George Burnstead

## George Frederick Burnstead

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**George Frederick Burnstead** is a supporting character of SummonWater827's Amphibia AU fanfiction, *The Four Torches Lighting the Path to Glory*. He was a lonely individual before meeting the three girls at school and they became friends. Upon Anne opening the Calamity box, he too got transported to Amphibia, ending up in a strait of the islands of Salamand, not far off Amphibia, where he met two salamander sailors, Commodore Redding and Commander Raquel. Together, they sail through the seas, making for Newtopia during his search to find his friends. He later finds Anne, joining her to find the others and to save Amphibia.

## Appearance

### Body

George is a Scottish-American teenage boy who is tall (but shorter than Anne, Sasha and Marcy) and slim. He has fair skin, medium-length flaming red hair in a mullet with bangs, and round green eyes. After being in Salamand for months, his hair has become visibly grown out and shaggier.

### Clothing

In Amphibia, George wears a brown hooded cape with a collar that is held together with a black onyx brooch. He also wears a dark gray 3/4-length sleeve duster with a long-sleeved blue-gray tunic underneath, a solid mint green kilt with a Sporran, and brown waterproof leather boots that are wrapped with suede straps. George has brown leather cuffs on each of his wrists, and a black belt that holds the scabbard for his weapon, a medium-length broadsword.

Back on Earth, George wears a school uniform as his everyday outfit. It grey-blue colored shirt with a yellow collar and an "SJMS" (Saint James Middle School) emblem stitched across the front of the shirt, a dark tan capri pants, a brown tweed collarless jacket, and a pair of shiny black loafers.

## Personality

George Burnstead is portrayed as a free-spirited, cunning, and kind individual who has an abandonment complex, as well as anger issues caused by his abusive parents and struggles to keep them under his control. He's also protective of his friends, as seen when he is stands up to Maggie for sneaking around, attempting to sneak into the teacher's lounge.

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## Background

George Frederick Burnstead was born in 2006 to a Scottish couple in the United States. George lived a hard early life because his parents were impetuous, heedless, and selfish, and they moved every two years in his life, which he hated. It wasn't until his tween years when he met three girls as his first friends, Anne Boonchuy, Marcy Wu, and Sasha Waybright at Saint James Middle School in Los Angeles, California. As a middle schooler, George wanted to spend his free time with Anne, Marcy, and Sasha, but mostly spent it with Marcy because Anne and Sasha neglected her needs and interests as he empathized more with Marcy than Anne and Sasha. He got relatively good marks in school, but found the classes flat-out boring was not very well-adjusted to being the new kid due to moving constantly.

### Incident with the Calamity Box

One day, he was taking his usual afternoon walk in the neighborhood after school when he receives a text from Marcy reminding him it was Anne's birthday, telling him to meet her with the girls downtown. As he is about to reply that he will, he notices a mysterious book in a bookstore he walks into during his walk, Dr. P's Extraordinary Guide To Magic & Mystery and reads through the book, which contains notes about a magical music box that can transport people to other worlds. George is fascinated by the possibilities of traveling to other worlds that are shown within the book before receiving another message from his father to come home immediately, and to not be late. He reluctantly does so after paying for the book, but when George arrives at home, she learns that his family is moving out of state again. Enraged with the prospect and fed up with moving from place to place every two years, George disowns his parents and runs out of the house in a rage, riding back into town on his bike.

Arriving downtown, he abandons his bike, and runs into Marcy, who is about to talk down to him for bumping into her by accident, when he sees a particular music box in a nearby thrift store, and decides he wants to buy it as a present for Anne's 13th birthday which happens to be the current day, Marcy tells George she read about it, and that it could be dangerous, but George ignores the advice, telling Marcy to go meet with Anne and Sasha and he will meet them, he walks in, picks it up from the shelf it sits on and pays for it, and rides to a park that evening where Anne, Sasha, and Marcy await George, who arrives on his bike and presents the box to Anne, wishing her a happy birthday. As she opens the box, the four are taken to the realm of Amphibia upon its opening, but they are separated into four different locations.

## Journey through Amphibia

George is teleported to the islands of Salamand, landing in a strait from falling out of the light that brought him into the strange new world and manages to stay hidden from the salamanders that live in bungalows there, and after a week of hiding and foraging, he stows aboard a ship run by salamanders. After being discovered by the salamander sailors, he introduces himself as "Ensign George Burnstead reporting for duty", but they don't recognize him as a member of their crew, who bring him to Commodore Redding, the commanding officer of the ship. When Commodore Redding showed him around the ship, he wanted to set sail with them and join the crew. However, his teacher, Commander Raquel, would be supervising his training, mostly by having him clean certain parts of the ship, to his dismay.

As George continues to sail and journey with Redding and Raquel, he realizes he loves sailing and how much he loved to swim, which also helped in his training, he also tells them about his friends: Anne, Marcy, and Sasha, and his officers agree to help him once he completes his training. Thanks to his free-spirited nature, he has also garnered respect as a sailor among the crew and the Salamders of the islands.

At some point, while playing a dice game, George confides in Raquel and Redding that he purposely intended to use the box just to get away from his parents and get a fresh start from the family drama, and worries what his friends will say when they find out they got wrapped up in the matter without their knowledge of his predicament.