7 Works by ZucchiniBread
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Following Roku’s death, he’d known that the Air Nomads would have to find their Avatar. Thinking of Roku - his spirit, rather - being born among the children in the Eastern and Western temples, a cycle beginning again, ever-new, ever turning, was beautiful.
Really, it was.
Truly.
Gyatso sighed.
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Four years after Avatar Roku's death, the monks of the Southern Air Temple search for the Avatar, and Gyatso finds himself contending with the strangeness of trying to find an old friend who is lost but not gone.
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“Aang? I’m not going to let them take you away from me,” Gyatso said without preamble, walking into the room.
He watched as Gyatso took in the scene: the note on his bed, Aang fully dressed and standing at the window with his glider clutched tight, ready to leave. Gyatso’s eyes widened with the realization, and the look he shot Aang, so full of heartbreak, made his cheeks burn with shame.
“Aang?”
Aang’s shoulders sagged. Of course Gyatso wouldn’t let them send him away. For a moment, all he felt was relief. And then he dropped his glider with a clatter on the ground and rushed towards Gyatso, still standing in the doorway with his hand resting on the post. He wrapped his arms tight around his teacher’s waist and pressed his face into the warm woolen robes.
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Aang stays. The world changes.
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even if things end up a bit too heavy, we'll all float on by ZucchiniBread
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
31 Oct 2025
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Zuko walked up to the Water Tribe boy and squared his shoulders.
“Hi?” said the Water Tribe boy, clearly unsettled.
“Hi.”
“Can I ask you a question?” Zuko said. The Water Tribe boy smirked at him.
“You just did,” he said sarcastically. Zuko didn’t bother giving that a response, just staring at the boy. He unsettled the members of this group, he knew that. Hopefully, it’d keep them from messing with him too much.
It worked on the boy, who cleared his throat, uncomfortable at the silence. “Sure. What’s your question?”
“Why is the Avatar doing dishes?”
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After joining the Gaang, Zuko learns a few things. Principal among them being that he's allowed to ask questions.
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the bougainvillea by ZucchiniBread
Fandoms: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man - All Media Types
06 Sep 2024
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She skips all her afternoon classes and sits in the grass by the baseball field watching dragonflies bump into each other. When school lets out, she camps at the library and flips through the cooking magazines and looks at glossy photos of cakes and pies and the happy families being fed them by happy mothers.
When she goes home, May eats quietly while her mother rants about the other secretary at her job at the steel mill, and wonders if everyone’s parents are like this.
After dinner, May cleans up and washes the dishes. Dries them. Folds the laundry that her mother started but didn’t finish, and goes to bed. Every so often, it hits her. The idea of forever going through each day, almost exactly like this. Sometimes better, sometimes much worse.
She goes to bed and wakes up the next day and does it again.
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May, and the understanding that abundance takes many forms.
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- Part 1 of the river
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if you live, your day will come by ZucchiniBread
Fandoms: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)
04 Aug 2024
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In February, six months before his birthday, Peter tells Rhodey. It’s vindicating that he tells him and Rhodey doesn’t suggest talking to Tony about it. He knows. He’s done that same song and dance where they beg and plead and pretend it’s not falling on deaf ears.
Together they gather. Social security card. Birth certificate. Rhodey shows him how to open a bank account, and then tells him about interest and loans and everything that matters when you have a little bit of money but doesn’t mean much when you’ve got a lot.
It’s a hard letter to write. It spans the front and back, and he pours into it. And then he leaves.
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On Peter’s eighteenth birthday, Tony heads into his room in the morning around ten and finds a neatly made bed and a letter sitting on the pillow.
Tony recalls reading the letter, stomach sinking lower and lower with each word, each anecdote of times Peter has begged him to sober up or to keep him out of the spotlight, or to stop destroying himself and asking Peter to watch. Peter wants a life of his own making, an iota of privacy. Tony lays on his son’s bed and cries until he’s nauseous, clutching the letter in a crumple against his heart.
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The relationship therapist tells them they’re both a pair of old maids, and Ben barks out a laugh. She tells them to get out, go on a date.
A date. They were probably in their twenties the last time they did a ‘date.’
It's precisely what they needed. They shed their skins behind them and laugh like kids again. They go to a hole in the wall, because it’s cheap, and they sit on a bench by the river and watch a man fall off a party boat, and then watch the Coast Guard pick him up. They laugh over it. They share an ice cream. They don’t fight.
When they get home, Skip’s watching TV, Peter’s asleep, and her and Ben feel better than they have in a long time.
That’s how it starts.
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- Part 2 of the river
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She can still close her eyes and feel how her mother picked her up. She laid her head on her mother’s chest, and listened to her hum, felt her sway. Every breath as even and deep as the tides. Every sway like the rocking of a boat, as natural as if she were standing on the ocean itself. And when she gets a little older, a little bigger, and moves her hands and moves the water, too, she thinks she knows where it comes from.
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Katara and Kya, relationship study.