Katniss Everdeen/Peeta Mellark

Katniss/Peeta, also known as Everlark or Peeniss, is the het pairing of Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark in The Hunger Games fandom. They are a very popular pairing, and the primary canonical pairing.
==Canon==
Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark are both reaped to participate in the 74th Annual Hunger Games, as District 12 tributes. In the past, Peeta saved Katniss and her family from starvation by giving her a loaf of bread. In the preparations for the Games, it comes out that Peeta is in love with Katniss, and this becomes an important part of their Games strategy as the star-crossed lovers. In the end, both emerge as Victors, for the first time in history. Their relationship continues to progress through the remaining parts of the series, and eventually becomes the canon endgame pairing.
==Fandom==
===Statistics===
*Katniss Everdeen/Peeta Mellark have consistently been within the top 100 pairings on Archive of Our Own, ranking: 
**53rd in 2013A ranked list of the most popular relationship tags on AO3
**52nd in 20142014 AO3 ship stats
**56th in 20152015 AO3 Ship Stats!
**63rd in 2016AO3 Ship Stats for August 2016!
**80th in 2017fifth annual AO3 Ship Stats Top 100!
===Common Tropes in Fanworks===
*Missing Scenes: moments not shown in canon 
*Post Mockingjay or Futurefic: their lives as a couple after the end of the series 
*PTSD or Hurt/Comfort: many readers felt that the emotional damage of the Hunger Games and then the rebellion were not adequately addressed in the books
*Canon Divergence AU: varies, Katniss and Peeta are not part of the Quarter Quell, Peeta is saved at the end of Catching Fire instead of Katniss 
*Modern AU: modern setting, where they meet and begin a relationship 
*College AU: common because of their relative ages
===Awards===
*Everlark Smut Awards
===Challenges===
*Dirty December Everlark Smut Challenge
==Fanworks==
===Fanart===
* I don't love you but I always will by iabri71 (link to archived version)
* Peeta and Katniss by kimpertinent
* Katniss and Peeta by ZeePonj
* Katniss and Peeta by burdge
* A Different Kind of Hunger... by kara-lija
* Untitled by lamenart (loving-mellark) (link to archived version)
===Fanfiction===
* Peeta Mellark's Five Favorite Things to Bake by aimmyarrowshigh
* The Five Words Peeta Only Says at Night by aimmyarrowshigh
* Pushing Dandelions by aimmyarrowshigh, a Pushing Daisies AU
* Forever Until by lieselmemingers
* Out of the Night: An Interview with a Mockingjay by athousandwinds
* Ashes and Flame (Every You and Every Me) by freneticfloetry
* When the Moon Fell in Love with the Sun by Mejhiren
==== Fanfiction in other Languages ====
* Taraxacum by andywilltrytofixyou -- Series of Post-Mockingjay and Pre-Epilogue Vignettes, not in chronological order. (Spanish)
===Fan Vids===
*Broken by The Hunger Games
*Find my way back to you by EnchantedxPassion
===Meta===
* by Jaime Wright 
* by peetasallhehasleft
===Other===
*Hunger Games- Peeta and Katniss, cosplay by twinfools
* playlist by peetasalive
*You could live a hundred lifetimes and never deserve that boy - fannish TikToks featuring Peeta and Katniss by _peetasgirl, posted on 13th December 2021.
==Art Gallery==
File:When the Moon Fell in Love with the Sun by escapistmagpie.png|When the Moon Fell in Love with the Sun art by escapistmagpie for the fic of the same name (2015)
File:On fire by burdge d2hxo1z-fullview.jpg|on fire by burdge, this piece illustrating the chariot scene (2010)
==Archives & Fannish Links==
===Archives===
* Katniss Everdeen/Peeta Mellark on AO3
* Katniss + Peeta on FanFiction.net
* Stories tagged Everlark, peetaandkatniss, and katnissmellark at Wattpad
===Fannish Links===
* Tumblr Tags: Peeta x Katniss, Katniss x Peeta, Peeniss, Everlark
* (archived), a LJ community
* everlarkrecs, a themed fic recommendation tumblr
* Prompts in Panem, tumblr blog that hosted regular challenges
==References==
 
Category:Het Pairings
Category:The Hunger Games Relationships