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Zuko had never excelled at anything. Azula was a prodigy. Uncle always knew what to say. And Father... Father was strong, iron-like. But Zuko had only ever been good at surviving. Putting one foot in front of the other in a grim show of stubborn determination, gritting his teeth and bearing it. Survival was all he had ever been taught. He knew how to do it. So when he was kidnapped by the Southern Water Tribe, he expected to fight as he always had. He didn’t expect to be taught instead how to live.
In a warring land, the Water Tribe forgave the enemy in an act of defiance. For this, he was torn from them, and this time, his wounds won't heal so easily.
Forced back into nothing but survival, the last person Zuko expected to see was Hakoda's son. Hakoda was a promise of safety. The relentless blue of Sokka’s eyes was a promise of happiness. Zuko could have both if he just reached out his hands, but he found them clutching into fists. After all, he’d been burned one too many times.
But hey, at least between Hakoda and Sokka, Zuko could appreciate the family resemblance of pure, asinine stubbornness.
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15 May 2026
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Chief Arnook never assigns Sokka to protect Princess Yue, so he goes to fight the Fire Nation with the other men. When the moon dies and the ocean spirit takes its revenge, Sokka is caught standing on the deck of a Fire Nation ship. Sokka should have drowned… and he would have drowned, if not for a certain Fire Nation raft fleeing the North Pole.
[An enemies-to-lovers season 2 rewrite, where Sokka is separated from the gaang during the Siege of the North, and travels the Earth Kingdom with Zuko instead].
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15 Aug 2024
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Things were finally going right. Hakoda was with them and that in itself felt right. Even Suki and Jet were settling nicely into the main group. The most exciting new was that Zuko had agreed to maybe be a something more than friends with Sokka. Everything was going right... until it wasn't.
Would the gaang all be able to survive against angry sisters, manipulative parties, and internal conflict? Would Sokka and Zuko be able to learn to trust each other? Or, would their choices and a rouge mission of vengeance break everything? Katara seemed determined to find out.
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The direct continuation of Boiling Friendship.Series
- Part 2 of Boiling Over
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11 Aug 2024
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Sokka had only had to get Zuko and Suki on working together terms in this prison, not so hard! Yet here he was, Zuko and Suki were patching things together oddly well, Jet was seemingly back from the dead, and a random firebender had just dropped himself into Sokka’s plans rather rudely. He had mere hours to work out a plan and get everyone off this cursed volcano. No one had ever escaped before and here he was all of 15 years old and thinking himself better than every person in this place. What could he see that they couldn’t? Not a Tui and La blessed thing and he was admitting it now. He was going to be the reason Suki and Jet stayed, and possibly worst of all the reason Zuko was just handed back to the Fire Nation on a golden platter.
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- Part 1 of Boiling Over
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05 Aug 2024
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Iroh insists they create a new life and identity in Ba Sing Se. Zuko wants nothing more than to bide his time until his next opportunity to return home, until he realizes ‘Lee’ can get away with things Zuko never could.
Zuko dons the mantle of the Blue Spirit again only to lose his focus when the Avatar comes to the city. This time, however, his attention is drawn to the annoying Southern Tribe warrior.- Language:
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19 Jul 2024