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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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Zuko has nightmares and refuses to sleep.
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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.
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But I was just more like real life by Oliver_Black
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
19 Jun 2025
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"His grandpa dead. His father was Fire lord. And uncle Iroh was leaving the palace.
A spirit journey, he said, to find inner peace.
Well, all Zuko could think was that his own inner peace had left the palace with his mom and would be missing for the foreseeable future."
AKA Zuko and the Royal palace staff, an adoption story.
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Book 2 of Zuko and Lu Tens story.
At 10 years old, Zuko was almost sacrificed to a God by his own father, but his Big cousin Lu Ten saved him just in time. He grew up at the Southpole and befriended the Chief's children Sokka and Katara. Now, after their epic adventure on the Northpole the Gaang takes of to the Earthkingdom, while being chased by a new but yet also familiar enemy.
Meanwhile Lu Ten and Iroh are finally reunited and head off to find a special someone for the young Prince.
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- Part 2 of Lu Ten and Zuko
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No Scar to Tell the Story by renegade_of_theworld
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
19 Jun 2025
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King Kuei reclaimed his kingdom from the hands of the Dai Li and is trying his hardest to take everything back under control.
But then, he discovers that he has a supposedly dead Prince Zuko in his custody. The Dai Li had kidnapped the eleven-year-old prince shortly after the Siege of Ba Sing Se has fallen. They attempted to ransom him back, but the newly crowned Fire Lord Ozai showed no interest. The child has been locked away within the Dai Li’s walls ever since.
Kuei is NOT okay with this.
He needs to scream. He will do that. But first he needs to get the boy out of that nightmare.--
Prisoner Zuko angst and Kuei (who I guess is ooc because he's no clueless and dumb) protective feels. -
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Zuko’s arms are locked tight around himself, shaking, breath snagging against Sokka’s chest. “Why are you being so nice to me?” he whispers, voice all frayed edges.
Sokka just kisses the corner of his mouth, soft like forgiveness. “Because I love you. And I like being nice to you.”
or, Zuko doesn’t know how to be touched without flinching, doesn’t know what to do with gentleness that asks for nothing back. But Sokka holds him like something sacred—cleans him up, keeps him warm, kisses the trembling out of his spine. Love doesn’t have to be earned here. Not anymore.
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Fanning The Flames by GoldenHourglass
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
18 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.
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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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I want you not her.. (Zuko x reader) by Mimi_5
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar: The Last Airbender (Live Action TV 2024)
18 Jun 2025
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You are a fire bender and your father has a high status for being a top general you are part of the friend group with Mai, Azula, Ty-Lee. Top of your class at royal fire bending school for girls. And it seems you gained a small crush on Zuko. But no! You can’t.. Mai likes him not you..
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The boy flew up the stairs, a flurry of black clothes against gray steel. His footfalls still fell like feathers on wood, he was glad he knew how to make his steps quiet. Otherwise his life would’ve been over right there, right then. The boy slid the door open, peeking no more than his eyes above, he looked around and quickly took note of the few unconscious men scattered around.
The boy scrambled into the tower, looking around in awe. He counted 3 unconscious men, one of said men possibly dead. Several bruises littered across each of them, one had a slice to his arm, another had his ankle at a weird angle, and the third had his arm twisted in such a way that it had begun to lose air. He tensed, screams could no longer be heard outside. In only moments the worst happened.
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Metanoia || Avatar: The Last Airbender by scribe_of_azaris
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
17 Jun 2025
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Being the apprentice of the Dragon of the West entails a lot more than just drinking tea and playing Pai Sho, unfortunately.
Shia has lived a miserable life, restricted by her noble grandfather's draconian training and her mother's everpresent disapproval; treated like a criminal by her own flesh and blood for sins that are not hers, she has never been more than a pawn at best. Her salvation comes to her in the form of Iroh, the General of the Fire Nation, who takes her under his wing once she is sent away by her family to serve as a child soldier.
Under his tutelage, she becomes a fierce warrior with a calm mind. Years later, she joins her mentor and his nephew in their quest to capture the Avatar.
A quest that alters the course of Shia's life irrevocably.
metanoia (n.) - the journey of changing one's mind, heart, self or way of life.
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Between Control and Craving by rottensoupz
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
17 Jun 2025
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“I’m supposed to be strong,” Zuko spits. “I’m a prince. I’m a man. I’m not supposed to break down because someone put a leash on me and told me I was theirs. I’m not supposed to like it.”
Sokka watches him tremble, the shame thick in his throat, and doesn’t look away. Doesn’t flinch. “So let me hold that too,”
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Zuko breaks in all the ways he’s never let himself—under Sokka’s hands, beneath his weight, on his knees. He craves the collar, the praise, the sting of spit on his cheek. But morning brings silence and shame, and he runs. Sokka follows. There’s no fixing this—but he’ll still stay.
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Where have you buried all your children? Ba sing se... by DevilsChild0
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
16 Jun 2025
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"I'm nervous, I don't know how I should feel about everything. It's just a lot."
"Don't you want to see your sister again?"
"Not half dead Sokka!"
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Zuko receives news from the military that his sister is coming home to recover a grave injury. The problem? They hadn't seen eachother in three years and the person who wanted her dead was their father!
In a panic he calls his friends who are more then eager to help him through though times.Ty Lee has heard many stories about Zuko's sister over the years, but she finds herself quite interested in meeting this child soldier prodigy.
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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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Two Thorns and No Roses by esstallulah
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
15 Jun 2025
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Sokka was banished from his tribe after he discovered he was a fire bender. Shortly after, he was 'banished' from Team Avatar and Sokka became an introverted, quiet loner that slept roughly; switching between places. But his one goal in life wasnt fulfilled, this goal was to become the most powerful fire bender to ever exist. (Well, the most powerful fire bender that WASN'T an Avatar)
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- Part 1 of The Thorns and Roses Series
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The gaang are trying to find Aang a firebending teacher but it is hard when most are either in the firenation, or pretending not to be a firebender. They are on their way to Ba Sing Se in hopes to find an earthbender and a firebender. the latter is wishful thinking, but you never know. all katara knows is that they need to find one ASAP. Sozin's comet is fast approaching and Aang is far from ready.
Iroh and Zuko have separated from the fire nation and are on the run. Fire Lord Ozai believes the two to be dead, and they would like to keep it that way. While Iroh wants to settle down in the city of Ba Sing Se as a civilian running a tea shop, Zuko is still after the avatar and believes if he finds him and capture him, he can finally show to be a worthy Prince. As much as his uncle tries to steer him away from this endless chase, Zuko ignores him and refuses to settle down as a waiter in a tea shop. It is only when he nearly dies does he find himself in a completely different situation then he was before, and the next time he sees the gaang, he can't help but notice his longing to be one of them, and to be 'next' to one of them...
Eventual Zutara.
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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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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).