August Flynn

## Appearances

* *This Savage Song*
* *Our Dark Duet*

**August Flynn** is the third Sunai to ever be created and the adopted son of Henry and Emily Flynn.

After he killed his brother Leo Flynn, August became the leader of the Flynn Task Force.

## Physical description

He has dark hair with curls that fall over his pale, grey eyes. At the beginning of A Savage Song, he had four hundred and eighteen marks, one for each day since the darkness fell. But his eyes turn black as it is the true form of Sunai, when a picture is taken of him up front and when he feeds. He also has dimples which a woman at Colton High comments to be the reason they'll "eat him up". When August succumbs to darkness he gains wings shrouded in shadow, horns and claws appear and his eyes turn black, shadows are emitted from his body in a supernatural way.

## Personality

In This Savage Song, he has a deep desire to be human. He is generally kind and philosophical.

In Our Dark Duet, he avoids the idea of holding on to who he really is/was and ends up doing monstrous acts.

## History

August first found himself in a cafeteria after a shooting there. He was given some cookies and juice to eat, but it all tasted like ash so he gave it to a man. When he did that he accidentally reaped his soul, the first soul that August ever reaped. He was then taken in by Henry and Emily Flynn, where he found two other Sunai like him named Leo Flynn and Ilsa Flynn.

## Relationships

### Family

* Henry and Emily Flynn
* Ilsa Flynn
* Leo Flynn
* Soro Flynn

Henry Flynn rescued August off the streets when he had first been created, new to the world in a 12-year-old body. Though Henry likely had ulterior motives for rescuing a Sunai, namely to keep August out of his enemies’ hands, Flynn kept August hidden and treated him like family, never forcing him to fight for the FTF and even resisting August’s requests to be a soldier at first. Emily Flynn was equally kind to August and his siblings and August treats both Emily and Henry like parents, even calling them "Mom" and "Dad".

lsa is August's sister and very close to her. He has grown up with her since he was twelve. He relied on her a lot, and when he was mad or stressed at Leo he would always talk to her. When she was kidnapped by Sloan, he grieved her loss. August later found that she was alive, only that she could no longer speak due to a shallow cut across her throat which severed her vocal cords. In Our Dark Duet when August becomes the head of the FTF Isla becomes very disappointed in the new August, but never pushes him away. When Ilsa died August was very sad, already burdened with the loss of Kate.

Leo is August's brother. Leo often is annoyed by August's dislike of reaping souls. Leo goes into league with Sloan, abandoning the FTF. He tries with Sloan to kill Kate and fails. When Sloan tries to kill August Leo gets very mad and puts a pole through Sloan's back attempting to kill him. August then goes dark and reaps Leo's soul. Leo still talks to August in his head sometimes.

### Friends

* Kate Harker
* Colin Stevenson

August met Kate at Colton, a private school located within North City. He often went outside to find her on the bleachers. He often joined her until she asked him to play his violin. Then he stopped coming for a while. Eventually, Kate is attacked by some monsters and August saves her life. The two uncover a conspiracy plot and flee the city becoming very close friends. They are apart for most of Our Dark Duet.

On his way to his first day of school at Colton, Colin breaks up a confrontation between August, known to Collin as Freddie, and another student. Later, Colin sees that he and August have English class together and he shows August the way there. They are friends throughout August’s time at Colton. August finds it easy to feel “normal” around Colin. In Our Dark Duet, August sees Colin training for the FTF. They interact sporadically throughout the second novel.

## Skills and abilities

August is a Sunai, having the ability to suck and feed on a sinner's soul with a musical note (particularly his violin).

He has great invulnerability, his body is highly strong and withstands stabbing but is not indestructible.

August has something his father calls "influence" because when someone gets close to him, people start to be sincere and start confessing their secrets and some, their own sins.

He also has superhuman hearing.

Some Sunai, like Leo and August, have the ability to lightly succumb to darkness and use its power without being consumed.

## Possessions

August owned a violin that previously belonged to the first man he ever reaped. This violin is destroyed in This Savage Song, however, and he uses a steel violin in Our Dark Duet.

## Trivia

* August likes to read everything that is not fanciful, like philosophy, astrology, etc.
* Victoria Schwab clarified that August and Kate are not meant to be a romantic but a platonic pair. The kiss they shared is "a kiss that went horribly wrong In the mortifyingly awkward way" because they mistook "one kind of attraction for another" which can happen easily when you are "young, lonely, and searching for support."

## References

1. ↑ "Kate Harker and August Flynn in THIS SAVAGE SONG.\*
\*There is a kiss in ODD, and it is a failure. They misread why they feel connected, and move on." — Victoria Schwab on Twitter, replying to a thread about platonic relationships in novels
2. ↑ "I'd always wanted to write a kiss that went horribly wrong In the mortifyingly awkward way. It's easy to mistake one kind of attraction for another, especially when you’re young, lonely, and searching for support. Not all longing is romance." — Victoria Schwab on Twitter