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Katara and Zuko try to cope with the world burning outside the walls of Ba Sing Sae. Both teens coming to a frustrating halt with themselves, each wanting to forget about the waging war and anything to do with avatar, if only just for a moment to feel like normal teenagers. So when the spirits allow them to, if for a moment, just feel normal, they let themselves get caught up in the moment to even contemplate their actions could have life changing consequences. Soon both are forced to deal with the new life they've made while trying to keep their secrets from stretching too far before the war can come to an end.
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20 Nov 2025
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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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Uncle Iroh took a more creative approach to fostering Zuko's appreciation of other cultures. Now it's everyone's Problem. -
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Aang knew grief like an old friend. In his youth, it had been painful to grapple with the idea that the Air Nomads were gone, that he was truly alone. He knew deep down that no matter what he did, that weight on his shoulders was so heavy it would follow him into his next life. Spirits help his successor.
But this time, it was different. This was new. The emptiness that often accompanied the pit in Aang’s stomach was replaced with something sickening. His body rejected the possibility of Bumi’s death like poison. It wasn’t real. He had to be alive.
OR: When he's 19, Bumi II gets hurt in the United Forces and his family is told he is missing in action. Aang and Katara try to be there for their son and Tenzin and Kya navigate the new dynamic as friends and family rally aorund them. We explore family dynamics, being biracial, trauma, and being okay with being not okay.
(includes cloud baby flashbacks!)
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- Part 2 of finding our way
- Part 6 of all atla :)
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17 Nov 2025
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With the fall of Ba Sing Sae and the Avatar, it seemed that the Fire Nation was soon going to prove victorious in the war. Until, one fateful night where Fire Lord Ozai was murdered in cold blood by his returning son.
Zuko took the throne causing Azula and many loyalists of Ozai to flee and regroup in Ba Sing Sae to take him down. Zuko now needs the very people he had hunted for years on end to finally put an end to this war in the name of peace.This should be treated as a Book Three and beyond rewrite with a lot of creative liberties made.
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17 Nov 2025
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Princess Ursa has already murdered one member of the Royal Family to protect her precious son. What is one more? And what is the burden of a throne, next to his safety?
Now on TvTropes: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/ReignOfTheFireLadyDowager