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i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart) by godsintheheadlights
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
21 Sep 2025
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"Huh," Sokka says, "That is weird."
A beat.
"Sokka," His Majesty Firelord Zuko, First of His Name, Treasured Child of Agni Incarnate says, very calmly, "What did you do?"
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Sokka and Zuko are a package deal.
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A slightly more realistic Zuko realizes what it means when Zhao tries to have him blown up and it changes his path completely. AU and possibly OOC for some characters.
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I will always be a safe haven by Herodotos
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
02 May 2025
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Zuko shows up at the Jasmine Dragon without warning, clearly looking like something is bothering him. Iroh doesn't know what it is, but he tries to pry it out of Zuko with a lot of love and tea.
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Zuko comes out to Uncle Iroh, while also getting advice about relationships and love.
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Sokka Embarrassing Himself by teavanaaa
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
25 Mar 2025
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Zuko's peaceful, isolated life is completely changed when a new neighbor moves in across the street.
He wanted to talk to Hot Neighbor, but it seemed like he was something of an introvert. The only person Sokka had seen at the guy's house was an older man with a dope-ass beard, who was likely a relative. And also, Sokka had embarrassed himself in so many ways in front of this guy. He probably thought Sokka was a lunatic.
So, Sokka resolved that for the entirety of his lease, he could not talk to the Hot Neighbor. It would be too humiliating. So, instead, he would just keep smiling and waving, and maybe one day, the neighbor would, for some bizarre reason, decide to talk to Sokka.
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When Burnt Children Still Love The Fire by lizziegrace970
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
22 Jul 2024
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Shinriki Iroh has not spoken to his family in nine years. Almost a decade since he was forced to leave his niece and nephew with a monster he once called ‘brother’. That all changes with a single phone call.
When Iroh gets a phone call saying that Ozai lost custody of his children, Iroh takes in his nephew, Zuko, whom he hasn't seen in nine years. Iroh tries his best to help the poor boy, but there's only so much he can do. Between Zuko adjusting to a new way of life without pain, Ozai's upcoming trial, a psychotic sister, and Zuko's rapidly declining mental health, it might be more than Zuko can handle.Or...
After years of being in Ozai's abusive home, Uncle Iroh takes in Zuko, and Zuko discovers things about his mental health that will make things change forever.
(NOT ABANDONED. I PLAN TO UPDATE THIS FIC.)
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the last airbender short stories by Foxybro (orphan_account)
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Avatar: Legend of Korra
08 Apr 2024
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short story ideas I had that couldn’t be made into big fics so i decided to compile them into a massive fic for all of you to enjoy, they range from romance to humor. will take a while to complete the list, i’ll take requests as well!
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- Part 1 of avatar related things!
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the atlantic was born today - a zukka letter fic by twinklestarchild
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
30 Mar 2024
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zuko and sokka exchange letters from across the world
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"He's going to kill you." Azula's voice rings out from the shadows. "He told father that he needs to feel the pain of losing a son." She steps forwards, her face stoic but her eyes wild. "I won't let him."
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Azula and Zuko are closer, Lu Ten lives, and is declared their babysitter. -
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After his duel, Zuko had fled to the Earth Kingdom where he has been living for the past 3 years, living as a farmer and a healer after being adopted by a nice Earth Kingdom family, presumed dead by the Fire Nation when disappearing while injured, giving Iroh a chance to keep Azula from staying loyal to her father. Given a chance to heal & find people who genuinely care about him with no ties or loyalty to his father, he is able to be saved from growing bitter and jaded after years of failing at a mission. Using his alias as The Blue Spirit as a healer who has learned to use firebending to heal as opposed to as a thief and assassin, he is able to influence views on firebending from both the Earth Kingdom and Water Tribes as wells as firebenders themselves. He comes across the Gaang in the harbor town he has been living in, connecting with them as a healer who still remembers how to fight from what his life used to be, joining their cause before they even reach the Northern Water Tribe.
This is a series, I have posted a summary at the end of the 1st part if you don't want to read Zuko's recovery arc. I would suggest reading it, but it isn't plot heavy and I'm not here to tell you how to live your life.
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- Part 2 of Home Is Where The Hearth Is
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Jet, Sokka and Zuko somehow end up in the same cell. Jet's still reeling in hatred for 'Lee' and his lies; Sokka just wants to get out of the tiny hell room where the tension just continues to grow. Theres history with Jet he would rather forget.. and Zuko? Zuko's at his crossroad trying to figure out what he truly wants in life...
One thing Zuko knows for sure, even if he knew what he wanted, nobody wanted to have him around. Jet changed his mind the moment he figured out what he was. It was enough proof, wasn't it?Or
Lu Ten lives, Jet Lives.
Sokka, Jet and Zuko are somehow meant for each other but they all have their own shit to deal with. Nobody's perfect, but Fatherlord Ozai's still gotta go down, so they can survive this war. -
the hollow of your back to rest my cheek against by lelex for snowandfire
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
21 Jun 2023
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Sokka sighs against him, the slow and satisfied release of a breath held all day. Zuko isn’t sure what he gets from this, from holding him until they both fall asleep, but he shows up every night without fail. Has since he’s been back, even though Zuko never asked.
But he isn’t going to look a gift dragon moose in the mouth. Especially since he’s been sleeping better than he has in actual years.
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Being the Fire Lord isn't an easy job. But at least there's someone around to help Zuko through it.
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- Part 4 of 48 flash
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Zuko is a worry wart and Sokka is good with words.
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- Part 2 of the home universe
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facing the things we turn away from by Stillreadingfanfictbh
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
18 Jun 2023
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sokka and zuko were high school enemies (lovers), and they reunite all grown up years later.
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- Part 1 of the home universe
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A month after Zuko’s coronation as Fire Lord, Sokka leaves the Fire Nation with his family. When he returns, it’s been five years.
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Everyone gets some pining in this household.
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Jet had left the forests for Ba-Sing-Se in search of a new life, a normal life, and although the thoughts of domestic life scare him, he meets Li, an anxious, ill-tempered, and confined refugee, so if Li could suck it up, so could he. Besides, as long as Li is there he feels his life won't be as boring, especially since he feels as if Li was meant for so much more than the simple life of a refugee.
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- Part 1 of Alpha-Omega
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"The first time Zuko asked Azula to have dinner with him, things didn't go as he had hoped."
Or: When Zuko, prompted by Azula's doctor, agrees to invite his sister to dinner in order to bound with her, he realizes how complex the task is going to be.
Can love and trust arise from the ashes of hatred, rivalry and resentment?
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- Part 1 of Black Sun or the Taste of Ashes
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"I asked if you're okay," The guy replies.
"What? Yeah. Of course, I am. Why wouldn't I be?" Zuko scoffs, looking back to his empty coolant tank.
"Because it's like 3 am on a Thursday, and you're in a shady 7-11 parking lot with car trouble?" The guy responds sarcastically, moving to Zuko's right side.
Zuko is starting to get a little freaked out. Is this really how it ends for him? Why is this guy here? Why won't he leave?
Zuko turns to look at him again. They are about the same height. This guy seems a little bulkier than he is, but he could definitely take him in a fight.
"Yeah, and now there is a strange man talking to me," Zuko states, crossing his arms.
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A direct sequel to. "What we lost."
Zuko and Mai are now living a happy life in the earth kingdom as bounty hunters.
They are living their best life, are very much in love, and are deeply enjoying their newfound freedom.
What could possibly screw this up? Well, one day the unexpected happens and the Avatar returns after all.
An opportunity presents itself for Zuko. He can end his banishment after all. Mai though doesn't want to say goodbye to their happy life as bounty hunters. And then there is the fact that the Avatar might not even be the old nasty man Zuko thought he was.
Things get complicated.
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- Part 2 of The Firebirds
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Zuko hasn't been back to the South Pole since Aang first appeared from the iceberg, even though he and Sokka have been dating since the end of the war. But when Sokka asks him to travel there together for the Spring Equinox, Zuko decides he's finally ready to meet the rest of the Southern Water Tribe (for real this time.)
This was going to be the epilogue for a longer fic that I'm currently writing, but I've decided it doesn't quite fit how I want it to go, so I'm posting it as a one shot instead. (:
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Running With The Wolves by BlueEyedArcher for MysticPandora
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
21 Jun 2022
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“Li, table five needs your attention.” Pao urged him from behind the counter.
His heart climbed in his throat and thundered until his breath drew short. Panic crept like a tight band around his chest as bright blue eyes followed him the way a hawk tracks a meadow vole through the brush from its perch. It was a sensation Zuko rarely felt since he left the Fire Nation all those years ago. The feeling of being prey in someone else’s eyes. The feeling of being pinned to the spot, unable to force himself to move or breathe. He wanted to flee, to race out the back of the tea shop and rush back to the safety of their cramped tidy apartment and pretend the water tribesman had never even entered the shop, but it was too late. He was watching Zuko with expectancy.
Suddenly the carefully crafted life he had built here in Ba Sing Se was teetering daintily on crystal foundations. All it would take is one strike to topple it all until only the shattered remnants remained for him to cut himself on.
“I’m surprised to see you here.” The tribesman greeted warmly, his voice twisted up with an edge of amusement.