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Zuko had scrubbed the smell of sex and blood of himself, but that didn’t stop it from clinging to the inside of his nose. Could the others smell it? Could they taste his shame in the back of their throats too?
Irrationally, Zuko wanted to crawl inside himself. Peel those watching eyes off him; don’t look at me! They knew, somehow. They could see it on him. Some kind of tell, some stain he couldn’t see or wash away.
What if they all knew? Laughing behind his back at what he’d given up just for a fraction of a chance to get his honor back.
What honor? Any scrap he’d had left after the Agni Kai was lost the moment he spread his legs for Zhao.
They could all see it, couldn’t they?
Zuko wondered if he could ever be rid of the things Zhao did to him.
Zuko deals with the aftermath.
He goes about it the same way he deals with every other shitty thing in his life: with gritted teeth, stubborn pride, and a whole lot of yelling.Series
- Part 2 of handgrenade hearts
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Closing his eyes, Zuko breathed deep through his nose. In and out. Just focus on his breath control and not what awaited him in the other room.
For a split second, the only thing he wanted was to bolt back out the window, through the harbor and back to the safety of the Pariah. Zuko just wanted to go home.
This is the only way you’re going to be able to go home, he reminded himself. Repair the ship, capture the Avatar, restore your honor. This is a small price to pay for that.
Swallowing, Zuko forced his feet forward.
Zuko's visit to Zhao's port goes a little differently.
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Zuko has a deal where a trades sexual favors with Zhao for aid and supplies. This gets him in trouble when his ship is damaged by the Avatar and the only safe place to dock is at the port of everyone's least favorite (Vice) Admiral.
And he's in heat.Series
- Part 1 of handgrenade hearts
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Zuko was born with shit luck. Maybe he was cursed in the womb. Some spirit decided 'fuck this kid in particular' and gave him the unluckiest luck ever.
It seemed that every time something good happened to him, something else had to come around and kick him in the ass to make up for it. It was like there was some cosmic balance that demanded it.
Case in point: Zuko finally found the Avatar.
The Avatar; who was a twelve year old boy. A twelve year old boy that somehow managed to nearly sink his ship and drown his entire crew, resulting in Zuko having to limp his way to the only port that would take them. A port run by motherfucking Zhao.
And Zuko was in heat.
The only way Zhao was ever going to repair his ship was if Zuko gave his body in exchange. Surely that won't have any consequences...- Words:
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The problem with Zuko's exile is that every ocean has become enemy waters for a Fire Nation Prince, and when his ship is captured by the Northern Water Tribe, he has nowhere to turn for help.
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"So you take the knife to the wall instead. You carve and carve until a coin of light appears and you get to look in, at last, on happiness. The eye staring back from the other side—waiting." — Ocean Vuong, Torso of Air
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When Mai gets a call in the dead of the night from Zuko's uncle about how Zuko hasn't come home since the end of the school day and their breakup, her mind doesn't automatically assume kidnapping. She doesn't think anyone could be capable of making Zuko disappear.
But then she finds Zuko's shoe hidden in a dirty curb, and she wishes for once that she was wrong.
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Toph, as the gaang all knew, could sense lies by the liar's heartbeats. What people outside of the group( or a gaggle of children focused on war) didn't realize was that in order to feel the irregularities of a heart, you need to be sensitive to the tiniest of changes in a person. Pregnancy, for one.
Rated for topics of abuse of power on a minor, past rape, etc. Nothing is explicit but warnings are warned.
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23 Nov 2025
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Zhao wonders if the boy remembers his old name. It's three years since he's been called anything but 'boy', three years since he lost an agni kai to his own father, and was sent to the lightning-tamers to have the rebellion burnt out of his brain.
Zhao's had him ever since. He's perfectly, despicably docile. Left alone, he does nothing, just stays sitting or kneeling where you left him. But when given orders, he'll do anything -- anything -- you ask him to.
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Crown Prince Zuko discovers his bending when he is five and his sister is three, and she’s the first person he tells, juggling a flame while she admires its beauty. When he shows the rest of his family, his mother’s chopsticks clatter to the table, and when Zuko looks to his father, his eyes are wide with shock.
His grandfather speaks first, the head of the table, and approval runs thick through his tone: “Well, look at that. A true prodigy, wouldn’t you agree, Ozai?”
“Indeed,” he hums.
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(Princess Azula won’t summon her first flame—a guttering, timid thing—until she’s seven.)
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Or, in a world where Zuko is the prodigy and Azula is the one banished, destiny shifts accordingly.
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