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Zuko hasn’t thought about high school in years. Of course he thinks about Katara from time to time - a man never forgets his first unrequited crush. But she's nothing more than a fond memory, a relic from simpler times.
Then Katara gets cast in a fucking Blue Spirit movie.
And yeah, Zuko’s thinking about high school again.
orKatara is famous and it's just a lot for Zuko to deal with. Then he bumps into her in a Rite-Aid.
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- Part 1 of ninety-nine percent fresh
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Flashpoint Act I: Kindling by BloodInTheTides
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
30 Oct 2025
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Nearly a year into her role as the Southern Water Tribe’s ambassador, Katara has accomplished what her counterpart from the North could not: securing reparations from the Fire Nation court. But when sabotage, scandal, and colonial unrest threaten the fragile peace of a post-war world, she finds herself pulled deeper and deeper into the viper’s nest of Fire Nation politics…and closer to its ruler. As rumors swirl and tempers flare between the Ambassador and the Fire Lord, Katara finds a helping hand, and unexpected solace, in the brother of one of her students. In a nation built on blood and lies, she must decide: how far is she willing to go to protect those who cannot protect themselves…and what will it cost her?
This is the first act of a five-act story. Act I is complete and comes to, what I consider to be, a narratively satisfying conclusion. I will be posting the remaining chapters of Act I every day during Zutara Month 2025.
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- Part 2 of Flashpoint
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Flashpoint Act I: Kindling
BloodInTheTides
Summary:Nearly a year into her role as the Southern Water Tribe’s ambassador, Katara has accomplished what her counterpart from the North could not: securing reparations from the Fire Nation court. But when sabotage, scandal, and colonial unrest threaten the fragile peace of a post-war world, she finds herself pulled deeper and deeper into the viper’s nest of Fire Nation politics…and closer to its ruler. As rumors swirl and tempers flare between the Ambassador and the Fire Lord, Katara finds a helping hand, and unexpected solace, in the brother of one of her students. In a nation built on blood and lies, she must decide: how far is she willing to go to protect those who cannot protect themselves…and what will it cost her?
This is the first act of a five-act story. Act I is complete and comes to, what I consider to be, a narratively satisfying conclusion. I will be posting the remaining chapters of Act I every day during Zutara Month 2025.
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Zuko's family is full of monsters. Zuko's friends are familiar with spirits.
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Humans, Spirits, and Monsters
(Last several chapters are outlines)
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Turtleducks and Glow Toads by ShiveringRose
Fandoms: The Dragon Prince (Cartoon), Avatar: The Last Airbender
03 Sep 2025
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In retrospect, it was probably Zuko’s fault for making a clearly powerful spirit mad. It definitely wasn’t his smartest move, but in his defense, he’d had a long day.
Zuko finds himself in the world of the Dragon Prince and things spiral from there.
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A collection of Zuko-centric one-shots that can be read independently with the exception of the ‘Flares’ series.
Fics mostly contain angst, hurt/comfort, whump, some humor, and of course the generic “The gaang finds out how Zuko got his scar”
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Toph just wanted everyone to play a game while they ate their lunch. The game goes like this. Everyone has to name three things that they like and three things that they don’t.
( :Or how an innocent game spirals out of control and Zuko and Katara bitch and bond over their mutual hatred of Jet, the Gaang learns that their resident fire-bender is actually a huge nerd and just how bad of a parent Ozai actually is)
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- Part 4 of Zuko
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Zuko Sozin has been bounced from foster family to foster family since his father burned half his face off at age 13. He's never been with a family like this one, though. This one's got two dads, foster siblings who actually seem to want to get to know him, and a high school with a yearly musical.
This one might just be for forever. But if Zuko's learned one thing in his life, it's not to hope for that kind of luck.
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This wasn't the first time he'd ended up in this situation. And it probably wouldn't be the last. It's not that he didn't appreciate his uncle's effort. He just thinks he might have got the wrong end of the stick.
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Iroh keeps setting Zuko up on blind dates whilst Zuko hasn't come out yet. And then there's Sokka.
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read between the lines by verdanthoney for lesmiserablol
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
03 Apr 2021
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During tech week for Love Amonst the Dragons, Sokka makes a big mistake that he's sure will cost him his friendship with Zuko. But then things turn out better than he ever thought they could have.
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5 Times Sokka Held Zuko's Hand + 1 Time Zuko Held Sokka's by 1Temmie_Official1
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
29 Sep 2020
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Based on a Tumblr prompt (pls shoot me some more at @transzukostanblog lol)
What it says on the tin.
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- Part 3 of Eric's ATLA One Shots
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Sokka let himself look back at the poster too. Admiring the lines of Zuko’s body. From the way his hair hung in his face, falling along his nose and sweeping to one side. The cock of his hip as he leaned into the brick wall. The shadow of his Adam's apple, the predatory look in his eyes. Sokka didn’t even realize seeing Zuko badass and scary would make him feel like that. "What's wrong with the directors being there?"
“Nothing, it's just I know you can only do Saturdays right now,” Sokka felt overwhelmingly warm. “Nobody’ll notice if JD were to get a little distracted on closing night.”
The heat started to make sense. “Oh.”Or; Horny Theater Nerds and Horny Band Geeks solidarity pt. 1 Featuring: a Denny's parking lot and the backseat of a 2005 Honda Civic
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All Is Forgiven, Baby! by BeignetBenny
Avatar: The Last Airbender
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Across the campfire, Toph cracked a joke and Zuko bit back a laugh, a small smile curving across his face.
Sokka was hit with the overwhelming urge to draw.
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FGKUAKHJDBS STOPPP STOP STOP
I love people expressing themselves through art, its so precious and such a vulnerable way of showing your love <33
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MY HEART!!
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“But whyyyy?” Sokka whined. “It will cement our friendship! It’s basically a friendship bracelet, just, ya’know, a permanent ink kind of friendship bracelet.”
“I am not going to let you pick out a tattoo for me. Especially not for some dumb tv show you found!”
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Basically, Sokka signs Zuko and him up for a reality tv show where they give each other tattoos as an elaborate way to confess his feelings.-
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Zuko blinks. Registers. And then he snorts a little. “What, because of my eyes?”
Laughter is bubbling up and bursting out of Sokka before he’s fully even understood what’s happening. He straightens to look at Zuko through eyes squeezed in mirth and slightly filling with tears. Zuko looks surprised but utterly delighted, and no force in the world can stop Sokka from planting a huge wet kiss on his cheek.
“Darling. Zuko. Sunshine. Honey. Oh my spirits,” he says, still laughing. “How long have you been robbing the world of your humour, my love. Snow and sea, I taught you too well.”A simple headcanon about favourite colours.
Sokka and Zuko learn more about each other as they watch the sun rise together. Turns out eyes aren't the reason after all, and maybe they were always sort of meant to be.
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A chance encounter with a stranger at a low budget play in the Lower Ring kicks off a friendship that changes the course of Zuko's destiny.
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Toph and zuko become friends in ba sing se and see shitty plays together
Sokka eventually joins. Becoming friends
Ends with the gang infiltrating the palace and Azusa arriving
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"His mom had given him a diary.
No, not a diary–– a journal, she had specified. He knows it’s a diary. Zuko thinks she only called it a journal because she thought that Zuko wouldn’t use it if she said otherwise. A diary is for feelings and angst, but a journal was for working through your problems without all that mushy, gushy stuff. It was for writing out simply what was in your head, nothing more, nothing less."
or, zuko through the years, struggling with himself and his sexuality.
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“Are you Broadway tickets? Cause I’d do anything to make you mine,” he even tried in a last ditch attempt.
Zuko looked up in confusion. “If you want tickets for my show, Sokka, you can just ask me. I’ll put them down under your name.”
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Sokka is running late for his midterm and ends up crashing into Zuko. And along the way, he falls in love with him.
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The boy was convinced, with the kind of terrified fervor that could only come from harsh words and painful blows, that every action he took, every thought he had, every impulse he forgot to suppress, was somehow a failure.
Was somehow rude, or disrespectful, or wrong.
Was somehow worthy of punishment.
So Iroh made tea. And made space. And made plans.
Iroh loves tea, and loves Zuko. Not necessarily in that order.
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- Part 9 of Change of Address
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Reunited with all of his friends and on the path to mastering all four elements with his masters by his side, Aang... could really use a break. At least a small one.
Thats why he decided to go on a series of mini-vacations with his friends.
However, a mini-vacation to a spirit library doesn't exactly go as planned, and soon the gaang are faced with one of the most inhospitable and dangerous stretches of desert in the world.
It may even prove to be too much sun exposure for even Zuko. Maybe.
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- Part 16 of Always trust Sokka's instincts