Tango burning Jimmy during the ranch fire is such an interesting concept within the rancher fandom. It's such a universally accepted thing at this point that someone who wasn't deep into ranchers lore might actually think it is an event that actually happened or was said to have happened by someone, when its really entirely made up.
Ranchers are known for both being pathetic and causing each other trouble during DL but the ranch burning incident was almost entirely caused by Jimmy's actions (supported by Tango) yet in a lot of works ther eis an (understandable) fixation on Tango's angry reaction and this particular piece of pure fanon that frames Tango as the primarily apologetic one in the aftermath typically, at least equally at fault.
There is a moment, in the fire, where Tango is so focused on trying to climb the tower to put out the fire that he starts taking fire damage, and Jimmy tells him not to die, and wecould consider "Tango burning Jimmy while angry" as a sort of translation of this moved slightly later for dramatics and made to make sense with Tango's netherborn fanon, and I think this is how it started, but half the time this is also included within fics and I don't think most people especially these days write it as that.
Meanwhile Tango himself was getting into trouble with Scar in a completely different way by not following through with getting Jimmy's horn, which Jimmy never learned about, but this aspect rarely comes up, it almost never does so in the aftermath of the fire, even though it's a canonical thing Tango could be guilty about. I think part of it is because it's such a minor part of just Tango's POV (Jimmy even cut out his small confrontation, and I think Tango would have cut it as well making it dessert duo exclusive content if not for the fact that it was relevant to him distracting Scar from Jimmy) but I think also part of it is because it's one of the few instances that go against the rancher's main appeal and image of loyalty.
Burning Jimmy can be framed as an accident and something that happens due to Jimmy's compassion for Tango, make a dramayic moment even more so. But Tango maybe trying to steal Jimmy's horn before it piddles out into him dismissing it as distracting Scar is undramatic and scarily close to Tango joining in on the bullying. The most it usually gets is framing it as the moment Tango really decides to be on Jimmy's side in things, rather than a moment of regret or a parallel to Jimmy's later giving away of his horn that rarely gets included outside full recap style fics. (While the fire scene is often expanded upon the horns storyline is often boiled down in the fanon narrative)
Another thing is that while it's implicitely there, rarely do fics draw a line of irony or symbolism from the fact that Jimmy put out the fire in the ranch unscathed but it was his own soulmate that actually burned him. Parallels are often drawn between Tango and the ranch fire of course, but not this. There's something there, about making the fire scene about Tango hurting Jimmy with the thing Scar hurt him with, and I kinda wish more people who used it explored the idea of Jimmy reacting not so well to it, but that's also getting into Jimmy experiencing emotions based on a completely made up event which brings it into AU territory, and most fire fics are trying to expand on cnon events primarily so understand why it wouldn't be appealing. Especially when it's used as a vehicle to show the ranchers caring about each other.
It's also interesting, because a quality about the ranvhers that I think people tend to forget as it doesn't fit the default set of traits for "caring, unproblematic pair with guilt over the trouble they cause one another" is the fact that the ranchers basically NEVER do the whole "it's not your fault" thing when something happens.
I think people mostly remember the scene in the mines where Tango praises Jimmy and blames himself for getting them killed day 1 and Jimmy downplays it. But in all the moment where one of them causes trouble for the other or whenever they die they fully acknowledge whose fault it is. There is not assuring the other over their guilt, when Jimmy gets them killed and says it was all down to him Tango doesn't comfort him by downplaying it, he comforts him by stating they're even and not holding it over him. When Tango got them killed the closest Jimmy comes is saying he has a feeling he'll get Tango killed in the future so it's fine. The fire scene is the same, Tango never denies what Jimmy did to cause it he just rages at Scar for the way he reacted, and Jimmy never denies how angry Tango got and how worrying it was, only praising him for calming down and supporting him inredirecting the anger in a more productive direction. Both only ever Blame Scar if they blame anyone, not themselves.
But Tango burning Jimmy is often used as a way to make Tango feel guilty so that Jimmy can deny that he hurt him or scared him as comfort. The closest Jimmy gets to reacting how the ranchers usually react to each other's blunders is Jimmy just being too exhausted to care.
That is to say, I think there's a lot of angles and aspects of the fire scene, the fanon of Tango hurting Jimmy, that haven't actually been explored despite being the scene almost every rancher writer and artist has made a version of.
There's also one more thing about it, a sort of uncomfortable version of it. Because this scene is often used to emphasize Tango anger and apply implications related to his blazeborn nature to it about how literally explosive and dangerous his anger is. Tango gets angry enough to hurt the person he cares most about and implies this is a common issue he has, but it's often swept away except for some remaining guilt and frames Jimmy in a bit of a saintly sacrifical light or at fault for touching him in the process. The thing is multiple people referenced this moment after this happened, Scott even asks if he's been working on his anger issues, and there is occassion where Tango's ferris beuler quote is framed as him lashing out at Jimmy. I think there's room in the rancher's narrative to explore Tango not being as great a person as the ranchers wish he was, or even an active journey to get better. To frame it a bit darker than just a small fumble, that Tango's anger is something that actively undermines their mostly good relationship on a deeper level, that Tango burning Jimmy isn't simply Jimmy's own fault for grabbing him while he's angry.
Which is a very longwinded way of saying keep making works based on it, even if you've already done so, and also encourage people to dig a bit deeper into the concept.
