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nobody can save me by pansexualnotmansexual
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
18 Oct 2025
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This fic begins shortly after Zuko’s coronation. A team of doctors and healers are sent to the Fire Nation to look after the health of Team Avatar, including a therapist. As Zuko’s mental health plummets, the Gaang urges him to seek help. An almost-assassination and a suicide attempt send Zuko spiraling, oscillating between "okay" and "not okay."
This fic is an exploration of bipolar disorder and its impact on Zuko, as well as the ones around him.
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- Part 1 of The Rise and Fall of a Bipolar Fire Lord
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Book 3 of Lu Ten and Zuko series.
Their defeat in Ba Sing Se left the two cousins being seperated once again. While Zuko managed to escape with his friends/found family, Lu Ten made a sacrifice to go back to the palace.
Pretending to have switched sides, he tries to gather information to help his friends, without his evil Uncle Firelord Ozai to suspect a thing.
Now Lu Ten and Zuko are back in the Firenation, their old home, but under two completly diffrent circumstances. But both have the same goal:
Stop Ozai and seeing each other again.
--It is advised to read the previous two Books to get context for this one-
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- Part 3 of Lu Ten and Zuko
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Soulmates share dreams. Katara’s soulmate is Fire Nation – which becomes much more problematic after their meeting in the reality.
Or: Katara befriends an enemy, Zuko has several life crises, Aang becomes a Zutara shipper, and Sokka develops a habit of adopting siblings. Azula just wants her family back.
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After The Fire Nation's failed Siege of the Northern Water Tribe, travelling with the Northern Water Benders south they separate to continue their journey to find an Earth Bending Master. However, with new enemies at their heels on the Firelord’s order to kill the Avatar.
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Please note this is a sequel, it is highly reccomended to read the first one before this one.
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- Part 2 of Avatar Zuko AU I made from spite
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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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Dragons over Snakes by WHYISEVERYNAMETAKEN
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
18 Oct 2025
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A Forward by the Scholar Zuyen:
It has been a long upheld truth of our great nation that after the twin falls of the disgraced Fire Lord Ozai and Princess Azula, and their subsequent imprisonments, neither of the two ever regained contact with our well-respected Fire Lord Zuko. While Fire Lord Zuko ensured the humane holding conditions of his estranged father and sister immediately after his ascension to the throne, he reportedly never saw a need to continue communications with them. Before writing this book, my answer to such an obvious statement would have been, "Blasting flames—well of course he didn't!" Now, though, my answer would be quite different. But best leave that til later.
Fire Lord Zuko, when questioned about such matters, only ever gave one answer in response, saying: “A true leader has no need for snakes and scoundrels. Dragons are far superior.”
Given his far more professional reply, it is no wonder that he was the fire lord and I am a less-than-humble scholar.
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Two siblings learning how to be siblings for the first time via letters. And the scholar from a century later who found them.
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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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How To Be Broke For Dummies by sillylittlerobot
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
17 Oct 2025
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On Zuko's eighteenth birthday he finally does it.
He packs up everything and leaves his childhood home behind, away from his abusive father to forge his own path in life. He leaves behind his fancy muscle car, his room the size of a small apartment, and cuts off every last tie he has to Ozai; including his financial ties.
Before he starts college, Zuko realizes that he has no idea how to not have money. That money doesn't just magically spawn in his wallet anymore. He needs someone to teach him how to be poor. Because what, exactly, is student loan debt?
"Katara I thought you said we were having a struggle meal."
"We are!"
"That's not a meal, that's just a tortilla with butter."
Modern day A/U in which Katara teaches Zuko how to be a successful broke college kid.
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Day seventeen - Family values by Ice_Queens_rule, Snark and coffee (Ice_Queens_rule)
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
17 Oct 2025
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- Part 18 of Cultober 2025
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Sand Encrusted Fingernails by Verfruity
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
17 Oct 2025
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Instead of getting a ship and the task of finding the avatar, Zuko is dropped off in the earth kingdom. Hes still not sure how he ended up in the desert. And why are these sanbenders so nice?
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- Part 1 of SEF Universe
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i could bring fire from the mountain by kajiyamas
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
16 Oct 2025
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Toph and Zuko are a whole lot more alike than they thought. Buried by lingering curiosity, Zuko asks Toph a question that's been bothering him for a long while in the midst of a night full of self-reflection.
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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)
16 Oct 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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Fire was an element that either commanded respect or consumed fear. Aelita Kenshin had experienced both feelings during her sixteen years of life. A firebending master reduced to nothing but the hollow shell of what she once was, the Butcher of Ba Sing Se no longer trusted the power beneath her fingertips.
The entire world believed the Avatar to be dead and nearly all of the Akira's world thought she was too. Forced to leave Aelita's body behind, Aang and the others are left to grapple with the grief that threatens to overwhelm them with only their desire for peace and justice pushing them forward.
Welcomed home as war heroes next to their sister, twin Princes Zuko and Zetzu are thrust back into the game of thrones, forced to face their demons. With tensions rising faster than Sozin's Comet approaches, it's soon clear that only one of them can be left to inherit their family's scorched legacy.
Fire is the element of power. The people of the Fire Nation have the desire and will to achieve what they want. Only time will tell if that power and desire will be too much to handle as the fate of the world is forged in fire.
Book Three of the series Akira: The Legend of Aelita.
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- Part 3 of Akira: The Legend of Aelita
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“So who is Zuko, really?” Toph asks. “I thought he was just a regular Firebender who didn't like you very much. I didn't know his sister was favored by the Fire Lord.”
“His sister is definitely favored by the Fire Lord,” Sokka says irritably. “She was his guard during the Eclipse. And she's incredibly loyal, just like Zuko is. That is, was.”
“No wonder, with that name,” Katara mutters. “What else would you expect from siblings named after the Fire Prince and Princess?”
In which everything stays the same, apart from the fact that the Gaang doesn’t realize their local firebender is actually Prince Zuko until coronation day.
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The Blue Dragon by WeirdScribe95
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic)
15 Oct 2025
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After being burned by his father for refusing to fight him in an Agni Kai, thirteen-year-old Prince Zuko wants only two things: to restore his honor and re-earn his father's love, and to find some way to heal his face. So when a Fire Sage tells him there's a mystic spring deep under the castle that can grant him both things, he listens.
The next thing he knows, he wakes up in the middle of a city with foul air, technology beyond his wildest dreams, and lunatics on every corner. Shortly after he firebends to protect himself, a man dressed mostly in black catches him.
Who knew that being sent to another realm would be the best thing that ever happened to him?
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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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Wind to Waves to Dust to Ashes by AbroMelon34105
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
14 Oct 2025
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100 years ago, Fire Lord Sozin lead the Fire Nation into war against the other three nations, completely wiping the Air Nomads off the map and turning his sights to the Water Tribes and the Earth Kingdom. The Avatar, the sole person responsible for the peace of the world, vanished around this time and hasn't been seen since, and many have begun to lose hope that he even still exists.
Aang was never the Avatar. His twin sister, Anya, was saved at birth because she was the Avatar's next incarnation. Now, a hundred years have passed and as the last Airbender, it's his jobs to teach the current Avatar airbending...whoever that may be.
For three years, Zuko has searched for the Avatar at the behest of his father, along with the promise to have his honor returned to him. Desperate, Zuko has put every once of his being into this search, and now his luck seems to be turning around. An airbender - the last in the entire world - has been sighted in the Southern Water Tribe, and Zuko just knows that he knows where the Avatar is - if the nomad isn't the Avatar himself.
Yet he keeps insisting he's not. So if he's not the Avatar, then who is? And what is going on with these damn dreams?
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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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i've seen your face underneath my dreams by mangomonk
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar: Legend of Korra
13 Oct 2025
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Since the end of Hundred Years War seven years ago, Fire Lord Zuko has been isolated in the Fire Palace, fending off assassinations and mending the Fire Nation and its burnt bridges, all while putting off the Fire Sages' demands that he take a wife. When Iroh finally finds him a match, he reluctantly agrees to the marriage, with the expectation of never speaking to her again and sending her off to Ember Island.
It proves to be more difficult than he expects though, when he realizes that his new wife is as stubborn as a dragon moose.
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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)
13 Oct 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.