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Part 4 of A Flower the Colour of Sin, Part 5 of Bite-Sized Fics
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2026-03-09
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Ardent Blaze

Summary:

Dongbaek has always been fascinated by fire.

Notes:

Happy (slightly belated) International Women's Day. Given that Ardor Blossom Moth has some apparently self-destructive tendencies... well, I think Sinner!Dongbaek would resonate pretty well with it. She should get some things to burn, too. As a treat.

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

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Dongbaek has always been fascinated by fire.

In her childhood, she gathered twigs to burn with Yi Sang and Dongrang, cooing at the way the flames danced and glowed, leaning in towards the heat haze. Later, in T Corp.’s colourless district, she held onto the comforting warmth of those memories through her fireworks.

Now, she carries a shimmering flame, cupped in her hands. Blazing Lepidoptera wings flutter; embers settle over her like an eclipse of moths.

Even knowing first-hand how destructive fire is, she’ll gladly embrace the flames and warmth.

She’s never been afraid of being burned, after all.

Notes:

My image of Sinner!Dongbaek is that normally beneath the uniform, she wraps her burned arm/hand/body with bandages (the only visible burn scars would be the ones on her face) but for some E.G.O. she will noticeably lack them.