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    “Sokka,” Fire Lord Zuko speaks up. “Are you done talking to them? Because if so-”

    “Let's say I'm done, but we'll still have to talk,” says Older Sokka. “We have a problem. More precisely, five problems. These are not members of the New Ozai Society, trying to kill you by disguising themselves as us. It's us. From the past.”

    “Hey!” objects loudly younger Sokka. “What are you doing, future me?”

    Or: on their way to the North Pole, Aang, Katara and Sokka are ambushed by Zuko and his uncle. Somehow, this leads to them visiting the future.

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    02 Jul 2025

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    The war has ended. Ozai has been defeated. All that is left is to crown Iroh Fire Lord. However, it seems the Fire Sages have already crowned a new leader, one far more sinister than Sokka had first thought.

    All hail Fire Lord Zuko, trained assassin and winner of the political coup to take control of the Fire Nation.

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    25 May 2025

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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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    05 May 2025

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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.

     

    Or:
    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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    01 May 2025

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    “Blessed Spirit, we thank you for the gift of this child’s life. We are forever in your debt.” The whole village is kneeling now, even the tiniest toddlers flopped down on their stomachs doing their best approximation of a bow. “Please, won’t you give us a name to call you? We would like to properly express our gratitude.”

    Oh.

    Well shit.

    (Where Zuko saves a little Earth Kingdom girl from drowning, the villagers think he's a Spirit, build him a shrine, and long story short, a fake story about the Blue Spirit who dances with dragons suddenly becomes very real.)

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    25 Apr 2025

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    [“Here.” The boy holds out a cigarette for him. “You look like you need it.”

    Sokka takes it with a grateful smile and is just about to get his lighter when the boy holds out his finger with a small flame flickering above it.

    “Oh.” He brings the tip of his cigarette above the flame to light it. “Thanks.”

    “No problem.” The boy jerks his head back towards the porch, a clear invitation for Sokka to join him, then he turns around and walks back to the bench. Sokka follows him without a word.]

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    Sokka’s life slips into meaninglessness after Yue’s death. Nothing seems fun or exciting anymore, he mostly just allows himself to be dragged along with whatever his friends want to do in a desperate attempt to find something to hold onto, though it’s all mostly futile.
    Then he meets Zuko, who’s moved into Yue’s old place. Zuko, who’s interesting and strange and kind. Who doesn’t judge Sokka even when he probably should. Who maybe gets it in a way no one else around him does.

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    23 Apr 2025

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    No one has seen the stars since the night the Moon died.

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    Zhao kills the Moon Spirit 4.5 years too early, ending the war and starting the apocalypse all in one go. The Ocean ravages the world in its grief, and no one is there to stop it. A few years later, Prince Zuko and Princess Yue decide to do something about that.

    Chapter Eleven Release Date: Friday, June 6, 2025

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    22 Apr 2025

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    The first time that Sokka sees his childhood nemesis after ten years of blissful separation, he makes out with him in front of his homophobic family. Zuko's proposal- that they fake a relationship for a summer of public events on Sokka's home island to mess with his father and grandfather- is absolutely ludicrous, and it definitely won't work. Not only is Sokka straight, but he and Zuko have hated each other for as long as he can remember.

    Then Sokka realizes he can use it to his own advantage as well. It's just for the summer, right?

    Zukka fake dating modern AU with a heavy sprinkle of trauma and healing!

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    20 Apr 2025

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    In the XXXth span of the galactic war against the Phoenix King, the Avatar, Master of the Four Elements, summoned his trusted advisor to his side…

    Avatar Aang, prosecutor of the long war against the Fire Nation, tasks General Sokka with the recruitment of a secret friend hidden on his old home planet Emptiness II, razed a century ago. There, Sokka finds an impossible community, where peoples from all quadrants of the galaxy have taken root—headed by the Phoenix King’s own son Zuko. As he comes to trust them, Sokka becomes invested in the community. But war is barrelling towards them, and he must harness the spark between himself and Zuko to save Emptiness II… and the rest of the galaxy.

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    08 Mar 2025

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    Legolas is a high scoring ace in the Royal Air Force known for his sharpshooting and aerobatics. Gimli is an expert mechanic who ensures his division has the best planes available, even if he has to invent new parts to do it. Neither is ready to discuss the growing attraction between them until Legolas returns injured and Gimli is there to catch him.

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    14 Feb 2025

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    When Gimli agrees to help his father's old friend with repairs to a shipwrecked vessel, he thinks it will be a grand (if wet) adventure. But he did not expect there to be eyes watching from the water.

    Eerily beautiful, captivating eyes...

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    14 Feb 2025

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    Book 1 of The Undying Fire series. In which rescuing the Avatar from Pohuai Stronghold doesn't end so well. It's a tough life being a banished prince trying to get home, especially when the Avatar just wants to be your friend and keeps making everything confusing. Oh, and did Zuko mention he somehow healed the kid? Yeah, that happened.

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    08 Feb 2025

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    On the day before Ba Sing Se falls, Katara decides two things: 1) not to stop for a cup of tea; 2) consequently, the fate of the world.

    Behind the walls, Zuko loses sleep, runs errands, contemplates treason, and drinks a lot of hot leaf juice—not necessarily in that order.

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    08 Feb 2025

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    The bath takes care of the sweat. Takes care of the burnt bits of skin and fat that still cling to his palm. Zuko scrubs his body until it’s raw, blushing red; he dunks his head under the hot water and stays there, staring up at the dark, vaulted ceiling of the washroom until his lungs run out of breath to use.
    The oil of honeysuckle and opium and cinnamon, sweet and sharp and earthy, does not wash the stench of scorched flesh out of his nose.

    Zuko falls asleep on the evening of his official coronation, when he’s twenty-one-years old and has finally reached his majority. Zuko wakes on the morning of the Agni Kai with his father, eight years earlier.
    This is annoying for several reasons, like the fact that the War is still ongoing, that he has zero friends, and that Ozai is not in jail.
    It’s time to scheme.

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    04 Feb 2025

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    The burns are deep. Aang frets over them as he keeps watch, the smallest flame cupped in his palms, too small to do any damage. Zuko assures him that this–this is not all that comes from fire.

    (Tries not to remember how exactly skin smells when it begins to burn, flake away.)

     

    Or: Zuko doesn't choose Azula during the Crystal Catacombs.

    Or or: His sacrifice and everything that comes after.

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    03 Feb 2025

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    “…How?” Jayce asks brusquely at last, putting all of his weariness and resentment in one single word, and both the question and the tone give Viktor a moment of pause.

    “...What do you mean?” inquires Viktor casually, in the same airy inflection he has used so far, but Jayce has already spotted the familiar spark of intrigue in his eyes, a fundamental part of his humanity that Viktor still hasn’t managed to put aside.

    “You want us to be partners again, yet you’re the one that walked away first.” bites back Jayce harshly, instinctively using the hurt hidden in his heart like a sharp blade, and a brief flare of satisfaction warms him up when he sees Viktor’s eyes widen slightly, an unexpected sign of weakness that Jayce latches on like a hook on supple flesh. “If you want us to do this, then we have to be equals. I have my reservations on your plans for the future, and I want you to consider them.

    (Inside the Council's chamber, Jayce decides to take a chance on Viktor. It doesn't change everything, but just enough to save them both.)

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    05 Jan 2025

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    The boy looks up with hazel eyes. There is a look in his eyes that only a son could have for his mother. A desire to make her proud. “My name is Jayce of the House Talis. My father is Edmund Talis. I’ve come to claim my birthright as heir to my House.”

    And through his stumbling words, his mother thinks- yes. You will make me proud.

    (Or: Jayce and Ximena Talis never make it out of the snowstorm together. Jayce and Viktor meet, decades before they should, as two children of Zaun. This changes everything.)

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    04 Jan 2025

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    Jayce and Viktor are stupidly in love with one another when Viktor introduces his eager boyfriend to the world of Kink. It immediately sends Jayce on the journey to be The Goodest Boy he can possibly be.

    Viktor can't believe how lucky he is.
    Jayce learns peace in submission.

    That one where Jayce becomes Viktor's Service dog.

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    04 Jan 2025

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    Jayce knows Viktor is a vampire. They don't talk about it until one day Jayce can tell Viktor is hungry and offers to let him drink his blood.

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    04 Jan 2025

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    The hexcrystals have the potential save millions of lives. They could also be used to destroy millions, if placed in the wrong hands. Jayce Talis, the biomedical engineer, refuses to lease his family's monopoly on hexcrystals to anyone who might use them to make weapons, whether it be Piltover's own council or enemies who want to gain power in the Zaunite undercity. But with his beloved partner in danger, Jayce's pacifism has found its limits.

    And Viktor builds a bomb.

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    04 Jan 2025

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