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Disquietude...May you rest, it will pass by FoolishWriter
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
05 Oct 2025
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What are your thoughts of Zuko?
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- Part 4 of Writober 2025
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I Breath and Smoke and Exile Fire by Crunchy_grapes51
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
04 Oct 2025
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“Stop crying.”
Zuko tried; he clamped his teeth down on his tongue until he tasted copper. But the tears were beyond his control, a betrayal of his own body. They streamed down his face, a visible admission of his smallness.
The slap came without warning. It was sharp, instantaneous, and loud, cracking through the vast silence of the training hall. It spun Zuko’s head sideways, sending a white flash of pain through his skull.
He stumbled back, clutching his cheek. The pain was shocking, but the abruptness of the violence was worse.
“I told you to stop crying,” Ozai stated, towering over him. He lowered his voice, making the words intimate and horrifying. “Tears are a plea for pity. You will never beg for anything. You will never show me this weakness again. Do you understand, Prince Zuko?”
Day 4- stop crying
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- Part 4 of Atla whumptober 2025
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In the "Going Home Again" comic, Zuko is reluctant to go back to the Fire Nation in the wake of Ba Sing Se's fall and the Avatar's death. That is, until he gets to spend some time with Mai and they rekindle the feelings they once had for each other.
This is not that story.
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A Little Bit of Death by trickyster_3000
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
03 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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Hiding Never Works by Crunchy_grapes51
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
03 Oct 2025
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“Hey! Sparky!” she yelled, her voice cutting through the lingering peace. She jumped up, her bare feet already moving, mapping the trajectory of his fall. “Twinkletoes! Katara! Something’s wrong with Sparky!”
Aang, who had been meditating peacefully in a corner, snapped his eyes open. Katara, washing her face at a nearby fountain, turned, her face tight with concern. Sokka, halfway down a hall, stopped dead.
“What? What’s wrong, Toph?” Katara demanded, rushing towards her.
“He just… fell,” Toph said, already striding purposefully towards the western wing, knowing exactly where Zuko’s specific seismic signature had vanished. “Hard. Something’s wrong. Really wrong.”
Day 3- hidding injury
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- Part 3 of Whumptober 2025- multi fandom
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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 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.
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I look in people's windows by KatstielAri
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
03 Oct 2025
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Right after joining the Gaang, Zuko struggles to reconcile the things he did in the past with his place among his new allies.
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For Whumptober day 3Series
- Part 2 of Kat's Whumptober 2025 fics
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Feel Me on the Ground Tonight by Crunchy_grapes51
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
03 Oct 2025
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Zuko lay on his thin mat, tangled in his blanket, body a contorted mess of limbs and fabric, drenched in sweat, face twisted in pure, unadulterated horror. His scar burned against his ashen skin, his eyes squeezed shut, mouth agape, letting out choked, desperate sounds. He wasn’t fighting an enemy—he was fighting himself. And for the first time, the Gaang saw the terror he had long buried beneath duty, anger, and exile.
Day 2- Nightmares
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- Part 2 of Atla whumptober 2025
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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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Have We Met Before? by makeitanotherday
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar the Last Airbender - Fandom
01 Oct 2025
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Zuko had been here before. Exactly five times today.
It always plays out exactly the same, he wakes up to his uncle singing a song about Ba Sing Se, he sees the beam of light. He barges into the village. He gets hit with a boomerang after beating up the Water Tribe’s poor excuse for a soldier.. though after the third attempt, Zuko had started to dodge that. The Avatar appears, sacrifices himself, then escapes.
He goes to sleep, and then it begins again the second he woke up.
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Time Loop fic starting from the first episode with Zuko and Sokka -
The Scars of Faded Flames by I_make_shit_up
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
30 Sep 2025
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Zuko doesn't know what would have happened if he'd stayed. Maybe his father would have humiliated him further maybe he would have changed his mind (unlikely), but whatever choice he would have made Zuko made it for him. A person can only take so much before they break after all and waking up alone and in pain was the final straw for the 13 year old boy. He's lucky he ended up where he did.
3 years after the Agni Kai that left him blind and deaf on the left side of his face Zuko lives as the adopted nephew of a small town's healer. The villagers have long stopped caring about the fire dancing over his finger tips since he's proved he only uses it to brew their medicine.
Lee has no desire to be dragged back into his father's war, but what can he do when he's the only firebender in the Earth Kingdom that the avatar he was once tasked with hunting down can hope to learn from? -
nobody can save me by pansexualnotmansexual
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
30 Sep 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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Azula, former Princess of the Fire Nation, left the Palace three years ago in order to build up an alliance and take her father down, once and for all. But the world is changing - the Avatar's arrival is both a blessing and a curse, and with him comes a risk she might not be willing to take. Meanwhile, in a Nation more fragmented than ever, Zuko will do everything to cut off his weakness and folllow Ozai's orders - but he doesn't know if he can kill Azula.
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“It’s always a pleasure to watch destiny unfold."
Azula sighed, “Destiny will not win a war, Uncle. This is the result of all out hard work.”
“Ah, but just as we cannot control the skies and seas, sometimes we cannot control the path our lives take.”
“Tell me, Uncle. Do the tides control the ship, or do I?”
Uncle laughed, “Point made. Lead on, my niece, but be wary of incoming storms.”
For a moment, the world was still, and something tense settled on her shoulders. But she shook it off.
She had the Avatar, and soon she’d have the North.
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- Part 2 of Lily White, Poppy Red
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The Fire Prince by CrystaliesAmegria
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar - Fandom
28 Sep 2025
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Zuko eventually succumb to his depression and run towards to the sea to kill himself.
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The Violent Price of Peace by rraebearr
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
28 Sep 2025
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Eleven years after Sozins Comet, and The Avatar brought peace to the world, nothing is the same.
The Avatar is missing. Tui and La are dead and lost to the spirits. Balance is broken.
She’s the last waterbender alive.
Waking up knowing nothing and no one, she has to depend on the scarred stranger calling himself “Lee.” He’s murderous, brooding, and secretive.
Given the name Kya by her companion, she follows Lee on an unknown journey.
Lee must keep her hidden before the Lord of Embers finds her and destroys the already fragile balance.
The Lord of Embers is once again trying to stop the cycle.
End the Avatar.Series
- Part 1 of An Eternal Dance of Balance
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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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“Sokka,” Fire Lord Zuko speaks up. “Are you done talking to them? Because if so-”
“Let's say I'm done, but we'll still have to talk,” says Older Sokka. “We have a problem. More precisely, five problems. These are not members of the New Ozai Society, trying to kill you by disguising themselves as us. It's us. From the past.”
“Hey!” objects loudly younger Sokka. “What are you doing, future me?”
Or: on their way to the North Pole, Aang, Katara and Sokka are ambushed by Zuko and his uncle. Somehow, this leads to them visiting the future.
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zuko navigates trauma and his sexuality through his last few years of high school
rated t for swearing
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Katara had been so sure of her plan to liberate the prison rig. How was she to know how efficiently the guards would respond to an uprising? Zuko had been positive that his best course of action was to travel separate from his Uncle. What else was he supposed to do when he came across a person from his past? Sometimes, through all the doubt, two people collide. Eventual Zutara.
This is both a Canon Related and Canon Divergent, reimagined ATLA story. Katara joins Zuko in his journey of self-discovery across the Earth Kingdom as personalities clash and beliefs are questioned. Familiar allies and enemies await them along the way.
Ripple effects of having Katara absent from the majority of 'Book 1: Water,' are seen once Katara and Zuko meet up with the Gaang later on in the story. 'Book 1: Water' occurs mainly in the flashbacks of this story as Chapter 1 picks up close to the start of 'Book 2: Earth.'
The plot of the story has now reached the allied invasion of the Fire Nation Capital City. The scene is set for Zuko's confrontation with his Father, Ozai.
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Beneath the Ember Crown by Mavrokatos
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
24 Sep 2025
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Zuko was never meant to return. But exile has a strange way of revealing what fire is really for.
A legend is born far from the throne - and it wears a mask before it ever wears a crown.
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- Part 1 of What the Fire Remembered