Best of: Avatar The Last Airbender
What it says on the can - the best fics I've encountered from Avatar The Last Airbender, both canon and AU in equal measure.
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Mid-Season-One Zuko is held for ransom by Chief Hakoda. Ozai's replies to the Water Tribe's demands are A+ Parenting. Hakoda is… deeply concerned, for this son that isn't his, and who might be safer among enemies than with his own father.
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Her daughter is five years old when Ursa realises what she and Ozai have been doing to their children. By each choosing one to bestow with their approval, they’re pitting them against one another. Perhaps Ozai is doing it on purpose, but Ursa isn’t. She resolves to heal the damage she has done.
In which Ursa tries to be a better parent to Azula, and it doesn’t change very much. And then, quite abruptly, it changes everything.
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Breaking the ending, she thinks, is like a crack in the ice.
It isn’t a scream, like she thought it would be, as loud as a brilliant blue light spilling into the sky. Instead, it is a whisper, a crackle of energy and fear of the unknown. “Enough,” Katara says.
(Katara and Zuko talk about healing, choices, and change.)
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In the weeks following the war, Zuko faces a gauntlet of Agni Kai challengers. Sokka worries.
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Zuko is dropped on the edge of the Earth Kingdom, burned, shorn, and banished. He's found again and again, and built up from ashes.
or, the earth kingdom takes a look at Zuko, asks “is anyone gonna raise that?” and doesn’t wait for an answer
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- Part 1 of It Takes a Village verse
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After the Blue Spirit frees the Avatar from the Pohuai Stronghold, Admiral Zhao captures Prince Zuko under suspicion of treason. Isolated from his Uncle and his crew, Zuko has only one ally: the chatty prisoner one cell over.
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- Part 1 of Birds of a Phoenix Feather
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19 Feb 2024
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Ultimate Sokka & Zuko friendship. Weaponizing puns, Zuko's slow thaw, and a (slightly) happier ending to Book 1.
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The weight of the world rests on the shoulders of children. In spite of it all, they still find enough place to grow.
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01 Aug 2021
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Some glorious ATLA fics that play the heartstrings better than a first chair violin. 10/10 would recommend
B tier?
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A Lesson of Her Own Making by chasingfigments for MuffinLance
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
22 Feb 2021
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Katara steals four more lessons that week. Four more boys around her age who know the forms but don’t know the desperation of a true fight. They are bad at anticipating her movements and her decisions because Katara will never have the luxury of learning the way they did. She fights dirty, not fair, and their pride doesn’t let them understand that they’re in over their heads until it’s too late.
They leave her scrapes and bruises and cuts that fuel her healing sessions. When those are done, she goes back to their suite and resumes putting together a combat bending style from stolen pieces and her experience in the wider world.
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19 Apr 2021
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Gahddamn. BAMF!Katara is always a win and this is a fucking TREAT.
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Sokka heard that story before. Of course he did, the turning point of Zuko's destiny, the single bravest and most noble (or stupid) thing he's ever done. He retold the thoughts that went through his head back then, the repercussions... but he left out a single detail.
And it's that detail that changes everything.I need to see his soulmark. Sokka thinks, heart hammering in his chest.
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25 Sep 2020
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Zukka blossoms detail by detail over many years. Worth MANY rereads.
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I'm Feeling Good (Like I Never Should) by zerohournineam
Fandoms: Avatar: Legend of Korra
24 Feb 2020
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Change is in the air, and King Wu of all people should know this better than anyone. But his unexpected outburst at a meeting makes Mako reconsider a lot of things—both about Wu and himself.
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21 Sep 2020
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Peak bisexuality here. Just peak. The pining and the angst and the oh fuck I was bi all along, wasn't I... Peak Wuko, peak representation. All-around love.