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The Ghosts of the Wani by orphan_account
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar: The Last Airbender & Related Fandoms
16 Jun 2026
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"There is no Lady Tomoe on this manifest," the officer barked, his voice grating and thin behind the eye-slits. "The household has been dissolved by royal decree. It is just Tomoe now. Move the cargo to the lower steerage deck with the rest of the crew's rations."
Three days ago, Tomoe was destined for the Fire Nation throne. Yesterday, her family was executed for treason, their names erased for supporting a teenage prince's outburst in a war council. Today, she is a nameless exile on a disgraced ship, staring at the scarred boy whose words cost her everything.
Stripped of her title, Tomoe is taken aboard the Wani by General Iroh, the last remaining link to the future she was groomed to inherit. Trapped on a rusted vessel with a volatile, mutilated prince, her courtly education is reduced to a tool for basic survival. But as the hopeless search for the Avatar drags into years, the shared isolation of their exile begins to forge something far more dangerous than hatred.
An epic, (mature/explicit) slow-burn exploration of political survival, grief, and a changing world. Spanning from the first day of exile, through the war, and into their adult years.