focus [flynn/ivan]

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IVAN RIN

Trainer

Head trainer of the tributes in the Capitol for the eighty-seventh annual Hunger Games- he'd made it. Ivan had finally accomplished one of the things he had always dreamed of. He'd always wanted to meet the tributes and to have some sort of influence on them, and now he got to train them. He couldn't have asked for better. Well, except for perhaps becoming a Gamemaker in the future, but he'd see if that could happen some ways down the road.

As a trainer, Ivan, of course, had always had a passion for fighting. He also had a passion for showing other people how to fight. Whether it was their first time holding a weapon or they had been doing it for years, he always found ways to help them improve in what they were doing and whatever they wanted to practice. Sometimes, people didn't know what they wanted to practice, but he tended to be good at giving them some pointers in the right direction, at least to some extent.

The first tribute who he'd be working with as the head trainer in the Capitol was the boy from Six for the Eighty-Seventh Hunger Games. The boy's name was Flynn Garner, and he was a volunteer. He was definitely on the younger end of the tributes, as if Ivan had heard correctly, Flynn was about thirteen or fourteen years old. It was quite strange, in Ivan's opinion, that someone so young would volunteer for the Games. It was hard to be ready for such a thing at that age, but who knows, maybe this boy had some potential. There was only one way to find out.

Ivan looked at the boy for a moment before speaking to him.

"Flynn, I'm Ivan," he introduced himself. "I'm the head trainer here, and I want to see your potential."

He paused for a second. He wondered if this kid even care about what Ivan had to say to him, and then spoke again regardless.

"Do you have anything in particular you want to focus on?" He asked Flynn.

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SWANSKI

[d6a georgie cham 🍓🐢 frankel]

Where do I even start? Well, I am one useless dumb dumb so I need to practice something. Anything. I probably have no worthy odds. The one hundred to one shot on surviving the first day…first minute of the Hunger Games. I bet someone will maybe put a nickel on my name and that is it. I skip past the first aid training. If they hack me down, at least I can mummify myself to stop the external bleeding and intrusion of infection. That is, it. That is as far as my knowledge goes.

Just like all the other big kids, even the trainers are scary looking. I try and pick out the less intimidating one. The one unlikely to break me on the first day of training…they are all going to break me.

I slowly walk over to the combat part of the training centre. Where the others are breaking sweat by clashing swords and throwing fists at the fake dummies. I am better off just becoming one of those dummies, a punch bag for the bigger kids to play with. It is probably my only worth in this room right now.

"Do you have anything in particular you want to focus on?" The head trainer introduces himself. Of all the people, it is the big boss of the scary looking adults who are teaching us how to kill each other. ”Erm…” I pick up one of the small knives off the table besides us. ”Maybe show me how to use this?”

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IVAN RIN

Trainer

The kid- Flynn, that is- seemed somewhat nervous in the way that he spoke to Ivan. It was understandable, he supposed. He was the head trainer here, and a lot of people found him intimidating- even adults- before he had even become the head trainer, so he wasn't all that surprised that this young tribute seemed to think the same of him as many other people did.

Flynn picked up one of the small knives that were laid out on the table for tributes to train with, asking if Ivan could show him how to use it. Ivan nodded, giving a slight smile to try to ease the tribute's nerves.

"Of course," he said, picking up a knife for himself as well so that he could lead by example. "How about we start with how you should hold the knife? Holding the weapon properly is one of the most important things when handling a knife, or any other weapon for that matter."

He started by demonstrating with the knife he was holding in his own hand.

"Wrap your fingers around the handle like this," he said, demonstrating. "Make sure you don't get yourself with the blade," he explained. "You want to have a firm hold so that you don't lose control of it, but you don't want to hold it too tight or you can hurt yourself- like your wrist- when your blade hits its target."

Then, Ivan nodded in Flynn's direction as a sort of 'go ahead' signal, and watched to see what he would do. If he needed to help him more with his grip before they moved onto the next step, he would. That's what he was here for, after all. He was meant to help these tributes be as strong as they could be. Maybe he could even help this kid become a victor.


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SWANSKI