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Finley Wiatt




My head and my heart are colliding, chaotic;
Pace of the world, I just wish I could stop it.
Try to appear like I've got it together; I'm falling apart.

full name: Finley Adelle Wiatt

age: 16

district: 10

tesserae?: no

valuable skills: Finley has a quick wit and intelligence, the gears in her mind are constantly turning, and she has keen eyesight. She knows the basics of survival and has a knack for using foreign objects and turning them into something useful. The death of her young sister has hardened her so that the outside world sees a strong, impassive girl – no one of consequence – which isn’t the case at all. Finley is definitely a force to be reckoned with.

weaknesses: Finley is easily distracted and tends to be over analytical of situations. She doesn’t know much about hand-to-hand combat and isn’t completely comfortable with handling any sort of weapons. She also depends upon glasses in order to see properly.

family: Alana, 39 years old, teacher
Milo, 41 years old, civil engineer
Conrad, 20 years old, student

likes: being in control; caring for others; hot chocolate; being on her own; astronomy; word search puzzles; family; traveling; learning new things

dislikes: her glasses; complex situations; snakes; killing; superficial people; guilt; meeting new people; chalkboards; fighting/arguing

wants: to change the past; make her parents proud

fears: dark, tight spaces; losing her brother

history: Finley had a small family compared to some, but for her, it was definitely enough. She used to love running back home after school with her younger sister, Gillian, to fetch their brother Conrad so he could take them to the massive network of caves that they had discovered so long ago. Nearly every day they met up there with other kids from District 10 to do homework, play games, and do what kids do best: mingle and converse. While their parents didn’t like them being so close to the entrance of the vastly uncharted cave system, they still went anyway, promising that they would never enter the caves.

This all changed when Conrad was home sick and they decided to go on alone. The afternoon began like any other, Gillian immediately shrugging Finley’s arm off of her shoulder and running off to be with her own friends. Finley took her usual spot under a tree and got to work on her math problems. She had been up late the night previously studying furiously for her end of year exams and barely had the stamina to even get through her classes which is why, to this day, Conrad always tells her that he doesn’t blame her for falling asleep. It was a sharp shriek that woke her and she heard Gillian’s name being called over and over again. Immediately she jumped up and ran as fast as she could towards the voices of the young girls, but she was just a few minutes too late.

Gillian’s friends had gotten into a game of Truth-or-Dare and, in a moment of girlish stupidity, she chose a dare and her friend Cora cunningly challenged her to venture into the pitch black caves and shout to the world that she loved Jacob Reade. Of course Gillian Wiatt wasn’t going to injure her pride by turning down a dare and so she tentatively walked just a few feet, no more than thirty, inside and proclaimed her love.

In return, the fragile ceiling of the cave began to collapse just a short distance away, causing her to jump back in fright as rock and dust flew around her head in frenzy. They never recovered her body.

Gillian would have been twelve years old this year, her first year to be eligible for the Hunger Games. In a way, Finley is grateful that her darling sister would never have to endure the horror that the Games brought to each District. Mostly, though, Finley hates herself for falling asleep that day and vehemently believes that it was her fault Gillian died.


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alias: whatever you can make out of Finley
experience: Its been a long while, but about two years