Flame Princess

**Flame Princess**(first name **Phoebe**[1] and occasionally called **FP**) is the current ruler of the Fire Kingdom as well as Finn's ex-girlfriend. When Jake asks Flambo if he knows any princesses that are Finn's age so he can fix his broken heart, he introduces Jake to Flame Princess. Flame Princess was locked away in a lantern in the main chamber of the Fire Kingdom when Jake first encounters her. It is later revealed that her father, the Flame King, put her there on Princess Bubblegum's advice when she was an infant, and she did not come out for 14 years. She has a short temper, trust issues, and a heat core that can destroy the world if overblown with emotions. She is also now close friends with Cinnamon Bun. Due to the events in "Princess Day," she is considered a registered princess. As revealed in "Elemental", she is the current Fire Elemental.

## Appearance

Flame Princess has long orange-red hair about waist-length that is like fire and as such flows above her head. She has black eyes that sparkle white and yellow in the light of her fire. Her arms are also portrayed as thicker than the majority of characters. Her skin is yellow-orange and she usually wears a orange-red dress under a light orange surcoat with hot pink trimming. At first, she does not wear shoes, though her dress usually hides her feet from view. She has two diamond-shaped, red gems; one on her forehead and the other on the front of her dress. The red gem on her dress is shown to be a part of her dress and not her exemplified when Flame Princess had a different outfit on in "Ignition Point."

When her flames are doused, her skin changes to a pinkish-gray hue, and her hair falls down her back and becomes a dull shade of maroon. Once in dry conditions, she returns to her normal appearance quickly. She turns into a similar appearance when she was poisoned in "The Red Throne."

She has many different enraged and battling forms, most of which has red eyes.

### Costumes and Disguises

Flame Princess is normally seen wearing dresses, in all different shades of red and orange with a gem on some of her outfits and her hair is seen up most of the time.

* In "Ignition Point," she wears a raspberry tank top with red matching pants under a clear layer, a pair of red shoes, and her hair in side-buns with a back ponytail.

* In "Vault of Bones," she wears a light orange and raspberry strapless dress with fire at the end. Her hair was worn down and shorter with a curl on top.

* In "Earth & Water," she wears a casual white dress with a peach-colored, short-sleeved surcoat, a hot pink sash and a pair of red boots that are about knee-length. Her hair was worn down and is slightly longer. As a baby, she is shorter in both physical and hair length and wears a raspberry t-shirt with a rock diaper. At the end of the episode, she wears a dark brown, full body suit armor with a skirt, copper sash, red trimming, knee caps, and Flame King's crown as her ruler outfit. Her hair is styled in a ponytail similar to the one she wear in "Ignition Point." She is also seen wearing this outfit in "The Red Throne" and "Princess Day".

* In "The Red Throne," she wears her ruler outfit over a white-pink dress. Her skin turns dimmer and her hair falls down to her back, similar to when she gets wet. At the end of the episode, she is seen in her ruler outfit again, but with her hair worn down.

* In "Jake The Brick," she is seen wearing an orange dress with hot pink collar and a red sash as her day dress.

* In "The Cooler," she wears a light orange surcoat with hot pink trimmings, molten rocks on her shoulders, orange-red pants and red boots. She has the same hairstyle as she had when wearing her ruler outfit.

* In "The Mountain," she wears a light orange crop top with a hood, orange-red pants and dark red shoes.

* In "Bun Bun," she wears a white short-sleeve crop top, orange jogging pants, tied hair. She walks barefooted.

* In "Skyhooks II, after she was freed of Patience's mega-spell, she wears an yellow-orange, ground-length dress with a v-neck collar, and the sleeves of which reaching past the elbows. The dress itself also has red-orange stripes going down the sides of the skirt, as well as the waistband, and collar. Her two gems are also missing in this form.

## Personality and traits

Flame Princess has a short temper and volatile personality; she usually has a calm demeanor, though with rather frequent tendencies to sudden and violent mood swings. She is described as "passionate" by Finn, "evil" by the Flame King, and "intense" by Pendleton Ward.[2] Flame Princess is bold, sensitive, and quick to judge. She is also very aggressive, as shown when she throws fireballs at her subjects just for whispering. However, although being ill-tempered, Flame Princess was shown to be able to control her anger well. Even though Jake, who is controlling Finn, embarrassed him in front of her less-evil family by making him dance his Baby Finn song, she didn't shout or rage at him when she figures out the bet, instead she thinks it's pretty hardcore of Jake to do that and then wishes Finn good luck.

Since she was locked up when she was only an infant, Flame Princess is not educated properly and does not know much about the outside world of the Fire Kingdom. This is shown in "Hot to the Touch," where she was viewed to be examining flowers and was a bit surprised when she accidentally sets them on fire. She also does not know the definition of sneaking and eating, though she had served her family dinner in "Jake Suit." However, by now, she seems to have improved on her knowledge and had shown some intelligent traits.

After Flame King started harassing her by calling her evil, Flame Princess started to fear that she is evil and wants to be good. Since she does not want to be influenced by evil people, she started spending time with her less-evil family members and was also upset when Cinnamon Bun told her that Bubblegum was evil in "Earth & Water." She had also been helping her citizens with their problems and making them happy once she becomes the ruler of the Fire Kingdom, showing the helpful and caring side that lies beneath her tough exterior.

Flame Princess shows her passion for burning things in "Vault of Bones," where she revealed that she thinks destroying stuff is fun. She seems to be very enthusiastic about burning things. She prefers to burn through places and creatures rather than using other methods to explore the dungeon. If she gets overexcited in burning things, she will shoot fire at random places and destroy whatever she likes. However, she eventually becomes aware of her powers and states that she'll only destroy evil things, which was proven to be true when she denies Finn in hurting her people due to them being entranced in "The Red Throne."

After the events of "Frost & Fire," Flame Princess becomes more aware of trusting people and getting into relationships. She seems to have become more serious and dislikes how people "hide" facts from her. She wonders if "everybody is hiding something" and wants people to be completely honest so that she can get to know them better and as well not getting herself tricked. Wanting everybody to be trustworthy, Flame Princess enacted a rule in the Fire Kingdom to be completely honest after she overthrows her father and became the new ruler, no longer wanting to be fooled again.

## Abilities

Being the Fire Elemental, Flame Princess is able to conjure up flames at will, transform other citizens of the Fire Kingdom into Flambits, transform into a larger, more dangerous form composed purely of fire, hurl fireballs that can vary in size, and separate her body into distinctly separate groups of flames. She appears to be able to consciously extinguish fire she has created; she does this when she notices Finn crying in "Hot to the Touch". She has the ability to float and move very quickly, both of which leave a trail of flames.

As stated by the Messenger in "Earth & Water," Flame Princess would be more powerful than her father could ever dream to be, which results in her imprisonment. As an infant, Flame Princess is shown to be as powerful as she currently is, burning down a forest and catching Princess Bubblegum's attention. According to Princess Bubblegum, Flame Princess' emotions are directly linked to her combustion levels, which explains her aggressiveness. This is noticeably shown in several episodes. It is also implied that the more aggressive Flame Princess becomes, the more powerful she is, as she is shown to be still possessing the capability to fight and defeat Bubblegum in their fight in "The Cooler," despite her loss of power.

When she is exposed to extreme romance, her elemental matrix will become unstable, and she would burn through the Earth's crust and set off a series of reactions, causing a meltdown that would burn up the planet from the inside. This reaction was started when Finn kissed her in "Burning Low," but the crisis was averted.

She can unleash small blasts of fire by using her fingers and throw disks of fire as seen in "Ignition Point."
She can emit a continuous flamethrower from her hands, but the length of time she can sustain it is debatable. She has a Scatter Fire ability, in which she emits four manipulable bolts of fire. She can also make a Flame Sword, in which she concentrates an isolated flame, extending from her arm, that is intense enough to glow blue. Immediately following that, she used a Dash ability that sent massive pieces of shrapnel from a steel door (which she had just cleaved into four pieces) in all directions, as seen in "Vault of Bones." Also in the episode, she reveals that she can sense that a tree is not made of wood by using her Heat Sense. She does not leave a fire trail when she walks now, and she says she is a "42" (out of 100) at sending very weak, controlled bolts of fire. This indicates that she has gained considerable control over her abilities since "Burning Low," as seen in "Vault of Bones."
She has full manipulation of her body, morphing it into asymmetrical flames at will. Her father also has this ability, and it may be the norm among fire elementals this is shown when she first steps into her new house. She can shoot beams of fire from the center of the gem on her forehead, as shown in "Frost & Fire" and 'The Cooler." She is also able melt the icicles that the Ice King creates without touching it when they fly towards her. She shows the ability to heal when healing Cinnamon Bun, as seen in "Earth & Water." Although, she could just be melting the area around the wound back into place or cooking his skin to make it brown again, as she is made of fire and Cinnamon Bun is made of a dough substance.

Unlike Princess Bubblegum, Slime Princess and Lumpy Space Princess, she was aware of some of her elemental abilities before "Elemental"

She is also a natural at rapping.

### Weaknesses

Her weakness is water, shown after unintentionally setting off some of Princess Bubblegum's liquid pyrotechnics and when she puts her hand into a pond. The liquid pyrotechnics caused her to become unconscious, and touching the water in the pool caused her pain. The fires that Flame Princess makes are a part of her, and stomping on or dousing the fire hurts her. However, after her second appearance, she was shown to be able to handle a part of her flames being doused, as shown in "Burning Low" and "Vault of Bones," where Finn puts out her fire in both episodes and she did not react or show any signs of pain. She also has a partial weakness in ice, shown when Ice King throws his groceries (which were frozen) at her, when one of the Snow Monsters hugs her and when the Ice King, while fighting a furious Flame Princess gave her a noogie with his ice controlled tower with hands made out of snow, all three which hurt or douse her.

In "The Red Throne," Flame Princess loses some of her abilities when she is poisoned by her handmaiden, who is acting on behalf of Flame King. This causes her flame-hair to fall down, and Finn notes she is relatively cool to the touch. Flame King notes at the end of the episode that she is even weaker than before due to the poisoning, but it is unclear if its effects are temporary or long-term. In the episode, Flame Princess does not seem to have most of her usual flame-blasting or shifting abilities. This also proves that besides water, Flame Princess can also be weakened with poisons.

In "The Cooler," it is revealed that when the magma in the Fire Kingdom's core has cooled down, it can weaken the life force of the Flame People by producing cool air pockets, to which the people loses heat to and contracts, causing them to reduce in sizes. Flame Princess, being one of the victims, was shown to have her skin to be much dimmer but this, however, did not cause her flame-hair to fall down. According to Princess Bubblegum, this had caused her to lose most of her powers. Despite the effect, Flame Princess was shown to have still her usual flame-blasting powers during her fight with Bubblegum, turning into larger forms, shooting fireballs from her gem, creating large fireballs and two fire blades with her hands. By the end of the episode, she was shown to had reverted back to her normal state. In the mini-series, she and her people were turned into candy people by the candy element.

## TMNT X Pokemon

Flame Princess can use her fire abilities to burn down the metal to create openings.

## Trivia

* Pendleton Ward and the show's cast first introduced Flame Princess at Comic-Con 2011.
* Natasha Allegri has drawn Flame Prince, a gender-swapped version of Flame Princess, in her artwork. He has appeared in the mini comic that started in early January of 2013 and as a minor character in "The Prince Who Wanted Everything" and "Five Short Tables."
* Flame Princess is the only known princess to have invaded another kingdom by herself.
* In the original storyboard for "Hot to the Touch," Flame Princess was supposed to kiss Finn; however, the idea was dropped and reused for "Burning Low."
* When Flame Princess transforms into her larger form, her face resembles that of her father, the Flame King.
* She is different than the other flame people curiously, being that she can be completely wet and yet only be rendered unconscious at the most, instead of killed. This is possibly due to the fact that, as royalty, she likely has abilities beyond typical flame people.
	+ She is one of the few flame people with a humanoid shaped body.
	+ Although it appears as if Flame Princess' hair is made of fire, it does not disappear when she is extinguished or wet; instead it falls down to her back and behaves like normal hair. It most likely transforms, or the hair is more of a fuel for the fire.
* When in a doused state, her gems appear to turn a maroon color.
* She refers to Finn as her boyfriend in "Vault of Bones" and Finn refers to Flame Princess as his girlfriend in "Puhoy."
	+ In "Puhoy," Finn is briefly concerned that their relationship is over after Flame Princess did not get a joke he made, and ventures into a Pillow World where he lives through a lifetime with a pillow wife and pillow children. When he dies of old age in this world and "returns" to Ooo, he immediately gets a phone call from Flame Princess telling him she now gets the joke, and promptly forgets about his "dream" of the Pillow World.
* She is one of the two princesses who have ran away from home and lived out in the grasslands because they hated their parents and how they treated them. The other one is Lumpy Space Princess. She is also one of the two princesses to have another emblem aside from a crown to represent her royalty **as a princess**. The other one is also Lumpy Space Princess.
	+ However out of the two, only Lumpy Space Princess has reconciled with her parents.
	+ It may also noted that she is the third member of royalty that hated their father, along with Marceline and Lumpy Space Princess; however, Lumpy Space Princess's hate stretches to both her parents.
	+ Although she overthrew her father and became the new ruler (making her obtain a crown) and started living in the Fire Kingdom again, she was still considered one of the two princesses as she does not have a crown when she was only a princess and she ran away from home and lived out in the grasslands at the same time.
* In the episode "Hot to the Touch," it is proven that whenever Flame Princess's fires are put out, she gets hurt. However, in the episode "Vault of Bones" Finn threw a torch in the water that was lit with Flame Princess's fire and she did not show any pain. Also in the episode "Burning Low" Finn jumped in the water putting out fire that was on his foot that was caused by Flame Princess and she did not seem hurt at all.
* In "Earth & Water" she overthrows her father and becomes the new Flame King.
* In the episode "The Pit," Finn mentions that he still loves her, even though she rejected him in "Earth & Water."
* Unlike the others, in most video games, she is seen in her outfit in "Vault of Bones" instead of her main outfit.
* Her personality is similar to that of Fryno from Skylanders: Swap Force.
	+ Coincidentally, both control the element of fire.

### Appearances in other media

* There was a Pet Society costume of Flame Princess.
* Flame Princess stars in an Adventure Time original graphic novel, where she embarks on her first adventures with Finn and Jake.[4]
* In the mobile game "Card Wars," Flame Princess is one of the opponents.
* Flame Princess is a playable character in Adventure Time Battle Party.
* Flame Princess is a boss in Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I DON’T KNOW!. Like the Ice King and Lemongrab, once you defeat her you can play as her.
	+ In the same game she appears in her Vault of Bones outfit instead of her normal outfit.