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How to accidently befriend you enemy and make them think you're someone else a guide by Zuko by Skeleton_Secrets_99
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
15 Dec 2025
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The arrow only injured Zuko it did not knock him out. Shocked by how foolish his enemy is Zuko takes the opportunity to find out more about the Avatar and accidently becomes one of the GAANG in the process. Why does the Avatar keep looking at him like that and what's the strange voice he keeps hearing? Zuko really should listen to his Uncle more often.
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- Part 1 of The blue spirit chronicles
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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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After The Fire Nation's failed Siege of the Northern Water Tribe, travelling with the Northern Water Benders south they separate to continue their journey to find an Earth Bending Master. However, with new enemies at their heels on the Firelord’s order to kill the Avatar.
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Please note this is a sequel, it is highly reccomended to read the first one before this one.
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- Part 3 of Avatar Zuko AU I made from spite
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The Other Airbender by Lev Tanel (InkVail)
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
13 Dec 2025
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The Gaang wanted a break for Aang to start learning earthbending. Instead, they got:
– A boy who jokes through every injury (and there are a lot of injuries).
– His best friend, who can crush a tree with nothing but air pressure.
– A cat.
– Zuko deciding one of them might be an airbender.What follows: fire, trauma, terrible jokes, and more found-family moments than they bargained for.
And when Zuko finally captures someone he thinks is an airbender, he has to decide whether to treat him as proof—or as a person.
This story takes place after Zuko Alone and then functions as an alternate version of The Chase. Toph has just joined the group, Azula is on their trail, and Zuko is far from Iroh’s calming influence.
The Gaang calls it “their problem now.” Zuko calls it "proof."
Teorin calls it “a disaster.” Lev calls it "a masterpiece."Don't let Lev's jokes fool you. He hides as much as he says.
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- Part 1 of The Chaos Archive
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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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The Hunger Games: 4 Elements by thequeenisdeadboys86
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
12 Dec 2025
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"And now! The moment you have all been waiting for! It is time to announce the tributes! Happy Hunger games! And maybe the odds be ever in your favour!”
Thousands of names, Katara thought desperately to herself, there are thousands of names in that bowl, it won’t be Sokka, it won't be Sokka.
“The district 11 male tribute will be…” Ming Ming paused to squint at the paper, “Sokka, son of Hakoda!”
“And now for the ladies...” Ming Ming said, but Katara barely hears her. Greif has already set in. Katara knows her brother, strong as he is, will not survive a Hunger Games, not against the terrifying fire-bending tributes from districts one, two and three. The odds are never in her family's favour.
This is proven true when Ming Ming announces that the female tribute from district 11 will be Katara.
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Avatar Hunger Games au in which the Gaang + others get chosen as tributes!
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Zuko (not) Alone: book three by Mozart_the_Meerkitten
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
12 Dec 2025
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What if Zuko had gone into his banishment alone, without Iroh, a ship and a crew? What if, after failing to capture the Avatar, he finally gave up and joined the Gaang (and turned into their protective older brother)? And how would that change his story and the stories of those around him?
(this fic is part of a series and you'll probably want to read Zuko Alone books one and two before reading this one)
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- Part 6 of Zuko Alone
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Zuko Gets Adopted (again!) by Anonymous
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
12 Dec 2025
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Zuko's still learning how to live with his past. He's not doing too hot. Aside from, you know, in the literal, fire-bending sense.
He visits South Pole. But instead of brooding in peace, he gets overwhelmed with care by his boyfriend and the world’s most aggressively caring in-laws (Hakoda, Katara and Aang)
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When Sokka is mortally wounded after the Siege of the North Pole, Katara bargains for his life and has been left as a cold and calculating husk of her former self. Grappling with her new identity, friendships fracture and Katara sets off to find her own path. This is her story.
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- Part 1 of Aquarius
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"We're going to be alcoholics by the time we're thirty," Sokka sighed.
"You think we'll live to be thirty?" Zuko asked, honestly thrilled. Sokka had pretty good instincts. Perhaps Zuko should reevaluate his long term goals. He could start by having long term goals.
A more likely alternative was that Sokka was just a hopeless optimist. It just went to show, you never truly saw another man until you stood shoulder to shoulder against a fleet of war balloons intent on raining death upon the city you loved.
Zuko was just a normal guy with normal interests. He liked theatre, burglary, crotchety ostrich horses, watching the Blind Bandit crush her opponents in a glorious display of skill and violence... just your standard banished prince things. It wasn't his fault he kept stumbling into rebellions and uncovering long-buried secrets. Fine, maybe freeing the prisoners was on him, but he was completely innocent of all other treason. Zuko was his father's loyal son. He'd never betray his nation.
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Uncle Iroh took a more creative approach to fostering Zuko's appreciation of other cultures. Now it's everyone's Problem. -
If the Moon Smiled by aithusahasnowings (foxinsocks)
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
11 Dec 2025
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Sokka was never sent to guard Yue, he was too busy scouting ahead with some of the Northern Tribe warriors before the Siege. He was catch and capture being taking too Zhao's ship. He barely managed to escape with his life due Aang and a giant sea monster. Now he's stranded in the middle of the ocean with no one except Prince Zuko and his uncle for company.
Sokka should have died, if not from drowning then the burns he received from his time on Zhao's ship. But he survived. Why? Maybe the white streak appearing in his hair may have give him an answer.
Inspired by 'Will We Last the Night' by CSHfic, VSfic but with Moon Spirit Sokka AU
ie: Sokka never makes it out of the North Pole with Aang and Katara. He travels through the Earth Kingdom with Zuko and his Uncle instead. -
Fanning The Flames by GoldenHourglass
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
10 Dec 2025
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Left behind at the Misty Palms Oasis, Katara waits days for Aang, Sokka, and Toph to return. But when bounty hunters close in, her only chance at escape comes from the last people she ever thought she could trust: Zuko and Iroh.
Now traveling under false names, bound by a fake marriage, and with no room for mistakes, Katara finds herself on the road to Ba Sing Se. What begins as mutual distrust slowly turns into eating side by side, sleeping even closer, and something far more dangerous: comfort. She thinks it will end once they reach the city, but in a place crowded with millions of refugees, and stuck in the Lower Ring, she doesn’t have much hope of finding the others. With no leads and nowhere else to go, she resolves to wait for her friends to find her.
But in their cramped apartment, days turn into weeks, and Zuko and Katara begin to settle into something that almost feels like domestic bliss. It isn’t real. Or at least, it isn’t meant to be. But the longer they stay, the harder it becomes to remember where the act ends and something real begins.
*Updated Weekly*
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- Part 1 of Fanning The Flames Series
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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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The end of my path to redemption by Hiya96
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
09 Dec 2025
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I didn't look at Sokka. I couldn't. Looking back would mean seeing the destruction I had caused and the destruction I had just suffered.
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- Part 1 of Fire nation siblings
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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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Set a few years after the Imbalance comic, into the future post war. The Gaang is scattered about repairing what they can, when they're all mysteriously summoned to the Fire Nation palace for a special meeting with the Firelord!
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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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But Never Without a Fight by ShamelessLiar
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
08 Dec 2025
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In the midst of her brilliant coup of Ba Sing Se, Azula decides to finally teach her brother his place. What better way than counteracting his suppressants to trigger his heat and throwing him in with an enemy alpha?
…unless of course that alpha is Katara, the mightiest of caregivers. In that case, Azula’s lesson may not end up being the one she wanted to impart.
Zuko’s designation has long been the dirtiest of secrets, but he always held out hope that capturing the Avatar would finally make him worthy of respect. He never expected to be told in his most shameful state that he’d deserved respect all along.
Read for more: snuggly rut Katara (you never knew you needed it), Katara is the most responsible alpha, gender is weird, and all the sex organs for everyone!
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The events at Crescent Moon Island during the Winter Solstice turn out a little differently. As the volcano erupts thanks to Roku's wrath, chaos consumes the temple, and Sokka tries to save their new ally Shyu, but ends up trapped and collapsing from exhaustion and heat. Drifting between life and death, he dreams of home, playing childhood games with Katara and hearing his mother’s voice, before the dream twists into darkness.
When he wakes, it’s to the face of his supposed enemy: Prince Zuko.
Stranded together on a failing Fire Nation skiff, they’re forced into an uneasy alliance that tests every instinct and belief they’ve ever held.
Just how will Sokka navigate all the obstacles and hardships life throws at him? How much will he have to endure before he runites with Katara?
This series is my love letter to the Avatar: The Last Airbender series. I fell in love with it when it was released back in 2005, and loved it ever since. I intend to rewrite all 3 books of the series with a darker and more mature twist, so join me on this Canon Divergence rewrite!
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- Part 1 of All the Light That's Left Unseen