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Born Of Flame, Forged By Glaciers by TheMistyBlackCloud
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
26 Oct 2025
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Fate tends to take all by surprise. When the Southern Water Tribe stumbles across a injured 5-year-old Princess Azula of the Fire Nation, none could bring themselves to end her life and brought her home with them, leading her to grow up away from the Fire Nation. The world is changed forever, ripples sent, and fates and paths being altered. Water Tribe Azula story! Massive AU!
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the stars / the moon / they have all been blown out by dont_leaf_me_alone
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
23 Oct 2025
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It's been months since the last raid. Kanna foolishly holds onto the hope that it really was the last. That they won't be back.
"They're coming for me," Hama says, eyes haunted. "Any day they'll be here."
"I won't let them take you," Kanna says, clinging to her hand. Hama looks at her sadly.
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paths that seldom mortal goes by underoriginal
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
22 Oct 2025
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After the invasion of the Northern Water Tribe, the Ocean Spirit dumps a lifeboat of Fire Nation survivors on Hakoda's lap. Jee is just trying to keep his crew alive. Neither of them are sure where to go from here but the Ocean has made it clear that it's going to have to be together.
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Miss Water Tribe & the Heartbreak Prince by MichaelPhobia240145
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
30 Sep 2025
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Possession. Katara. His.
His bride. His Fire Lady. The Southern Water Tribe traded rebellion for alliance, Hakoda’s resistance silenced with a single marriage vow. Together, they’ll look like saviors—two star-crossed lovers uniting nations, ending the war with peace in their hands.
Peace on Fire Nation terms.
And no one will dare protest.
___What begins as a ploy for the throne becomes far more than Zuko ever planned: an unplanned pregnancy, a rushed marriage, and every secret he’s kept spilling out too soon. A broken union no one knows about. Two children who only have half the story.
And a war that pits husband against wife.
“You can leave, but you’ll always be my wife.
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Aang is born female. It doesn't change all that much, until it does. What twelve-year-old girl wouldn't instantly develop a crush on the masked dual-sword-wielding bad boy who busted her out of Avatar jail?
Zuko's dignity suffers.
A story in which Aang accidentally humanizes herself to Zuko far earlier than her canon counterpart by the simple virtue of being a girl with an awkward crush. Well, Aang is the one with the crush. The awkward part is mostly Zuko.
Freedom of Association: The author is Christian and American conservative. Readers are free to be whatever they please.
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You've been hiding, and you look half dead half the time (don't care) by tomkaulitzstan
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
30 Aug 2025
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Beginning in episode 1:
Sokka didn't trust this random Twelve (???) Year old. What type of freak appears in an iceberg and starts Airbending even though the Air Nomads were killed a century ago, he's weird and Sokka doesn't like weird.
Slight change; he REALLY doesn't like Aang after leading the Fire Nation RIGHT to his tribe.
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- 4,614
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- 1/?
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- 2
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And the moon said, I shall always return by BloodInTheTides
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
28 Aug 2025
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When the world was new and the moon left her mate for the first time, the tides ceased to pull. This is the story of what followed: fifteen hundred years of grief, a creation born of love and sorrow, and a promise that the moon would always return.
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- English
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- 2,898
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- 1/1
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- 10
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Southern Lights by HarrisonHolmes2014
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar: The Last Airbender (Live Action TV 2024)
26 Aug 2025
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Prompt: Day 7: Lantern
In the days leading up to the Winter Solstice, the Water Tribes hold the Festival of Lights. Zuko, on his first official visit to the Southern Water Tribe as Fire Lord, participates alongside his ambassador, Master Katara.
Cross-posted on Royal Road and fanfiction.net
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- Part 7 of Baby's First Zutara Week 2025!
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Surprise, Coolest, Little Brother Ever by Solsolosolso
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
20 May 2025
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Sokka makes the mistake of going to a frat party and getting goaded into a drinking contest as a freshman by Hahn because he wants to show off to Yue.
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- 1,158
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- 1/1
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A Tribe’s Hope by TheThirdChild
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar: The Last Airbender (Live Action TV 2024)
24 Apr 2025
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Now a respected young leader of the Southern Water Tribe, Sokka is called to fulfill his duty by seeking a marriage that will secure the tribe’s future. But as political alliances begin to form and potential matches are discussed, he struggles with a quiet truth he can’t ignore—his heart may not be free to give, not when memories of Suki still linger like a promise left unfinished.
This is #3 of the series, go check out the other stories!
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- Part 4 of Through the Fire, She Was Born Again
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In an age when every known Southern waterbender has been taken prisoner by the Fire Nation, a storm at sea forces the crown prince to rely on a waterbender who isn't from the north or the south.
Iroh learns to freedive, which will be useful to his nephew in 40 years, and fails entirely to learn the location of the Foggy Swamp Water Tribe, or that imperialism is bad (yet).
An Iroh backstory fic taking place 60 years into the Hundred Year's War. Mysteries to be solved include: how Zuko knew how to freedive into the Northern Water Tribe. How Iroh learned how to sail out of it. The invention of lightning redirection. How the hunt for the Last Dragon went down. What the worst possible combination of two animals could be.
The show wasn't interested in what fully trained adult women waterbenders from the Foggy Swamp might be getting up to in the world, but I am so I did OCs about it.
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“…A fire nation ghost story? I… may know one…”
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“It’s not really a… it’s rather dark… are you sure you guys want to hear it…?”
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*Sigh* “Alright…”
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Something Evil is said to haunt the Fire Nation Archipelago.
Some say it is nothing but rumor, fiction, a story to scare disobedient children.
Some say it is an evil spirit from before the time of the Avatar, something ancient and hungry.
And some say it’s something much worse, that it’s something that used to be human, given over to rage and terror and destruction
What everyone agrees on is this: When Tui is her brightest do not go into the mountains, lest that time be your last.Series
- Part 6 of Lightning breaking
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Meet Me at the Midnight Lantern by emberislands
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
11 Aug 2024
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“Some Kyoshi girls recommended this place when it was first starting up,” Suki says. “I try to go whenever I’m in the city. There’s live performances and themed nights, and they tend to pour heavy. It’s always lots of fun.”
Toph smirks at a detail unshared. “Just a primer because I know you’re prissy: it’s kinda dingey, but I think it’s charming. Just give it some time for the atmosphere to sink in. It’ll be great.”
In the midst of it, Katara closes her eyes and pictures herself. In this dream, she is self-assured and confident. Stronger. She pictures the bar women with cropped hair and leather boots. Then the dancers, traversing between feminine and masculine, their plumes, their sparkle.
She imagines Aang, comfortable in his body. She imagines him proud.
…AU where Kataang come out to each other in their 30s, as butch and femme lesbians.
Kataang Week Submission: Day Five, Disguise.
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time and space are at my back (performing disappearing acts) by rakketyrivertam
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
27 May 2024
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An afternoon goes by in the blink of an eye.
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- Part 5 of the oceans and everything between (jeekoda)
- Part 5 of ATLA Rarepair Month 2024
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Looking for the Avatar is a tradition in the Royal Family, but no one really expects to find him at this point. That is, until Lu Ten does. Now 16 year old Lu Ten is on a hunt to capture the Avatar while his obnoxious interfering uncle keeps trying to steal him for himself (rude) and his adorable cousin keeps accidentally befriending the child Avatar and his group (stop that Zuko!).
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Aang snaps, Sokka and Katara explain. Gender is different for every element.
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Katara goes snooping through the attic at Ember Island and finds a collection of portraits of Zuko's family. The one she decides to bring down sparks a difficult discussion.
(Or, Zuko decides to tell the story of his scar after Aang insists on sparing Ozai's life. With a side of Zuko opening up about his mother and bonding with Katara, of course)
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After 5 years of leading the 41st division on the front lines, Zuko’s father has found a new use for him: as a bargaining chip in negotiations with the Southern Water Tribe. Zuko has no idea what to expect from this arrangement, but if the treaty can stop even one Fire Nation citizen from being killed, he’s willing to play his part.
Hakoda never wanted to bring an ashmaker into his home, but he knows his duty is to his tribe, even before his children or husband. He only hopes the prince will share his sense of duty and be willing to make the arrangement work. He never could have planned for Zuko.
Bato had his doubts, and Hakoda asking him at the last minute to change the wedding into a clan adoption didn’t put his mind at ease. But Zuko and his friends aren't the invaders Bato privately feared. As they settle in and learn the ways of the Southern Water Tribe, both he and Hakoda come to respect Zuko for his kindness, honesty, and bravery. Which is all well and good, until Zuko admits to having feelings for both of them, and they have to decide if they want to pursue a real relationship with Hakoda's young, fake husband.
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Sokka spots the perfect gift for his very platonic buddy, who he's seeing shortly for a very platonic, scheduled, one-on-one meeting. And Yue help him, he is going to get it. No matter the odds stacked against him.
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Holding His Heart by Val_Creative for RussetFiredrake
Fandoms: Avatar: Legend of Korra, Avatar: The Last Airbender
14 Jul 2023
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Suyin participates in the ice dodging ceremony at the age Sokka participated in his. He couldn't be more proud.