Mags Flanagan

• Mentor

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**Disclaimer:** Mags Flanagan is a **canon** character in The Hunger Games universe. However, **the information stated in this page is mostly fan made**, for the purpose of the Panem Academy project, as we have no details from the books about her Games or her life before the 3rd Quarter Quell.

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**Mags Flanagan** (lesson on Tiktok) is the victor of the 11th Hunger Games, winning at the age of 16. As a citizen from District 4, Mags was skilful with fishing set and handcrafts, which helped her in her games. She was the first female victor for District 4, being the second District 4's tribute to win.

## Early Life

Mags comes from a family of crafters, and as such she used to work as a craftswoman in District 4, making items such as fishhooks, fish baskets and nets to aid the local fishermen in their trade. She was known for being fast, yet precise in her craft, having learned how to do so from her mother. Her father died during the war.

## 11th Annual Hunger Games

At the age of 16, Mags was reaped for the 11th Annual Hunger Games. This year brought a lot of change to the model of the Games, an tributes started being even more advertised to the citizens, as a way to promote betting and donations for the Games. Mags stood out from the rest of the tributes immediately, due to her clothes, her good manners and how she conducted herself. Now upon closer inspection, citizens could notice how her beautiful dress was adorned with various elements from her District, such as fishing lines, hooks and pieces of fishing nets.

### Arena

Following the bombing of the Capitol Arena, a new one was prepared and heavily advertised in anticipation of the 11th Hunger Games - a old hydropower plant situated in the Capitol, abandoned after a malfunction caused during the war. This big change in environment allowed for different strategies to star, and for the Games to last longer. Mags was able to use skills learned in her District to aid her in her victory, such as crafting fishing hooks and weaving baskets to collect rainwater - as for a good part of the games, no water supply was available for the Tributes outside of sponsors. Together with her alliance, they fished up the Boltsnappers released by the Gamemakers in the arena, with which they created traps that helped Mags win the Games.

## Life after the Games

Mags was the first victor being given a monetary prize and a house at the Victor's Village upon her victory. Her bigger perspective coming from the Districts along with her grace and good manners lead to her being the first victor being invited to mentor future tributes in the Hunger Games, the following year. She would mentor alongside interns from the Capitol University, after the activity was deemed too dangerous for Academy students to undertake with little to no preparation.

### Victory Tour

Mags was also the first embarking on a Victory Tour, as this was something implemented in the 11th Hunger Games. The tour gave her the chance of seeing a little of the culture of each District, leading to her realizing better how the Career agenda was evolving in Districts 1 and 2, now more motivated than ever with a monetary prize included.

During her time in District 2, victors Aaron and Vibia approached Mags with the proposal of spreading the word in District 4 that District 2 was interested in including them in their ongoing collaboration with District 1 throughout the Games, as by then all three of the Districts were the only ones winning the Hunger Games twice - and alliances were starting to become more prominent in the Games. Along with the mayor of the District, they proudly explained to her how they had been preparing the younger population for the Games in case they were to be reaped, having their first success with Vibia. The mayor justified to her that now with a prize at stake, it was as if their extra efforts were about to be rewarded.

Both victors from District 2 knew about Mags being invited to mentor future tributes and thought the proposal would help their own Tributes, even if they could not directly mentor them, as District 4 would bring to their alliance the survival skills that were usually lacking in both District 1 and 2's tributes.

However, in District 4, ties to the Capitol weren't as strong and the Games were not celebrated, despite the district bringing their second win now with Mags. The victor was at first hesitant to Aaron and Vibia's proposal due to this, as she did not agree with training tributes beforehand and complying even more with the system. However, in her first years as a mentor, she quickly realised the clear advantage both Districts 1 and 2 had in the Games, being often on top of betting tables and overall doing well every year. This led her to join forces with her childhood friend, Lochron Greyport, whose father was known in the District for training kids in the art of spear and trident fishing. Together they expanded the foundation of those lessons to also include how to fight with such weapons, so that the tributes from District 4 would at least have a higher chance when fighting against other prepared kids from Districts 1 and 2. Lochron’s family would teach them how to use a trident, while Mags would teach them important skills from the district such as fabricating fish hooks and nets. They started training the kids that collected the most tesserae, as they had the higher chances to be reaped. They would also help other kids that showed anxiety over the Games, so they could feel more prepared.

### 16th Hunger Games

Just five years after her victory, Mags and Lochron had their first pupil winning the Games with Hammil Heriot in the 16th year of the event, which brought great pride to Lochron. Hammil would then join both him and Mags in training the children of the District.

### 21st Hunger Games

As Career culture further evolved with the first ever volunteer for the Hunger Games a few years back, District 4 had started to fall down in performance. Lochron, Mags' childhood friend, had plans to bring the same culture to District 4, motivating their children to also volunteer. Mags was very skeptical about this, as her whole acceptance of training possible future tributes was strictly due to her wanting to help them in case of the worst happening. However, due to how District 1 and 2 were quickly raising in strength, she considered Lochron's proposal, under the condition that their pupils would always be able to make their own decision about volunteering, and not be pressured into doing so.

As he took over his father's trade, Lochron and Mags created through it the Red Tide, an academy used to properly prepare and train children to volunteer for The Hunger Games under the guise of being a school for teaching children in the competences of District 4’s industry.

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## Trivia

* Mags is the first female victor from District 4, and the third female victor overall in the history of the Hunger Games.
* The way Mags used elements from her clothing during the 11th Hunger Games led the Gamemakers to introducing standard arena uniforms the following year.