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The people of the world were distraught, the avatar was their only hope at restoring balance to their war savaged world, but three avatars and 86 years had passed with no fully (or even partially) realized avatar to look to.
No one suspected the hero they were looking for was a young fire nation prince named Zuko.
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Or, the one where Aang died at the massacre instead of getting frozen, and since then the avatars have met early deaths. And then Zuko accidentally bends another element.
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Azula invites Sokka to join her in the shower. That pretty much sums it up. This one-shot is a joint collaboration between purpleplatypusbear21 and fanwright, who each took turns writing three sentences at a time. Sokkla smut.
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The Flames of Icarus by potatochip53
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Greek and Roman Mythology, Icarus - Fandom
15 Jul 2018
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Zuko was the former Prince of the Fire Nation. He had everything he ever could've wanted. But he changed. So why didnt he feel like he belonged in the Gaaang?
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The last Fire Lord proclaimed that the airbenders bodies never be put to rest and to enter the temple grounds at your own risk. As an adult, the spirits may have little effect on you … as a child grasping at manhood, a soul is still malleable and open to suggestions.
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- Part 5 of Avatar: The Last Airbender Fics
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He’d given up chasing the Avatar years and years and years ago.
Given up chasing after the praise of his father long before that.
Given up fearing fire months after.
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He’s long since given up on finding the Avatar.But it seems like the Avatar has found him.
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- Part 1 of tea server zuko au
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In Zuko’s dreams, everything is always the same, and always different.
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Katara blows Zuko and he's gotta be quiet about it.
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- Part 1 of Zutara Smut Ficlets
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A Simple Lie and A Simple Misunderstanding by Miyuki_scourgeofthefirenation
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
14 Jul 2020
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Hakoda thought he knew what the situation was with his children and their friends. Specifically, he thought he understood the situation between Katara and Zuko. Watching Zuko and Sokka interact now, however, and he's not so sure anymore.
What was Firelord Zuko playing at?Based on the Tumblr post where Hakoda doesn't know which of his kids Zuko is dating.
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Zuko is broken and abused by Ozai. He’s a afraid to make mistakes around the Gaang as he is afraid of gettin beat up. The Gaang comforts him.
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Katara was scared of being forgotten, Zuko would help make sure she was remembered.
“You two are getting old,” Toph comments as Katara walks by to sit down on the table.
“Not like you are getting any younger,” Zuko quips, “Look at yourself, your wrinkles almost reach the ground.”
“You’d think that after all these decades you would remember that I can’t see!”
Katara stifled a laugh, “And I would think after all this time we would finally stop arguing.”
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It's the anniversary of the Agni Kai, and Zuko can't stop remembering.
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The ballad of Azula Sozin by Anewhope303
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender, 35mm: A Musical Exhibition - Oliver & Murphy
27 Oct 2020
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A rewrite of the ballad of Sara berry for Azula
Companion piece for my art
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- Part 1 of The ballad of Azula Sozin
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Zuko has never been particularly talented, and he looks even less impressive compared to his prodigy sister. So when his father starts paying attention to him, for once, he relishes it.
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my heart has thorns so please don't hold it by i_am_a_museum
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
12 Mar 2021
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He made him hollow you see. Empty inside, with button eyes and a stitched up smile. And when he’s had enough, he knows where he’ll go. He’ll be unstitched and pulled apart limb by limb. So that he can be made anew into whatever needs doing next. He can be as strong, and as beautiful and as fierce as he needs him to be. After all, he is his father's loyal son.
So even as he trips down stairs and falls out of trees. He assures that father loves him.
He HAS to. He whispers late at night in his dreams and his body burns.
- an au where Zuko covers for Ozai again and again not realising that Toph can hear his heart.
ON HIATUS BC I GOT HELLA WRITER BLOCK OOPS (prediction: should be back late December)
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Summary: After Iroh dies, Firelord Zuko disappears from the palace without a trace. The Gaang are called up to find him and yet have no luck for weeks.
Then, a letter arrives, addressed solely to Aang.
In short, Aang and Zuko learn to heal from their losses together and become closer than friends.
They become brothers.
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She had left him, alone to deal with his sadistic sister and ruthless father. How could his mother just leave him to deal with his father crowned as the Fire Lord, and his uncle heartbroken from his cousin's death, all without her?
Aka, Zuko angst about his mom leaving him.
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The Blue Spirit Resides Within You by satoshi413
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
03 Feb 2025
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After the Agni Kai, Zuko is going to die from his injuries. Iroh begs for the spirits to intervene--and the Blue Spirit answers. It saves Zuko, but irrevocably binds them together, changing Zuko into something no longer quite as human. The Blue Spirit has its own motives, and under its guidance, Zuko grows disillusioned with the Fire Nation during his three-year exile.
When he finally discovers the Avatar, Zuko's mission isn't to capture him--it is to help him bring balance to the world. But he didn't plan on falling in love with him along the way.
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Waking up with a stranger by unevenpatterns
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
21 Oct 2024
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Jet wakes up in bed with a man. That in itself is confusing enough, since it has never happened before.
He doesn't know how he got here or why Lee from the ferry suddenly looks so different, but when things start getting steamy he goes for 'kissing now, questions later'.(Also known as Jet thinking with his dick instead of his brain, but who can really blame him in this case.)
For Kinktober prompt day 10: Amnesia. I thought that was too perfect for Jetko to pass up on.
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- Part 1 of Jetko Kinktober 2024
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“You will learn to firebend Prince Zuko,” Ozai said with a cruel smile. “Your life depends on it.”
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Zuko botches his escape on the day of the eclipse and sits out the war in prison. What will the Gaang do with a new Fire Lord they can't trust? Season Four "Zuko never joined the Gaang, and he's really bad at being good" AU.
Featuring Azula's extended field trip, Jun not signing up for this, and Sokka's increasing desire to scream. Come get your international politics with a side of baby dragons.
Podfic and German translation now available, see chapter one notes!
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Crack the World in Half by Aliemur
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Avatar: Legend of Korra
06 Jul 2022
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The Air Avatar dies at the age of 26 in a battle against the Fire Nation. The Water Avatar passes at 61, her body fighting uselessly against poison. Toph Beifong screams her way into the world as the Avatar takes her last breath.
The hundred-year war goes on.
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Toph is the Avatar, and she's going to save the world. Zuko accidentally helps.
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au in which a banished for good zuko ends up being hired by the beifongs to watch over their daughter- or, zuko and toph never took that field trip in canon so now she gets to hog him for three whole years.
(this is not an abandoned work. PLEASE stop asking me that already.)
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Some people are born with soulmarks. Zuko has them, but his grandfather burned them off because they "make you weak."
Team Avatar has a few things to say about that.
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A short series of connected humor drabbles on Toph and Iroh's happily married life.
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Zuko realizes his destiny much earlier. As in, as soon as he wakes up in the palace after his Agni Kai and is told he is banished. Unfortunately, he's never been a patient one. So he storms right up to Ozai and tells him what he's going to do. And gets locked up for over three years. Then, one day, he's being pulled out and told he's the new Fire Lord.
A "Zuko never meets the Gaang and suddenly becomes Fire Lord after three years of literal torture" AU. In which the Gaang doesn't know what to think of the new Fire Lord who happens to be the missing nephew of Aang's firebending teacher, Iroh constantly has a headache, and, sure, maybe the world hates the Fire Nation, but the Fire Nation LOVES Zuko, and he can work with that.
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- Part 1 of Fractures
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Bookmarked by eL_Christell
13 Jul 2020
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Last read series 2 ch.2
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i want to love (but i don't know how) by emrysthewarlock
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
12 Mar 2020
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Zuko wonders if he will ever get better at this, at interactions. (Part of him is hopeful. The rest hasn’t known what hope is since his mother left.)
Or, Zuko learns four types of love that he's been pushing away for too long.
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He’d given up chasing the Avatar years and years and years ago.
Given up chasing after the praise of his father long before that.
Given up fearing fire months after.
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He’s long since given up on finding the Avatar.But it seems like the Avatar has found him.
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- Part 1 of tea server zuko au
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Sokka just grins and shrugs, elbowing Zuko gently in the side. They stay on the roof tracing patterns in the sky until the sun begins to rise and drown out the heavens in its light. When they climb down from the roof, Sokka still holding out his hand to help Zuko, Zuko realizes he hasn’t thought about work at all.
(A post-canon fic where Ambassador Sokka and Fire Lord Zuko write each other letters and watch the stars.)
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Zuko wasn’t the only person in the royal family who thought sending an assassin after the Avatar was worth a shot.
Bookmarked by eL_Christell
28 Jul 2020
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Damn Daniel, this was terrific!
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Sokka blir skadet under et angrep og Zuko må cauterize såret for at han skal overleve til Katara kommer å leger han. Zuko er veldig traumatisert av hendelsen. -
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Zuko's been tied to a tree for several hours now and his problem's growing worse. Not that he could tell anyone about it if he tried. If there's one thing to say about the Avatar's little group, it's that their gags are very effective.
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To Zuko's great relief, his new family were not part of a cult. Instead they seemed to be rather normal; they were well-mannered, cultured, fire-breathing people who were very assured of their own superiority, and had a family history of insanity.
Zuko had never felt more at home.
AU Zuko-is-Itachi.
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Lieutenant Jee has to pick up the pieces after the storm. He’s not sure where to even start.
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Until the Walls Break Like Waves by attackfish for Floranna
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
14 Jun 2016
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It was just before the winter solstice when Earth Kingdom soldiers captured the prince of the Fire Nation and his uncle, the Dragon of the West. It was the dead of winter when they were brought to Ba Sing Se.
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- Part 1 of Until the Walls Break Like Waves
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Hidden in the deepest darkest corner of the Palace, the imprisoned Prince Zuko serves out his punishment and waits - and waits to be pardoned and released by his father.
Not knowing that Fire Lord Ozai has already declared to the world that his son has died.
Until a strange group of kids invade the Royal Palace, and accidentally rescue the formerly dead Prince Zuko...
— their invasion had gone to shreds since the Fire Lord had disappeared, and now there was an unconscious maybe-probably-enemy lying by his feet.
"Oh great, NOW what??” Sokka flailed both of his hands towards the boy. "When I said we could loot some stuff from the Royal Palace, I didn’t mean THIS!!"
As usual, Katara ignored his extremely valid point.
"We need to hurry," she said, as if Sokka didn’t already know that, it was his plan, "- can you carry him, Sokka? We have to take him with us."
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Bookmarked by ant47
24 Dec 2020
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They sent a child. They wanted him to marry a child the same age as his own kids. What in the name of Tui and La- How dare the? How dare they!?
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The 100-year war is more of a 95-year war, end earlier for reasons that don't matter right now. After a few years of negotiations, Firelord Azulon wants a marriage alliance between the Chief of the Southern Water Tribe and a member of the Fire Nation royal family. No one really wants this, but after five years, Hakoda can tell his people are tired and want to move on, so he's willing to do what it takes to make peace happen. That is until the Fire Nation sends him a child to marry, and there is no way in hell that is happening.
Based on a Tumblr post I can't get out of my head.
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Bookmarked by summer164
31 Dec 2020
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On ch 3
Cj 2 Katara nodded, trying not to think about how, when she was a child, someone had told her if there were storms early in a long voyage, La disapproved of your journey. Maybe the ocean spirit was angered by the Firelord sending a teenager to be married off to, again, an adult, and she had sent the storms to warn them of her fury.
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“They lied to him,” the Chief said. “They told him the age of adulthood here was sixteen. And they lied to us; the age of adulthood in the Fire Nation is twenty. They knew it wasn’t legal or allowed for him to be the one they sent, and they did it anyway.”
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In which the rumour mill is thriving, Zuko is ready to give up, and Toph won’t stop laughing.
Also, the citizens of Caldera City might be a bit concerned about how quickly their Fire Lord is apparently going through partners.