The rose scent and engraving also emotionally connect Coriolanus to his family. Coriolanus starts to give up on this when he separates the powder disk from the compact. He gives the compact to Lucy Grayso she can fill it with rat poison, take it into the Hunger Games arena, and poison her opponents.
In the prequel, we learn that Snow's grandmother has a rose garden with her roses prized in the Capitol. Snow also treasures a compact of his late mother, who passed away while giving birth to who would've been his sister. The compact is filled with powder that has a rose scent.
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.
Lucy Gray won the games, but largely as a result of Corio's cheating. He had introduced Lucy Gray's scent to snake mutations that would be released into the games, ensuring that they would only attack the other tributes, but not her.
The Life of Coriolanus Snow (UPDATED WITH NEW INFO): Hunger Games Explained
Why did Coriolanus give Lucy Gray the compact?
Coriolanus starts to give up on this when he separates the powder disk from the compact. He gives the compact to Lucy Gray so she can fill it with rat poison, take it into the Hunger Games arena, and poison her opponents.
Tigris: Tigris is Snow's cousin, though they live together as kids and are as close as any brother and sister. They support each other through the war and afterward, often because they don't have anyone else to look after them.
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.
The most likely ancestor to Katniss is none other than Maude. Out of all the Covey members, they appear to have the most in common with their talent for singing, their ability to pick up songs quickly and their love of mockingjays.
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.
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.
At one point, as the Games started to develop, Tigris became one of the stylists for the tributes of an unknown district. Over the years, Tigris began undergoing surgical enhancements that made her look more tiger-like.
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.
Coriolanus may be convinced that Lucy Gray betrayed him, but his paranoia makes him an unreliable narrator. Ultimately, her true intentions are never confirmed. She may have clued in on his untrustworthiness, but it's also entirely plausible that she had no plans on turning against him.
What happened to Lucy Gray Baird at the end of the book?
Plenty of theories suggest that Lucy Gray died at the end of the book/movie. The biggest explanation for her death, as the film suggests, is that Coriolanus Snow killed her during his mad state when a snake bit him.
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.
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.
He is poor. His father, deemed a war hero after the District's rebellion, and his mother dying in child birth has left Coriolanus an orphan. There is no money, but his dream is to attend university, and secure a good, safe job to enable him to support his family.
The fact that he escapes death, even just momentarily, gives him a brief sense of getting away with some of what he's done, while his enemy, who he himself has helped turn Katniss against, takes the heavily symbolic arrow. Snow laughs after Katniss killed Coin because he enjoys the irony of the situation.
Lucy Gray Baird is supposed to be 16 in the film. Rachel Zegler is six years older than her at 22. Lucy Gray is the lead singer of a band who plays in District 12 when she's selected as a tribute in the 10th annual Hunger Games. Similarly, Jennifer Lawrence was 21 when playing the 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen.
She is only told that Tigris used to be a stylist for the Hunger Games, like Cinna, and that Snow fired her himself. Over the years, possibly to deal with the pain caused by her cousin's sadistic rise to power, Tigris tattooed and surgically altered her appearance so much that she looked more feline than human.
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.
