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After obliterating the Air Nomads, Fire Lord Sozin - in an attempt to locate the Avatar - leads an effort to colonize the South Pole.
100 years later, Katara and Sokka of the South Sozin Colony find him frozen in an iceberg.
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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.
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Uncle Iroh took a more creative approach to fostering Zuko's appreciation of other cultures. Now it's everyone's Problem. -
The Spirit Tale of Fire Lord Ozai by Bored_Commehter
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
29 Oct 2025
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When La demands justice for Tui's favored mortal, Agni proposes a compromise and spirits become more active in the world of man.
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Fire Lord Zuko finds himself entangled in the spirits' schemes. He has been stripped of everything -- including his name -- except for the golden flame that adorns his head and the throne from which he guides his country. He... has a lot he needs to process, and even more to do.
Freedom of Association: The author is Christian and American conservative. Readers are free to be whatever they please.
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- Part 1 of Spirit Tales by the Sun and Sea
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After being kidnapped by pirates, Prince Zuko is freed by two Water Tribesmen who don't believe he is actually the Fire Prince.
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A brutal counteroffensive on the Day of Black Sun alters the trajectories of Zuko and Katara's fates, changing their lives forever.
This work delves deeply into the world of Avatar, staying true to much of the source inspiration while taking liberties so as to age it up and break down so many of those amazing themes and questions brought up in the show. Specific focus on trauma, guilt, and PTSD; on the moral gray area that war creates and the inevitability of having to do the hard thing over the right thing. Early chapters set the framework, but later chapters are some of my best writing.
Sprawling, long-form character study (mainly 3rd person, with 1st person flashbacks).
Rated M (read tags). Ignore AO3—work first published in August 2022.
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- Part 1 of When Water Burns
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Destiny is a funny thing. A split-second decision results in Zuko being injured during the escape from Pohuai Stronghold. Aang is determined to turn an enemy into a friend and, despite their doubts, Sokka and Katara find themselves also starting to better understand their erstwhile pursuer. For Katara and Zuko, this new understanding could even lead to something more.
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nobody can save me by pansexualnotmansexual
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
26 Oct 2025
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This fic begins shortly after Zuko’s coronation. A team of doctors and healers are sent to the Fire Nation to look after the health of Team Avatar, including a therapist. As Zuko’s mental health plummets, the Gaang urges him to seek help. An almost-assassination and a suicide attempt send Zuko spiraling, oscillating between "okay" and "not okay."
This fic is an exploration of bipolar disorder and its impact on Zuko, as well as the ones around him.
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- Part 1 of The Rise and Fall of a Bipolar Fire Lord
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Sokka’s days in Ba Sing Se begin to blur together, but everything changes when one day fate (in the form of an angry ostrich horse) drops him into the mysterious Five-Seven-Five club. On the surface the club is dedicated to the art of haiku, but they may be more connected to the war than it initially seems.
To find a way to contribute to the war effort Sokka will need to learn the secrets of Ba Sing Se, but he can't seem to shake the mysterious Blue Spirit.
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Being an Omega, Zuko never had much choice or freedom. Even in Banishment his life is chosen for him. Zuko was soon sailed back to the Fire Nation for a marriage with the now Admiral Zhao.
Zuko has to survive this marriage just like he survived his two years in banishment.
But will it work?
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Zuko is trying his best, he really is, but it's hard when the whole world is working against him.
At least he has uncle. And his crew. And the Avatar.
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Your honor, they're married by fanfictionforeverxx
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
23 Oct 2025
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Zuko's recent fall from grace with his father causes him to crash at Sokka's place for a night. (it lasts far longer than that)
Zuko is Sokka's best friend and has been in love with Sokka ever since...well forever. (Sokka is deep in the denial trenches)
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Zuko is an idiot who can't cope with being in love with the first time. It doesn't help that Sokka's just...Sokka
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coats and courting by SyciaraLynx for Julessongs
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
22 Oct 2025
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Zuko had spent far too much of his summer dealing with an ever increasing worry about a new roommate.
Suki had warned him early enough at least, and had even gone out of her way to set him up with someone to sublet her room while she was gone for the year studying abroad, but it did nothing to quell the constant concern.
Dragons are not known for their ability to adjust easily.
Or: Dragon Zuko gets a new roommate, and totally definitely does not develop a big fat crush on him.
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❝I want to tell you the tale of a girl frozen in ice and time, of how she⎯and her friends⎯were able to save this world, and bring balance back to us all...❞
━ in which a young airbender falls in love with a boy from a water tribe during a century long war.
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[ꜰᴏʟʟᴏᴡꜱ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀᴛʟᴀ ᴛɪᴍᴇʟɪɴᴇ]
{ꜱᴏᴋᴋᴀ x ꜰᴇᴍᴀʟᴇ ᴏᴄ}
[ꜱᴇᴀꜱᴏɴꜱ ᴏɴᴇ - ᴛʜʀᴇᴇ]Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6POwinLiyZPLawFKpZLGiP?si=twMkrJpWSFCizlbpuKWvJg
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Pancakes and Milkshakes While Shit-Talking About your Exes by ziezii
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
22 Oct 2025
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Walking back to the very place she'd been avoiding like a plague was very daunting for Katara. But, she really needed something sweet to make up her rather bitter night.
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Where The Fire And The Water Dance by Justice_4_Eliza
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
21 Oct 2025
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This is a fanfic passed of Pinterest pins I found and a delusional idea.
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Day 21 New Discovery by Calliope_Chrysanthemum
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
21 Oct 2025
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The Gaang discovers that Zuko is ticklish.
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- Part 21 of Calliope's Tickletober 2025
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"(Because, it seems, General Iroh of the Fire Nation could escape death at Ba Sing Se, but even he had to reunite with his son eventually.)
Iroh is dead."
Zuko's pattern of grief, as he discovers more about himself, his husband, their daughter, and most importantly how to keep living after his uncle's death.
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Zuko loathes the man up on the Fire Lord's throne. Who burned him and looked down upon him. Whatever happens, he will not end up like him. He refuses to become a mad man, a horrible tyrant that Ozai is, and despises how he had driven his mother away due to paranoia and obsessiveness. Zuko won't become the person his mother feared him to be.
But then... Katara arrives. His precious, lovely soulmate. An enemy of their kingdom, a girl who comes from a dying tribe. Someone who he's willing to burn the world for just as his father had done countless times for Ursa.
He prays for his mother's forgiveness, even if that won't do as much good. They're the same after all.
Zuko's his father's child.
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The Aftermath of that Awful Play by Makoto_flower
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar: The Last Airbender (Live Action TV 2024), zutara - Fandom
19 Oct 2025
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What if Katara actually told her friends about Aang kissing her?
Flames curled around the firepit, illuminating everyone's faces, dancing lines across their skin. Silence was in the air, the crackling from the burning embers almost echoed against the house behind them.
Katara was conflicted, glaring into the flames. Not only did the play highlight her in the worst way possible, target all of her insecurities at once, but it also caused the most uncomfortably awkward moment between her and Aang. Said boy now sat across from her, his grey eyes burning into her skin. She pretended not to notice, her gaze permanently glued to the flames.
(My take on The Boy in the Iceberg!)
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- Part 1 of The Aftermath Series
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Sokka is captured by the Fire Nation just as Ba Sing Se falls. Due to be executed on Fire Lord Ozai’s orders, Zuko steps in and claims Sokka as his war prize, taking him as his First Consort.
It’s not a match made in heaven, but more of a fight to the finish line. Sokka wants to be free and Zuko wants to take down Ozai. Neither of them know if the Avatar lives, but they need to work together if they want to succeed.
There’s just the small matter of both of them having to convince the Fire Nation court that they are lovers, rather than mortal enemies…