Finnick may be a Capitol darling. He may be a man known for flirtation and seduction and making the hedonistic most of the pleasures of the Capitol. But that has not made him soft, and it hasn't negated the truth of how he got that fame.

Finnick is a killer. Very rarely does anyone win the Hunger Games by being anything else, and Finnick was not one of those victors. He's not weak. Not for a human, whatever that means, whatever this ... creature is.

If he thought there was a reason for the Capitol to have turned on him, he'd be sure this was some engineered hallucination. (If they knew about the revolution, he'd be dead by now.)

Finnick's not interested in taking turns. He's not interested in rules. He's interested in survival, like he has been all his life. The creature's punch lands hard, but that just makes Finnick duck, weave, spin, and lash out again with his arm.