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When my world gets loud (could you make it quiet down?) by Starstealingowl
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
27 Sep 2025
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When Zuko goes into heat less than a week after the Agni Kai, and in his delirium sobs out some very damning things against Ozai, Iroh realises that he cannot ever let Zuko return to the Fire Nation. He spends the next three years trying (and somewhat succeeding) in convincing Zuko that Ozai is a horrible father, and a horrible person.
Meanwhile, in the South Pole, Sokka and Katara awaken Aang three years early, and despite Sokka's inital misgivings, Aang brings a joy back to the village that's been gone ever since the last raid. He begins to trust this strange airbender, and even see him as family.
Everything is thrown into chaos when a scavenging trip to one of the fire nation wrecks in the ice fields ends poorly, and a tiny fire nation ship carrying a suspiciously not-evil firebender crashes into the wall of the village
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- Part 1 of Taking the long way round
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Zuko never wanted Izumi to feel pressured to be a perfect firebender like he was by Ozai, but he had hoped to foster a love for firebending that came from the lessons he'd once learned from Ran and Shaw. With Izumi showing an intense dislike for firebending, he feels like he's failed at that goal.
When he receives a message from the Sun Warriors asking for assistance, Zuko decides to bring Izumi along, hoping that it will give her a new perspective.
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- Part 25 of ATLAtober
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is it that sweet? i guess so by malikscrying
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
13 Jun 2025
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Sokka sat up and brushed the grass off of himself. He blinked once he got a good glimpse of the man in front of him, he was instantly taken aback by how attractive he was. The man’s fair skin and dark hair resembled that of Izumi’s, so there was no mistaking that he was her father, but what caught Sokka’s attention the most was the man’s eyes. Sokka has never seen eyes that were pure golden in his entire life, but looking in the man's eyes was like looking in two golden drops of sunlight. Maybe the sun came out after all, Sokka heard himself think.
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A little parent au where Sokka panics and lies to Zuko telling him that Kya and Bumi are his children. Zuko finally made his first parent friend and wants to get to know him more (just as friends of course). -
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Zuko wants his daughter to have a normal childhood while she can. At age five, Izumi doesn’t understand the weight of the crown, and he intends to keep it that way for a while longer. But secrets like your real name aren’t the type to be kept in relationships, and when Izumi’s kindergarten teacher sparks an interest he hasn’t felt in years, just how much of himself is he willing to divulge?
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“You know, if you ever need more canvas space for your chalk art, my driveway is always open to you,” Sokka says to Izumi, glancing at Zuko, which— wow. He had almost forgotten how gorgeous Sokka’s eyes are. That, plus he is being sweet to his daughter? Zuko quickly covers up whatever cheesy expression is certainly on his face.
Izumi’s smile widens a little bit and she nods. Zuko manages to wish Sokka a good day at work and Sokka’s gaze on him lingers for a second before he thanks him and gets in his car.
So no, he doesn’t need Iroh’s help in setting him up with anyone. Because he has spent the last few months fantasizing about Sokka, and he is not ready to give that up nor to cue Iroh in and risk any interference.
(or, Zuko and Sokka are neighbors, Izumi is a sidewalk chalk enthusiast, and Iroh and Azula love pestering Zuko about his love life)
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Four years after Prince Zuko had successfully captured the Avatar and returned home, Aang's friends are still struggling to continue fighting without him in a world run by the Fire Nation. Then one night, a small group of Earth Kingdom rebels accidentally run into Prince Zuko during one of their heists – and it seems like the fate of the world could change once again. There's just one small problem...
"I – um, okay –" Sokka shook his head, "mind explaining to me what the hell's going on?"
Zuko was still clearly debating between not wanting to willingly explain anything ever – and shutting Sokka up as quickly as possible.
After a moment's deliberation, he finally replied, "She's my daughter," and then added in an oddly pleading tone, "– please don't make an issue out of this, okay?"
Sokka stared at him, absolutely dumbfounded. "Your daughter... You – you have a child!?"
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the dry grass catches fire by Anonymous
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
20 May 2024
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"Shoichi," Zuko says quietly, fighting to keep his voice steady. "What happened to Izumi?"
Shoichi is milk-pale. He shuffles on the spot, then opens his mouth. Zuko watches his lips move, hears the sound of his voice, and somehow does not fall apart.
"She was taken, my Lord," Shoichi says, and—
Every torch in the palace goes out.
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A failed assassination attempt on Zuko results in his daughter being kidnapped instead. Zuko will stop at nothing to get her back.
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"You can tell, you know?" says Sokka, his voice soft. It's the first time he's spoken since Zuko told him their story.
Zuko looks at him, furrows his brow in question.
Sokka slides his hand across the bench so just the tips of their fingers touch. He tilts his head and smiles at Zuko, soft but so, so warm.
"You can tell that she's yours."
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Single dad Zuko is trying his best, and then Sokka comes along.
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Katara is in desperate need of money to provide for her family. She is also at that age where girls start to long to get married and have children.
While looking for a job, she comes across an advertisement in a newspaper about a singled fathered Zuko Sozin in his late twenties looking for a wife who wouldn’t mind being committed to raising his only daughter with him.
Katara takes it.
As someone who adores children, it's her dream to be a mother. She’s also really looking forward to being a respectable man's wife too.
country mail order bride katara. wealthy widowed single father zuko. an ambiguously romantic historical au.
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“Avatar Aang,” Zuko said formally, his voice carrying over the crowd. “We are honored to host you, Master Katara, your son Bumi, and Warrior Sokka in our home as we celebrate twenty years of peace.”
Sokka tuned out the rest of Zuko’s welcome speech, instead cataloging the changes he noticed in his friend after not having seen him in over a year. He and Zuko had exchanged letters as often as they could but as he watched the Fire Lord speak now, he noticed a tremor in his hands that he hid behind the podium and deep circles under his eyes that had been artfully concealed with makeup, Sokka wondered how much about his life Zuko had kept to himself over the years.
Or: After twenty years of peace, Sokka has accepted the position of Southern Water Tribe Ambassador in the Fire Nation, Zuko has recently adopted a child, and everyone is trying to figure out their place in an ever changing world.
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This Christmas Eve, Zuko's heart as shattered and he's reached for a bottle of wine in search of a remedy for heartbreak. / Inspired by Phoebe Bridgers' beautiful, tragic cover of So Much Wine
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autumn comes when you're not yet done by peroxideprncss
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
03 Aug 2022
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“Uncle,” Zuko finally said, his voice even raspier than normal from disuse, “How do I go on?”
“I can’t put into words how, my boy,” Iroh responded as if this was the exact question he’d been expecting, his voice heavy with heartache, “But I can say why. You go on for her.”in which life and death show just how intimately related they are.
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Sokka finally gets to meet the new Crown Princess, and Zuko finally gets to ask Sokka out on a date.
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- Part 3 of Single Dad Zuko
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Izumi meets a few members of her new family.
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- Part 2 of Single Dad Zuko
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When a baby is abandoned on the steps of the Fire Lord's palace, Zuko steps up to take care of her.
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- Part 1 of Single Dad Zuko
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"Suki," he says, muffled. "Suki, tell me to stop crushing on the hot single dad at work."
Suki doesn't look up from painting her nails. "Go out and bag yourself a DILF, babe."
Zuko's insistence that it's him and his kid against the world is being seriously tested by Izumi's new teacher.
Sokka's determination to ignore hot parents is waning more and more as he gets to know the single dad of the new kid.
Everyone else is just waiting for them both to get their acts together.
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- Part 1 of a subtle electric fire (asef-verse)
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i love you (and that's all i really know) by hello_yue_here
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
02 Jul 2021
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He cleared his throat, “sorry. It’s just, you kind of spilled coffee on my shirt.”
“Yes, I do recall doing that.”
“Well it seems that I am out of coffee now.”
Zuko got the message, he didn’t mind reimbursing the handsome man before him for a spilled drink. It was the least he could do.
As he pulled out his wallet the man put his hand out and said, “No! no, um that’s not, what I was trying to say,” he laughed nervously.
“Then what-”
The man sighed, “Man I thought this would be easier,” the man muttered to himself, “I’m trying to ask you out on a coffee date. What do you say?”
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a lil bit of company by zelzenik for tuesdaysinoctober, whattheheehaw
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
16 Feb 2021
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Working at the office can be intense and exhausting and occasionally boring for receptionist Katara. Things start to look up, though, the day that Zuko and Izumi walk into her waiting room and up to her desk.
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When the baby opens its eyes, Zuko and the two guards can barely contain their gasps of surprise.
“Oh,” Zuko breathes out in awe as he stares into the terrified emerald eyes of the child.
[in which Firelord Zuko finds an abandoned Earthbender baby, adopts her and makes a family of his own along the way]