- "After lunch I do the edible-insect station with the District 8 tributes... Woof, a really old guy who’s hard of hearing and doesn’t seem to know what’s going on since he keeps trying to stuff poisonous bugs in his mouth."
- —Katniss Everdeen describing Woof[src]
Woof was the District 8 male tribute who participated in the 75th Hunger Games, as well as the victor of an unknown Hunger Games.
Biography[]
75th Hunger Games[]
Training[]
Woof watching Beetee leave during the private training.
After lunch on the first day of training, Katniss Everdeen joined Woof and his district partner Cecelia at the edible insect station. Katniss noticed that he was hard of hearing, and she thought he didn't seem to know what was going on because he kept trying to eat poisonous bugs.[1]
Interviews[]
Johanna, Blight, Woof, Cecelia, and the District 9 female at the interviews.
After their interviews, the tributes all joined hands in a display of rebellion against the Capitol.[2]
Death[]
At the beginning of the Games, Woof stood on his pedestal to the right of Katniss, in the same wedge of water.[3] He was killed in the initial Cornucopia bloodbath.[4]
Physical description[]
Woof was elderly, hard of hearing, and exhibited confusion and a lack of focus.[1]
Etymology[]
"Woof" refers to the threads that cross the warp of a woven fabric.
Trivia[]
- As an elderly man, it appears that Woof had age-related hearing loss and dementia, formerly known as senility or senile dementia.
- Haymitch Abernathy said that District 8's tributes had been in on the plan to protect Katniss and extract her from the arena,[5] but due to Woof's lack of lucidity, he was most likely not involved.