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Zuko is captured by the Dai Li in Ba Sing Se. While held in the darkest part of the Crystal Catacombs and certain all is lost, unexpected visitors arrive. Uneasy alliances are made and the motivations behind them are quickly tested. Zuko must fight to survive and heal, facing uncomfortable truths and lies, answering the big questions, and finally fighting his greatest enemy yet.
An end of Season 2 AU leading into Season 3.
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- Part 1 of Rising From the Catacombs
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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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Zuko is banished. Never to return to his Nation unless he does the impossible. But when Agni, Dragon of the Sun, gives Zuko a mission, he has a new purpose in life besides pretending to still be loyal to his father. With Azula playing defense at the palace, Zuko has the whole world to search for answers and the people who Agni says will be Champions of the Elements and help him restore balance to the world. He has his own secrets to keep while he's at it. With an uncle he can't trust and a crew of misfits on his side, can Zuko do the impossible and stop the war in time to save his people?
He's thirteen and the Spirit's have big plans for him. Is one teenage dragon enough to save the world?
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- Part 3 of A Dragon's Instinct
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fucking beautiful
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When Zuko arrives to demand Jun's tracking services, she drastically, catastrophically, misinterprets his intention of tracking down a Water Tribe girl using a betrothal necklace.
Jun decides to take matters into her own hands and punish him as she sees fit, unleashing a terrible cycle of hurt that rips open wounds both old and new.
(Very dark. Eventual healing. Follows Jun, Zuko, and Katara)
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Sometimes, Lu Ten really hates to be right.
He's always known Uncle Ozai was no good.
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Prince Zuko, a child of six years, discovers a strange person sitting at the turtle-duck pond one evening. It turns out, Fire Lord Azulon had summoned a war council meeting and therefore, his youngest son, the third prince was called back to the palace. When he sees Zuko for the first time, he immediately notices traces of mistreatment and begins to think how he could help.
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Ursa has given up her life at the palace to save Zuko. She enjoys her life at Hira'a with Noren. She was happy with her daughter Kiyi. She has yet to make amends with her eldest daughter.
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- Part 3 of Azula's end
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The Avatar and his friends offer Zuko freedom. Freedom from General Bujing. From the forced servitude of slavery. From the empty nothingness that had consumed his life.
He takes it even though he knows there has to be a cost (everything, even a life, has a cost).
And while he slowly accepts that the offer was made with no strings attached, his newfound freedom will not allow him to escape the fact that because of him Uncle Iroh is dead. And after months of suppression... so too is his firebending.
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- Part 2 of To Light a Fire
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Hakoda kills a Southern Raider. This backfires spectacularly. Zuko is just trying to keep four kids from dying while not being a traitor to his nation. Toph is concerned. Sokka finds himself rethinking everything he had previously considered the norm.
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Kuei orders all of the Fire Nation out of Ba Sing Se after Azula fails her coup. This has wider ramifications than he thought.
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Zuko taking care of kids 🥺🥺🥺 and other amazing things!
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Watching Memories and Avatar the Last Airbender by Ninjisitc_Tenshi
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
02 Aug 2022
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After rescuing Chit Sang, Hakoda, and Suki from Boiling Rock, the GaAng + others, are brought to an unknown location.
A mysterious female appears as well and informs them that they will be watching their past, present, and their future.
True personalities are revealed, friendships created and lost, father figures discovered, Iove is found?
Join them in this journey.- Language:
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"Scars are generally seen as a weakness. Especially for nobles. It’s unsightly.”
There’s a moment of dead silence in which almost all eyes turn to stare at the left side of his face. Zuko keeps his mouth firmly closed.
It’s Toph who breaks the tension. “Yeah, not to call your nation out or anything, Sparky, but you literally just said that you have a massive, blinding, and deafening scar on the side of your face. As the crown prince, that seems a little hypocritical of them.” Toph snarks.
AKA: An innocent comment about scars leads to Zuko spilling his Tragic Backstory, and the chaos that follows that particular revelation.
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Starlight Scars by ShootingFromAfar
Fandoms:Avatar: The Last Airbender
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No Archive Warnings Apply
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04 Aug 2021
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"Scars are generally seen as a weakness. Especially for nobles. It’s unsightly.”There’s a moment of dead silence in which almost all eyes turn to stare at the left side of his face. Zuko keeps his mouth firmly closed.
It’s Toph who breaks the tension. “Yeah, not to call your nation out or anything, Sparky, but you literally just said that you have a massive, blinding, and deafening scar on the side of your face. As the crown prince, that seems a little hypocritical of them.” Toph snarks.
AKA: An innocent comment about scars leads to Zuko spilling his Tragic Backstory, and the chaos that follows that particular revelation.
Language: English Words: 3,117 Chapters: 1/1 Collections: 1 Comments: 46 Kudos: 5,203 Bookmarks: 815 Hits: 45,417
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“I think he’s sick.” Bato says flatly. “So unless you want the next meeting to include the Fire Lord puking all over the budget scrolls, maybe see if he's okay?”
Hakoda glances up the hallway, like perhaps Katara will appear and take over dealing with the prickly teenager. Of course, his daughter is off treating injured refugees with the Avatar, and Bato is still staring at him expectantly, arms crossed.
“Fine,” He sighs, and he claps Bato on the cheek before heading into the room.
Or: Zuko falls ill not long after Ozai's defeat. Hakoda sits with him and learns some unpleasant truths about his childhood.
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Twilight Ember (Burning From Within) by Anonymous
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
14 Aug 2025
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Zuko was lucky to be born. Azula wasn't.
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For as long as he could remember, Zuko was the only child. And yet there she is, his stillborn sister, sharing his body, bending his fire with a skill he could never dream of, and refusing to be ignored. The court whispers. Father insists there can only be one. But Zuko isn't even sure it's a battle he wants to fight.____________
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What if Azula was born dead, but spirit shenanigans happened, and with time it becomes apparent that she and Zuko are sharing his body. If it's even really spirit shenanigans and not just Zuko going crazy, that is.- Language:
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Consume me with fire; flood me with desire by Dacamia
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
12 Nov 2020
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“You have to be sure, Katara. The way I feel… if you let me put my hands on you… I want you so much. I’ll consume you.”
Arousal shot through Katara like a lightning-bolt at his words. He felt it too, whatever that charged energy between them was. Even now, it thrashed within her like a wild thing.
Breathlessly, she said, “Touch me, please Zuko.”
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A whole canon rewrite where Katara and Zuko get to know each other MUCH better and earlier in the series. Featuring canon-divergences, angst and pining, fluff, and a whole lot of smut.
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The war was won. By the fire nation.
Ozai has crowned himself emperor of all four nations and enslaved millions in the process.
The Gaang is shattered. Katara is alone. Everyone she has ever loved is dead. There is no hope left, as Azula has wiped that out with her attack on the water tribes. The next Avatar will be a slave. And it is only a matter of time before they are found.
No one can hope to stand up to Ozai now. Can they? -
it's supposed to be fun, turning seventeen by Giacarem for Valian
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
24 Dec 2023
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"Zuko's birthday!" Aang called out. "Zuko, you didn't tell us it was your birthday? We would've celebrated!"
"It doesn't matter," Zuko said, his voice commanding, if not a bit squeaky. "I've never really celebrated my birthday, so it's not like I'm missing anything. Please, just pretend that this is a normal day."
Hopefully, they would forget all about his birthday.
… Hopefully.
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The Gaang find an old calendar among the mountain of memorabilia that Zuko is burning at the Ember Island holiday house and make a startling discovery.
Zuko, on the other hand, begins to believe they are hatching a plot to kill him.
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"Katara ran her thumb over the soft, raised skin around his injured eyed. She knew what he was thinking. It was only the scar that held him back, nothing else. If the scar was gone, so would be the pain."
It is storytime around Team Avatar's campfire, and everyone is curious about the tale behind Zuko's scar. But some memories are too painful to talk about.
AKA Zuko trusts Katara more than she thought.
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A collection of Zuko-centric one-shots that can be read independently with the exception of the ‘Flares’ series.
Fics mostly contain angst, hurt/comfort, whump, some humor, and of course the generic “The gaang finds out how Zuko got his scar”
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Zuko vs. Adults by WinterSnufkin
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
05 Mar 2025
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He gathered all his remaining strength and lept out of the wreck and onto the sand. He immediately started running for his life. The sand was warm and soft under his bare feet, usually an enjoyable sensation, but it made it hard to keep his footing and therefore his speed.
"Hey! That one's running away!", he heard one of the men scream and he saw in the corner of his eye that the two closest to him started their pursuit. He picked up his pace even more, although he could feel his lungs protesting. They were already tormented through the amounts of seawater he had swallowed while almost drowning and were not happy about the heavy exercise.
"Hey! Stop!", one of his followers screamed but Zuko didn't even think about it.
He could feel them closing in but he was almost at the treeline. If he made it just a little bit further he would be safe.OR
After the Agni Kai, Ozai decides to send Zuko out to the ocean to die and make his way there as miserable as possible. To Zukos luck, the ship hits ground and the wreck gets washed up to Earth Kingdom shores, where a ship of the Southern Watertribe fleet finds the injured teen. Under his false name Lee, they offer to take him to the next port.