11 Works in Zuko Deserves Better (Avatar)
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Yet another Zuko x OC story, but wait a moment. I've not really seen something like it, so here comes the story: Ming is the daughter of Admiral Zhao. She and Zuko are married at a really young age (further explanation in the first chapter), but they have to part when Zuko is banished. What will become of them when the avatar returns? (Rated M, because Idk what will happen later)
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On a rainy afternoon, a strange girl visits Pao's Tea House. Iroh sends Zuko to take her order and from there this story takes off. It basically follows the main plot, but inserts two new characters, a girl called Lin and her servant Zhenzu. I think everything else will be revealed as the story progresses. It's a Zuko x OC story, but also about family...
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In the Dawn of All My Layers by chavahlah (howlpropaganda)
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
19 Jun 2025
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Political unrest is rife in the Southern Water Tribe. Katara hopes that Fire Lord Zuko's visit during the Glacier Spirits' Festival will be fruitful, but she seriously doubts it. In the middle of celebrations, the Glacier Spirits themselves wreak havoc on Wolf Cove, and even Aang can't seem to calm them down.
On the far East side of the South, things aren't much better. A dreadful famine has set over the village of Glacier Combe, and the Chief's daughter Yanagi ventures into the barren ice floats at the first sign of spring.
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Sokka wakes up to the sounds of movement and noises in the other tent. Zuko's tent. Sokka yawns and looks out into the open with confusion. What is all that noise coming from there? He carefully gets up slowly, hoping to not wake up the others and sneaks out outside and walks towards Zuko's tent. When he got closer, he can register the noises as soft cries.
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Book Two: Earth (got dirt on yo face, ya big disgrace) by Galilaxia
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
04 Dec 2023
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The Hijinks continue, still mainly alongside canon...
just with some additions :)
Also get ready for some BADASS benders because the benders are badass
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The world nearly ended a hundred years ago, when the Fire Nation originally tipped the world's balance. A century later, there are still people fighting, but hope is running out. At least, until one boy makes a stupid comment to his sister and his cousin, and they (rightfully) blow up at him, exposing a mystical, hidden iceberg... One with the Avatar inside. Oh, and his friend.
The resulting light was seen by a specific burned Prince, who's been adrift from his nation for four years while his sister was being groomed by their asshole of a father. At least the Prince has his wonderful, tea-loving Uncle. Who may or may not be part of an ancient, powerful hidden group with ties around the world. Shush, it's a secret.
Hijinks ensue as people try to learn, to impress the gravity of the situation on the Avatar, to cause chaos, to find love, to fall out of love, to slap jerks, steal, and more!
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red, a world about to dawn (black, the night that ends at last) by MythicMagpie
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
16 Jul 2022
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[I miss you, he sometimes screams at his mother. She isn’t there, though. She left him, just like everyone eventually did. I miss you so much it feels like my heart is on fire and I can’t put the flames out. I miss you so much I’m worried my heart will scar like my face did.
I always knew my heart must be ugly. I never thought it would be because of you.
He loves his mother, for caring for him, keeping him safe, saving his life against his father.
Sometimes he hates her for it, too.
Sometimes he hates her for saving his life by leaving.]Or, Zuko learns to heal and finds a family along the way.
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It was all his fault.
He hadn’t even tried to stop the Agni Kai. If he had, maybe he could have talked some sense into his brother. Maybe he could have prevented all this.
Or, the first week after the fateful Agni Kai is rough for both of them, but Iroh promises that he will always be there for his nephew. No matter what.
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The Lost Princess of the Fire Nation by ZelodolonGirl
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
29 Apr 2020
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Ozai and Ursa have a third child named Sayaka, born one year after Azula. She grows up hating her father due to his cruel treatment of her and her brother Zuko. Wishing to escape her father's abuse she runs away from the palace and the Fire Nation. She unexpectedly ends up on a strange land, where she grows stronger and more powerful than she ever thought she could be. When she learns that the Avatar had returned she makes it's her mission to join him and stop her father who she sees as a monster.
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- Part 1 of Sayaka of the Fire Nation
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The Teen Drifter’s Guide to Acquiring Siblings and Scars by InterstellarToaster, KikuchiKun
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
27 Apr 2019
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“What If Ozai decided to get rid of Zuko, like Azulon had threatened?”
The Capital City of the Fire Nation was hot, cramped, and full of people who wanted you dead. You had a problem with that last thing. Actually, scratch that; you had a problem with that last thing when it extended to other people too.
Case in point: the boy in the courtyard that was about to be murdered by Fire Nation soldiers.
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Hungry ghosts: the remnants of the dead, who are afflicted with a terrible hunger
When you went to the Fire Nation Capital, you left your family and said, “I promise I’ll come back.”
Twenty days later, trapped in a city of monsters, you don’t think you’ll be coming back.