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   forgetting is a kind of mercy by nerdylizj

   Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   27 Apr 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Katara/Zuko (Avatar)
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Established Relationship
   • False Identity
   • Dai Li brainwashing
   • Momtara and Dadko
   • we love to see it
   • shame about the brainwashing though
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Canonical Child Abuse
   • depictions of war

   Summary

   It's death by a thousand cuts, Katara thinks. Saying goodbye to their old lives, forging ahead with whatever amalgamation of reality once they both fully remember everything, whatever reality that may be. Yet, two tethers between them will remain.

   Or,

   Five years after Katara and Zuko go missing in Ba Sing Se, Kya and Lee are found living peacefully in the Earth Kingdom countryside.

   Series

   • Part 1 of forgetting is a kind of mercy

   Language:

   English

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