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The invasion failed. The Fire Nation still rules.
Hunted for her father's crimes, Kaira escapes captivity and flees across a fractured nation, hiding her bending, her past, and the strange pendant he left behind. When she crosses paths with a scarred fugitive whose silence runs as deep as his secrets, an uneasy alliance forms. Together, they navigate a world on the edge of war, as Kaira begins to uncover a power buried not just in the earth beneath her feet, but in her own blood.
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A Love Like War by MichaelPhobia240145
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
27 Jun 2025
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To save her tribe, Katara marries the Fire Prince in secret.
He’s supposed to be her enemy—cold, calculating, dangerous. But behind locked doors and whispered lies, something far more dangerous begins to burn between them.
“I’m not a killer, Katara,” he breathes against her ear. “But for you… I could be.”
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The Illusion of Borders by JonnyMarch
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
27 Jun 2025
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This story is an alternate continuation of my completed work We Can’t Choose Us.
Chapters 1–16 are exactly the same as in that version, so if you’ve already read them, you can start right here.
But if you’re new to the story, I recommend starting from the beginning for the full emotional context.
📖 You can read Chapters 1–16 here:
https://archiveofourown.to/works/62580298/chapters/160180546In this version, I changed one decision, and it led to a very different ending.
Because so many of you asked for it. Because so many of you believed they deserved more.Series
- Part 2 of The Illusion of Borders
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It begins with Ursa, with that sparkle of life she vanished to protect. When Zuko finds her, everything changes.
Hope is a tender, fearless thing. Zuko's hope has the shape of a child and the eyes of his mother, and it must be protected.
The Avatar can wait.
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In which Lu Ten II, Zuko's little brother, takes the world by storm.
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Mission of two brave men by Sokkenheimer
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar - Fandom
26 Jun 2025
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In a desolate corner of the Old West, Sokka—a war veteran turned farmer—watches his world go up in flames when a gang of outlaws attacks his ranch. Within hours, his home is reduced to ashes, his family slaughtered, and his wife kidnapped.
With a shattered heart and rage boiling over, Sokka sets out on a brutal manhunt, joined by his old comrades: Zuko, a war-hardened sheriff, and Aang, a reverend with more scars than faith. Together, they’ll ride through hostile lands, dodge bullets, cross Indian territory, and face a band of lawless bastards who fear neither God nor the devil.
In a world where justice is a loaded revolver and honor gets buried with the dead, Sokka will do whatever it takes to get the woman he loves back… even if it means filling the desert with corpses.
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Burnt Flowers: Book Three by yappaholics_anonymous
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
26 Jun 2025
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In one perfect moment Azula had achieved everything she had ever wanted. She had taken Ba Sing Se, ended the Hundred Year War, killed the Avatar, and convinced Zuko to return home to take his place as their father's heir.
Now, she had finally proven herself to be more than her mistakes, more than the weakness that her father had always been able to see at the core of her. Now, her father would finally have to respect and reward her, now she could finally have Ty Lee.
And in an instant, it had all come crashing down. Zhao had come back from the dead and, acting on her father's orders, stripped her of her command. Ty Lee's mother had stolen her away to secure a marriage to a man she hardly knew, and worse yet, Ty Lee had gone willingly, no longer able to bear seeing the person Azula had become.
Both heartbroken and distraught Azula and Ty Lee must now return home to the Fire Nation to face their destinies...but destiny has a way of turning out in unexpected ways.
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The final part of my very long TyZula redemption arch series.
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- Part 3 of Burnt Flowers
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Markings of the Past by HeavenlyVirtues
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar - Fandom
26 Jun 2025
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Once a prodigy, now a prisoner. Azula has spent seven years forgotten by the world. Something unnatural stirs within her: whispering voices, demonic marks, and a power that thrives on her deepest wounds. Her humanity is slipping through her fingers, and she can't stop it.
Yue, spirit of the moon, feels an otherworldly pull toward Azula’s tortured presence. As the gang scrambles to contain the threat, Yue chooses a different path. Yet saving Azula will mean stepping into the abyss of her mind, where guilt, grief, and rage have festered into something monstrous.
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I Can’t Face the Mental Scar of Death by StarLoud57
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
26 Jun 2025
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Zuko, finally properly facing Azula with Katara tagging along. Only this time fire wasn’t the only element being bent. Azula is broken and wants revenge, but Zuko can’t kill her. He can’t let anyone die… he won’t let it happen. Zuko has to protect the world despite his own challenges.
Or what if Zuko was the Avatar when he faced Azula.
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The Second Son by XiaoGushi
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Kuroshitsuji | Black Butler
25 Jun 2025
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What if Iroh had a second son? One that he believes is dead, but was really changed into something else, a demon. What will happen if he finds out, and how are both going to cope with it? And what about Zuko's relationship to this cousin of his? I don't have the exact story outline yet, I just found this scenario interesting and let's see what happens.
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The Space Between by sillylittlerobot
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
25 Jun 2025
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Long before Katara was born, a Fortuneteller warned Firelord Azulon that a Southern Waterbender would hold a power so strong that it would threaten the Fire Nation’s victory over the other nations.
The Fire Nation thought they succeeded in filtering out all Southern Waterbenders until rumors began that one was still alive. Ozai set forth that whoever retrieves the last Southern Waterbender between Zuko and Azula will become his successor as future Firelord. And Zuko will do whatever it takes to prove himself, and regain his honor.
Katara is desperate to go home to the South Pole, and when she runs into a Prince already on his way there, she’ll do whatever it takes to see her family.
Last Southern Bender A/U, in which there is no Avatar. Zutara.
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Fanning The Flames by GoldenHourglass
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
25 Jun 2025
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Left behind at the Misty Palms Oasis, Katara waits days for Aang, Sokka, and Toph to return. But when bounty hunters close in, her only chance at escape comes from the last people she ever thought she could trust: Zuko and Iroh.
Now traveling under false names, bound by a fake marriage, and with no room for mistakes, Katara finds herself on the road to Ba Sing Se. What begins as mutual distrust slowly unravels into eating side by side, sleeping even closer, and something far more dangerous: comfort. She thinks it will end once they reach the city, but in a place crowded with millions of refugees, and stuck in the Lower Ring, she doesn’t have much hope of finding the others. With no leads and nowhere else to go, she resolves to wait for her friends to find her.
But in their cramped apartment above the teashop, days turn into weeks, and Zuko and Katara begin to settle into something that almost feels like domestic bliss. It isn’t real. Or at least, it isn’t meant to be. But the longer they stay, the harder it becomes to remember where the act ends and something real begins.
*Updated Weekly*
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- Part 1 of Fanning The Flames Series
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Damage Gets Done by phin_and_frob, reaBaeehS for phin_and_frob
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
24 Jun 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.
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My Baby, My Baby (I Bet On Losing Dogs) by Comicgeek20
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
24 Jun 2025
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A lot of thing happened when the Fire Teens went to Ember Island. They stayed on the beach, went to a party, had a therapy session on the beach and Azula turned into a toddler.
Out of all the things Zuko expected to happen while they were at Ember Island, returning home with a three year old version of his sister was not one of them.
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"We're going to be alcoholics by the time we're thirty," Sokka sighed.
"You think we'll live to be thirty?" Zuko asked, honestly thrilled. Sokka had pretty good instincts. Perhaps Zuko should reevaluate his long term goals. He could start by having long term goals.
A more likely alternative was that Sokka was just a hopeless optimist. It just went to show, you never truly saw another man until you stood shoulder to shoulder against a fleet of war balloons intent on raining death upon the city you loved.
Zuko was just a normal guy with normal interests. He liked theatre, burglary, crotchety ostrich horses, watching the Blind Bandit crush her opponents in a glorious display of skill and violence... just your standard banished prince things. It wasn't his fault he kept stumbling into rebellions and uncovering long-buried secrets. Fine, maybe freeing the prisoners was on him, but he was completely innocent of all other treason. Zuko was his father's loyal son. He'd never betray his nation.
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Things don't go as planned on the day of the siege of Ba Sing Se, and destiny spirals as a result. Someone fated to die doesn't; destinies are shifted, and years later, the Avatar returns to a world far less inviting than the one he remembers.
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Zuko never held a pivotal position in the royal family. He was just the son of Fire Lord Azulon’s secondborn, and brother of Azula, the prodigy. To most, he was nothing more than some entitled guy they had to tolerate, so insignificant that nobody really protested when a Water Tribe bride was deemed suitable for him.
Yet he soon finds himself kneeling behind his father at the Coronation Plaza, draped in funeral robes for the second time that month while the nation hails their new Fire Lord. Now, as the unwanted heir with a foreign wife, he must navigate the deadly politics of the Fire Nation court to survive.
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The Violent Price of Peace by reaBaeehS
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
20 Jun 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.
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There were always stories, myths, rumors about a special kind of warriors in the South. Warriors turning into great wolves to protect their tribe. But when Iroh and Lu Ten get aware of a child in the prison tower, those rumors seem to have more truth to them than they had anticipated. Seeing the treatment of the boy, they want to get him out of there. Zuko could need a friend after all.
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Three days following Former Crown Prince Zuko’s banishment, a wooden ship named The Akhlut stumbles upon an unconscious body of a thirteen-year-old Fire Native.
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ATLA-retelling with an OC!
After the first encounter with the Avatar at the South Pole, Zuko wants to repair his ship as quickly as possible. He did not expect to see a girl from his past come back into his life, not now when everything has to be focused on finding the Avatar. Yet destiny has a way of its own.
Book 1: Complete (Chapter 1 - 26)
Book 2: Complete (Chapter 27 - 49)
Book 3: In progress (Chapter 50 - upcoming)