Four isn't anyone's pawn! He's a king-or at least a rook-so he tells Max he doesn't want to be a leader, and Max chooses Eric instead. She tells him that Max and Jeanine are working together to find a new Dauntless leader, one they can control for their own nefarious means (like monitoring people to see if they're Divergent and taking Pop-Tarts out of all the vending machines). She wants Four to join her, but he says, No way, Ma! She may be homeless, but at least she's the leader of the homeless. Four gets a mysterious message from his mother, who is still alive and factionless. We move on to 'The Son.' Whose child is this? Four is Evelyn Eaton's child, but she's been dead for years, right? Wrong. Unfortunately, Amar doesn't, and ends up dead as a Dauntless doornail. Jeanine examines Four's data (not as sexy as it sounds) but thanks to Amar's coaching he avoids her suspicion. Amar wonders if Four could be… Divergent! But someone else wonders if Four is Divergent: Divergent's Big Bad, Jeanine Mathews. When he's not smashing faces, Four is getting a tattoo of flames on his ribcage and defying his fear simulation in a way that his trainer, Amar, has never seen before. The initiation is competitive, but nowhere near as dangerous as it will be when Tris joins two years from now. In 'The Initiate,' Four fights his way to the top of the initiate rankings making friends (Shauna, Zeke) and enemies (Eric) along the way. Because he desperately wants to leave his old Abnegation life behind, when someone asks him his name he replied that his name is, you got it, Four. He goes through his fear simulator where he learns that he only has four fears. When it comes time to jump into the Pit, Tobias, unlike Tris who jumps first, jumps dead last. Tobias returns to his home-not-so-sweet-home where he gets smacked around by his abusive father and realizes that he needs to get the heck out of Dodge Abnegation.Īt the Choosing Ceremony, Tobias chooses Dauntless, which is surprising to no one who read Divergent or watched the movie (or even just the trailer).

Tattooed Tori tells Tobias that the test tells them… Abnegation.

The first of four Four stories in Four is 'The Transfer.' Four, then just known as boring ol' Tobias, goes through his aptitude test, just like Tris (then just known as boring ol' Beatrice) did at the beginning of Divergent. Three take place Before Divergent (BD), one takes place during Divergent (DD), and then there are three short scenes featuring interactions between Tris and Four, but told from Four's POV. Four is made up of four – count 'em-four (4) long-ish short stories set in the Divergent world.

Four by veronica roth