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When Aang throws Zuko out of the beach house during “Sozin’s Comet, Part 1,” Zuko hits his head much harder than Aang intended. Concussed and confused, memory fuzzy, Zuko forgets the past few months and thinks that he's still on his quest to hunt the Avatar. Surrounded by "enemies," on the run and desperate to escape, sure that he's being hunted down, Zuko doesn't make helping him easy - but his new family isn't about to give up on him without a fight.
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- Part 8 of Whumptober 2022
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"Something deep inside of the former general broke then, something that looking after his nephew had slowly begun to knit whole in the time since his son’s death. And now before him lay the little boy he had watched grow up, who had looked up to his strong, brave cousin Lu Ten and fought with his sister, who had never been enough for his father while always striving so hard to be everything that the man told him he should be. Smoke trailed from a scorched hole in Zuko’s tunic, and his lips were blue, and he had no pulse."
AU of "The Chase," where Azula strikes Zuko with lightning instead of Iroh, with even direr consequences for the banished prince. Thankfully, Team Avatar is willing to set aside their differences to try to save their fallen enemy. No character death!
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- Part 6 of Whumptober 2022
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“You have shamed me, Zuko,” Father’s eyes glinted, “and so shame shall be your new teacher.” He leaned in, breath hot on Zuko’s face in contrast to the cold shiver rolling down his spine. “You are now and forevermore the property of General Bujing, who will be free to do with you and to you whatever he likes. You will live out your days as he sees fit until he decides to end your miserable life. And I will never have to suffer the shame of seeing your face again.”
Or: Canon-divergent AU where Zuko is disowned and made a slave.
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- Part 1 of To Light a Fire
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Ozai meant for Zuko to be killed when he sent him away. The fact that he didn't leads to a lot of complications for the poor boy, who faces being a political prisoner and pawn until he is given over to Aang. Growing past the abuse is a winding road and Zuko is thankful he has friends for the first time in his life to help him through it.
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- Part 2 of Zuko Whump
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Zuko had been to hell and back.
He had tearfully met the unrelentingly cruel gaze of his father at thirteen, and slowly nursed himself back to life. He had scoured the earth for whispers of an almost-forgotten legend for years, never knowing if he could find home again. He had screamed his throat raw at the gods and the spirits with only the rumbling of thunder in response. He had been struck at with lightning from both remaining family members.
Yet he had never faced anything so perilous as this.
The nasty voice that dictated his life for years on end, the one that whispered in his ear about his incompetence and foolishness, resurfaced in a way that it had not in years.
He dimly noted that every muscle in Sokka’s body was tense.
It was just the two of them in the royal courtyard, and the awkward distance between them seemed all at once too large and too easy to cross.
“Zuko?”
The fire lord swallowed.
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this fic gently pulled my eyes out of my skull and stomped on them repeatedly<333
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Whumptober 2022 day 1 theme A Little Out of the Ordinary.
Prompts: Adverse Effects. Unconditional Restraints. “This wasn’t supposed to happen”.In the abandoned town Zuko saves Iroh from an attack by taking it himself.
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- Part 1 of Whumptober 2022
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Rumors of My Death Have Greatly Been Exaggerated by paintedbluerose
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
09 Oct 2021
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Day 9 of Whumptober Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated
Presumed dead/(blind) rage/tearsThe Winter Solstice episode where Earth Kingdom soldiers find Iroh goes a little differently. Zuko is not happy with the results. (Or can I make someone tear up in under 1k words?)
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- Part 6 of Whumptober 2021
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la parfum de fleurs by orphan_account
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
02 Jul 2024
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The news that Fire lord Zuko had been assassinated lands at Sokka's feet in a neatly-bow-tied scroll. A year passes.
Sokka receives the next letter from Iroh's favorite messenger hawk, which he catches as it struggles to land in his balloon.
The letter is short. His eyes skim the scribbled mess on the parchment. He reads the five words over and over and over until his brain catches up with his vision.Sokka,
Zuko is alive.
Iroh
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Zuko is assassinated. For a year, Sokka grieves his best friend and everything he never said, until Zuko appears right back where he died.
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Never Give Up Without a Fight by hearmerory
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
22 Sep 2025
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Fire Lord Azulon names Zuko as his successor.
This does not fit with Ozai's plans.
This does not fit with Iroh's plans.
This does not fit with Zuko's desperate finger hold of control over his life, which is quickly disintegrating around him. -
Roll with the Punches (and Let Your Hurts Heal) by Lazy8
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
20 Nov 2020
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On the way back from the Boiling Rock, Zuko is hiding something, not knowing how serious it actually is.
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- Part 16 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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bro if I were any one of those children and Hakoda showed up and was all comforting I think I'd just break down in tears tbh
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Throughout Zuko's entire short life, there was only one constant, one circumstance that remained the same no matter what, one that Zuko knew would never change. If he failed at something, he was punished – and only then did he learn.
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Zuko’s journey from learning through hurt to learning how to heal.
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Even as the self-proclaimed Plan Guy, Sokka has to admit he never saw this one coming.
Or: Zuko doesn’t make it out of the Fire Nation unscathed. Cue a whumpy rewrite of “The Western Air Temple.”
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Falling by sokkasinstincts
Even as the self-proclaimed Plan Guy, Sokka has to admit he never saw this one coming.Or: Zuko doesn’t make it out of the Fire Nation unscathed. Cue a whumpy rewrite of “The Western Air Temple.”
https://archiveofourown.org/works/37874551
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Zuko is just trying to survive Boiling Rock prison. He didn't make it out on time on the Day of Black Sun and frankly, he's lucky to be alive. His escape attempts have proven futile and he doesn't have any allies to speak of here. His best bet is keeping his head down and trying to survive.
Sokka is just here to break his dad out. It's his fault his dad was captured and he needs to fix this. His plan is working well enough so far; he's made it here, he's disguised as a guard, no one suspects him, now he just has to find his dad and get out.
Blue eyes meet gold. A flash of recognition. Shit just got a whole lot more complicated.
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I really, really liked it when Zuko offered himself as a prisoner to the Aang Gang and I was offended they didn't take him up on it.
The Gaang are still good guys, so this doesn't get too dark, but Zuko is good at bringing the hurt on himself all by himself. Zuko/Honor is the most abusive relationship in this fandom.
Mostly canon-compliant. Relationships that aren't cannon are ... merely flirtation. Sorry.
My earlier post "Laundry Day" is actually a part of this. You'll see when it comes in. :D
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From Prisoner to Friend, [Hello_Spikey]
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Zuko had scrubbed the smell of sex and blood of himself, but that didn’t stop it from clinging to the inside of his nose. Could the others smell it? Could they taste his shame in the back of their throats too?
Irrationally, Zuko wanted to crawl inside himself. Peel those watching eyes off him; don’t look at me! They knew, somehow. They could see it on him. Some kind of tell, some stain he couldn’t see or wash away.
What if they all knew? Laughing behind his back at what he’d given up just for a fraction of a chance to get his honor back.
What honor? Any scrap he’d had left after the Agni Kai was lost the moment he spread his legs for Zhao.
They could all see it, couldn’t they?
Zuko wondered if he could ever be rid of the things Zhao did to him.
Zuko deals with the aftermath.
He goes about it the same way he deals with every other shitty thing in his life: with gritted teeth, stubborn pride, and a whole lot of yelling.Series
- Part 2 of handgranade hearts
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Zuko thinks that Hakoda is going to hit Sokka.
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Change of Address by hearmerory
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
28 Nov 2024
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A collection of instances in a modern AU of Zuko's shitty childhood, featuring Ozai's dislike of his son's autism and sexuality.
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A series of one-shots exploring small moment within the Avatar series that may or may not have happened, focusing on the detail that Zuko may once have been trained to be an assassin. And I just can't stop writing him that way.
Filled with plenty of angst, questionable family relatives and Zuko feels!
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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.