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The Face of The Enemy by bunniecha12
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar: The Last Airbender (Live Action TV 2024)
10 Dec 2025
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Nothing has been untouched; starvation, exploitation, and death at the hands of the Fire Nation. As the Southern Water Tribe’s benders are hunted to extinction, one is born beneath a full moon. Her first cries echo through the night: a waterbender.
The raid came fast—brutal, merciless. But Katara was spared. Hidden away in the Fire Nation palace, growing up in the shadow of her enemies. Forced to assimilate for survival, she clung to the only remnants of home, her mother’s necklace… and the light in a lonely boy’s golden eyes.
Zuko. The prince who made her laugh when nothing else could.
The Avatar returned, the war’s tides shifted, and Katara seized her chance to escape.
Joining Aang, she fights for the world’s freedom—while battling the ghosts of her past, including the boy who never wrote, the boy who stood on the wrong side when it mattered most.
He comes seeking redemption. And though she’s the only one who hasn’t forgiven him, those long-buried feelings—have never truly left her.
In the quiet moments between battles, they begin to surface again, soft and smoldering. And slowly, painfully, their hearts begin to remember what they once were… and thoughts of what they might become. -
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Soulmates share dreams. Katara’s soulmate is Fire Nation – which becomes much more problematic after their meeting in the reality.
Or: Katara befriends an enemy, Zuko has several life crises, Aang becomes a Zutara shipper, and Sokka develops a habit of adopting siblings. Azula just wants her family back.
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Red Water, Azure Flame by ThePrincessRegent
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
08 Dec 2025
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Katara Waterbends in front of Yon Rha before Kya can sacrifice herself.
Rather than killing the child, the Southern Raiders ensure she is shipped to the Fire Nation palace dungeon, far from snow and moonlight.Three weeks later, a clever, ambitious royal with a habit of sneaking around grandfather’s palace overhears that the last Southern Waterbender has been brought to her permanent cell. She sneaks into the dungeon at night, attempting to see the prisoner for herself. Yet, instead of finding an embittered warrior, all Princess Azula sees is a girl her age, scared and alone.
Her perspective on the Hundred-Year War is fundamentally changed forever.
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For Azula, the war ended and everything she held dear was destroyed. As things seem to keep getting worse for her, she loses the will to fight, until someone she never expected comes to her aid.
For Katara, the war ended and everything seems to have changed. Unhappy and feeling left behind, she seeks some way to feel normal again. Upon hearing unsettling news, she embarks on a journey to help someone she never thought she would.
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A slow burn Kazula fic about recovery after traumatic experiences, and finding comfort in unlikely places.
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After the war, Katara loses herself in the rhythms of tribal life. In the South Pole the moon is sovereign. Deep in the ice and snow, in the heart of her element, it is easy to forget that there is a land of fire and smoke and ash. The kingdom of the sun. Of dragons. Her journey with the Avatar slips into memory. A strange past life, shadowy and ephemeral.
But some things do not stay consigned to twilight, to history.
She is 20 years old when she sees him again.
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Ruin the Friendship by crcookie05
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar: The Last Airbender (Live Action TV 2024)
13 Nov 2025
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my advice is always ruin the friendship,
better that than regret it
for all timeWhat if Katara had stayed at the Jasmine Dragon instead of running off when she saw Zuko? What if she'd decided to find out what he was up to? What if they'd bonded ahead of time? How might things have changed? Will it be enough to lead Zuko down the right path sooner, or will he still have to learn his lesson the hard way?
my advice is always answer the question,
better that than to ask it,
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In Omashu, Azula has a different line of thinking.
“Any other would use blunt tools. I will use nothing but subtle intelligence. If I convince the Avatar I’m a friend, he will lead me right to Zuzu, and I’ll take fatso, brother, and the Airbender's little group all in one fell swoop.”
It's going well, at first. Very well. The Airbender trusts her, the male Water Peasant seems to like talking strategy (and making googly eyes at Ty Lee), and the Waterbender...
...Why does the Waterbender keep looking at her like that?...And why does Azula not want her to stop?
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Katara had been so sure of her plan to liberate the prison rig. How was she to know how efficiently the guards would respond to an uprising? Zuko had been positive that his best course of action was to travel separate from his Uncle. What else was he supposed to do when he came across a person from his past? Sometimes, through all the doubt, two people collide. Eventual Zutara.
This is both a Canon Related and Canon Divergent, reimagined ATLA story. Katara joins Zuko in his journey of self-discovery across the Earth Kingdom as personalities clash and beliefs are questioned. Familiar allies and enemies await them along the way.
Ripple effects of having Katara absent from the majority of 'Book 1: Water,' are seen once Katara and Zuko meet up with the Gaang later on in the story. 'Book 1: Water' occurs mainly in the flashbacks of this story as Chapter 1 picks up close to the start of 'Book 2: Earth.'
The most recent chapters explore the aftermath of the conclusion of the Hundred Year War.
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Of Loyalty (and Other Dangerous Things) by AssassinorActressWhoKnows
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
01 Nov 2025
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What happens to Katara when she is taken by the fire nation as a child for being an omega, but they still don't know she is a waterbender? What happens to Zuko when it isn't just his honor he needs to restore, but his omega's too?
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After obliterating the Air Nomads, Fire Lord Sozin - in an attempt to locate the Avatar - leads an effort to colonize the South Pole.
100 years later, Katara and Sokka of the South Sozin Colony find him frozen in an iceberg.
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Fire Lord Zuko, Queen Consort Katara, Princess Azula, and Queen Dowager Ursa’s journey to coming to terms with a relationship with themselves, each other, and their nation
title from bell hook’s salvation: black people and love
Act 1: 2-8
Act 2: 9-33
Act 3: 34-48
Act 4:Series
- Part 4 of Zutara Fics
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After the war, Katara struggles to breathe.
She’s always known who she is and what her duty was - now she hasn’t got a clue. She didn't realize that learning to live, after just surviving for so long, would be this hard.
OR: Katara falls in love with Zuko, but first she learns to love herself.
OR: Katara travels the world, Zuko supports a political revolution, Aang faces his trauma, Toph accepts help from her friends, Suki inspires other women, Sokka leads, and everyone heals.
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To save the South by LemonFantaSmells
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
08 Oct 2025
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In a world where the 100 year war never happened, the four nations remain in harmony thanks to a 112 year old avatar Aang.
After a political deal between the Fire Nation and Southern Water Tribe goes South, Katara offers herself up for a marriage alliance
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The war is over. Katara has proven herself, and yet, when the full moon rises, it's not a conscious choice to follow its song.
Ominous October Day 7 - The Full Moon
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The Violent Price of Peace by rraebearr
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
28 Sep 2025
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Eleven years after Sozins Comet, and The Avatar brought peace to the world, nothing is the same.
The Avatar is missing. Tui and La are dead and lost to the spirits. Balance is broken.
She’s the last waterbender alive.
Waking up knowing nothing and no one, she has to depend on the scarred stranger calling himself “Lee.” He’s murderous, brooding, and secretive.
Given the name Kya by her companion, she follows Lee on an unknown journey.
Lee must keep her hidden before the Lord of Embers finds her and destroys the already fragile balance.
The Lord of Embers is once again trying to stop the cycle.
End the Avatar.Series
- Part 1 of An Eternal Dance of Balance
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Damage Gets Done by phin_and_frob, rraebearr for phin_and_frob
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
21 Sep 2025
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Zuko took the lightning, and he almost paid the ultimate price.
If not for the amazing Waterbending master, who refuses to leave his side while he recovers.
The two support each other through all new trials and battles of a different nature. Some fights take a harder toll than others.
They find time to learn how to love, and figure out who they are outside of the war... all while navigating assassination attempts and threats from Ozai's supporters, and the consequences of the former fire lord still being alive.
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In a world where the Avatar was killed during the airbender genocide, the cycle has been repeating for one hundred years. Each time, the Avatar is hunted and murdered by the tyrannical Fire Lord who has expanded his reign to most of the world and declared himself Emperor.
Katara thought she was someone with unbreakable hope, but this world—this place—its devoured her. Surrounded by her enemy on every side, she has no one to turn to. Her home is hundreds of miles away, and she's been forced to live as a prisoner. The only thing keeping her alive is her ability to heal. The Fire Lord uses her to fix his wounded soldiers, and then she returns to the darkness of her cell. It's been seven years since she last saw the snow in the South Pole. Seven years since she's seen her brother. With no one to train her true power, she feels helpless. She's only ever around water to heal—she's not a fighter. She has no way out.
Until she sees him again. The boy with the scar—she saved his life when she was twelve. It was how they discovered her abilities. And he may be the one to finally restore her hope. He may be her way out. If only she hadn't gone and fallen in love with him along the way.
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We’re From the Future, Not in Love by Dioranelle
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
29 Aug 2025
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She watches them suspiciously. Sokka and Zuko walk side by side—and then suddenly Sokka smiles slightly, leans toward Zuko and says something to him in a hushed tone—and then Zuko smiles back at him.
Their strange encounter in the clearing, how Sokka was willing to defend Zuko, the fact that they hugged...
Sweet Tui and La, Katara suddenly realizes. He’s not just infiltrating the group — he’s flirting. With Sokka.
Or: In which the years-long friendship between Ambassador Sokka and Fire Lord Zuko looks a lot like romance to 14-year-old Katara.
Alternatively: Five times Katara misunderstood Sokka and Zuko’s relationship, and one time the boys tried to clear things up.
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His Lantern, Her Ocean by Whitespringswrites
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
21 Aug 2025
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His eyes were like lanterns. Her eyes were like the ocean.
Zutara Week 2025
Day 7: LanternSeries
- Part 7 of ZK Week 2025 :D
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Zuko takes care of Katara during “The Southern Raiders”
Zutara Week 2025
Day 5: JourneySeries
- Part 5 of ZK Week 2025 :D