17 Works in Zukka Week 2023 (Avatar)
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Lose | I've been Swimming So Long, I Forgot How To Breathe by ham3
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
24 Nov 2023
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Upstairs in his flat, Sokka pours his heartbreak onto paper. When he hears a familiar tune from the piano bar below, he decides to check it out.
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Zuko and Sokka’s field trip to the Boiling Rock goes awry as Zuko is discovered and captured, left chained in a cramped cell. All he wanted was Sokka’s trust and to redeem himself. When Sokka breaks into his cell in the middle of the night, Zuko expects to be broken out, but Sokka has other ideas in the interest of certain payback for everything Zuko has done.
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[“It is a good thing to have, armor,” Uncle murmurs, shaking his head as he looks at the damage to the backplate that was probably from…the third time going through a wall, maybe, and Zuko knows he’s concussed when he nearly responds you have no idea out loud before managing to yank that thought back, too.
Zuko knows all about plausible deniability, after all.]
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Zuko keeps meeting the warrior again and again. Keeps crashing into the warrior. Literally, sometimes.
And he knows he should be focusing on the Avatar, on regaining his honor, on what he's supposed to do. But from Kyoshi Island to the Earth Kingdom flats to Ba sing Se, somehow Sok—somehow the warrior is always there. Masked and hooded, fighting and grappling, straining for position, sometimes the only touch Zuko knows until he has it again.
Which is the only reason Zuko can’t stop thinking about it, of course. The only reason he can't get it out of his head. The only reason he can't stop wondering how much further they can go and still call what they're doing fighting.
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Grey as far as the eye can see, save the small visible segment of the wall of buildings behind you. It makes it feel like the entire world disappeared, as if only the small area you can still see is real like a room floating against a black void in one of those isometric rpgs.
The rope tied to both your wrists tugs. "Don't get distracted. We're nearly there." You grit your teeth and roll your eyes at the other's blunt, uncaring tone, but don't protest; the faster you get there, get what you need and get back, the sooner you can go back to pretending you don't have to live and cooperate with someone who, mere weeks ago, you would have - only half-ironically - called your enemy.
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- Part 7 of zukka week 2023
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Zuko could still barely believe he was suggesting this, but nobody else was going to protest on Azula's behalf, not even Azula herself. She would have loathed to find out he was trying to protect her - would think she didn't need protecting at all. Still, she was his younger sister and fuck everything if he was going to let her be shipped across the globe and married off to a stranger.
Of course, the first idea into Zuko's head to prevent this was to throw himself onto the pyre in her stead.
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- Part 6 of zukka week 2023
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The Mortifying Ordeal of (Your Ships) Being Known by Erisenyo for leopardfringe
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
27 May 2023
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[“…Huh,” Zuko says after a long moment, taking another drink.
“It’s Bowluigi,” Sokka explains, forcing himself not to immediately slap the tablet back to his chest, or hurl it away from them across the room.
“It is,” Zuko agrees.
“It’s fandom art. For the ship. Bowser and Luigi. People draw them together. And then share it.”
“I can see that,” Zuko says, still looking at the screen, expression…not one that Sokka can read.’]
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Sokka is fighting against a lifetime of secrecy when it comes to sharing his fandom habits and his favorite ship. But Zuko keeps asking, and, well, what’s embarrassment between boyfriends?
Maybe if he keeps telling himself that, he’ll believe it.
…Zuko supposes Bowluigi makes more sense than drawings of boats.
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"You jumped in front of lightning,” Iroh says, and there’s a surprising amount of admonishment in his voice for a watertribe boy he’s known for all of five weeks. “After you went down, you were surrounded by the Dai Li: the avatar couldn’t reach you, and he fled."
Zukka Week Day 5: Tending each other's wounds
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Akio certainly had a healthy, fearful respect for members of the royal family. Better to be safe than rely on the comparatively shocking kindness of a child he barely knew three years ago. He was prepared to carry out every possible thing Firelord Zuko could conceive of wanting done. His royal hands would carry out no task unnecessarily.
When vague word arrived that one of the Firelord’s closest friends and advisors had some sort of injury, the role fell on Akio to offer medical assistance and gauge whether a visit to the infirmary was needed.
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- Part 5 of zukka week 2023
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richest love ain't growing on the trees out here by KittyPhoenix12_xx
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
26 May 2023
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The day Zuko became happy was the day his family lost everything.
It happened when his father’s business manager ran off with all his money, taking his assets with him. All but one asset that is.
“Gaipan?” Azula sneered, reading the name of the town of the deed that Zuko clutched in his shaking hands. “Why do we own a town called Gaipan?”
Ozai leant back regally, looked down his nose and replied, “Your uncle bought it for his son as a joke when the boy turned eight. When Lu Ten passed, it seemed that town was passed to Zuko.”
Zuko didn’t remember this.
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the schitt's creek au for zukka week 2023
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Zuko nods. “We… used to come here,” he mutters. “Every summer.” He pauses, considering. “We’d mess around on the beach, and mom and I would feed the turtleducks.” This is the first time Sokka has ever heard of Zuko’s mother. He doesn’t ask further about her. “Sounds nice,” he says instead.
Zukka Week day 2: Turtleduck pond
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- Part 1 of Zukka Week 2023
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[I’m not looking to fuck right now, but my bathroom sink is currently flooding the bathroom
I know it’s kind of random, but can I borrow a flathead screwdriver by any chance?
I don’t really know my neighbors and you’re the closest person to me on grindr
That’s…yeah, that’s new. Sokka flicks quickly through the profile, trying to decide if it’s a joke or some slang, or a reference he’s missed and finally shrugging, because,
Yeah, he types out, why not]
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Sokka has a new neighbor who needs some plumbing help. A lot of plumbing help, as it turns out.
If only he could figure out if that was a euphemism.
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Sokka is a member of a highly elite, highly experimental crime-fighting crew. He understands the risks and necessities of the job. He is absolutely not going to risk blowing the whole team's secret identities to impress a pretty boy.
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- Part 4 of zukka week 2023
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He’s always appreciated someone who gets the job done. And Zuko, for everything he is, is capable and driven. It wasn’t so thrilling when he was chasing them, but now? Sokka feels like he gets the chance to see what it’s like up close. The look in Zuko’s eyes when he’s working on something, giving it all he’s got. It’s fascinating, it’s captivating, it’s… it’s hot.
Zukka week day 3: Rivals
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- Part 2 of Zukka Week 2023
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Even months into his reign he is stopped short at every turn. Every word is doubted, every policy rebuked. Even the support of the Avatar isn’t enough to please advisors who had grown so comfortable under Ozai’s rule, and Uncle doesn’t think he can begin replacing them yet, if at all, for fear of inciting wrath among the longstanding Caldera noble families.
Whenever the ensuing frustration gets to be too much, though, and the soft flicker of flame behind Zuko’s seat begins to rise, Sokka’s hand finds his under the table, and Zuko focuses on squeezing his fingers until the heat subsides.
Or: Being Fire Lord is hard.
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Once, there was a young man by the name of Sokka. He was full of curiosity and aimed to learn as much as he could, exploring the lands of the world and documenting as much knowledge of them as he could.
On one such expedition, he happened upon a village making claims of the more mystical variety. As he ate a nice meal at the local tavern, he was told grand tales by the barkeep and the locals. The sentinel of the waters, the keeper of truths, the guide of heroes. Supposedly, in the forest nearby was a grand lake, where lived a nymph.
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- Part 2 of zukka week 2023
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“Ranger Nakayama,” says Marshal Piandao. “I’m glad to see you made it here in one piece. Welcome to Hong Kong.”
“Um, thank you, sir,” Zuko says. “It’s an honour to be here.”
Piandao’s eyes crinkle in what Zuko recognizes as a smile. “I’d like you to meet Ranger Aang Gyatso,” he says, and inclines his head in the direction of the man standing next to him. “Your co-pilot.”
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With the Jaeger Program nearing the end of its life, the Pan Pacific Defense Corps brings in Zuko Nakayama, ex-Jaeger pilot, as a last-ditch effort. His role is simple: to act as co-pilot for the newly restored Avatar Fury, and hopefully bring an end to the Kaiju War, once and for all.
//For day 1 of Zukka Week 2023: Modern AU.
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This whole circumstance really is just Not Fair. All Zuko wanted when he volunteered to go with Sokka and put away the sleds in the shed before going into his house for a post-sledding movie night with their friend group, was a brief moment with his crush. Not this.
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- Part 1 of zukka week 2023