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1. What We Build Instead by LokiofJ

   Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar: The Last Airbender: Chronicles of the Avatar Novels - Various, Avatar: The Last Airbender & Related Fandoms, Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender (Movie 2026)  

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

   25 Jul 2026

   Tags

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   • Aang/Katara (Avatar)
   • Sokka (Avatar)
   • Toph Beifong
   • Hakoda (Avatar)
   • Pakku (Avatar)
   • Zuko (Avatar)
   • Iroh (Avatar)
   • Katara (Avatar)
   • Aang (Avatar)
   • The Gaang (Avatar)
   • Appa (Avatar)
   • Momo (Avatar)
   • Suki (Avatar)
   • Kanna (Avatar)
   • Bato (Avatar)
   • Established Relationship
   • Post-Canon
   • Post-Movie: Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender (2026)
   • Wedding
   • Wedding Planning
   • pre-wedding
   • Marriage
   • Pregnancy
   • possible pregnancy
   • Morning Sickness
   • Parenthood
   • Family
   • Found Family
   • southern water tribe culture
   • air nomad culture
   • Cultural Traditions
   • Grief/Mourning
   • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
   • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
   • Domestic Fluff
   • Introspection
   • Memory
   • Community - Freeform
   • Healing
   • Gran Gran Knows Everything
   • Hakoda is a good dad
   • Sokka is a good brother
   • Protective Aang
   • Protective Katara
   • Aang Needs a Hug
   • Katara Deserves Nice Things
   • Aang and Katara Are Very Married Before the Wedding
   • the gaang as family

   Summary

   “But it’s yours to say first. Not mine.”

   A month before their wedding, Aang and Katara return to the South Pole.

   Not everything that followed them south came to celebrate.

   Between family traditions, old grief, unfinished histories, and a future they are not ready to name, they begin to understand that building a life together does not mean leaving the past behind. It means learning what to carry, what to choose, and what can still begin.

   Set after Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender (2026).

   Series

   • Part 3 of The Ones We Carry

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   46,405

   Chapters:

   6/12

   Comments:

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