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Prince of Ashes by realityofanarchy
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar: The Last Airbender (Live Action TV 2024)
06 Dec 2025
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The Fire Nation has been at war for one hundred years. With his world reduced to cinders, the banished prince seeks redemption on the battlefield.
The Southern Water Tribe was defeated decades ago. With hope reborn, the last Southern Waterbender seeks to bring peace to a world at war.
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Prince Zuko is conscripted into the Fire Nation Army serving the General whose actions he'd protested.
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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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The Palace of Lies and Secrets by Genderfluid_Gremlin
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
06 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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Zuko (not) Alone: book three by Mozart_the_Meerkitten
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
05 Dec 2025
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What if Zuko had gone into his banishment alone, without Iroh, a ship and a crew? What if, after failing to capture the Avatar, he finally gave up and joined the Gaang (and turned into their protective older brother)? And how would that change his story and the stories of those around him?
(this fic is part of a series and you'll probably want to read Zuko Alone books one and two before reading this one)
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- Part 6 of Zuko Alone
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Zuko has not worn a red uniform in over seven years. His bones burn underneath his skin. Through these rags, anger fries his nerves. He needs to accept it, his fate as a traitor, but the chambers in his chest can not ignore this ache. And now there are blue eyes staring at him from across this cell, and he is unsure if the spirits intended for him to ever let go.
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The royals, as Sokka quickly learns, have a talent for breaking his heart.
Yue survives the North Pole. Months later, after Mai and Zuko’s breakup, the Council of the Nations demands that the young Fire Lord take a foreign bride to secure peace.
Yue and Zuko choose duty over love. And Sokka’s heart pays the price.
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Zuko doesn't wake up after the Lightning strikes his chest. It's too quick, and he can't siphon its blow. He falls, slowly dying. Slow enough to see his sister fighting Katara. Slow enough to see their battle unfold. When he finally succumbs the last thing he sees is Katara rushing over a second too late, trying futilely to save his life.
The only thing he hears are Azula's screams and cries, as she sits chained to the grate in a sobbing mess. When Zuko finally succumbs to his wounds he hears her cry.
When he wakes he hears a laugh, and it's the laugh of a child.
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Zuko does what he’s always done; he keeps going. There isn’t much of a choice for someone who was lucky to be born — you really can’t do anything unless you’re prepared to do it against the odds. He’d gotten used fairly quickly. Even so, it was getting harder by the day to keep going. He’d always thought that sometime, in the end, it would pay off. There would come a time after the fight, grueling work rewarded by rest and recognition. An end, or at least a respite, or an upturn of some sort. He still clung desperately to that idea. Losing sight of it felt like death.
Or: An alternative timeline of events in which some things are just slightly different, the timing is slightly off, and in turn the characters make vastly different choices. The story diverges from canon halfway through season 2 and Zuko joins the Gaang early under different and far less heroic circumstances. Heed the tags and warnings.
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A Little Bit of Death by trickyster_3000
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
05 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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"We're going to be alcoholics by the time we're thirty," Sokka sighed.
"You think we'll live to be thirty?" Zuko asked, honestly thrilled. Sokka had pretty good instincts. Perhaps Zuko should reevaluate his long term goals. He could start by having long term goals.
A more likely alternative was that Sokka was just a hopeless optimist. It just went to show, you never truly saw another man until you stood shoulder to shoulder against a fleet of war balloons intent on raining death upon the city you loved.
Zuko was just a normal guy with normal interests. He liked theatre, burglary, crotchety ostrich horses, watching the Blind Bandit crush her opponents in a glorious display of skill and violence... just your standard banished prince things. It wasn't his fault he kept stumbling into rebellions and uncovering long-buried secrets. Fine, maybe freeing the prisoners was on him, but he was completely innocent of all other treason. Zuko was his father's loyal son. He'd never betray his nation.
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we regret to inform you we are still in Ba Sing Se by Dioranelle
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
04 Dec 2025
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In which Aang and Zuko find themselves reliving the Crossroads of Destiny.
Aang wants to save Katara and prevent the fall of Ba Sing Se. Zuko wants to save his uncle without betraying his nation.
And neither of them wants the other to know they’re both stuck in the same time loop.
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how to light a match underwater by milliemartian
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
04 Dec 2025
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After the Gaang left Zuko in the North Pole, freezing in the snow, the Crown Prince of the Fire Nation died. There is no coming back from death, except for this stubborn teen boy whose destiny is at the will of the Water and Fire Spirits...
AKA: the AU where Zuko died in the North Pole, and the Spirits have mercy on him, turning him into the Spirit he claimed to be.
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Bloodlines of Legacy by rraebearr for phin_and_frob
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
03 Dec 2025
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Their sixth year has barely begun.
Zuko and Draco are best friends… And so are their fathers.
Both of whom loyally serve the Dark Lord as his Grand Banneret, with the full expectation of their son's to follow in their footsteps.
Something neither Slytherin wants, but accepts nonetheless, knowing they have no choice.
And then there's those two Witches.
Katara and Hermione.
Both captivating, brilliant, and completely out of reach.
Just as they've resigned themselves to watching from afar, a spark is ignited. A spark that threatens to burn everything they've carefully built to ash.
Because now, they're killers.
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Zuko adopts some Turtleduck ducklings when he returns home after three years away.
This changes more than he would like to admit.
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As the Gaang returns to the Earth Kingdom to find an earthbending teacher for Aang, Zuko struggles with his secrets when people from his past reappear.
While he knows that his loyalty lies with the Avatar, he is scared the others will not believe him if he reveals his real identity. He is also scared of damaging his newfound relationship with Sokka.
However, Azula might not leave him a choice.
Reading the first work in the series is encouraged.
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- Part 2 of Scars and Burns
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Zuko knows his father does not believe the Avatar is alive, he does not truly expect him to find them. He's being punished for his disrespect, for not living up to what his father demands. He might deserve it, but he won't spend his life looking for someone who hasn't existed in nearly one hundred years.
If he's going to be a disappointment, he may as well do what he pleases, and if that means joining a pirate crew, chasing some spirits and blowing up whatever Fire Navy harbors are on the way, so be it.
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A few months after Zuko's banishment he finds himself on a pirate ship.
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Sokka/Zuko is endgame, but it's the slowest of slow burns.
MCD is not either of them.
There are original characters, I promise they don’t suck — I’m also apprehensive about ocs in fanfic but hopefully you end up loving them as much as I do —
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And down below, behind the doors which locked to seem just like carving in the marble pavement, was resting place of those who stood above the nation of Fire, below Agni’s merciful hand, before the eternal Flames. Strong, dignified, fierce. Not really gods, but something more than human. And in this place laid final proof of their humanity. The Dragonbone Catacombs, crypt of the Fire Lords, those who shared blood of the Dragons and Sun.
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Zuko sees snow for the first time.
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In which Zuko isn’t the only one who doesn't like the plan to burn the Earth Kingdom to the ground.
The day before the Eclipse, Ozai is assassinated. Something in Azula breaks. There’s an army about to invade, and it’s Fire Lord Zuko’s problem now.
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How to Dance in Ba Sing Se by backstage_autorin
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar: Legend of Korra
30 Nov 2025
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After a semester of online classes while recovering from an injury that left him with a facial scar and eye damage, Zuko starts his first semester at Ba Sing Se University. In his first class, he meets Sokka, who recruits him for an on-campus theatre club. This story follows Zuko as he prepares for the show at the end of the semester, while adjusting to his new life away from Ozai, dealing with ghosts of his past, and navigating new situations (like an ableist professor, an infinite number of group chats, his first real extracurricular activity, a possible love triangle, and the first election cycle in which he will be old enough to vote against his father) with the support of his uncle and his new friends.