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ATLA-retelling with an OC!
After the first encounter with the Avatar at the South Pole, Zuko wants to repair his ship as quickly as possible. He did not expect to see a girl from his past come back into his life, not now when everything has to be focused on finding the Avatar. Yet destiny has a way of its own.
Book 1: Complete (Chapter 1 - 26)
Book 2: Complete (Chapter 27 - 49)
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The Blue Dragon by WeirdScribe95
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic)
23 Oct 2025
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After being burned by his father for refusing to fight him in an Agni Kai, thirteen-year-old Prince Zuko wants only two things: to restore his honor and re-earn his father's love, and to find some way to heal his face. So when a Fire Sage tells him there's a mystic spring deep under the castle that can grant him both things, he listens.
The next thing he knows, he wakes up in the middle of a city with foul air, technology beyond his wildest dreams, and lunatics on every corner. Shortly after he firebends to protect himself, a man dressed mostly in black catches him.
Who knew that being sent to another realm would be the best thing that ever happened to him?
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Lee, protector of the water tribe by Pipinpadaloxicopolis_3
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
23 Oct 2025
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The Avatar has returned 100 years after he vanished, and although rumors claim he's nothing more than a 12-year-old boy who only knows airbending, the Fire Nation has prioritized hunting him down.
In some parallel world, Prince Zuko would be part of that hunt, but in this one, he died at the tender age of 12 when, still recovering from the Agni Kai against his father, he was attacked and killed in his royal chamber. A month later, Lee arrived at Pohuai Fortress, and three years later, the blue spirit helped the Avatar escape from the same fortress.Series
- Part 1 of The Legend of...
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coats and courting by SyciaraLynx for Julessongs
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
22 Oct 2025
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Zuko had spent far too much of his summer dealing with an ever increasing worry about a new roommate.
Suki had warned him early enough at least, and had even gone out of her way to set him up with someone to sublet her room while she was gone for the year studying abroad, but it did nothing to quell the constant concern.
Dragons are not known for their ability to adjust easily.
Or: Dragon Zuko gets a new roommate, and totally definitely does not develop a big fat crush on him.
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Fanning The Flames by GoldenHourglass
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
22 Oct 2025
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Left behind at the Misty Palms Oasis, Katara waits days for Aang, Sokka, and Toph to return. But when bounty hunters close in, her only chance at escape comes from the last people she ever thought she could trust: Zuko and Iroh.
Now traveling under false names, bound by a fake marriage, and with no room for mistakes, Katara finds herself on the road to Ba Sing Se. What begins as mutual distrust slowly turns into eating side by side, sleeping even closer, and something far more dangerous: comfort. She thinks it will end once they reach the city, but in a place crowded with millions of refugees, and stuck in the Lower Ring, she doesn’t have much hope of finding the others. With no leads and nowhere else to go, she resolves to wait for her friends to find her.
But in their cramped apartment, days turn into weeks, and Zuko and Katara begin to settle into something that almost feels like domestic bliss. It isn’t real. Or at least, it isn’t meant to be. But the longer they stay, the harder it becomes to remember where the act ends and something real begins.
*Updated Weekly*
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- Part 1 of Fanning The Flames Series
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The Apothecary’s Plight by PhantomNyktos
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
22 Oct 2025
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Kanasu always knew this day would come. As the daughter of two countries at war, she was never truly safe in the Fire Nation. Her dad had tried to protect her, but when she’s finally discovered, she is forced to flee the home that refused to claim her.
Just when it feels like even the ocean is against her too, she is saved by the prince of the very nation she‘s running from.
She fights him at every turn, challenging his beliefs and patience. But as days pass, the lines between captor and captive blur. The tides are shifting, and for the first time in his life, Zuko wonders if he'll burn in the flames of rage or let the water pull him somewhere new.
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Three days following Former Crown Prince Zuko’s banishment, a wooden ship named The Akhlut stumbles upon an unconscious body of a thirteen-year-old Fire Native.
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Zuko was born a girl, Azula a boy—and the Fire Nation never imagined the unwanted daughter of the second son would ever be named Crown Princess. But when she is, Zhao sees the opportunity. And takes it.
Some things never change. Zuko is still banished, still hunting the Avatar. But this time, she’s not fighting for her honor, but for her daughter’s future.
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Where The Fire And The Water Dance by Justice_4_Eliza
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
21 Oct 2025
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This is a fanfic passed of Pinterest pins I found and a delusional idea.
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Sokka, a young boy on the front lines of guerilla warfare, struggles with his desires to return home or to stay with his best friend, Zuko. A completed story that explores the harrowing impact of war and propaganda on child soldiers while tackling the inevitable loss of youth and innocence.
Yes, I love throwing beloved characters into modern settings they don't deserve to be in.
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Zuko loathes the man up on the Fire Lord's throne. Who burned him and looked down upon him. Whatever happens, he will not end up like him. He refuses to become a mad man, a horrible tyrant that Ozai is, and despises how he had driven his mother away due to paranoia and obsessiveness. Zuko won't become the person his mother feared him to be.
But then... Katara arrives. His precious, lovely soulmate. An enemy of their kingdom, a girl who comes from a dying tribe. Someone who he's willing to burn the world for just as his father had done countless times for Ursa.
He prays for his mother's forgiveness, even if that won't do as much good. They're the same after all.
Zuko's his father's child.
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The Aftermath of that Awful Play by Makoto_flower
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar: The Last Airbender (Live Action TV 2024), zutara - Fandom
19 Oct 2025
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What if Katara actually told her friends about Aang kissing her?
Flames curled around the firepit, illuminating everyone's faces, dancing lines across their skin. Silence was in the air, the crackling from the burning embers almost echoed against the house behind them.
Katara was conflicted, glaring into the flames. Not only did the play highlight her in the worst way possible, target all of her insecurities at once, but it also caused the most uncomfortably awkward moment between her and Aang. Said boy now sat across from her, his grey eyes burning into her skin. She pretended not to notice, her gaze permanently glued to the flames.
(My take on The Boy in the Iceberg!)
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The Healer's Burden by stormsaurawrites
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
19 Oct 2025
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The war is over, but peace is fragile. Lanterns burn in the Fire Nation to celebrate survival, yet for Katara, one moment shatters everything, a kiss that wasn’t meant for her.
As the world leans on her as its healer, Katara discovers that waterbending healing has a price. Every wound she mends leaves an echo inside her, and with each act of compassion, she carries more pain than her body can bear. Torn between duty and self, she finds herself caught in the pull of two boys who would do anything to protect her, sometimes at the cost of her trust.
But the world is too broken to be fixed by one person alone. As the Gaang navigates fragile politics, ancient spirits, and their own tangled relationships, Katara must decide how much of herself she’s willing to give away… and who she’s willing to give her heart to.
A story of healing, heartbreak, and the bonds that hold Team Avatar together.
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Book 3 of Lu Ten and Zuko series.
Their defeat in Ba Sing Se left the two cousins being seperated once again. While Zuko managed to escape with his friends/found family, Lu Ten made a sacrifice to go back to the palace.
Pretending to have switched sides, he tries to gather information to help his friends, without his evil Uncle Firelord Ozai to suspect a thing.
Now Lu Ten and Zuko are back in the Firenation, their old home, but under two completly diffrent circumstances. But both have the same goal:
Stop Ozai and seeing each other again.
--It is advised to read the previous two Books to get context for this one-
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- Part 3 of Lu Ten and Zuko
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Ashes Of Loyalty by TheMistyBlackCloud
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
17 Oct 2025
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Instead of just Zuko, Fire Lord Azulon demands Prince Ozai to sacrifice BOTH Zuko and Azula. With the aid of Ty Lee and Mai, the two royal siblings run from the Fire Nation, abandoning their former lives and becoming fugitives. In a twist of events, Ozai is scarred, banished, and tasked with not only apprehending them, but locating the Avatar. The world will never be the same.
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Marital Moments by DarlingSecret
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar - Fandom
16 Oct 2025
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Short stories about marital moments since you married Zuko.
These are stories that occur to me as time goes by.Warning: For better context, read the story "Daughter of the Sun."
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Keito loves his little brother, Taiyo, more than anything, more than his career, more than his own safety. He loves him enough that when Taiyo is drafted into the Fire Nation Army, Keito follows and is assigned to the 41st division with him. The horror that follows sends them away from everything the brothers ever knew and into the hands of their enemies. But a strange, new spirit with incredible Blue flames leads the way, protecting them, and forcing them to question everything they thought they knew about spirits and their enemies.
This is a side story to my fic, "The Will Which Says 'Hold on'". While it mostly stands on its own, many things will make more sense if Hold On is read first.
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- Part 2 of Heart and Nerve and Sinew
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Fire was an element that either commanded respect or consumed fear. Aelita Kenshin had experienced both feelings during her sixteen years of life. A firebending master reduced to nothing but the hollow shell of what she once was, the Butcher of Ba Sing Se no longer trusted the power beneath her fingertips.
The entire world believed the Avatar to be dead and nearly all of the Akira's world thought she was too. Forced to leave Aelita's body behind, Aang and the others are left to grapple with the grief that threatens to overwhelm them with only their desire for peace and justice pushing them forward.
Welcomed home as war heroes next to their sister, twin Princes Zuko and Zetzu are thrust back into the game of thrones, forced to face their demons. With tensions rising faster than Sozin's Comet approaches, it's soon clear that only one of them can be left to inherit their family's scorched legacy.
Fire is the element of power. The people of the Fire Nation have the desire and will to achieve what they want. Only time will tell if that power and desire will be too much to handle as the fate of the world is forged in fire.
Book Three of the series Akira: The Legend of Aelita.
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- Part 3 of Akira: The Legend of Aelita
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The Other Airbender by Lev Tanel (InkVail)
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
15 Oct 2025
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The Gaang wanted a break for Aang to start learning earthbending. Instead, they got:
– A boy who jokes through every injury (and there are a lot of injuries).
– His best friend, who can crush a tree with nothing but air pressure.
– A cat.
– Zuko deciding one of them might be an airbender.What follows: fire, trauma, terrible jokes, and more found-family moments than they bargained for.
And when Zuko finally captures someone he thinks is an airbender, he has to decide whether to treat him as proof—or as a person.
This story takes place after Zuko Alone and then functions as an alternate version of The Chase. Toph has just joined the group, Azula is on their trail, and Zuko is far from Iroh’s calming influence.
The Gaang calls it “their problem now.” Zuko calls it "proof."
Teorin calls it “a disaster.” Lev calls it "a masterpiece."Don't let Lev's jokes fool you. He hides as much as he says.
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- Part 1 of The Chaos Archive
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The Phoenix Guard, a sympathetic Ozai faction, has tried (and failed) to assassinate Fire Lord Zuko and ultimately restore Ozai to his throne. Their usual intimidation methods and attacks aren’t working and so they have no choice but to try something a little different.
Kidnapping the unrightful Fire Lord’s friend, the Water Tribe warrior, and using his life as the bait to lure the soon to be deposed Fire Lord alone into the catacombs is the perfect plan. And when the night ends with two bodies buried deep underground and the rightful Fire Lord and Phoenix King Ozai freed, all will be set right once more.
Unfortunately for the Phoenix Guard, it’s not going to be quite so easy.