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The Ugly Years Of Being A Fool by ecslipse
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
19 Dec 2025
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Zuko is trying. He really is.
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In the order; Zuko has a mental breakdown. Tries to ignore the reality and convinces himself of lies. Later tries to have a talk with Captain Jee but misunderstands everything because of his social constipation. And he tries to do ninja moves even though he can barely walk properly. Did I mentioned he stealed from the pirates?
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- Part 3 of Seasons In The Sun
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- English
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- 5,340
- Chapters:
- 1/2
- Kudos:
- 3
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Various Azula-centric AU/Post-Canon concepts by ThePrincessRegent
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
19 Dec 2025
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A dumping ground for concepts/ideas regarding Azula-centric ATLA AUs that I don't have time to fully develop (at least for now), including AUs based off my fics like Red Water, Azure Flame.
This is a spontaneous dump of writing (some of which will be copied from replies to comments of my own fics). If you'd like to write/draw something based on any of my ideas, just credit me for inspiration first. I'm always open to talking about any of these.
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Embers in the Ashes by matcha_misguided
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
18 Dec 2025
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When Prince Zuko was five, he would produce his first flames. Bright, roaring fire that licked at the walls of his bedroom as the curtains blazed, tearing through the crimson-colored furniture and burning the room to ash. His parents would find the young boy standing calmly in the center of the blaze, unmoved by the destruction and watching silently as his chambers perished.
Prince Zuko’s younger sister, Princess Azula, would only create her first flames four years later, at the age of seven. Much to her father’s disappointment.
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Exploring what it would've been like if Zuko were the prodigy instead of Azula.
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A young Prince Zuko tries on clothes with his mother. Nobody is a fan of Zuko's cape (except for himself). Shame is a hard thing to swallow, but he's still trying to keep his chin up.
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- Part 1 of How to Wield the Lightning Inside You
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Spirit touched is overrated by Autistic_Turtle_Duck8888
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
17 Dec 2025
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“Sooooo, now that you’re here does this mean you’ll teach me firebending?”
“YOU KIDNAPPED ME!!!!!”
Or: Instead of capturing the avatar spirit touched Zuko says fuck you and runs off to become the blue spirt, perfect content with spending his days sabotaging the fire nation
Until the Gaang kidnaps him to become Aang’s firebending teacher, of course
Rated teen for swearing
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Red Water, Azure Flame by ThePrincessRegent
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
11 Dec 2025
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Katara Waterbends in front of Yon Rha before Kya can sacrifice herself.
Rather than killing the child, the Southern Raiders ensure she is shipped to the Fire Nation palace dungeon, far from snow and moonlight.Three weeks later, a clever, ambitious royal with a habit of sneaking around grandfather’s palace overhears that the last Southern Waterbender has been brought to her permanent cell. She sneaks into the dungeon at night, attempting to see the prisoner for herself. Yet, instead of finding an embittered warrior, all Princess Azula sees is a girl her age, scared and alone.
Her perspective on the Hundred-Year War is fundamentally changed forever.
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Different sides of the same coin by Idontknowhowivesurvivedlife
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
25 Nov 2025
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In a different world, zuko is forced to fight his little sister.
In a different world, azula has to watch her big brother betray and leave her.
This is not that world.Heavily inspired by many other fics with similar characterisations of azula and zuko.
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All on my own (it's how it's always has been) by Sunrise22
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
19 Nov 2025
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Azula is not staying in the 'rehabilitation center' Zuzu decided to lock her in. She is planning an escape, and has almost everything figured out, so there's no question she will make it out of there in no time.
Things start to complicate when her usually sharp mind decides it's time to think about useless things.
Useless, pathetic things she doesn't ever care anymore.
She can endure it, and when she gets out she can find a way to make those voices stop once and for all. Once she gets out of the facilities, her mind will not play any more tricks to her.
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They grew up in the same house but in different worlds, united only by a shared past full of pain. Zuko, who managed to build a new life, and Azula, broken by their father's cruelty and driven to the brink of madness. When their paths cross again, Zuko faces a difficult choice—to walk away or to try and reach out to the one he once considered his greatest enemy.
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I am his favorite daughter by sparkystar26888
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
04 Oct 2025
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She was always broken, when Azula took a look back.
Her father loved her for it, though. Loved everything she did.
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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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Complete genocide is harder than most people think, even harder when spirits decide to poke their nose into mortal business.
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In-Laws and Shitty Ex’s (Are worse than you think) by Stonesniffer43
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
19 Aug 2025
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Ursa visits Ozai in prison like in the comics, except this time it’s Ozai asking the big questions such as what the fuck has Iroh been doing since Azulon’s death and who the hell is advising their boy king son. Purely for his own amusement of course.
Ursa gets concerned.
Iroh is also concerned (for entirely different reasons)
Zuko Zukos about, it doesn’t do anyone any good
I’m pretty sure I'm meant to say that i don’t own ALTA somewhere, whether I should say it here or in the notes is anyone’s guess
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Something Entirely New by Vespera_The_Evening_Star
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
13 Aug 2025
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“I…. I’m sorry uncle. Just please-” His voice cracked on that word, oozing with emotion, “-leave me alone. I don’t want to be mad..”
The ‘at you’ part of the sentence hung in the air wordlessly and he closed his eyes letting his head hang. For a moment the air was still before it filled with the soft patters of Uncle leaving before it merged with the waves beating against the ship.
“He knows something troubles you.” Kyoshi said. He could feel her gaze boring into his flesh. He let himself slide down the door feeling drained.
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Zuko was born the avatar unbeknownst to the world and himself. But he knows there is something strange about him. Especially when some tall Green lady, in face paint follows him (How come no one seems to see her?)
Oh and probably when his mother freaked out about him bending water.
But everything fine.
Its perfectly fine.
He's just... something entirely new. :)
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Why does NO ONE acknowledge that Azula saved Zuko when she didn’t need to? by orphan_account
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
05 Aug 2025
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So the canon writers did everything they could to portray Azula as a villain underserving of compassion or redemption.
But in order for precious Zuko to thrive, Azula had to save him from Azulon and Ozai.
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What if Azulon was given Ursa’s treacherous letter? by orphan_account
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
02 Aug 2025
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Azulon never forgave his second son for killing his mother with his birth. However, he doesn’t believe that his son should be forced to keep a traitorous wife.
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Sometimes blood runs thicker than water (but don't worry darling, you will be air's child) by dissociatedghostonthestreet
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
28 Jul 2025
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In another life, the avatar awoke one hundred years after the war began, when the last waterbender of the southern tribe broke the glacier that held him captive, freeing him from his prison. In another world, the first thing he saw after a hundred years of confinement was the face of the same girl who freed him and his brother. This is not that life.
In this world, the glacier broke seventeen years earlier. What came out of it was less a human and more a spirit.
(Or where Aang wakes up earlier with memories of another world and decides to give his friends a better childhood, starting with Zuko.)
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- Part 1 of Air's childrens
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Canonically Ursa was an IDIOT by orphan_account
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
23 Jul 2025
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She knew she was in a precarious situation yet still intentionally and unintentionally screwed over her children.
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When a member of the Royal Family is born, their future is read by a Fire Sage.
So when a baby's future threatens the future of an entire nation, is one life worth more than millions?
Ursa thinks so.
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A flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long by ECLIP_SE
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
21 Jul 2025
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Where azula finds out that her Blue Fire is killing her after getting betrayed at Boiling rock.