#the scene with the jabberjays. and if i kill myself. like he loves annie so much oh this is too much.

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oh god i really am going to lose my mind over finnick aren’t i.

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I love your thoughts on meta THG! Do you have any more about Finnick and his relationship with Katniss in particular? He's just so much more perceptive and loyal and selfless than anyone in the world of the Hunger Games and the fandom itself makes him out to me and I just love him so so much

oooh thank you for this ask, i love thinking about finnick and his relationships with other characters!! i also have happily found myself on the side of the fandom that is 100% team finnick which i love <3

something that really strikes me about finnick and katniss is that there is a very clear path from where katniss is after the games to where finnick is when we meet him. we know the capitol is obsessed with katniss, they find her attractive, and she has that naivete that finnick probably had after his games because he was so young. i think it's very clear that if the rebellion hadn't happened, katniss would have wound up following finnick's path to protect her family. and i think finnick can see that and sees himself in katniss and doesn't want her to go down the same path he did.

i also love seeing the finnick/katniss dynamic develop and i think finnick is so intentional about how he approaches katniss. at first in catching fire he plays up the vapid self-absorbed character because he knows that's what she'll expect, but then he finds ways to prove he's trustworthy. in the arena he never proclaims that she can trust him or that he's on her side, because he knows that wouldn't work on him and it won't work on her either. instead he shows her his value and his commitment to her - playing up her pregnancy ruse, saving peeta (repeatedly!), putting his trust in her. he knows katniss isn't going to trust a word out of his mouth, so he proves himself to her through his actions.

the jabberjay scene is like an accelerated version of this because i think that's where katniss starts to get the idea that they have more in common than she thought - he has someone he loves too, someone he's risking everything to get back home to. and where this might make someone else think oh no i'm in danger because he'll have to kill me (and peeta) to get back to annie, i think it actually puts katniss at ease about finnick because he becomes more real to her. she starts to see him as a person and not as who the capitol made him be.

but also, they're so goofy together! i love the scene in the arena in catching fire where they're putting the ointment on and she teases him about not being pretty and then they scare peeta together. they're so similar in their way of looking at the world and where they find humor - think of in mockingjay, when they're looking at the holo of the capitol and all the traps and both finnick and katniss compare it to the arena. they're similar in a lot of ways which makes a really interesting dynamic where finnick is trying to protect her from becoming more like him, but they also are able to understand each other and bond in a way that katniss doesn't really connect with other characters.

anyway this got long but i love finnick and his ways of connecting with other characters and he deserves the world!!

(also this got me thinking about after the bloodbath when finnick says none of the victors were victors by chance except maybe peeta so that might have to be its own post at some point)