THG fic: "Spin Control" [22/24]

[trovia]

Title: Spin Control
Pairings: Finnick/Haymitch, Kat/Peeta
Characters: Finnick, Haymitch, Chaff, Peeta, Gale, Kat; plus appearances by Mags, Johanna, Caesar Flickerman, President Snow, Effie, Claudius Templesmith, Beetee, Prim, Thresh, Rue, District Twelve ensemble and various OC
Rating: adult
Warnings: forced prostitution & non-con; people dealing

Comments

[trovia]

You know, I was so pleased with myself when the "swimmer in a storm" metaphor occurred to me. Obviously I'd been using the swimming metaphor before, most notably in the kissing chapter named for the title of the fic, in a positive way. So you just know you're screwed if the leading metaphor of the story comes back in a negative way. ;)

Chibi!Annie and Chibi!Finnick were fun. ;)

I know exactly as much as you do about Cherry. I compare her to Effie: Kat sort of likes Effie because she's spent enough time with her to get her on some level. I think it's hard to hate a person if they aren't treating you badly in a direct way and if you spend a lot of time working with them. I think it's similar between Finnick and Cherry. Intellectually, he knows the role that Cherry plays. Practically, he has to get along with her, and frankly he doesn't think about his complicated reactions to her much because it's just not that relevant. They have... a good working relationship? It's not a very personal one. Finnick can handle it like that, and Cherry is a very professional stylist who knows what's her job and what's not. I first introduced her in MOTR, when Finnick remembers how he first met Cherry. She redid all the costume designs the moment she met him and worked herself into exhaustion because she recognized she could do really great things with him, and then she took him to the Training Center roof and talked to him and told him she'd wanted to see who he really is before she made him someone else. I think she's a very smart person, but much like millari's Lucilla, she has developed a very complex rationale for what she does.

Those coffee shop owners should be nicer to you, with all the money you spend there. ;)

[roguedemon]

I always go to coffee shops to write, and they tend to close by 8:00 around here. I invariably end up taking much longer to write up my thoughts than I think I will, so I'm always typing away until they turn the wifi off. :)