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Zuko botches his escape on the day of the eclipse and sits out the war in prison. What will the Gaang do with a new Fire Lord they can't trust? Season Four "Zuko never joined the Gaang, and he's really bad at being good" AU.
Featuring Azula's extended field trip, June not signing up for this, and Sokka's increasing desire to scream. Come get your international politics with a side of baby dragons.
Podfic and German translation now available, see chapter one notes!
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- Part 1 of Towards the Sun
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19 Jun 2021
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The sun sets on the Day of Black Sun. The coronation is held at dawn.
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11 Mar 2021
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"Dispatch? Kill Prince Zuko?!" Fire Lord Azulon hissed. "With Prince Lu Ten dead and Iroh without an heir? To leave me with only one grandchild to secure the monarchy? No, Prince Ozai! You have overstepped. Zuko will live, but not as your son. I will give him to Prince Iroh to raise as his own son, as his heir."
When Fire Lord Azulon ordered Iroh to adopt Zuko, it seemed like the magic wand that would fix everything that was wrong in Zuko's life. But life inevitably finds a way to blow up in Zuko's face. A loose retelling of the Avatar story featuring Fire Lord Iroh, angsty Azula, Zuko joining Team Avatar in first season, and a Mai who is definitely (not?) going to kill Zuko.
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- 44/44
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25 Nov 2020
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Not with a bang, but not with a whimper either. It turned out the end didn’t come for Spike at all.
He had said he wasn’t going to meet Vicious to die and that hadn’t been a total lie, but Spike had still expected to find an answer, or finality in some form. Only it hadn’t come. After everything he had gone through, it hadn’t come. He thought he had climbed all the way to the top of the staircase, but the only thing waiting for him was a false step that he’d gone tumbling through, all the way down to the bottom again, like it was a great cosmic game of snakes and ladders.
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Spike, Faye, Jet and the aftermath. Or, what happens when time keeps on going despite everything.
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- Part 1 of These Days
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27 Oct 2020
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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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13 Oct 2020
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Mid-Season-One Zuko is held for ransom by Chief Hakoda. Ozai's replies to the Water Tribe's demands are A+ Parenting. Hakoda is… deeply concerned, for this son that isn't his, and who might be safer among enemies than with his own father.
Podfic and translations in Dutch, German, Hungarian, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian now available! See chapter one author notes for links.
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05 Aug 2020
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At this proximity, he could see the glistening hollow between her collarbones dip as she swallowed in eager anticipation. For all that her expertise at holding an impassive exterior was worth, she still couldn’t hide her desire for him.
He smiled as his finger followed her lean sculpted jaw, tracing a heated line from her ear down to her chin, tilting her up sharply to look at him. 'I like when you leave the Deadly Unflappable Fighter persona out the door, for the rest of the world. I love seeing you hot, bothered and messy like this'.
He bent down catching her lips in his.
Jumping between flashes of their relationship all the way from Zuko's coronation to their estrangement and beyond. Complete!
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03 Aug 2020
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["Fine." Zuko sank into a seiza and offered up his hands, wrists pressed together, palms facing the sky. "If you won't accept me as a friend, then maybe you'll take me as a prisoner.”
His offer was met with silence.
The Water Tribe boy was the first to move. He crossed his arms, his brow furrowed in concentration. “We can’t just let him roam around. He knows where our camp is. It’s better for us—and literally everyone else—if he’s locked up somewhere.”
“And if he tries something?” demanded his sister.
The Water Tribe boy shrugged. “Practice for Aang.”]
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In which Zuko is taken prisoner by the Gaang at the Western Air Temple. This changes things.
!!!!! UNDERGOING EDITING TO REMOVE A FEW THINGS !!!!
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- Part 1 of albatross
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27 Jul 2020
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On the day before Ba Sing Se falls, Katara decides two things: 1) not to stop for a cup of tea; 2) consequently, the fate of the world.
Behind the walls, Zuko loses sleep, runs errands, contemplates treason, and drinks a lot of hot leaf juice—not necessarily in that order.
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01 Jul 2020