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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)
21 Oct 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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"Zuko told me he's sixteen."
"Seventeen," Zuko corrected Sokka, his sudden interruption startling the others.
"Wait, what do you mean, seventeen?" Sokka asked, shock evident in his face. "I asked you last week how old you were, and you said sixteen." Zuko rolled his eyes. "It was true last week." He huffed, scowling. "What? Zuko, you're not making any sense." Sokka complained, getting frustrated. Talking to Zuko was impossible. He either dumped his whole life story or talked in riddles! This time, he chose the latter option.
Aang suddenly spoke up then as he connected the dots. "Wait, we missed your birthday?" He asked, his voice small. "Why didn't you say anything?"Or
The Gaang realize Zuko's birthday had passed without their knowledge. -
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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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Zuko vs Godzilla by Darth_Gojira
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Godzilla - All Media Types
08 Sep 2025
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The Kaiju; Spirits, dragons or actual Kami? Fire Lord Zuko doesn't know, but he's going to prove himself with a confrontation with them. Can Aang pull Sifu Hotman out of the Fire before he's toast?
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The Fire Lord is in a panic. He is drowning and is only able to follow the simple steps of drowning. Ironic, since the cause of his condition has herself tried to drown him more than once.
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The girl he's been in love with for years is about to arrive, and all Zuko can do is remember all the reasons why he loves her, but he shouldn't.Series
- Part 3 of My Zutara Week 2025
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somebody explain the plot by Dioranelle
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
27 Jul 2025
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“Stop, stop, stop!” Sokka raises his voice. “What is it supposed to be? Is this... Zuko? But… but… he has hair!”
Sokka turns to Zuko, looking at him in disbelief.
“And you don't have hair!”
Or: Season 1 Gaang + Zuko and Iroh watch the last four episodes of Season 3. Everyone is confused.
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Not the city of the man by SailorSmiles
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
21 Jun 2025
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The young prince defended his nation. His people in that forsaken war room. It ended with him burnt and hidden away for three years. So when Azula and Ozai are taken to chains, the prince resurfaces from where he was hidden. The once cheerful and mad temper boy, reduced to a quiet boy who's much more kind to his servants and guards.
How will the Gaang react to the missing prince? His motives are unkown afterall...But what of General Iroh? To the information that his son once nephew being alive, react?
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Zuko is taken into a windowless cell and hasn't been seen for three years whoa !MAJOR OOC PROBABLY? This is my first fic on AO3...
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When Zuko was thirteen, his father attempted to kill him by the command of Firelord Azulon, burning through half of his face with the fiercest flame he could conjure. When Zuko failed to die, Ursa begged for her son’s life in exchange for the Firelord’s. She fled with her children after delivering counterfeit poison to Ozai and they hid among the refugees of Ba Sing Se.
A baby was left at their door when Zuko was seventeen, from an encounter he could not recall. His mother wailed harder than the newborn infant when she found out about his work as an escort. He quit that day, and named his daughter Izumi.
At twenty-three, Zuko meets Katara and Sokka, who both fled their homes as children to seek refuge from the raids of their tribe. However, Zuko meets them in very different circumstances: Katara as a trainee at the strip club he works at, and Sokka as his daughter’s teacher at Ba Sing Se Primary School.
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Title credits go to "A Burning Hill" by Mitski -
how to stop an unwanted wedding by Dioranelle
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
22 May 2025
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“Let's run away where?”
“I don't know,” Katara shrugged her shoulders. “But do you want to stay here? Get married to me?”
“Well... Nope.”
“Well, neither do I. So. Let's run away.”
Zuko sighed once again.
“All right. Let's run away. Together. But not together-together. Just... together. They can't do the wedding without the bride and groom.”
Or: After the fall of Ba Sing Se and becoming a political hostage of the Fire Nation, Katara quickly realizes that she has more in common with her sworn enemy, Zuko, than she expected - mainly a mutual hatred for their wedding.
The solution? Stop the wedding. By any means necessary.
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how Katara stole a firebender (and got away with it) by Dioranelle
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
09 May 2025
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Season 3 Katara and Zuko time travel to Season 1.
Aang and Sokka do not.
Now Katara has a firebender, and Sokka has questions.
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time-travel is a team sport by Dioranelle
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
03 May 2025
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The fight with Azula ends abruptly when Katara learns firsthand that water conducts electricity.
Katara opens her eyes in the past, a few months earlier, right after being captured by pirates and tied to a tree.
Fortunately, she is not alone.
Angry Ponytail Jerk Zuko isn't such a jerk anymore, having memories from the future.
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Katara and Zuko talk it out following their trip to find the Southern Raiders and a friendship ensues seeing the pair through the trials and tribulations of the war and its aftereffects.
Takes place following the Southern Raiders episode in Book 3 (Doesn't follow Comic canon)
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When Aang asks Katara to marry him, it seems like an easy answer. As wedding planning ensues, last-minute doubts begin to form.
A realistic look at a cross-cultural union and an excuse to write a Kataang wedding fic. Canon-compliant.
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The Lie That Keeps Me Here by SerenitySnail
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar: The Last Airbender
07 Apr 2025
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Zuko and Katara have been childhood friends since they were little but when Ozai rips Zuko from Katara she is left alone with no friends leading her down a dark path. One that includes Jet, her abusive boyfriend but when a horrific event happens, Zuko is back at her side after 12 long years.
Will Katara be traped in her toxic relationship or will Zuko be able to heal her old wounds? -
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What if Zuko made the right choice at Ba Sing Se? What if Zuko was hit with lightning instead of Aang? What if Zuko joined the team early on?
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Zuko fires at Azula instead of Aang at Ba Sing Se -
Ice Daisies & Fire Lilies by sheryl_sems
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar: The Last Airbender (Live Action TV 2024)
20 Feb 2025
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Seventh Year at Hogwarts has Katara completely overwhelmed, Zuko unexpectedly stepping up to be the perfect study partner, Sokka at war on the Quidditch pitch, Suki shipping her boyfriend's sister and her boyfriend’s rival, Aang believing the best in everyone, and Toph cackling at the erratic speed of Katara and Zuko’s heartbeats when they are around each other.
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Brain Twisted Like A Pretzel by Huni_obri
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
04 Jan 2025
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Zuko awoke to a relentless pounding in his head. Every part of his body seemed to pulse with a dull, merciless pain. His muscles ached as though he had been in an intense fight, but for the life of him, he couldn’t recall how he had ended up in this state.
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Zuko awakes in an unfamiliar room - except it is familiar. But when he asks how he got there, his sister says things that don't correlate with things he knows. -
A Lesson in Humanity by EvelynMichelle
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
03 Sep 2024
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Aang's desperate to recruit Zuko as his new firebending teacher after Zuko makes the correct decision to not be an idiot in the catacombs, saving Aang's life.
During his attempt, good fortune (or maybe bad luck) leads to Aang meeting Jin from the lower ring and discovering her crush on Zuko. In his attempt to play matchmaker, partly for Zuko's sake, but mostly for his own, he drags Sokka away from an important war meeting to help him.
But Sokka knows his plan is going to crash and burn, because love is hard. And people are complicated.And firebenders aren't even people to begin with.
Companion piece to A Lesson in Tenacity, you'll probably be confused if you haven't read it.
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- Part 2 of Life Lessons in Ba Sing Se
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To Fill an Empty Frame by dragonheart41057
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
12 Aug 2024
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Sokka is readying himself for a hunt. An important hunt. An opportunity he can't afford to squander on the most important birthday of his life - at least in Southern Water Tribe tradition. The stress of that will be nothing compared to what he'll feel when Zuko gives him his present...
Katara finds great love and joy in seeing her mother for the first time in over a decade. She finds it again soon after, as she realizes just how Sokka is beginning to see Zuko.
Disclaimer: Very much an optional sequel to Empty as a Hollow Laugh. This will have more Zuko and Sokka having romantic feelings for each other, but dealing with feelings and revelations about Kya will still be in the forefront. If you haven't read Empty as a Hollow Laugh before this, I recommend doing that first - you really will get more out of both chapters if you do.
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- Part 2 of The Empty Series
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He should have known something was going to happen. Really it should have been obvious. He just didn’t think the rest of the gang would have noticed a change in behavior. He didn’t think they cared enough to realize. He wouldn’t have, he chased them across the world for months and hurt them. Why would they care?