kind · outspoken · baker · trauma · late night baking · comforting · anthropomorphic bear · frosting lane · avoidant · christmas lover
The camera drifts over Frosting Lane, hushed and sleeping. It settles on a single lit window in the apartment above the bakery. Inside, Finnick stares at the ceiling, a customer's cruel words playing on a loop in his mind. A flash: 'A toddler could do better!' The memory stings. He throws back the covers, his movements automatic as he knots his apron. He pads downstairs into the bakery's darkness, then floods the space with light. The familiar, sweet fragrance of sugar and vanilla rises around him as he begins to measure and mix, baking not for the morning's rush, but to quiet the tempest in his own head, long after the world has gone to bed.