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Part 4 of Writing Challenge Fics - Retro Writing May , Part 115 of Writing Challenge Ficlets - Sweet and Short , Part 27 of Writing Challenge Fics - Fandom Free Bingo
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Retro Writing Month (2026), Sweet and Short, Fandom-Free Bingo (Heroic Edition)
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2026-05-26
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100
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Wax

Summary:

Katniss vs the Capitol's vendetta against body hair.

Written for Retro Writing May - Day 26: True Drabble
and Sweet and Short May 2026 - Prompt: Entertainment
and Fandom Free Bingo: Heroic - Prompt: Hair Removal

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(See the end of the work for notes.)

Work Text:

Katniss hated everything to do with the Games, of course, but at the moment she had a particular grudge against whoever decided that she needed to be prettied up before dying for their entertainment, and their vicious vendetta towards body hair.

They didn’t even spare her intimate regions, which left her in dread that she’d be sent out nude. Why else would they put so much effort into ripping out her hair from places that normally, no one would be seeing? But her prep team was determined to subject even these sensitive areas to their tortures, and Katniss endured it.

Notes:

I noticed that in the book, Katniss does not actually indicate that the prep teams removed pubic hair when she lists out all the body hair they did remove...but given everything else we know, I can't see that they would've left that alone, either.