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In which Azula falls, realising her place in the world.
In a world where someone catches her and helps her build a new one.After being assumed dead due to injury, Azula is found by a prisoner escaping from the Boiling Rock. Together, they escape and try to heal. Will ghosts from their pasts stop them from building a life together, or will their changes render them unrecognizable?
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You and I are what our Dreams are made of by quirkybestfriend
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
09 Nov 2025
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They had no idea when things started changing between them. Maybe it was instantaneous- like lava meeting water, hardening in an instant with a furious hiss of ember and steam.
Or perhaps it was the little things - reading Fire Nation plays by the turtleduck pond as the setting sun painted the water gold, stories and legends traded like treasures beside a crackling fire in the unending night of the South Pole.
Or it was in the whispered tales of mothers and siblings and uncles and gran grans - each shared word a delicate thread pulling them closer and closer.
No matter how one thing was sure- they were no longer strangers, a thorn in each other's paths. Neither friends nor foes, neither warm nor cold but something in between. Somehow, somewhere along the way, in their dreams and only in their dreams, Katara and Zuko found each other.
In other words - Katara and Zuko start meeting each other in their dreams and shenanigans ensue.
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Fire in my veins; Heart between my lungs by Stardust948
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), FireBreather (2010)
08 Nov 2025
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Zuko Kaji seems to be your avenger loner teenager with an overprotective mother and trouble fitting in at school. But after getting attacked by a bully, Zuko accidently reveals his secret.
He can breathe fire.
As both dragon and human, Zuko is destined to take on a crucial role in the impending war between humans and dragons. His father, the infamous Dragon King Ozai, demands Zuko joins rank with the dragons as his heir, but Zuko cannot ignore his human side either.
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- Part 8 of Fire Family AUs
- Part 17 of Rewrite The Stars
- Part 14 of ATLA G/T
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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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Turns out the fire lord ended the war a while ago. Woops by LeenosBreadNDough
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
06 Nov 2025
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Zuko is firelord and had ended the war a while ago, the gAang doesnt know.
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"Are you..." Zuko rasps out and the man instantly snaps his mouth shut - finally stopping his hysteric rambling with it. He must be surprised that Zuko is coherent enough to say anything at all and he leans forward to fully capture the rest of Zuko's slurred words. "... trying to hit on me while I'm bleeding out on your carpet?"
The man gives him a bewildered look. "... I have hardwood floors. That's a towel."
___Or: Zuko tries to find ways to deal with his fucked up life - like knitting, smoking, being an asshole in general, moonlighting as a vigilante - you know, regular stuff - he just never accounted for meeting Sokka.
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Son Of Light, Daughter Of Darkness by MuseForYou
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
05 Nov 2025
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Katara is eighteen, avoiding an arranged marriage to the only man her age in the South Pole she’s not related to, and stumbles upon a man freezing in the ice.
He’s been abandoned by whatever ship he sailed on and has no memory of where he comes from, who he is, or why he has stunning gold eyes when everyone else in the South Pole has gorgeous blue.
Even though he makes her heart flutter like nothing else before, Katara has a duty to her people. The neighboring tribe’s proposal would ensure her village survives the brutal winter, but she cannot stand her betrothed. Meanwhile, the stranger with amnesia needs to prove his worth to the village if he doesn’t want to be exiled for the sin of having the wrong eye color.
They strike a deal. Help each other provide for the town, and he’ll get to stay until he remembers who he is, and Katara can avoid her marriage—at least for one more year.
But after a year together, fighting to survive the cold, how will they face his memories coming to the surface when someone else is found in the ice?
(AKA this is a slightly aged up gaang. Zuko has amnesia, lives in SWT for a year, and then joins the gaang early for the events of the show. Zutara-centric.)
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The cycle is broken. Yet, water and fire meets. Steam is the consequence. Cupid watches.
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AU where Ozai wins and Katara is forced to marry Zuko. ZUTARA FIC
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before the ashes in my wake by karotone
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
05 Nov 2025
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“Fire Lord Zuko,” the guard says, gasping for breath between words. Zuko nods twice. “We’ve gotten reports that our food storage in the woods — the large one — was burned by disputants. Nearby guards had asked to call for you immediately.”
Zuko sways. Of course something like this would happen as soon as he tries to take a break. The guard notices his hesitation and speaks again.
“We think the attacker might be Princess Azula, My Lord.”
Zuko sighs.
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Or, Azula and Zuko meet again, and Azula tries to be a little better.Series
- Part 1 of burn and heal
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The Gaang, Zuko, and Iroh have finally made it across the arid desert and to the great walled city of Ba Sing Se.
However, within the walls of the Earth Kingdom's largest city, things are not as idylic as they would appear, and they face challenges that they never considered.
In addition to secret police, fire nation drills, and worst of all, politics, they will run into friends and foes both old and new, including some faces that they never wanted to see again.
In the midst of all this, they will try to contact the King of the city, and hopefully find Appa.
Hopefully without adding to already tragic backstories (not likely).Series
- Part 17 of Always trust Sokka's instincts
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Katara felt like she was waking up from a long slumber, one of those that grace you once in a lifetime, where your muscles feel stiff after lying motionless for a long time and yet your mind indulgently asks for some more time. This was funny considering she didn’t remember sleeping for more than 2 hours in day because while healing Aang. As her consciousness returned slowly, she heard a weird murmuring sound.
It was a man's voice, a very deep raspy voice which murmured, "Come back to us, Katara. Come back to me." And was he holding her hand in a gentle grip? She slowly opened her eyes, squinting at the sudden light and then..... It was all red.
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A self indulgent tropey Zutara fanfiction collecting dust in my archives and inspired by the legendary ATLA fanfics which I have voraciously consumed over the last 10 years
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Waterbending Master, Healer and Ambassador Katara loses her memories of the last 8 years and learns to forgive and love Zuko all over again.
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- Part 2 of comics what comics?
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The Ways I've Changed by Teeny_Tyrant
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
03 Nov 2025
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Zuko has been having trouble sleeping because of a certain someone on his mind. Sokka tries to make up for it with having a movie night. While watching their movie Sokka admits something and Zuko has to start asking some clarifying questions.
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Remember Ember Island by sixtiescosmo
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
02 Nov 2025
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It's been 5 years since the war ended when Katara arrives in Caldera as the new ambassador of the Southern Water Tribe. Katara and Zuko haven't spent any real time together since his coronation, and neither of them knows how to act around the other.
It would be so easy just to consider themselves friends...if either of them had ever stopped thinking about what happened between them that one night on Ember Island.
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"So you take the knife to the wall instead. You carve and carve until a coin of light appears and you get to look in, at last, on happiness. The eye staring back from the other side—waiting." — Ocean Vuong, Torso of Air
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When Mai gets a call in the dead of the night from Zuko's uncle about how Zuko hasn't come home since the end of the school day and their breakup, her mind doesn't automatically assume kidnapping. She doesn't think anyone could be capable of making Zuko disappear.
But then she finds Zuko's shoe hidden in a dirty curb, and she wishes for once that she was wrong.
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Katara strikes a deal with a Spirit to help find out his unfinished business after he saves her from a demon. Easy, right? Only, Zuko isn't sure what his unfinished business is. Zuko's not even sure how he became a spirit. The longer that they get to know each other, the more Katara is uncertain if she can handle finding out.
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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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Turtle Ducks and Otter Penguins by starfreak
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
02 Nov 2025
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Sokka was jealous, yeah. One of his best friends and his sister went to go visit his favorite place in the world and his favorite person without him. And here he was, stuck babysitting the damn pets.
Speaking of-- where was Momo?
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In other words; this is a modern AU where Sokka and Aang are roommates, Aang's cat Momo escapes the apartment, which causes Sokka and Zuko to meet. Then Zuko's family learns of the friendship between Zuko and Sokka, and they make it their life's mission to make Zuko miserable. -
The Diary of a Prince by Peterparkersmask
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
01 Nov 2025
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Dearest, Zuko
I found this book in an earth kingdom shop and my mind couldn’t help but fly straight to you. I know you love literature and stories greatly, so why don’t you write your own? Tell me how you see the world, what adventures you get into, the connections you make!
-Uncle Iroh
OR! Iroh gifts Zuko a journal as a kid and Zuko writes a story. (Zuko’s journey told through diary entries)
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A New Throne For the Era by Ghost_Guard_13
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
01 Nov 2025
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With Zuko taking the throne after a hundred years of war, the leaders of each nation are invited to the Fire Nation to restore balance and discuss the healing of their world.
Not everyone is so willing to change.
Or; Hakoda goes to the Fire Nation, General Fong doesn't trust Zuko, Zuko tells them why he was banished, and Zuko gains a proper father figure AND a boyfriend.
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Each of them get fruit during some part of the time they spend with zuko before he becomes fire lord.
Zuko gets fruit too.