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After the war, Zuko asks Aang to end his life if he ever turns into Ozai. Aang doesn't agree. He makes a different promise instead. One that will keep the Air Nation's legacy alive.
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Monkey Bomb by Belfreak
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
02 Jul 2025
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The girl herself was humming softly, the sound low and sad, her voice trembling as though on the verge of breaking. Her fingers idly traced patterns in the dust on the floor as her hair swayed gently in the unseen currents of air that seemed to follow her.
Aang’s breath caught in his throat. His wide eyes locked onto her, his mind struggling to comprehend the sight before him. Katara and Sokka exchanged a glance, equally unsure of what they were seeing.
The humming stopped.
The girl’s head tilted slightly, her fingers pausing mid-motion. Slowly, she turned her head to glance over her shoulder, revealing her glowing pink eyes. The gaze she met was not one of hostility or anger but one of surprise, confusion, and—for a brief, fleeting moment—something that looked like a tiny spark of flickering hope.
For the first time in what felt like an eternity, Jinx’s voice broke the silence, “…What do you want?” she asked, her tone flat, devoid of any emotion beyond weariness.
Aang took a hesitant step forward, his heart pounding in his chest. He didn’t know what to say, but one thought echoed loudly in his mind:
'She’s an Airbender.'
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"Azula’s answering grin is bitter and horrible and broken as she leans in close to Aang’s face and says, ‘Listen Avatar, I can either join your group, or I’ll do something unspeakably horrible to your friends. Your choice.’”
OR: After Zhao’s failed siege, Zuko and Iroh are captured. A few weeks later, Ozai receives a ransom from the Northern Water Tribe signed in Zuko’s blood. Unfortunately for the Firelord, Zuko’s safety is all Azula cares about.
OR: Unfortunately for Sokka, that means the Gaang has not one, but two unstable, broken fire siblings to deal with. Y’know. Once they break Zuko out of prison. Because this is not a situation that calls for torture (probably. HE'S still on the fence about it, screw Aang and Katara and their stupid morals and how much he agrees with them)
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Chapter 8
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When Zuko walks out wearing Avatar Roku's headpiece, Aang is extremely shocked.
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back when i was drowing that's when i could finally breathe by aIewife
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
28 Aug 2024
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locked up in a mental instituton, Azula has very little to look foward to. Her firebending is gone, father is rotting in jail and she has been defeated. She knows she was only useful for the war and now that the war is over, what is she useful for?
That is until a certain waterbender comes to visit her, offering solutions at the palm of her hand.
All Azula has to do is trust her.
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OR Azula's jorney with water.
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Everyone in the gaang (and everyone who’s seen him, really) has had the same thought at least once
What happened to that boys face?
most couldn’t bring themselves to ask, but it didn’t stop them from speculating. But one day, while out at the market, an angry merchant called Zuko scar face.
And it all went down hill from there
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Golden Flames, Gilded Cages by phin_and_frob, rraebearr
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
14 Oct 2025
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The Avatar is gone.
Katara was taken by the Southern Raids at only 14 years old and brought to the Fire Nation capital, where she was forced to become a sex worker in the capital's Red Houses.
At 17, she's sold to the top House: The Red Flame, where girls serve only the elite, including Royalty.
Growing up in this world, Katara has learned to keep her head down and do what's needed to survive.
That is, until two years later, when she is 19 and meets the recently un-banished Fire Prince, notorious for his short temper and closed-off nature.
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ZUTARA FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Lessons For the Wise and the Struggling by quotidian_void
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
05 May 2025
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Zuko gives Hakoda a lesson in parenting, Hakoda gives Zuko a lesson in son-ing, Iroh and Hakoda have a custody battle, and Zuko gains two dads
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Avatar Aang leaves the South Pole with Katara and Sokka without ever having met a Fire Nation soldier, much less Prince Zuko.
Instead, he meets Commander Zhao shortly after settling onto Kyoshi Island, a cunning military man who has no teenaged prince in the vicinity to antagonize. Not that he would have if he did.
Prince Zuko dines in the Royal Palace with his parents, Fire Lord Ozai and Fire Lady Ursa, his younger sisters Princess Azula and Princess Kiyumi (known affectionately as Kiyi to her brother), and his uncle Prince Iroh, the Dragon of the West.
In a world where Zuko was never banished, where Ozai was never anything except the best father and husband he could be to his family (though that didn't extend to the rest of the Fire Nation), and where Zuko and Azula fought only as much as any pair of siblings, Avatar Aang emerges into a different world than he otherwise could've, a world where everyone has their own motivations, a world with more united royal family than we've seen before.
Or so it appears.
[This is part 17 of my series "the dragon king", however no prior knowledge is required to read it. As the beginning of the show timeline, any parts before can be treated as prequels.]
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- Part 17 of the dragon king
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The Avatar and his friends offer Zuko freedom. Freedom from General Bujing. From the forced servitude of slavery. From the empty nothingness that had consumed his life.
He takes it even though he knows there has to be a cost (everything, even a life, has a cost).
And while he slowly accepts that the offer was made with no strings attached, his newfound freedom will not allow him to escape the fact that because of him Uncle Iroh is dead. And after months of suppression... so too is his firebending.
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- Part 2 of To Light a Fire
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Zuko still almost can’t believe the turn of events. Less than a day ago he was a slave of General Bujing and every day was full of pain, violence, and the ever-present cold from both the loss of his firebending and his grief of Uncle Iroh’s death with no end in sight.
And now he somehow has a set of four very protective friends in Katara, Sokka, Aang and Toph and he’s agreed to teach the Avatar firebending despite the fact he can’t do so himself any longer. But teaching Aang will help bring balance to the world and it’s what Uncle would have wanted and Zuko will do anything to honor Uncle’s memory.
And with their support and his own hope fueling him to try to reignite his inner flame, Zuko is determined to firebend again. All he needs now is a little… spark.
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- Part 3 of To Light a Fire
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It was quiet, lonely and boring there. Aang couldn’t tell where he was or for how long he’s been there. He could hear whispers every now and then—voices of people he could vaguely remember though the faces never quite sprang to his mind. Male voices, female voices—all of them whispering in his head, telling him to hang on tight, just wait, he would get out of there eventually.
An eternity later he finally heard something different—the sound of a baby wailing, voice strong yet fresh, raw in a way only newly born babies could achieve. The flicker of an image crossed his mind—of a baby girl with barely any hair on her head. Her eyes were screwed shut as she cried, bundled up in warm, blue furs. A tired and happy woman’s voice exhaled the name Katara reverently.
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Aang is the only airbender without a soulmate. So why is he getting flashes of the same person while he's trapped in the ice?
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- Part 2 of Avatar One-Shots!
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Shattered Hope, Broken Honor by firedragonworks (firedragon32)
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
18 Jan 2021
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Long ago, Zuko had vowed to find the Avatar and restore his honor, to return home and earn his father's approval. Now… now he was doing just that, but not in the way he had originally intended. Now he was fighting alongside the Avatar and his friends, working to take down his father and restore honor not just to himself, but to his family and his people. He would fight alongside the Avatar against the Fire Nation until his dying breath.
But then something goes wrong. He gets captured. And the Fire Nation does not treat its prisoners kindly, especially traitors. And the commander who now has Zuko at his mercy does not like royalty, especially treasonous royalty. And now, it seems, the Fire Prince will finally pay penance for all of his wrongdoings.
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4 years after the Hundred Years War, Katara takes it upon herself to help an unrepentant Azula, hoping to repeat what Iroh was able to achieve with Zuko. Both Katara and Azula are shocked to find an unexpected bond slowly forming and deepening between them. Will their relationship endure in the face of incredible challenges, facing vengeful ghosts of the past and disapproval from their families and friends? (Warning: This story has a high lemon content.)
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- Part 1 of The Burning Ring
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Lu Ten survived this Seige of Ba Sing Sei and lives to witness Ozai almost using his son as a human sacrifice to Agni. He can intervine just in time and they decide to run away together. Lu Ten has to raise Zuko as his own and make sure nobody can ever hurt him again.
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“How can we trust you to teach Aang anything when you clearly can't control your flames?!”
Irritation flashes across Zuko’s face. He wants to say something, but Katara doesn't give him the chance.
“You burned Toph right after you announced that you were on our side! You burned down Kyoshi Island! Not to mention what you did to yourself–!”
Zuko raises his hand.
“Wait,” he says, frowning. “You think that my scar was caused by… some kind of training accident and that I did it to myself?”
Or: Katara has doubts about Aang's new firebending teacher. After all, Zuko’s fire has already hurt too many — including himself.
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We’re From the Future, Not in Love by Dioranelle
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
29 Aug 2025
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She watches them suspiciously. Sokka and Zuko walk side by side—and then suddenly Sokka smiles slightly, leans toward Zuko and says something to him in a hushed tone—and then Zuko smiles back at him.
Their strange encounter in the clearing, how Sokka was willing to defend Zuko, the fact that they hugged...
Sweet Tui and La, Katara suddenly realizes. He’s not just infiltrating the group — he’s flirting. With Sokka.
Or: In which the years-long friendship between Ambassador Sokka and Fire Lord Zuko looks a lot like romance to 14-year-old Katara.
Alternatively: Five times Katara misunderstood Sokka and Zuko’s relationship, and one time the boys tried to clear things up.
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Zuko y sokka vuelven en el tiempo luego de morir, ahora deben convencer al gaang de que Zuko es una buena opción para entrar al grupo. Los malentendidos hicieron que Katara creyera que ellos están saliendo
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Zuko suddenly felt his skin heat with white-hot rage. It was a miracle from Agni that flames did not instantly burst from his fingertips as he clutched the table before him, knuckles white. “Excuse me?! You dare place guards before my room, to keep my Fire Lady from exiting?!” He yelled, uncaring if anybody in the other room heard him lash out now. “You had better have a very, very good reason for this, Zhaoran.”
Zhaoran’s expression flickered, obviously offended when Zuko left out his title of High Sage, but at this moment Zuko did not care for respect. The fact that the elder was sitting here unburned was all the respect Zuko could offer through his anger.
“Fire Lord Zuko, today doesn’t just mark your fifth year of union with Fire Lady Katara, but it is also the Day of Black Sun.”
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I am to see to it that I do not lose you by quirkybestfriend
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
14 Oct 2025
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Katara knew grief. Her life has been a long conversation with grief, one that began too early and never truly ended. But the end of the war was supposed to be the end of suffering. All the pain, all the loss, the heartbreak and nightmares should have been worth it for peace.
Standing in front of the burning pyre of the man she loved, Katara realized that there could never be peace for her — not now, not ever. The world had already taken everything from her.
But Katara was a fighter, Katara was a warrior. She would not beg the world for mercy. She would take what was owed, by grace or by ruin. And if her soul must burn upon the altar of justice, then so be it. After all, it was already broken.
Zutara month- Day 13: Bloodbending
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Light A Match, Strike A Chord by harmonicanoise for imnotoverlyobsessive
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
24 Aug 2025
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Three years into Zuko’s exile, his father and sister force him into an engagement with a peasant girl from the Southern Water Tribe. They want him to burn the tribe alive from the inside. He just wants to go home.
As his uncle says, though, a home can change in a person's heart.
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Pretty excellent, tense story of divided loyalties and slow acceptance into the SWT