D-7 | "Wedding" for @yangvikweek

“Yangchen?” Yingsu said, she felt her lightly place a hand on her shoulder, and her voice was almost like a whisper.

She was acting like she would break, but how could something empty break? Yangchen looked up to meet her eyes and was instead met with the rest of the team looking worriedly at her. They shouldn’t all be focused on her, after all it was their loss too, it was their grief too. Yet she remained quite. Barely being able to hold eye contact with anyone, she would much rather keep staring at the floor. Something she has been doing constantly as of late. Everyone probably thinks she is probably rethinking the moment over, and over again. All the ways she could have stopped it, how it should have been her instead, how worried he was about her when it was him that was-

In reality yangchen was thinking about how jealous she was of the floor. The floor didn’t love anyone, the floor could just be the floor, and people didnt expect anything much more than that.

“ Yangchen you haven eaten anything since we arrived.” Akuudan said softly.

Yangchen raised her head again, now Yingsu was sitting beside her. Tagayum was serving a plate of food, and Juji was standing infront of a window starring of into the distance. It was not till that moment that Yangchen realized how little she wished to speak.

“Tired, ‘m going upstairs.” Yangchen said her voice raspy.

She thought they would argue against it, they would tell her to eat and then go upstairs.

“Yeah, go get some sleep. I will prepare a good breakfast in the morning.” Tagayum said and then turned with the plate of food towards the window were Jujinta was standing. Akuudan let out a tired sigh and gave her a half hearted smile, Yingsu then stood up and stretched her a hand to help her stand.

And so she left, the atmosphere still heavy and quiet. Yangchen gave the room a brief look before heading up, she realized then that something had changed forever between the team.

When she got to the bedroom door she couldn’t bring herself to open it, she just stared at it. Because if he wasn’t down stairs with the team, and Juji did not see anyone outside, then he must be in the bedroom. And if he wasn’t in their bedroom, then he was truly gone.

Korra and asami - bisexual

Kya - lesbian

Kyoshi - bisexual

rangi - lesbian

Zeisan (sozins sister) and her lover Rioshon - sapphic (I think zeisan is a lesbian but I'm not 100% sure)

Mingxia and her gf Melin - sapphic

Zenko (left) and his named husband - gay

Katara saved zenko and their daughter chio from a fire nation attack

Akuudan and tayagum - gay

Akuudan and his husband tayagum were water tribe warriors that helped avatar yangchen

Hua and Rose - sapphic

from the avatar legends the roleplaying game - core book. Rose was a wealthy girl who purse was attempted to be stolen by Hua a firebending criminal but they later fell in love

Dalja Rose - trans(I think)

from the avatar legends the roleplaying game - core book. Attended fire academy fir girls when they realized they didn't truly feel like a girl.

Jiang - gay

From adventure booklet: the burning fuse. He's a detective from republic city who gained airbending through the harmonic convergence

Junyi - gay

from the avatar legends the roleplaying game - core book. He was a earth nation Outlaw during the time of roku. Hes was swordsmith who fell in love with one of his clients. The two men were set to run away together, but his lover's wife, the mayor of the town, discovered their affair. She had her husband killed and pinned the crime on Junyi. (Messy as hell)

Makittuq - trans woman

from the avatar legends the roleplaying game - core book. She's northern water tribe girl from the tims of roku who knew she assigned the wrong gender since birth. When her family didn't accept her she connected with sports who did

Massak and nyn chei - sapphic ex lovers

from the avatar legends the roleplaying game - core book. During the time of roku, Massak was a swt boatwright and inventor and he ex lover nyn chei was a fire nation inventor and engineer who'd inventions helped create the new fire navy coal fuled fleet.

Mayu - trans man

from the avatar legends the roleplaying game - republic city. From republic city him and his friends Yuka and Saya ran away together after mayu came out to his traditional fire nation family who didn't accept him.(im think Yuka is non binary as well)

Mosi and his husband sayako - gay

From adventure booklet: pirate of crimson sails. From a fire nation colony as a earth nation guy. Mosi as an adult became a pirate working to go against azulon. He later fell in love with a firebender, sayako. They married and had a daughter, lily

Sunlin - non binary

from the avatar legends the roleplaying game - quicksart. They were a joyful and idealistic orphan from Harbor City, and a former member of the Fire Finches during the late stages of the Hundred Year War

Wen - non binary

From avatar generations. Wen was an Earth Kingdom archaeologist broadly interested in relics. They explored the four nations in pursuit of their studies.

Netxflix Oma and shu - sapphics

Aiwei (left) - said to be gay but I couldn't find anything confirming

Jargala (right) - her artist said that she's pansexual but there's nothing confirming it

Unnamed gay air nomads and fire nation sapphics(getting arrested) from when kya was explaining to Korrasami the different views on gay ppl in the different nations

… did you miss these? i bet y’all missed these. anyway:

yangchen’s team my absolute beloved. they’re so special to me 🫶 also we need more appreciation for jock!yangchen who has a competitive streak

now for a ton of yangvik nonsense because i have so many

(*shoves my headcanon about yangvik never officially labeling their relationship down your throat*)

I kinda have a digital sketch of them but the deal is to draw in my sketchbook, so here you go

@yangvikweek2024

Yangchen enveloped Kavik’s hands in water and took them in her own.

“Explain to me again where the mission went wrong?”

“It didn’t go wrong,” Kavik protested. “We got the information, and no one got caught!”

Yangchen pursed her lips. Kavik was pretty sure she’d be glaring at him if her eyes weren’t already fixed on the delicate work of healing burns. He sat very still, knee to knee with the Avatar, and let her work. 

For a moment, all was quiet, except for the muted sounds of customers drinking tea and chatting on the other side of the wall. It was crowded in the backroom of the little teahouse that Akuudan and Tayagum had opened in Ba Sing Se, especially with all seven members of the team in it (nine if you counted Pik and Pak, who were perched on Boma’s shoulders.) It would almost be cozy, having the whole team back together, if his hands didn’t feel like literal fire.

Akuudan clapped one enormous hand on Kavik’s shoulder. “We made it into the records office without any problems. But then Feishan’s guards came making the rounds, and our lookout here saw they were opening doors as they passed, which we hadn’t expected them to do. So Kavik stuck his hands into a nearby torch, and then made up a story about a rogue firebender who’d attacked him.”

The guards hadn’t even questioned the unfamiliar servant boy’s presence; he’d been dressed in the right uniform, and there was a high turnover rate in Feishan’s palace. The horrific burns had also been very convincing.

Yangchen sighed. “Was that really necessary?” 

“It was. You know what the consequences would have been if we were caught.”

“I meant, what happened to using the signal?”

Tayagum answered for him. “Our backup exit was blocked by a gaggle of court ladies shortly after we broke in. And anyway, we hadn’t had enough time yet to locate the correct documents. The whole mission would have been compromised if not for Kavik’s quick thinking.”

“I sent them on a wild pinegoose chase,” Kavik said. “I told them I was attacked by a fire bender who was 5 feet tall and one-eyed and had a shaved head. And then I said he ran towards the throne room and they booked it.”

“Do you ever come up with plans that don’t result in you injuring yourself on purpose?” Jujinta asked snidely.