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This is the Avatar. The Avatar is a little boy, a child. Zuko knows intimately what Fire Lord Ozai does to those.
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It is Zuko's purpose to capture the Avatar and bring him to the Fire Lord, it is what he has to do to regain his honour. It doesn't necessarily go to plan...
In which Zuko realises a lot sooner what side of history he should be on. Figuring nobody on that side of history wants to be associated with the prince of the Fire Nation, banished or not, he leaves himself behind and becomes the amnesiac, Lee, instead.
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Spirit touched is overrated by Autistic_Turtle_Duck8888
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
17 Dec 2025
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“Sooooo, now that you’re here does this mean you’ll teach me firebending?”
“YOU KIDNAPPED ME!!!!!”
Or: Instead of capturing the avatar spirit touched Zuko says fuck you and runs off to become the blue spirt, perfect content with spending his days sabotaging the fire nation
Until the Gaang kidnaps him to become Aang’s firebending teacher, of course
Rated teen for swearing
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After the Agni Kai with his father, instead of being banished his father decided to keep Zuko in the fire nation to further train him to be the fire lord. Iroh fakes Zuko’s death and sends him away to save him from his father
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While Sokka and his sister are traveling with the avatar they keep meeting this “blue spirit”
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Something horrible and traumatic happens to Zuko on the Day Of The Black Sun: Ozai rapes him. Zuko manages to escape the Fire Nation and leaves to find the Avatar and join the Avatar’s group to stop his father once and for all. But recovery is never a straight line, and healing from what has happened is not easy. Zuko’s journey of healing from the Day Of The Black Sun to Sozin’s Comet.
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The terror of Politics (aka: Zuko and his friends freak out ambassadors and dignitaries) by Katinka01
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
15 Dec 2025
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Zuko has been stuck for months in meetings with ambassadors and diplomats, half of them wanting his head, everyone expecting him to suddenly have a solution for a 100 years of disasters, and he feels like he has not slept in weeks. So yes. He might be a teeny tiny bit miffed.
His head is pounding and his eyes feel heavy. He moves up a hand to rub at them, part tiredness, part frustration and oh. Oops.In the midst of all the shouting, Zuko’s eye falls from its socket and lands with a small, thunderous thunk on the table in front of him.
Tldr: Zuko is tired and has been working his butt off in the peace talks post-war, and he forgot that when you have growth spurts, your prosthetic does NOT grow with you. In turn, he manages to give every dignitary a heart attack, which his friends very much enable. Oops?
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- Part 2 of Zuko has a prosthetic eye
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Zuko adopts some Turtleduck ducklings when he returns home after three years away.
This changes more than he would like to admit.
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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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Hello, Sailor! by MulaSaWala, PestilentPadrePleaser2023, Thyri_saber for The Hello Sailor Discord
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
08 Dec 2025
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Collection of fic ideas and snippets from people in the server that might become fics on their own
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The Shape of Things Sensed by aldethebeautiful
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
05 Dec 2025
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Zuko feels things and receives love from the gaang :') Scar history reveal, nightmares, eagerness to fit in... all of the hurt/comfort for our wayward prince.
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“I’m so sorry,” Katara said again. Zuko nodded.
“I’m sorry too. And I’m sorry for what I did in Ba Sing Se. You have to know that.” An intensity had entered his expression, a desperation.
“I think I do now.” She inhaled deeply and the corners of her mouth turned upward, her chin rising as her chest lifted. She was feeling a mixture of things… pride, wonder, compassion… love. Love for the twists and turns of destiny which, while often painful, had a way of settling into correctness, into solid ground. Love for the injured Fire Nation boy who crawled his way out of treacherous hell into the shelter of her little family, who looked at her now with the love of a brother. She took his hands and squeezed.
“Zuko,” she said, “Welcome home.”
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we regret to inform you we are still in Ba Sing Se by Dioranelle
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
04 Dec 2025
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In which Aang and Zuko find themselves reliving the Crossroads of Destiny.
Aang wants to save Katara and prevent the fall of Ba Sing Se. Zuko wants to save his uncle without betraying his nation.
And neither of them wants the other to know they’re both stuck in the same time loop.
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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
30 Nov 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 (like an ableist professor, an infinite number of group chats, his first real extracurricular activity, a possible love triangle, and the first election cycle in which he will be old enough to vote against his father) with the support of his uncle and his new friends.
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in a slightly different light by Dioranelle
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
25 Nov 2025
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Hakoda watches his children pensively. His gaze turns to the Fire Prince, who stubbornly refuses to look at any of them.
Hakoda remembers everything he has heard. His eyes wander toward the scar on the boy's face, making him wonder...
“How many times did Ozai try to kill you, Zuko?”
He realizes too late that he has spoken these words aloud. Suddenly, it becomes quiet around him.
And Zuko begins to count silently.
Or: Hakoda asks Zuko about his relationship with his father. Zuko answers far too honestly.
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Ozai had never been a loving father, not only to Zuko. He just didn’t have it in him to love. He desired power, so he respected Azula - needed her. He did not love her.
But that was exactly the difference between the two siblings, while Azula had been in the presence of indifference - a possible liking - Zuko wasn’t just subject to a lack of love. No, he faced hatred. Pure disdain.
But it was three years ago that Ozai first left a visible mark on the boy, leaving a scar for the world to see. Shaming him, hurting him and challenging him to death, at once. Publicly humiliating him in a duel meant as a display of respect between two matched opponents, rivals.
And since then, Ozai had grown in aggression, in his abuse.
That's why Zuko had to leave.
OR: In this universe, Zuko was never banished. Instead, he was subject to three more years of abuse, and it's this abuse that causes him to come to his senses, all on his own, and join the Avatar.
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One Hundred Years ago Firelord Sozin declared war against the other nations, and when the people looked for the Avatar to fight for order; he vanished. Until now no one knew whether the past Avatar was dead, alive, or surviving through the element cycle, while Crown Prince Zuko may not want to, he’s the Avatar and he’ll have to fight against his family, his nation, and his own being in order to create peace in the world.
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A New Throne For the Era by Ghost_Guard_13
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
01 Nov 2025
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With Zuko taking the throne after a hundred years of war, the leaders of each nation are invited to the Fire Nation to restore balance and discuss the healing of their world.
Not everyone is so willing to change.
Or; Hakoda goes to the Fire Nation, General Fong doesn't trust Zuko, Zuko tells them why he was banished, and Zuko gains a proper father figure AND a boyfriend.
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"Sorry for destroying the building you were in," she said off-handedly. Did she not recognize him? Couldn't she sense people's heartbeats to tell who they are? They'd fought before, so she should know it's him. Why was she being nice?
Zuko stayed silent.
"Real talkative, I see." Zuko blinked, was that supposed to be a joke?
Judging by her laugh, it was.
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Or, Zuko, also known as Spirit, is the son of the Fire Lord, one of the worlds most feared villains, was supposed to be meeting at the rendezvous with his father and sister, not be buried under a collapsed building about to be kidnapped by a blind superhero, who is also a child.
Or, or, Zuko & Toph field trip but with superheroes.
Or, or, or, I'm dressing up as a superhero for Halloween, that is my justification for doing this for whumptober (it will also be very whumpy).
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- Part 6 of Whumptober 2025
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"Ozai made a deal. And he promised us a gift. A price so steep none agreed to it before."
They all find the fire princess odd
She is, y'know. Odd. She mumbles in her sleep, doesn't joke, and yells often, seemingly for no reason.
They can see oddness, but they can't see the marks of a father's hatred and lust under her clothes.
They can't hear the crazed screams of her sister as she shouts at shadows that aren't there.
But can they see the two spirits stalking the princess's every step?They find other stuff odd. Stuff the surrounding adults don't find odd, only horrible
or...The gaang slowly learns that not all the evil in this world came from the war.
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Being an Omega, Zuko never had much choice or freedom. Even in Banishment his life is chosen for him. Zuko was soon sailed back to the Fire Nation for a marriage with the now Admiral Zhao.
Zuko has to survive this marriage just like he survived his two years in banishment.
But will it work?
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Wind to Waves to Dust to Ashes by AbroMelon34105
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
14 Oct 2025
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100 years ago, Fire Lord Sozin lead the Fire Nation into war against the other three nations, completely wiping the Air Nomads off the map and turning his sights to the Water Tribes and the Earth Kingdom. The Avatar, the sole person responsible for the peace of the world, vanished around this time and hasn't been seen since, and many have begun to lose hope that he even still exists.
Aang was never the Avatar. His twin sister, Anya, was saved at birth because she was the Avatar's next incarnation. Now, a hundred years have passed and as the last Airbender, it's his jobs to teach the current Avatar airbending...whoever that may be.
For three years, Zuko has searched for the Avatar at the behest of his father, along with the promise to have his honor returned to him. Desperate, Zuko has put every once of his being into this search, and now his luck seems to be turning around. An airbender - the last in the entire world - has been sighted in the Southern Water Tribe, and Zuko just knows that he knows where the Avatar is - if the nomad isn't the Avatar himself.
Yet he keeps insisting he's not. So if he's not the Avatar, then who is? And what is going on with these damn dreams?
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Fires Made of Echoes by TheRealGambit
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
11 Oct 2025
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Zuko finds out he’s the Avatar in the worst way possible, but atleast this leads to him making friends - and finding love (eventually)