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'Cause my heart softens to your name by solum_ad_legendum
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
15 Dec 2024
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"You’re super early," Sokka said. "The only person who arrived before you is Zuko.”
“Who’s Zuko?” Katara asked, and jumped nearly a foot when she realized they were not alone. A slim but muscled figure stood in the corner of the living room, in front of a stack of boxes all labeled "Nerf Weaponry."
He looked around Sokka’s age, or perhaps a few years older. His face was…
Horribly scarred. Katara’s heart clutched at the injured flesh around his left eye. But it was also…
Beautiful. There was no other word to sum up the angles and lines of his face.
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Really excellent modern AU that may have been abandoned. Really good interior POV of both characters, manages to maintain a lot of tension despite the fact both are clearly into each other because Zuko is so excruciatingly withdrawn
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Sokka had hoped, after staging an elaborate escape from a maximum-security prison and admitting his feelings for his former enemy, that he would get at least a day of peace and quiet before shit went sideways.
Instead, he wakes up to the ceiling collapsing around him.
or: a budding relationship, teenage angst, and the southern raiders
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- Part 2 of gimme shelter
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the boys were able to slip away, but that meant katara is stuck as prisoner of her greatest enemy until they can come rescue her. unfortunately for her, there's more to the Fire Nation prince than meets the eye.
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Book 1 AU
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Toph says, “It’s never nice when someone tries to make you feel small. Especially when they’re grown adults who should know better.”
Zuko blows out a breath. “Yeah. It’s--yeah.”
(Toph and Zuko, protecting each other at cross-national balls.)
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Everything in his life seems too good to be true. Sure, being Fire Lord is stressful and constantly throwing curveballs at him. And, yes, there are mounting problems on the international and domestic fronts. But he has the love of his life in his arms, someone to share not only his heart but also his problems and passion for helping the people of the world. Together, they've done incredible work. He can't believe how lucky he is.
And so, when Katara has an accident that wipes her memory of the past 5 years, putting him squarely back into "enemy," he can't help but feel it's what he deserves. And as hard as it is to accept that she can't remember their amazing love story, he just wants to have her in his life--even as just friends.
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Or, the story of how Katara loses her memories and still, against all odds, falls for her enemy once again.
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Started: 29/11/25
Completed: 30/11/25
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deep blue, but you painted me golden by Funkygourmetrva, Whimsyelderfan (Funkygourmetrva)
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
20 Apr 2023
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When Azula shoots lighting at Iroh, not Aang, in the Crystal Catacombs, she forces Zuko’s hand a lot earlier than in canon. Now surly and stuck with the Gaang, he tries to make friends, make amends, and keep a certain airbender out of trouble.
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The events of The Headband, if Zuko was around to dance.
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- Part 1 of small changes, big difference
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Fake marriage and dancing!
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Zuko just wanted a late night cup of jasmine tea, without a trail of guards and attendants behind him as a constant reminder of his new role and responsibilities as Fire Lord. Now he's watching assassins climb into his room while he clings to the wall outside.
Or what happens when your new Fire Lord is the Blue Spirit.
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- Part 1 of Assorted Benefits of Alternative Exits
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SILLYYYY
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dark and light (a silver lining in-between) by dragonbagel
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
06 Aug 2020
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Zuko wishes he could say his intentions were good. He wishes that he’d told Sokka about the Boiling Rock in a sense of comradery, and that he’d volunteered on this suicide mission because it was simply the right thing to do.
But he’s learned, over time, that he’s a selfish creature; it’s in his nature. He always wants what he can’t have—and this time is no different.
or: zuko helps stage a prison break and pines over a certain water tribe boy
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- Part 1 of gimme shelter
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aaa this was so good and the author's notes were fucking hilarious:
[AN: in this house we love and support the absolute hatred of haru’s mustache]
[AN: pour one out for the cabbage man]
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https://archiveofourown.org/works/25539409/chapters/61968277#bookmark-form
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you're my best friend and we're dancing in this world alone by holtzyrans
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
20 Oct 2020
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“So what do you say? You want to get married?”
Three months before his birthday, Zuko discovers there is a law that states if he is not married by the time he turns twenty-one, the crown will pass to whoever is next in line - in this case, Azula.
Luckily, the captain of his guard has a solution for that.
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Long after the events of Avatar: The Last Airbender, a lone historian finds the personal journal of Prince Zuko. Little does she know that he was also the mysterious anonymous author who took the world by storm. The world will never be the same. Inspired by and directly links to aloneintherain's Writer Zuko AU.
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Everyone has their soul family. The Gaang’s should have been whole — if only one hadn’t been dead for as long as the others could remember, and another hadn’t died prematurely in flames.
But some things are never truly lost.
Alternatively: the Gaang is a platonic soul family. It doesn’t change that much, until it does.
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Ch1 🫣
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Azula, former Princess of the Fire Nation, left the Palace three years ago in order to build up an alliance and take her father down, once and for all. But the world is changing - the Avatar's arrival is both a blessing and a curse, and with him comes a risk she might not be willing to take. Meanwhile, in a Nation more fragmented than ever, Zuko will do everything to cut off his weakness and folllow Ozai's orders - but he doesn't know if he can kill Azula.
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“It’s always a pleasure to watch destiny unfold."
Azula sighed, “Destiny will not win a war, Uncle. This is the result of all out hard work.”
“Ah, but just as we cannot control the skies and seas, sometimes we cannot control the path our lives take.”
“Tell me, Uncle. Do the tides control the ship, or do I?”
Uncle laughed, “Point made. Lead on, my niece, but be wary of incoming storms.”
For a moment, the world was still, and something tense settled on her shoulders. But she shook it off.
She had the Avatar, and soon she’d have the North.
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- Part 2 of Lily White, Poppy Red
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Last checked 12/12/2025, ch. 32
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Love, Anger (and other emotions no one wants to talk about) by zuxiang4
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
21 Jul 2024
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Suki looked at her, “You seem very wise in the matter, Katara, have you met your soulmate?”
Katara worked to keep her face still, not wanting to give anything away, “No.” She shook her head, innocently. “I just can’t imagine how hard it would be to suddenly loose my bending.”
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Soulmate Au where you swap bending with your soulmate.
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Love, Anger (and other emotions no one wants to talk about)
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Suki looked at her, “You seem very wise in the matter, Katara, have you met your soulmate?”Katara worked to keep her face still, not wanting to give anything away, “No.” She shook her head, innocently. “I just can’t imagine how hard it would be to suddenly loose my bending.”
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Soulmate Au where you swap bending with your soulmate.
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Katara broke up with Aang, but he won’t let her go. Mai dumped Zuko, and he’d do anything to get her back.
When Katara and Zuko run into each other in the hallway—literally—they quickly bond over their recent breakups. And soon, they stumble into a scheme to help Aang move on and to draw Mai back to Zuko: fake dating. It's a classic! What could go wrong?
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Zuko had never been in a place he could see so clearly before. In the palace, he was blinded by his shoes and the shade and the lack of fire – but not on the Wani.
On his little ship in the middle of the Ocean, everything was on fire. Inside its metal walls the air was thick and golden, soaked with chi that his own ‘saw’; the walls were living, breathing like the scales of a dragon, warm to the touch and just as easy to maneuver, dull red like sleeping coals; every flame, every firebender, every soldier was soaked with a chi and energy that Zuko mapped and ‘saw’,mind perceiving it as light and color. Compared to his ship, the palace was as cold and dead as the Arctic.
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An unfinished one-shot exploring what might have happened if Zuko suffered from Congenital Rubella Syndrome.
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- Part 1 of Scraps
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Katara isn't alone. She has Bumi and Kya. The three of them are family.
Zuko isn't alone either. He has Izumi. The two of them are family.
But maybe... just maybe, they can all be family together.
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Katara is a person of layers and complexity as much as Zuko is, but something about the way he casts his golden eyes at her often makes her feel like he can peel her defenses back and see right to the center of her soul. Exchanging one glance with him can induce her to feel utterly bare and startlingly seen—for everything that she is.
There are some things Katara doesn’t talk to Zuko about. The way she feels when he looks at her is one of them.
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Or, the twenty-four hours that change the dynamics of a relationship.
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- Part 1 of A Delicate Balance
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‘The Chemistry of Cooking,’ wasn’t exactly rocket science, but it wasn’t going to be a total cake walk, either. Well, except maybe in week 8 — that was when they were supposed to be baking cakes. The instructor tells them to pair up, and the girl in front of him turns around.
Zuko panics. This girl is way prettier than he expected, and now she is smiling at him hopefully.
“Do you have a partner?” she asks.
“No.”
“…Do you want to be partners?”
College AU where Zuko and Katara are chemistry 'lab' partners. Zuko will get more than he bargained for by saying yes.
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The Fourth Wall (or, The Ember Island Players) by audreyii_fic
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
17 Jun 2013
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The Gaang goes to see a play about themselves... and no one likes what they discover. A rewrite of The Ember Island Players. Sparrowkeet!verse.
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- Part 11 of The Sparrowkeet Series
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Zuko doesn't wake up after the Lightning strikes his chest. It's too quick, and he can't siphon its blow. He falls, slowly dying. Slow enough to see his sister fighting Katara. Slow enough to see their battle unfold. When he finally succumbs the last thing he sees is Katara rushing over a second too late, trying futilely to save his life.
The only thing he hears are Azula's screams and cries, as she sits chained to the grate in a sobbing mess. When Zuko finally succumbs to his wounds he hears her cry.
When he wakes he hears a laugh, and it's the laugh of a child.