Daed_Jaybird
Recent bookmarks
-
Tags
Summary
The bath takes care of the sweat. Takes care of the burnt bits of skin and fat that still cling to his palm. Zuko scrubs his body until it’s raw, blushing red; he dunks his head under the hot water and stays there, staring up at the dark, vaulted ceiling of the washroom until his lungs run out of breath to use.
The oil of honeysuckle and opium and cinnamon, sweet and sharp and earthy, does not wash the stench of scorched flesh out of his nose.Zuko falls asleep on the evening of his official coronation, when he’s twenty-one-years old and has finally reached his majority. Zuko wakes on the morning of the Agni Kai with his father, eight years earlier.
This is annoying for several reasons, like the fact that the War is still ongoing, that he has zero friends, and that Ozai is not in jail.
It’s time to scheme.Series
- Part 1 of to try again-verse
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 32,965
- Chapters:
- 4/4
- Collections:
- 15
- Comments:
- 595
- Kudos:
- 7,381
- Bookmarks:
- 1,921
- Hits:
- 76,139
Bookmarked by Daed_Jaybird
02 Jul 2026
-
Tags
Summary
His first mistake is not picking up the phone.
In Jud’s defense, it’s been a long fucking day. And not one that he’s keen to recount.
He’s kept the damn thing turned off for most of the day. As a rule, he stays fairly available on Sundays, but—well, extenuating circumstances call for extreme reactions. Thankfully, he had kept enough of his head after Mass to force a shutdown instead of what he wanted to do, which was to hurl it against the wall and watch it shatter into a million tiny pieces.
Night is young, though.
Or: A Wicks truther comes after Jud in the middle of Mass. He's fine. Benoit disagrees.
Bookmarked by Daed_Jaybird
02 Jul 2026
-
Tags
Summary
“Road to Damascus,” Blanc says, tone businesslike.
“Gethsemane,” Jud replies.
Or: Jud has a bad time of it and shows up unannounced at Blanc's house.
Bookmarked by Daed_Jaybird
01 Jul 2026
-
Tags
Summary
Bolaire leaves.
He leaves the city that once had been his home, his chance— "Everything starts as an illusion first." — before the machinations of Thjazi Fang had poisoned everything.
He leaves; hands himself over, vulnerable, although he knows the next time he will open his eyes is when he will be sacrificed.
After all what is his life — no the destruction of a thing, in the face of the greater good?
Bookmarked by Daed_Jaybird
01 Jul 2026
-
Tags
Summary
Thimble and Julien have a talk about what happened at Obrimus Manor.
Bookmarked by Daed_Jaybird
29 Jun 2026