#d4.

good morning! 19th birthdays are kind of a huge deal in district four. they mark avoiding the reapings and forever being free from entering the hunger games (unless a quell) so people will celebrate hard. some places might give you a free drink and the bakers might slip you a spare cookie. obviously for victors, the 19th birthday loses all of its usual meaning, and in some cases becomes completely commodified by the capitol as an excuse to drag you back into the spotlight and throw a celebration in your name and honor. finnick usually doesn’t like to celebrate his birthday or do anything around it— it follows just a month after the games. there’s nothing to celebrate, he feels too far from himself, there’s too many things to mourn. his sixteenth birthday haunts him more than anything

good morning!  bayard thetis was the district four victor of the 23rd hunger games. bayard won his games by surviving a brutal heatwave and being an even more brutal fighter. he was surprisingly skilled with a bow in the arena but his strength won him most fights. shortly after his games he married a woman named eeba from fishery 8 and together they had two sons, nemo the second and starby thetis. prior to nemo’s birth, bayard’s brother nemo was voted to participate in the 25th hunger games and died in the games— leading his name to be passed down to bayard’s first born. both went into the academy for training for the games, although there was never any expectation for them to actually volunteer and end up in the games. unfortunately for the thetis family, no nemo knows luck, and nemo the second was reaped in the 44th games and was not replaced by a volunteer. starby went on to marry a woman from fishery 2, marnie, and they had three kids— rydel, estey, and hayward. the entire family lives in the district four victors village in bayard’s victor house. eeba passed around the time of the 61st games but bayard is often seen talking to her while out and about. he spends his time sailing with the grandkids and even taking finnick out on a number of occasions. he likes finnick’s fishing background and finds it quite helpful— and he likes that finnick is able to keep to himself on the boat. finnick finds it hard to imagine him as the brutal fighter who won his games, but sometimes bayard pushes him off the boat and into the water and finnick finds the belief pretty quick 

good morning! finnick is largely remembered in his fishery not as the victor of the 65th games, but as the kid who was barely up to anybody’s hip and walking around from dock to dock trying to strike up a deal where he could for work and a room. he had a sort of look perfected— a sweet little expression with some pouting eyes. it was effective to say the least. that part of the district has a lot of stories to share about him as a child, and you’re very likely to hear that story at least twice if you were to visit and ask anybody what they know or think about finnick

good morning!  another d4 victor introduction— wade gillard is the victor of the 47th games. like many tributes from the district he was good with a spear and that ended up being his weapon from start to finish. he had a pretty typical victory by all accounts, having started with a career alliance and breaking off after the loss of his tribute partner. if there’s anything to take away from his games it’s the way he made his rather standoffish attitude seem charming. he earned himself a sort of bad boy reputation through it. back home, it’s less charming and he’s just generally seen as a hater and judgmental, but he is pretty known for giving people good advice and making good calls about people. he became one of the mentors working and training kids at the academy and devoted a lot of his time there. he had attended himself and been chosen to volunteer so he felt it only right to contribute to the academy after his victory. his victor talent had also become sketching. with just a couple strokes of a pen or pencil he could generally recreate or capture a very simple likeness. he married eventually to a woman named selene and the two had a daughter together who they named poisie. the family has known finnick since he started at the academy, and prior to going into the games, despite his young age, wade had him picked early on to be a contender for volunteering one day. 

good morning & merry christmas eve!  while christmas isn’t a thing in panem, there are plenty of other days that finnick celebrates— august is full of parties for his birthday falls towards the end of the month, new years is always an excuse to sing and dance, something akin to harvest day if not harvest day itself (while it’s talked about as occurring in 12, there’s a lot implying it’s like thanksgiving so i think other districts would also have it — again an excuse to gather and sing and eat), may 19th is his parents anniversary, mags’ birthday, any of the other victors of d4’s birthdays are also quite the fun occasion, annie’s birthday, their anniversary, their son’s birthday, there’s a fishermans holiday, a week long festival to celebrate the sea, women’s day, parents day, and there’s sure to be some others

good morning!  being a sucker for people coming together to help someone, i don’t think the trident came from some rich nameless sponsor. finnick had probably fashioned himself a makeshift spear, if not gotten one from the cornucopia and he was doing alright with it. it was holding up decently until it got lost during a mutt chase. i think having seen him already with a spear, sponsors would’ve just sent him another, but it’s the people back home who know finnick to be particularly good with a trident. the career system in four works to give the tributes of the district a fighting chance of coming home, not necessarily for glory or honor. district 4 came together to raise money and buy finnick a trident during his games as he was never supposed to go in at 14 and the career volunteering system failed him. they came together hoping to give him a fighting chance of coming home