"I wanted to go back for him and Johanna, but I couldn't move."
Finnick Odair, Catching Fire pg 388
The last couple weeks Finnick's treatment of Peeta in Mockingjay has been brought up several times. I've been thinking on the guilt Finnick must feel. I don't think it overshadows what we know is genuinely Finnick being himself, his compassion, his kindness, his empathy, but I do believe he feels guilty. It's one thing to be charged with the responsibility of keeping two teenagers alive for the sake of a rebellion and it's another thing to actually live that out. A bond was forged between these three during the Quell. There are things that occur that intimately bind you with another person. One of those is death. Finnick brought Peeta back to life. Then seeing how that affected Katniss. Peeta's tenderness with the morphling. Experiencing it when they cared for him after the fog. How Katniss was with Wiress and Beetee. He grew to care for them as he grew to know them. His response to Katniss makes that clear.
"I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best."
