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nobody can save me by pansexualnotmansexual
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
26 Oct 2025
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This fic begins shortly after Zuko’s coronation. A team of doctors and healers are sent to the Fire Nation to look after the health of Team Avatar, including a therapist. As Zuko’s mental health plummets, the Gaang urges him to seek help. An almost-assassination and a suicide attempt send Zuko spiraling, oscillating between "okay" and "not okay."
This fic is an exploration of bipolar disorder and its impact on Zuko, as well as the ones around him.
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- Part 1 of The Rise and Fall of a Bipolar Fire Lord
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Zuko is trying his best, he really is, but it's hard when the whole world is working against him.
At least he has uncle. And his crew. And the Avatar.
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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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Sokka Rules the Fire Nation With a Phoenix by Pooka_Huldra
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
21 Oct 2025
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The sequel to Sokka Steals a Dragon from the Freedom Fighters.
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After the events of War Crimes, Sokka and Zuko have escaped Zhao’s warship and are fleeing across the Earth Kingdom. As well as unfamiliar terrain, they have to navigate their shared trauma, work out where they fit into the war, and their place in each others lives.
Sokka is aware that being friends with the enemy is going to bring complications, but he probably should have guessed that being friends with Zuko in particular, was going to be a bit like dunking your head repeatedly into a bucket of angry Fire Ferrets.
Katara is also grappling with the confusion of befriending an enemy, something that doesn’t prove as difficult as she had expected with the bond of shared, furious grief bridging old wounds. (Learning a new way to look at her bending doesn't hurt either)
Azula, struggling with the Fire Lord’s mistrust, encounters a few nasty surprises and has to make some difficult decisions. Luckily, she is a great deal better at making sensible choices than her brother.
Her father may have made a slight tactical error.
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- Part 2 of All's Fair
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"You think I hate you? You think I'd ever kill you?" Sokka holds Zuko's face in both hands, blood dripping from his lips. "I'd fall on my spear for you. I'd find you anywhere. What do you think that means?"
Rescued, but imprisoned, Zuko finds himself no further from death on a water tribe ship. Sokka, the chief, would see him bleeding out on the boards of the deck as justice. He's a fire bender, the evil of the war that his father rages through their world. Zuko hasn't been a part of that war. Not for years. Now he's thrust back into it against his will, finding himself fighting on a side he never expected to be a part of. Maybe he'll find a cause worth fighting for; someone worth fighting for.
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With Honor of My Own Making by MoonageDay_dream
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
16 Oct 2025
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The gang is adjusting to life in Ba Sing Se when an unsuspected discovery lands them in custody of a surprisingly well-mannered Zuko (though his temper is a nasty thing). Exiled, powerless, and with a ridiculously large bounty on his head, Zuko has to decide how he's going to let the rest of his life play out. Trust grows gradually through trial and error, through war and laughter, and maybe just maybe through a belonging Zuko never imagined he'd feel again.
"If I am lost, light my path.
If I falter, temper my spirit.
Let my flame burn steady, not wild.
Let my fire bring warmth, not destruction.
Let me walk in balance, with honor of my own making."
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The Weight On Our Shoulders by YourFellowGhost
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
16 Oct 2025
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The war is over. The Avatar has won.
Zuko is about to be crowned Firelord. He is alone with his destroyed nation. A teenager with too much to handle, who feels like he is already drowning under the pressure.
He takes a moment alone before the ceremony, determined to get his breakdown out away from prying eyes. He had an image to uphold now, after all.
But Zuko needed to get used to the fact that he was no longer alone, and he had a friend who was under just as much pressure as him.
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Zuko had scrubbed the smell of sex and blood of himself, but that didn’t stop it from clinging to the inside of his nose. Could the others smell it? Could they taste his shame in the back of their throats too?
Irrationally, Zuko wanted to crawl inside himself. Peel those watching eyes off him; don’t look at me! They knew, somehow. They could see it on him. Some kind of tell, some stain he couldn’t see or wash away.
What if they all knew? Laughing behind his back at what he’d given up just for a fraction of a chance to get his honor back.
What honor? Any scrap he’d had left after the Agni Kai was lost the moment he spread his legs for Zhao.
They could all see it, couldn’t they?
Zuko wondered if he could ever be rid of the things Zhao did to him.
Zuko deals with the aftermath.
He goes about it the same way he deals with every other shitty thing in his life: with gritted teeth, stubborn pride, and a whole lot of yelling.Series
- Part 2 of handgranade hearts
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“What Katara hated more than the walking, was the flies. She had heard once from a refugee, who claimed to have been a Professor of Natural Science before the world ended, that beetles were the most common life form. She imagined now it had to be flies.
Big fat angry black flies that bit at any exposed skin, tiny flies that swooped at your ears and dug into your hair, generations of flies that had only known an excess of rot in a new world order of death.
She would be killed in these woods, she often thought, summoning the undead while slapping herself like she was ringing a dinner bell.”Set in the Earth Kingdom 12 years after the first outbreaks of a virus that descends the ATLA world into a zombie apocalypse. Zuko and Katara are forced together to survive in an unforgiving landscape of hostile monsters, human and zombie alike.
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When my world gets loud (could you make it quiet down?) by Starstealingowl
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
27 Sep 2025
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When Zuko goes into heat less than a week after the Agni Kai, and in his delirium sobs out some very damning things against Ozai, Iroh realises that he cannot ever let Zuko return to the Fire Nation. He spends the next three years trying (and somewhat succeeding) in convincing Zuko that Ozai is a horrible father, and a horrible person.
Meanwhile, in the South Pole, Sokka and Katara awaken Aang three years early, and despite Sokka's inital misgivings, Aang brings a joy back to the village that's been gone ever since the last raid. He begins to trust this strange airbender, and even see him as family.
Everything is thrown into chaos when a scavenging trip to one of the fire nation wrecks in the ice fields ends poorly, and a tiny fire nation ship carrying a suspiciously not-evil firebender crashes into the wall of the village
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- Part 1 of Taking the long way round
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Desolated and Restored by Axolitten
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Five Nights at Freddy's
21 Sep 2025
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Zuko never expected to be here again, standing outside the old restaurant he’d watched his own father build and then destroy over time.
But here he stood, outside the old pizzeria, once bright and dazzling and filled with smiling, happy families… now abandoned and left for dust. Not as a guest, or even as the great Ozai’s son.
But as a night guard…
It wasn’t his first choice… but it was his only choice. There wasn’t much else in this small town he called home. And unfortunately, being an adult meant taking responsibility, even if that responsibility was getting a job at a crappy pizzeria to keep a roof over your head… then so be it.
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Zuko returns to the once infamous restaurant owned by his father, as the new night guard and accidentally stumbles into a murder mystery.
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Numinous by Korielle_Writing
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar: The Last Airbender (Live Action TV 2024)
16 Sep 2025
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After being frozen for a century, Aang, the last Air Nomad and Avatar, awakens to find the world ravaged by war. Alongside waterbender Katara and her brother Sokka, Aang begins his journey to master the elements and restore balance. As they travel north to the Northern Water Tribe for waterbending training, the trio encounters new friends, dangerous enemies, and the harsh realities of a world torn apart by the Fire Nation. With the burden of his people’s extinction weighing heavily on him, Aang must grapple with his identity as the Avatar and the spiritual connection to the world he once knew.
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- Part 1 of Echoes of Balance
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Elemental school or some shit by Firelord_Lee_Fromtheteashop
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
09 Sep 2025
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Fire, Earth, Water and Air.
The way they were sorted was stupid. Personality tests to access which house you'd fit in the most and then boom you share a common room with those people. He'd been put into Fire and everyone jokingly calls their common room and dorms the fire nation. Each dorm has a name and Zuko got Caldera.
The Earth kids were normally stubborn and into nature everyone called their area of the school the Earth kingdom. Some of the dorms were shared between the Fire and Earth kids people joked they were fire nation colonies.
The Water group was full of people who had big dreams and good grades but each year they were getting less and less. It was kinda sad really. Kids coming in each year were 11 years old meant to be happy and full of hope and all the other bullshit Zuko would've laughed at when he was 11.
The Air kids had the old towers of the school and everyone joked they looked like temples and so the Air kids had Air temples. Being sorted into the Air group was a nice way of calling them autistic. Lots of the kids had special nerdy interests but were the most bubbly and yet serious people Zuko has ever met.
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- Part 1 of ATLA pics cuz hyper fixation
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What? Zuko’s mind swam. He was banished? The avatar…but the avatar was gone? He hadn’t been seen in one hundred years.
“Your uncle tried to accompany you, but the Fire Lord has decreed that he is too useful to the nation as a General and has reinstated his position. He has not been allowed to see you.” The voice sounded hurried and urgent. “They are not allowing me to come on the journey and tend to your injury either.”
Zuko was injured. His father had burned his face. He was banished, he was injured, and he was close to death. But Zuko was sure of at least one thing: He would survive. He had to. He was going to capture the Avatar and regain his honour. This was his last thought before he slipped into unconsciousness. A promise to himself and his nation.
When Zuko loses the Agni Kai he is branded as a traitor to his nation and banished. The Fire Lord decrees general Iroh too valuable to be allowed to accompany his disgraced nephew. He is abandoned instead - left to fend for himself in a fire nation colony.Series
- Part 2 of On Love and Fear
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Bro, you need to stop passing out after every good deed. it's probably not good for your health by Gargargay
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
07 Sep 2025
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When Zuko first joins, He wouldn't sit with them to eat. And then when he was forced, he barely ate anything. But it's okay because he has rations left over. At least that's what Zuko said, He said he had plenty but who knows how long they'll last? He gives sokka and Katara Some rations for when they eat but it's probably because he has plenty left right? wrong.
Zuko is stupid and doesn't want to say no to the Gaang so he just ends up passing out from not eating
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when you are fully known and loved, you have a home by overcomewithlongingfora_girl
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
04 Sep 2025
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Zuko finds his place in the Gaang. It's not easy getting there, but in the end it's so, so worth it.
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Turns out, when a member of the royal family of the Fire Nation, a bloodline said to be descended from Agni himself, learns the true meaning of firebending from the original masters, they can become an original master themselves.
Zuko did not know this.
Or in which Zuko becomes a dragon, has terrible mental health, becomes a bit feral, and the Gaang is worried because what the fuck.
He also may or may not eat several woodland creatures.
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- Part 1 of Sparkpyre Au
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'Katara levels her gaze at him and gives him a distrusting frown. “Zuko.”
Zuko gives her a weak smile, “I don’t expect you to trust me. It’s okay. My people have hurt you. I've hurt you.”
Katara frowns, “Let me speak.”'
Zuko gets a much-needed confrontation about how he treated Katara and Sokka in the past.
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Long ago...
...Long ago...
...The Fire Na-
...Wrong!
It was all wrong.
Reverse!
...It was all in Reverse...
...Everything changed when the Water Tribes attacked.
Forced to go on another 'Adventure' by his menace of a sister; Zuko got the shock of his life when the two of them discovered a legend, everyone thought had disappeared from their world more than a hundred years ago.
With hope reignited once more at the possibility of stopping the war; Zuko and Azula joined forces with The Avatar to restore balance and harmony to their world...
Now if only would Azula stop being a menace who started mini-wars with the Avatar for Zuko's attention... wars, Aang was more than happy to participate in...
...Just his luck...
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A Role Reversal AU.