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   Learning to Fly by starofjems

   Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)

   • General Audiences
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Gen, F/F, M/M
   • Series in Progress

   03 Dec 2025

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Iroh & Zuko (Avatar)
   • Zuko & Zuko's Crew (Avatar)
   • Toph Beifong & Zuko
   • Zuko & Original Character(s)
   • Zuko & Yangchen (Avatar)
   • Yangchen (Avatar)/Original Female Character(s)
   • Iroh & Iroh's Wife (Avatar)
   • Iroh & Order of the White Lotus (Avatar)
   • Iroh & Lu Ten
   • Iroh & Ozai (Avatar)
   • Zuko & Music Nomads (Avatar)
   • Bumi & Iroh (Avatar)
   • Yue & Zuko (Avatar)
   • Lu Ten & Zuko
   • Azula & Lu Ten
   • Lu Ten & Ursa
   • Lu Ten & Original Character(s)
   • Lu Ten/Original Male Character(s)
   • Mai & Zuko (Avatar)
   • Southern Water Tribe Characters & Zuko (Avatar)
   • Yuyan Archers & Zuko (Avatar)
   • Freedom Fighters & Zuko (Avatar)
   • Ty Lee & Zuko (Avatar)
   • Kyoshi Warriors & Zuko (Avatar)
   • Aang & Katara & Sokka (Avatar)
   • Aang & Zuko (Avatar)
   • Zuko (Avatar)
   • Iroh (Avatar)
   • Yangchen (Avatar)
   • Original Characters
   • Guru Pathik
   • Zuko's Crew (Avatar)
   • Zhao (Avatar)
   • Professor Zei (Avatar)
   • Toph Beifong
   • Sha-Mo (Avatar)
   • Ghashiun (Avatar)
   • Wan Shi Tong
   • Ty Lee (Avatar)
   • Mai (Avatar)
   • Iroh's Wife (Avatar)
   • Pakku (Avatar)
   • Bumi (Avatar)
   • Lu Ten
   • Piandao (Avatar)
   • Ozai (Avatar)
   • Chong (Avatar)
   • Lily (Avatar)
   • Moku (Avatar)
   • Yue (Avatar)
   • Arnook (Avatar)
   • Kuruk (Avatar)
   • Teo (Avatar)
   • The Mechanist (Avatar)
   • Ursa (Avatar)
   • Azula (Avatar)
   • Jeong Jeong (Avatar)
   • Kori Morishita
   • Hakoda (Avatar)
   • Bato (Avatar)
   • Aunt Wu (Avatar)
   • Yuyan Archers
   • Jet (Avatar)
   • Smellerbee (Avatar)
   • Longshot (Avatar)
   • Aang (Avatar)
   • Katara (Avatar)
   • Sokka (Avatar)
   • Avatar: The Last Airbender Ensemble
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Direct aftermath of the Agni Kai
   • Fever Dreams
   • Prophetic Dreams
   • Zuko's destiny has an added layer
   • Iroh (Avatar) is a Good Uncle
   • POV Zuko (Avatar)
   • POV Iroh (Avatar)
   • Zuko Takes Himself on a Life-Changing Field Trip
   • Not yet but that tag will apply to the series as a whole lol
   • Iroh is trying his best
   • Fire Nation Propaganda
   • Nightmares
   • Zuko's burn is treated like the major injury it is
   • Non-graphic depictions of genocide
   • Zuko has a lot to unlearn
   • POV Outsider
   • Injury Recovery
   • Panic Attacks
   • Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con
   • OC Galore
   • Zuko is 13 and treated like the child he is
   • Responsible Adults Take Care of This Literal Child
   • This Literal Child Resists Being Cared For
   • Worldbuilding
   • Implied/Referenced Child Abuse
   • Self-Esteem Issues
   • chakras
   • Spirit Dreams
   • Zuko's Crew Cares
   • (And one very irresponsible adult)
   • Zhao (Avatar) Is An Asshole
   • Festivals
   • Conspiracy Theories
   • disguises
   • Blue Spirit Zuko (Avatar)
   • POV Toph Beifong
   • POV Original Character
   • Memoirs
   • Spirit Hijinks
   • Si Wong Desert
   • Sandbenders
   • POV Yangchen (Avatar)
   • Canonical Character Death
   • Spirit World (Avatar)
   • Zuko Takes His Crew on a Life-Changing Field Trip
   • Zuko is an Avatar Yangchen Fanboy
   • Letters
   • foggy swamp
   • Fire Nation Politics (Avatar)
   • Character Study
   • POV Pakku (Avatar)
   • Omashu (Avatar)
   • Power of music
   • POV Yue (Avatar)
   • Storytelling
   • Legends
   • Northern Water Tribe
   • Northern Air Temple (Avatar)
   • POV Alternating
   • Developing Friendships
   • POV Lu Ten (Avatar)
   • POV Second Person
   • POV Third Person
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Not canon compliant with Yangchen novels
   • Politics
   • Alliances
   • Canon Rewrite
   • Zhao Being an Asshole (Avatar)
   • Zuko Already Took Himself on a Life-Changing Field Trip
   • Original Character Heavy
   • Load bearing OCs if we're honest here
   • scholar zuko
   • Book 1: Water (Avatar)

   Summary

   Zuko is banished and starts at the Western Air Temple, as we all know. But a single discovery alters the course of his journey, because how can it not change when he has a secret dragon egg to take care of? Follow Zuko through the years of his banishment before Aang wakes up as he makes friends, important discoveries, and waves.

   (And then how that changes the way things play out after Aang wakes up.)

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   Bookmarked by Nyxeon

   23 Feb 2023