Another known Avox is Darius, a former Peacekeeper in District 12. She is the only known Capitol citizen who attempted to escape for unknown reasons. Another Avox is Pollux, one of Katniss' cameramen in Mockingjay. Female They are used as servants of wealthy citizens of the Capitol. When the girl was trapped in the net, Katniss believes she sees her cry out, "Help!". The Capitol While in the Capitol, preparing for 75th Hunger Games, Katniss recognizes the Avoxes sent to serve the District 12 tributes as Darius and the red-headed girl, Lavinia. He became an Avox after trying to stop Romulus Thread, the new Head Peacekeeper of District 12, from whipping Katniss' friend, Gale. Most Avoxes will have been hunted and caught by the Peacekeepers of their respective Districts. They are used as domestic servants and waiters upon tributes and Capitol citizens. She is also mentioned as the wife of Æneas in Paradiso, the third canticle, in Canto VI. People do not speak to Avoxes unless giving them an order. In Hunger Games, they wore crimson robes, gold flats, and had their hair tightly pulled back. After the 75th Hunger Games, Darius and Lavinia were taken hostage, and she was tortured and killed immediately by painful electrocution in front of Peeta. Although Katniss recalls that they look nothing alike, she immediately pretends otherwise to protect herself and Peeta from her earlier mistake. They have no tongue, as they lose it when they become an Avox. Avoxes have had their tongues cut out, rendering them mute. Lavinia in Roman mythology however is most memorable for notable moment in Book 7 of the Æneid, written by Virigil (Dante Pilgrim's first guide in the Comedia), when her hair catches. The boy was killed by a harpoon to the chest, and the girl was caught in a net dropped from a hovercraft. Home Occupation Another known Avox is Darius, a former Peacekeeper in District 12. She saw this particular female Avox in the forest surrounding District 12 while she was hunting with Gale. While on the District 12 floor of the building where tributes are kept before the 75th Hunger Games, Katniss purposefully dropped her bowl of peas on the floor. As an Avox, she is of Panem's lowest social class, essentially a slave. Before she became an Avox, Lavinia and an unknown boy, whom Katniss believed was her brother or lover, were seen by Katniss and Gale while they were out hunting, in an off-limits wood outside of District 12. The Hunger Games Wiki is a FANDOM Books Community. He became an Avox after trying to stop Romulus Thread, the new Head Peacekeeper of District 12, from whipping Katniss' friend, Gale. However when she later walks in on the mess Katniss has made in her room prior to interview night she shows some response to Katniss' attempted apology, indicating by gestures that Katniss did not need to be sorry, and that there was nothing she could have done, otherwise she too, would have been an Avox. The Avox was with another boy. While in the Capitol, preparing for 75th Hunger Games, Katniss recognizes the Avoxes sent to serve the District 12 tributes as … Book Appearances Katniss panics, but Peeta covers for her by saying she looks like a girl from District 12, Delly Cartwright. Fate Age https://thehungergames.fandom.com/wiki/Lavinia?oldid=917467. They get their tongues chopped off as punishment. Lavinia was an Avox girl who worked as a Capitol servant for Katniss throughout the 74th and 75th Hunger Games. Katniss recognizes a redheaded Avox while staying in the Capitol during the 74th Hunger Games training period. During the Quarter Quell, Lavinia was once again Katniss and Peeta's Avox, along with former Peacekeeper Darius, who was sent in to scare and make Katniss discontented. Katniss remembers where she's seen the girl and thinks she should have helped her instead of watching from her hiding place; it was as if she'd been watching the Hunger Games take place right in front of her that day in the woods and had done nothing to intervene. She asks how Katniss knew her, when she clearly shouldn't. Lavinia, however, was scooped up by a net and taken into the hovercraft, and she briefly locked eyes with Katniss and Gale. They appeared to be escaping from the Capitol to District 13 for unknown reasons, and Katniss noted that the two had a "Capitol look" to them. If the tongue isn't fully removed (leaving a partial tongue) speech is still possible but difficult however if the tongue is entirely removed the victim can only make guttural noises and not speech. Her name was revealed in Mockingjay, when Peeta recounted his experience in Capitol imprisonment.