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Hakoda kills a Southern Raider. This backfires spectacularly. Zuko is just trying to keep four kids from dying while not being a traitor to his nation. Toph is concerned. Sokka finds himself rethinking everything he had previously considered the norm.
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Kuei orders all of the Fire Nation out of Ba Sing Se after Azula fails her coup. This has wider ramifications than he thought.
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21 May 2025
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Zuko knew from the beginning that he was the Avatar, born to bring glory to the Fire Nation and destroy all its enemies.
(Everyone is an enemy to the Fire Nation.)
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18 May 2025
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Ursa commits conversation instead of murder.
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07 May 2025
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Zuko doesn’t know how Azula's doctors already seem to understand what their childhoods were like, and how they seem so prepared to house and treat a dangerous firebender. He doesn’t know why they aren’t afraid of him or her, why they even agreed to come here. He doesn’t understand how Uncle even knew who to contact for help, and how he set everything up so quickly.
Uncle looks resigned, when he’s asked about it, which makes Zuko nervous.
“These were not quickly made arrangements,” he admits. “I spent a great deal of time when I was traveling with the White Lotus looking into how one could best help a war child who had been so indoctrinated and hurt. I wrote to quite a few people, and have been in contact with the doctors treating Azula for some time.”
Zuko stares back at Uncle in confusion.
“I don’t understand. You knew she would go mad?”
Uncle sighs. He puts his tea down on the table between them, and looks Zuko in the eye as he answers.
“No, Fire Lord Zuko. These arrangements were not made for her. They were made for you.”
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Couldn't stop thinking about how Iroh must have been planning on having to "deal with" Zuko after the war.
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- Part 1 of Avatar Oneshots
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30 Apr 2025
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Hakoda wondered if the blue light on the ocean was a spirit flame. It was not.
Now he has custody of a fierce little firebending girl, while his healer does everything he can to save the boy they found. He wonders if he'll regret it, what with the apparent Spirit interference and all.
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- Part 1 of Book 1: Judged
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29 Apr 2025
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turn your face (towards the sun) by youareoldfatherwilliam
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
16 Apr 2021
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For most of the flight to wherever-they're-going, Chit Sang watches.
He's pretty damned sure that he's looking at the Crown Prince.
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28 Apr 2025
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Zuko cannot go home.
He stands on the deck of his ship, the air growing ever colder, and he longs for nothing more than the warm embrace of the Fire Nation. He cannot go home, he reminds himself. But, spirits. He wants nothing more.
[Or; lessons concerning trauma, reclaiming the past, and the changing definition of home.]
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27 Apr 2025
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As the hours pass, and the courtyard gets colder, Zuko falls into a trance. The fire never falters, even though he’s never held a flame this long before. It stays steady and bright and burning, and it chases away the chill.
Or: Zuko holds vigil. Again, and again, and again.
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26 Apr 2025
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Zuko abandons his quest to find the Avatar and takes up piracy (and selling tea) in an effort to never see anything Avatar-related again. It does not work.
On hiatus
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- Part 5 of Many, Many, Many Worlds
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25 Apr 2025
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made me cackle multiple times while reading g, 10/10 character dynamics. hiatus: chap 2
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Suki, at first, took one look at the guy Sokka brought to the prison break and thought oh, hey, Sokka got a new boyfriend!
(or: Sokka and Zuko, despite all evidence to the contrary, aren't actually dating. Suki sets out to help them remedy this.)
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22 Apr 2025
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Iroh learns how to be an uncle. Zuko learns how to be loved. Jee learns how to give advice the only way Iroh understands it.
Takes place immediately post-Agni Kai.
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21 Apr 2025
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Like him, his children are born into war.
They are not the only ones.
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20 Apr 2025
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"Uncle hears you. Turns to look at you. Softens. Smiles. He smiles at you through the smoke, like he’s sitting across from you with a cup of tea and no care in the world."
(ozai takes things a step further. zuko is alone.)
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16 Apr 2025
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Fate turns a little differently, and Zuko ends up being raised far away from the royal palace- and with dragons. But no matter how things change, one thing remains the same- that it's his destiny to teach the Avatar firebending, and to fight against the Fire Lord. That's the easy part. The hard part? Literally everything else.
(or, local feral firebender does his best)
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15 Apr 2025
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feral, raised-by-a-dragon zuko trying his best. the gaang’s confusion and fondness is so fun to read. last read: chapter 9
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The bath takes care of the sweat. Takes care of the burnt bits of skin and fat that still cling to his palm. Zuko scrubs his body until it’s raw, blushing red; he dunks his head under the hot water and stays there, staring up at the dark, vaulted ceiling of the washroom until his lungs run out of breath to use.
The oil of honeysuckle and opium and cinnamon, sweet and sharp and earthy, does not wash the stench of scorched flesh out of his nose.Zuko falls asleep on the evening of his official coronation, when he’s twenty-one-years old and has finally reached his majority. Zuko wakes on the morning of the Agni Kai with his father, eight years earlier.
This is annoying for several reasons, like the fact that the War is still ongoing, that he has zero friends, and that Ozai is not in jail.
It’s time to scheme.Series
- Part 1 of to try again-verse
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12 Apr 2025
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Her daughter is five years old when Ursa realises what she and Ozai have been doing to their children. By each choosing one to bestow with their approval, they’re pitting them against one another. Perhaps Ozai is doing it on purpose, but Ursa isn’t. She resolves to heal the damage she has done.
In which Ursa tries to be a better parent to Azula, and it doesn’t change very much. And then, quite abruptly, it changes everything.
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10 Apr 2025
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While Mighty Oaks Do Fall by WitchofEndor for distractedKat
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
26 Sep 2024
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High Sage Kenji blesses Fire Prince Zuko with the resilience of the reed, who bends in the wind and never breaks. When he is done, Fire Prince Ozai narrows his eyes, seemingly displeased by this blessing. But Kenji does not speak for himself; he is only a vessel.
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The newly-crowned Fire Lord Ozai offers his firstborn son to service in the temple.
This turns out to be a catastrophic mistake.
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09 Apr 2025
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beautifully written, amazing worldbuilding, (autistic) fire sage zuko using bureaucracy for good. what more could i possibly want?
read up to chapter 20
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Mid-Season-One Zuko is held for ransom by Chief Hakoda. Ozai's replies to the Water Tribe's demands are A+ Parenting. Hakoda is… deeply concerned, for this son that isn't his, and who might be safer among enemies than with his own father.
Podfic and translations in Dutch, German, Hungarian, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian now available! See chapter one author notes for links.
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05 Apr 2025
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LOVELY. have re-read now that it’s complete, will undoubtedly re-read again.
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A Decade In The Sun by Literate_Wolverine
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, Wiedźmin | The Witcher (Video Game)
06 Jul 2020
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“You’d like us to be intimate then?” Geralt inquired earnestly. Jaskier nearly choked on his spit.
“We’re married, aren’t we?”
“Plenty of married couples would rather clean gutters than see each other bare. And you have that tavern girl of yours, from the village-- hush, that’s not an admonishment. I just assumed you’d been… put up for auction, when a groom was requested in the place of a bride. That you had no earnest, physical interest in men. Or if you did, that I was out of your age bracket. Which is acceptable. I have less than no interest in traumatizing you, or anyone, with my attentions.”
It was beginning to sink in for Jaskier that maybe, just maybe, he had in fact been joined in holy matrimony with a perfectly lovely man.
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- Part 1 of A Decade In The Sun
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22 Mar 2025
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Puzzles Made of Broken Glass by thatcuriouscat for ramblingwildrose, TheMaidenOfWords
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
30 Aug 2025
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Sherlock Holmes retreats to his Mind Palace to think, to problem-solve. Superman has his Fortress of Solitude, reportedly.
9-and-five-sixths-year-old Tim Drake has his Blanket Fortress.Timmy Drake’s parents go missing.
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10 Mar 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
a roller coaster ride of a story, featuring gremlin tim and thoroughly exasperated jason. read up to chapter 10