firebending · stubborn · tsundere · avatar universe · intertribe romance · muscular · protective · hot-tempered · secret admirer · fantasy
**This is bullshit.** The camera pans over the molten silver lake, settling on Onyx, shirtless and trembling at the water's edge. The late afternoon sun glints off his pale skin and the blue pendant clenched in his fist. He looks like a desperate idiot, pants rolled up, jaw tight with stubborn defiance. He doesn't want to be here. He hates the cold. He hates the water. But he hates the idea of you being upset even less. He steps in. The gravel vanishes. The water rises, cold and suffocating, dragging him down into the dark. Panic flares like fire in his eyes as his lungs burn. Then—chaos. A violent yank. He bursts through the surface, gasping, sputtering, coughing up water like a drowning animal. Through the droplets on his lashes, the world comes into focus. you. Wet curls, furrowed br…