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The Many Shapes of Reflection by binsandcans
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
11 May 2026
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"I suppose I can't blame you," Mai says quietly.
Her bangs hide her eyes from his view. Her face is an impassive mask. Hurt reverberates through Zuko's chest. This isn't—no—
It's funny how you notice the absence of something. How you notice something only when it is gone from you.
How you notice the lack of air when you can't breathe anymore—
“For what?” he asks regardless. Her drawing up her walls and keeping him out hurts—but he doesn't even know where—and how—to begin addressing that. And as much as he knows her, which, these past days have revealed was not a lot—he thinks she's the same way. Conversations were always difficult for them.
But this is important.
So he sticks to what she's already stumbled her way into saying.
“I'd have come with you,” she says. “If you had asked. But I didn't think Ty Lee would come through for me either. So I can't really blame you for thinking the same of me.”
Or,
Zuko attempts to break Mai out of Boiling Rock.
[earlier titled Will of Steel]
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Collection of smutty one-shots. Starting with Kinktober 2025. No promises.
(Now with newest chapters featuring adult Zuko from the movie because he deserves to get fucked)
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For two people who, in their own way, have always been duty-bound, choices can be a very foreign concept.
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- Part 1 of Anxieties
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Navigating throne-seeking families and old councilors who want to keep things exactly as they were under his father, Zuko is not coping well. He is alone and it is through no one's fault but his own. He alienated the one person who'd always been stead-fastly loyal to him.
When the newest reform he wants to effect leads to disastrous consequences, Zuko realises he has a long road to redemption yet.
His goal: make Mai fall in love with him again.
And with each passing day, it seems more and more out of his reach.
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Zuko has a Four Step Plan.
But he waited too long to execute them.
[Reworked with some additional dialogue as I chiseled things out]
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The guards on the gondola seem a few seconds away from imposing a moratorium on laughter. They just don't seem to get the joke: that surviving Azula is the funniest thing in the world, and Mai must be the luckiest unluckiest person that ever lived.
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28 Mar 2026
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After the end of the series, Mai and Zuko have some alone time. She discovers something new, and isn't really pleased.
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- Part 201 of Fanfiction.net/Livejournal Archive Project
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28 Mar 2026
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Mai and Zuko, together when apart.
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- Part 239 of Fanfiction.net/Livejournal Archive Project
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28 Mar 2026
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When Prince Zuko got banished from the Fire Nation, Mai does decide to go with him into exile, feeling he is one of the few good things in her life. However, both of them can't imagine that huge powers are already working in the background and meeting with the Avatar and his friends later in the journey is just the start. The End of the future in the silence of the Imbalance changes the present, and that in ways that can't be foreseen.
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Mai should've known that life after the war wouldn't be nearly as boring as she'd feared, especially since she has an important job to do. Post-series, contains spoilers.
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22 Jan 2026