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Finnick Odair was a male victor from District 4. He is known for being the victor of the 65th Hunger Games and a tribute of the 3rd Quarter Quell.

Biography

Finnick won the 65th Hunger Games at the age of 14, where he was mentored by previous District 4 victor, Mags. During the 65th Hunger Games he was sent a trident, which might have been the most expensive gift ever given in the Games. The trident was a weapon which he excels at and with the help of a net he wove by hand from some vines, he managed to trap his opponents in his net and then kill them with his trident. During the 74th Hunger Games he served as the mentor for District 4, as revealed in Mockingjay when he becomes the expert on Peeta's memories of his two times in the arena. He participated in the 3rd Quarter Quell a year later, and became part of an alliance with Peeta, Katniss Everdeen, Wiress, Beetee, Johanna Mason and previous mentor Mags. Katniss attributes Finnick's success to a combination of his extraordinary physical skill and his unprecedented popularity among the Capitol. Although he is a good fighter with the spears and knives gathered in the Cornucopia, the extravagant gifts he receives, and his trident ensure he makes it out alive.

At the beginning of the 3rd Quarter Quell, he startled Katniss with his proposal for an alliance. She was unsure of how to react, but accepted his offer after she noticed his golden bracelet that she assumed came from Haymitch. Still not fully trusting of him, Katniss remained extremely wary of his every move. However, he proved his usefulness and reliability when he saved Peeta in the midst of a fight, even though it meant he got wounded himself. Finnick became deeply emmotional when Mags ran into the poison fog and killed herself. When Katniss and him were hunting, there was a Jabberjay attack screaming with loved ones voices, revealing that he is in love with a mad girl in District 4 named Annie Cresta. He also revived Peeta when he accidentally ran into a force field while exploring the arena. After the arena is destroyed, Finnick, Beetee, and Katniss are rescued by a hovercraft from Plutarch Heavensbee; he tells Katniss in the hovercraft that he was unable to go back for Peeta and Johanna, though he wished to.

In Mockingjay, at the beginning of the book Finnick goes a little bit crazy with constant crying, and unable to concentrate on anything going on, mostly because he's concentrating so hard on what happened to Annie Cresta in the Capitol. She was kidnapped by the Capitol and was being tortured, and one of the only ways to keep himself sane was to make knots on a rope over, and over again or just huddle up in a ball. He soon gave that same rope to Katniss to help her. Eventually a rescue team saves Annie Cresta along with others. They then get married and have a son together; unfortunately, Finnick is killed by muttated lizards before the baby is born.

Death

While on the mission to President Snow's mansion, the group was attacked by Lizard Muttations and Finnick was decapitated before Katniss could rescue him. As he dies Katniss gets impressions of his life, including a silver parachute bearing the trident that won him his games, his life on the seas of District 4 and Annie's face.

Relationships

In order to stay popular in the Capitol, Finnick puts on a flirtatious personality, fooling many of the Capitol's people into believing that they are his love. His conquests are legendary throughout Panem, and he was famed for being able to go through four or five people in each annual visit during the Hunger Games. However, in Catching Fire it is revealed that his one and only true love is Annie Cresta, the 70th Hunger Games victor who went insane when her partner tribute got beheaded in the games. During his interview with Caeser Flickerman, he recites a poem addressed to his one true love in the Capitol; while many members of the audience believe they are the subject, it is implied that it is written about Annie. In Mockingjay, it is revealed that President Snow "rents" him out to wealthy Capitol citizens and if he refuses, President Snow would kill somebody he loves. He also cares a lot for his mentor Mags who has volunteered to participate in the games again. Finnick is close friends with Johanna Mason and fairly good allies with Katniss, Peeta, Wiress, and Beetee. He becomes a closer friend to Katniss in Mockingjay. He marries Annie Cresta and the pair have one son together that was born after his death.

Description

Katniss views Finnick as being kind, though a bit conceited. He was described as being extremely handsome. He was tall, muscular, and athletic, with golden skin, bronze-colored hair, and "incredible" sea green eyes. Katniss also states that he has a seductive purr which he used on her when they met in the 3rd Quarter Quell. finnick was also a prostitute because president snow told him he would kill his family if he didny accept.

Trivia

When Finnick meets Katniss in Catching Fire, he asks her if she wants a sugar cube. He also asks her this during Mockingjay.

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 {{Character
-|name = Rue
+|name = Finnick Odair
-|age = 12
+|age = 24
-|occupation = Tribute
+|occupation = [[Tribute]], [[mentor]]
-|home = District 11
+|home = [[District 4]]
-|gender = Female
+|gender = Male
-|weapon = Dagger or Slingshot
+|weapon = [[Trident]] and woven [[net]]
 |fate = Dead
-|appears = ''[[The Hunger Games]]''
+|appears = ''[[Catching Fire]]'', ''[[Mockingjay (novel)|Mockingjay]]''
-|mention = ''[[Catching Fire]]'', ''[[Mockingjay (novel)|Mockingjay]]''
 }}
+'''Finnick Odair''' was a male [[victor]] from [[District 4]]. He is known for being the victor of the 65th Hunger Games and a tribute of the 3rd Quarter Quell.
-'''Rue''' was the female [[tribute]] from [[District 11]] who was selected to participate in the [[74th Annual Hunger Games]]. She is described as being small and easily underestimated by other competitors. Rue died in The 74th Hunger Games at the age of 12. She formed an alliance with [[Katniss Everdeen]] after warning her about a nest of [[tracker jackers]] hidden in a tree.
 ==Biography==
+Finnick won the [[65th Hunger Games]] at the age of 14, where he was [[mentors|mentored]] by previous District 4 victor, Mags. During the 65th Hunger Games he was sent a trident, which might have been the most expensive gift ever given in the Games. The trident was a weapon which he excels at and with the help of a net he wove by hand from some vines, he managed to trap his opponents in his net and then kill them with his trident. During the [[74th Hunger Games]] he served as the mentor for District 4, as revealed in ''[[Mockingjay (novel)|Mockingjay]]'' when he becomes the expert on [[Peeta Mellark|Peeta's]] memories of his two times in the arena. He participated in the [[75th Hunger Games|3rd Quarter Quell]] a year later, and became part of an alliance with [[Peeta]], [[Katniss Everdeen]], [[Wiress]], [[Beetee]], [[Johanna Mason]] and previous mentor [[Mags]]. Katniss attributes Finnick's success to a combination of his extraordinary physical skill and his unprecedented popularity among the Capitol. Although he is a good fighter with the spears and knives gathered in the [[Cornucopia]], the extravagant gifts he receives, and his trident ensure he makes it out alive.
-Rue was the oldest child in her family. she and her family worked in the orchards of District 11. Though small, she was able to jump from tree to tree. Her considerable agility and skill at traveling through the tree tops would probably be the reason she earned an impressive score after the private training sessions preceding the 74th Hunger Games. Every night she would sing a four note tune to signal of the end of the workday. This tune was picked up by the Mockingjays in the area and was spread throughout the orchards.
+At the beginning of the 3rd Quarter Quell, he startled Katniss with his proposal for an alliance. She was unsure of how to react, but accepted his offer after she noticed his golden bracelet that she assumed came from [[Haymitch]]. Still not fully trusting of him, Katniss remained extremely wary of his every move. However, he proved his usefulness and reliability when he saved Peeta in the midst of a fight, even though it meant he got wounded himself. Finnick became deeply emmotional when Mags ran into the poison fog and killed herself. When [[Katniss]] and him were hunting, there was a Jabberjay attack screaming with loved ones voices, revealing that he is in love with a mad girl in District 4 named [[Annie Cresta]]. He also revived Peeta when he accidentally ran into a force field while exploring the [[arena]]. After the arena is destroyed, Finnick, Beetee, and Katniss are rescued by a hovercraft from [[Plutarch Heavensbee]]; he tells Katniss in the hovercraft that he was unable to go back for Peeta and Johanna, though he wished to.
-===74th Hunger Games===
-Rue was chosen during the reaping at the age of twelve for the 74th Hunger Games along with [[Thresh]], District 11's male tribute. In the training center, she followed [[Katniss Everdeen]] and [[Peeta Mellark]] around as they moved from station to station. She managed to get a seven out of twelve on her evaluation with the [[Gamemaker]]s, probably showing them her skill to move about along treetops swiftly and unnoticed.
+In ''Mockingjay'', at the beginning of the book Finnick goes a little bit crazy with constant crying, and unable to concentrate on anything going on, mostly because he's concentrating so hard on what happened to [[Annie Cresta]] in the Capitol. She was kidnapped by the Capitol and was being tortured, and one of the only ways to keep himself sane was to make knots on a rope over, and over again or just huddle up in a ball. He soon gave that same rope to Katniss to help her. Eventually a rescue team saves Annie Cresta along with others. They then get married and have a son together; unfortunately, Finnick is killed by muttated lizards before the baby is born.
-In the arena, it is likely that Rue managed to stay alive by staying off the ground, much like Katniss did. She also got a [[backpack]] at the [[Cornucopia]] in the beginning of the games. Her pack contained a small water skin and an extra pair of socks. Her stalking Katniss in the training center followed her into the arena, as she had followed Katniss most likely before the [[tracker jacker]] incident.
+===Death===
-;Alliance
+While on the mission to President Snow's mansion, the group was attacked by Lizard Muttations and Finnick was decapitated before Katniss could rescue him. As he dies Katniss gets impressions of his life, including a silver parachute bearing the trident that won him his games, his life on the seas of District 4 and Annie's face.
+===Relationships===
-Rue reminded [[Katniss Everdeen]] of her sister, [[Primrose]]. Small, quick, intelligent, and young, the two had many similarities, which led Katniss to make Rue her ally. Rue had already made the decision to trust Katniss upon seeing her [[mockingjay]] pin, and accepted the older girl's offer.
+In order to stay popular in the [[Capitol]], Finnick puts on a flirtatious personality, fooling many of the Capitol's people into believing that they are his love. His conquests are legendary throughout Panem, and he was famed for being able to go through four or five people in each annual visit during the Hunger Games. However, in ''[[Catching Fire]]'' it is revealed that his one and only true love is [[Annie Cresta]], the 70th Hunger Games victor who went insane when her partner tribute got beheaded in the games. During his interview with [[Caeser Flickerman]], he recites a poem addressed to his one true love in the Capitol; while many members of the audience believe they are the subject, it is implied that it is written about Annie. In ''Mockingjay'', it is revealed that President Snow "rents" him out to wealthy Capitol citizens and if he refuses, President Snow would kill somebody he loves. He also cares a lot for his mentor Mags who has volunteered to participate in the games again. Finnick is close friends with Johanna Mason and fairly good allies with Katniss, Peeta, Wiress, and Beetee. He becomes a closer friend to Katniss in Mockingjay. He marries Annie Cresta and the pair have one son together that was born after his death.
-The two worked together to survive, and learned much about each other and their districts. They shared stories together and became close, although their alliance was short lived. Like Katniss, Rue was able to find edible and medicinal plants in the arena. Among the edible plants she found were some berries and roots. She was also able to pick out a plant that could help extract tracker jacker venom out of Katniss' wounds as well. When it came time to eat, Rue was shy in taking such a large quantity in food, saying that she had never had a whole leg of groosling to herself.  However, Katniss insisted that she took it,  feeling pity for the younger girl.
+== Description ==
-The first and only night that the two spent together, Rue was surprised by the sleeping bag that Katniss had gotten. When Katniss asked how she had kept warm every night, she said that she would pull out her extra socks and put them on her hands. Rue was very comfortable with Katniss indicated by the fact that she immediately snuggled up close to her in the sleeping bag. When Rue told Katniss about the mockingjays in her district, Katniss offered her the gold mockingjay pin she was wearing that Madge had given her, but Rue told her to keep it because it was how she knew that she could trust Katniss.
+Katniss views Finnick as being kind, though a bit conceited. He was described as being extremely handsome. He was tall, muscular, and athletic, with golden skin, bronze-colored hair, and "incredible" sea green eyes. Katniss also states that he has a seductive purr which he used on her when they met in the 3rd Quarter Quell. finnick was also a prostitute because president snow told him he would kill his family if he didny accept.
+==Trivia==
-Katniss and Rue knew that [[the Careers]] needed to be eliminated, and the only way they could possibly make that happen was to take away their ample food and supplies. At first, the feat seemed nearly impossible, but Katniss and Rue devised a plan with the intention of stealing the supplies. Rue, being the smaller of the two, was in charge of setting three fires in various areas around the arena. This would distract the Careers and get them moving as Katniss would try to figure out a way to get their precious supplies. Katniss and Rue decided to communicate by fires and the [[mockingjay]]s. Rue would sing her four-note melody if all was well but she couldn't get to Katniss at the moment. The four-note melody was also the tune that Rue sang to the mockingjays in District 11 to signal the end of the workday; because she worked high in the trees, she was the first out of the workers in the orchard to know when it was time to go home.
+When Finnick meets Katniss in ''Catching Fire'', he asks her if she wants a sugar cube. He also asks her this during ''Mockingjay''.
+[[Category:Characters]]
-;Death
+[[Category:Catching Fire characters]]
+[[Category:Males]]
-Rue died during the Katniss' attempt to destroy the [[Career Tribute|Careers']] stash of supplies, while she was creating her diversion. After successfully lighting the first two fires, she got caught in a net on her way to start the third and final fire. After following the sound of the mockingjays, Katniss found Rue. But the moment she heard her name escape Rue's lips, [[Marvel]] speared Rue in the stomach, earning him an arrow through the neck, as Katniss tried in vain to save her.
+[[Category:People from District 4]]
+[[Category:Quarter Quell Tributes]]
-As a last wish, Rue asked Katniss to sing to her, and Katniss sang [[Rue's Lullaby|a lullaby]] until Rue's eyes fluttered shut and she died. The mockingjays soon picked up Rue's Lullaby and sang it throughout the entire arena.
+[[Category:Tributes]]
+[[Category:Victors]]
-To show the Capitol that Rue was more than a piece in the Games, Katniss covered her in brightly colored flowers she found nearby. As a final goodbye, Katniss gave her the same farewell salute that the entire District 12 gave Katniss when she left for the Games, placing the three middle fingers of the left hand to her lips, then lifting her arm out toward Rue. The gesture was often used by the residents of District 12 at funerals, signifying respect and admiration.
+[[Category:Mentors]]
-In ''Mockingjay'', Katniss compiled a book about all the people who died because of the Hunger Games. She described how Rue stood leaning forward with arms slightly extended to make her look like a bird.
-==Description==
-{{Quote|And most hauntingly, a twelve-year-old girl from District 11. She has dark brown skin and eyes, but other than that, she's very like Prim in size and demeanor.|Katniss Everdeen, while watching Rue's reaping.|The Hunger Games}}
-Being the youngest of the [[tributes]] at the age of 12, Rue was naturally the smallest - but this still gave her a heavy advantage for being light on her feet and quick. Rue had thick, dark hair, dark brown skin and eyes. She always stood leaning forward, on her toes, with both arms slightly extended. This is how Prim, Katniss's sister, stands also, which brings back memories of Rue whenever Katniss sees her own sister. This made her look like a bird, ready to take flight. Her swift and almost invisible movements through the treetops added to the bird-like description.
-==Family==
-Rue was the eldest of six children. She had five younger siblings, all living in poverty in [[District 11]].
-She usually gave her food rations to her younger siblings, and foraged in the fields to provide more food for them. On the victory tour, Katniss sees her family. A man in back whistles her four note tune, getting himself shot and starting a small uprising.
-==Personality==
-Rue had a sweet nature, loving those close to her, and hates to see them hurt. Her greatest joy in life was music, and she loved singing with the [[mockingjays]] at home.
-Rue fully understood the inhumane and brutality of [[The Games|the Hunger Games]], but couldn't sink down to the level of the others. Katniss supplied a bit of emotional support to Rue, giving her the hope that maybe it wouldn't be all bad.
-It is also her personality that set her apart from Prim. Prim could not stand to see anything get hurt and would have definitely not been able to harm anyone in the games, but Rue was ready and willing to go forth with the plan, seeing it as an adventure (Prim sees adventures as an ordeal). Teaching Prim to hunt was a disaster, with her crying over the shot animal and wondering if there was time to rush it home and nurse it back to health, whereas Rue was prepared to do whatever to survive.
-== Trivia ==
-* Rue received her name from a small mountain flower, just as Katniss received her name from a waterside plant. Rue is considered a national herb of Lithuania and it is the most frequently referenced herb in Lithuanian folk songs, as an attribute of young girls, associated with virginity and maidenhood. In mythology, the basilisk, whose breath could cause plants to wilt and stones to crack, had no effect on rue. Weasels who were bitten by the basilisk would retreat and eat rue in order to recover and return to fight.
-* "Rue" means "street" in French.
-* 'Rue' also means to regret.
-* Due to her physical description, it might be concluded that she is of African American, Latin American, Native American, or South Asian descent.
-==Mutt==
-Rue's mutt was one of the wolf creatures that appeared at the end of the 74th Hunger Games. It was described as the smallest of the wolf creatures with a dark brown coat. It also wore a woven collar made of plant fibers. Rue's district number, 11, was woven into the collar as well.
-[[Category:Females]]
-[[Category:People from District 11]]
 [[Category:Deceased]]
-[[Category:Tributes from District 11]]
+[[Category:Rebels]]
-[[Category:Characters]]