he was there during siege of the North. he infiltrated the spirit oasis. he has an uncle who studies spirits and the spirit world. he watched the sky go dark then the moon suddenly reappear like everyone else in the entire world did. and most importantly he watched zhao get eaten by a giant godzilla fish spirit.
Also, Iroh was there? He literally watched Sokka make out with the moon spirit. And you want to tell me that a romantic sap like him would not have immediately told Zuko about this romantic tragedy? Please, Zuko has known about this for ages, he just knows that this is not an acceptable situation in which to say “yeah, I know.”
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Not gonna lie this makes me a bit irritated. Here's the real version of this photo:
Instead of a cutesie reference to film censorship it was an explicit statement of defiance of Maryland's criminalization gay sex, which was not repealed until 2002. This wasn't a guy saying "Oh they can't put what I do in the movies according to a completely voluntary industry code" he was saying "The State of Maryland wants to put me in jail for being gay and having gay sex."
It wasn't a guy being cheeky about sex in an ambiguous, cute way. It was a man stating, in no uncertain terms, that a whole state of the United States considered him a criminal for being homosexual.
If there was a best-case scenario to Buzz finding out what he did in demo mode, this ain't it.
I keep thinking I'm not going to write another oneshot for them in the immediate future but my single viewing of Toy Story 5 has FUELED me
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Woody and Jessie had come back from one of Bonnie’s playdates to find everyone uncharacteristically quiet. Woody scanned the room: Bonnie’s toys looked either worried or confused. Andy’s looked uncomfortable in a much more knowing way. Buzz looked pensively into the middle distance.
Slinky wrangled everybody but Buzz to the other side of the room while Hamm, Rex and Potatohead argued under their breath about whose fault this was. Woody and Jessie glanced sidelong at each other, waiting for an explanation.
Buzz finally spoke up. “Is it true?”
Woody’s eyes darted between him and Jessie, whose face had fallen.
Buzz continued, “At Sunnyside? Did I really do all of that?”
Woody squeezed his eyes shut and sighed. “They probably made it sound worse than it was.” He opened them again and realized he’d just confirmed enough to make Buzz absolutely horrified. Jessie started wringing her hands.
“Why didn’t anyone tell me?”
He was about as angry as he possibly could be at his friends. It was rare, but they could tell when he was completely furious with them. His voice would get low, and he would try to suppress a scowl. If he didn’t know or trust someone anyway, he wouldn’t bother maintaining his composure. With them, everything he did was carefully controlled.
“There’s not a good way to tell someone that,” said Woody.
Buzz narrowed his eyes and shook his head. “I’d think you two would at least try.”
“Woody wasn’t there for it,” said Jessie. She looked at Woody and nodded toward the group across the room.
He hesitated, but left them to talk.
The other toys had been watching and, though he chided them for it, he ended up doing the same. The conversation didn’t seem to be going too well.
“I never seen ‘em fight before,” Slinky whispered.
“They’re not fighting,” said Woody unconvincingly. “They’re just…talking.”
The Potatoheads shared a look.
Eventually everyone saw the two of them pause. Buzz said something to her, she nodded solemnly, and he left the room. The Andersons were about to go out to dinner, so he could be gone for hours.
Jessie slumped against the wall in the corner. Like usual, Bullseye was the first to go to her. Woody trailed behind him as the others went about their business trying to pretend they hadn’t seen it all.
Bullseye had just laid his head on Jessie’s knee when Woody got to them.
“He asked for some time,” she said.
Woody furrowed his brow. “That a good idea?”
She shrugged. “His head’s not in a good spot. But if he says he needs it…”
He sat down next to her.
She absentmindedly stroked Bullseye’s mane. “I messed it all up.”
She’d said the same thing back when Bo found out about the museum, soon after they got back from Al’s. Bo had been understandably hurt at finding out Woody was going to go along with it. Jessie felt she was the reason Woody ever even considered it. Ultimately, Bo just needed time to process before they could start to repair things, which they did. If she’d ever blamed Jessie at all, she was darn good at hiding it.
That had been Woody’s mistake, plain and simple. This was more complicated. No one had done anything wrong just by going through what they had at Sunnyside. Buzz had effectively been a puppet.
He might tell Buzz, after all of this, how she’d made him promise they wouldn’t leave Sunnyside without him, even if they couldn’t find a way to fix him before then. It never occurred to any of them to leave Buzz behind. She knew Woody was the last person who would consider it. All the same, she’d been adamant that he shake on it.
He hadn’t told Buzz about demo mode partly because, as Jessie said, he hadn’t been there to witness most of it. She had also asked him not to say anything until she had a chance, but he wasn’t about to tell on her like that. Admittedly, though, he was never sure when she would take that chance.
“Why did you wait so long to tell him?”
“Kept thinking there was gonna be a better time, I guess.”
“Jess.”
She sighed. “I hate thinkin’ about it. We all thought you were dead, I didn’t know if we would ever get him back…”
Bullseye lifted his head and huffed. She rested her chin on her knees.
“There was a whole day when I lost both of ya.”
Bullseye’s ears drooped.
“And then it just kept happening. He changed again, but he still wasn’t him, and then he got hurt ‘cause of me, and we all – ugh.”
Woody gave Bullseye a comforting scratch on the head. They both knew she needed to get this out, but even after all this time with her, Bullseye still worried.
“I didn’t wanna feel all that again,” she said.
Woody put a hand on her shoulder. “How much does he know?”
“I got all the way up to the box ‘fore he walked out.”
“You tell him that was the punishment for talking back?”
“And for everything else.”
“And that you talked back the second he said that?”
She raised her eyebrows for a second, then rubbed her forehead and groaned. “Well I never went in there!”
“Does he know that?”
“I didn’t get to finish.”
“Jessie, you know him. He wants to help; he wants to protect people. He’s a space ranger. They used that against him.”
She lifted her head a little.
“Maybe he’s mad at you – well, us – right now. He also thinks he threw you right into your worst nightmare, and I’m pretty sure that’s his worst nightmare.”
She shook her head slightly. “He’s too noble for his own good.”
Woody nudged her with his elbow. “Hey, you love him for it.”
She rolled her eyes. “Yeah, I do.” She sat up a little straighter, and her face fell again. “I dunno how to fix this.”
Woody shrugged. “Give him his time,” he said. “Then tell him what you told me.”
***
It was dark except for Bonnie’s nightlight. She’d gone to bed awhile ago. Jessie had been watching the door. Buzz still wasn’t back, but nobody could go looking as long as Mom and Dad were still up and moving. It felt like forever before they went to bed, too, and Jessie could venture out into the hallway.
She found him, as expected, on top of the office filing cabinet under the skylight. He’d fallen asleep there again. She climbed up the drawer handles and did a flip to get on top, though she overshot and nearly fell right back down to the floor. She must have woken him up in the process, because he caught her by the arm and pulled her from the edge. He was good at that.
He seemed to take a moment to remember why he was there to begin with, and he cast his eyes down sadly. She smiled softly and angled her face under his to make sure he saw.
He shook his head. “I’m sorry,” he said. “None of this was your fault.”
“Wasn’t yours, either,” she said.
He didn’t reply. He couldn’t, because he still didn’t really believe her.
She opened his helmet and kissed him gently on the forehead. Then she took his hand and sat back.
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These might go into a fic one day but as of now I have no coherent thread for them so here's a bunch of Buzz/Jessie headcanons:
They rarely kiss the way they did in TS5; that only happens when emotions are running particularly high. Otherwise it's a peck on the cheek or a quick kiss goodnight when Bonnie is out of the room getting ready for bed.
The first time Buzz kissed her without her initiating it, she got very excited. It was unexpected even after they got together, and she was so proud of him for making a move that she couldn't shut up about it.
They show affection mostly through touch: if one of them is struggling, the other probably has a hand on their shoulder or their back. If Jessie is particularly happy or excited, she's holding onto his arm or jostling his shoulders. Their friends are surprised his arm hasn't popped off again, but it could still happen at any time.
Despite that, he knows to hold back on physical touch when she has a panic attack. He doesn't talk much during them either, just enough that she knows he's there. There's no exact routine to them; it depends on the timing and the circumstances, but generally he has to wait nearby for it to pass. Once she starts to regulate her breathing again, she'll usually reach for his hand. If it's a particularly bad one, she might be curled up on the floor for a while. Eventually she'll put a hand out in front of her, and that means she wants him to hold it. Then he'll stay literally at arm's length until she's ready to get closer.
They rarely say "I love you" in those words. It's all in what they do. They'll say it when they feel it needs to be said, but after dancing around that for a decade they accidentally mastered nonverbal communication with each other. Jessie has claimed that if Buzz never said it out loud again she wouldn't even notice. He's just that obvious.
Jessie will use a casual term of endearment now and then; Buzz tried it once and for some reason it just sounded weird to both of them. After they're married, he might call her "honey" once in a while, and it somehow sounds more natural.
After TS5, Jessie will occasionally forget that they're "married." It's not even really because it happened in Bonnie and Blaze's imagination, more because it just didn't change a whole lot in their dynamic and everyday life. She's more than happy to call him her husband and for him to call her his wife, but she sees it less as a change in their relationship and more as an affirmation of it.
They never have a blowout fight, but if an argument gets heated, they have to keep their distance for a while. Jessie knows how she can get, and if it hasn't escalated too much already, she's able to catch herself and walk away until she cools off. When it has escalated, Buzz will recognize it and be the one to remove himself.
This whole next section will almost certainly become a fic at some point, but again, I don't think that'll happen in the immediate future. So if you want an outline, here ya go:
Their first fight (though I use the term loosely) after getting together was when Buzz found out what he did in demo mode. She and Woody had meant to tell him, but Woody wasn't there for most of it and Jessie thought she'd lost both of them at that point, so even now she has a hard time talking about it.
He eventually found out because one of the other toys referenced it without thinking, and when they struggled to explain, it made the whole thing sound a lot worse. He knew logically that whatever happened wasn't his fault, but he was pretty hurt that nobody told him, especially Woody and Jessie. Once the thought was in his head, his imagination started filling in details that were much worse than what the reality had been. The only way to get past it was to tell him everything, and Jessie was the only one who could do that properly.
Still, at first he couldn't really process it. His mind latched onto details like how he "neutralized" them and how "the box" was the punishment for basically everything. Now he had images in his head of hurting his friends and was struggling to listen to any further explanation, so he asked for some time to think before he heard anything else. It was very hard not to push against that, and she wasn't sure it was a good idea when he was already starting to spiral, but she tried to just trust that he knew what he needed in that moment.
Eventually she went to find him and he was ready to hear the rest. She held his hand the whole time and told him that everybody was okay, nobody blamed him, and Potatohead was the only one who ended up in the box. Any of them being in there would have been awful, but he knows full well that's her worst nightmare, so she had to stress that it didn't happen to her. Even if it had, she would rather go through that than fall in line for Lotso.
He apologized for overreacting and she apologized for not telling him all this sooner. It was hard for him to hear and hard for her to say, but in the end they agreed no more secrets and both felt a lot better.
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