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Summary
Zuko botches his escape on the day of the eclipse and sits out the war in prison. What will the Gaang do with a new Fire Lord they can't trust? Season Four "Zuko never joined the Gaang, and he's really bad at being good" AU.
Podfic and German translation now available, see chapter one notes!
Shelves: Avatar: Last Airbender
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 73,593
- Status:
- In-Progress
Summary
A world where the Avatar has disappeared from memory. Where Sozin’s Conquest was successful. Where the unsteady order of the empire is threatened as members of the royal family are picked off one by one and lines are slowly drawn in the sand.
One last chance for peace forces an unlikely alliance between a homesick waterbender, a carefree Air Nomad, a runaway Earth Kingdom heiress, and the fire lord's inscrutable son. Together they must learn to shed old enmities and become the balance they seek to restore to the world.
OR:
The avatar has four heads.
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[[Chapter 4: "And always, his eyes, cautiously watching her. Even when he thinks she isn’t looking. It drives her mad"]]
Shelves: Avatar: Last Airbender
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 552,457
- Status:
- In-Progress
Petition to Get the Gaang A Brain Cell by avatays, thelostcolony
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
10 Aug 2021
Summary
Toph @ToughPodcast
@SukisMan ’s new upload is a smear on the good reputation of non-clickbait Youtubers everywhere. Please sign this campaign to put Sokka down once and for all https://petition.org/sokka-needs-to-grow-a-braincell/Sokka! @SukisMan
Replying to @ToughPodcast: IM HALF BLIBD RN AND YOUREW TRYIHG TO HAVEME “PUTDOWB”???Toph @ToughPodcast
Replying to @SukisMan: half blind??? OH NO, WHAT A NIGHTMAREOR:
a series of unfortunate events about the gaang being youtubers.- Part 1 of Gaang YouTubers AU
Shelves: Avatar: Last Airbender
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 101,097
- Status:
- In-Progress
Summary
When a blizzard strikes, Katara is torn from Appa's back and separated from her friends. Attempting to find them, she stumbles across Zuko, similarly separated from Iroh and searching for his Uncle or the Avatar – whichever comes first. Pairing up looks like the only option, but what effect will such close contact between two enemies have in the long run?
Shelves: Avatar: Last Airbender
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 111,464
- Status:
- In-Progress
Summary
In which a helpful sea monster rescues an injured human hatchling (read: kidnaps a recently banished Zuko) and causes headaches for the rest of the world.
Not that the Gaang cares. They now have a portable heater that is just slightly vague on how he, a fire bender, ended up on an island and exiled.
Book 1, Water: Chapter 1-20
Book 2, Earth: Chapter 21-40
Book 3, Fire: Chapter 41-60Shelves: Avatar: Last Airbender
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 105,479
- Status:
- In-Progress
Summary
Zuko realizes his destiny much earlier. As in, as soon as he wakes up in the palace after his Agni Kai and is told he is banished. Unfortunately, he's never been a patient one. So he storms right up to Ozai and tells him what he's going to do. And gets locked up for over three years. Then, one day, he's being pulled out and told he's the new Fire Lord.
A "Zuko never meets the Gaang and suddenly becomes Fire Lord after three years of literal torture" AU. In which the Gaang doesn't know what to think of this new Fire Lord who happens to be the missing nephew of Aang's firebending teacher, Iroh is misunderstanding a few things, and, sure, maybe the world hates the Fire Nation, but the Fire Nation LOVES Zuko, and he can work with that.
- Part 1 of Fractures
Shelves: Avatar: Last Airbender
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 189,816
- Status:
- In-Progress
Summary
There is something inevitable about them; like the certainty of the sun in the morning and the moon and all her stars at night.
After all is said in done, how will history tell their stories?
(Set after the One Hundred Year War and the years following.)
Shelves: Avatar: Last Airbender
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 135,826
- Status:
- In-Progress
Our Existence Is A Horror Story Told From The Monster’s Perspective by wordbender (singingwithoutwords)
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
20 Jun 2021
Summary
When Azula is 11, her brother presents as an omega.
When Azula is 11, she presents as an alpha.
When Azula is 11, she and her brother become pack.
When Azula is 11, her father hurts her pack.
When Azula is 14, she takes her revenge.Shelves: Avatar: Last Airbender
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 70,407
- Status:
- In-Progress
and i'll do anything you say (if you say it with your hands) by nebulastucky
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
18 May 2021
Summary
It’s supposed to be a one night stand. Pick up some guy at a bar, barely remember his name and never learn anything real about him, send him packing in the morning with a thanks for the ride and a cup of coffee to-go. That’s how it’s supposed to go.
But then it’s the best sex Sokka has ever had, and he thinks he’ll hate himself if he never gets to have it again.
or: My Cat Likes My Fuckbuddy And I'm Falling In Love With Him Over It
Shelves: Avatar: Last Airbender
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 60,521
- Status:
- In-Progress
Of spirits and men (and the burning paths they trod) by ShaShirRa, SheDrabbles_butitsalie_ (ShaShirRa)
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
13 May 2021
Summary
They say that in the beginning, Dragons taught the first fire benders how to live a life of flames and burning purpose. They say Agni chose the first Fire Lord because he was a boy with unending passion who became a man with great loyalty. Who better to lead his children than one who loved them absolutely? But times have changed. The Fire Lords stopped listening to him ages ago, and now - Now his real chosen has been spurned, cast out, abandoned.
The Fire Nation will pay for ignoring him. The Fire Nation will answer for the imbalance it has allowed. The Fire Nation will not ignore him this time -he'll make sure of it.Book one: Chapters > 1-21
Book two: Chapters > 22 -?- Part 1 of Balancing Acts
Shelves: Avatar: Last Airbender
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 175,573
- Status:
- In-Progress
when you are fully known and loved, you have a home by overcomewithlongingfora_girl
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
06 May 2021
Summary
Zuko finds his place in the Gaang. It's not easy getting there, but in the end it's so, so worth it.
Will be updated (mostly) on Wednesdays!
Shelves: Avatar: Last Airbender
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 65,927
- Status:
- In-Progress
Summary
Five years ago, Sokka left Zuko without a word of warning. Now Aang and Katara's wedding is bringing them back together, and Zuko has to set aside his anger to get some answers about Sokka, their relationship, and the man he himself yearns to become.
Shelves: Avatar: Last Airbender
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 91,502
- Status:
- In-Progress
Summary
Saying he's terrified is an understatement. Zuko kneels before the Avatar and his friends, completely at their mercy. The last time he was in this position his father-
However, they didn't hurt him.
Zuko is allowed to stay with their pack. After Katara's warning, he knows he hasn't been accepted. It makes sense. They want him at a distance.
So why is the water tribe boy constantly staring at him?
Shelves: Avatar: Last Airbender
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 62,553
- Status:
- In-Progress
I've Built My Life Around You by Pippinpaddleopsicopolis (Barnable)
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
31 Dec 2020
Summary
With the war long over, the members of Team Avatar have moved on with their lives, adjusting to the new world. Sokka is living out his dream leading the Southern Water Tribe alongside his father, though life as a warrior isn't what he imagined and every day he struggles with the demons that have plagued him since the war. Zuko is in charge of the entire fucking Fire Nation and while he puts on a good face for the people, lives in a state of perpetual loneliness and self-hatred that no amount of repression can repair.
Teetering on his breaking point and pressured by Katara to take some time off, Sokka decides to go on vacation to Kyoshi Island. Things don't go to plan, however, and he ends up in the Fire Nation; reuniting him with his old friend, the Fire Lord. Though at first he fully intends to stay on schedule and return to the Southern Water Tribe within a week, things change when Sokka realizes that Zuko is on the edge of his own breakdown and desperately needs help. It's not supposed to become more than friendship, but it does.
And neither of them know what to do about it.
Shelves: Avatar: Last Airbender
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 411,520
- Status:
- Completed
we'll burn that bridge when we get to it by chaoticsandstorm
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
29 Oct 2020
Summary
An AU where Ozai wasn't so forgiving of Azula lying about the Avatar's death, and decides he doesn't want an heir he can't control. Zuko goes with her.
OR: The one where Azula gets a life-changing field trip
- Part 1 of the things we give to each other
Shelves: Avatar: Last Airbender
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 114,810
- Status:
- Completed
Summary
Sokka felt his gaze being drawn back to the table – back to the boy. He was staring back with an odd expression that Sokka couldn’t explain – he seemed simultaneously curious and frustrated.
Sokka dropped his eyes and asked the table, “Which one is the boy with the black hair and the scar?”
“That’s Zuko,” Suki said, and Sokka felt an inexplicable warmth in his stomach at learning his name. “Totally gorgeous – the straight girls here are all in love with him. Total waste of their time though, he doesn’t date.”
Sokka laughed at that and then, without thinking, glanced back over at the boy – at Zuko. He had turned his face away, but Sokka swore he was smiling too.
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Or, a Zukka Twilight AU.- Part 1 of unconditionally and irrevocably universe
Shelves: Avatar: Last Airbender
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 89,114
- Status:
- Completed
Summary
Princess Zuko is nothing like the princesses from Gran Gran's Spirit Tales. She's loud, angry, bald, and kicks serious ass.
...and Sokka kinda likes it.
Shelves: Avatar: Last Airbender
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 138,129
- Status:
- Completed
Summary
Zuko doesn’t quite know how to build his own nest.
He's taught it is in the omega nature of feeling safe, to be surrounded by comfort or happiness.
Zuko hasn't felt safe or happy in years so he doesn't quite know what to do if he ever gets the desire to nest.
(But when the day comes where he wants to nest, well, maybe Zuko will finally feel safe)
Shelves: Avatar: Last Airbender
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 49,710
- Status:
- Completed
Summary
On the day before Ba Sing Se falls, Katara decides two things: 1) not to stop for a cup of tea; 2) consequently, the fate of the world.
Behind the walls, Zuko loses sleep, runs errands, contemplates treason, and drinks a lot of hot leaf juice—not necessarily in that order.
Shelves: Avatar: Last Airbender
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 161,659
- Status:
- Completed
Summary
Kids grow up fast when a cruel world awaits them. In times of hopelessness, Katara and Zuko grow together. In times of separation, they hope to see each other again.
Shelves: Avatar: Last Airbender
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 57,758
- Status:
- Completed