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light a fire they can't put out by GuardianKarenTerrier
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
10 Sep 2025
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Iroh accepts, mournfully, that it's going to be a long, long time before Zuko ever feels safe again. If Zuko ever feels safe again. Because of that, because Iroh thinks he already knows the reason for his nephew's silence, he doesn't look closer at just how quiet Zuko has been since waking.
Iroh should have noticed.
He wonders, later, if this, too, is his fault. If something he said while his nephew was still drifting, barely aware of his surroundings, had struck deeper than he meant it to. If even something as simple as a well-meant shh, Zuko, shh had a hand in this.
If Iroh had somehow taken his original mistake and deepened it, rather than trying to make up for it.
(If this is the shape of the scar that Iroh left on his nephew).
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21 Feb 2026
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“Your dad,” Sokka starts, then swallows hard. “Your dad dueled you, burned half of your face off, and then banished you because you spoke when you shouldn’t have?”
Guilt festers and bubbles like black tar in Zuko’s chest. “I didn’t just speak. I questioned and insulted one of his highest-ranking generals—but the man was planning a massacre! He shouldn’t have—” Zuko clamps his mouth shut, his teeth clicking together, and swallows thickly. “I mean. I found the tactic he proposed very startling, but it wasn’t my place to question such things. I’m sure he had his reasons.”
“Tui and La what the absolute fuck,” Sokka whispers.
[Zuko gets imprisoned with Sokka and Katara during the winter solstice, and some very unfortunate things come to light. Alternatively: the gaang
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08 Feb 2026
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Iroh taking on the duties of being Zuko's surrogate father is no easy work but he wouldn't have it any other way (Zuko and Iroh One-Shots).
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06 Feb 2026
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Hakoda Adopting a Broken Fire Prince: Avatar the Last Airbender by Cryztaliz
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
11 Jan 2026
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Long after the camp has fallen silent, Zuko wakes from a restless sleep and slips away from the others. He puts distance between himself and the group, choosing the cold and darkness to face what he believes he must endure alone. His body betrays him pain, exhaustion, and the consequences of wounds long ignored begin to take their toll. The prince breaks quietly, unseen, far from the warmth of the fire.
Some time later, Hakoda wakes.
At first, it is nothing more than instinct, a sense that something is wrong. When he notices Zuko's absence, unease settles in. Against reason, against the history written in war and blood, Hakoda rises and goes searching.
He finds Zuko at his worst.
Not as the Fire Nation's prince. Not as an enemy.
But as a suffering child, shaking, failing, and desperately trying to hold himself together.As Zuko's condition worsens and his strength fades, Hakoda makes a choice that defies everything the world has taught him. He stays. He steadies trembling hands. He offers comfort where none was expected. In that moment, Hakoda becomes more than a leader of the Southern Water Tribe, he becomes a father figure to a boy who has never truly had one.
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05 Feb 2026
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The Truth: Book 2 (In Progress) by KASD19
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
22 Sep 2024
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Zuko, now known as Blue, has joined the Avatar's journey as a Fire Nation ally.
As he tries to guide Aang the best he can while mute, it soon becomes apparent that other forces are at play.
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04 Feb 2026