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@kyrawasburnin
Ronan making people fight to the death in a musical gauntlet to earn a spot beside him is the most Trial by Fire thing I’ve ever heard 🔥

@user1382929
Sorry but this man really said “come into my house, rearrange the furniture but only one chair, and speak fluent Ronanese.”
#TBFReturns

@SpiralTheory13
Ronan Rutgers really woke up and said, “I will rebuild the empire with ONE other person.” And honestly? King.

Ezra wasn’t one to check social media. He didn’t care for people’s curated versions of themselves; for edited pictures or supposedly spontaneous tweets that had actually lived in a draft folder for months. He was pretty fake himself—he sure as hell didn’t show his true face in everyday life—but at least he took on the challenge of working that façade in real time.

But the morning Ian confirmed he had his audition ready and was going to submit it to Trial by Fire, Ezra found himself reaching for his phone and diving headfirst into the noise. News articles, comment threads, Instagram reels. He wanted to see the world his brother was stepping into.

And as he read tweet after tweet, something stirred in him.

Ian had said he only did it for fun. That there was no chance in hell Ronan would even see his tape. That even if he did, he’d be discarded, because he’d broken every single rule. But what if that was what made him stand out?

His brother was a musical genius, and Ezra couldn’t imagine anyone with even a shred of musical insight overlooking him just for breaking the rules.

Still, genius didn’t always rise above the algorithm. So Ezra made sure it did. He opened Ian’s YouTube channel and found the track that had just gone viral. With a smirk, he posted one simple comment. Enough to light a fuse.

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