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.
Tigris is an old friend of Cressida's and Plutarch Heavensbee who lives in the Capitol. She used to be a stylist assigned to work for the tributes of District 1. She was fired during The 66th Hunger Games since President Snow didn't think that she was pretty enough.
Snow personally fired Tigris, blaming her feline surgical enhancements. As Tigris Snow eventually explains to Katniss Everdeen, President Snow fired her because she wasn't pretty enough to be a stylist for the tributes anymore. In reality, it was probably due to his twisted views after gaining power.
This made it all the more shocking when the franchise's prequel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, revealed that Tigris was actually President Coriolanus Snow's first cousin.
At one point, Snow used poisons to kill people in an effort to gain more control of Panem. First he drank the poisons, to lessen suspicions, before secretly taking the antidote. He was left with sores that never healed. He wears a white rose in his buttonhole at all times, partially to conceal the smell of blood.
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What happened to Tigris?
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. However, given their past history, it is possible that the actual reason was something much more personal.
After reading the book and watching the film, it seems clear that Lucy Gray realizes Snow was responsible for the death of his friend Sejanus Plinth (Josh Andrés Rivera). If Snow could sell his best friend down the river for personal gain, it was only a matter of time until he did the same with her.
Described as sweet and vulnerable, in the book, it's suggested she sells her body to ensure the family keeps up appearances and stays fed. Tigris is seen again in "The Hunger Games" franchise as an ally to Katniss Everdeen, but much differently. After heavy modifications to her body over time, she resembles a tiger.
What did Tigris look like before snow changed her?
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.
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.
Years later, Katniss will recognize Tigris in Mockingjay – Part 2 (now played by Eugenie Bondurant) as a longtime stylist for the Games. Snow and Tigris have long since fallen out, it seems—we catch glimpses of her disappointment in his ruthless path to power in Songbirds and Snakes.
Was anyone else thrown off by the supposed ages of Snow and Tigris in relation to Mockingjay? If Snow is 18 in BSS and Tigris is 21, then that would make Snow 82-84 during the original trilogy and Tigris around 86 during the events of Mockingjay.
Schafer's character, Tigris, is unrelated to that of Trinket, but the latter's fashion in the film was quite in line with what the Euphoria has been pulling out recently.
In the midst of a vast desert, the peoples of Mesopotamia relied upon these rivers to provide drinking water, agricultural irrigation, and major transportation routes. Over centuries, the flood pulse of the Euphrates and Tigris left the southern plains of what is now Iraq with the richest soil in the Near East.
The Tigris River, which borders Mesopotamia in the Fertile Crescent, has been a key source of irrigation, power, and travel that dates back to the earliest known civilizations.
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.
What happened to Tigris in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes?
After the end of the war, Tigris survived though it is unclear exactly what her fate was. Given Tigris' minor role in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2, one could be forgiven for not making the link between her and Tigris in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
At the end of the film, when Coriolanus returns to the Capitol, she coyly says he looks just like his father and after The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, Tigris and Coriolanus' grow apart. Probably because of his thirst for power and involvement in the Games, we think.
He eventually, however, did come to love her, but in the end chose to eschew love in exchange for power and ambition. Filled with ideas of control and power from Dr. Volumnia Gaul, he made it his ambition to rule over all, even if people called him an iron-fisted, cruel tyrant.
After winning the games, Snow forced Finnick into prostitution and sold his body to Capitol residents to gain their trust. Finnick only agreed to take part because Snow threatened to torture his loved ones. Even though he bedded several women throughout his time as a victor, Finnick's love for Annie remained true.
Model-turned actress Eugenie Bondurant is a tall, striking beauty who appears in the final The Hunger Game: Mockingjay – Part 2 as a character named Tigris, a former Hunger Games champion who so identifies with tigers that she has had plastic surgery to make herself look more feline.
This comes as a result of Lucy attempting to leave Snow during a rainstorm after they plot to flee the Districts, but she learns that he was responsible for killing Sejanus Plinth during the travels.
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.
