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One of the members of Zuko's council uses a saying that's derogatory to Air Nomads. While in a meeting discussing the celebration of an Air Nomad holiday. In front of the last Air Nomad.
Needless to say, Zuko is furious, and in no uncertain terms informs the councillor that his services are no longer necessary, with a hint of righteous Aanger. Because. It was anger. On Aang's behalf.
Sokka would've laughed.Aang is simultaneously hurt by what the councillor said and filled with the warm feeling of an older sibling looking out for him.
Roku? Roku recognises the look on Zuko's face. It's a look he's seen dozens of times, on someone else's face. On his daughter's face.
Iroh's the only one who notices Aang's normally grey eyes, just for a moment, flashing the same shade of gold as Zuko's.
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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.
Podfic and translations in Dutch, German, Hungarian, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian now available! See chapter one author notes for links.
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It's needless to say that Zuko never had a traditional upbringing. No matter how hard Uncle tried, there were just some things Zuko never learned, until he found himself among people who could teach him.
Or, Five times Zuko learns something from the family he has made, and one time he pays it forward to the family he was given.
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“ It wasn't optimism - it was realism. Because what is more realistic, more human, than holding on to something that could burn you just as easily as it could warm you?”
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With the arrival of Princess Azula, Toph Beifong, and Master Piandao to the Fire Nation, Fire Lord Zuko, barely staying afloat as is, finds himself thrown directly into the very thing he's been avoiding: the fallout of the Hundred-Year War. As faces old and new emerge from the shadows, some friend and other foe, Zuko struggles to help both his nation and the world while grappling with exactly what it means to do what is right.
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Books 2 and 3 of Fractures
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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)
23 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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Of Dead Fire and Dragon Dreams by ChickadeeChickadoo
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
04 Oct 2020
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Ozai said he'd killed Iroh. So when he shot lightning at Zuko- the lightning came back. Azula's fire broke when she saw Ozai dead- Zuko promised to fix things.
Everyone is confused about where the Fire Nation troopes are going.
Zuko is Fire Lord. Everyone is kind of confused about that too.- Language:
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After five years apart, a reunion among friends is long overdue. They are world leaders now, and rumors of trade difficulties and civil unrest have them fighting to keep the peace.
For Fire Lord Zuko, the years have been especially long and lonely, and much has changed since they were last together. Katara has been his one constant--she has sent him dozens of letters from the South Pole like a lifeline across the globe. He has sent back words he could never say aloud, pitching them into the void of the sea, but she has never let go of the tether between them. His life may peak and crash like the waves, but she is always there, reaching out to him.
Now she is in his palace instead of on the other side of the world, reaching out from only a few feet away.
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Written [early] for Zutara Week 2020, Prompt Day 1 - Reunion.
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How To Save (Seduce!) Your Villain In A Few Easy Steps; A Guide By Avatar Aang by NazakiSama166
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
10 Oct 2025
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“Shitty author, shitty novel! Prince Zuko deserves justice!” Aang’s famous last words as he took his last breath.
…Forced to read his favorite character’s unjust death and being killed after. Aang had had enough when he was yeeted into the same novel he died cursing because an annoying entity called ‘The System’ thought it would be fun transmigrating him into the most annoying novel he had the misfortune of reading.
To make things worse, Aang didn’t become an anonymous NPC, so he could help his favorite character from the sidelines. Instead, he became that damned Protagonist who will end up killing the Scum Villain, Prince Zuko!
……You know what? Let the world burn and the plot go up in flames! Aang was going to give Prince Zuko the happy ending he deserved, one way or another, even if it killed him!
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A different retelling of ATLA, SVSSS style!
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nobody can save me by pansexualnotmansexual
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
18 Oct 2025
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This fic begins shortly after Zuko’s coronation. A team of doctors and healers are sent to the Fire Nation to look after the health of Team Avatar, including a therapist. As Zuko’s mental health plummets, the Gaang urges him to seek help. An almost-assassination and a suicide attempt send Zuko spiraling, oscillating between "okay" and "not okay."
This fic is an exploration of bipolar disorder and its impact on Zuko, as well as the ones around him.
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Zuko loathes the man up on the Fire Lord's throne. Who burned him and looked down upon him. Whatever happens, he will not end up like him. He refuses to become a mad man, a horrible tyrant that Ozai is, and despises how he had driven his mother away due to paranoia and obsessiveness. Zuko won't become the person his mother feared him to be.
But then... Katara arrives. His precious, lovely soulmate. An enemy of their kingdom, a girl who comes from a dying tribe. Someone who he's willing to burn the world for just as his father had done countless times for Ursa.
He prays for his mother's forgiveness, even if that won't do as much good. They're the same after all.
Zuko's his father's child.
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It took Zuko three days to realize he couldn’t see and two weeks to accept it as fact.
In which Zuko loses more than just his honor after his Agni Kai with Ozai
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- Part 1 of Air Currents
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For Firelord Zuko and Ambassador Sokka, the war has ended and they spend their days now, four years after peace has flourished across the land, putting down cells of Ozai's sympathizers and forging their relationship behind closed doors. When the Gaang takes up a mission to squash the very last of Ozai's supporters, Zuko and Sokka are caught in a collapsing tunnel and buried alive. Seemingly escaping the kiss of death, they wake to a world that is not their own.
At the behest of spirit dabbling, both Sokka and Zuko are thrown into an alternate reality that mirrors their own. Sixteen again, they face the massive jarring changes of what could have been their lives had the war gone differently. Aang never woke up from the iceberg. The Southern Waterbenders were never targeted and the Southern Tribe is a close twin to the North's elitist personality. Iroh never lost Lu Ten to the siege of Ba Sing Se and the strangest change of all, Ozai is a loving parent to his beloved son.
Together, Sokka and Zuko need to find a way back to their own world and bodies, and figure out what the spirits intended for them in this strange dreamlike world.
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Baby Bending is the main story, so definitely please read that first. Any other stories after that are just fun snippets to build the world a bit more.
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For his first thirteen years, Zuko was raised in a palace. And yet somehow, it's the three years outside the Fire Nation that seem to count more – at least to the palace staff, who act like he's been raised by fox-wolves.
At first, this only annoys Zuko.
Until he begins to think that the Fire Nation needs more than a formerly-banished prince.
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The experiences Zulu went through truly made him a fire lord that ushers inPEACE
I love this ❤️
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If there was anything Zuko wanted more than his fathers approval, it was nothing.
So when Ozai’s touches began to linger, eyes began to wander, Zuko decided he would do anything to keep his father’s attention, to be loyal beyond a doubt at any expense necessary.
Even himself.
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Sokka Steals a Dragon From the Freedom Fighters Series by Pooka_Huldra
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With his twenty-first birthday looming just around the corner, the Southern Water Tribe Elders have decided that Sokka, next in line to be Chief, needs to get married. Sokka does not want that, but he does need to get them off his back until he can figure his way out of it. What better way to do that than to pretend to date his best friend (and newly minted Ambassador to the Southern Water Tribe) Zuko?
Seriously, this is a foolproof plan. Maybe one of Sokka's best. Absolutely nothing can go wrong.
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it's supposed to be fun, turning seventeen by Giacarem for Valian
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
24 Dec 2023
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"Zuko's birthday!" Aang called out. "Zuko, you didn't tell us it was your birthday? We would've celebrated!"
"It doesn't matter," Zuko said, his voice commanding, if not a bit squeaky. "I've never really celebrated my birthday, so it's not like I'm missing anything. Please, just pretend that this is a normal day."
Hopefully, they would forget all about his birthday.
… Hopefully.
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The Gaang find an old calendar among the mountain of memorabilia that Zuko is burning at the Ember Island holiday house and make a startling discovery.
Zuko, on the other hand, begins to believe they are hatching a plot to kill him.