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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, Jun 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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[Podfic] Towards the Sun by FaerieFey13
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
14 Aug 2025
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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, Jun not signing up for this, and Sokka's increasing desire to scream. Come get your international politics with a side of baby dragons.
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Zuko was hurting. He was hurting, but if he said anything, everyone would make it worse. That was how it always had been, and how it always would be.
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The war is over, but peace is far from easy. Two years after the fall of Ozai, old wounds still bleed beneath the surface—between nations, between friends, and within hearts.
Katara, once the heart of Team Avatar, is searching for something more than healing. Her relationship with Aang has quietly crumbled under the weight of expectation and destiny. Now, with Firelord Zuko extending a hand of diplomacy to the Southern Water Tribe, she finds herself drawn into a political alliance that tests everything she thought she knew—about justice, loyalty, and love.
As the Gaang takes separate paths—Sokka in search of purpose, Toph reshaping law with an iron fist, and Aang chasing balance in a world that no longer fits him—Katara and Zuko must walk a fine line between duty and desire, scarred pasts and fragile futures.
What begins as diplomacy may become something deeper. But can fire and water build peace… without burning each other in the process?
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"Water. Earth. Fire. Air. My grandmother used to tell me stories about the old days, a time of peace, when the Avatar kept balance between the Water Tribes, Earth Kingdom, Fire Nation and Air Nomads. But that all changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avatar mastered all four elements; only he could stop the ruthless firebenders. But when the world needed him most, he vanished. A hundred years have passed, and the Fire Nation is nearing victory in the war. Two years ago, my father and the men of my tribe journeyed to the Earth Kingdom to help fight against the Fire Nation, leaving me and my brother to look after our tribe. Some people believe that the Avatar was never reborn into the Air Nomads and that the cycle is broken, but I haven't lost hope. I still believe that, somehow, the Avatar will return to save the world."
So, yeah, an adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender if it were a novel. Including new scenes and new lore.
I'm not too good at summarizing.
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“Zuko! I think this lovely girl would like some tea. Please serve her.” the man chuckles through his whole body before winking at the two of them individually. He flounces off, leaving them gaping at each other.
“What can I get you?” he sighs, grumbling something under his breath about crazy old people and their meddling ways.
Zuko, the name is vaguely familiar but Katara writes it off, completely distracted. She is struggling to find her voice in her Si Wong desert of a throat. “Just some jasmine tea.” she chokes out, holding onto her necklace for dear life. “With honey.”
He merely grunts and stalks off, not nearly as friendly as his uncle.
She sighs. She has got to stop finding pretty boys at every pit stop.
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teashop au where zuko and iroh settle in ba sing se post-banishment and zuko has given up the avatar search! *out of hiatus in 2024*
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The Fox and The Firebender by Comicgeek20 for Subterraneanwatcher
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
01 May 2025
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Zuko meets Princess Azula his prodigy sister when she's a baby and then again, 14 years later, when she's a kitsune.
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"Thief! Thief!" Zuko heard someone shout from behind him. He turned around to see what all the commotion was about. He expected to see the vendor yelling at someone and that someone was running away from him and the guards. And he was right. But what he didn't expect was that someone to be his daughter.
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Izumi's sweet tooth manages to get herself and Zuko arrested. By their own guards. Who have no idea who they are arresting. -
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Zuko exhausts himself with work and Katara helps.
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What Matters Most by C_Montgomery_Burns
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
06 Jun 2024
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Being the Fire Lord is a demanding job. After a surprising discovery, Iroh tries to remind his nephew of the truly important things in life.
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- Part 2 of Let All Begin Anew
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"Only then did I realize what I had just done. I sank to the ground, trembling in disbelief. I was a firebender, and I was supposed to use my power for the greater good. In fact, I swore I would. Instead, I used it to kill an innocent doctor. I looked at my hands, slowly turning them to face me. I had used those very hands to murder a man."
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After Azula is dead due to unknown circumstances, Zuko flies into a rage and completely loses himself. His identity is fractured when Aang takes away his bending. Left with a version of himself he no longer recognizes, Zuko spends his time figuring out what happened to Azula, and repairing his relationship with his friends. (ON HIATUS) -
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The anniversary of a painful memory comes up for Zuko, leaving his Uncle to worry about his poor sleeping habits.
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Zuko is unable to sleep due to it being the anniversary of the Agni Kai -
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Zuko went through the worst day of his life, was given the worst quest in history, and then was banished by the worst man in the Fire Nation. So now he's stuck on a rotten ship surrounded by people who hate him who would without a doubt give him the teasing of a lifetime once they found out he didn't know how to maintain his new nails.
Or, Zuko is going through the weirdest puberty in the world. He thinks this is normal. His crew begs to differ.
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- Part 1 of Feral Zuko Adventures
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A month after Zuko’s coronation as Fire Lord, Sokka leaves the Fire Nation with his family. When he returns, it’s been five years.
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Everyone gets some pining in this household.
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Meet Me Where The Lanterns Never Light by Val_Creative
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
28 Mar 2023
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Zuko discovers Azula sitting at a table in the Jasmine Dragon and panics.
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After a month of sleeping (or in his case, collapsing from exhaustion) almost everywhere, Uncle had insisted upon them getting their own rooms, and trying to get used to a real bed again after a year of rushing around the world on a flying bison (or in his case, after three years on a boat, the run and a flying bison).
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Zuko is sleepy while Mai and him are spending time together
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To See It Mend by PolynomialPandemic for bloodredpomegranate
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
20 Dec 2022
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He let out a huff of exasperation, and went to mutter a curse, but only-
Honked?
He startled in surprise, feet flailing, and-
Oh. Oh no. Oh, that was too many feet.
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His work could wait a few minutes, hours, a few more restless nights with the yammering of his advisors by his side. Whatever time it would take for them to accept Katara he would wait.
or; zuko and katara talk about her position as fire lady (because the fire nation is not so accepting yet)
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- Part 1 of zutara month
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a conversation between the straw and the camel by QueasyBuddy for MuffinLance
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
05 Mar 2022
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As the last of the airbenders die, the first of the kindling-men burns.
In a nation now defenseless from itself, Zuko is born with a body of firewood and lighters on his hands.