⚠️ trigger warnings : mentions of human experimentation and torture, child neglect + abandonment, alcohol, character is a gunslinger.
finnick is basically a direct insert of finley into the final fantasy vii universe. finnick is VERRRYYY degenerate alt emo boy from the 2000s, so when you see the songs that fit him please don't be alarmed. he takes after his father, except vincent is for sure asexual 😭 they do NOT give a fuck, and they kinda say whatever they want no matter if they should or not. he can come off as cold or rude in daily interactions, and he mainly keeps to himself. in lore's case, that mainly comes from the severe lack of basic human kindness that he's received. additionally, eight years of being tortured and used as a test subject will do that to you.
☆ skateboarding - reading - gaming - cooking - motorcycles - chocobo racing ☆
☆ dirty mind by 3OH!3 | guys don't like me by it boys! | start to fall by get scared | voodoo by get scared | animal i have become by three days grace | ain't no rest for the wicked by cage the elephant | gasoline by halsey | fallen star by the neighbourhood | bleed (feat. omar apollo) by malcolm todd | dead to me by kali uchis ☆
finnick was born unwanted and left abandoned in the outskirts of nibelheim. up until the age of 12, he survived off of scraps given to him by the townspeople, along with few different outfits that the old ladies would spare when they could. one night, as they slept, a group of shinra agents found them. their intentions were to use him as a test subject for professor hojo's eminent jenova project. they lured him in under the guise that he would finally have a home, and that was unfortunately his only weakness. in return, they had to pledge their loyalty to shinra and comply with whatever anyone at shinra saw fit. he agreed, and followed the agents back to shinra's headquarters.
vincent valentine, a grief-stricken turk reeling from the abandonment by his beloved, lucrecia crescent, learns of this child's presence in shinra headquarters. he devises a plan in order to prevent finnick from experiments that he knew this child would be unfortunately subjected to. sure enough, he sneaks into the lab room, where finnick was kept, as he laid asleep and unsupervised. avoided by both hojo and lucrecia due to his objections to human experimentation, vincent went unnoticed. he hides them in the basement of the shinra mansion, which had previously been abandoned in favor of better lab and research rooms.
they would continue to remain undiscovered for years. vincent raised finnick as if he were blood, despite there only being an 8 year age difference. finnick was taught defense and morality: defense, with vincent's own highly experienced gunslinging abilities; morality, the horrifying truth of the jenova project. finnick's disappearance did not go unnoticed, nor did it draw any concern. homeless children were tragically common and easily found, and that fact made him replaceable. hojo would inevitably discover the two while they slept during the night when he returned to the mansion to obtain a chemical that he needed for one of his experiments, and took them in for torturous genetic experimentation for their punishment. when they are released, vincent locks them away, fated to be found by curious travelers decades later.
finnick and vincent, after much hesitation, joined avalanche for the primary goal of stopping hojo and preventing sephiroth's destruction. ffvii's storyline continues following the finding of both finnick and vincent in their coffins.
following advent children, finnick lives in the city of edge in the outskirts of ruined midgar with cloud. they share an apartment together, sometimes watching marlene while barrett is away at work.
ship tag : #🌪🌙 eye of the storm ~♡|
☆ i won't say (i'm in love) by susan eegan | smithereens by twenty one pilots | i can see you by taylor swift | picture you by chappell roan | i want someone badly by jeff buckley | somethin' stupid by frank sinatra | like real people do by hozier | only over you by fleetwood mac | at the beach, in every life by gigi perez ☆
as you'd expect, anybody would be overly cautious of a random group of strangers that walked into your bedroom; especially after being asleep for three decades. but, from the moment they met, finnick was fascinated by cloud. how much gel did he use for his hair for it to stay up like that? were his eyes mako, and did that mean he was apart of SOLDIER? cloud was quiet, reserved; he never really said much unless he had to. eventually, finnick started noticing himself stealing glances and would observe cloud just for the hell of it. this man was FASCINATING to him. they noticed how he would fidget with his hands, and the way his eyes lit up when somebody praised him for his work. cloud didn't think finnick would notice, but he was doing the same.. except hardly discreet. he would notice the focus that he had when he was playing games, or in anything that he did. sometimes, he would sneak out at night to watch finnick and vincent practice shooting targets, and notice the precision of each bullet shot. there were too many feelings, and too many of them were unspoken. over time, finnick started falling. for a man who acted apathetic to anybody and anything, cloud sure wasn't fooling him. he was soft and kind, and oh he was beautiful. so so beautiful. finnick indeed was falling, he had only heard about love when vincent would tell stories of lucrecia. was this what it felt like? no, he can't. but why? finnick didn't know, but he was certain that this wasn't a thing that could happen. obviously, that belief was abandoned quickly. cause, when you've been successful on a mission, and are just a littleee bit tipsy, god knows that all previous self-restraint becomes non-existent. everybody had went to bed, but they were still up. they were up; up with a few bottles of wine and beer scattered messily across the floor of the seventh heaven bar. one thing leads to another, a hand brushes gently against someone's cheek.. and boom. all of those bottled up feelings, stolen glances from across the room? they escaped like a word on the tip of your tongue, except you finally found the name of it. the next morning, they're in cloud's bed. "ohhhhh shit" they thought. they agree that this was a one time thing, and finnick bolts out of the room, shoots down the stairs like the bullets he shot so frequently, and hurriedly shoved his socks on his feet on the way. except, of course it never is just one time. the next few missions were awkward, but also filled with excessive flirting and subconscious touches. they finally get another moment alone, and they talk about what that was, even though they both knew exactly what they felt. they were in love, somehow they fell in love, and they didn't want to fall out of it. so, these indecisive nerds finally made the decision of each other, and have been madly in love ever since.
this is the FIRST part of my many s/i posts, there will be more as soon as i can get time to write them out! i wanted finnick's out first, because he's the one you see the most on here :)
☆ dividers : @/slytherin-pen , @/diviniyae , @/urdearestangel
