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Zuko hadn't decided yet.
That's the problem. That's always the problem.Only when Iroh takes a bolt, does Zuko finally decide.
He punches Azula in the face.
Now he's chained in a cell beneath Ba Sing Se, sharing floor space with a furious blind Earthbender trapped in a wooden box and a warrior who keeps licking the walls.
(--> this makes it sound so much more wholesome than it actually is 😭 THIS IS A DARK FIC. SAD. SUFFERING. PAIN.)
------------Or: Azula shoots Iroh and captures Zuko (who tweaks out), Sokka and Toph. Long Feng's strange replacement takes an interest in them.
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Mea Culpa. Through my fault.
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26 May 2026
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Run in the Shadows by everrune
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar: The Last Airbender & Related Fandoms
14 Jun 2026
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"I can't just leave. I could finally have duties, the life I've always dreamed."
"Then don't leave. Stay, and just feed us information. You can join when you're ready."or: sokka stays behind in ba sing se to plan the invasion and ends up in the crystal prison with zuko. he doesn't tell anyone that he managed to get zuko to join their side.
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22 May 2026
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hearth by 94k, hazeleafyy
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (Video Game), The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
08 Jun 2026
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"Turns out he’s the chosen hero of the legends," Daruk said with a cough.
Revali sputtered into a stunned silence.
“Bullshit, that’s impossible!” His feathers rustled as he balked. “He was sent by the Demon King!”
“We know that, but— he has the mark of the goddess on his hand,” Urbosa snapped. “The rest of us saw it. If you don’t believe it, you can see for yourself.”
The Rito didn’t even deign to give the unconscious swordsman a glance.
“Hero or not, we’re not letting him off the hook just like that,” Revali’s voice climbed an octave. “He’s too dangerous— we saw what he’s capable of. We have to kill him while he’s still weakened!”
“We aren’t killing him,” Zelda asserted again. This time, she lifted her eyes. Her voice held a note of cautiousness, but it was still unshakeable.
“If we’re to even hope to defeat the Demon King, we need the hero on our side. We have to take him with us.”
In which Link was raised as Ganon’s right hand man, but Zelda and the Champions snatch him away.
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24 Mar 2026
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Unexpected Adoption by AminaGila, CourtesyTrefflin
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
08 Feb 2026
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When wandering the Earth Kingdom on his own, Zuko stumbles across a young, blind girl. An earthbending prodigy. Or, in which Zuko meets Toph Beifong and finds a kindred spirit in her… and perhaps a sister as well.
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21 Jan 2026
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“Roads were made for journeys, not destinations.” ― Confucius
One moment changes the course of history. Katara and Zuko are imprisoned by the Fire Nation Army during the Day of Black Sun, and when they escape, they find themselves adrift in the Fire Nation with no one to rely on but each other. With only six weeks before Sozin’s Comet arrives and four nations to cross, the pair must track down Katara’s allies, save the world—and learn to trust each other.
Canon divergent from Part 2 of 'Day of Black Sun.'
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- Part 1 of The Color of the Stars
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17 Dec 2025
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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
kidnapsadopts Zuko in book one after discovering just how awful his father is.]- Language:
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16 Dec 2025
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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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14 Dec 2025
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Zuko does what he’s always done; he keeps going. There isn’t much of a choice for someone who was lucky to be born — you really can’t do anything unless you’re prepared to do it against the odds. He’d gotten used fairly quickly. Even so, it was getting harder by the day to keep going. He’d always thought that sometime, in the end, it would pay off. There would come a time after the fight, grueling work rewarded by rest and recognition. An end, or at least a respite, or an upturn of some sort. He still clung desperately to that idea. Losing sight of it felt like death.
Or: An alternative timeline of events in which some things are just slightly different, the timing is slightly off, and in turn the characters make vastly different choices. The story diverges from canon halfway through season 2 and Zuko joins the Gaang early under different and far less heroic circumstances. Heed the tags and warnings.
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04 Dec 2025
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Starts at the end of Book 3, Episode 10: Day of the Black Sun and follows the TV series to the end from Zuko's perspective. I've always felt like Aang's firebending training was rushed and cut too short. We also don't get any of the inner turmoil Zuko must be going through with leaving everything behind, so this is my retelling of the second half of season 3 (and perhaps a bit beyond too).
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08 Sep 2025
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Zuko stands to leave, only to waver, swaying just a little. His blood pressure shifts, and Toph can feel what’s about to happen a moment before it does.
“Someone catch him! He’s gonna –“
With a crash, the dish tumbles from suddenly limp fingers, and Zuko crumples to the ground.
“…faint,” Toph finishes.
The Gaang’s journey to trusting Zuko is anything but smooth.
(Slight AU after Boiling Rock)
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- Part 1 of new ways
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06 Sep 2025
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The Phantom of the Arena by Aleteia
Fandoms: How to Train Your Dragon (Animated Movies), How to Train Your Dragon (2025)
21 Mar 2020
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Dragons and Berk have been at war for generations; one year ago however, strange things started to happen during raids, which cannot possibly be the work of a dragon. Refusing to let her village be haunted by what they call the Phantom of the Arena, Astrid sets out to find the culprit.
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Hiccup leaves AU, inspired on the musical The Phantom of the Opera (takes place in the HTTYD universe, not a cross-over, no knowledge of the musical required to understand the story, not a songfic). Rated M for violence and sexual content. Chapters containing sexual content are marked as such.
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- Part 1 of Phantomverse
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19 Jul 2025
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HTTYD AU
Astrid Hofferson's been training her whole life for this day. She's going to be given her first assignment and begin her legacy as a fierce warrior for Berk. She has a feeling that her legendary prowess will lead the Elder Council members to assign her the toughest challenge Berk has faced in decades: find and assassinate the Svikari.From village disappointment to feared dragon rider, Hiccup Haddock fled Berk at sixteen with his dragon and best friend Toothless. Four years later, Toothless and Hiccup challenged the Red Death and became the feared Svikari. Now, Hiccup and Toothless must provide for their hungry flock of dragons, and what better revenge than to raid the villages who once despised him.
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19 Jul 2025
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She was meant to be the price for peace; her life in exchange for the mysterious Dragon Master's mercy.
Her captor wasn't supposed to be a ghost from her past, and she wasn't supposed to become his ally...or his lover. And when news spreads of a blonde-haired girl at the Dragon Master's side, there will be repercussions for dragons and Vikings alike.
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19 Jul 2025
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The Prince and the Prisoner by randomreader857
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
10 Nov 2025
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“If you won’t accept me as a friend, maybe you’ll take me as a prisoner.” He held out his hands, ready to feel stone or metal closing around his wrists any second. He couldn’t bring himself to look any of them in the face, staring instead at the ground in front of him.
He didn’t see the water whip until it hit his face. “No, we won’t!”
Zuko fell backwards onto the stone floor. Before he had time to think about the hostile reaction and what to do next, he heard another voice, one he recognized in the back of his mind as the Water Tribe boy’s, say “Wait.”AU where the Gaang takes Zuko up on his offer to become their prisoner at the Western Air Temple.
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06 Jun 2025
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“I asked around. There’s one Water Tribe prisoner here, and I’m pretty sure it’s your father.” Zuko flips his visor up, looking Sokka in the eyes as he continues. “But look, he’s been here for a while, Sokka. The Warden–”
“Where is he?” Sokka asks. “Where’s Dad?”---
This is a canon-divergent AU where Boiling Rock is worse. I took the Warden's "special prisoner" line and ran with it. I also wanted to explore what would have happened if Hakoda had been the one who'd been in Boiling Rock for a while rather than Suki, and what that might have changed.
Zuko is the type of person to go all-in when he commits to a goal, and that does not always go in his favor! Here we follow him, Sokka, and Hakoda through Boiling Rock and the aftermath.
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- Part 1 of Boiling Rock Gone Worse
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20 May 2025
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old habits die screaming by justanothermess
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
29 Nov 2024
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“But you just said honor is about doing what’s right. You must have known that wasn’t right,” Sokka presses.
There’s a long moment of silence. Then, “I knew it didn’t feel right. But I always told myself that if I knew the first thing about honor, I would still be home.”
“I don’t understand."
“I didn’t, either,” Zuko sighs.
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Of course Sokka has seen the scar. It’s kind of hard to miss.
…It just hadn’t occurred to him that it meant anything.
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20 May 2025
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In a world where Astrid doesn't stop nor find him, and Hiccup has more time to make a plan, it seems inevitable that he runs away the day before the fight.
With the friendship of a dragon and the space to grow for himself, what might the boy discover about himself, and the world around him?
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- Part 1 of 'One day you'll understand' series
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13 May 2025
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He’d split a rock on his head as a child. He’d ripped a nadder’s head from its shoulders as a baby. He’d been made chief when his father died to dragons, and as chief he’d watched his Valka miscarry for years only to be snatched away by dragons from their only surviving child; and, nearing what should have been the end of his time as chief, his heir and son had gone missing, probably because of dragons too. And he’d survived that. The people of Berk were tough, worn and weathered and rooted down into the earth like the mountain against whose base they had settled.
But Stoick wasn’t so certain anymore that they could survive much longer. Hiccup was gone, but the village still skirted disaster; Astrid was his heir, but the Berk she was inheriting was char and charcoal.
After Hiccup went missing Stoick's certainty in victory against dragons disappeared too. A mysterious Dragon Master offers hope, but hope is a man with a Night Fury for a shadow and a power that brought the tyrant who last bore that title to his knees.
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- Part 1 of Forced to Dream
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08 May 2025
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08 May 2025
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A Wind Age, A Wolf Age by www_creedthoughts_gov
Fandoms: How to Train Your Dragon (Animated Movies)
07 Jun 2026
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Astrid, to no ones surprise, is the fiercest warrior her age on Berk. After Hiccup was carried off and killed nine years ago by a dragon - she and Berk have never been the same. Then, three years ago, her life was shaken again by a masked rider who appeared during the raids upon the unholy offspring of lightning and death. The rider somehow aids the dragons and the village.
While most of the village speculates whether the rider is a demon from Hel, Astrid realizes something that shatters her worldview. If someone can ride a dragon, then everything they know about them is wrong.
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08 May 2025