Gus Finch

— Excerpt from Dawn's poem

**Gus Finch** (ˈɡəs ˈfɪntʃ) was the secondborn and the first son of Sam and Kay, the younger brother of Dawn, and the older brother of Gregory.

## Appearance

Gus had fair skin, brown eyes and a pink mohawk. On the portrait painted by Edie we can see him wearing a blue shirt, and in gameplay, he has a spiky bracelet.

## Personality

Gus was a rebellious child who disliked the prospect of his father remarrying and replacing their mother, saying that "he'd be dead before he'd see a wedding in [their] yard."

## Gameplay

Upon Edith's discovery of Dawn's poem about Gus at his bedside memorial, the player controls Gus flying a kite on the day of Sam's remarriage following his divorce from Kay. The player must control the kite to find the letters to each stanza of the poem around the area. After a storm begins to brew, the wedding's attendants head inside a tent Sam had constructed, leaving Gus behind. The tent is eventually blown away by the storm along with a nearby totem pole; it strikes Gus down and causing him to fall, presumably killing him.

## Dawn's Poem

*A Poem for Gus

Who always said the wedding was a bad idea

Our father never hit us kids, at least not very hard.

Before the day my brother said with teenage disregard

That he'd be dead before he'd see a wedding in our yard.

My father made him come of course, but Gus stood far apart

Just flew his kite and bottled up the storm inside his heart

I tried to talk him out of it, but though he'd never met her

"We don't need a stepmom," were the words that I remember

When the time for photos came dad ordered him to "Come here!"

But Gus declined and as a sign held up his middle finger

The wind picked up and panicked geese appeared and quickly went

But all that the humans did that day was go inside the tent

The rain came down in buckets then but no one seemed afraid

That nature might destroy the tent our father had crudely made

The thunder sounded much too close and full of angry power

But all my father said to this was "Make the music louder!"

I wish that I could truly say I thought about you on that day

Out there on the beach alone, just you the wind the sea and foam

But I didn't. Until we found you.*

## Trivia

* Above Gus' bed, a skateboard with "GU$" written in black is hung over where his name is.
* On the chalkboard in their room, Gus' duties assigned by his father included mopping and mowing the yard.
* According to Edith, Dawn would have named her third child "Gus" had they had been a boy.
* After Edith follows the train tracks after reading Walter's story, it is possible to see a chair at the end of the tracks,which so said chair was the same used on Sam's wedding/ the that Gus died,which shows that the thunderstorm was strong enough to throw a chair far away and maybe even break the train tracks.
* In the "House" trailer we could see that Gus' story was different from the normal story we have now - not only would the set be less melancholy (having bright colors), Gus' kite would get stuck in the roof,but a ladder can be seen on the wall of the house, which could induse that Gus would try to get onto the roof and get his kite back by going up the ladder, however it is unknown if he would fall from the ladder or from the roof,but it is quite obvious that he would die from a fall.

## Gallery

Edie's painting of Gus for his memorial shrine.In-game shot of Gus' memorial shrine.Edith's journal sketch of Gus.
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