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This is the direct continuation of the series Leaving It All Behind, if you did not read the first book I promise that you will be really confused reading this. (go read that first and then come back to this)
If you have already read LIAB, welcome back!
Zuko and Sokka have successfully escaped Zhao’s prison camp and have begun their journey across the Earth Kingdom in search of Aang or Chief Hakoda, whoever they find first. Still recovering from their experiences in captivity, both Zuko and Sokka struggle to heal from their past trauma while facing new enemies in an unfamiliar territory. Lucky for them, Sokka is full of good ideas and Zuko never gives up without a fight.
The Gaang (plus Jet) are continuing their journey to help Aang master all the elements and are faced with a few unexpected surprises.
A group of escaped prisoners tries their best to fix past mistakes and find their place in the war torn world, it doesn’t come as easy as they would have hoped.
-Please read all the tags and just know that this story will have dark themes throughout-
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- Part 2 of Leaving It All Behind
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- 383,617
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- 23/23
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28 Aug 2024
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Combustion Man never finds the Western Air Temple, and the Gaang goes ahead with the plan to capture Zuko and hold him prisoner so he can’t hurt anyone. Now Zuko has to convince them he’s on their side without having any proof he doesn’t want the Avatar dead anymore, and preferably before Katara decides to kill him.
… If only he weren’t so bad at being good.
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- Part 1 of Combustion Man goes missing AU
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 78,057
- Chapters:
- 17/17
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- 2
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- 1,281
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31 Jul 2024
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Katara grew up in the Southern Water Tribe under the tutelage of Hama, the only waterbender ever to have escaped Fire Nation captivity. When Zuko arrives at the South Pole, seeking the Avatar, they are more than ready to defend him. Iroh watches as his beloved nephew throws himself at the ice walls again and again in an impossible siege–-and resolves to do anything it takes to save his nephew from himself. With the assistance of the Order of the White Lotus, he deposes his brother on the Day of Black Sun.
A week later, the Southern Water Tribe receives a petition for peace, and a proposal of marriage.
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- English
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- 102,813
- Chapters:
- 22/22
- Collections:
- 7
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- 1,063
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23 Jul 2024
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I'll Share the Moon, If You'll Share the Sun by anarchycox
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
08 Jan 2022
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An alternate world where Iroh leads a coup against Ozai on the eclipse and wins the throne for Zuko. The southern water tribe hadn't sent men to fight in thirty years, instead protecting their home, laying traps, using guerilla tactics so the fire nation gave up fighting them.
Sokka and Katara found Aang, but being frozen in ice for a hundred years has ramifications and for almost four years the tribe focuses on healing the avatar.
Zuko is advised for continued peace to have an arranged marriage outside the fire nation. The best option is a the child of the chief of the southern tribe. Katara is in love with Aang and is heartbroken, but will do her duty for her people. Sokka finds a loophole that they can carefully and craftily exploit.
Aka they lie. They lie so hard and Sokka becomes the one betrothed to Fire Lord Zuko. He is sure there will be no consequences to the plan. Certainly not going to fall in love with the man he is lying to. At all. Nope indeedy, no love on the menu. Dang it.
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- English
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- 86,514
- Chapters:
- 21/21
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- 1
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- 1,196
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08 Jul 2024
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Soulmates are chosen by the spirits and can hear each other’s thoughts. Sokka thinks it’s cheesy and dumb. Zuko thinks it’s poetic justice that he doesn’t have one because he doesn’t deserve it. Cruel irony is finding out that the prince of the Fire Nation (and the person currently hunting you) is your soulmate.
(Set during and after the events of ATLA, and during some of the events of the comics that follow. This was an excuse to write a slow-burn where Sokka and Zuko are soulmates)
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- English
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- 64,074
- Chapters:
- 12/12
- Comments:
- 849
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- 8,359
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30 Jun 2024
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(“You’re not sleeping,” Mai says softly.
“How’d you know?” Zuko asks.To be honest, he’s kind of gotten to the point where he’s surprised that anyone can perceive him outside of his necessary functions- he exists solely to sit in council meetings and shoulder the blame for genocides and famines and the suffering of one-hundred years. Doesn’t he?)
The war is over, but the fallout is just beginning. And where lightning strikes, thunder is bound to follow.
[REPOSTED- ACCIDENTALLY ORPHANED]
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29 Jun 2024
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Zuko tries.
Agni, he tries. Uncle wants so desperately for him to do the right thing, and he wants to, he does, he does, he does-
So when the Water Tribe girl looks at him with wild eyes, begging for help, and Azula raises one eyebrow with a sneer, Zuko chooses.
Azula’s scream of anger when he blasts a fireball in her direction is almost worth the twenty Dai Li agents that immediately surround him.
(or: Zuko is taken prisoner by Azula in the catacombs. Turns out, being kept miles away from the sun isn't so great for your bending.)
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- English
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- 8,570
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- 1/1
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- 10
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- 196
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29 Jun 2024
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Zuko does not survive that first fateful Agni Kai.
But no matter how much Ozai strives to pretend otherwise, the Old Gods are not dead.
And the Old Gods are angry.
[REPOSTED- ACCIDENTALLY ORPHANED]
- Language:
- English
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- 96,018
- Chapters:
- 14/14
- Collections:
- 26
- Comments:
- 1,272
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- 13,194
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- 4,540
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- 227,485
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29 Jun 2024
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passing the beginning by Houseonthetime for MuffinLance
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
05 May 2024
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Zuko was really hoping that the disaster that lead to his life on the Akhlut would be a once in a lifetime event. Unfortunately he is demonstrably unlucky, and things never happen the same way twice.
Or: Zuko takes a tumble just when he's thinking about getting comfortable in his new life, and gets fished out by a less than sympathetic group of Earth benders.
Inspired by 'Salvage' by MuffinLance!
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- English
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- 28,721
- Chapters:
- 7/7
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- 192
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- 1,010
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- 11,757
Bookmarked by Olliebip
08 Jun 2024
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The Fire Nation has only rebelled once in its long history. They are a proud people, and a loyal one. They do not turn against their own for no reason. They protect their own.
Especially their Prince.
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Basically this was a What if the Fire Nation said Fuck Ozai and rebelled AU. along with a sprinkling of world building built in. Enjoy!- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 4,906
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 33
- Comments:
- 436
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- 19,408
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07 Jun 2024
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absence of heat, excess of destiny by theycallmesuperboy
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
27 May 2020
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Sokka is born in the dead of winter with a red dragon curling down the left side of his back.
Zuko is born in the sweltering heat of summer with a sword down his spine.
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He doesn’t want to talk about it when their gazes turn on him. They make assumptions— is it someone he left behind in the Fire Nation? He looks away when he agrees with them.
Toph brushes past him when they all part ways. She says, “I know you’re lying.”
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- English
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- 4,336
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 24
- Comments:
- 565
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- 27,204
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07 Jun 2024
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The first thing Zuko tells him during their first lesson after the whole Sun Warrior ruins ordeal, is “Fire comes from the breath.”
a lesson in learning, and re-learning.
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- 4,227
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- 1/1
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- 9
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- 603
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07 Jun 2024
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It doesn’t take long for the rumors to start.
The Fire Nation prides itself on its civilization. It isn’t like the other, lesser, nations who throw their children away by sending them into war. Those uncultured and unfeeling savages who are destroying their own future faster than the Fire Nation can save them from themselves.
Every Fire Nation child goes to school. They learn reading and writing, the illustrious history of their country, and what will be expected of them as proper, upstanding Fire Nation citizens. They are to be protected, because children are the future glory of the nation.
The crown prince is thirteen when his father burns his face in front of an audience of hundreds.
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- 6,086
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- 1/1
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- 659
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07 Jun 2024
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For his first thirteen years, Zuko was raised in a palace. And yet somehow, it's the three years outside the Fire Nation that seem to count more – at least to the palace staff, who act like he's been raised by fox-wolves.
At first, this only annoys Zuko.
Until he begins to think that the Fire Nation needs more than a formerly-banished prince.
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- Part 4 of Avatar Ficlets
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 6,334
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 40
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- 526
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07 Jun 2024
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Sokka’s posture is perfect, demure but attentive. His head is tilted down, but his eyes crane up to take inventory of the man who just entered. This is the Fire Lord? He’s tall and rail-thin, exaggerated by the angle, and can’t be much older than Sokka. His face is cast in shadow, but Sokka can still make out the shiny pink outline of the distinctive scar that had marked the portraits that hung in all the ships and chambers he’d so far passed through. Actually, it’s not so bad — not nearly as frightening as the bright red disfiguration he’d seen illustrated.
“First, a gift. A tribute from the Southern Water Tribe.” Fengwei doesn’t make any gesture toward Sokka, because Sokka is the only thing in this room that doesn’t already belong to Zuko. Only for a few more minutes, surely. “A Water Tribe noble,” he tacks on, and Sokka has to slam his throat shut to quell the bemused snort that threatens to bubble out of him. It’s funny, in a way. Maybe not ha ha funny, but. You know. Funny.
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- English
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- 14/14
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07 Jun 2024
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After the events of War Crimes, Sokka and Zuko have escaped Zhao’s warship and are fleeing across the Earth Kingdom. As well as unfamiliar terrain, they have to navigate their shared trauma, work out where they fit into the war, and their place in each others lives.
Sokka is aware that being friends with the enemy is going to bring complications, but he probably should have guessed that being friends with Zuko in particular, was going to be a bit like dunking your head repeatedly into a bucket of angry Fire Ferrets.
Katara is also grappling with the confusion of befriending an enemy, something that doesn’t prove as difficult as she had expected with the bond of shared, furious grief bridging old wounds. (Learning a new way to look at her bending doesn't hurt either)
Azula, struggling with the Fire Lord’s mistrust, encounters a few nasty surprises and has to make some difficult decisions. Luckily, she is a great deal better at making sensible choices than her brother.
Her father may have made a slight tactical error.
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- Part 2 of All's Fair
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 585,780
- Chapters:
- 46/?
- Collections:
- 5
- Comments:
- 10,943
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- 12,021
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12 May 2024
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Book one ends with two major diffrences: 1. Sokka went on the mission with Hahn (it did not go well) 2. Zhao survives the North Pole and that proves unfortunate for everybody (except Zhao, obviously)
Imprisoned on Zhao’s war ship, Sokka and Zuko have to work together to survive. They are not very enthusiastic about this prospect.
And they argue.
A lot.
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- Part 1 of All's Fair
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 90,388
- Chapters:
- 12/12
- Collections:
- 13
- Comments:
- 1,443
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- 8,545
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- 1,611
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- 192,536
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05 May 2024
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This is a robbery of everything you’ve ever been. Prince Zuko, stand and deliver.
A single point of light circles around and around, never stopping, never going out. It’s fitting, given the circumstances; there’s no choice available but to go along the same track over and over again.
Joo Lee rises in the walled city of Ba Sing Se. He stands; he delivers.
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- Part 1 of the lost and found
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 13,344
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 131
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- 1,773
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02 May 2024
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There's sixteen days between the solstice and the eclipse.
(Zuko begins to learn how to be Zuko again.)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,610
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 2
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- 16,677
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01 May 2024
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(Never) Forget Who You Are by mindbending for MuffinLance
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
04 Jan 2021
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“Hello, my name is Joo Lee,” says a young man in cheery spring green, his smile stretched to the point of pain. “I have been given the great honor of showing the Avatar around Ba Sing Se.”
“Zuko?!”
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- English
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- 10,631
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 32
- Comments:
- 790
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Bookmarked by Olliebip
01 May 2024