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Zuko adopts some Turtleduck ducklings when he returns home after three years away.
This changes more than he would like to admit.
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How to Dance in Ba Sing Se by backstage_autorin
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar: Legend of Korra
10 Oct 2025
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After a semester of online classes while recovering from an injury that left him with a facial scar and eye damage, Zuko starts his first semester at Ba Sing Se University. In his first class, he meets Sokka, who recruits him for an on-campus theatre club. This story follows Zuko as he prepares for the show at the end of the semester, while adjusting to his new life away from Ozai, dealing with ghosts of his past, and navigating new situations with the support of his uncle and his new friends.
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The Scars of Faded Flames by I_make_shit_up
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
30 Sep 2025
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Zuko doesn't know what would have happened if he'd stayed. Maybe his father would have humiliated him further maybe he would have changed his mind (unlikely), but whatever choice he would have made Zuko made it for him. A person can only take so much before they break after all and waking up alone and in pain was the final straw for the 13 year old boy. He's lucky he ended up where he did.
3 years after the Agni Kai that left him blind and deaf on the left side of his face Zuko lives as the adopted nephew of a small town's healer. The villagers have long stopped caring about the fire dancing over his finger tips since he's proved he only uses it to brew their medicine.
Lee has no desire to be dragged back into his father's war, but what can he do when he's the only firebender in the Earth Kingdom that the avatar he was once tasked with hunting down can hope to learn from? -
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Azula, former Princess of the Fire Nation, left the Palace three years ago in order to build up an alliance and take her father down, once and for all. But the world is changing - the Avatar's arrival is both a blessing and a curse, and with him comes a risk she might not be willing to take. Meanwhile, in a Nation more fragmented than ever, Zuko will do everything to cut off his weakness and folllow Ozai's orders - but he doesn't know if he can kill Azula.
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“It’s always a pleasure to watch destiny unfold."
Azula sighed, “Destiny will not win a war, Uncle. This is the result of all out hard work.”
“Ah, but just as we cannot control the skies and seas, sometimes we cannot control the path our lives take.”
“Tell me, Uncle. Do the tides control the ship, or do I?”
Uncle laughed, “Point made. Lead on, my niece, but be wary of incoming storms.”
For a moment, the world was still, and something tense settled on her shoulders. But she shook it off.
She had the Avatar, and soon she’d have the North.
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- Part 2 of Lily White, Poppy Red
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Cold Flame and Storm Spirits (Or, hey look these other children are like us!!!) by Starstealingowl
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
27 Sep 2025
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Ursa goes into labor on a cold, moonless night. A storm rages outside, and the air feels alive with lightning. Her labor lasts two days, and when she looks down at her baby, her heart stops. He’s deathly pale and as silent as the grave. His eyes are terrifyingly bright, a pale yellow-green only found in lightning, and his hair is as white as ash.
Four years later, her second child is born. Her labor is just as long, the storm just as wild, and this baby is born with the same white hair and electric eyes, this time a chilling blue.
Neither of them seem human.
Half a world away and ten years later, Kya prays desperately to Tui and La with her last breath. They respond in the most unusual of ways.
In the aftermath of the raid, Katara's eyes turn pure white, and she never sleeps. She watches the stars, singing old, old songs that are only half remembered. Sokka spends more and more time out on the ocean, and swears he can talk to the sea life. It's only a mild shock when they both begin growing gills.
Half a world away from that, Toph runs away for the first time, and finds that she's much stronger than anyone gives her credit for. Much, much stronger.
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Sokka is in his third year of college and feeling lonely when he meets Zuko, a barista at the tea shop his sister has been bugging Sokka to come to. Zuko is a barista by day and the city of Ba Sing Se’s one and only vigilante, the Blue Spirit, by night. Angry at the world and terrible at making friends, he has no idea what to make of the bright eyed comedian who wanders into his life.
Mai is best friend to two siblings who hate each other and does not get paid enough (she doesn’t get paid at all) for the emotional labor she does for the two idiots she most cares for.
Azula’s dreams are filled with fire.
Tea gets consumed, romance ensues, and everyone is traumatized!
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light a fire they can't put out by GuardianKarenTerrier
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
10 Sep 2025
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Iroh accepts, mournfully, that it's going to be a long, long time before Zuko ever feels safe again. If Zuko ever feels safe again. Because of that, because Iroh thinks he already knows the reason for his nephew's silence, he doesn't look closer at just how quiet Zuko has been since waking.
Iroh should have noticed.
He wonders, later, if this, too, is his fault. If something he said while his nephew was still drifting, barely aware of his surroundings, had struck deeper than he meant it to. If even something as simple as a well-meant shh, Zuko, shh had a hand in this.
If Iroh had somehow taken his original mistake and deepened it, rather than trying to make up for it.
(If this is the shape of the scar that Iroh left on his nephew).
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The Dragon of Tui Avenue by thedistortedeye
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
09 Sep 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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Zuko looks like a rabbit, hopping from flower to flower, reading information he probably knows by heart and inspecting petals, pistils and stems around the greenhouse. Sokka follows him, fascinated by the beauty of a world he doesn’t quite understand yet.
And the flowers look pretty too.
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If there was anything Zuko wanted more than his fathers approval, it was nothing.
So when Ozai’s touches began to linger, eyes began to wander, Zuko decided he would do anything to keep his father’s attention, to be loyal beyond a doubt at any expense necessary.
Even himself.
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'Katara levels her gaze at him and gives him a distrusting frown. “Zuko.”
Zuko gives her a weak smile, “I don’t expect you to trust me. It’s okay. My people have hurt you. I've hurt you.”
Katara frowns, “Let me speak.”'
Zuko gets a much-needed confrontation about how he treated Katara and Sokka in the past.
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One Hundred Years ago Firelord Sozin declared war against the other nations, and when the people looked for the Avatar to fight for order; he vanished. Until now no one knew whether the past Avatar was dead, alive, or surviving through the element cycle, while Crown Prince Zuko may not want to, he’s the Avatar and he’ll have to fight against his family, his nation, and his own being in order to create peace in the world.
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i'm still here (but all is lost) by hesitantskeleton
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
13 Aug 2025
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The throne room holds a kind of gravity to it, like the Southern Air Temple, like Hama’s home. It’s seen the destruction of generations, of cultures, of people and property and locations and hope.
And now, the throne sits, bare and waiting for a person who does not exist. Uncle Iroh cannot take the throne without challenging Ozai as he was formally abdicated months ago. Ozai is too weak to fight. His challenge to the throne will have to wait, but he also has no living relatives, no sons or daughters or step-children to continue the royal line. He’s too old to produce children. Sokka doesn’t know whether Uncle Iroh will ascend to the throne. He doesn’t know if he respects this choice, or if it’s a weakness.
The throne is bare. There’s a very real possibility that this is how it will remain.
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or, in which zuko is imprisoned after the agni kai and was thought to be dead. Only two people knew of his survival. team avatar must find an heir to the throne before it's too late, but how do you find someone who doesn't exist? -
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Years after their on-and-off relationship came to an end, Mai and Zuko unexpectedly find themselves attending the same college.
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the embers of siblings by KingOfNations
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
07 Aug 2025
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Zuko was 2 years old when he met his baby sister.
They got along well, at first.
But soon, all that would change.
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The Tale of the Turtleduck Theatre Troupe by backstage_autorin
Fandoms: Avatar: Legend of Korra, Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
26 Jul 2025
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Kiyi created the Turtleduck Theatre Troupe in memory of her late parents. When she expands it to Republic City, she recruits Zuko and Bolin to help (Zuko because he's her brother; Bolin because she's seen the NukTuk movers). While working the registration table, they meet a student who needs some extra help and inadvertently helps them figure out something about themselves.
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Firelord Zuko is starting to crack under the pressure.
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Zuko gets to go a little bit crazy, as a treat
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Flames are Best Buried in the Snow by staryy_confusion
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
30 May 2025
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Given an opportunity Ozai sends Zuko to the Northern Watertribe as a gift of goodwill so that they would remain neutral. He expects zuko would remain imprisoned or die from execution or exposure. Unexpectedly the North’s royal family takes him in, raising him as Yue’s brother. It isn’t until years later that the North reconsiders their neutrality when the Avatars group arrive. Zuko is faced with the opportunity to return home or remain loyal to his newfound family.
Mostly focused on Zuko and Yue’s relationship and Northern Water Tribe Culture and world building. Zukka is introduced in later chapters. Some Yukka although it is one sided.
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I love you! Was that a good take? by orphan_account
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
09 Apr 2025
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This was such a bad idea. Why had he ever agreed to Aang's stupid invite to cast hangout? How is he supposed to explain now, to the press, his father, his sister and her friends that he has a somewhat stable social life?
His career is done for. He's going to end up selling his body and doing whatever actors do when they fall out of grace.
Without having proof of being a weirdo, all of the parasocial relationships he'd worked so hard to build are going to shatter like glass!
Well, at least there's this really cute guy in the... 'Gaang'—or whatever it's called—that he can respectfully look at and act totally sane around.OR
Zuko has 99 mental illnesses and is banned from most public spaces except filming studios and the red carpet but, it's ok because the Gaang will adopt him.
Sokka is going to explode because, why are all hot people either gay, mentally upset, or both?!
im not promising to ever get past chapter one. It depends if my level of projection ever gets tuff. Heh...i cant even anymore with myself bruh.
Theres literally no romance yet and no one makes an appearance YET except Zuko and Aang 😿
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It’s Unbecoming (Podfic Ver) by GoddamTurmip
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
06 Mar 2025
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[THIS IS A NON-COMPLETE PODFIC VERSION, IF YOU WISH TO READ THE FIC THEN THE ORIGINAL IS ON MY ACCOUNT. 2/11 CHAPTERS VOICED]
If there was anything Zuko wanted more than his fathers approval, it was nothing.
So when Ozai’s touches began to linger, eyes began to wander, Zuko decided he would do anything to keep his father’s attention, to be loyal beyond a doubt at any expense necessary.
Even himself.