Alternative universe in where TF!Pyro never left Tegrith and comes into the Academy alongside TF!Scott.
I think that if we follow the route of canon, conserving the character's theme —ego, pride, and ambition— I believe they would have worked hard for a position of leadership since they were young, and has accumulated a reputation as a very competent leader among the youth and trustworthy among their elders. He has plans on taking over after Scott's mother, and has big plans for Tegrith that he believes will solidify him a good enough story once he is gone.
When the invitation to the academy arrives, in their midst of fighting the corruption back home, they stand in for a similar reason that why they left moffa in canon — a better story, one actually epic. Scott is encouraged to come as well because the community loves and trust them both, also Scott is known to keep Pyro's ego grounded while uplifting eachother. Basically, an accountability buddie. Both of them are also extremely competent, so it a bit of a safeguard. (This, mostly because I don't see Scott leaving otherwise.)
However, there's a character shift that could happen that I find far more interesting. The idea is that they arrive at the academy with their flame gone. He put off chasing his ambitions for too long, and now, it's too late. The fire of their ambition, the flame that made him want to travel and earn their tale, it all was smothered out under conformity, leaving only cold embers behind. It is after finally making a proactive decision of leaving Tegrith for the academy that he starts to feel that spark ignite again.
The desire of telling a good story never left them. But they had fallen into the idea that they had no chances left after so long putting it out for the community's sake. Now? With dragons? Places to see? People to meet? Now seeing everything they've missed out on locked into that tiny stone village? They're delighted, they're feeling a will to work and move in ways they haven't before.
They turn restless. Hungry. They devour knowledge, they cant stand being inside. They need to see it all. Its like their life is finally starting. Resentment for their home brews in their veins, always outlasted by their desire for a story, to finally be the hero, to matter.
The theme goes from the concequences of burning too high —too much ambition, too much ego— to the consequences of letting them burn out —letting ambition die out, smothering any ego. To how they can be re-igningted.
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