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A Love Like War by MichaelPhobia240145
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
25 Jun 2025
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To save her tribe, Katara marries the Fire Prince in secret.
He’s supposed to be her enemy—cold, calculating, dangerous. But behind locked doors and whispered lies, something far more dangerous begins to burn between them.
“I’m not a killer, Katara,” he breathes against her ear. “But for you… I could be.”
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The Space Between by sillylittlerobot
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
25 Jun 2025
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Long before Katara was born, a Fortuneteller warned Firelord Azulon that a Southern Waterbender would hold a power so strong that it would threaten the Fire Nation’s victory over the other nations.
The Fire Nation thought they succeeded in filtering out all Southern Waterbenders until rumors began that one was still alive. Ozai set forth that whoever retrieves the last Southern Waterbender between Zuko and Azula will become his successor as future Firelord. And Zuko will do whatever it takes to prove himself, and regain his honor.
Katara is desperate to go home to the South Pole, and when she runs into a Prince already on his way there, she’ll do whatever it takes to see her family.
Last Southern Bender A/U, in which there is no Avatar. Zutara.
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Fanning The Flames by GoldenHourglass
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
25 Jun 2025
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Left behind at the Misty Palms Oasis, Katara waits days for Aang, Sokka, and Toph to return. But when bounty hunters close in, her only chance at escape comes from the last people she ever thought she could trust: Zuko and Iroh.
Now traveling under false names, bound by a fake marriage, and with no room for mistakes, Katara finds herself on the road to Ba Sing Se. What begins as mutual distrust slowly unravels into eating side by side, sleeping even closer, and something far more dangerous: comfort. She thinks it will end once they reach the city, but in a place crowded with millions of refugees, and stuck in the Lower Ring, she doesn’t have much hope of finding the others. With no leads and nowhere else to go, she resolves to wait for her friends to find her.
But in their cramped apartment above the teashop, days turn into weeks, and Zuko and Katara begin to settle into something that almost feels like domestic bliss. It isn’t real. Or at least, it isn’t meant to be. But the longer they stay, the harder it becomes to remember where the act ends and something real begins.
*Updated Weekly*
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Damage Gets Done by phin_and_frob, reaBaeehS for phin_and_frob
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
24 Jun 2025
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Zuko took the lightning, and he almost paid the ultimate price.
If not for the amazing Waterbending master who refuses to leave his side while he recovers.
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My Baby, My Baby (I Bet On Losing Dogs) by Comicgeek20
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
24 Jun 2025
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A lot of thing happened when the Fire Teens went to Ember Island. They stayed on the beach, went to a party, had a therapy session on the beach and Azula turned into a toddler.
Out of all the things Zuko expected to happen while they were at Ember Island, returning home with a three year old version of his sister was not one of them.
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"We're going to be alcoholics by the time we're thirty," Sokka sighed.
"You think we'll live to be thirty?" Zuko asked, honestly thrilled. Sokka had pretty good instincts. Perhaps Zuko should reevaluate his long term goals. He could start by having long term goals.
A more likely alternative was that Sokka was just a hopeless optimist. It just went to show, you never truly saw another man until you stood shoulder to shoulder against a fleet of war balloons intent on raining death upon the city you loved.
Zuko was just a normal guy with normal interests. He liked theatre, burglary, crotchety ostrich horses, watching the Blind Bandit crush her opponents in a glorious display of skill and violence... just your standard banished prince things. It wasn't his fault he kept stumbling into rebellions and uncovering long-buried secrets. Fine, maybe freeing the prisoners was on him, but he was completely innocent of all other treason. Zuko was his father's loyal son. He'd never betray his nation.
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Uncle Iroh took a more creative approach to fostering Zuko's appreciation of other cultures. Now it's everyone's Problem. -
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Things don't go as planned on the day of the siege of Ba Sing Se, and destiny spirals as a result. Someone fated to die doesn't; destinies are shifted, and years later, the Avatar returns to a world far less inviting than the one he remembers.
And all the while, two spirits walk the Earth Kingdom like ghosts. -
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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 Illusion of Borders by JonnyMarch
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
20 Jun 2025
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This story is an alternate continuation of my completed work We Can’t Choose Us.
Chapters 1–16 are exactly the same as in that version, so if you’ve already read them, you can start right here.
But if you’re new to the story, I recommend starting from the beginning for the full emotional context.
📖 You can read Chapters 1–16 here:
https://archiveofourown.info/works/62580298/chapters/160180546In this version, I changed one decision, and it led to a very different ending.
Because so many of you asked for it. Because so many of you believed they deserved more.Series
- Part 2 of The Illusion of Borders
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The Violent Price of Peace by reaBaeehS
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
20 Jun 2025
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Eleven years after Sozins Comet, and The Avatar brought peace to the world, nothing is the same.
The Avatar is missing. Tui and La are dead and lost to the spirits. Balance is broken.
She’s the last waterbender alive.
Waking up knowing nothing and no one, she has to depend on the scarred stranger calling himself “Lee.” He’s murderous, brooding, and secretive.
Given the name Kya by her companion, she follows Lee on an unknown journey.
Lee must keep her hidden before the Lord of Embers finds her and destroys the already fragile balance.
The Lord of Embers is once again trying to stop the cycle.
End the Avatar. -
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There were always stories, myths, rumors about a special kind of warriors in the South. Warriors turning into great wolves to protect their tribe. But when Iroh and Lu Ten get aware of a child in the prison tower, those rumors seem to have more truth to them than they had anticipated. Seeing the treatment of the boy, they want to get him out of there. Zuko could need a friend after all.
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Three days following Former Crown Prince Zuko’s banishment, a wooden ship named The Akhlut stumbles upon an unconscious body of a thirteen-year-old Fire Native.
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ATLA-retelling with an OC!
After the first encounter with the Avatar at the South Pole, Zuko wants to repair his ship as quickly as possible. He did not expect to see a girl from his past come back into his life, not now when everything has to be focused on finding the Avatar. Yet destiny has a way of its own.
Book 1: Complete (Chapter 1 - 26)
Book 2: Complete (Chapter 27 - 49)
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Ephemeral by Threee for tealeyedbeing
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
14 Jun 2025
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Zuko had been wandering the world Spirit cursed for years. It wasn't enough for the Spirits to refuse to let him stay dead, they were determined to make sure he kept on dying. Waking up to an already bloodied sword above him should have been no different to every other time. He never expected to stay. He wasn't prepared to care again. Yet he did and he would hold onto it as short lived as it may be.
This is a rewrite of Perpetual by tealeyedbeing from Sho/Zuko's perspective because I'm unfairly obsessed.
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Zuko's convinced he's found the Avatar. Who else would possess such odd colored hair and exotic features of which none have ever seen before? Meanwhile, Rosalinda, an accidental dimension hopper at a constant for losing her mind, just thinks he's the biggest moron in existence.
In which a modern girl who knows nothing about A:TLA ends up thrown into their universe with nothing but the clothes on her back. Fuckshit ensues.
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- Part 11 of my OC galore
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Burnt Flowers: Book Three by yappaholics_anonymous
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
14 Jun 2025
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In one perfect moment Azula had achieved everything she had ever wanted. She had taken Ba Sing Se, ended the Hundred Year War, killed the Avatar, and convinced Zuko to return home to take his place as their father's heir.
Now, she had finally proven herself to be more than her mistakes, more than the weakness that her father had always been able to see at the core of her. Now, her father would finally have to respect and reward her, now she could finally have Ty Lee.
And in an instant, it had all come crashing down. Zhao had come back from the dead and, acting on her father's orders, stripped her of her command. Ty Lee's mother had stolen her away to secure a marriage to a man she hardly knew, and worse yet, Ty Lee had gone willingly, no longer able to bear seeing the person Azula had become.
Both heartbroken and distraught Azula and Ty Lee must now return home to the Fire Nation to face their destinies...but destiny has a way of turning out in unexpected ways.
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The final part of my very long TyZula redemption arch series.
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- Part 3 of Burnt Flowers
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Instead of exiling Zuko, Ozai decides to imprison Zuko. What follows is that he awaken the most dangerous vigilante the world had ever witness.
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is it that sweet? i guess so by malikscrying
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
13 Jun 2025
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Sokka sat up and brushed the grass off of himself. He blinked once he got a good glimpse of the man in front of him, he was instantly taken aback by how attractive he was. The man’s fair skin and dark hair resembled that of Izumi’s, so there was no mistaking that he was her father, but what caught Sokka’s attention the most was the man’s eyes. Sokka has never seen eyes that were pure golden in his entire life, but looking in the man's eyes was like looking in two golden drops of sunlight. Maybe the sun came out after all, Sokka heard himself think.
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A little parent au where Sokka panics and lies to Zuko telling him that Kya and Bumi are his children. Zuko finally made his first parent friend and wants to get to know him more (just as friends of course). -
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Fifteen years ago three teens from the Southern Water Tribe found a boy in an iceberg.
Two years ago, the “Last Southern Waterbender” was murdered in her home.
Five minutes ago a teen started shouting at the Southern Air Temple where a lonely monk has been hiding.
In which Kya, Hakoda, and Bato found the Last Airbender years ago. And Aang never had a reason to reveal he was the Avatar until he lost his best friend.
In which an angry thirteen year old prince desperately needs a guardian and Aang desperately needs to be needed.
Potentially will update every other week. (Update: Caught up to prewritten so currently working on next chapters.)
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- Part 1 of The Avatar's Ward
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If the Moon Smiled by aithusahasnowings (foxinsocks)
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
09 Jun 2025
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Sokka was never sent to guard Yue, he was too busy scouting ahead with some of the Northern Tribe warriors before the Siege. He was catch and capture being taking too Zhao's ship. He barely managed to escape with his life due Aang and a giant sea monster. Now he's stranded in the middle of the ocean with no one except Prince Zuko and his uncle for company.
Sokka should have died, if not from drowning then the burns he received from his time on Zhao's ship. But he survived. Why? Maybe the white streak appearing in his hair may have give him an answer.
Inspired by 'Will We Last the Night' by CSHfic, VSfic but with Moon Spirit Sokka AU
ie: Sokka never makes it out of the North Pole with Aang and Katara. Zuko He travels through the Earth Kingdom with Zuko and his Uncle instead.