An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Finally got something out in time for Genyatta Week! Well, the fic itself isn’t on time for the prompt, but it still got out during the week, so I count that as a win. Motivated to write by the wonderful @phyllissy‘s drawings this week; it’s wonderful to keep seeing these two dummies all these years later! Ao3 info is under the read more cut.
Chapters: 1/?
Fandom: Overwatch (Video Game)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Genji Shimada/Tekhartha Zenyatta
Characters: Genji Shimada, Tekhartha Zenyatta, Other Character Tags to Be Added
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Bakery, Alternate Universe - Flower Shop, Strangers to Friends to Lovers, Slow Burn, Slow to Update, 9-5 job is kicking my ass, but i wanted SOMETHING out this week after so long not writing, Other Additional Tags to Be Added
Series: Part 1 of Genyatta Week 2026
Summary:
Zenyatta owns a small bakery that he's proud to call his own. One fateful day, a strange disheveled man comes in, orders a few pastries, and leaves in a hurry. He slowly becomes a regular, and Zenyatta eventually learns that his name is Genji, and he works at the recently-opened flower shop across the street with his brother. Slowly but surely, Genji opens up to Zenyatta, learning about peace and acceptance, and enjoying some treats along the way.
Putting myself out there, because- I've done this too!
I've got a series of rules I follow, which can be added too or taken from, which ever you fancy.
They are:
You must play on Critical Difficulty.
One new Dream Eater per world, per character.
No sharing Dream Eaters or species. Only Riku can have the starting Komory Bat, and only Sora can have the starting Meowow. If you make another meowow, only Sora can have it. If you make a K-O Kabuto with Sora, only Sora can have a K-O Kabuto.
A Dream Eater must remain in your active party until their command board is 100% complete. You can still make Dream Eaters as reserve until a current party member has 'graduated'.
No sharing commands.
You CAN have more than one command, but only one can be equipped to each character. (eg. you have two cures. Only one cure can be on Sora, and one cure can be on Riku. Two cures cannot be on Riku and vise-versa).
No Drop-Me-Nots/Evers. You need use what limited time you have.
If a Dream Eater dies, it's gone forever.
It's really fun to do! and even when grinding out my Dream Eaters to make space, I never felt over-leveled due to it being on Crit; so it was still a challenge.
Whoever said frogs say "Ribbit" was being incredibly reductive some of these guys do say "Ribbit" but a lot of them be saying "ᴮᵉᵉᵖ" some of them be saying "Waauu" and some of them be saying "Fuck" but I don't know who taught them that one.
Going through the Coliseum twice was a slog (you only unlock 15 layers after the story, so you have to play through those to get the full 30 layers), but that's another trophy down! Hopefully the different system sectors provide a break from the layers of that maze...
You might recall the 100 Xigbar challenge from July of last year where we were able to raise over $100. I'm raring for a round 2!
This year I'd like to raise funds for 2 groups and 2 individuals.
The groups are:
Crips for Esims for Gaza, an ongoing need as internet access is cut off. We raised funds for them last year, and they're still hard at work this year! They're at $2.7 mil of an updated $3 mil goal.
PCRF - relief and recovery fund: they are aiming to raise $50 mil, and are currently at a little over $39 mil, all of which supports ongoing relief measures such as food, shelter and medical aid.
The indivuals:
These two artists have brought me much joy with their Kingom Hearts artwork, that they've been creating and sharing for years. Both of them have been dealing with a long string of bad luck, to put it mildly, and I'd like to show my appreciate by raising funds for them.
@Katzirra of @askxigbar has a GoFundMe to cover the surgeries her sweet cat Hannibal has and needs. $365 gets this to the $1k mark!
For @xehanortsreport who you've likely seen here, here, here and here $250 would help cover costly car expenses.
Ok but how does this work?/ FAQ under readmore
Same as last year the basis is: you send me a screenshot in my DMs/ask showing a $5 increment (total after tax, etc counts) and for each $5 increment donation you get a Xigbar drawing. $10=2, 15=3 etc.
This year I'll even sweeten the deal to start with: Donate to 2 different funds and get 1 extra Xigbar, 3 different funds for 2 extra Xigbars, or all 4 for 3 extra Xigbars!
What can I ask for in the drawing: whatever you want so long as we keep it PG-13, and no shipping please (it's just not my wheelhouse). You can see examples from last year in the #100XigbarChallenge tag. If you can't think of something you can always tell me to pull something from my WiP pile!
All Xigbar’s count! So Luxu, Bragi and Braig are fair game to ask for!
I'm an artist and I'd like to contribute, what do I have to do? There is no hard and fast expectation for how much effort to put in. Of those who hopped on and made a huge difference last year, each person contributed different things. Any help is greatly appreciated! So don't be shy, just talk to me <3
What's different this year? There's the above incentive for spreading the love to multiple fundraisers. I also have this art blog which I made towards the end of last year's challenge, AND I have digital tools vs the mostly marker/pen/pencil/paper of last year. I'm not attaching edited receipts as "proof". I'm actually going back through old posts to remove those entire. I'm the only one that needs to see it.
What if I didn't see this until end of/after July? Chances are funds will still be needed so just ask nicely and send the proof of donation <3
Other: Similar to last year I plan to post weekly updates/boosts on Mondays.
**Asks are closed on my main so please be sure to send asks/dm's to this blog specifically.** I know tumblr eats them sometimes, if you don't have a response in 2 days please try again (I'm on tumblr at minimum once per day).
I know most of us are broke, but collectively we make a difference. That's why the minimum is as low as possible. The campaigns being reblogged also got movement on stagnant campaigns from different groups taking notice outside of KH fans.
You can also TEXT "START" to 678-678 or go to their website! There are 700+ of you following me. You don't need to be from the US to reblog this. Reblog.
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