant of Lucy Gray. Like in the book, Lucy Gray's fate is unknown after Snow shoots at her in the woods. There's a very real possibility that she could've died, just as much as there's a possibility if she lived.
After the release of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, people have speculated that Coin could be related to Lucy Gray Baird, under the assumption that Lucy Gray ended up finding District 13.
In the course of the first book, The Hunger Games, Katniss competes in the Hunger Games after she is allowed to volunteer in place of her little sister, Primrose "Prim" Everdeen.
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.
Unpredictably, there, appeared a snow storm on her way towards the town. The furious dusts and darkness made her to fall from the bridge she used to cross on that time. She fell down in the fast flowing stream that ran down the bridge.
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.
