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Southern Tribe Communal Baths by IceCladShade, WorldReader
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
09 Oct 2025
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Kinktober Day 9: Exhibition
Zuko is having a very nice diplomatic vacation with his friend in the Southern Water Tribe. Sokka brings the Fire Lord along to his favorite communal bathhouse.
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- Part 2 of Kinktober 2025
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The horizon was no longer empty. A ship cut through the mist—massive and black, with its metal sides slick with frost. Smoke bellowed upward from its smokestack, an oily smear against the pale sky. The ship slowed as it approached, shadow falling long and dark across their fragile ice floe.
The engines hissed, then went quiet. Then a head popped over the rail. An older man with silver hair peered down at them, his face kind, as he called out, “Hey, you kids need some help?”
Or, one act of mercy leads to another, until a cold, forgotten village begins to feel alive again…and a lonely boy with a scar might just find a home.
Written for Zutara Month, Day 1. Prompt: Zuko Banished Without A Quest
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Zuko never chose exile. He never chose to be offered up as a living apology for a century of Fire Nation war. In the Southern Water Tribe, he is tolerated, tested, and hated in equal measure—an outsider meant to endure whatever anger the people still carry.
But survival in the ice does not allow distance. The hunts, the hunger, the grief—they bind him to those he was taught to despise. Especially her.
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Beneath The Burning Sky by 127shadesofgreen
Fandoms: ATEEZ (Band), Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
22 Sep 2025
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San had lost all hope in the face of war, betrayal and the constant fear of being discovered. When he stumbled into an inn one day he met the charismatic, albeit irritating Wooyoung. The man offered him refuge and San, exhausted from his escape from the Fire Nation, accepted the deal. San had his suspicions about Wooyoung and they were proven to be true when he was thrust into the inner circle of a secret organisation.
From then on, he had to navigate gaining the trust of the people he worked alongside to and his growing feelings for the mysterious Yeosang. But Wooyoung just would not leave his mind.
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Azula and Ty Lee travel through the northen water tribe, where all is cold. Azula’s blood runs fire, but Ty’s doesn’t.
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- Part 15 of Sweet Nothings: Avatar
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In the Dawn of All My Layers by chavahlah (howlpropaganda)
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
15 Sep 2025
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Political unrest is rife in the Southern Water Tribe. Katara hopes that Fire Lord Zuko's visit during the Glacier Spirits' Festival will be fruitful, but she seriously doubts it. In the middle of celebrations, the Glacier Spirits themselves wreak havoc on Wolf Cove, and even Aang can't seem to calm them down.
On the far East side of the South, things aren't much better. A dreadful famine has set over the village of Glacier Combe, and the Chief's daughter Yanagi ventures into the barren ice floats at the first sign of spring.
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Aang Joins the Gaang Early by back_that_sass_up
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
12 Sep 2025
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Aang had never had siblings before. That wasn't really a *thing* for airbenders. But Katara made him promise to take her penguin sledding, and nine-year-old Sokka vowed he'd keep him safe like he did his sister.
So yeah. Aang had siblings now, and he'd protect them with his life.
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A friendly reminder to defrost your Avatar thoroughly before cooking, for best results.
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Zuko looks like a rabbit, hopping from flower to flower, reading information he probably knows by heart and inspecting petals, pistils and stems around the greenhouse. Sokka follows him, fascinated by the beauty of a world he doesn’t quite understand yet.
And the flowers look pretty too.
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Zuko was abandoned by his father as a newborn and banished to the sea on an old wooden boat with little to no hope of surviving.
But as the waves grow and little zuko falls in, the sea stills and the spirits of Tui and La bless their newest child and bring him to the south pole where Zuko grows up as Kataras brother.But as the war progesses and the Fire nation has nearly all the other nations and all benders captivated and under its iron fist rule, the ones that remain start whispering of a place mysteriously protected by spirits as more and more fire nation ships dissappear without a trace.
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“My sister isn’t the bender.” Sokka lied. “I am.”
When the Fire Nation comes looking to the last water bender of the South Pole, Sokka lies to save his mother and sister's life. He's taken as a captive to the Fire Nation Capital. Determined to escape and return home, Sokka confronts what it means to be a warrior when the battle can't be fought with weapons.
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tell me it's not just me by thequeenvic
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
01 Sep 2025
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After the death of Chief Hakoda, the leaders of the world collect at the Southern Water Tribe to follow the selection of the new chief. Zuko has to balance his friendship with Sokka, the presumed choice, with his role as Fire Lord, and the revelation that his long-standing infatuation with Katara might not be as one-sided as he'd always assumed.
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those who stayed, those who left by Dioranelle
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
01 Sep 2025
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Kanna leaves.
Pakku stays.
And in the years to come, it is she who is left behind.
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- Part 3 of actions and consequences
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After Burning, After Freezing by zukkaenjoyer
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar: The Last Airbender (Live Action TV 2024)
31 Aug 2025
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This story follows them through the years, focusing on their healing after the war. Zuko never learned how to rest. Sokka never learned how to stop holding everyone else up.
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Zuko makes an expression like he’s about to plunge into ice water: “I visited my father again this evening,” he swallows hard, “If you ever see me turning into him I want you to…I want you to end me.”Everything tunnels in.
“No.”
Zuko pauses, runs his hand through his hair, hard, like he’s trying to dig something out of his skull.
”I’m not... right. Not inside. The war’s over, and I thought I’d be at peace. But I’m not,” he squeezes his eyes shut, “Two years have passed. I sleep, and I see visions, fire. I see myself burning everything. Sometimes it’s Sozin’s dragon. Sometimes it’s…memories.”
Sokka watches him and it’s awful, because he recognizes himself, his own version of this. And he wants to fix it, he needs to fix it, needs to get that look out of Zuko’s eyes, but he’s not even sure where to start.
So he says the only thing that feels honest: “It’s okay. I get nightmares too.”
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You've been hiding, and you look half dead half the time (don't care) by tomkaulitzstan
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
30 Aug 2025
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Beginning in episode 1:
Sokka didn't trust this random Twelve (???) Year old. What type of freak appears in an iceberg and starts Airbending even though the Air Nomads were killed a century ago, he's weird and Sokka doesn't like weird.
Slight change; he REALLY doesn't like Aang after leading the Fire Nation RIGHT to his tribe.
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And the moon said, I shall always return by BloodInTheTides
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
28 Aug 2025
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When the world was new and the moon left her mate for the first time, the tides ceased to pull. This is the story of what followed: fifteen hundred years of grief, a creation born of love and sorrow, and a promise that the moon would always return.
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- 1/1
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Southern Lights by HarrisonHolmes2014
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar: The Last Airbender (Live Action TV 2024)
26 Aug 2025
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Prompt: Day 7: Lantern
In the days leading up to the Winter Solstice, the Water Tribes hold the Festival of Lights. Zuko, on his first official visit to the Southern Water Tribe as Fire Lord, participates alongside his ambassador, Master Katara.
Cross-posted on fanfiction.net
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- Part 7 of Baby's First Zutara Week 2025!
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Light A Match, Strike A Chord by harmonicanoise for imnotoverlyobsessive
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
24 Aug 2025
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Three years into Zuko’s exile, his father and sister force him into an engagement with a peasant girl from the Southern Water Tribe. They want him to burn the tribe alive from the inside. He just wants to go home.
As his uncle says, though, a home can change in a person's heart.
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The Illusion of Borders by JonnyMarch
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
22 Aug 2025
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This story is an alternate continuation of my completed work We Can’t Choose Us.
Chapters 1–16 are exactly the same as in that version, so if you’ve already read them, you can start right here.
But if you’re new to the story, I recommend starting from the beginning for the full emotional context.
📖 You can read Chapters 1–16 here:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/62580298/chapters/160180546In this version, I changed one decision, and it led to a very different ending.
Because so many of you asked for it. Because so many of you believed they deserved more.Series
- Part 2 of The Illusion of Borders
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Something Strange and Eternal by ragnarok89
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
19 Aug 2025
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Drabble. The deep blue depths were what connected them.