sorry zam oomfs but I'm just so distraught over charmander duo. I know not everyone cares for them but GOD I do
Since the very start of the season, Pangi has been the exception to everything that Flame does. Flame kills people without mercy and even starts to get angry at the pacifists for being so stagnant, but not Pangi. Pangi is except from his anger, and he acknowledges that Pangi is still a pacifist, but he doesn't want to kill him despite that.
Flame builds up these walls and doesn't allow anyone to really get close to him because he knows that attachment is a weakness. Yet he allows Pangi to drag him out to a random place, and there they just simply make a build together. Flame doesn't build because it's an attachment he can't afford, but he makes an exception because it's Pangi asking him.
In a world where Flame is hunted down by any man that lays eyes upon him, Pangi shows him kindness that he forgot existed out there. Flame quite literally says that he forgot that even he is worth kindness until Pangi showed him that he was. So much for no attachments, but what else was he meant to do?
When the next day Flame is meant to blow up spawn again, he can't help but think back of how Pangi showed him that builds mattered. He had said strict demands that weren't met, so spawn would be punished as a result, but he couldn't find himself to go through with it.
During the time that Flame was trying to organise this huge fight, no one was cooperating until Pangi came along and did his best. Everyone was against giving Flame what he wanted, but Pangi still believed in his words and was willing to set this up for the chance of a safe spawn. Even if that ended up ruined by Mapicc.
After this disappointment, there's a moment where both of them don't really have any important interactions for a long time. But even at this point, Flame refuses to kill Pangi and even lists him as one of the people him and Mane are not allowed to kill.
In a non-serious stream, Pangi is simply hanging out with Derapchu when Flame logs on. Derapchu's reaction is to immediately try and hide because he's afraid of Flame. Meanwhile, Pangi is happily greeting him and asking for Flame to join them. This is also when Pangi asks the hypothetical: "If I got the mace right now, what'd you do, Flame?" To which Flame answers with: "I'd beg you for it."
Even if Flame doesn't immediately notice it, Pangi does and points out how he didn't say that he would try and kill Pangi for it. I believe that if it had been anyone else, Flame wouldn't hesitate to kill them. Flame genuinely doesn't want to kill Pangi, which is something so dear to me. Flame can only giggle in response to Pangi pointing this out, by the way.
Around Christmas and during Mawn, the entire spawn was flooded with wardens, which were even ruining the place that Pangi used to record videos at. Obviously, Flame isn't really supposed to try and get rid of the wardens when he has aligned himself with Mawn, but Pangi is upset at him, so what do those rules matter?
Every time spawn kept getting blown up, Flame didn't do too much to try and keep Mane from going his way. But the time Mane sets Pangi's Christmas tree on fire, Flame immediately tells him to knock it off and even goes so far to fight him off. Not seriously, but serious enough to get the point across. When he notices that Pangi is genuinely upset, he helps him rebuild it entirely even if he never liked to build.
Even with the Lifesteal hunger games, Flame supplied Pangi with ten hearts from his heart supply. That's a lot of hearts to give to someone, even with the promise of getting them back once it's over. Flame trusts Pangi and doesn't see him as a threat.
When Flame looks at Pangi, he sees someone who is different from everyone. In a world filled with hardship and people who would kill him when given the chance, Pangi simply smiles at him and offers him kindness when no one else would.
That is why, when Pangi joined in order to help Zam fight against Flame, it hurt so much. It didn't matter that Zam had so many people ready or led him down this hole. It mattered that Pangi was fighting against him. That was the one thing he didn't expect. Pangi had always been the exception, and now, even he was fighting him.
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