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Zuko never held a pivotal position in the royal family. He was just the son of Fire Lord Azulon’s secondborn, and brother of Azula, the prodigy. To most, he was nothing more than some entitled guy they had to tolerate, so insignificant that nobody really protested when a Water Tribe bride was deemed suitable for him.
Yet he soon finds himself kneeling behind his father at the Coronation Plaza, draped in funeral robes for the second time that month while the nation hails their new Fire Lord. Now, as the unwanted heir with a foreign wife, he must navigate the deadly politics of the Fire Nation court to survive.
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The Boy Who Was Favored by the Spirits But Did Not Know It by Katowisp
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
21 Jun 2025
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The myth of Zuko, the boy favored by the Spirits but cursed not to know.
“What is your gift, Koh?”
“I have spent many years among mankind and I wear their faces. To your child of fire, I give the blessing of doubt.”
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- Part 1 of No Harbor but Honor
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The Palace of Lies and Secrets by Genderfluid_Gremlin
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
20 Jun 2025
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Sokka has been hated and abused his whole life for being a firebender, so when the Fire Nation comes to abduct him, it turns out to be a blessing. Everything changes when he meets Azula. Befriending the damaged princess, Sokka will learn that his new home is not nearly as perfect as it seems.
Meanwhile, Azula has never forgotten seeing her brother Zuko get murdered by their own father. Ever since, she has done everything she could to survive, even if she hates herself for who she's become. Befriending Sokka sets her on a new path, but will she continue to obey her father, or choose to make a stand against the war?
Everyone believes Zuko is dead. Little do they know he lives, trapped in a Fire Nation prison camp. There, he will discover the true cruelty of the war and suffer in ways he never imagined. When he finally returns to the Fire Nation palace, he will have to decide whether to enjoy happiness with the people he loves, or risk everything for a chance at stopping the hundred year war.
Sokka, Azula, and Zuko have all suffered terribly, but by finding strength in each other, they have a chance at ending the war and bringing peace to the world- if only they have the courage to try.
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Monsters & Heroes by Nichya for SignlessAcolyte, Loiseau_Lyre
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
18 Jun 2025
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Zucest Week Day 5 - Getting Hurt To Save Each Other
(VERY lightly inspired by Epic The Musical)
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- Part 5 of Zucest Week 2025
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His days melted together, eating, sleeping, and going to therapy. He got three crappy meals a day, none worth mentioning. He got a therapist who he despised. Fucker thinks he’s so smart with a Bachelors. Well, he isn’t. He doesn’t understand their minds. He doesn’t. Everytime he speaks the therapist will misinterpret his words and Zuko is expected to sit and listen.
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A Little Bit of Death by trickyster_3000
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
12 Jun 2025
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To Zuko, life is a stage and an important play is taking place in front of him. He believes that it is his destiny to keep the story on track no matter what and ensure everyone gets a happy ending. Things would be so much easier if the characters would stop dying, killing him, and/or ending up in some sort of catastrophic situation. It doesn't really matter, he will reset the stage as many times as it takes until everything is perfect.
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When a member of the Royal Family is born, their future is read by a Fire Sage.
So when a baby's future threatens the future of an entire nation, is one life worth more than millions?
Ursa thinks so.
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"Are you..." Zuko rasps out and the man instantly snaps his mouth shut - finally stopping his hysteric rambling with it. He must be surprised that Zuko is coherent enough to say anything at all and he leans forward to fully capture the rest of Zuko's slurred words. "... trying to hit on me while I'm bleeding out on your carpet?"
The man gives him a bewildered look. "... I have hardwood floors. That's a towel."
___Or: Zuko tries to find ways to deal with his fucked up life - like knitting, smoking, being an asshole in general, moonlighting as a vigilante - you know, regular stuff - he just never accounted for meeting Sokka.
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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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A small gesture of kindness can be interpreted in many ways. You can easily pay someone back, but what if the ultimate payback is... making them gay? Eventually?
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What to Expect when a Waterbender is Expecting by SerenitySnail
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
16 May 2025
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Katara and Zuko have been trying everything for the last few months to become pregnant but nothing seems to be working and the pressure of the royal council is no help. When a young concubine comes into the picture Zuko becomes more than suspicious and as issues arise it's up to Zuko to get to the bottom of it before things get out of hand.
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Kindred Spirits (sent from my iphone) by Duckduck_Scribblerswan (Caellie_E_and_Vaye_R)
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar: The Last Airbender
12 May 2025
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Zuko just wanted to take a breather after a stressful political summit in the Earth Kingdom. Unfortunately, some passerby with good eyesight spotted him entering an apartment through the door as Li and leaving through the window as the Blue Spirit, right before he left for the Fire Nation. The Earth Kingdom puts two and two together and, appropriately, gets four: the Blue Spirit has kidnapped Li, and presumably the other Fire Nation refugees who have been disappearing across Ba Sing Se. They must save Li and bring the Blue Spirit to justice!
Unwilling to reveal himself as either the Blue Spirit, wanted in both the Fire Nation and Earth Kingdom for treason and petty larceny, or Li, who'll draw attention to his uncle's teahouse, Zuko does the next most reasonable thing: he panics.
Meanwhile, Mai, Suki, and Toph are busy investigating who's really at fault for the disappearances of these refugees, King Kuei has realized he can get away with some truly ridiculous antics as king, and the newspapers are getting suspicious of how protective Fire Lord Zuko is of these two random people he apparently picked up in Ba Sing Se. What's up with that, anyway?
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How To Save (Seduce!) Your Villain In A Few Easy Steps; A Guide By Avatar Aang by NazakiSama166
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
11 May 2025
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“Shitty author, shitty novel! Prince Zuko deserves justice!” Aang’s famous last words as he took his last breath.
…Forced to read his favorite character’s unjust death and being killed after. Aang had had enough when he was yeeted into the same novel he died cursing because an annoying entity called ‘The System’ thought it would be fun transmigrating him into the most annoying novel he had the misfortune of reading.
To make things worse, Aang didn’t become an anonymous NPC, so he could help his favorite character from the sidelines. Instead, he became that damned Protagonist who will end up killing the Scum Villain, Prince Zuko!
……You know what? Let the world burn and the plot go up in flames! Aang was going to give Prince Zuko the happy ending he deserved, one way or another, even if it killed him!
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A different retelling of ATLA, SVSSS style!
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- Part 2 of The Woes Of Transmigration
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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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Glass and Stars Grow Within Me by lX_CrowBoy_Xl
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
22 Apr 2025
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”My impurities showed as clear as my face, with dull where others were sharp, lazy waves ripped into my hair, eyes bleached blue and rounded like a dog’s. The prince’s weakness could be remedied, pulled savage and strict to make the finest sword. No amount of hammering could mend me.
The war was nearing a century now, the wizened gates to our home long barred. My blood was loss. Dishonor. Tarnish allowed to cultivate within the borders of the grand, powerful fire nation.
My mother was executed for her treason. It was by miracle I was overlooked.”
When Zuko is banished, he feels that he has only two on his side. His uncle, Iroh, and a serving boy by the name of Kohi, a friend. It's only after Kohi realizes a terrible secret about himself that they both start to see the truth.
This is the price for their loyalty.I thought the idea of every nation speaking a different language was cool, so I put myself through twenty years of agony in languages far from home and killed 600 of my braincells w/ caffeine Odysseus style to get that in this work. The first chapter will explain more about that.
Crossposted on Wattpad
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it feels like the colour is gone again (return it to me) by monochromedove
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
18 Apr 2025
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He has this scar - this scar that shows itself, bright and unbridled, on the side of his face.
a reminder of everyone - the one he must find.She has these scars, meekly hidden away, her body becoming a canvas, spilling with all her memories, shamefully.
a reminder of what she lost, what she failed to recover.She learned, with age. time. most of all - failure. that some things are lost and cannot be found. Maybe, it’s better that way.
lost.
Time passed, and he grew older, but the teachings, messages, metaphors, blew right over him, because regaining -
finding.
his honor, that was all that mattered in the world.
it must be found.
(he tells himself that, anyway.)
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Lee and Ivory discover they’re pretty goddamn similar.
They’re stupid, and sort of mature, but they’re also teens. awkward ones. Oh, and love denying their feelings. All of them.
Stupid Gay Angsty Teenagers should not have access to fire bending. or weapons. Three eyes and two ears between them, it’s a wonder they haven’t fucking died.
Stupid Gay Angsty Teenagers.
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- English
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- 1/?
- Kudos:
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Zuko gets yeeted into Carmen's dimension by Proditiophobia
Fandoms: Carmen Sandiego (Cartoon 2019), Avatar: The Last Airbender
13 Apr 2025
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Zuko is walking through a hall in his twenties, and alas, he soon finds himself stuck in another world. As a seven year old boy.
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Light A Match, Strike A Chord by harmonicanoise for imnotoverlyobsessive
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
12 Apr 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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Thank you for all the mistakes (Thank you for all the pain) by AnnaKRangshi
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
08 Apr 2025
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When rumors create a rift between Azula’s and Katara’s relationship, and trust is on the verge of breaking, Katara decides to confront Azula. But their argument spirals into something far worse than just a break-up. It leaves Azula on the brink of death and Katara realizing that true love is worth fighting for. But is it already too late to tell Azula how she really feels ?
(This story may explore heavy themes like death, but there is a happy ending with fluff in between)
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I love you! Was that a good take? by orphan_account
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
08 Apr 2025
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This was such a bad idea. Why had he ever agreed to Aang's stupid invite to cast hangout? How is he supposed to explain now, to the press, his father, his sister and her friends that he has a somewhat stable social life?
His career is done for. He's going to end up selling his body and doing whatever actors do when they fall out of grace.
Without having proof of being a weirdo, all of the parasocial relationships he'd worked so hard to build are going to shatter like glass!
Well, at least there's this really cute guy in the... 'Gaang'—or whatever it's called—that he can respectfully look at and act totally sane around.OR
Zuko has 99 mental illnesses and is banned from most public spaces except filming studios and the red carpet but, it's ok because the Gaang will adopt him.
Sokka is going to explode because, why are all hot people either gay, mentally upset, or both?!
im not promising to ever get past chapter one. It depends if my level of projection ever gets tuff. Heh...i cant even anymore with myself bruh.
Theres literally no romance yet and no one makes an appearance YET except Zuko and Aang 😿