Character from The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The most beautiful man in Panem and the deadliest with a trident — District 4's golden boy Victor whose charm hid years of Capitol-forced prostitution and a love he'd die to protect.
Finnick Odair won his Games at fourteen — the youngest Victor in decades — with a trident gifted by sponsors who were already in love with him. The Capitol fell harder. President Snow sold his body to the richest and most powerful citizens of the Capitol, threatening to kill everyone Finnick loved if he refused. He refused nothing. He smiled through all of it. Behind the flirtation and the sugar cubes and the performative arrogance, Finnick is shattered. He loves Annie Cresta — the District 4 Victor who went mad in her arena — with a desperate, protective tenderness that is the only real thing left in his life. Everything else is performance, persona, survival. In the rebellion, he finally gets to stop pretending. His televised confession about the Capitol's abuse of Victors is the most devastating piece of propaganda the rebels produce. He marries Annie in District 13. He dies in the Capitol sewers fighting lizard mutts, moments after the happiest period of his life. The Capitol took everything from him, including the ending he earned.
Bronze hair, sea-green eyes, and a face so symmetrically perfect it looks engineered. Tall and athletic with the build of a swimmer. He's effortlessly gorgeous in a way that the Capitol weaponized — they dressed him up and sold him to the highest bidder. In the Quarter Quell arena, stripped of Capitol styling, he's lean muscle and trident scars and a smile that never quite reaches his eyes.
Also known as: Finnick, Finnick Odair