Mags Flanagan

Mags Flanagan was the winner of the 11th Hunger Games and the female tribute of District 4 in the 75th Hunger Games and 3rd Quarter Quell. She was the second female winner of District 4 and the third winner of District 4,

## Biography

### 11th Hunger Games

She was reaped as the female tribute of District 4 of the 11th Hunger Games when she was 16.

Mags and her district partner, Silas, had agreed to work together. She and the rest were surprised by the surrounding island and were in awe of the beautiful landscape. Mags was surprised to see food and water within the cornucopia. She managed to grab some water whilst Silas snapped up some knives before she and Silas successfully escaped down the nearest hill also escaping muscular gorillas who were just outside the cornucopia.

Mags and Silas hid down near an abandoned runway, where Silas built them a shelter from tree branches whilst Mags kept Watch and collected fish when they were hungry. Occasionally, she would spot tributes or gorillas in the distance and they would hide in the water. The pair developed a good friendship and they started to receive some water from sponsors.

However one afternoon Mags saw a large boulder coming towards them from triggered rockfalls. She managed to dodge it, but Silas had his legs crushed by the boulder. As Mags tried to help Silas get up, they heard 2 cannons, and the hoots from Or (1) and Janus (2). Mags tried to help Silas behind a tree, but he insisted that she leave him. Mags grabbed a fishing rot and hid among rocks in the sea.

She then heard a cannon after Or stabbed Janus in the head and Or tried torturing Silas into revealing Mags' location but he gave nothing away. She heard then a cannon when Or had killed Silas and as she heard Or shouting out what he would do to Mags when he found her, her anger at Sila’s death boiled over and she cast her fishing rot at Or and it landed in his eye. Mags pulled out Or’s eye as he screamed she got close enough to strangle him round the neck with the wire of her fishing rod. As he begged for mercy, she grabbed his knife and stabbed his heart, thereby winning the games.

### After the 11th Hunger Games

After returning to District 4, Mags was still overcome with a lot of guilt from Sila´s death but was also the first victor to move into Victor´s Village and the first to embark on a Victory Tour. Her district, District 4, was the first to receive food parcels as well. She became a very supportive mentor to future tributes and somewhat of a maternal figure to surviving victors.

Farrel McCain (winner of the 27th Hunger Games) suffered for several years after what he had seen and he developed an intense fear of any kind of insect, also known as Entomophobia, after eating these in his games and seeing bugs eating tribute corpses, however after getting support from Mags, his mentor, he got better and went on to get married and have children.

Mags had not been heard to speak since some time in the early 60´s.

Finnick Odair (winner of the 65th Hunger Games) moved to the Capitol as he grew older, however, he still maintained a strong rapport with the other victors from his district. Especially Mags, the mentor of his district partner, Teena.

### 70th Hunger Games

Mags met her mentee, Annie Cresta (winner of the 70th Hunger Games) when Annie and her district partner, Tetra, were placed on the train to the Capitol. When Annie left the main carriage, due to feeling overwhelmed by the upcoming experience. Mags followed her and held her as she cried. She hummed a tune to Annie, which calmed her to some degree.

After the games, Mags tried to help her recover, whilst Annie stayed in one of The Capitol´s leading psychiatric units, where she had been placed after her mental health was brought into question and she didn´t speak for 2 months, but it didn´t appear to be her area of expertise.

### 75th Hunger Games

#### Before the Games

During the District 4 reaping of the 75th Hunger Games, Annie was originally reaped for the position of female tribute, but when she started to break down and cry, Mags chose to volunteer in her place, and she thus became the oldest tribute to compete in the arena. Mags was joined by Finnick, who was chosen next. Mags' training score was on the lower end of the scale. It was difficult for Caesar to interview Mags, when she couldn’t say anything.

#### Day 1

During the bloodbath, Mags was pointing to Peeta (12) one of the winners of the 74th Hunger Games), who was fighting Daniel (9) (winner of the 44th Hunger Games) whilst trying to get back onto one of the podiums, which Finnick noticed. Finnick and Katniss (12) (one of the winners of the 74th Hunger Games) ran along the spoke to Mags. As Finnick dove into the water, Daniel pulled Peeta down into the water with him before a cannon sounded and a tense silence after, until Peeta resurfaced.

Mags, Finnick, Katniss, and Peeta quickly decided to travel as far as they could from the careers, who reconvened on the cornucopia island. They traveled through the jungle in sector 2 and Finnick needed to carry Mags, but despite that and the group noticing how hot it was, they managed to cover the ground fairly quickly. Yet whilst Peeta was trashing his way through the undergrowth, he hit the perimeter with his knife, and he was thrown back by the electric current. Mags looked hopeless and Katniss screamed it out, but Finnick quickly got on top of Peeta and tried to resuscitate him, until Peeta started breathing again. The group traveled a bit within Sector 2, before deciding to stay where they were.

After sunset, Mags and the rest of the group were resting, until Katniss was gifted by sponsors with a spile. At first, she and the rest and rest of the group were rather confused, but when they realized they could use it to access clean drinking water, they were extremely pleased and went ahead and drank water from the trees. They started to take turns sleeping and keeping watch. When the fallen were shown, Mags was slightly upset.

#### Day 2

In the early hours of day 2 Mags and the others were waked by Katniss, who screamed out in pain when she touched a thick white fog after she noticed it slowly making its way to them and raising her hand towards it. They immediately got up to run from this fog. Finnick grabbed Mags on his back and they started sprinting away from the fog.

Finnick with Mags on his back ran back to Katniss and Peeta after Katniss tripped over a tree strump after Peeta ran back to help Katniss get up but then the fog caught up with them. Katniss tried to help Peeta back up, but he was struggling to run after escaping the fog, and was too heavy for her. Katniss started to break down in tears and Finnick panicked as he considered how he could help both Mags and Peeta. Mags then developed tears in her eyes as she realized what she needed to do.

Mags reached down and kissed Finnick as she walked away from him, towards the fog that was fast approaching. Finnick shouted at her before Mags entered the fog and her body spasmed in a frenzy as Finnick shouted out and cried when her cannon sounded.

When the fallen were shown Finnick seemed upset when he saw Mags.

## Victims

Mags killed 1 person, Or, by stabbing his heart.