Kintype headcanons pt 2: Finnick
Major tw for most of those
• Never got used to hanging out with his peers, since throughout most of his childhood, he was either alone, or surrounded by much older fishermen (and fisherwomen), something that resulted to him acting much more mature than most of the other kids his age.
• Bilingual. District 4 personally reminds me so much of my hometown in Greece, so i'm heavily leaning on that vibe here, but i'm pretty sure he'd speak some sort of island dialect of Greek (like the Cretan one), instead of the plain old Athens variation.
• Exercises the smallest bits of free will he gets out of pure spite. They once let him wear what he wanted to an event and he showed up in what can only be described as the most halal clothing Finnick Odair has ever worn (veil and all, every inch of him but his face and palms covered).
• His hearing is at least a little bit fucked up from that one time he had to go sponge diving with little to no safety equipment when he was 10 (it paid better than fishing and little Finnick was BROKE)
• Does not show his true emotions to anyone but the people he deems worthy (like Johanna or Annie). Getting that man to cry in front of you is a Herculean feat.
• Used to sh to make himself more undesirable. Did not work because apparently some people found the scars hot. Snow made him quit and heal the scars, so they're not really visible anymore.
• When he's back in 4, he spends all his time by the sea. He lives and breathes for it, and since he has too much free time and can't go fishing with the fellas (people old enough to be his parents) anymore, he gets his own boat and sails sometimes for days on end.
• Swore he'd never get married, until he met Annie. He used to hate the idea of being so closely tied to a person the Capitol could use to hurt him, and he didn't want to put anyone in danger like that, but after the revolution began and he and Annie were at least momentarily safe, he decided it was a risk worth taking.
• Journals a lot, but not in the aesthetic Tumblrina way. He's keeping a part of the history he lived through intact before someone goes ahead and distorts it. His journals are on display back in the Capitol after the war ends.
• Chronic insomniac. Does not sleep, will not sleep, honestly fears sleeping at this point. Even when someone does get him to sleep, he's always on alert, and will wake at the slightest noise or movement. The best sleep he's ever gotten was when he was drugged in District 13.
• His habit of tying knots started when one of the fishermen he worked with taught him how to make friendship bracelets with really intricate patterns just through tying knots in a specific order. While he did eventually stop making them, he still keeps tying knots when he's bored or under stress.
• Dreamed of sailing his way out of Panem when he was small. He tried it once, but he just ended up almost wrecking his ship due to the barrier shutting off the District 4 coasts from the rest of the world.
• Mentoring is the worst for him. He tries not to get too attached to his tributes, but he always does and it ends badly. He just wants them to never have to experience what he did, but he knows they'll either end up exactly like him, or they'll die in the process.
• Every single lyric of "Ah thalassa" by Marina Satti. That's it that's the headcanon. Especially post Mags's death.
