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In the year 96 AG, a freshly burned and banished 13-year-old Prince Zuko discovers a strange boy frozen in an iceberg.
When Zhao interferes with Zuko's plans to deliver the Avatar to his father, Aang helps Zuko and Iroh escape. They take refuge in the abandoned Air Temples, Aang searching for any remnants of his people that he can find. Along the way, he teaches an indoctrinated Zuko about the true nature of the Air Nomads, and Zuko must come to terms with the fact that everything he has been taught was a lie, while Iroh must acknowledge and face the sins of his past.
Eventually, Aang and Zuko become close friends, and Zuko begins to feel things he has never felt for anyone before. However, Zhao will not give up easily, and will do whatever it takes to capture the Avatar and his traitor accomplices.
(A retelling of AtLA exploring the friendship and eventual romance that could have developed between Aang and Zuko if the circumstances of their meeting had been different. Eventually will end up following most of the canon events of the original show, just over the span of 3-4 years instead of 1.)
(CURRENT UPDATE SCHEDULE IS ROUGHLY EVERY 3-4 WEEKS)
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A River of Ash and Ember by HiddenQ1347
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar: The Last Airbender
27 Jul 2025
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Rivka, a Master Waterbender known for his wisdom and unorthodox tactics, roams the Water Tribes' outposts offering his knowledge and military defences. When the Avatar group visits a remote outpost, Rivka’s brilliance leads to an unexpected interaction with the Fire Nation, catching the eye of the Fire Nation Military Council. Their paths cross again as tensions rise, and Rivka is drawn into a reluctant alliance with the Fire Lord, whose power-hungry ambitions challenge everything Rivka stands for.
Bound by a mysterious moon soulmark, Rivka must navigate the dangerous line between conflict and connection, uncovering the truth about his bond and its power to change the fate of the world.
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With the lessons and the battles of the North Pole behind them, Katara and Zuko set off on separate journeys across the Earth Kingdom. While Katara pursues her next element, Zuko flees the nation and family that tried to destroy him. Though their paths promise new friendships and new challenges for them both, destiny seems determined to bring them back together someday.
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- Part 2 of A Tale of Ice and Smoke
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This is a work of fanfiction that was inspired by Avatar the Last Airbender, specifically the Season 2 Finale. The story follows the Gaang in alternate storyline where Zuko finds the right path sooner. At "The Cross Roads of Destiny" Zuko decides to join Team Avatar after connecting with Katara over the loss of their mothers. Katara sees that Zuko has just been lost up until this point and uses the spirit water on his scar.
*Some things have obviously been changes to suit the fanfic.*
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Temporary Companions by shortprince_writes
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
14 Apr 2025
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(Episode: The Chase)
After Toph runs off, the Gaang splits up to lose the girls that are tracking them. Sokka decides to look for Toph on foot while Katara and Aang go separate directions to confuse their pursuers.
While looking for Toph, Sokka ends up getting lost in the woods, and eventually runs into Prince Zuko, who is apparently also tracking them again.
Reluctantly, they both team up so they can find the Avatar.
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What if Sokka took up a power that he did not understand? What would it cost? And what would his family do to save him?
What if Azula had been shown another way? If someone had helped her, could she find her own redemption?
Underlying theme: The dereliction of duty and the consequences thereof, and that if you hold to your convictions and are resolved in your duty you will find salvation.
This takes place in the universe in which Aang did not use Sokka's jerky as fire stater in episode three, and the butterfly effect is strong indeed.
Constructive Criticism welcomed.
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After failing to capture the Avatar at the North Pole, Zuko and Iroh are on the run from the Fire Nation, making their way through the Earth Kingdom. After their cover is blown, they must cross the treacherous Mount Okha to reach safety. Their plans soon go awry and they must rely on the help of a stranger, a teenage girl named Hana, to survive. Zuko tries to learn more about his host while not revealing his true identity.
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fire in his touch by dont_leaf_me_alone
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
27 Jan 2025
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The Fire Nation is sweltering, and miserable. After months undercover in the Earth Kingdom, years away from home, he should feel overjoyed to be home again. But he can't. Not when he knows it's all a lie.
Or: With vital information to be had from inside the Fire Nation, a reformed Zuko still joins Azula at the crossroads — this time as a spy.
This pisses Jet off a lot.Sequel to "flame to a vapor".
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- Part 2 of burning me up (but still i held on)
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I Met God On A Beach (Heralding A New Beginning) by Sirius_Business
Fandoms: Dream SMP, Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
06 Dec 2024
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There is a spirit on the beach, untouched by sand and sea, with golden sunshine hair and eyes like the sky. Iroh fears him a blessing, even more as a curse. Zuko is just glad to discover how good having an older brother is.
OR: TommyInnit in ATLA Verse, what will he do?
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Zuko's a merman. Thats it.
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Avatar: Restoration of Balance by Anyon_Author for biconickyoshi
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
22 Jul 2024
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(Heavily Inspired by TAaTFP)
For 100 years, Chaos had been unable to find order. The balance broken, chaos spends the next 100 years waiting for a chance to fix this. This chance came when chaos discovered a weak newborn, and took its chance. The cycle begins as the cycle of order before it did: with fire.
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- Part 1 of Restoration of Balance
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"Live," she pleads. "I don't want you to sacrifice yourself for this war—for me. I just need you to come back. Please...please come back to me."
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Zuko writes the letters whenever he can. During a break from a council meeting, late at night in his chambers, after another training session with Azula—all he does is write to her. Because he needs to let her know that he's alright and their plan is working. She needs to know that he'll come back.
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- Part 1 of Leave the City Series
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I Know You Want The Satisfaction (it's not gonna happen) by Defective_Emrys
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
12 Jun 2024
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The previous reincarnations of the Avatar Spirit are growing restless as Aang stays frozen within the iceberg and Sozin’s Comet draws nearer. In the year 97 AG, they make a desperate gamble by removing the Avatar Spirit from Aang and giving it to their best hope for peace and balance between all four nations – a 13 year-old Zuko, freshly burned and sentenced to exile.
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“You found the Avatar,” the man says. It’s not a question.
“Yes,” It reeks hollow on Zuko's tongue.
“Then you can find my daughter.”
[Zuko is very good at finding things. People take notice.]
SLOW UPDATES! NOT ABANDONED!!!!
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- Part 8 of ATLA Season 1 Codas
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When Appa is taken, Toph is taken with him. The sand benders hand her over to the Dai Li and she is sold to a fire nation prison, she isn't going to sit around and wait to be rescued, so she takes matters into her own hands. Aang is left without his earth bending teacher and his flying bison, both are things he needs in his life at the moment. In search of Toph and Appa, he starts to realize that he needs Toph not just as an earth bender teacher, but as a friend, and then maybe something more.
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until you discover me, the worlds sail in the right airs of time by jerrylaine
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
11 May 2024
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Zuko was ten when his soulmate called for him.
But at fourteen he resolved to never utter the words himself, to never call for him – even if he was about to die. He would rather die than call for his soulmate.
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Soulmate AU: Once in a lifetime, when in danger, you can call for your soulmate and they’ll come to you – after the threat desert so do they.
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Finding himself separated from his uncle after an attempt on his life, a newly banished Zuko washes up on the shores of Kyoshi Island.
In his efforts to reunite with the last living family member to ever show him kindness, he crosses paths with a badass Kyoshi Warrior, a certain blind earthbending genius, and is dragged along when the Avatar comes to town.
THIS FIC CONTAINS GRAPHIC DEPICTIONS OF MENTAL HEALTH (DEPRESSION, SUICIDE), CHECK CHAPTERS FOR CONTENT WARNINGS AND READ THE TAGS CAREFULLY.
[This is an orphaned incomplete work]
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Zuko dreams of the Avatar long before he knows his name. Before he knows what an Avatar is. Before Ozai ever banishes him.
Strange as it is, it changes everything.
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- Part 10 of ATLA Season 1 Codas
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Fun Adventures And Light Kidnapping by FeatherFallingSoftly
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
27 Jan 2024
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Zuko successfully captured Aang during the siege of the Northern Water Tribe. And he is so close, so close to returning home. Well, he doesn’t have a real plan, and the Avatar has escaped him before. But at least he is closer than he has been in a long time.
And because people usually can’t see spirits, Katara, Sokka and Yue never have a light to guide them and never find Aang and Zuko.
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What if Aang never got rescued by his friends during the siege of the North in S1 E20?
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A small, flickering flame appears in Jeong Jeong’s palm. “Do you think fire is inherently destructive?”
“What has this got to do with anything?” Zuko frowns in confusion.
“Humour me, Crown Prince.”When distraught Aang leaves Jeong Jeong behind, it's not Zhao who's hot his trail. Not this time.