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The Hundred Years War is over.
Fire Lord Zuko, almost thirty and still without an heir, finally agrees on the counsel of his advisors to take a wife, but old fears and nightmares stir to life, leaving him caught between duty and distrust...
Ikaiya Fe Yui of the Earth Kingdom is the last of a once-proud family, and when she answers a summons to the Capital City, she intends to make a decent match in order to support her aging mother...
And somewhere, on the roads and in the forests, in the cities and in the villages, something from the past is about to come to life once more.
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By the time he turns 13, Zuko knows how to care for scars better than most people in the Fire Nation army.
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Things don't go to plan during their stay at Boiling Rock Prison. The escape plan is delayed, and the Warden decides to act more severely on his grudge towards Zuko. After poisons, hallucinations, and torture, Sokka doesn't know how he'll get his friend out of this alive.
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- Part 1 of The Chains You Wear
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...which really isn't very quiet at all. Or, in which Lieutenant Jee tries very hard to be a Responsible Adult, with mixed results.
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Ever since they’d returned from the Boiling Rock, Zuko hadn’t been able to make himself stop shaking.
Or: After the Boiling Rock, Zuko's anxiety is running at an all-time-high. One thing leads to another, and it ends with him having a full-blown panic attack slash flashback over dinner. Just great.
(Inspired by about every other Zuko-has-a-panic-attack-fic ever.)
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- Part 1 of From Eden
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I got second hand embarrassment. Zuko has a flashback of the Agni Kai in the middle of dinner and has a panic attack.
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"His wife longs for a baby so keenly now that he likens it to grief. He can feel it in his heart, every hour of every day, as powerfully as if the emotions are his own. He can feel it in this very moment, stabbing into him like needles. He wants to apologise, to get on his knees and beg at her feet - for forgiveness, for more time, for her to understand - but he knows those gestures will not comfort her. Only one thing will make her truly happy and he can’t give it to her."
Or: Katara wants a family to call her own, but Zuko struggles with the idea.
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- Part 6 of roots and wings
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Steer your heart past the truth you believed in yesterday by alacrxn
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
11 Oct 2025
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Zuko’s life changes, and he changes with it.
Or: The good, the bad and the life in between.
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Zuko's doing his best, but he still doesn't even know why the Avatar and his friends didn't kill him on sight.
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Azulon meets his son’s glare head on. “This sacrifice is not only for Agni, but for our people. Morale is gone, it is time for us in the palace to place our lot with peasants. Bender or not the prince must die, for a god, and for the people.”
Understanding seems to come to Ursa and Ozai at the same time. Horror crosses Ursa’s face and she reaches for her husband's sleeve digging labor broken nails into the silk.
“Ozai, we cannot lie to a god.”
Ozai shakes her off, “A god that let his chosen people suffer. Father is right, we are at war, the loss of a son will show our people how we tried and lost as much as them.”
Ursa shakes her head, chest heaving, “We cannot lie to a god.”
“I don’t care about a god.” Ozai leans down to look his wife in the eyes, touches her face like she is something that held value and now sits on the shelf of an antique store. “Let the people’s anger be on the god when our efforts fail.”
“If he does not bend,” Azulon muses, bringing the baby back to the cradle in his arms, “then he does not bend, but that mustn't escape the palace walls.”
Azulon hands Ozai his son and Zuko wails like he has been set ablaze.
Or, Zuko was born to save the Fire Nation.
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i've seen your face underneath my dreams by mangomonk
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar: Legend of Korra
13 Oct 2025
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Since the end of Hundred Years War seven years ago, Fire Lord Zuko has been isolated in the Fire Palace, fending off assassinations and mending the Fire Nation and its burnt bridges, all while putting off the Fire Sages' demands that he take a wife. When Iroh finally finds him a match, he reluctantly agrees to the marriage, with the expectation of never speaking to her again and sending her off to Ember Island.
It proves to be more difficult than he expects though, when he realizes that his new wife is as stubborn as a dragon moose.
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The boy flew up the stairs, a flurry of black clothes against gray steel. His footfalls still fell like feathers on wood, he was glad he knew how to make his steps quiet. Otherwise his life would’ve been over right there, right then. The boy slid the door open, peeking no more than his eyes above, he looked around and quickly took note of the few unconscious men scattered around.
The boy scrambled into the tower, looking around in awe. He counted 3 unconscious men, one of said men possibly dead. Several bruises littered across each of them, one had a slice to his arm, another had his ankle at a weird angle, and the third had his arm twisted in such a way that it had begun to lose air. He tensed, screams could no longer be heard outside. In only moments the worst happened.
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- Part 1 of Blood drips from your tainted wings
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The boy flew up the stairs, a flurry of black clothes against gray steel. His footfalls still fell like feathers on wood, he was glad he knew how to make his steps quiet. Otherwise his life would’ve been over right there, right then. The boy slid the door open, peeking no more than his eyes above, he looked around and quickly took note of the few unconscious men scattered around.
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This party sucks.
Not that Zuko really has much basis for comparison.
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The PIA by HallowVal
Fandoms: Five Nights at Freddy's, Batman - All Media Types, 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga), Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Ao no Exorcist | Blue Exorcist
01 Oct 2025
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Michael is encouraged to go to the AA equivalent for having massive parental issues. He meets some interesting people there.
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purely for shits and giggles
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They stare at the fire for a while before Sokka does ask a question.
“How long ago did it happen?”
“A little over three years.” it feels like it’s been longer–and sometimes, like now, it feels like it happened days ago.
“Oh.”
He can hear Sokka doing the math in his head. They’re around the same age.
“...Was it an accident?”
Zuko takes a slow breath. He’s never had to tell someone about this before. He’s not sure if he’s ready.
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Like Something Out of A Spirit Tale by Empress_of_Trash
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
09 Oct 2021
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Instead of just investigating the Avatar’s past lives and bending techniques, Zuko spends three years investigating every sign of spirits interfering with the world in hopes of finding the Avatar. Things escalate quickly.
In which Zuko and all his crew becomes certified ghostbusters, folk heroes, and may or may not start a rebellion.
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- Part 1 of Spirit Tales
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Sokka has always had bad luck. He might just be the meat and sarcasm guy but after getting captured, twice, he finds himself becoming the meat, sarcasm, and single father guy.
*Note* This story isn't as funny as the title may seem. Originally this was a small joke when I started writing it but because I can't do anything without being serious and adding angst, this story is probably more serious than the title implies.
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- Part 1 of Baby Bending - a series
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ch 5
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Healing has no timeline. This is something Katara reminds Zuko when he wakes up from a bad nightmare. Zutara.
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- Part 3 of Zuko Hearts Katara
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Baby Bending is the main story, so definitely please read that first. Any other stories after that are just fun snippets to build the world a bit more.
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He would allow Lu Ten his moment of planning, and then demand to be told every single detail. For if this peace his mate seemed to be clinging to stood any chance of endangering their family, Zuko would raise hell.
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- Part 3 of Royal Consort
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Prison Break by AttentionSpanOfGoldfish
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
11 Sep 2024
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The boiling rock surely is a wonderful episode, and I thought it would be interesting to see it in these settings. Especially since suddenly there are two adult men with the Gaang and Zuko has the amount of issues that should be illegal. Fortunately he also has friends.
This is set in the “Collared” universe, I recommend reading the first part so there won’t be any confusion, but it’s not obligatory.Series
- Part 2 of Collared
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