zuko is NOT sent to capture the avatar (or decides to say f u and doesn't even bother)
a collection of fics of which instead of capturing the avatar after the agni kai (or any point before canon zuko decides the firelord is full of shit), he does other things! like uhh... go to prison or join the 41st division :D or just plain, banished. dumped in the middle of the earth kingdom with no resources. THE POSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS (they are also causing me brain rot).
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While Mighty Oaks Do Fall by WitchofEndor for distractedKat
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
27 Sep 2024
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High Sage Kenji blesses Fire Prince Zuko with the resilience of the reed, who bends in the wind and never breaks. When he is done, Fire Prince Ozai narrows his eyes, seemingly displeased by this blessing. But Kenji does not speak for himself; he is only a vessel.
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The newly-crowned Fire Lord Ozai offers his firstborn son to service in the temple.
This turns out to be a catastrophic mistake.
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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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this thing we've got going (it's complicated) by orphan_account
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
18 Apr 2022
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After learning his father's horrific plan and having no way to stop it, Zuko had truly believed that his life could not get any worse. But then, he woke up one hundred years in the future to a war torn world, and he found himself proven wrong.
Between coming to terms with this new reality, outrunning the Fire Nation, and repairing the relationship with a sister who hates him, Zuko has a lot on his hands.
And then, of course, there is the small matter of mastering all four elements and stopping a war.
Nothing he can't handle. Right?
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Images flashed in front of him, just as the whispering ceased.
A glowing boy in an iceberg, a crowd of people bowing to him, even more cheering, Azula chained to the gutter, his father's corpse being burned with four people in attendance, someone named Kiyi, a bearded man and a woman who looked like Mai naming their son Iroh, a new nation, him standing in front of Sozin's portrait while Azula jeered, him confronting his father, him hugging a tattooed boy, a pair of siblings fr-
They say that the Firelord murdered his son in cold blood with a cold gaze. They say that it is a pity, for the boy was a failure. They know that they must say what is expected of them.
What they do not know, or say is that the boy lives.
Book 1 (this) is finished and posted. Book 2 will be coming whenever.
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- Part 1 of Quietus
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After the Blue Spirit frees the Avatar from the Pohuai Stronghold, Admiral Zhao captures Prince Zuko under suspicion of treason. Isolated from his Uncle and his crew, Zuko has only one ally: the chatty prisoner one cell over.
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- Part 1 of Birds of a Phoenix Feather
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I'll Share the Moon, If You'll Share the Sun by anarchycox
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
08 Jan 2022
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An alternate world where Iroh leads a coup against Ozai on the eclipse and wins the throne for Zuko. The southern water tribe hadn't sent men to fight in thirty years, instead protecting their home, laying traps, using guerilla tactics so the fire nation gave up fighting them.
Sokka and Katara found Aang, but being frozen in ice for a hundred years has ramifications and for almost four years the tribe focuses on healing the avatar.
Zuko is advised for continued peace to have an arranged marriage outside the fire nation. The best option is a the child of the chief of the southern tribe. Katara is in love with Aang and is heartbroken, but will do her duty for her people. Sokka finds a loophole that they can carefully and craftily exploit.
Aka they lie. They lie so hard and Sokka becomes the one betrothed to Fire Lord Zuko. He is sure there will be no consequences to the plan. Certainly not going to fall in love with the man he is lying to. At all. Nope indeedy, no love on the menu. Dang it.
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After the Blue Spirit frees the Avatar from the Pohuai Stronghold, Admiral Zhao captures Prince Zuko under suspicion of treason. Isolated from his Uncle and his crew, Zuko has only one ally: the chatty prisoner one cell over.
Series
- Part 1 of Birds of a Phoenix Feather
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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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Dragon!Zuko AU where Zuko is the only dragon and this causes so much chaos. Inspired by @muffinlance and all the dragon crazy.
Part 1: A Dragon Child's Instinct - Mostly Azula POV of the strange things Zuko did as a child and how that affected their relationship.
Part 2: A Dragon's Cry to Agni - The Agni Kai
Part 3: A Dragon's Instinct - The main story which should cover most of the banishment period before Aang returns.
Part 4: A Dragon's Sky - Zuko and his attempts to wrangle an Avatar into a force capable of helping defeat Ozai and the mess that happens because of that. The second main story of the series.
Part 5: A Dragon's Ending - The Epilogue
I have no idea how long this series will go or how long it will take to finish. But it will take a long time. I'm a slow writer after I use up the initial creativity burst but please stick with me through it all.
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