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The Blue Dragon by WeirdScribe95
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic)
06 Oct 2025
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After being burned by his father for refusing to fight him in an Agni Kai, thirteen-year-old Prince Zuko wants only two things: to restore his honor and re-earn his father's love, and to find some way to heal his face. So when a Fire Sage tells him there's a mystic spring deep under the castle that can grant him both things, he listens.
The next thing he knows, he wakes up in the middle of a city with foul air, technology beyond his wildest dreams, and lunatics on every corner. Shortly after he firebends to protect himself, a man dressed mostly in black catches him.
Who knew that being sent to another realm would be the best thing that ever happened to him?
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To learn the art of acting by thegaangneedstherapy, zukofreak
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
05 Oct 2025
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The gaang are all famous actors starring in the new and upcoming show "Avatar the last airbender"! Zuko and Sokka are oblivious idiots crushing on each other and Katara and Aang aren't much better. Toph is a fighter, not an actor she just has to convince everyone else that.
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Someone is lurking here, and they don’t want to be seen, he thought. He closed his eyes and reached out with his inner fire, sensing for other heat sources and…there, in the corner. He opened his eyes, only to recoil from shock. Uncle stiffened beside him, having followed his gaze to their unexpected visitor.
“Hello, Zuzu,” Azula crooned.
or; Zuko meets some old faces after the whole situation at the North Pole. someone please give him a break
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- Part 5 of broken hearts and dreams
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The Hunger Games: 4 Elements by thequeenisdeadboys86
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
04 Oct 2025
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"And now! The moment you have all been waiting for! It is time to announce the tributes! Happy Hunger games! And maybe the odds be ever in your favour!”
Thousands of names, Katara thought desperately to herself, there are thousands of names in that bowl, it won’t be Sokka, it won't be Sokka.
“The district 11 male tribute will be…” Ming Ming paused to squint at the paper, “Sokka, son of Hakoda!”
“And now for the ladies...” Ming Ming said, but Katara barely hears her. Greif has already set in. Katara knows her brother, strong as he is, will not survive a Hunger Games, not against the terrifying fire-bending tributes from districts one, two and three. The odds are never in her family's favour.
This is proven true when Ming Ming announces that the female tribute from district 11 will be Katara.
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Avatar Hunger Games au in which the Gaang + others get reaped!
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"So you take the knife to the wall instead. You carve and carve until a coin of light appears and you get to look in, at last, on happiness. The eye staring back from the other side—waiting." — Ocean Vuong, Torso of Air
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When Mai gets a call in the dead of the night from Zuko's uncle about how Zuko hasn't come home since the end of the school day and their breakup, her mind doesn't automatically assume kidnapping. She doesn't think anyone could be capable of making Zuko disappear.
But then she finds Zuko's shoe hidden in a dirty curb, and she wishes for once that she was wrong.
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I Breath and Smoke and Exile Fire by Crunchy_grapes51
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
04 Oct 2025
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“Stop crying.”
Zuko tried; he clamped his teeth down on his tongue until he tasted copper. But the tears were beyond his control, a betrayal of his own body. They streamed down his face, a visible admission of his smallness.
The slap came without warning. It was sharp, instantaneous, and loud, cracking through the vast silence of the training hall. It spun Zuko’s head sideways, sending a white flash of pain through his skull.
He stumbled back, clutching his cheek. The pain was shocking, but the abruptness of the violence was worse.
“I told you to stop crying,” Ozai stated, towering over him. He lowered his voice, making the words intimate and horrifying. “Tears are a plea for pity. You will never beg for anything. You will never show me this weakness again. Do you understand, Prince Zuko?”
Day 4- stop crying
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- Part 4 of Atla whumptober 2025
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A Little Bit of Death by trickyster_3000
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
03 Oct 2025
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To Zuko, life is a stage and an important play is taking place in front of him. He believes that it is his destiny to keep the story on track no matter what and ensure everyone gets a happy ending. Things would be so much easier if the characters would stop dying, killing him, and/or ending up in some sort of catastrophic situation. It doesn't really matter, he will reset the stage as many times as it takes until everything is perfect.
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The Palace of Lies and Secrets by Genderfluid_Gremlin
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
03 Oct 2025
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Sokka has been hated and abused his whole life for being a firebender, so when the Fire Nation comes to abduct him, it turns out to be a blessing. Everything changes when he meets Azula. Befriending the damaged princess, Sokka will learn that his new home is not nearly as perfect as it seems.
Meanwhile, Azula has never forgotten seeing her brother Zuko get murdered by their own father. Ever since, she has done everything she could to survive, even if she hates herself for who she's become. Befriending Sokka sets her on a new path, but will she continue to obey her father, or choose to make a stand against the war?
Everyone believes Zuko is dead. Little do they know he lives, trapped in a Fire Nation prison camp. There, he will discover the true cruelty of the war and suffer in ways he never imagined. When he finally returns to the Fire Nation palace, he will have to decide whether to enjoy happiness with the people he loves, or risk everything for a chance at stopping the hundred year war.
Sokka, Azula, and Zuko have all suffered terribly, but by finding strength in each other, they have a chance at ending the war and bringing peace to the world- if only they have the courage to try.
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The Space Between by sillylittlerobot
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
03 Oct 2025
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Zuko and Azula have been tasked by Fire Lord Ozai to find the Last Southern Waterbender, and whoever succeeds will prove themselves worthy of the throne.
Zuko has never been lucky, and if he has, he can never really tell. That's why, when he runs into a waterbender at the North Pole, he has no idea she's who he's looking for.
Katara makes the best of a bad situation, and they make their way across the world together- both with the goal of wanting to go home.
Last Waterbender AU, no avatar.
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Hiding Never Works by Crunchy_grapes51
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
03 Oct 2025
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“Hey! Sparky!” she yelled, her voice cutting through the lingering peace. She jumped up, her bare feet already moving, mapping the trajectory of his fall. “Twinkletoes! Katara! Something’s wrong with Sparky!”
Aang, who had been meditating peacefully in a corner, snapped his eyes open. Katara, washing her face at a nearby fountain, turned, her face tight with concern. Sokka, halfway down a hall, stopped dead.
“What? What’s wrong, Toph?” Katara demanded, rushing towards her.
“He just… fell,” Toph said, already striding purposefully towards the western wing, knowing exactly where Zuko’s specific seismic signature had vanished. “Hard. Something’s wrong. Really wrong.”
Day 3- hidding injury
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- Part 3 of Whumptober 2025- multi fandom
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align our bodies with the sky by b_lovedhunter
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
03 Oct 2025
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There, she introduced herself to his body, his chi, hello, boy, prince, enemy, my friend, there you are—
Push. Pull. Everything was paths and winding trails and she got lost for a moment.
Your heart, I know your heart.
or, following the war, Katara is there for Zuko in ways he never expected or imagined. Falling in love with her is terribly inconvenient.
featuring: the saddest boy, a girl that loves and knows him, and everyone else wondering what the fuck is going on.
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I look in people's windows by KatstielAri
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
03 Oct 2025
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Right after joining the Gaang, Zuko struggles to reconcile the things he did in the past with his place among his new allies.
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For Whumptober day 3Series
- Part 2 of Kat's Whumptober 2025 fics
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The comet was only a few days away and the Gaang needed their rest. Only Zuko and Toph had a different idea and went off for Toph's well-deserved life-changing field trip with Zuko to destroy the ass-lords house.
Turns out, there was much more to the Fire Lord's mansion than met the eye.
Turns out, Ozai somehow could become even more of an asshole.
Disclaimer: Everything you recognise isn't mine ;)
Also, English isn't my first language, which will result in an outrageous mix of American and British English. And shit my brain made up.
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The Fire Nation's Royal Family was blessed, they had been for centuries. They had the sight. Individual members of the royal family could see into the past or into the future of those they touched. If the gift was powerful enough their eyes would almost glow.
And then Zuko was born. With glowing eyes.
Ozai is ecstatic- until he realizes that Zuko can't see into the future. When he touches people he sees their pasts.
It is usually very hard to hate someone who is entirely human to you. It is hard to hate someone when you understand them as well as you understand yourself.
And Aang is very, very human.
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What if the Beach episode went a little differently, and Zuko realized, he wasn’t just angry at himself, but that he was wrong? If only his uncle would talk to him. When the spirit gives him a fresh start, will he live up to the man his uncle believed he could be, or is his incompetence the Avatar killed? How will Aang’s journey change when he isn’t being hunted? Will Katara be able to forgive Zuko when she learns the truth?
TIME TRAVEL!
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Fanning The Flames by GoldenHourglass
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
01 Oct 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 turns 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, 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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Have We Met Before? by makeitanotherday
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar the Last Airbender - Fandom
01 Oct 2025
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Zuko had been here before. Exactly five times today.
It always plays out exactly the same, he wakes up to his uncle singing a song about Ba Sing Se, he sees the beam of light. He barges into the village. He gets hit with a boomerang after beating up the Water Tribe’s poor excuse for a soldier.. though after the third attempt, Zuko had started to dodge that. The Avatar appears, sacrifices himself, then escapes.
He goes to sleep, and then it begins again the second he woke up.
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Time Loop fic starting from the first episode with Zuko and Sokka -
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after firelord zuko nearly spiraled, lady katara suggests a week-long vacation on ember island to give his mind a break
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throughout the marriage, both have been holding back feelings; so during the one-year anniversary of zuko and katara's marriage, they go on a trip because he's worried he's going to be his father and she wants to help him realize that he won't. but what are they to do? or... who are they to do?
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How to Dance in Ba Sing Se by backstage_autorin
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar: Legend of Korra
29 Sep 2025
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After a semester of online classes while recovering from an injury that left him with a facial scar and eye damage, Zuko starts his first semester at Ba Sing Se University. In his first class, he meets Sokka, who recruits him for an on-campus theatre club. This story follows Zuko as he prepares for the show at the end of the semester, while adjusting to his new life away from Ozai, dealing with ghosts of his past, and navigating new situations with the support of his uncle and his new friends.
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Azula, former Princess of the Fire Nation, left the Palace three years ago in order to build up an alliance and take her father down, once and for all. But the world is changing - the Avatar's arrival is both a blessing and a curse, and with him comes a risk she might not be willing to take. Meanwhile, in a Nation more fragmented than ever, Zuko will do everything to cut off his weakness and folllow Ozai's orders - but he doesn't know if he can kill Azula.
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“It’s always a pleasure to watch destiny unfold."
Azula sighed, “Destiny will not win a war, Uncle. This is the result of all out hard work.”
“Ah, but just as we cannot control the skies and seas, sometimes we cannot control the path our lives take.”
“Tell me, Uncle. Do the tides control the ship, or do I?”
Uncle laughed, “Point made. Lead on, my niece, but be wary of incoming storms.”
For a moment, the world was still, and something tense settled on her shoulders. But she shook it off.
She had the Avatar, and soon she’d have the North.
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- Part 2 of Lily White, Poppy Red