4 Works in Zuko Character Study (Avatar)
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Goodbye Papa, It's Hard To Die by ecslipse
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
25 Nov 2025
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It had been three weeks since his injury on Agni Kai, two and a half weeks since the burn became infected, a week and a half since the infection healed, and a week since he woke up on the ship.
Zuko...wasn't sure how he should feel about this. He was banished.
Banished.
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Zuko is a mess and can't handle this well.
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In the order; Zuko has a bad day(s), meets a dragon hawk (spoiler:the dragon hawk adopts him), he tries to (literally) end his bad day(s), drinks tea with Iroh, gets hugged (emotionally), and wonders what to do about it because he's emotionally constipated. (Spoiler:He cries)
Series
- Part 2 of Seasons In The Sun
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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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“Why the fuck,” Katara asked, “were you making an omelette at three in the afternoon.”
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Zuko moves, tries to repair his relationship with his sister, almost burns the house down, and falls in love. It’s a grand time.
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A Zuko character study - his relationship with the words "I love you" and Love in general in relation to his family members.
Canon compliant for ATLA with a bit of added backstory to certain characters/situations.