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assorted thoughts on : district four pt 1

names tend to be themed to the water and ocean life, especially any bodies or water or land formations. it's incredibly common to know a marina or wade. some names have spanish origins or irish such as delmar or shannon. it's typically bad luck to name your child after someone who has suffered a terrible fate. with a population of over 100,000 it’s hard to find a name that doesn’t match, and that’s why the superstition is mostly applied to one’s immediate and secondary circles. with victors, once they become a victor, their name tends to decrease in popularity and fall away for a while. you will get mash ups or nicknames

fishing zones are based on the catch of an area and are split up also to better organize those parts of the district as well as avoiding overfishing. some areas are heavy in shrimp catch and others in trout

the weather is for the most part characterized by cool, wet winters and dry summers. there's a lot of wind and a lot of cloud cover. in some parts of the district there's fog in the mornings that rolls in. the water on the beaches is generally cold though many often will go in it. there's dangerous waters in most places due to the currents which is why it's crucial that people are strong swimmers. there's a lot of more tame beaches and coves where one might go for a genuinely relaxing swim and it's also where a lot of kids are taught to swim to reduce risk

a lot of people are taught medicine, and first aid is a course thats offered in school as a possible elective. a lot of the industry work is dangerous and can be independent or isolating so they teach people a lot of basics to be able to survive

there’s a checkpoint between the docks and the rest of the district where peacekeepers oversee that no one leaves with a spear or any other dangerous fishing gear. many have found ways, namely through the district’s black market, to make their own or buy some to keep at home under floorboards and other assorted spots

#D4.#thinking about the fish people #some of these have already been posted in the past but #gonna maybe make a world building thingy on figma or something for all the lore

good morning! 19th birthdays are kind of a huge deal in district four. they mark avoiding the reapings and forever being free from entering the hunger games (unless a quell) so people will celebrate hard. some places might give you a free drink and the bakers might slip you a spare cookie. obviously for victors, the 19th birthday loses all of its usual meaning, and in some cases becomes completely commodified by the capitol as an excuse to drag you back into the spotlight and throw a celebration in your name and honor. finnick usually doesn’t like to celebrate his birthday or do anything around it— it follows just a month after the games. there’s nothing to celebrate, he feels too far from himself, there’s too many things to mourn. his sixteenth birthday haunts him more than anything

#finnick hates his bday but he’s also the type to go “aW but it’s my birthday :p” when he wants something from someone #ask to tag #HCS.#D4.

good morning! finnick, like very many in district four, believes that naming someone after someone else, especially someone deceased, is bad luck. both nemo thetis’ are a prime example— both having died in the games. a person’s soul and their name should be left to be reclaimed by the sea and not by a newborn. there are of course exceptions to this, many girls share the name maria and there’s more wades and gilbert’s than you’d imagine. with a population of over 100,000 it’s hard to find a name that doesn’t match, and that’s why the superstition is mostly applied to one’s immediate and secondary circles. with victors, once they become a victor, their name tends to decrease in popularity and fall away for a while. this belief is widely shared though and is the reason for a lot of the more unique names and name mashups.

finnick struggles to come up with baby names largely due to how many people he can think of when it comes to most suggestions and ideas

#HCS.#D4.

good morning! bayard thetis was the district four victor of the 23rd hunger games. bayard won his games by surviving a brutal heatwave and being an even more brutal fighter. he was surprisingly skilled with a bow in the arena but his strength won him most fights. shortly after his games he married a woman named eeba from fishery 8 and together they had two sons, nemo the second and starby thetis. prior to nemo’s birth, bayard’s brother nemo was voted to participate in the 25th hunger games and died in the games— leading his name to be passed down to bayard’s first born. both went into the academy for training for the games, although there was never any expectation for them to actually volunteer and end up in the games. unfortunately for the thetis family, no nemo knows luck, and nemo the second was reaped in the 44th games and was not replaced by a volunteer. starby went on to marry a woman from fishery 2, marnie, and they had three kids— rydel, estey, and hayward. the entire family lives in the district four victors village in bayard’s victor house. eeba passed around the time of the 61st games but bayard is often seen talking to her while out and about. he spends his time sailing with the grandkids and even taking finnick out on a number of occasions. he likes finnick’s fishing background and finds it quite helpful— and he likes that finnick is able to keep to himself on the boat. finnick finds it hard to imagine him as the brutal fighter who won his games, but sometimes bayard pushes him off the boat and into the water and finnick finds the belief pretty quick

#bayard is just the grandpa of d4 and i love him #HCS.#D4.

good morning! finnick is largely remembered in his fishery not as the victor of the 65th games, but as the kid who was barely up to anybody’s hip and walking around from dock to dock trying to strike up a deal where he could for work and a room. he had a sort of look perfected— a sweet little expression with some pouting eyes. it was effective to say the least. that part of the district has a lot of stories to share about him as a child, and you’re very likely to hear that story at least twice if you were to visit and ask anybody what they know or think about finnick

#todays short bc im up early and head empty #HCS.#D4.

good morning! another d4 victor introduction— wade gillard is the victor of the 47th games. like many tributes from the district he was good with a spear and that ended up being his weapon from start to finish. he had a pretty typical victory by all accounts, having started with a career alliance and breaking off after the loss of his tribute partner. if there’s anything to take away from his games it’s the way he made his rather standoffish attitude seem charming. he earned himself a sort of bad boy reputation through it. back home, it’s less charming and he’s just generally seen as a hater and judgmental, but he is pretty known for giving people good advice and making good calls about people. he became one of the mentors working and training kids at the academy and devoted a lot of his time there. he had attended himself and been chosen to volunteer so he felt it only right to contribute to the academy after his victory. his victor talent had also become sketching. with just a couple strokes of a pen or pencil he could generally recreate or capture a very simple likeness. he married eventually to a woman named selene and the two had a daughter together who they named poisie. the family has known finnick since he started at the academy, and prior to going into the games, despite his young age, wade had him picked early on to be a contender for volunteering one day.

#every day i wake up and have to think of more fish and water names #i have had wade named for a while but his wife’s name evaded me #HCS.#D4.

good morning & merry christmas eve! while christmas isn’t a thing in panem, there are plenty of other days that finnick celebrates— august is full of parties for his birthday falls towards the end of the month, new years is always an excuse to sing and dance, something akin to harvest day if not harvest day itself (while it’s talked about as occurring in 12, there’s a lot implying it’s like thanksgiving so i think other districts would also have it — again an excuse to gather and sing and eat), may 19th is his parents anniversary, mags’ birthday, any of the other victors of d4’s birthdays are also quite the fun occasion, annie’s birthday, their anniversary, their son’s birthday, there’s a fishermans holiday, a week long festival to celebrate the sea, women’s day, parents day, and there’s sure to be some others

#culture of d4 can be something so special (made up in my head)#HCS.#D4.

good morning! being a sucker for people coming together to help someone, i don’t think the trident came from some rich nameless sponsor. finnick had probably fashioned himself a makeshift spear, if not gotten one from the cornucopia and he was doing alright with it. it was holding up decently until it got lost during a mutt chase. i think having seen him already with a spear, sponsors would’ve just sent him another, but it’s the people back home who know finnick to be particularly good with a trident. the career system in four works to give the tributes of the district a fighting chance of coming home, not necessarily for glory or honor. district 4 came together to raise money and buy finnick a trident during his games as he was never supposed to go in at 14 and the career volunteering system failed him. they came together hoping to give him a fighting chance of coming home

#i just am weak for people coming together to help someone and i think the people would’ve come together for finnick #it also adds to the devastation of his story and his public persona #HCS.#D4.