Heath Burns

Heath Burns is a character from the Monster High franchise.

Heath is a young fire elemental, Heath still is in the process of learning to control his powers and he suffers no less for it than his environment. Fear, excitement, or just a moment of absentmindedness are enough to pass his flames on to where he no longer controls them. It does not help that Heath himself is impulsive and impatient and has limited regard for others' well being, meaning that his fire isn't even required for him to be the cause of chaos. Students and teachers alike are on guard if Heath is involved, which is necessary, but nonetheless hurts him because it means any effort to grow out of his habits is met with demoralizing skepticism. Heath likes to think of himself as the "guys want to be me, girls want to date me"-type, neither of which he actually is. He has, however, gained the interest of Abbey Bominable, who finds him funny and not that much worse than the average guy.

In the AWA fics, Heath is a student at the AWA Academy.

Appearance
Heath likes to think of himself as handsome and hot more than in the literal sense. He is not necessarily wrong as his appearance does garner attention. In the Monster High books, it seems his appearance is more humanoid-seeming as human-like as he is able to live amongst humans, and not be given away unless he sneezes fire. Although his appearance is never really told in the book series, his looks are probably what caught the attention of Haylee, Bekka Madden's friend. In the webisodes of cartoon and the 3D computer-generated CGI specials, along with the Monster High specials "New Ghoul @ School" and Fright On!, Heath is shown as a yellow-skinned fire elemental boy with fire-colored-appearing skin, a slim but athletic and built figure, slightly epicanthic-fold-looking eyes in the color orange-like red, in the sort of shape as those eyes of people in the eastern continent, that appear sort of "pulled-back" in appearance; as well as a muscular chest when shown shirtless at Gloom Beach, with a heavily-shown six-packed abs-set (although that is the appearance of all boys in the MH franchisesand EAH franchises; though Ever After High in cartoon has not yet shown any male in swim trunks at a beach yet). As he claims in his 2013 profile description of "Killer Style", Heath usually prefers to dress in a sense that isn't too show-off-like in sense of thought that it might envy the other male student bodies at Monster High, but he still likes to look good, so he wears letter jackets with flames on them and shoes with fire flames designed onto them. Heath also has bright orange hair that literally resembles a fire flame, all pointed up and no sense of essence of bangs or fringe. He has darker orange eyebrows, almost brown, from the cartoon making and artwork, but the creators had designed his doll to have eyebrows in dark brown instead; with both colors, his brows have the appearance of being arched up, and the doll shows a sign of the right one being kind of scratched off in appearance. Heath has some spikes in the back of his hair, and has pointy ears. In his civilian form, he typically wears a short-sleeved, grey tee-shirt, a black-with-white-and-pink-stripes striped letter jacket with literal flamed-looking patterns on the lower parts of the sleeves over the tee-shirt, a pair of deep, deep blue jeans for pants, and black sneakers in fire flames and white bottoms of the shoes.

Heath was dressed with his same outfit with an apron added to his attire in the Heath Burns two pack with Abbey Bominable in Classroom, and in the webisodes, he will often dress for an occasion or event when it is necessary for it. He dresses in swim trunks as a bathing suit when going to Gloom Beach in the Gloom Beach webisodes, which was slightly over his knees in jet black with fire flames, and dressed in a black-and-white tuxedo for the New Year's-Boo Year's party in "Boo Year's Eve". Usually, Heath is seen with a sneaky- or sly-looking smile on his face, as he is a constant troublemaker.

Personality
Heath is very flirtatious with the girls of Monster High, to the point of arrogance. While Draculaura liked him at first, she is seen in "Fur Will Fly" calling him conceited, and Lagoona tells him to "get over himself". He is a vainglorious, over-confident, loud-mouthed braggart and his behavior tends to be rather off-putting. He is not a very good listener because as seen in Lagoona's 'School's Out ' diary he got attacked by lab equipment because he didn't listen to Mr Hackington. He has however shown some redeemable qualities such as being helpful, as he was willing to assist in protecting the Fearleading Squad from Nefera's cheating ways during Monster Mashionals. In "Fatal Error", Heath is seen crying when the girls think that they didn't make it to a million hits, showing his sympathy to them and that he does care for them.

Heath is extremely childish, and very easy led. His actions vary wildly depending on who he's with, for example, under the positive influence of Ghoulia, he worked for the greater good and helped repair Rochelle's family car in "Scaris: City of Frights", but when being led by Manny, he behaves antagonistic and rude towards whoever Manny is targeting such as in "Friday Night Frights".

Abilities
Like a fire elemental, Heath has pyrokinesis.

Pyrokinesis: Like Abbey Bominable (besides the fact that he has fire powers), he can generate fire from his own hands. He is also shown that when he burns something, his eyes and hair turn to the colors of fire.

Trivia

 * Confusion has been set with fans about Heath's favorite food and least favorite school subject, as his website profile has had sort of a "copy misprint" with Holt Hyde's profile for some reason, while in his Classroom doll profile, Heath's favorite food was said to be chili peppers and his least favorite subject was said to be Mad Science. This might have either been an error, or the website creators making this intentionally for effect to show that the two are very similar as not only are they related, but have some similarities.