#burn au

[linkspooky]

Burn This City, Burn This City Down Title Page

Months after the search took place, Azula shows up in the Fire Nation royal court surprisingly sane, with a surprise announcement: she's engaged. Zuko has to grapple with the sudden reappearance of his sister, her fake engagement to a family of his political rivals, and determining whose side she's really on. An Azula redemptoin story, and Azulaang and Zutara fanfic!

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[biblicalvampireemmy]

baby's first animatic :3

i've studied a bunch of creators i look up to and i was inspired to make an animatic of my own it's an angst animatic that revolves around this Revolution Au we made in a discord server :) i enjoyed making this

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uh pretty sure these are the rev au members?

[simplegeneral]

Wof AU Burn

I have wrote several posts about the sisters, the war and my AU daughter of Burn, Oasis, but I never wrote something that consolidated what this Burn was in the context of my AU.

I have had Burn written differently along the years, from as close to canon as possible, to so bizarrely different you might have called her Bubbles, for she was so harmless, she would probably be an old grandma of the DoD, not a general.

I have seem over the years some incredibly cringy Burn apologists, which I do not understand, by trying to justify her actions, they don't make you see where she was coming from, but actually worse by the fact she felt threatened, judged or outright offended by some dragonets, like BRUH.

Even if I believe Burn was the best choice, purely because a leader matters only by their capacity to keep the state together, not how caring, good or kind they are, and Burn simply was the perfect choice between Blister's self-fighting followers and Blaze's harmless incompetence.

So... After a long tangent, what would my version of Burn be?

Well, for starters, she is not a villain, but an antagonist, as for book 1, the villainy was already Scarlet's role. Another one would be Blister, which would be the main villain of the arc, not just almost a side character of book 2 and an unbelievably stupid genius of book 5.

Before Oasis' death, Burn was a general, it was her thing, as her mother's before her and a tradition her brothers and father followed, with the only exception being Blister, which Oasis denied any training fearful of her schemes and Blaze for well... simply not being up to the task.

After Oasis' death, Burn grew more paranoid and aggressive, resembling slightly her canon self as her emotional control went out of the window. But above that, she wanted to present herself as a fitting queen for the sandwings, a noble warrior, the queen not afraid of making the hard decisions when the time came, and the SandWings simply respected that, for the common folk, a strong leader who protects them is far more worthy than a harmless one or a manipulative schemer.

So Burn has nearly total SandWing support in the war, in contrast to Blaze's large supporter numbers in canon.

Advancing forward to the brightest night, Burn doesn't kill Hvitur, she doesn't even meet him, because:

1º- She doesn't believe in the prophecy and is very dismissive, so she won't waste her time solving a problem that was Scarlet's (that will become far more evident later)

2º- The SkyWings were far quicker to find and pursue Hvitur than she would ever be, so they capture him and end up dropping the egg, because at a night of frivolous festivities, they were drunk and completely careless.

3º- Those SkyWing soldiers were executed later, because by the principles set by the first queens, killing an egg is an unforgivable crime, a crime not even Scarlet can simply commit without an immediate call for her head to be off her neck, and even if Hvitur was captured and would later die at her arena, he would have made sure those soldiers were punished.

4º- Scarlet's killing of the eggs in the wingery is reasoned by her with the mystical idea that somehow the moons had cursed those eggs, which she had them painted secretly to look like animus and firescale eggs, thus justifying her actions of destroyed all of them. Her subjects were scared, but understood such course of action following the SkyWing laws. However, Scarlet would save one large egg, which would hatch to Peril and Sky (never found by Wren, his name is Meteor).

Skipping time forward, the DoD would escape after their guardians tried to kill Glory and would be immediately captured by Scarlet (who would always fly with guards, because she leaving alone out in the wild was so unbelievable stupid, an assassin would quickly off her.) The DoD would fight in her arena as in canon but skipping to the next day, Scarlet's hatching day.

This is where I rather strength the dynamic of Burn and Scarlet from the canon, Burn despises Scarlet, she thinks her big show is a frivolous waste of time and resources, but has to play along, because she is one of the few dragons Burn can not bark orders at, because Scarlet does what she wants, and if you don't believe, be ready for she to switch sides on a heart beat.

Burn watches the DoD dismissively at first, but each time they prove their will to live and resist Scarlet, Burn grows more interested in them, there was one thing she found rather amusing, watching Scarlet fail at her big clown show.

Same as canon, Glory spits on Burn, who by pure luck and side sight pulled Scarlet in front of her who had the brunt of her acid. She flies away to bring her soldiers to capture the DoD, while Scarlet is taken away to her palace and the SkyWings chaotically leave the arena. The DoD are freed by Peril and her fireless brother, Meteor, who join them and rescue Kestrel along their way to the Mud Queendom.

Later that day however, Burn has had enough of Scarlet, from the insults to her mother (the only thing that can take Burn out of cool) and her waste of time, Burn murders Scarlet at her very throne room and declares Ruby will be the next SkyWing queen. The rather weak and submissive new SkyWing queen obliges to the demand, but her army is not so fond of she being nothing but a puppet of Burn.

Following canon, Burn wants the DoD, not to murder them, but she isn't exactly inviting them for a tea party either, she wants to make them chose her as queen. She sends search parties through all the Sky and Mud Queendom, but fails to overall locate them, until she grows rather tired and orders the massing of her army to battle again at the Summer Palace, her strategy was simple, if the DoD are fleeing from her, then she must destroy her sisters first, until they are either useless or they chose her.

The Summer Palace battle was a success and I will time skip again because there goes book 2, 3 and 4 where Burn doesn't has much relevance, lets get to book 5.

Now, Burn's interest in weird things is one I often debated with myself either I should remove or not, because its a villainy trait I think makes her character distinguish from others, but it doesn't necessarily helps her case as a fitting queen she portrays herself.

I decided to keep it, but I followed Burn's rather canonical pragmatic side, the DoD can be useful to her, so she will not kill any of them (because doing so would ruin her chances with the others), so she is interested in Sunny oddness, but will not kill her yet.

Addax is a different case, I made him rather kidnap Sunny, not to gift her to Burn, but because one DoD was walking around and he simply couldn't let her escape when this was the greatest chance they ever had to finally locate them.

He brings Sunny to the stronghold, where she meets Smolder and Sandstorm. Now, Sandstorm is a completely different character in my AU, almost worth of his own big lenghty explaination post, because his canon self is an obnoxious and loud dragon, and I literally can not understand why Burn would keep him alive, he didn't even seemed to be particularly useful at all. She would just kill his ass.

But Sandstorm here, he is a kind listener general of hers, and secretly her love interest, but shhh, this is literally something NOBODY have to know, not yet anyways. He has an uncanny calmness to him and is very caring and gentle with Sunny in her stay at the stronghold, similarly to Smolder, he does think twice before locking her in a dungeon, wishing to help his queen reason with Sunny properly.

The main problem comes to... The DoD technically chose Blister. Her manipulation of them was successful, then Sunny, angry for being locked up at the Sky Palace and at Burn and Scarlet, will not be so cordial either, so the tensions are rising up, because the young sandwing will rather die than tell anything even close to the location of the DoD, because she believes Burn (by all Blister's sweet lies) is a monster.

Before Burn's arrival though, Thorn and the Outclaws attacked the palace. An incredibly daring move, no one has besieged the stronghold through the entire length of the war, yet this diverse and desorganized group of idealistic rebels had the daring the IceWings didn't, and the SeaWings never could.

The battle is of course almost a complete disaster for the Outclaws, and Thorn, to save her soldiers, surrenders herself to Sandstorm to reunite with Sunny. After a brief reunion, Burn and her main force had arrived, the hope for their survival was dim, Sunny was desperated, she was not so willing to die as she thought.

Burn meets with them, and Thorn, being a hot-headed almost equal to Burn, snaps snarky comments to each other, things about how Burn left the den to rot at the talons of criminals, and Burn saying she had no choice, the war was more important than some settlement, and Thorn saying she will defend her dragonet from anything she tries.

Thorn however, escalates to the next level. She challenges Burn, not for the throne, but for the right to leave with Sunny unharmed. It could be said the entire stronghold was speechless, but Burn accepted.

Nobody expected this known criminal lord would stand up to Burn, but Thorn was decided she was far better than this, she stopped the criminal scum at the den, she alone stood up when everyone else cowered in fear, and she would do it again.

Through luck and cleverness, Thorn actually holds up to Burn for a while, but her overwhelming strength and fierceness would eventually hit Thorn, sooner or later. In a single charge, she throws Thorn several dozen meters away into the ground, before stomping her heck, ready to deliver the final blow, as old princesses would.

Thorn's eyes had fixed on Burn, filled with regret, for not being strong enough for Sunny, but she wasn't afraid at all, she was angrier than before. Before Burn could do anything, Sunny's desperate cries as she advanced towards them, now being held by the soldiers, begging Burn to not do it, she had a moment to think.

Killing a dragonet's mother as she cries out, was not something Burn would really do. Even if such mother was Thorn, quite literally a thorn on her side, challenging her army since last year. Above that, killing Thorn would make sure the DoD would not chose her at all. (At this point, the DoD have showed their words are more powerful than the talons of any dragon, thus it would not go well for Burn had they stood and against her).

In a rare gesture, not seem quite often, Burn releases Thorn and both of them stand in front of each other. She declares as she won, she will not allow them to leave the stronghold until further orders, but she gives her word she will not harm either of them.

After the situation deescalated, they all entered at the stronghold as the night came, Sunny and Thorn were even offered a dinner with the soldiers, Sandstorm and Smolder, a sign of the things to come. Burn may not throw a party at them, but now she was offering them tea.

Thorn refused to leave Sunny alone at all moments, but time had come for them to meet with Burn, this time, preferrably on different terms. Burn was blunt and direct, she wanted the location of the rest of the DoD, but Sunny refused to speak. Burn's gestures so far were nice, Sunny was almost challenging her beliefs on Blister's lies, but Burn was still too hot headed to lead the SandWings, right?

Sunny tried to distract Burn with a truth, she talked about the NightWing tunnel near her stronghold, to which Burn had snapped in anger, the NightWings were collaborating with Blister all along, not only the prophecy was false, but worse, it was a plot. Sunny was sad to be reminded of that, but at that right moment, she knew better.

Before departing to immediately destroy the tunnel, Burn had reassured Sunny that she was open to speak about any further Blister's lies she had told her. Sunny was not fully ready to have her entire beliefs collapse once again, but she was willing this time, Burn so far had hold all her words truthfully, even at her most angry.

They followed Burn and her soldiers, guiding them to the tunnel, to which Burn immediately ordered her soldiers to put explosives and destroy it, but before they could blow it up, Sunny listened to voices within and she realized, the DoD had come for her.

Clay, Starflight and Glory's heads showed up from the tunnel, in what they could only believe was a trap. Burn was most amused the DoD came right to her, while Sunny tried desperately to calm them down and not make things any worse. Burn had the tunnel destroyed and brought the DoD to the palace, for her, victory was now within her talons.

Burn had a message sent to Tsunami, the last DoD she still doesn't have, ordering she to come there or her friends would be executed. Burn was buffling, but you do not take anything she says as a bluff, ever. Sunny also convinced Burn to include in the message a note to bring Blister with her, as well as sending one to Glacier and Blaze too, calling it a big conference the DoD would make to chose the new queen.

In the meanwhile, Sunny explained all the lies Blister had told them with the help of Burn, to which Starflight with a heavy heart admitted he was tasked to further such lies to them. Now the only DoD who didn't know that was Tsunami, whom was most likely coming with Blister to show Burn a good taste of her own remedy.

Within two days, all the queens and Blister and Blaze reunited at the stronghold, to which immediately tensions rised up. Burn and Blister snarled and hissed at each other while Blaze kept distance. Blister spoke how she wanted to reunite the family after such pointless strife, bringing gifts for both Burn and Blaze.

Despite Blaze believing her, Glacier forbidden she from opening the box, while Burn outright threw the box away, knowing Blister's machinations. Tsunami angrily shouted at them, she still believing Blister had the best intentions and the only one actually trying to do something to end the war. But before the DoD could explain to her, Blister moved to her plan B, she pulled a blowgun and fired two poisonous dart at Burn.

The enormous sandwing fell into the ground, roaring in pain and weakened, a part of Blister's plan, weaken her sister so she may properly kill her. Blister challenged Burn for the throne, and immediately jumped into her. Burn tried to get up but was pinned down by Blister, who adored every second of her sister being helpless.

Both the DoD and the SandWings shouted at Blister for her unfairness at the fight, to which distracted Blister, who hissed back at them, giving Burn enough time to get up and roar at Blister, who cowered in fear at looking her sister back up, in disbelief.

Burn charged at Blister who screamed for her guards to release the dragonbite vipers through the great hall of the palace, her plan C, soon chaos spread through the palace, many dragons stampeding the DoD. Blister herself had left the stronghold with her followers, clearly defeated.

Burn ordered her guards and anyone able to recapture or kill all the dragonbite vipers of the palace. After a hour, they all had been taken down one way or another. Burn weakened but still alive sat down with her sister Blaze, the harmless one. For once in their life, they were on the same side, not only that Blister's awful, but in their hate of dragonbite vipers.

In an unprecedent declaration, Burn spared Blaze, she would restore her titles as princess of the SandWings, and she being overall harmless and not even willing to challenge Burn, would be welcomed back at the palace. For such gesture of good will, the DoD chose Burn as the new SandWing queen and she was crowned a hour later, offically, despite being the de facto queen since 4993 AS.

Blister's escape was unfortunate according to Burn, but she would hunt her down for what she did to the ends of the Earth, which in the first unofficial queens' summit, agreed to declare Blister an enemy of Pyrrhia, to be arrested or executed in all queendoms.

In her last act that day, Burn had declared the DoD, especially Sunny, as heroes of the SandWings and of all Pyrrhia, giving them all a medal and approving Sunny's Jade Academy project, despite overwhelming doubts of its viability.

While Sunny and Burn wouldn't meet for a year, due to Sunny's still recent memories of the events at the stronghold, Starflight's project would open the first way of communication the two had since the conference, and Sunny would finally muster courage to meet Burn again, this time in times of peace.

[sars-wulf]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/54914326/chapters/178332376

Hey :)

[wordstalktome]

[7-seasof-fandom]

How are ya doin today? Also this ask can also be used as a big excuse to ramble about any au or meta you wanna ramble about as all your ideas and thoughts are lovely :)

Well uh I can tell you about an AU in progress!

Basically a burning branch falls onto Five when he finds his siblings in the apocalypse and the adrenaline makes him able to panic jump back in time and right into Reginald's office. By that point his siblings have already moved out and Reginald decides to mentally screw with Five to the point of Five almost ending up causing the apocalypse before his siblings manage to stop him

[tinysidestrashcaptain]

Burn

A/N: So, guess who was listening to First Burn and got inspired? Have this short semi-song fic. It’s short, but hopefully not too terrible. 

Pairings: Prinxiety, implied Logince that’s never acted on

TW: Infidelity, lies, swearing

Roman’s feet dragged on the floor, feeling like lead as he slowly trudged through the house towards the study. He could still see the furious look on Logan’s face as he threw the Reynold’s Pamphlet in his face, still hear the words echoing in his head. “I love my brother more than anything in this life, and I will choose his happiness over mine every time! I’m here for him, to stand at his side while he endures bitter torment because YOU were foolish enough to respond to schoolyard taunts with...THIS! Whatever we may have had? It’s done. Virgil is all that matters now. I hope you’re happy, you selfish bastard.”

Well, he certainly wasn’t happy! Roman had been so sure when that lying snake had approached him that the only way to preserve his professional reputation was to come clean. To put everything out there so that no one could ever accuse him of fraud or theft. In hindsight, it was beyond stupid, and he regretted every single word he’d penned, but the damage was done. Now the only thing he had left to do was to confront his husband. Roman hesitated outside the door, his hand hovering uncertainly over the knob. This was the study he and Virgil had spent hours in together, the one place in their home he’d never allowed another soul to enter. Not even...him.

He slowly opened the door, and his heart shattered in his chest at the sight of his husband kneeling on the floor in front of a crackling fire, his shoulders shaking with quiet sobs. “...Virgil…?”

Virgil’s shoulders tensed immediately, but he didn’t turn or look at him. He held up a sheaf of parchments, holding them still so that Roman could see them. Letters. Countless letters that he’d written to Virgil during their courtship. Letters that Virgil had kept and treasured, letters he’d often caught his husband re-reading with a soft smile on his face. Virgil didn’t turn at all, just grabbed one out of the stack, bringing it closer to his face. “I keep re-reading these, over and over again, trying to figure out what I missed.”

“Darling--” Roman started, stepping forward.

“DON’T!” Virgil snarled, whirling. His eyes were red from crying, tears on his face, but the fury in them was unmistakable, betrayal and pain nearly making his voice crack. “Don’t take another step closer to me, you son of a bitch.” His glare pinned Roman where he stood, froze him in place.

Virgil held the letter to his face, reading it one last time with a grim expression, then turned and tossed it into the fire. “I’m burning every single one of these, since they clearly mean nothing. You aren’t the man who wrote these. I don’t know who the hell you are anymore, but you’re welcome to stand over there, if you want.”

Roman couldn’t help the wordless sound of protest that was ripped from his throat as he watched the letter go up in flames. Virgil’s eyes shot to his, their normally kind brown depths an inky well of pain in the relative darkness. “You don’t get to protest. You lost that right the minute you published THIS.” The balled up paper hit Roman squarely in the chest. He didn’t have to look at it to know what it was.

“I didn’t mean--”

“Mean to what? To bring a stranger into our home, into our BED?! Praytell, how did it happen, then?” Virgil snapped, another letter going into the flames. “I’d ask if you tripped, but we both know exactly how big a lie that would be. You published every letter he wrote to you, every disgusting detail of what you did together, so the whole world knows just how big a fool you made of me.”

Roman flinched, but stayed silent, his head bowing in shame. Virgil scoffed, tossing two more letters into the fire in rapid succession. “In clearing your name, you’ve ruined our lives, you know that, don’t you? Heaven forbid your enemies whisper that you’re part of some scheme! They whisper a taunt, so you have to scream over them to silence them, and for WHAT?”

“I…” Roman trailed off at the raw misery on Virgil’s face as he looked at him.

“You think I don’t know about whispers? That I don’t see the way you look at my brother whenever he’s around? I’m not stupid, Roman. Then again, I had no idea you were fucking someone else in our own home, blissfully ignorant that I was sleeping in the same place you bedded another man, so maybe I AM stupid.” Tears were streaming down Virgil’s face, his voice cracking with emotion. “I was willing to pretend it was okay that you’re in love with Logan, I really was. I thought if I loved you enough, maybe you could love me back. And for awhile, I thought I’d finally managed it. We have three children, a life and a family. I thought that mattered to you, thought I mattered to you!”

“You do! Virgil, you do!” Roman blurted out, reaching a hand out, but Virgil slapped him away furiously.

“Do I?! Then when the time comes, you can explain to the children the pain and embarrassment you put me through. When are you going to learn that they are your legacy, that we are your legacy? The rest of the world may forget you, but the people who loved you never will.” Virgil nearly shouted it, and Roman recoiled, guilt nearly eating him alive.

“...Loved…?” The past tense made Roman feel like the world was tipping on its axis. Maybe he’d never truly understood how much he had come to depend on Virgil’s limitless love and support until just this moment, when he realized it might all be over.

“...Do you remember when I begged to be part of your narrative? Begged you to let me into your heart, into your life?” Virgil asked quietly, looking down at the remaining stack of letters. Tears dotted the paper, smearing the ink as Roman nodded. “Forget it. I’m erasing myself from the narrative. Let future historians wonder how I reacted when you broke my heart. I don’t give a damn what they think of you, and they have no right to me or my feelings.”

Virgil whirled and threw the entire stack of letters into the fire with a small, heart wrenching sob. “This doesn’t matter. None of it can erase what you’ve done, how little you value me and your family, and there aren’t any words you can ever give me to change it now. I’ll stay, I don’t have a choice, but I’ll sleep in the guest quarters. You won’t be welcome there, not now, not ever. In fact, it would be better if you slept in your office instead, don’t you think?”

Every word landed like a blow, and Roman felt tears streaming down his face as he looked at Virgil, haloed in the glow from the fire. “I...I’m so sorry--”

“So am I.” Virgil cut him off, stalking towards him. For a moment, he was sure his husband was about to slap him, and perhaps he was, but in the end he just stood there, toe to toe with him. “If you ever made the mistake of thinking you were mine? Don’t.”

Roman stared after his husband long after he’d gone, those words echoing in his brain. He didn’t know if he’d ever unhear them, ever unsee the bitter pain in Virgil’s eyes. As he stumbled to his desk, sitting in the chair he’d so often spent hours writing at, he couldn’t help but think that this may be the one thing that he couldn’t write his way out of.

[wandering-shadows-lost]

Ok. New BNHA AU idea:

Before Izuku is diagnosed as quirkless, even before Bakugo’s quirk manifests, he gets caught up as a bystander in a villain attack.  The hero who responds to the attack is none other than Endeavor.  Endeavor, who is not concerned about potential civilian casualties.  Endeavor who is a little (a lot) too loose with his flames and a small child who is a little too close.  Izuku ends up burned.

He doesn’t wake up for days between the damage and the drugs.  By the time he wakes up, Endeavor’s people have strong armed his Mom into a contract forcing her to keep quiet.  They have also moved them to another part of the city without letting them tell anyone where they were going.  Inko didn’t even have time to go home before the mover’s hired by Endeavor’s PR team had everything packed up and the lease broken.

When Bakugo runs over to his friend’s house to share the amazing news about his quirk after Izuku misses school, no one answers the door. When Mitsuko stops by later and still no one answers the door, she gets worried.  The landlord won’t tell her anything except that the apartment is now vacant.  No one can or will tell her anything.  Bakugo never gets to tell Izuku about his quirk.   His friend is gone.

Izuku’s burn starts on the right side of his face.  The worst of the damage is centered on his eye, but extends much farther.  It stretches down the side of his face to his chin.  It reaches all the way to his right ear, which shows small signs of damage.  And it rises up onto his scalp.  He keeps the damaged area on his scalp shaved down to stubble because his hair refuses to grow evenly and, what little manages to grow, tends to fall out.  To compensate, he allows the left side to grow well past his chin and pulls the hair over to cover the right side of his face and scalp.  The worst part?  His right eye is gone.  He uses a false eye.

This Izuku is more disillusioned about the Hero Commission.  Any organization that allows Endeavor to get away with what he’s done and continues to do, is not a good thing in his book.  He still wants to be a hero, however.  He will save people so that he can keep what happened to him from happening to more people.  He knows the danger of “collateral damage” all too well.

Izuku still applies to UA.  He does not get into the Hero Course because he never meets All Might and so still has no quirk.  He is not alone in General Studies,  however.  

Izuku and Shinso meet at Izuku’s new school, once Izuku is declared well enough to go back.  Izuku stands up to some of the school’s bullies when he hears them call Shinso’s quirk a villain’s quirk. After all, some of the so called “heroes” are more villainous than the one’s they fight.  Not long afterwords, the two of them are practically inseparable.  It doesn’t help once Inko finds out about Shinso’s living condition at the Foster Home and promptly puts her newly acquired lawyer’s degree to work adopting him.  (It isn’t entirely the Foster Home’s fault.  They really do try their best, but they are critically underfunded and understaffed.  And Shinso kept slipping through the cracks.)

(@rinrinp42 see I wrote the thing...part of the thing)