There are many things that Finnick had to be for the Capitol. Seductive. Desirable. Demonstrative. Available.
Not nice. For all Snow had forced him to be, he could be as cruel and dismissive as he wanted to be, so long as he did what his patrons were paying for. And sometimes, he was. Sometimes, he didn't want to bother with nice or with the effort of being genuinely sociable, so he just played the Capitol's games with the Capitol's people and got away with it because he was a victor.
Here, he's apparently not that. So he does have to make the effort, because he seems to have no reputation to rely on, and acting outwardly uncaring, cavalier, and arrogant like he's used to doing won't make them friends.
So he has been being nice. Mostly.
"I'm nice," he says, the lightness in his voice belying the things that had gone through his mind.
"Chatted with some more merchants today. Sold some more fish to the guy in the market, talked a bit about the fishermen he usually buys from. He gets stuff in from the coast but he doesn't get much freshwater fish."
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There are many things that Finnick had to be for the Capitol. Seductive. Desirable. Demonstrative. Available.
Not nice. For all Snow had forced him to be, he could be as cruel and dismissive as he wanted to be, so long as he did what his patrons were paying for. And sometimes, he was. Sometimes, he didn't want to bother with nice or with the effort of being genuinely sociable, so he just played the Capitol's games with the Capitol's people and got away with it because he was a victor.
Here, he's apparently not that. So he does have to make the effort, because he seems to have no reputation to rely on, and acting outwardly uncaring, cavalier, and arrogant like he's used to doing won't make them friends.
So he has been being nice. Mostly.
"I'm nice," he says, the lightness in his voice belying the things that had gone through his mind.
"Chatted with some more merchants today. Sold some more fish to the guy in the market, talked a bit about the fishermen he usually buys from. He gets stuff in from the coast but he doesn't get much freshwater fish."