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Flame Princess

copper flames for a flaming princess with a golden heart

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thinking about the possibility of, because of Flame Princess repeatedly showing up in Finn's dreams or sub conscious during the time they were dating as a hostile and violent figure portrayed as a violent mood swinger constantly threatening him with violence or having explosive anger bursts over minor things, or just outright blasting him with fire over nothing

that Finn might have been actively scared of Flame Princess to some degree before the events of Fire And Frost

And further, that FP would have picked up on a fear of her and the tension of him being scared of her while FP is trying to be a better person and was getting upset at Finn refusing to acknowledge or admit his fear of her contributed to the fallout between them after the events of that episode

Like, its not surprise that Finn is some kind of a masochist and his dreams of her blasting him with fire is very implicitly a sexually loaded experience, but its also noteworthy how whenever FP shows up in his dreams before that point, or even in ads that can be interpreted as being in his dreams (like the Halloween ad where Finn is menaced by giant versions of PB, Lumpy Space Princess and Marceline), FP comes off as deliberately violent, dangerous and an immediate threat to his well-being.

Consider that ad; if you take it as an actual dream Finn shares with Jake, it actually says a lot about Finn's perception of the characters in it. They're all gigantic, powerful and intimidating, but... PB and Marceline don't actually do anything dangerous or uncomfortable to them. LSP does (smooching him in a way that he is clearly alarmed and distressed by), and Flame Princess is explicitly the most obvious and dangerous threat to him, outright trying to attack him out of nowhere.

PB and Marceline, conversely, don't do anything even dangerous to him. PB laughs maniacally, and Marceline just pops up all innocent before making a big scary monster face, but the key point is that they're not actually hurting him, or even suggesting they MIGHT hurt him; PB just drops them into a test tube while making spooky laughs, and Marceline just gives them a jump scare. Compared to Finn's more panicked response to LSP and FP, they're downright benign.

While PB and Marceline spook him they don't actually do anything dangerous or genuinely upsetting to him at all, but Flame Princess is explicitly a rampaging threat to Finn's well being)

and FP is socially ill-adjusted, but she is perceptive. It's very in character for her to pick up on the possibility that Finn is more than a little scared of her; shying away from her when she moves too fast around him, or gets close enough for him to feel the heat of her flames. It's understandable, sure, but he tries to act like he's NOT worried about her burning him all the time, or that her touching him will hurt him and scar him for life.

FP values honesty. Finn trying to play it off, or pretending its not an issue at all might have been even more upsetting to her than when she accidentally hurts him. We also see that Finn, in Vault of Bones, DOES assume that FP might blast him or otherwise hurt him, even by accident, and while she's quick to reassure him, it might also be the sort of thing to set up doubts.

Finn's actions in Frost And Fire ended things and ended them BADLY, but it might also add further complications and texture to things if FP already had her own doubts, or hurt feelings, about what she might see as Finn's lack of honesty about being scared of her, or that she internalized the idea of her being a harm to others by just existing.

(Note that after she becomes Flame King, FP seems to rarely leave the Fire Kingdom at all. There, she can't hurt anyone just by EXISTING around frailer creatures.)

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