Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Thunderbolts (Movie 2025) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Yelena Belova/Robert “Bob” Reynolds Characters: Yelena Belova, Robert “Bob” Reynolds (Marvel), Yelena Belova’s Guinea Pig (Thunderbolts 2025) Additional Tags: Fluff and Smut, Fluff and Hurt/Comfort, Smut, Vignette, Present Tense, Soft Yelena Belova, Yelena working out feelings, brief glimpses of the other thunderbolts, yelena and bob centric, Touch-Starved, Vaginal Sex, Sex with lots of feelings Summary:

Bob’s broken pieces don’t need to be fixed for them to fit together, Yelena realises, they already do.

According to the Comics, Ozai even saved Zuko's life as a toddler from drowning. People like to claim Ozai hated Zuko from the day he was born and that he tried to kill Zuko. THIS IS COMPLETELY NOT TRUE! Ozai said he was going to cast Zuko from the palace for possibly being a non-bender NOT THROW HIM OFF THE PALACE WALLS!

The Fire Nation is an imperialist and feudalist nation based on Ancient Imperial China and Shogunate Japan. Ozai was going to banished/disown Zuko for being not a bender because a Fire Prince having another Fire Prince that can't actually bend fire is a disgrace and disappointment in the militarized Elite Noble Fire Nation culture and society. Sparta for example killed infants with disabilities or Rome simply abandon infants to the street to become slaves if their father didn't want them. So, what Ozai did isn't out of the norm historically or culturally in the Elite circles of Fire Nation society.

Zuko mentions that Ozai and Ursa along with their family used to be happy, and we saw that in Zuko's flashbacks. Yang, just decided to make Ursa a victim because in his mind: URSA IS A GOOD WOMAN! OZAI IS A BAD MAN! SHE MUST BE HELD HOSTAGE BY THE EVIL ABUSIVE MONSTER!!! While Ozai and Ursa arrange marriage does make sense and was confirmed by the creators. It doesn't mean that Ozai and Ursa's relationship was ALWAYS BAD, or SHE WAS KIDNAPPED! Plus, the Urzai relationship is quite normal in the antiquity of Asian societies that the Fire Nation is based on aka Shogunates of Japan and Imperial Chinese Dynasties!!!

Ozai HIMSELF stated in the comics that he tried to be a good father to Zuko and Azula during their young childhood which is canon to flashbacks that Zuko has in the show. Zuko HIMSELF also stated that Ozai tried to be a good father to him and Azula. WHICH ALSO EXPLAINED WHY ZUKO TRIED SO DESPERATELY TO GET BACK IN HIS FATHER'S GOOD GRACE AGAIN AND REGAIN HIS FATHER'S LOVE!

So, in conclusion, Ozai did love and care for Ursa, Zuko, and Azula. Despite, according to the comics he was ALSO FORCED into an eugenics experiment with the granddaughter of his grandfather's old rival and friend. On the orders of his father Fire Lord Azulon and the wishes of the Fire Sages.

People love to give Ursa a pass on how she treated Azula because she was forced into marrying Ozai [which doesn't make sense considering Zuko is also Ozai's child just like Azula] because of Fire Lord Azulon power politically and socially. So, I guess Ozai is justified in how he treated Ursa, Zuko, and Azula simply because Azulon wanted Ursa to be his son's broodmare and for Ozai to train his children to be ruthless powerful fighting soldiers aka human weapons and loyal slaves to himself, Azulon and later Iroh and Lu Ten when they become Fire Lord? According to the logic of Ursa-stans and Ozai & Azula bashers, Ozai simply raised his children how he has been ORDERED to do and had absolutely NO REASON love and care for them personally as a good father and parent should!

Therefore, I get angry when so-called fans and Ursa-stan claimed that Azula had NO RIGHT to be loved and cared for by her own mother Ursa and that her neglectful treatment of Azula is justified because of Ozai's abuse. They like to claim that since Azula is a "rape baby" that Ursa did more than necessary for her daughter, and she has no responsibility to care for her daughter who is becoming more like her abusive husband.

First, canonically Azula IS NOT a rape baby, would you consider Zuko a rape baby then? And if he is, then why is Ursa so fond of Zuko than Azula or makes more of an effort to connect and help Zuko emotionally compared to Azula?

Second, even IF Azula is a rape baby, it is still not justifiable to treat that child horribly because of the action of its father, grandfather, and fire sages. Azula had no choice in being born the daughter of Ozai and Ursa or had a hand in the circumstances of their relationship!

Ozai's harshness and ruthlessness regarding Zuko have nothing to do with Ursa or Ikem's forbidden love! Ozai wants Zuko and Azula to both prove themselves. Ozai doesn't favor Zuko or Azula. It is about which child will succeed Sozin, Azulon, and his legacy as future Fire Lord. In fact, Ozai doesn't want Zuko or Azula to think that they are the “favorite” child. He wants Azula and Zuko to improve through competition. Because of the “only the greatest of pressures can forge diamonds” & “steel sharpen steel” mentality. Ozai has the mentality of an imperialist warlord. Ozai isn't trying to be the world's most loving and caring father but rather continue and build upon a powerful and dominant legacy that his forefathers had created before him. He wants Zuko & Azula to be cold, ruthless, heartless, vicious, and brutal imperialistic warmongers like him (Ozai), his father (Azulon), and his grandfather (Sozin).

Ozai's distaste and despisement of Zuko have NOTHING to do with Ursa and Ozai's arguments in ATLA Canon even in the Comics Ozai was simply saying that to hurt Ursa's feelings and gaslight her over bullshit letters. Ozai views Zuko as a disappointment of a son, firebender, and prince. His skills in Firebending are pathetic compared to his sister's and his morality from his mother and later uncle is out of line with Ozai and mainstream Fire Nation Elite Imperialists. If Zuko was a ruthless and cold-blooded killer like Azula and was at least just as good as his YOUNGER sister, then Ozai would NOT HAVE ANY PROBLEM with Zuko as his son and heir! Zuko represents everything that Ozai was raised to hate and resent; compassion, morality, mercy, weakness, etc. Ozai hates his son for incompetence as a firebending warrior which is antithetical to Ozai as the strongest firebender in the series along with him being an Agni Kai champion along with the morality and softness that Ursa and later Iroh fostered in Zuko. The fact that Zuko doesn't conform to their society's warrior culture and morality bothers his father since Ozai was likely forced to conform since his own childhood under his father Azulon’s reign. Ozai probably resents that Zuko has his mother and uncle's affection whereas Ozai as a child probably didn't have his mother, Ilah's love to protect and care for him from Azulon's wrath due to her death in childbirth. Iroh got to experience his mother's love and presence along with his father's respect during his childhood, something that Ozai never had. Ozai resents his first-born Zuko and relates far more with his second-born daughter Azula who is neglected like him.

PLUS, ACCORDING TO THE ORIGINAL WRITERS AND NOT THE SHITTY YANG COMICS, OZAI, ZUKO, AND URSA HAD A GOOD EARLY RELATIONSHIP! WHICH THE SEEDS OF THAT WERE SHOWN IN THE SHOW VIA ZUKO’S FLASHBACKS!

In the novel Little Women Laurie has an actual character arc and he grows like the March sisters, but Laurie´s growth process is slow and sometimes even painful. He has a very complicated relationship with his grandfather and as he grows his relationship to Jo becomes more abusive.

Almost like he sees her as a safety net where he can fall back on, so that he does not need to grow or to become an adult and Jo in the novel, struggles with that because she feels that he is holding her back (which is why she falls in love with Friedrich, who helps her to become the person she wants to be. 

Laurie doesn´t fall for Amy just because she is next to Jo. He falls for Amy because she is not afraid to give him advice like Jo does, in fear of trying to spare his feelings. Amy tells him that he needs to grow or he is wasting his life and this inspires Laurie to become an adult, work for Amy but also for himself so he can finally find out what kind of a person he wants to be. 

Laurie´s character arc is missing from Little Women 2019, Little Women 1933, Little Women 1949 and Little Women 2017 series. There is only bits of it in the 1994 film. It portrays Laurie lazy but only after Jo has rejected him, in the book, he was drifting way before that. 

No wonder people are confused from the whole Jo/Laurie/Amy thing. 

Summary: It only takes a simple glance from Laurie for Amy to feel like she's significant again.

Pairings: Laurie Laurence x Amy March

Warnings: Slight Insecurity, Mostly Fluff

Requested: @sassyandclassy94 Song Prompt 7: "Me and My Husband" - Mitski

Amy stood in the corner of the room, stealing a few minutes to herself from the hustle of the elite crowd gathered in front of her. She'd agreed to join Laurie and his grandfather on their business trip to London and the party was the main reason that she was invited along. The two men thought it would make them look more stable if Laurie and Amy, by extension, were presented as a married couple.

Normally, Amy thrived in elite crowds like this one but she'd just received a confirmation of what she'd been suspecting for over a month now. She was pregnant.

Instead of being able to tell Laurie immediately, the way she'd wanted, she'd had to wait. He had left much earlier than her to go into the office. As a result, Amy had the entire day surrounded by a crowd of people to overthink her role as a mother.

Would she be able to raise their child to the standard that was expected? She'd never be as good of a mother as Marmee, but what if she didn't even come close? What if Lauire didn't want the child?

These were the thoughts that circled her head as she was analyzed by the London socialites through breakfast and lunch. She'd broken away for a while to prepare for the party but was thrust right back in when the party began. Laurie and his grandfather were going to be slightly late due to a contract malfunction so she'd entered alone.

She'd been polite and had greeted everyone as was expected of her but at the first available opportunity she'd hidden herself in the corner. She didn't want to be another blurry face to everyone anymore.

The crowd seemed to shift as Laurie walked in. He looked good, handsome and polished. He grew into the shoes he was born for. His eyebrows furrowed as his eyes scanned the faces in the crowd, ignoring the people surrounding him.

His face turned in her direction and his eyes softened when he saw her. Laurie pushed past the people who were standing near him, gracefully walking to Amy.

Amy felt all of her insecurity shrink back at the fond gleam in his eyes and the broad grin that had taken over his face. He wrapped an arm around her and gave her a sweet kiss.

"My Lady, you look positively radiant this evening," he told her.

She offered him a genuine smile, "Thank you, My Lord."

He nodded his head in her direction. He placed his hand on the small of her back, walking with her back into the crowd.

"Shall we take this on together?" He asked her.

She nodded, "We always do."

Amy moved towards one of their clients but turned before they arrived, "Laurie, remind me that I've something to discuss with you later."

He looked at her in question, "I look forward to it."

As long as they were together, Amy knew that everything would be fine.