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Azula knows people sometimes have a hard time understanding what she means with her words. They always seem to take what she says wrong or as a threat, and it doesn't matter how much she tries to be the most clear with her intentions, people doesn't understand when she speaks.
She thinks maybe letters are a better way to communicate with her family as to avoid misunderstandings. At least this way people can read her words as many times they need to understand. And do, she sent letters supporting her uncle when he was in Ba Sing Se, and is now sending letters to her brother wishing him luck finding the Avatar.
But maybe writing letters is not such a good way to get people to understand her words as she had originally thought.
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Ashes Of Loyalty by TheMistyBlackCloud
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
17 Oct 2025
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Instead of just Zuko, Fire Lord Azulon demands Prince Ozai to sacrifice BOTH Zuko and Azula. With the aid of Ty Lee and Mai, the two royal siblings run from the Fire Nation, abandoning their former lives and becoming fugitives. In a twist of events, Ozai is scarred, banished, and tasked with not only apprehending them, but locating the Avatar. The world will never be the same.
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Zuko had scrubbed the smell of sex and blood of himself, but that didn’t stop it from clinging to the inside of his nose. Could the others smell it? Could they taste his shame in the back of their throats too?
Irrationally, Zuko wanted to crawl inside himself. Peel those watching eyes off him; don’t look at me! They knew, somehow. They could see it on him. Some kind of tell, some stain he couldn’t see or wash away.
What if they all knew? Laughing behind his back at what he’d given up just for a fraction of a chance to get his honor back.
What honor? Any scrap he’d had left after the Agni Kai was lost the moment he spread his legs for Zhao.
They could all see it, couldn’t they?
Zuko wondered if he could ever be rid of the things Zhao did to him.
Zuko deals with the aftermath.
He goes about it the same way he deals with every other shitty thing in his life: with gritted teeth, stubborn pride, and a whole lot of yelling.Series
- Part 2 of handgranade hearts
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Through the Quagmire by Maelstrom_Breaker
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
27 Sep 2025
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For the first time in decades, the Fire Nation has suffered a major defeat. With the returned Avatar now in play and known to the world, there is now a race against time for Aang to master the remaining elements before the return of Sozin's comet. Fortunately, he has many new allies, including the former Prince Iroh, ready to aid him in his journey.
At the same time, Sokka has been separated from the Gaang and fallen in with the equally rebellious Princess Azula. However, nothing is ever as it seems, and he has to figure out what is the best option for both his own survival and to end the war in a meaningful way. Desperate to reunite with his friends, and with dark forces unleashed to hunt down Aang, Sokka must center himself or find himself snuffed out like a wind-blown candle.
Sequel to Billowing Steam.
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- Part 3 of Midnight Sun, Midday Moon
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Never Give Up Without a Fight by hearmerory
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
22 Sep 2025
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Fire Lord Azulon names Zuko as his successor.
This does not fit with Ozai's plans.
This does not fit with Iroh's plans.
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The Secretariat's Daughter by ThePrincessRegent
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
18 Sep 2025
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In which Long Feng, attempting to solidify his power over the Earth Kingdom, has a child in secret, and grooms her to be the next Grand Secretariat. An Earthbending prodigy, a practiced manipulator, and the perfect keeper of Ba Sing Se’s secrets, the Secretariat bestows upon her his own invented divine right to rule - all outside the eyes and ears of Kuei, the king fool.
A few months after Xin Feng turns 14 - now working as the Secretariat's invented position of "Dai Li Magistrate" - Avatar Aang, the Last Airbender, arrives in Ba Sing Se, searching for one Earth King and one Sky Bison.
Things quickly become much more complicated for everyone.
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The Monsters We Create by Orca2015
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Godzilla - All Media Types
31 Aug 2025
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The Fire Lord is defeated. The war is over. But a hundred years of conflict has taken its toll. As the world takes its first tentative steps to peace, ancient things have begun to awaken to wreak their vengeance. For the Avatar, the war is won. For the Princess of the Fire Nation, the war is lost. Both are now faced with things they could not believe. A world ruled by monsters.
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In-Laws and Shitty Ex’s (Are worse than you think) by Stonesniffer43
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
19 Aug 2025
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Ursa visits Ozai in prison like in the comics, except this time it’s Ozai asking the big questions such as what the fuck has Iroh been doing since Azulon’s death and who the hell is advising their boy king son. Purely for his own amusement of course.
Ursa gets concerned.
Iroh is also concerned (for entirely different reasons)
Zuko Zukos about, it doesn’t do anyone any good
I’m pretty sure I'm meant to say that i don’t own ALTA somewhere, whether I should say it here or in the notes is anyone’s guess
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If Mushi is a firebender, it's not his fault. The people of Ba Sing Se don't like firebenders, but Mushi fought on their side. He helped liberate the city. And everyone here likes him.
If Mushi is just an ordinary firebender, then he can be forgiven, because everyone knows that the world is changing and that the current Fire Lord is trying to bring peace.
But if Mushi is Iroh, the Dragon of the West, then the situation is completely different.
Ba Sing Se will not forgive the Dragon of the West. Ever.
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- Part 6 of actions and consequences
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Falling like the Tides, Rising like the Moon by solace_at_last
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
27 Jul 2025
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The Blue Spirit is a bounty hunter, known for finding those who don't wish to be found. When he gets an assignment from a weird Pai Sho player asking to bring some bald kid to safety, he assumes it's an assignment like any other.
He finds that he is in for much, much more than he bargained for.
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If The World Ends Today (I'll Still Love You Like Yesterday) by LauraHaleIsABaddass2K21
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
14 Jul 2025
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When Azula was eleven, her brother was declared missing.
Then he was declared a runaway.
Then he was declared a traitor, and forbidden to ever return.
(The biggest lie she ever told was when she claimed she had never loved him.)
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What if there was no Ozai? If Iroh was an only child. This story explores what would happen if that was the case. With his heir dead and now his father too, Iroh returns home after abolishing the siege of Ba Sing Se. Mourning, but duty-bound to take the crown. Now he is all alone, but he has to look for the future, for himself and the world.
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The Fire Nation Prince Zuko changes his path and others forever through one small act built from resentment and anger. On Hiatus
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Past and Future Running Free by Lady_of_War_and_Heartache
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
23 May 2025
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Zuko doesn’t know exactly how he got here.
But when a Spirit grabs you by the arm, dances a waltz with you, reveals your past and future to the Avatar, and shows you getting shot with lightning, you don't ask questions. You just get on the flying bison and embrace a new destiny in an attempt to save yourself and your estranged sister from the monster haunting your home.
Especially when there are only two known lightningbenders left in the world, and the Spirit revealed that both of them are traitors waiting for their chance to strike.
Or: the author has let the Epic brainworms get to them, and Zuko is the one who has to deal with it.
Featuring: Zuko trading his non-existent impulse control for some new friends, an over-protective Gaang who is very okay with that decision, a baffled Azula who isn't exactly going to say no to the older brother that wants to clear a path for her to take the throne, and a confused Iroh who just wants to know what he did to get slotted into the same category as Ozai.
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Teatime with Iroh by Smelly_katt
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), One Piece (Anime & Manga)
30 Mar 2025
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In which Zuko remembers being Ace from One Piece, and just honestly wants to be a pirate again.
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It had been about two weeks since they had cast off and thus far Iroh had persisted in including him in every crew bonding activity under the sun.
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- Part 2 of The Prince of Pirates
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Castle and Bishop by MimiOn_aCarousel
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
27 Feb 2025
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continuation of previous work in series. still makes sense if you don't read it tho.
Zuko's Father is dead and there is a new Firelord to give his loyalties.
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- Part 5 of Through the Haze
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The Lord Fire descends to his defeated sibling in the hope of getting him back on track.
Nothing has changed. Everything has changed.
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twisted, tangled roots (intertwined as one) by neiljostensjorts
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
17 Jan 2025
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As twins, Azula and Zuko hold a bond as unbreakable as their very spirits. They'd die and kill for the other without hesitation, yet find themselves trapped in an endless struggle for survival and power. The adults in their lives find themselves in no better a position either, facing fates that'd chill the bones of most.
How will they make it out, and what must be sacrificed in the process?
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What if Azula and Zuko were twins? This changes both everything and nothing.
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It has been 95 years since Fire Lord Sozin led the Royal Fire Navy on its greatest expedition.
95 years since the Air Nomad Genocide.
95 years of brutal, grueling war.The Avatar is a distant memory.
Fire Lord Azulon is feared by all.
As are his sons, Iroh and Ozai.The 600 Day Siege has just ended with a rout after the death of Prince Lu Ten, but the Fire Nation onslaught is by no means turned back. Ba Sing Se is but one front.
Convinced of enemies all around him, the Fire Lord chases the secret of immortality.
A secret believed to rest in scrolls gained from a mythical library, courtesy one Zhao.
But no man is immortal.
Least of all those with so many enemies.
What happens when a tyrant whose approach has scared Earth Kings to death...
...dies?The funniest bloodbath in recorded history.
That's what.Follow along, readers, as we delve into the depths of plotting, backstabbing, and court intrigue. As we go beyond the honorable bows and etiquettes, and meet the men who truly rule the Fire Nation.
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Hereditary Fire. by vadergreyjoy (orphan_account)
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
05 Nov 2024
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Things change when, upon sending Iroh to take the throne, Azulon sends not only his eldest son but also his two grandsons. Iroh's son, Lu Ten, who is already a soldier and Zuko, Ozai's son, who has already proven to be a strategic mind at only eight years old. For the first time in years, Ozai and Iroh agree on something. Even Ursa supports them. Zuko is only a child. But Azulon does not accept protests. He sees in his grandson Zuko what he sees in no one else in his family. His legacy.