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Prince Zuko comes to the South Pole hunting the Avatar and instead gets blindsided by his furious betrothed: Lady Raven Arza, five feet of spoiled noble firebender who dodged her father's “you’re not allowed to go to war” rule by buying her own ship and chasing Zuko into it. She’s convinced he deserves to die; he’s convinced she’s lost her mind amidst her flurry of flaming whips. Unknown to both, an ancient weapon is about to awaken and change everything. Arzayanagi is a canon-divergent enemies-to-lovers epic.
Dedicated to my wife, who only vicariously loves me through my writings of Zuko.
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Before the time of the Avatar the spirits danced. As the humans grew, they learned from the dances and eventually made it their own. They gained the gifts of elements from the spirits who fell in love with their dance. In order to keep balance between those with different gifts, the Avatar was not the only spirit that moved through humans. The spirits of the major elements also bonded themselves to a human vessel, much like the Avatar spirit. That souldbonded human was to serve as the link between the great spirit and the human world. They were also meant to be the teachers of the Avatar to assist in keeping balance in a world full of wonder and power.
That was true, until everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked.
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Born Of Fire, Forged By Ice by TheMistyBlackCloud
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
14 Dec 2025
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Fate tends to take all by surprise. When the Southern Water Tribe stumbles across a injured 5-year-old Princess Azula of the Fire Nation, none could bring themselves to end her life and brought her home with them, leading her to grow up away from the Fire Nation. The world is changed forever, ripples sent, and fates and paths being altered. Water Tribe Azula story!
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The basic premise is "What if the flying Hippo Cow that appears in one of Aang's nightmares in S03 EP09 was a real creature and he has his own family. His name is Joe.
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Almost Isn’t Good Enough by SweetPea67
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
13 Dec 2025
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Azula spends fourteen years as an only child. This changes things.
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- Part 3 of Sun Warrior Zuko AU
- Language:
- English
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- 2,025
- Chapters:
- 1/3
- Kudos:
- 8
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The Palace of Lies and Secrets by Genderfluid_Gremlin
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
12 Dec 2025
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Sokka has been hated and abused his whole life for being a firebender, so when the Fire Nation comes to abduct him, it turns out to be a blessing. Everything changes when he meets Azula. Befriending the damaged princess, Sokka will learn that his new home is not nearly as perfect as it seems.
Meanwhile, Azula has never forgotten seeing her brother Zuko get murdered by their own father. Ever since, she has done everything she could to survive, even if she hates herself for who she's become. Befriending Sokka sets her on a new path, but will she continue to obey her father, or choose to make a stand against the war?
Everyone believes Zuko is dead. Little do they know he lives, trapped in a Fire Nation prison camp. There, he will discover the true cruelty of the war and suffer in ways he never imagined. When he finally returns to the Fire Nation palace, he will have to decide whether to enjoy happiness with the people he loves, or risk everything for a chance at stopping the hundred year war.
Sokka, Azula, and Zuko have all suffered terribly, but by finding strength in each other, they have a chance at ending the war and bringing peace to the world- if only they have the courage to try.
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Everyone has their soul family. The Gaang’s should have been whole — if only one hadn’t been dead for as long as the others could remember, and another hadn’t died prematurely in flames.
But some things are never truly lost.
Alternatively: the Gaang is a platonic soul family. It doesn’t change that much, until it does.
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The Dragon and The Storm - A Zuko-Azula Role Swap AU by TheWingedSerpent
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
12 Dec 2025
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In the war council, Zuko manages to save a division and devise a plan to take a vital piece of territory which has caused great strain to the war effort. Ozai has gained renewed interest in his first born and Azula has been relegated to the sidelines as a political tool. Now she must hunt the Avatar to restore her former position of prominence within her family and prove that she is her brother's superior.
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Red Water, Azure Flame by ThePrincessRegent
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
11 Dec 2025
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Katara Waterbends in front of Yon Rha before Kya can sacrifice herself.
Rather than killing the child, the Southern Raiders ensure she is shipped to the Fire Nation palace dungeon, far from snow and moonlight.Three weeks later, a clever, ambitious royal with a habit of sneaking around grandfather’s palace overhears that the last Southern Waterbender has been brought to her permanent cell. She sneaks into the dungeon at night, attempting to see the prisoner for herself. Yet, instead of finding an embittered warrior, all Princess Azula sees is a girl her age, scared and alone.
Her perspective on the Hundred-Year War is fundamentally changed forever.
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Book 3 of Lu Ten and Zuko series.
Their defeat in Ba Sing Se left the two cousins being seperated once again. While Zuko managed to escape with his friends/found family, Lu Ten made a sacrifice to go back to the palace.
Pretending to have switched sides, he tries to gather information to help his friends, without his evil Uncle Firelord Ozai to suspect a thing.
Now Lu Ten and Zuko are back in the Firenation, their old home, but under two completly diffrent circumstances. But both have the same goal:
Stop Ozai and seeing each other again.
--It is advised to read the previous two Books to get context for this one-
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- Part 3 of Lu Ten and Zuko
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Avatar: Protector of Peace (Voltron X ATLA crossover) by Lava_Serpant
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Voltron: Legendary Defender
11 Dec 2025
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A lot has happened since Katara and Sokka found Aang in the ice. Back in the Earth Kingdom to find an Earth bending teacher for Aang they’re confident that they can face anything in the way without anyone else unless it’s Aang’s teacher.
But when Aang has a vision of a mysterious man with feline creatures in a swamp and found him for real Aang suddenly and quickly forget how kidnapping is illegal.
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What Lance and Keith is doing is definitely illegal. They should know, they made the rules, but coming across a planet with alien life that looks and acts exactly like humans who were they to resist the temptation to blending in with an undiscovered alien civilisation? How were they supposed to know this world had magic people who could move elements with their mind? And what the heck was the Avatar?
AKA Lance gets kidnapped by some kids and decides magical powers/destined saviours or not they need adult supervision.
AKA Keith gets stuck with a ansgsty prince, a tea loving uncle, goes through hell trying to find lance, make sure they don’t die, and resist the urge to commit manslaughter or homicide.
He succeeds at most of that stuff.
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Spirit touched is overrated by Autistic_Turtle_Duck8888
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
10 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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What? Zuko’s mind swam. He was banished? The avatar…but the avatar was gone? He hadn’t been seen in one hundred years.
“Your uncle tried to accompany you, but the Fire Lord has decreed that he is too useful to the nation as a General and has reinstated his position. He has not been allowed to see you.” The voice sounded hurried and urgent. “They are not allowing me to come on the journey and tend to your injury either.”
Zuko was injured. His father had burned his face. He was banished, he was injured, and he was close to death. But Zuko was sure of at least one thing: He would survive. He had to. He was going to capture the Avatar and regain his honour. This was his last thought before he slipped into unconsciousness. A promise to himself and his nation.
When Zuko loses the Agni Kai he is branded as a traitor to his nation and banished. The Fire Lord decrees general Iroh too valuable to be allowed to accompany his disgraced nephew. He is abandoned instead - left to fend for himself in a fire nation colony.Series
- Part 2 of On Love and Fear
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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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Pokémon Legends: Avatar Aang by TorchwoodAgent_PokemonTrainer_Rae
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types
08 Dec 2025
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The Fire Nation won the war and now they all but own the world. A world seemingly at peace, if you don’t look too closely that is. Those that conform have nothing to worry about, rebellion on the other hand would mean certain death.
When a 16 year old Aang finally gets his chance to set out on his journey, a rite of passage for most youngsters, he soon discovers the Pokémon world may appear all sunshine and rainbows but scratch below the surface and you’ll find a dark and cruel world of corruption and oppression. One that Zuko knows all too well-the Prince of the Fire Nation is dead, killed in a tragic accident at age twelve-he’s had to learn the hard way after all in the intervening eight years since his father murdered him. Nobody to trust or rely on, but there’s a freedom in the world believing you’re dead, nobody say what to do or where to go, just an open road and rainbows to follow. So why is it he’s suddenly finding his path inexplicably tied to that of young trainer with vaguely familiar blue tattoos?
With help from friends found along the way, can our young hero Aang unravel the mysteries of his own past, inspire hope and trust in those who have been forsaken and unite the people to save the world?Series
- Part 1 of Pokémon Legends: Avatar Aang
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Fire was an element that either commanded respect or consumed fear. Aelita Kenshin had experienced both feelings during her sixteen years of life. A firebending master reduced to nothing but the hollow shell of what she once was, the Butcher of Ba Sing Se no longer trusted the power beneath her fingertips.
The entire world believed the Avatar to be dead and nearly all of the Akira's world thought she was too. Forced to leave Aelita's body behind, Aang and the others are left to grapple with the grief that threatens to overwhelm them with only their desire for peace and justice pushing them forward.
Welcomed home as war heroes next to their sister, twin Princes Zuko and Zetzu are thrust back into the game of thrones, forced to face their demons. With tensions rising faster than Sozin's Comet approaches, it's soon clear that only one of them can be left to inherit their family's scorched legacy.
Fire is the element of power. The people of the Fire Nation have the desire and will to achieve what they want. Only time will tell if that power and desire will be too much to handle as the fate of the world is forged in fire.
Book Three of the series Akira: The Legend of Aelita.
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- Part 3 of Akira: The Legend of Aelita
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Ash and Aether by emmagoober
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar: The Last Airbender (Live Action TV 2024), Avatar: Legend of Korra
08 Dec 2025
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What if Aang and Zuko were both the Avatar?
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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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Throughout Zuko's entire short life, there was only one constant, one circumstance that remained the same no matter what, one that Zuko knew would never change. If he failed at something, he was punished – and only then did he learn.
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Zuko’s journey from learning through hurt to learning how to heal.
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The Boy Who Was Favored by the Spirits But Did Not Know It by Katowisp
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
05 Dec 2025
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The myth of Zuko, the boy favored by the Spirits but cursed not to know.
“What is your gift, Koh?”
“I have spent many years among mankind and I wear their faces. To your child of fire, I give the blessing of doubt.”
Wherein: Prince becomes the Spirit Speaker, equal to the Avatar.Esto ahora está en español, por favor échale un vistazo:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/70303946/chapters/182583761Series
- Part 1 of No Harbor but Honor