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Captured or Rescued? by NightDrawsThings
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
23 Dec 2025
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Aang claims they rescued Zuko from the collapsing Fire Temple.
Zuko, presently tied up, considers himself captured by the avatar.
The irony is not lost on Sokka.
Katara hates this entire situation.[I will try and update on mondays but don't bet on it]
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Ursa fled with her first-born Son, after the Fire Lord raised his hand against them in an unimaginable act of cruelty, especially against Zuko, once more.
Hakoda didn't expect that he would drag a new member to his Crew out of the poor settlement in the North of the Fire Nation, instead of the supplies his ship needed.
Now it was up to him and his Crew, to ensure Zuko's survival.
------Aka, one more of those "Hakoda adopts Zuko" fics, with all the cruelty Zuko absolutely doesn't deserve
|chapter 1 and 2 are now improved, 3 and 4 will follow :)|
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Sick zuko recovering on hakodas boat, most of crew done tknow he's a fire bender yet.
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Taking a Break (In) by Duckduck_Scribblerswan (Caellie_E_and_Vaye_R)
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar: The Last Airbender
29 Nov 2024
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After a few agonizingly slow seconds of exhausted, confused pondering, Zuko decided there was only one logical conclusion.
“You’re right," he told the assassins, "I’m here to help you kill the Fire Lord.”
Like a genius.Caldera City is holding a festival to celebrate finally having enough funds to hold a festival! Although Zuko originally deemed himself too busy to go, Sokka managed to cajol him into attending his own party, in a knock-off Blue Spirit disguise for security purposes. Zuko sneaks back into the palace right in time to catch a group of assassins sneaking out. They failed to find the Fire Lord and assume he's reinforcements.
Zuko needs to find who ordered a strike on him before they do something stupid, like order a second one. Obviously, the most reasonable thing to do is join the assassins and hope they don’t figure out who he actually is. Obviously. There’s literally no other option.
Feat. Zuko's only two coping mechanisms (mortal peril and improv theater), the world's most incompetent hit team, and another knock-off Blue Spirit who's determined to prove this "Li" isn't who he says he is.
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A Little Bit of Death by trickyster_3000
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
19 Dec 2025
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To Zuko, life is a stage and an important play is taking place in front of him. He believes that it is his destiny to keep the story on track no matter what and ensure everyone gets a happy ending. Things would be so much easier if the characters would stop dying, killing him, and/or ending up in some sort of catastrophic situation. It doesn't really matter, he will reset the stage as many times as it takes until everything is perfect.
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Zuko can’t die. Every time he dies he wakes up at 6 am that morning and his body retains scars from the thinking that kills him. He developed a close relation with sato, a royal guard who is kind of his father figure. He only told jee and yue about his curse of not being able to die. He kind of got more insane and started having auditory hallucinations after dying too many times trying to save yêu (his first friend). Yue communicates with him through feelings. Ch 25
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Saw this on Tumblr and I just had to find it
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A New Throne For the Era by Ghost_Guard_13
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
01 Nov 2025
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With Zuko taking the throne after a hundred years of war, the leaders of each nation are invited to the Fire Nation to restore balance and discuss the healing of their world.
Not everyone is so willing to change.
Or; Hakoda goes to the Fire Nation, General Fong doesn't trust Zuko, Zuko tells them why he was banished, and Zuko gains a proper father figure AND a boyfriend.
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Past and Future Running Free by Lady_of_War_and_Heartache
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
23 May 2025
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Zuko doesn’t know exactly how he got here.
But when a Spirit grabs you by the arm, dances a waltz with you, reveals your past and future to the Avatar, and shows you getting shot with lightning, you don't ask questions. You just get on the flying bison and embrace a new destiny in an attempt to save yourself and your estranged sister from the monster haunting your home.
Especially when there are only two known lightningbenders left in the world, and the Spirit revealed that both of them are traitors waiting for their chance to strike.
Or: the author has let the Epic brainworms get to them, and Zuko is the one who has to deal with it.
Featuring: Zuko trading his non-existent impulse control for some new friends, an over-protective Gaang who is very okay with that decision, a baffled Azula who isn't exactly going to say no to the older brother that wants to clear a path for her to take the throne, and a confused Iroh who just wants to know what he did to get slotted into the same category as Ozai.
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"Why are you telling me this?" Sokka asks and he is surprised how flat he sounds.
"Sokka- You have the name of the crown prince of the fire nation on your wrist. He is..." she cuts herself off and her face scrunches up. Sokka nods to indicate that he has heard her and takes a big breath.
What the actual fuck?!
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Or: Sokka finds himself lost and stranded in Ba Sing Se, his friends might as well be death and he suddenly has a strange word he can't read branded onto his skin...... and then there is also Lee from the tea shop.
A soul-mate AU.
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Zuko is sacrificed to Agni when he is thirteen. His spirit lives on as a messenger for the sun spirit, for better and for worse.
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The Spare by burglar_bird
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
06 Jul 2025
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Zuko fails to impress the royal family when he's born and is shipped out to be trained as a court assassin. This goes south when he gets scouted by the Yuyan, and learns that his father's quick decision to label him as a non-bender may have been presumptive...
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How To Save (Seduce!) Your Villain In A Few Easy Steps; A Guide By Avatar Aang by NazakiSama166
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
10 Oct 2025
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“Shitty author, shitty novel! Prince Zuko deserves justice!” Aang’s famous last words as he took his last breath.
…Forced to read his favorite character’s unjust death and being killed after. Aang had had enough when he was yeeted into the same novel he died cursing because an annoying entity called ‘The System’ thought it would be fun transmigrating him into the most annoying novel he had the misfortune of reading.
To make things worse, Aang didn’t become an anonymous NPC, so he could help his favorite character from the sidelines. Instead, he became that damned Protagonist who will end up killing the Scum Villain, Prince Zuko!
……You know what? Let the world burn and the plot go up in flames! Aang was going to give Prince Zuko the happy ending he deserved, one way or another, even if it killed him!
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A different retelling of ATLA, SVSSS style!
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- Part 2 of The Woes Of Transmigration
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Very long chapter! Interesting and a good read.
Latest read: chapter 11
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Spirit touched is overrated by Autistic_Turtle_Duck8888
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
17 Dec 2025
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“Sooooo, now that you’re here does this mean you’ll teach me firebending?”
“YOU KIDNAPPED ME!!!!!”
Or: Instead of capturing the avatar spirit touched Zuko says fuck you and runs off to become the blue spirt, perfect content with spending his days sabotaging the fire nation
Until the Gaang kidnaps him to become Aang’s firebending teacher, of course
Rated teen for swearing
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When Zuko walks out wearing Avatar Roku's headpiece, Aang is extremely shocked.
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The Boy Who Was Favored by the Spirits But Did Not Know It by Katowisp
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
05 Dec 2025
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The myth of Zuko, the boy favored by the Spirits but cursed not to know.
“What is your gift, Koh?”
“I have spent many years among mankind and I wear their faces. To your child of fire, I give the blessing of doubt.”
Wherein: Prince becomes the Spirit Speaker, equal to the Avatar.Esto ahora está en español, por favor échale un vistazo:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/70303946/chapters/182583761Series
- Part 1 of No Harbor but Honor
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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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Burning Shorelines by veilednyx
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar: The Last Airbender (Live Action TV 2024)
21 Dec 2025
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Ember Island, 110 AG.
A party waiting to ignite.Ten years after the end of the war, Fire Lord Zuko opens the doors of his Ember Island villa for a celebration meant to symbolize the end of summer. What he doesn’t expect is to see her again.
Katara arrives with the weight of the past in her chest. She tells herself it’s just for one night, one reunion, nothing more. But as the day stretches into night, every glance across the room feels like history catching flame.
Over the course of a single night, old loves will resurface, jealousies will sting, and the weight of the years will press against the present. By dawn, the villa will burn, but before the first ember falls, Katara and Zuko will have to face what has always lingered between them; the fire they can no longer bury. And by sunrise, nothing between them will ever be the same.
Because Ember Island doesn’t just reveal who you are.
It reminds you of who you’ve always been. -
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The royal order had sent a massive shockwave through the Wani.
It was horrifying to realize Admiral Zhao had that much sway with the Fire Lord.
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What if Zuko's story gradually drifted away from canon after his first Agni Kai?
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All The Words You Don't Say by burglar_bird
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
06 Jul 2025
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Zuko rarely made noise. Even his voice echoed his loyalty to the quiet; brittle, raspy, reluctant to leave his mouth, even when he forced it through his teeth. People shied from him, off-put by his hoarse words and empty stare. His silence spoke for him. It said all the words he couldn’t voice until there was no need to open his mouth at all.
But when he meets the children in the desert, that begins to change.
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- Part 3 of The Spare
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Literally gonna set myself on fire I love this shit so much. Had to break my ultra-excited comment on ch3 into two because of how long it got.
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The Palace of Lies and Secrets by Genderfluid_Gremlin
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
12 Dec 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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Bleeding Hearts, Burning Hearts by Anonymous
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
12 Nov 2025
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Azula's eyes are clear and curious and pure. This child doesn’t have to turn into broken, unhinged teenager ready to strike down her own brother with lightning. She doesn’t have to grow up thinking herself unlovable.
"Let’s have each other's backs," she says, looking right into Azula's innocent eyes. "Always."
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Or, a random woman dies and is reborn as Prince Zuko of the Fire Nation. She’s not happy about it, but no one’s asking for her opinion. So here she is, trying to figure out how to use her vague memories of the show to survive until Aang’s return, while also attempting to (manipulate) guide her affection-starved little sister toward a redemption arc. Gotta take that silver sandwich bite!
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