Gus Finch

Gus Finch
General information
Age	13 (at time of death) 50 (on February 15, 2021)
Relatives	Sam Finch (father; deceased) Kay Carlyle (mother) Unnamed Stepmother Dawn Finch (older sister; deceased) Gregory Finch (younger brother; deceased) Sven Finch (paternal grandfather; deceased) Edie Finch (paternal grandmother; deceased) Molly Finch (paternal aunt; deceased) Barbara Finch (paternal aunt; deceased) Calvin Finch (paternal uncle; deceased) Walter Finch (paternal uncle; deceased) Odin Finch (paternal great-grandfather; deceased) Ingeborn Finch (paternal great-grandmother; deceased) Johann Finch (paternal great-uncle; deceased) Sanjay Kumar (brother-in-law; deceased) Lewis Finch (nephew; deceased) Milton Finch (nephew) Edith Finch (niece; deceased) Monroe Finch (great-nephew) Christopher (great-nephew)
Affiliation	Finch Family
Biographical information
Marital status	Single
Date of birth	June 20, 1969
Date of death	November 8, 1982
Information
Gender	Male
Eye color	Brown

“

I wish that I could truly say I thought about you on that day Out there on the beach alone, just you the wind the sea and foam But I didn't. Until we found you. — Excerpt from Dawn's poem

”

Gus Finch (ˈɡəs ˈfɪntʃ) was the secondborn and the first son of Sam and Kay, the younger brother of Dawn, and the older brother of Gregory.

Appearance

Gus had fair skin, brown eyes and a pink mohawk. On the portrait painted by Edie we can see him wearing a blue shirt, and in gameplay, he has a spiky bracelet.

Personality

Gus was a rebellious child who disliked the prospect of his father remarrying and replacing their mother, saying that "he'd be dead before he'd see a wedding in [their] yard."

Gameplay

Upon Edith's discovery of Dawn's poem about Gus at his bedside memorial, the player controls Gus flying a kite on the day of Sam's remarriage following his divorce from Kay. The player must control the kite to find the letters to each stanza of the poem around the area. After a storm begins to brew, the wedding's attendants head inside a tent Sam had constructed, leaving Gus behind. The tent is eventually blown away by the storm along with a nearby totem pole; it strikes Gus down and causing him to fall, presumably killing him.

Dawn's Poem

A Poem for Gus
Who always said the wedding was a bad idea

Our father never hit us kids, at least not very hard.
Before the day my brother said with teenage disregard
That he'd be dead before he'd see a wedding in our yard.

My father made him come of course, but Gus stood far apart
Just flew his kite and bottled up the storm inside his heart

I tried to talk him out of it, but though he'd never met her
"We don't need a stepmom," were the words that I remember

When the time for photos came dad ordered him to "Come here!"
But Gus declined and as a sign held up his middle finger

The wind picked up and panicked geese appeared and quickly went
But all that the humans did that day was go inside the tent

The rain came down in buckets then but no one seemed afraid
The nature might destroy the tent our father had crudely made

The thunder sounded much too close and full of angry power
But all my father said to this was "Make the music louder!"

I wish that I could truly say I thought about you on that day
Out there on the beach alone, just you the wind the sea and foam

But I didn't. Until we found you.

Trivia

• Above Gus' bed, a skateboard with "GU$" written in black is hung over where his name is.
• On the chalkboard in their room, Gus' duties assigned by his father included mopping and mowing the yard.
• According to Edith, Dawn would have named her third child "Gus" had they had been a boy.

Gallery

Edie's painting of Gus for his memorial shrine.

In-game shot of Gus' memorial shrine.

Edith's journal sketch of Gus.