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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 messs 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 end his bad day(s), drinks tea with Iroh, get hugged (emotionally), and wonders what to do about it because he's emotionally constipated. (Spoiler:He cries)
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- Part 2 of Seasons In The Sun
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Sokka Rules the Fire Nation With a Phoenix by Pooka_Huldra
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
22 Nov 2025
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The sequel to Sokka Steals a Dragon from the Freedom Fighters.
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The tricky thing is yesterday we were just children by Acespace135
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
21 Nov 2025
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5 times Azula tried to protect Zuko + 1 time Zuko returned the favor.
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Goodbye Papa, Please Pray For Me, I Was The Black Sheep Of The Family by ecslipse
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
19 Nov 2025
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"You will learn respect and suffering will be your teacher"
These were the last words he hears while his father is holding him in a way that he can almost think of as kind. Instinctively, he wants to move away, but he can't, his father's strong hands firmly make sures that he stays in place.
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Zuko and what happened to him after Agni Kai
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- Part 1 of Seasons In The Sun
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Fire Nation red, the same colour as blood by IhadadreAMiwasNOTmarriedOK
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
17 Nov 2025
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The boiling rock was worse then canon. I'm making it more realistic guys.
Oh, and I'm thinking Hakoda can adopt a truamitized Zuzu, and Sokka loves his new brother.
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The Palace of Lies and Secrets by Genderfluid_Gremlin
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
07 Nov 2025
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Sokka has been hated and abused his whole life for being a firebender, so when the Fire Nation comes to abduct him, it turns out to be a blessing. Everything changes when he meets Azula. Befriending the damaged princess, Sokka will learn that his new home is not nearly as perfect as it seems.
Meanwhile, Azula has never forgotten seeing her brother Zuko get murdered by their own father. Ever since, she has done everything she could to survive, even if she hates herself for who she's become. Befriending Sokka sets her on a new path, but will she continue to obey her father, or choose to make a stand against the war?
Everyone believes Zuko is dead. Little do they know he lives, trapped in a Fire Nation prison camp. There, he will discover the true cruelty of the war and suffer in ways he never imagined. When he finally returns to the Fire Nation palace, he will have to decide whether to enjoy happiness with the people he loves, or risk everything for a chance at stopping the hundred year war.
Sokka, Azula, and Zuko have all suffered terribly, but by finding strength in each other, they have a chance at ending the war and bringing peace to the world- if only they have the courage to try.
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After being kidnapped by pirates, Prince Zuko is freed by two Water Tribesmen who don't believe he is actually the Fire Prince.
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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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"(Because, it seems, General Iroh of the Fire Nation could escape death at Ba Sing Se, but even he had to reunite with his son eventually.)
Iroh is dead."
Zuko's pattern of grief, as he discovers more about himself, his husband, their daughter, and most importantly how to keep living after his uncle's death.
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Elemental school or some shit by Firelord_Lee_Fromtheteashop
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
09 Sep 2025
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Fire, Earth, Water and Air.
The way they were sorted was stupid. Personality tests to access which house you'd fit in the most and then boom you share a common room with those people. He'd been put into Fire and everyone jokingly calls their common room and dorms the fire nation. Each dorm has a name and Zuko got Caldera.
The Earth kids were normally stubborn and into nature everyone called their area of the school the Earth kingdom. Some of the dorms were shared between the Fire and Earth kids people joked they were fire nation colonies.
The Water group was full of people who had big dreams and good grades but each year they were getting less and less. It was kinda sad really. Kids coming in each year were 11 years old meant to be happy and full of hope and all the other bullshit Zuko would've laughed at when he was 11.
The Air kids had the old towers of the school and everyone joked they looked like temples and so the Air kids had Air temples. Being sorted into the Air group was a nice way of calling them autistic. Lots of the kids had special nerdy interests but were the most bubbly and yet serious people Zuko has ever met.
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- Part 1 of ATLA pics cuz hyper fixation
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Bro, you need to stop passing out after every good deed. it's probably not good for your health by Gargargay
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
07 Sep 2025
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When Zuko first joins, He wouldn't sit with them to eat. And then when he was forced, he barely ate anything. But it's okay because he has rations left over. At least that's what Zuko said, He said he had plenty but who knows how long they'll last? He gives sokka and Katara Some rations for when they eat but it's probably because he has plenty left right? wrong.
Zuko is stupid and doesn't want to say no to the Gaang so he just ends up passing out from not eating
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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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Two Thorns and No Roses by zukobending
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
29 Jul 2025
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Sokka was banished from his tribe after he discovered he was a fire bender. Shortly after, he was 'banished' from Team Avatar and Sokka became an introverted, quiet loner that slept roughly; switching between places. But his one goal in life wasnt fulfilled, this goal was to become the most powerful fire bender to ever exist. (Well, the most powerful fire bender that WASN'T an Avatar)
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- Part 1 of The Thorns and Roses Series
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Zuko has nightmares and refuses to sleep.
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Theseus (What We Know Is Bound To Break) by GayBlueJay
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
16 Jun 2025
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A collapsed temple.
A tense alliance.
Painstakingly built trust.
Or: Iroh and Zuko nearly don't make it out of the Fire Temple during the Winter Solstice, but Aang, Sokka, and Katara manage to save their lives. Will the five of them be able to work together to stop the war once and for all? And when the unthinkable happens, will everything they’ve fought for fall apart?
A tale of love, despair, and finding a new family in the midst of the storms.
!! Rated Teen for swearing and canon-typical violence !!
(Title from the song "Theseus" by The Oh Hellos)
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Medic of the Psychic Wars by backstage_autorin
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
11 Jun 2025
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To modify a quote from Hamilton, "Winning is easy. Healing is harder."
After the war, Katara develops a new healing technique--one that focuses on mental wounds rather than physical ones. She decides to travel the world and start a healing revolution with a little help from her friends.Or
4 times Katara used her healing abilities on friends after the war ended and one time she used those abilities on an enemy.
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The pain of the lightning scar kept him up at night.
Zuko lay in his bed, unable to go back to sleep. He has had yet another nightmare about Azula hitting him with lighting. And whenever his dream self got hurt, his physical body recoiled as if he had gotten hit again. He could feel the scarred tissue pulsing from pain.
The pain wasn't the only thing keeping him up.
It was what came with it. The memories. The look on Azula's face as she struck him. How delighted she was. Like turning on him was the obvious choice.Or
Zuko can't sleep at night and thinks about his relationship with Azula and how he wishes it could have been different. Zuko realizes Azula had really messed up Zuko's perception of sibling relationships.Or
Zuko hears Sokka refuse to do something Katara asked and thinks she'll react the same way as AzulaSeries
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If I Came Apart When You Touched Me (Would You Touch Me Again?) by Save_My_Dreams_Like_Wine
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
11 May 2025
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Roommates AU in which Zuko wants to learn more about BDSM and kink culture, and gets Sokka (an experienced switch) to show him the ropes.
Featuring: heavy hurt/comfort, a 16 point plan to kill Zuko's shitty ex, improving relationships with sex through good communication and a shitton of therapy, Sokka's need to constantly touching the people he cares for, and Zuko having oodles of Trauma.
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Lessons For the Wise and the Struggling by quotidian_void
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
05 May 2025
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Zuko gives Hakoda a lesson in parenting, Hakoda gives Zuko a lesson in son-ing, Iroh and Hakoda have a custody battle, and Zuko gains two dads
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The Gaang accepts Zuko's offer to take him as their prisoner. Though he is their captive, they have no intention of harming him. However, one thing that people need to survive is oxygen, which becomes quite a hard thing to acquire if you're trapped in an airtight space.
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Zuko nearly suffocates due to the Gaang's poor thinking skills.
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Zuko keeps getting himself into near-death situations because he's Zuko