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You have the BEST QUESTIONS, I have a PLAYLIST of this stuff!

Girl on Fire by Alicia Keys, everyone knows that one

Fire with Fire by AlicebanD is awesome, so much fun for imagining angsty animatics in my head

Play with Fire by Sam Tinnesz is honestly such a bop, it's so much fun

Burned by Grace VanderWaal is really cool, super dramatic

Fire on Fire by Sam Smith is a bit different, it's a love song rather than a dramatic thing that could be a villain song, but the music does something really pretty at 2:45 (it's really pretty a lot of the time but that specific part makes me really happy)

Obviously Burn from Hamilton has to be here, it's a cliche but it's actually such a good song (First Burn as well, I unironically like it better than Burn sometimes)

But also Burn by Ellie Goulding, I love that one so much

Great Balls of Fire so doesn't fit the vibe of this list but it's just so much fun, I couldn't leave it out

Fire Burning by Sean Kingston is another one that's SO out of the left field but it is SUCH a bop. It's not the kind of music I'd normally listen to, and I have no idea what he's saying half of the time so if it's inappropriate then. I apologise. But it is so much fun

Fire by Barns Courtney is so cool, it's got such a great beat and the backing vocals actually sound really cool. Plus, there is one moment where he goes into a deep bass and it is *chef's kiss* <- weak at the knees for a good bass

Burning Pile by Mother Mother doesn't quite fit the vibe, but it's close enough and it's still a pretty cool song

Of course, Curses by the Crane Wives has a lot of arsonistic vibes and themes, which is very fun, and Curses remains an icon of a song

Matches by Jonah Kagen is softer, but it managed to be angry at the same time, but very arsonistic, very fun, very pretty

Matches by Huxlxy is pretty cool too, it's got a really interesting vibe to it, I can't quite name it but I enjoy it

Arsonist's Lullabye by Hozier is as cool as all of Hozier's other songs, which is to say incredibly. Scratches a very particular part of my brain

Derringer Pianowire, House Detective

Part of being a great House Detective was spotting when just one detail was different than the rest. People were predictable like that. If you followed the places they went, the sights they saw, and the web of connections they built, you'd eventually spot their weak points. The locations they didn't dare revisit. The letters they filed just a little differently. The people they only spoke to in hushed tones.

That's how Derringer tracked the Glaive-Guisarme brothers to their secret hiding spot. That's how Derringer learned what happened to his partner. And that's how, after he got his revenge, and after he called the Eye, he ensured no one would be able to do the same to him.

I SEEK THE MEMORIES OF NYMPHAEA LACUS AND LUMINA DAWNSPEAR

OH CHRONOFLOW, I BESEECH YOU

DISPATCH THEIR LOST VESSEL TO ME

A memory lost, all parties returned to the Leylines, adrift in the waters of time. A message in a bottle, set adrift in eternity.

But as a messenger waits, so shall what was lost return to harbor.

Sir Lestrum Armada, "Adventurer"

"Leave the past behind. Take this warning as an act of kindness, and value it as the treasure it is, for such things are all too rare in my Circus of Misery."

"I will not, Shao Klown. You bested me once, but I will not let your reign of terror commence. By the blade of the great adventurer Lestrum Armada, by the code of Haxatar, you shall--"

"Once? Once? Ha ha hahahaha ha-ha-ha-ha, ha ha hahahaha ha-ha-ha-ha. How many times do you think you have delivered that cliched hero's monologue? Ask yourself. If your defeat came only once. Then why do you feel the repeated pits in your stomach of repeatedly having sought out The Eye?"

"... You're lying."