12 Works in Katara Learns How Zuko Got The Scar (Avatar)
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Tides of a New Moon by TheMistyBlackCloud
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
24 Sep 2025
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Avatar Aang is found by the Fire Nation's circus and captured. Acrobat, Ty Lee, interferes and frees him, marking a start of a new journey for them both. Aside from being a survivor of a horrible genocide and his small, though harrowing captivity time with the Fire Nation, leaving terrible scars on the young Avatar, he was already in love with her at first sight. Alternatively Prince Zuko's life is more complicated, not only having to chase them, but on a journey with Katara of the Southern Water Tribe. Their past scars loom over them, past trauma and mutual loss leading to conflicting emotions of all type, that eventually flourishes into a unfamiliar road for both as well. The tone of this is going to be a darker, gritter, more serious, one of the Avatar's universe. (AU)
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Unexpected Revelations by Percival_Halloway
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
14 Apr 2025
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Katara has trouble sleeping and goes for a walk. She finds some unexpected information
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fire in their veins by unsteadygalaxy (aheartmadefullmetal16)
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
26 Oct 2024
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“Zuko, am I a bad person? Like your father?”
The words don’t register in his mind, and he stares at her, aghast. Katara, a bad person? The concept doesn’t compute. Even when he was chasing them, part of him had always envied the ease with which she showed her goodness. All he had wanted was to be good enough, and Katara was effortlessly so. Was it even possible for him to catch up?
Katara's newfound forgiveness of Zuko is a little hard for him to grasp. Zuko's unwavering support of Katara confuses her. They talk about it, and learn a little more about each other on the way. Post-Southern Raiders, pre-Ember Island Players.
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It's a mark of honor, not a mark of shame by Zi_Xi_Zy
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
11 Oct 2024
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Zuko is used to the reactions and perceptions of himself and his scar from others. He’s used to how it mars his expressions and limits his senses. He's made peace with it; at least, he thinks he does.
Katara is the one to show him how far he has to go accepting who he was, who he is, and what others believe him to be
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Smoke On My Clothes by Hope_less_romantic
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
23 Sep 2024
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"Adorned with smoke on my clothes / Lovelorn and nobody knows" ~ “Slut!” - Taylor Swift
"‘Cause when you know, you know / When you know, you know" ~ Margaret - Lana Del Rey ft BleachersLong ago, the spirits blessed us all by giving us a way to know we’ve made the right choice. When we fall in love with someone, it’s slow, gradual. But when they say those words that truly capture our hearts forever, they appear on our skin as a permanent reminder. Ember Island reveals the true you, and Zuko and Katara gain matching tattoos.
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Something I Make People Earn by them_fatale_11
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
22 Sep 2024
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Reeling from confronting Yon Rha, Katara follows Zuko to his family’s house on Ember Island. There, they learn more about each other than either of them bargained for.
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The scene we were most definitely robbed of in the Southern Raiders episode.
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- Part 1 of Two Cricket Cranes
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After deciding to forgive Zuko, Katara learns how he got his scar.
Based on the 2010 Zutara Week prompt "family."
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Zuko finds Katara on the Ember Island shore after their quest to find Yon Rha. This leads to a discussion about Zuko's traumatic past.
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Shortly after Zuko joins the Gaang, Katara follows him when he wakes from a particularly bad nightmare. What she discovers is both terrible and beautiful, and it shows her that she has far more in common with her former enemy than she ever would have dreamed. A story about enemies, friends, and the blurry lines that separate us. And a story about mothers who love, and mothers who have been lost.
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After the final Agni Kai, Zuko questions his place in this new world that they’re creating. Katara doesn’t have all of the answers, but that doesn’t mean she won’t try.
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Breaking the ending, she thinks, is like a crack in the ice.
It isn’t a scream, like she thought it would be, as loud as a brilliant blue light spilling into the sky. Instead, it is a whisper, a crackle of energy and fear of the unknown. “Enough,” Katara says.
(Katara and Zuko talk about healing, choices, and change.)
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“What happened to you?” She didn’t ask him but rather ordered an explanation. She didn’t need to clarify what she was talking about.
The former prince faced Katara, still reeling from the realization that no, she didn’t know what had happened to him like he assumed she and the others always had. “I thought you knew,” he admitted to her.
Katara’s hard expression didn’t waver, “it’s not like you ever told us.”
(or, Katara finds out how Zuko got his scar)
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- Part 2 of what they did to your face