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intentions of the fire by sour_orange
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
10 Sep 2025
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The water tribe siblings stand tall besides him, a stern look on their faces. They're dressed in black, no indication of their roots other than the small beads adorning their hair and the tan color of their skin.
“You're the Fire Prince, right?”.
His body clenches at the title. “Zuko”, he offers. “There's no fire prince”.
The girl’s face stiffens, but when the boy -Sokka, a memory from years ago resurfaces- speaks, his voice is softer. “Zuko”, he repeats the name, and it makes Zuko's fingers numbly tingle. He tells himself it's from the cold.
-Or, The Fire Nation loses the war before the Avatar’s return. Aang cannot restore balance without starting another one. Ergo, a blazing revolution.
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Take A Breath and Light A Fire by FeatherFallingSoftly
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
09 Jul 2024
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Zuko asks the Gaang to take him prisoner.
The Gaang takes him up on his offer.Zuko offers to teach the Avatar.
The Gaang accepts that offer as well.What could possibly go wrong?
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agni has (not) abandoned him [rewrite] by iliwaren
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
10 Oct 2025
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He survived two-and-a-half years as General Fong’s training dummy, months as Zhao’s prisoner, and weeks as a captive aboard the Chief of the Southern Water Tribe’s ship, all the while refusing to let his father’s cold, firelit eyes be the last he saw of the man. There was no way these children would keep him from going home.
"Yes," Zuko lied. 'I’ll help you defeat my father."
Or: After three years of imprisonment, Zuko escapes, just in time to arrive at the climax of the Invasion of Ba Sing Se. From there, he travels with the Avatar's team - first as a political prisoner and then, maybe (and indignantly), as Aang's firebending teacher.
(Zuko wonders why Agni let him suffer in the cold for so many years only to make him the Avatar's mentor. Destiny is a cruel, complicated thing. It takes him a while to figure out his.)
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Mid-Season-One Zuko is held for ransom by Chief Hakoda. Ozai's replies to the Water Tribe's demands are A+ Parenting. Hakoda is… deeply concerned, for this son that isn't his, and who might be safer among enemies than with his own father.
Podfic and translations in Dutch, German, Hungarian, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian now available! See chapter one author notes for links.
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Zuko is just trying to survive Boiling Rock prison. He didn't make it out on time on the Day of Black Sun and frankly, he's lucky to be alive. His escape attempts have proven futile and he doesn't have any allies to speak of here. His best bet is keeping his head down and trying to survive.
Sokka is just here to break his dad out. It's his fault his dad was captured and he needs to fix this. His plan is working well enough so far; he's made it here, he's disguised as a guard, no one suspects him, now he just has to find his dad and get out.
Blue eyes meet gold. A flash of recognition. Shit just got a whole lot more complicated.
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Ozymandias, King of Kings by Think_of_a_Wonderful_Thought
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
31 Mar 2024
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After that fateful Agni Kai, Ozai makes a different call. Branded as a traitor and banished to a prison camp, Zuko learns how cruel the Fire Nation can be to its citizens. Three years, a water tribe raid, and an unexpected meeting with a gang of over-enthusiastic idealistic children puts Zuko back in the spotlight. The revolution is coming and it wants another poster boy, but Zuko is not willing to lend his face to the cause.
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Ozymandias, King of Kings by Think_of_a_Wonderful_Thought
Fandoms:Avatar: The Last AirbenderAfter that fateful Agni Kai, Ozai makes a different call. Branded as a traitor and banished to a prison camp, Zuko learns how cruel the Fire Nation can be to its citizens. Three years, a water tribe raid, and an unexpected meeting with a gang of over-enthusiastic idealistic children puts Zuko back in the spotlight. The revolution is coming and it wants another poster boy, but Zuko is not willing to lend his face to the cause.
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Combustion Man never finds the Western Air Temple, and the Gaang goes ahead with the plan to capture Zuko and hold him prisoner so he can’t hurt anyone. Now Zuko has to convince them he’s on their side without having any proof he doesn’t want the Avatar dead anymore, and preferably before Katara decides to kill him.
… If only he weren’t so bad at being good.
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- Part 1 of Combustion Man goes missing AU
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Zuko's Field Trip to Narkina V by Darkstrike
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Andor (TV)
15 Mar 2024
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Zuko does not get away after being captured at the North Pole. Being the only prisoner captured, and with his status in the Fire Nation gives the Northern Water Tribe a dilemma, what to do with their firebending prisoner? Luckily Yue suggests that since he did save the Moon Spirit's life that the spirits should decide. Therefore a meeting with the spirits is arranged and Zuko is sent into the spirit world.
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An Alternative Universe where Zuko is sent to the StarWars Universe by the spirits and he is imprisoned in the Narkina V Imperial Factory Facility and has plenty of time to dwell on his past and future, with some help from the other prisoners. AKA An Avatar: The Last Airbender/StarWars crossover that no one asked for!Series
- Part 1 of Burning Redemption: A Zuko AU Tale
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Seen Andor but for some reason everythings fuzzy... I'm still gonna read this ff tho! +{ I say as I strangle my little blorbo and shake him; multiple fics popping up out of his pockets all my fav fics but not limited to your andor one. :3
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No Scar to Tell the Story by renegade_of_theworld
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
23 Oct 2025
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King Kuei reclaimed his kingdom from the hands of the Dai Li and is trying his hardest to take everything back under control.
But then, he discovers that he has a supposedly dead Prince Zuko in his custody. The Dai Li had kidnapped the eleven-year-old prince shortly after the Siege of Ba Sing Se has fallen. They attempted to ransom him back, but the newly crowned Fire Lord Ozai showed no interest. The child has been locked away within the Dai Li’s walls ever since.
Kuei is NOT okay with this.
He needs to scream. He will do that. But first he needs to get the boy out of that nightmare.--
Prisoner Zuko angst and Kuei (who I guess is ooc because he's no clueless and dumb) protective feels.-
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Sokka Steals a Dragon From the Freedom Fighters Series by Pooka_Huldra
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28 Oct 2025
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All Abord the Pain Train, Choo Choo by fuzzy_worm_lord
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
09 Jun 2023
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The last thing that Katara, Sokka and Aang expected to see at General Fong’s Earth Kingdom fortress was a firebender, regardless of the fact that it was tied up, the firebending prisoner took them all by surprise.
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Your favourite firebender meets General Fong and doesn’t have good time. If this were a movie about Zuko’s life it would be called “The Traumatising 2: the infinite electric boogaloo”
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Zuko has been in the custody of the water tribe chief for weeks, which has meant nothing good for the angry Fire Prince.
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Zuko formed a bond with an Earth Kingdom Colonel and trusted him enough to turn himself into their custody without putting up a fight. The deal he's offered is a lenient form of imprisonment with more freedom than he'd hoped for. But his only ally is sent on a mission and Zuko has to navigate the new, hostile reality on his own.
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a) Zuko the Ultimate Prisoner… A product of my unhealthy liking for prisoner trope, all rules and power imbalance that comes with that. There’s a father figure that Zuko deserves and *fanfare* a cousin figure that Zuko also deserves.
b) It’s basically a spinoff of a part of my main fic in which the gaang hadn’t appeared in the town and Zuko went with HuongCAN WORK AS A SEPARATE STORY, so don't worry <3
(not a part of the series, just a separate instalment)Series
- Part 4 of Under the Ashes
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In the aftermath of the siege of the North Pole, Prince Zuko winds up adrift and is "rescued" by the warriors of the Southern Water Tribe. Trapped on a wooden ship in the middle of the ocean, Zuko tries his hardest to stay in control of his bending and his temper with the Water Tribe crew that holds him captive. But when Chief Hakoda's efforts to wrangle the Fire Prince include tying the two of them together to keep an eye on him, Zuko's position on the ship and fight for control gets tangled, as the lines between warden and parental figure weave together and the two become attached in ways they never expected at the end of his rope.
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- Part 1 of Lifeline
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Zuko tries.
Agni, he tries. Uncle wants so desperately for him to do the right thing, and he wants to, he does, he does, he does-
So when the Water Tribe girl looks at him with wild eyes, begging for help, and Azula raises one eyebrow with a sneer, Zuko chooses.
Azula’s scream of anger when he blasts a fireball in her direction is almost worth the twenty Dai Li agents that immediately surround him.
(or: Zuko is taken prisoner by Azula in the catacombs. Turns out, being kept miles away from the sun isn't so great for your bending.)
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Trapped In The Freezing Cold by Huni_obri
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
11 Aug 2025
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As soon as Zuko heard the clang, his heart froze.
He had dropped the wrench.
The guards escorting him to the cooler paused. "What's this?" one of them asked in a condescending tone. "It looks like a wrench," the other responded, a smirk spreading across his face as he picked it up and weighed it in his palm.
"Planning to fix the cooler while you're in there?" the first guard sneered, holding open the heavy door.
Zuko didn't answer. He couldn't. His pulse was roaring in his ears, his heart pounding. Anything he said now could and would be used against him. "Search him, maybe he has more."Or
Zuko gets hypothermia while in the cooler (AU)-
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Hidden in the deepest darkest corner of the Palace, the imprisoned Prince Zuko serves out his punishment and waits - and waits to be pardoned and released by his father.
Not knowing that Fire Lord Ozai has already declared to the world that his son has died.
Until a strange group of kids invade the Royal Palace, and accidentally rescue the formerly dead Prince Zuko...
— their invasion had gone to shreds since the Fire Lord had disappeared, and now there was an unconscious maybe-probably-enemy lying by his feet.
"Oh great, NOW what??” Sokka flailed both of his hands towards the boy. "When I said we could loot some stuff from the Royal Palace, I didn’t mean THIS!!"
As usual, Katara ignored his extremely valid point.
"We need to hurry," she said, as if Sokka didn’t already know that, it was his plan, "- can you carry him, Sokka? We have to take him with us."
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There Is No Fire Lord by OccasionalStorytelling for MuffinLance
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
07 Sep 2020
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This is an AU for MuffinLance's "zuko botches his escape attempt and spends the rest of the war in prison then has to be Fire Lord having never gotten his redemption arc" Towards the Sun. This is more of a "zuko botches his escape attempt and spends the rest of the war in prison, and then when he becomes Fire Lord they leave him in prison" kind of thing.
After committing treason, Zuko spends months in prison, and even after both his father and Azula go missing, the guards can't coax him out of his cell. And then the Avatar shows up. How's the Gaang supposed to talk to a Fire Lord who doesn't even believe he's the Fire Lord?
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Sokka Steals a Dragon From the Freedom Fighters by Pooka_Huldra
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
22 Feb 2025
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Just a year into his search for the Avatar, Prince Zuko is swept off his ship during a fierce storm. Heartsick and alone, he eventually makes his way to a certain forest in the Earth Kingdom. After defending himself from Fire Nation soldiers using his bending, Zuko is captured by Jet, who is delighted to have an ashmaker for a prisoner.
When Aang, Katara, and Sokka arrive, it's too late; Zuko is left with no name, no humanity, and no sanity.
This fic has been described as an "angst cake with sprinkles of humor and sweetness on top."
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