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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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The Jasmine Dragon has been formally invited to join the Earth King's retinue as he takes the monumental first step onto Fire Nation soil since the start of the Hundred-Year War! Truly, an honor.
Unfortunately, "The Jasmine Dragon" includes Li, the owner's grumpy nephew with an outrageously bad haircut and a wardrobe that's solely green, who knows way too much about the Avatar and his teachers, and who swears on his honor that he's totally, definitely not the Fire Lord.
Somehow, the other tea servers don't believe him. But they've never gotten a chance to prove it (or disprove it, in some cases) until now.
The Jasmine Dragon is going to the Fire Nation, and Hua Ming is going to show once and for all that shop-famous enigma Li is Lord Zuko himself, or she's going to die trying.
(She is going to die on this trip.)
Ft.: General Iroh playing the biggest prank in Fire Nation history, a five thousand yuan bet, and the Jasmine Dragon tea servers.
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The Pros and Cons of a Firebender by TheLegendCreator
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
21 Jun 2024
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Modern AU with Bending. Zuko is kicked out of his house on the day of the eclipse, and comes to live with Sokka and Katara until his uncle picks him up. Technically not complete, but can be read like it is.
Series on (probably) temporary hiatus. OG fandom came calling.
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The Healing of Lungs, the Burning of Water by Crunchy_grapes51
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
08 Oct 2025
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Ozai stepped closer, his shadow falling over Zuko like a shroud. A large, unyielding hand settled on the back of Zuko’s neck, the fingers coiling into the roots of his dark hair. “Weakness must be purged, Zuko,” Ozai murmured, his voice closer now, a silken threat. “Disobedience, cleansed. You will remember the punishment your idiotcy caused.”
Fear, cold and sharp, pierced through Zuko’s chest. He knew what was coming. His eyes widened, fixing on the dark surface of the water, and his heart hammered a frantic rhythm against his ribs. He tried to pull away, a small, desperate whimper escaping him, but Ozai’s grip was unyielding.
Then, with a swift, brutal motion, his head was plunged beneath the water.
Day 8- waterboarding
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- Part 8 of Whumptober 2025- multi fandom
- Part 7 of Atla whumptober 2025
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Burning Shorelines by veilednyx
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar: The Last Airbender (Live Action TV 2024)
18 Oct 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.
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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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A Little Bit of Death by trickyster_3000
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
14 Oct 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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Avatar: The last Airbender podfic by Djapchan, Dr_Fumbles_McStupid, Dr_Fumbles_McStupid writes (Dr_Fumbles_McStupid), GoLBCollabs (GodOfLaundryBaskets), klainelynch, Rionaa, Stardust_Steel, TickTock (Gla22), with_Djapchan (Djapchan)
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types
28 May 2022
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All Avatar: the Last Airbender podfics by Dr_Fumbles_McStupid (and sometimes intermittent supporting cast).
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Zuko never held a pivotal position in the royal family. He was just the son of Fire Lord Azulon’s secondborn, and brother of Azula, the prodigy. To most, he was nothing more than some entitled guy they had to tolerate, so insignificant that nobody really protested when a Water Tribe bride was deemed suitable for him.
Yet he soon finds himself kneeling behind his father at the Coronation Plaza, draped in funeral robes for the second time that month while the nation hails their new Fire Lord. Now, as the unwanted heir with a foreign wife, he must navigate the deadly politics of the Fire Nation court to survive.
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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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Zuko knew that joining the Avatar and his group would be hard. After all, he'd chased them around the world, found them in Ba Sing Se (on accident really), and ended up helping his sister almost end the existence of the Avatar itself. So...his chances really hadn't been that great in the first place. Honestly, why he'd thought it'd be easy, he really wasn't sure. Another bad idea to throw on the pile of Zuko's past. But hey, it wasn't all bad. He's...different now, at the very least. Now he just has to hope that means he's better too.
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- Part 1 of Through a Dragon's Eye
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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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Hindsight is Clear (Hindsight is Bitter). by GuildofScribes
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
03 Sep 2025
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As with most things in life, hindsight is the only clarity humans can get. Lieutenant Jee has more experience in this than he’d like.
Prince Zuko was a trial from Angi to either prove Jee a decent man, or drive him utterly insane.
It’s a pity that clarity doesn’t come when you need it, only ever when it’s all too late.
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If I Could Do This Shit Again by guttermud for AlibiNonsense
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
11 Oct 2023
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At the end of the day, Prince Zuko—when he had arrived, delirious and vomiting and choking on air—had been just a kid.
A kid in the worst place, at the worst time, in the worst of hands, and had come out of it bitter and vengeful and afraid.
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Awww lindo familia encontrada entre Jee y Zuko
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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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The city of walls and absolutely, terrible, horrible, idiotic, wonderful, ideas. by stellaforastar
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
18 Jun 2024
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Zuko's date seems to think his 'old friend Katara' landing in Ba Sing Se is fate and not the terrible inconvenience she is. She believes this so much she thinks Katara should be his date, not her.
In which Jin gets the feeling there's more to Lee than she first thought, this Katara girl seems willing to help her find out just what his whole deal is and Zuko just wants Katara to do something for herself for once. If that's gonna be him - then so be it.
There might be no war in this city, but that doesn't mean there isn't a whole lot of stupidity.
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- Part 1 of Jin-verse
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The Palace of Lies and Secrets by Genderfluid_Gremlin
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
18 Oct 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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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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x Reader works by TotallyNotAVigilante
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), Fields of Mistria (Video Game), Nightwing (Comics), Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pocket Monsters: Black & White | Pokemon Black and White Versions, Red Robin (Comics), Superboy (Comics), Teen Wolf (TV), Young Justice (Comics)
23 Jul 2025
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Purely self indulgent x Reader works I’ve decided to impose on ao3 users
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Second Chances by unevenpatterns
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
21 Oct 2024
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"Second Chances" 'verse
Great post-canon exploration, love the combo of disabled & attempted assassin Jet, liked the progression of their relationship even tho they couldn't communicate their way out of a paper bag for the life of them.
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