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When hunter-killer machines begin attacking the Memorial Grove, Aloy returns there to lend her aid. She arrives on the night of the blaze moon, a Tenakth ceremony that sweeps her up in it before she realizes it's happening. Suddenly suitors are seeking her out around every corner until she and Kotallo stumble into an...unorthodox solution.
That might cause more problems than it solves.
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- Part 1 of Paint and Fire
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20 Nov 2025
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Soldier of the Ten by setavvo
Fandoms: Horizon (Video Games), Horizon: Zero Dawn (Video Game), Horizon: Forbidden West (Video Game)
03 Feb 2024
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A Red Raids AU
On the verge of being thrown in the Sun-Ring to be sacrificed as a tribute to the Carja, a maimed Kotallo is rescued by a huntress from the far east. He slowly begins to adjust to his new self, but when the Carja begin decimating their enemies—his new friends, he must make the decision to return to the Clan Lands and prove his worth to himself and to his tribe, or let his people fall to ruin.
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11 Nov 2025
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Katara hasn't known what to make of Zuko since Ba Sing Se. He is cruel and kind, smug and shy, warrior and wounded. All she is is confused. Every time she and Sokka travel to the Fire Nation as diplomats, she gets to play Spin-the-Wheel to find out which Zuko will show up that day. Will it be Fire Lord Zuko, regal and fair; Bad Boy Zuko, arrogant and temperamental; Tortured Past Zuko, bleeding and cracked; Shy Awkward Zuko, unsure and reserved--who the hell knows? Not her. She just knows she is caught up in him, whoever he is, and has been since the catacombs.
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Written for Zutara Week 2020, Prompt Day 3 - Fuse. Post-canon, pretending the last kiss never happened and no one can stop me.
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02 Oct 2025
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Zuko does not notice when the Water Tribe girl first stirs. She is staring at his face — his scar — but strangely it is only when he faces her head-on that she is afraid.
She is the first person who ever flinches at his right side instead of his left.
He begins his interrogation at once. Uncle has dozed off, thankfully. If he knew she was awake, he would slow things down by offering tea. Still, Zuko is not a total barbarian. He thrusts the lukewarm tea in the girl’s direction. She looks around wildly, no doubt disoriented by her surroundings and Zuko presses his advantage.
“Where is the Avatar?”
A canon-divergent tale: Katara must protect the newly-found Avatar from a Fire Nation Prince, although he is not quite who she expected. But Katara has plenty of secrets of her own...
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30 Sep 2025
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Zuko goes into exile with a scar, a mission, and a wife.
The girl wears ill fitted ceremonial silks. She is too thin, with jutting bones and hollowed eyes. Dirt smudges her cheek. Her lower lip has a healing split in it. Gaudy as her finery is, she wears it like prisoner’s rags.
All of this Zuko registers in the time it takes him to reach the dais and bow. Every muscle aches with the remembrance of what happened the last time he knelt before Father. This time there is no begging, no roar of the crowd, no burning. Still—Zuko’s grateful to stand once more.
Slipping into soldier’s parade rest, he waits for what will come next, all too aware of the girl’s defiant body next to his.
“I am told that this is Katara of the Southern Water Tribe,” Father says, cruel amusement oiling his words. The phrasing makes the girl sound like a thing. “The last waterbender of their pathetic tribe.” Flames conceal all but his shadow, yet Zuko knows from long experience the exacting blade of his father’s smirk. The smirk he must surely wear now. Because he has built up his insult and now he lets it fall. “Your bride.”
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28 Sep 2025