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He grabs ahold of the belt loops on either side of my hips. “I just-” he shakes me, “I’m tired of people treating me like some wounded animal or-or like some bomb just waiting to go off. You’re the one person who-,” he licks his lips, “you’re my person. Please don’t do that to me.”
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Light A Match, Strike A Chord by harmonicanoise for imnotoverlyobsessive
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
24 Aug 2025
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Three years into Zuko’s exile, his father and sister force him into an engagement with a peasant girl from the Southern Water Tribe. They want him to burn the tribe alive from the inside. He just wants to go home.
As his uncle says, though, a home can change in a person's heart.
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01 Mar 2025
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Where the Tulips Grow by Evangeline_Douglas
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
12 Nov 2024
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In the balloon, Zuko hadn't let himself think about what would happen if the Avatar's group turned him away, but the cold reality sinks into his bones like the mountain air, and he trembles where he stands. There's nowhere to go and everywhere to go all at once, and he promised them, promised himself, promised Uncle his repentance for Ba Sing Se. He promised to make it up to Katara.
The only question is how he's supposed to do that without teaching the Avatar firebending.
(Or: Winning a war is hard. Atonement is harder).
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- Part 1 of To You, My Best
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27 Feb 2025
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Then they're kneeling together, and Katara is where Mai should be, and there's a silver flame in her topknot that should have been Mai's and a title that should have been Mai's and everyone around her, except her parents, cheers so loudly that her ears ring the rest of the afternoon.
Still, she's been raised better than to speak, to argue, to cry. Her face is smooth as a glass pane as her heart shatters into a million shards.
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- Part 2 of To You, My Best
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27 Feb 2025
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AU; The Southern Raiders' mission aims true and Katara is taken to the Fire Nation as a prisoner of war. As her circumstances and the political climate change, she forms unexpected alliances and makes it her mission to restore her people and find the Avatar. Written for Zutara Week 2015.
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23 Feb 2025
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Zuko is going to need a lot of healing sessions—at least 100, Katara insists. She’s the stubbornest person he’s ever met, but then, she’d say the same about him.
Friends to lovers told through healing sessions after the final Agni Kai.
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21 Feb 2025