A Finnch's Flight

### Plot Summary

Finnch lives in a world where their future is decided by a single test of aptitude and physical strength. A great score gives you access to the city of Allegiant, an elitist society of the ultra smart and ultra wealthy. A fair score gives you access to The Hub, a metropolis under a glass dome that's average, it has everything one might need to live a full life. A failing score dooms you to spend the rest of what will be your short life in a concrete wasteland in a desert. A "city" called Negligent, a place where food and supplies are rarely delivered.

All of society is ruled by one woman, London Fur.

Finnch's brother, Tristan Stone, failed these tests, dooming him. Finnch lives in a place called The Youth's district, a place where everyone lives until it's time to do the tests. It's her turn. After running away in fear days before the tests, Finnch discovers a girl living in a forest, one Everlyn Mae Johnson. Excited to have a friend, she joins Finnch to do the tests, knowingly submitting herself to a horrible fate. Finnch finally interacts with her high school crush Noah Everett. Soon after she's joined by Jordan Cypress, an excitable girl who instantly joins their friend group.

They begin doing the tests. Finnch, Noah and Jordan fair fine however it is made clear that Everlyn is failing. After a few days of testing she disappears. Finnch looses it, however a young girl named Florence Fur, recognizes that Finnch is perfect to carry out her plan. She gathers her friends together and organizes a mutiny at Florence's request. The cohort mutinies overthrowing the guards. Finnch, Jordan and Noah escape with Florence in the chaos, freeing Everlyn and all the other would be Negligent members on the way.

They hide out in the forest at Everlyn's camp at the edge of The Youth's district, as Florence plots a plan. Eventually London comes looking for them, allowing all of them to live if one of them gives up their life. So Finnch does, bravely walking towards London. The rest of the gang pull up to try and stop her. Florence and Noah shoot London, killing her although one bullet misses. Neither of them are sure which of them hit London and neither of them care.

They hang around in The Youth's district as Florence figures out what to do after the death of her mother. They have dinner with Jordan's family. She takes control of the society, sending everyone to The Hub and those who earned it, to Allegiant. She begins a plan to make Negligent a nicer place. Finnch joins her as an assistant to aid her in that journey.

## Appearances

### Finnch September Stone

Is the main protagonist. She is brave, kind and loyal to those she loves. Her parents, both from Allegiant, abandoned her after her brother was put in Negligent, sure that Finnch would end up in the same place. Finnch proves them wrong, overthrows the matriarchy and helps to fix society.

### Everlyn Mae Johnson

Is a secondary protagonist who serves to drive the plot. She was abandoned by her father a few years after the death of her mother. Her father wanted to return to life in The Hub, so he left her in the forests surrounding the district, leaving her for dead. However he did leave her with a few supplies that enabled her to survive. She is sure she will not pass the tests, although she does not care.

Later Finnch and Everlyn discover her father living with a new family. They promptly destroy Everlyn's father's new marriage, Everlyn gets to meet her half sisters, one of which they discover is named Everlyn.

## Appearances

### Appears in

A Finnch's Flight

Is the tertiary protagonist, he is Finnch's crush however they never officially get together despite being affectionate to each other. He serves to comfort her and eventually joins Florence in saving Finnch's life. Noah has several brothers, of which were used so his parents could stay in The Youth's district. Both his parents are from Negligent which is incredibly rare.

### Jordan Cypress

Is the quaternary protagonist, she functions as the innocent bystander and the audience surrogate. She's sorta dragged along for the ride. She's also the only one with a functional family. She's excitable and loves fashion. She's just sorta there, always attempting to add a sense of levity to the depressing circumstances. She's the most "normal" of the team.

## Appearances

### Appears in

A Finnch's Flight

Is the quinary protagonist, she pulls the strings, plotting the death of her mother. She doesn't care about it at all and begins fixing society.

### London Fur

London's a power hungry senile bitch who thinks that people who fail one test, one time, are worth of suffering for the rest of their lives. Finnch sums it up pretty well when she says "Underneath all these delusions of grandeur London’s just a mentally ill old lady on a government funded power trip."

### Trivia time

* This is the first book I wrote
* The name Finnch comes from a French copy of The Hunger games where Foxface (my favorite character) is called Finnch.
* I had these characters since I was 12
* I've had a stupid amount of versions of this story.
* Noah was originally named Byden, but Biden got elected and Byden is a stupid name anyway
* Everlyn is a name I stole from my father, that's the name he uses for female characters in video games
* There was a version where the tests were a big hunger games arena and the goal was to survive for a month
* There was another version they had superpowers, Finnch had the power to pause time and Jordan could heal.
* This story was well over 100k words at some point
* With a mess of characters and plots I put it together in 2020 to make something hopefully coherent.
* Finnch's middle name is September because she was born in that month and her parents are lazy.