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    He insisted her hair be cut short, long locks cropped to her ears. Shouko’s childish complaint that she looked like a boy was met by a harsh slap across the cheek by her father, her young body skidding across the floor from the impact.

    She didn’t complain about it again.

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    Female rebellion, the clashing love for your mother and the terror that you'll end up just as she has, childhoods denied- and the way Shouko Todoroki starts to heal.

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    27 Aug 2025

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    A 17-year old Annie Cresta volunteers for the Hunger Games after being fed the promise of honor and wealth all her life. Victory soon turns out to have a high price, but at least meeting Finnick is a silver lining. A bond blossoms between two people who have both been badly hurt by the Capitol, but navigating the maze that Snow has put them in is not easy.

    This spans from the 70th til the 75th Hunger Games, and is told partly from Annie's perspective, and partly from Finnick's.

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    01 May 2025

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    “If you knew what Finnick’s been through the last few years, you’d know how remarkable it is he’s still with us.”

     

    But he’s not. With them, that is. He’s slipping, fading.

    Drowning.

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    17 Apr 2025

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    In which Katniss swaps out her monochrome worldview to see Finnick through multicolored lenses

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    14 Apr 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 93

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    '"The happy lives Victors live…it's not real, Finnick. They get the money and the fame but they're all broken. The smiles they put on afterward are fake, trying to mask the horror of what they've seen and done. The only ones who even seem slightly okay with it are the most ruthless and horrible Victors: the killing machines. And I realized I couldn't do it." Myron breathed in heavily. "And if I can't, you definitely can't. Because you're good, Finn. Don't let anyone tell you anything else."

    Finnick wondered if his brother was psychic, for those were the words he would cling to for the next ten years of his life.'

    When Finnick was reaped at fourteen, he thought surviving the Arena would be his greatest challenge. Unfortunately, the Games never end for any Victor.

    Particularly not attractive ones.

    The tale of how Finnick Odair nearly lost himself, found love, and above all remained good in a cruel world.

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    28 Mar 2025