#Finnick Odair/Annie cresta

[clatoera]

Let's talk about Annie Cresta.

What do you think of Annie as a character?

Do you think Annie volunteer or being reaped for her games?

What's about her condition after winning the games?

Headcanon post-Mockingjay?

Thank you 😊

Oh sweet Annie.

I think we don't know enough about her. Annie is a victor in her own right, and we do NOT know enough about her. All we get is notes on how crazy she is, and fortunately, the depth of how Finnick loves her. Finnick, the most sought after man in the Capitol, has deep incredible love for Annie. I want her story, I want to know who she was before her games, about her life in 4. I want more on Annie. I want to know all about her.

Annie Cresta, even her name is so nautical (Cresting waves?? like how cool is that).

I don't think she volunteered. 4 is a career district sometimes, not always I don't think (could be wrong, but I know in the films Haymitch described 1 and 2 as the Career Districts, so my info is from that right now). I think she was reaped but got very lucky. To me, I've always sort of wondered if arenas were designed with certain districts and tributes in mind. Katniss and the woods so much like her home district. Annie..and the flooding Arena. Annie won specifically because she was the strongest swimmer. Only someone from 4 was going to pull that off. We don't know enough about Annie to know what her "career volunteering" skill would be, which leads me to believe she was reaped and then her skill was something she could have only developed as a 4 girl.

Her condition after winning the games is trauma. PTSD with severe trauma. People say she went insane, that she went mad. I think she had severe, unresolved, and untreated PTSD. She saw her district partner Beheaded in front of her, and frankly that would traumatize anybody. She panics onstage at the reaping because she could relive that trauma. I think she actually is representative of the trauma of the victors. We don't talk enough about the trauma of Victors, and I think she represents the culmination of what could happen, what happens when it's not addressed and treated. These kids come out as Victors and are paraded around and treated like queens and kings...but no one acknowledges these kids just watched 23 people died. Theres no therapy or counseling to deal with trauma, and I think Annie represents a significant and severe case of PTSD. I actually think all of the Victors have PTSD. I think it's evident in Katniss, Annie, Finnick, and Haymitch especially, but I do think it extends to them all. I think Enobaria, Gloss, Johanna, etc etc etc...they have trauma from their own games but also from watching their own tributes go in and die year after year.

Noone comes out of the arena unscathed and I think Annie exists as a caricature of that trauma. Everyone is one more kill, one more loss, away from Annie's madness.

But like I said. I don't think she's insane. I think she is traumatized.

Post Mockingjay?

Annie is a widow and single mother to a very young child. I can't imagine that was easy for her. I think she was at very high risk of post partum depression, Post Partum anxiety, and even Post Partum Psychosis, and I hope she had the support somehow that she needs. She would desperately need the support.

I think she keeps up to date with Peeta, Katniss, and maybe Johanna/other surviving victors from 13. Especially Peeta and Katniss, we know from the letter and picture she sends of him. I think they do visits a few times a year. Exchange letters on their children. They watch Finnick's son grow up and make sure he knows how remarkable and brave his father was. They support Annie since he is not there to do so.

I think knowing her son now lives in a world without the games helps heal her. She will never watch her son go through what she and Finnick did.

Most of all, I hope Annie received mental health support. She now has added trauma of losing her husband in a terrible way, and living through a war. Not to mention the Capitol torture she witnessed and faced herself. Annie has extra trauma to process now. I hope she has guidance and counseling like Katniss/Peeta get. I hope she gets help. She deserves it. AND she would be able to recover and move forward with joy.

Annie Deserves that.

Thank you!

@curiousnonny

[hillnerd]

Shipping prompt: Finnick and Annie! (also hey hi I miss you, sorry I've been awol!) x

pg 13 trigger warning: canon compliant- brief descriptions of violence, death, suicidal ideation and human sex trafficking They’d been neighbors. He’d seen her playing in the sand when they were young and the Games were something they were still capable of ignoring. 

They’d been classmates. She was one of the youngest in his class, and he was one of the oldest. They’d had a few conversations, but had never spent real time together. Who he talked to at school and who he spent time with outside of school were very different. She’d seemed nice. Pure. Had a sort of sweetness that he’d mock if she wasn’t so sincere about it. She was a bit plain and kept to herself. Finnick didn’t understand being alone back then. He’d always had a gaggle of friends, and girls had noticed him since he was eleven or so. 

They’d been partnered for a group project once. She’d been patient when that weird boy had kept talking about something entirely unrelated to their project. She’d been able to direct him back to the project, and gave Finnick a warning glare when Finnick had been about to laugh. He admired her patience and her glare. That same boy had died later in the year. The Games were impossible to ignore then.

Then his name had been called. He won the games and had been moved to the Victor’s village. Despite being fourteen, he wasn’t allowed to go to the school anymore. He had few neighbors. He had no friends. He was always alone. The Games hung around his neck like a vice.

He barely got to stay home, anyways. They had him at the Capital ‘entertaining people’ for months on end. He’d tried to fight them, but then they’d killed his father… He stopped fighting after that.

Returning home made him feel tainted. People would stare at him, but not like in the Capital where they stared with admiration, want or envy. It felt like everyone at home could see every unwanted kiss, every unwanted touch on him— could see he wasn’t normal anymore. They didn’t see the marks— there were none. He was polished and waxed like a piece of wood— cold, unfeeling, meant to be used… He didn’t fit in at home, but at the Capital he wasn’t one of them either. 

Going home just meant more kids for him to fail. Every kid he mentored died. Mags would silently put a hand on top of his and squeeze it, but the warmth wouldn’t get through. He wanted to die.

He would have killed himself from pills if he didn’t think they’d murder his mother just to spite him and let all the other Victors know there was no such thing as escape, not even in death.

Then Annie’s name was called. 

He didn’t even care who the male tribute was. Annie! He knew her. He felt how wrong it was for someone like her to be in the arena.

Her sea-green eyes were filled with tears, but she didn’t openly sob. He put a hand on her shoulder and she stilled at his touch, not looking his way.

He shouldn’t have touched her. He quickly pulled his hand back.

He didn’t want her to end up like him… Maybe it’d be better if she died.

He’d tried to distance himself on the train, be charming and polite but indifferent. He couldn’t after she’d smiled at him, recalling that weird boy from their group project six years prior. Eadmund. 

“He loved talking about sharks,” she recalled. “He even had a collection of shark teeth he had his mother give me after he died.”

“He remembered you, even then?”

She gave a shrug. “He didn’t have many friends.”

Finnick had definitely not been Eadmund’s friend. Or Annie’s. He should have.

Then she was in the arena. Finnick couldn't help but keep a watchful eye on Annie. He saw her struggle to survive, witnessed the fear in her eyes, and felt an unfamiliar gratefulness that he was considered handsome and charming. He could use this to keep her safe. Maybe she could just outlast the others long enough… She was crumbling, though. The other District 4 tribute got beheaded in front of her, and she couldn’t scrub the blood off her clothes. She tried until her own hands bled. When the arena fell, he’d watched in frozen horror as the water crashed through the trees, flattening buildings, and flooding the arena in a matter of minutes. Annie had just managed to climb a tree when the rising waters overtook it. She’s fallen into the brown churning water and he’d held his breath. No cannon meant no death. Then cannon after cannon went off. 

Was it Annie? 

He let out a gasp as she emerged, weakly treading water. 

He felt Mag’s hand on his elbow, insistent. 

She mumbled something he couldn’t make out, then Claudius Templesmith’s voice said, “Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to present the victor of the 70th Hunger Games, Annie Cresta! The tribute from District 4!”

Horror and relief were intermingled. She’d survived. And now they’d want to use her like they had him. 

But when he’d met her in her hospital room she’d been screaming nonsensically. The sponsors didn’t find her attractive in the games, all quiet and tears and blood stained. No one wanted her. They called her mad.

Maybe she was. 

They’d become neighbors. He visited her every day when he was home. Each time he came back from the Capital, she saw every invisible mark, every invisible unwanted touch, but she was kind to him. She was patient. And he learned to be kind and patient with her. 

He found the only place he didn’t feel tainted was in her arms, and in his arms she wasn’t mad. 

[cashmeresglimmer]

The survivors of District 12 singing and dancing at Finnick and Annie's wedding hits so different after reading/watching tbosas. Can you imagine Snow's reaction to that propo? No matter how hard he tried to erase Lucy Gray and to obliterate District 12, she lived on in her music, music which is kept alive by the people of the place she once called home.

[lady-corrine]

Thinking again about how Suzanne esentially subverted the "beloved famous man that is actually a horrible person in real life" with Finnick, who is the complete opposite of that.

Finnick has this whole image costructed around him by the people that abused him for years: the Capitol's darling, their golden boy, the sex symbol of Panem, the man that has countless lovers but leaves them constantly and doesn't look back etc. And you would expect, initially, to meet a man that retains at least a part of that persona in his day to day life. But Finnick doesn't, not even one bit.

You see instead a man that is deeply in love and completely devoted to the one woman he quite literally adores, a man that protects Mags, his old mentor and his mother figure, as much as he can, a man that wouldn't leave Johanna behind, a man that gathers whatever strenght he has left to speak publicly about the abuse inflicted upon him at the government's hands; the opposite of what the Capitol's media and reputation made him out to be.

[aco1yte]

Sorry for inactivity, crazy busy recently :( I watched tbosas and fell headfirst back into my hunger games phase - been fully rereading the books too so take some art

[fantasybuff96]

In Mockingjay Part 2 when Peeta has lost his mind and is dropped off with Katniss and the rebel party who are about to kill Snow. The others treat Peeta as a threat, but Finnick steps in when they raise their weapons against Peeta and is shown the entire time as being patient with him and has Peeta repeat phrases that help his mind and that he would need to repeat to Panem, and he also advises him to just ask when Peeta tells Katniss he doesn’t know the difference between what’s real or not real.

Finnick is the only one in the party that has the patience for Peeta (outside of Katniss’s love for Peeta that is) when his mind is shattered because he's used to helping and being so patient over the years with Annie that he immediately does it with Peeta.

[anton-wyzek]

Remember what he did to them

[thetrashqueeeen]

i know the fanon is that annie wasn’t a career and just didn’t have anyone to volunteer for her but i actually think she’s more interesting as a career tbh. she trained her whole life, she volunteered, she saw her tribute partner get beheaded and the trauma was so strong it changed her forever. that’s it, that’s the post.

[jakeperalta]

if you must die, remember your life.

[myrandom-fandomlife]

Actually no I’m so not done talking about how rigged the quell was. Because I’ve seen people referring to it as “hunger games all stars.” That was 1000% intentional. Not only is it these weirdly coincidental duos that are reaped together (even from districts with tons of victors). For instance, a brother and sister duo, and two different known couples- it’s ALSO people who won their own games by extraordinary means. It IS the all stars, anyone who poses the biggest threat to the capitol. To eliminate all but one would be to eliminate any threat of the capitol’s fall. All of them arguably have the most reason for rebellion as well- it was a truly genius move that probably would’ve worked if it weren’t for Plutarch’s plan.

[johnwickistheworstmovie]

the way victors always tried to protect each other because they are the only ones who know what they went through. the way haymitch fought to make sure they didn’t alter katniss’s body. how haymitch fought against finnick sharing his stories to protect him from the memories. how katniss was ready to mercy kill beetee when she thought they were taken by the capitol. how katniss made it a stipulation for the victors taken captive be given pardon no matter what. even enobaria. how peeta comforted the victor from 6 as she was dying. they all protected each other whatever way they could. because they were the only ones there for each other really

[swirlingyouintomypoems]

I think I’m hilarious. Just btw.

Part two

Part three

Part four

Part five

Part six (tbosbas edition!)

Part seven

[thedelicatearcher]

WE WON, ODESTA NATION!!!

[lady-corrine]

Annie and Finnick wearing Katniss and Peeta's outfits for their wedding 🥺, Peeta making their wedding cake 🥺, Katniss saying their wedding is one of the few things she doesn't have to pretend to be happy about 🥺

[fantasybuff96]

I will never get over Gale’s stupid ass thinking that Finnick wanted Katniss at the beginning of Mockingjay, when the entire time that man was breaking down and longing for Annie. Like the whole reason Katniss and Finnick became close friends was their joined love and longing for Peeta and Annie who were both imprisoned in the capital together.

[vasilissadragomir]

one of the most heart-wrenching things about thg universe is that you feel the loss of who each character would be outside the circumstances of their birth almost as acutely as you feel the loss of the characters themselves.

sure, we know what lucy gray and her family would be doing in a different world; she’d be dancing and singing and making music which defines a cultural identity. but what about the others? would haymitch have been a hilarious, loving father with a family had he not been forced to survive 47 other children’s brutal deaths? would finnick have been a charismatic and beloved actor, bringing joy to immeasurable people on his own terms? would beetee and wiress have worked together to develop technology to make it easier to connect loved ones far and wide? what would reaper and annie have given to the world, or thresh, or rue, or even coral or cato or glimmer or clove?

if katniss wasn’t half-starving and forced to spend each day hunting to feed her family, would archery be her true passion? or if she’d been a well-sustained little girl with access to art supplies, would she have spent her time sketching captivating dresses? she picks up ropes and making fish hooks quickly—could her dexterity have lent itself to knitting, sewing, or crocheting with vibrant yarns and fabrics? there’s so much evidence that katniss finds clothing inspiring and empowering, even when she dismisses it as frivolous. she likes being pretty, she just hates the circumstances under which she’s made to look pretty. cinna shows her that beauty has its own power, and there are several moments in her interactions with cinna and his designs that make me wonder who she’d be if she had space for art and creativity in her life.

conversely, peeta has had art in his life since he was a small child, but for him, art has always been entangled with his trauma. he could bake and decorate well because he learned from his mother, a mother who beat him his whole life. but his talent grows, not only as a survival tool in the first games, but when he paints rue on the floor of the training center before the second games. his art becomes not only a symbol of his trauma, but a means of resistance and solidarity. in a world where peeta’s intrinsic kindness and loving heart had been nurtured and welcomed rather than abused, could he have been a painter, helping people find collective meaning in the simple realities of life?

could katniss and peeta have still found each other in another world, a world without the horrors they were raised with, and bonded over their love of art? could they have been each other’s muses?

maybe they find their way to share art, after the events of mockingjay, as part of their process of healing and falling in love with each other. when they’re finally safe and have been for a long time, maybe katniss fashions peeta an easel for him to paint in their living room. after months of watching him gaze out the window and paint the changing leaves, katniss takes to knitting on a rocking chair in the other corner of the living room to steady her restless hands. they work silently as the days go by, quietly exchanging the things they’ve made to give each other the reassurance and love neither could ever fully convey with words.

and maybe one day, when they learn there’s a baby on the way due in midwinter, katniss takes a page from peeta’s sketchpad and starts to plan a series of sweaters and hats and socks she can knit for the baby. and peeta goes to the little nursery upstairs and starts working on a mural, so the baby will have something beautiful to look at every day. they work together to design the perfect baby blanket for their child, to ensure they will always be wrapped in a layer of protection and love by their parents.

but even if they find creativity and beauty in their lives after the end of mockingjay, the art they make will simply never be what that art could have been had they not faced what they faced. art comes from suffering, yes, but the human condition has so much suffering as is, and we’d never know what kind of art they’d make if they hadn’t experienced trauma of a distinctly sadistic and inhuman nature. but maybe their children, raised in a better world with love and protection and safety and joy and creativity and expression, will be the ones to create the art peeta and katniss never could.