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The tricky thing is yesterday we were just children by Acespace135
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
21 Nov 2025
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5 times Azula tried to protect Zuko + 1 time Zuko returned the favor.
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Sometimes You Reach the Right Person with the Wrong Number by pumpkinpatchwrites
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
20 Nov 2025
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[“Uhm, I don’t know who you are,” Zuko grumbles into the phone, effectively cutting probably-drunk-guy off, “but this most definitely isn’t your sister.”
It’s quiet for a few moments and if not for the background noise on the other end of the line, Zuko would assume the stranger had hung up.
“Yeah,” the guy says at last, “you don’t sound like Katara at all.”
“Because I’m not,” Zuko mutters, not all too worried about sounding bitter or rude because it’s the middle of the night and most people would be pretty grumpy at being woken up by some probably drunk stranger.
“So who are you then?” the guy asks.
Zuko blinks a couple of times to himself. “Not your sister?”]
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Zuko's early morning starts even earlier when he's rudely woken up by a call from a drunk stranger. Turns out this drunk stranger is kind of endearing though.
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Goodbye Papa, Please Pray For Me, I Was The Black Sheep Of The Family by ecslipse
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
19 Nov 2025
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"You will learn respect and suffering will be your teacher"
These were the last words he hears while his father is holding him in a way that he can almost think of as kind. Instinctively, he wants to move away, but he can't, his father's strong hands firmly make sures that he stays in place.
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Zuko and what happened to him after Agni Kai
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- Part 1 of Seasons In The Sun
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After a century of war, Zuko knows peace isn’t built from treaties alone. It’s carved from guilt, blood, and the quiet terror of wondering if he’ll ever be more than his father’s son. As he joins Aang and the rest of the gang in Republic City, Zuko carries the weight of a nation’s sins on his shoulders and the fear that no matter how many homes he helps build, his scar will always define him.
Set against the fragile years after the war and the uncertain birth of Republic City, Zuko and Katara find themselves navigating love, loyalty, and leadership while the world struggles to heal. He wrestles with the burdens of the Fire Lord’s throne, fearful of binding Katara to a crown that could cage her. She seeks to support him without losing herself, even as grief, political tensions, and sacrifice test her strength.
It is during this period of change that they grow closer. Together, they face not only external threats to peace but also the internal battles of trust, vulnerability, and the fear of losing each other. Through moments of quiet tenderness and devastating honesty, they begin to realize that love is both a sanctuary and a crucible. One that shapes them into who they are meant to become.
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Passing Spirits by BBirdy for madlocked
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
18 Nov 2025
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Zuko missed... him.
For a split second Zuko could swear he felt the palm at the small of his back once more.
Was this what the end would be like? He heard people had seen their lives flashing before their eyes.
Or, at the end Zuko relives memories, or is it only memories?
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Dance of Flames and Storms by BrightMoonBard
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
16 Nov 2025
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Alternate Storyline Post-End of AtLA: 2 years after the defeat of Fire Lord Ozai and Princess Azula, the Gaang have settled into new versions of their lives. Zuko has avoided taking on the mantle of Fire Lord, with Iroh serving as regent, leaving Zuko time to help his country rebuild--and for him to try to build goodwill with the other nations. As his coronation as Fire Lord approaches, Zuko makes a surprise announcement: he will hold a formal Consort Selection, with two candidates from each of the nations, to choose his future Fire Lady. When Katara is asked by her tribe to go as one of their representatives, the two will confront long-buried feelings and new challenges that will have consequences for them, their friends and family, and their nations for years.
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Ruin the Friendship by crcookie05
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar: The Last Airbender (Live Action TV 2024)
13 Nov 2025
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my advice is always ruin the friendship,
better that than regret it
for all timeWhat if Katara had stayed at the Jasmine Dragon instead of running off when she saw Zuko? What if she'd decided to find out what he was up to? What if they'd bonded ahead of time? How might things have changed? Will it be enough to lead Zuko down the right path sooner, or will he still have to learn his lesson the hard way?
my advice is always answer the question,
better that than to ask it,
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Not the average field trip for Zuko by Sunrise22
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
11 Nov 2025
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Maybe planning on looking for the murdered of Katara and Sokka's mother wasn't the best idea. Maybe that was crossing a boundary. And maybe, just maybe, someone with far better emotional intelligence would have found a better way to talk things out with the youngest of the water tribe siblings.
Zuko has the emotional intelligence of a turtleduck and doesn't want to keep being splashed with water every time he as much as walks ten meters close to Katara, so.
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Katara didn't learnt bloodbending against her will just for her to not practice it later, it hurt her to learn, and she will make sure to polish that pain into something to help her stop some of the hurt the fire nation has caused her.
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Ninety-six years after the last appearance of Sozin’s Comet, a freshly burned and banished thirteen-year-old Prince Zuko discovers a strange boy frozen in an iceberg.
When Zhao interferes with Zuko's plans to deliver the Avatar to his father, Aang helps Zuko and Iroh escape. They take refuge from the Fire Navy in the abandoned Air Temples, where the young Avatar searches for any remnants of his people that he can find. Along the way, Aang teaches an indoctrinated Zuko about the true nature of the Air Nomads, and the Fire Prince must come to terms with the fact that everything he has been taught was a lie, while the Dragon of the West must face the sins of his past.
Eventually, Aang and Zuko become close friends, and Zuko begins to feel things he has never felt for anyone before. However, Zhao will not give up easily, and will do whatever it takes to capture the Avatar and his traitor accomplices.
(A retelling of AtLA exploring the friendship and eventual romance that could have developed between Aang and Zuko if the circumstances of their meeting had been different.)
(CURRENT UPDATE SCHEDULE IS ROUGHLY EVERY 3-4 WEEKS)
(Ongoing Russian translation now available!)
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A Punishment Not Fitting the Crime by catastrophic_arrow
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
10 Nov 2025
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Zuko couldn't sleep. Azula's words won't leave his mind.
"Dad's going to kill you!"
Azula always lies. She has to be wrong.
He still seeks out his grandfather, just to be sure.
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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 7 of Fire Family AUs
- Part 17 of Rewrite The Stars
- Part 13 of ATLA G/T
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Gilded Chains and Metal Blood by BroadwayBalogna
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
07 Nov 2025
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Katara never really cared for the stories, but now, holding the Avatar’s heart in her hand, soaking herself in his blood, she wondered if anyone would notice if she made a few amendments.
First: The avatar is dead
Second: No one can save you
Alternatively: A role reversal AU wherein Katara and Sokka replace Zuko and Azula, respectively. A few changes are made, however. The largest being that the Avatar is dead. The next is that soon, all benders will meet the same fate, including the very one that killed him.
No matter what the people may think, no matter what the history books might say, they will never know that in these fleeting moments, she felt weak.
-currently on an indefinite hiatus-
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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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Zuko was taken as the Gang's prisoner before he can prove that he wants to help. Katara wants to prove to him that she's more than capable of hurting him if he ever changes his mind.
ie. Katara practices bloodbending on Zuko.
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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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"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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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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"Things used to be simpler. Worse. But simpler."
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In the twelve years after Ozai's defeat, much has changed, but not all for the better. After another fight, Katara leaves the Air Temples - no, flees from the Air Temples - to seek refuge in Caldera. She hadn't spoken to Zuko in years, not since the letter, not since Ember Island... Whether she is making a mistake, she does not know.
Not all things have changed for the better. Their group of five has been splintering under the pressure of politics and personal grudges. Their enemies know how to use their disagreements to their advantage... When an unforseen calamity strikes Caldera, and the Fire Nation appears to be on the brink of a civil war, Katara and Zuko have to revisit the last years of their relationship to unravel the mess of guilt, shame, anger, and longing. In the meantime, the web of questions and mysteries thickens, eventually spanning most of the known world... Who is responsible for the attacks? Who is the head of the Dai Li? Who is eyeing the throne?..
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will it matter, long after i'm gone? by dont_leaf_me_alone
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
31 Oct 2025
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While adjusting to life in a new neighborhood with his uncle, Zuko finds himself befriending the strange boy who frequents the next-door scrapyard. With his chain-smoking habit, abrasive attitude, and a taste for loud, angry music, Jet's like a reflection of Zuko in ways that both discomfort and fascinate him...and has also been dead for seventeen years. What more could a guy want?
Written for Jetko Week 2024, day 4:
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Patterns of Messages, Written in the Stars by CinnamonFern
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
30 Oct 2025
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A mysterious cellmate, a terrifying interrogator, and the occasional rock-hard biscuit really do wonders for shaking up the monotony of Sokka's new life as a Very Important Prisoner. He has a plan, though. He’s already started moving pieces into place. He feels about as confident as he can under the admittedly less-than-ideal circumstances.
But he can't account for every variable, and the secret machinations of Fire Nation elite make for a pretty unpredictable variable.
Faith is thin. Hope is fragile. But family doesn't stay lost.