13 Works in Azula’s Redemption
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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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"There a lot of things about Zuko that the servants ignore. He is half-way between skins now. He shed the old one and hasn’t grown into the new one, trapped between worlds and skins and identities. Some days he feels more like Li the war-child refugee than Zuko, the Fire Lord."
Zuko attempts to lead his nation into peace, kicking and screaming in protest. He discovers what it means to survive a war- and a childhood- that no one ever wanted or expected him to.
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Our Father, Who Art Buried in the Yard by Grandapplewit for MuffinLance
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
19 Nov 2020
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Inspired by Muffinlance's Salvage, Hakoda not only picks up a surly traumatized teenager but his sarcastic, angry sister as well. Ozai may not want his son back, but his daughter on the other hand... well, Hakoda is ready and willing to fight for custody of the daughter that isn't his, and the son that's safer among enemies than with his own father.
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we'll burn that bridge when we get to it by chaoticsandstorm
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
29 Oct 2020
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An AU where Ozai wasn't so forgiving of Azula lying about the Avatar's death, and decides he doesn't want an heir he can't control. Zuko goes with her.
OR: The one where Azula gets a life-changing field trip
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- Part 1 of the things we give to each other
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the ashes in my wake by aloneintherain for Megamence123
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
09 Sep 2020
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“Sparky,” Toph announces, “it’s field-trip time. Pack your bags.” She pauses and considers Azula. “You want to come, Princess?”
Azula eyes her up and down. “With you?”
Toph’s grin is full of teeth. “You know I’m more fun than anyone else at the palace, don’t try and pretend otherwise.”
Unfortunately, she has a point.
Or: the beginning of Azula's redemption.
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When Azula is nine, she becomes an only child. She hears the Fire Lord call for Zuko's life, and in the morning, her mother and brother are gone. Azula may be young, but she isn't naive. She knows what happened to them.
Which makes it all the more surprising when Azula tracks the Avatar down and fights his group of peasant friends, only to find herself staring into an eerily familiar face.
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we'll grow toward the sun, though sometimes it'll be hard by jublis
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
20 Jul 2020
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There isn’t any shame in relying in others, Zuko had told her, once. Face soft with sleep, curled up on her bedside in the facility, as she painted her nails in an attempt to stop chewing them. I learned it the hard way. Sometimes you need to hit rock bottom to climb your way back up.
And sometimes when you hit rock bottom you break your neck, she’d answered. Why let yourself get that low?
It’s difficult to know which way is up and which way is down sometimes, he’d said. Finger tapping his scar. It isn’t the hitting the ground that gets you. Sometimes it’s the fall.
Or, Azula takes the long way home. Featuring the passage of time, the life-changing aspects of a field trip across the Earth Kingdom, and making a place for yourself.
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- Part 10 of heirloom
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i won't stumble as i follow down this path (cause words that are spoken are just other things to have) by jublis
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
17 Jul 2020
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“Did you know”, he answered, “that Azula’s favorite flowers are fire lilies? Every birthday, she asked for the ballroom to be decorated with them. During our tutoring lessons, she’d doodle them on the inside of her hands so she could hide them quick—dozens and dozens of small flowers, connected to each other by little stems.” Zuko leaned against the wall, crossing his arms. “Of course, she always made a mess. Ink all over her clothes, ink all over her notes. But she got away with it, every time.”
And Suki’s eyes weren’t sad. They were so, so tired. “Why do you hold on to all that, Zuko?”
Zuko shrugged. “Where can I put it down?”
Or, it takes Zuko one year to visit his sister again. Featuring birthday weeks, struggling with your own goodness, and a future.
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- Part 9 of heirloom
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Zuko's body is stolen as part of a treasonous plot for the throne. Unfortunately for the impostor, the Fire Lord's relationship with the ambassador to the Southern Water Tribe is very different behind closed doors. Things get complicated.
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One year after she's been shut away in Imperial Jade Serenity Healing House, her arms semi-permanently chi-blocked to prevent her from bending, Azula contemplates her bleak future.
Or: Team Avatar aren't the only ones tasked with making drastic and potentially lethal choices.
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the weight of family and the pull's gravity by jublis
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
04 Jul 2020
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“Good fight,” the brother says, not looking at her. His hand is right behind her, and if he were someone kinder, he’d reach out and place it on her shoulder. If she were someone kinder, she’d let him.
“Good fight,” she murmurs instead, and leaves it at that.
The brother doesn’t say he loves her out loud. But she hears it all the same.
It is the last time.
Or, a study in siblings. Featuring growing closer, growing apart, things that were said, and things that were not.
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- Part 4 of heirloom
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The Avatars fall, one after another. For a hundred years, the Fire Nation has harried its enemy across lives, deaths, and nations. In the chaos, the Avatar Spirit takes a terrible risk. Being born as the Spirit of the World can't change who you are, but maybe things will work out for the Balance... Avatar Azula.
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- Part 1 of Avatar Azula
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"Twice Iroh goes to the Spirit World. The first time he is lost. The second time he is found."—After the War, Azula eventually comes to live in Ba Sing Se with Iroh. On Iroh, Azula, Zuko, and the ties that bind them.