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Nice Diplomacy, By the Way by FictionIsSocialInquiry
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
16 Sep 2025
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‘Is there something you need?’ he asks, more sharply than he intends. He’s so tried…
Katara eyes him like he’s an animal, a wild thing she’s trying to ease into domestication. ‘The opposite, actually.’ She uncrosses her legs, leans forward in her chair and those tight blue eyes— full and ambivalent and certain all at once— get his full attention. ‘What if I did it? What if we did?’
‘What if we did what?’
Her cheeks are ruddy, her braid messy as though she’s spent too long anxiously fiddling with it. ‘Date. Court. Whatever you call it.’
Zuko blinks, repeats her words back to himself once twice, trying to make sense of them. No good; his brain is scrambled. ‘What…? What are you talking about?’
‘Sokka’s plan,’ she says slowly, frowning at him. ‘I’ve been thinking about it. It’s sound in theory, he just had the wrong girl in mind.’
‘Sokka’s…’ Zuko wet his lips. ‘You think we should play out Sokka’s plan?’
‘Yes.’
Agni’s four hells…
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Pao closed his eyes, lips flattening into a line. ‘Yes, sir, that is the delicate situation in which we find ourselves.’
‘Is there a problem?’
‘Not at all. I would never presume to call your majesty’s event problematic,’ the servant said with a carefully detached glower, ‘however, there is the delicate matter of propriety; a guestlist that includes your royal candlemaker and the Avatar is a very delicate matter.’
‘See you’re saying “delicate matter,”’ Zuko said heatedly, ‘but I’m hearing “problem.”’
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A low key royal faux pas: no stakes, low consequences, all shenanigans.
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‘I’m Katara, by the way. 12B.’
‘Zuko. 12A.’
‘You don’t say much.’
He shrugs. No, he doesn’t. Not anymore. He has less than nothing of value to say, why bother wasting anyone’s time with it?
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Zuko has made some life shattering mistakes. Recently sober for the first time since he dropped out of high school, he finally has a chance to make something of this life— if he can just choose to live it. Katara has never felt more alone. She’s weeks away from receiving her degree, already crafting her cover letter for the job she’s been working towards for five years… but life feels empty without her friends and family.
Lonely, and with a shared balcony and interest in tea and gardening, they help carry each other’s burdens and learn something along the way.
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At the funeral, Katara doesn’t dress in white. It causes a scandal or would do if her belly wasn’t round with the Fire Nation’s future. She doesn’t look away from the pyre, not even when the prayers tapper out, smoke rises, and the Firelord’s crown is placed in her top knot.
She kneels to receive Zuko’s crown and his child kicks, blissfully ignorant within her.
She wears black and navy robes, charcoal smeared over her eyes and forehead so that when she finally— finally— is out of the public eye and can burst into tears, she tastes salt and fire as the charcoal paste runs over her lips and stains her tongue.
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"She takes his hand, turns it palm up and drops the ankh charm there. ‘When a symbol calls to you, you should never ignore it. There are forces in this world stronger than thoughts; you would be wise to let them guide you from time to time.’
That makes him furrow his brow. ‘Forces? You mean like magic?’
‘Maybe.’
‘I don’t believe in magic.’
‘I know.’ She winks at him and turns back to the oven, fishing a tea towel from her apron pocket. With the ease of one who has done so a thousand times before, she slides a tray of golden brown sourdough free and sets it on the cooling shelf.
No, he doesn’t believe in magic, but there is something about her… And that, he believes in."
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Running his uncle's bakery is stranger than Zuko could have expected, especially when the woman he hires to share the workload speaks in a long dead language, conflates science and magic, and knows more about him than she has any right to.
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The Moon, the Sun, and the Star Inbetween. by Silvershine
Fandoms: Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015), Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars
17 Apr 2016
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The Force moves in mysterious ways, and sometimes it even has its own agenda. Rey finds herself caught in a battle with fate that throws her together with Kylo Ren, binding them together in the most powerful way possible... only to have fate drop her like a hot potato.
A broken Force Bond isn't the easiest thing to bear, especially when the one you're missing is your sworn enemy and the father of your child.
Warning: Parenting: Skywalker Style.
(Kind of a deconstruction of the X-made-them-do-it-to-have-a-child fics, which always seem to end once a kid is born, whereas I'm more interested in what comes AFTER the not so happily-ever-after.)
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- Part 1 of Sun and Moon
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21 Jun 2023
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Good Day, Professor by faequeentitania
Fandoms: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
19 Aug 2018
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She had heard that he was a brutal teacher; impossible to please, harsh in his grading, unwilling to give extra credit, and god forbid you said something he thought was stupid. He also happened to be stupidly attractive, which Rey thought was a quality that was sorely lacking from his campus reputation.
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- Part 1 of Professor Solo Series
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04 Jun 2023
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Love Like Ghosts by Yours_Truly_Commander_Shepard for jeeno2
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Star Wars: Rebels
09 Jan 2020
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For Jeeno, who let me squeeze her through the whole movie.
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Tatooine is cold at night. Jakku was a desert, but the sands of her homeworld somehow clutched the day’s heat until the next sunrise. She has nothing she can burn to make a fire, so Rey abandons her camp in the central courtyard of the Lars farm halfway through the first night and curls into the atmospherically-controlled cockpit of the X-wing. It isn’t really built to accommodate a sleeper. The seat only reclines 80 degrees. The controls jab her in the kidneys as she gets a few hours’ restless sleep, but it’s better than freezing to death under the watchful gaze of the Skywalker ghosts.
After three days, she draws a line on the wall with a charred bone.
It’s never taken Ben very long to find her. He’ll be along soon enough.
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22 May 2023
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Celebrations are in full swing on Ajan Kloss after the Resistance's glorious defeat of the First Order, but all is not as it should be. Rey Skywalker is alive, but she is not the girl she was - she has come back from the dead, but she has come back wrong. Ben Solo is also alive, but he has problems of his own....
She steps forward to get a better look.
Poe explains, ‘He was found wandering in the ruins of Exegol, stark naked and unarmed.’
And there, sitting in the metal chair, dressed in a white paper boiler suit which is visibly too tight across the chest, is Kylo Ren.
‘I’m not sure who he is,’ says Poe.As a wise man once said - death is only the beginning.....
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21 May 2023
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Someone You Love(d) by AttackoftheDarkCurses for Daisyflo
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
06 Apr 2020
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“You know I hate you, right? You know that I hate all your stupid little games and I think you’re a laser-brain and I hate that GCU assigned us to the same apartment, and if I could go back in time and choose to never meet you, I would?”
“The feeling’s mutual. Do you want to do this, or not?”
“Fine," Rey snaps. "But don’t kiss me.”
Ben looks down at her mouth and lies again. “Wouldn’t dream of it.”
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- Part 15 of Attack's Trope-y HEAs