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    Zuko has not known real peace since the day he faced his sister in their Agni Kai many years ago. No matter how many times he tried to bury it, his feelings for Katara refused to fade. At every shared meal, every sparring match, every return to the Fire Palace, he found himself hoping — just once — that her eyes would meet his and reignite the spark that had flared the moment he took Azula’s lightning for her... but they never did.

    Her gaze always found Aang instead, and, in time, Zuko taught himself to look away — for their sake, for the fragile balance of their friendship. The Avatar and the healer, bound together as if by fate.

    But when Katara comes to the Fire Nation during a quiet break from Aang, the Fire Lord begins to notice something he hadn’t allowed himself to see before. Whenever he looked away…

    She always looked back.

    (Alternate Universe of The Legend of Aang, prior to its events)

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    03 May 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 40

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    Zuko sat on a large stone and watched her work without interrupting, which she appreciated. When Katara finally let the water down and turned, he was looking at her with the expression she had come to think of as specifically for her.

    "I've missed watching you bend," he said.

    "I've been bending."

    "I know." He paused, "I mean just watching you, watching from the outside."

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    03 May 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 81

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    ”I’m thinking of marrying outside the Fire Nation.”

    He bit his own tongue as soon as the words left his mouth, echoing back at him in the silence that followed.

    Five years after the war, Zuko employs the Southern Water Tribe Ambassador’s help in his most complicated duty yet: getting married.

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    29 Apr 2026

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    The war is over, but Katara doesn't know what that means for her. And if one more person asks her about her "next steps," she might burst into Zuko's flames.

     

    (Zutara)

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    23 Apr 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 26

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    Zuko is crowned Firelord at sixteen, and from then on, that is all he is.

    Mostly.

    Because Zuko wants what he cannot have, and he cannot seem to let her go.

     

    — or, snapshots of Zuko's life after his coronation

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    20 Apr 2026