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The Instincts of the Sun Warrior State by Thisisentertaining
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
26 Sep 2021
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Zuko... may have been hasty, when he got on that raft instead of finding his friends and at least seeing if he needed to pull this disappearing act. It was day three of sitting of a raft in the middle of the ocean though, and a little too late for him to do anything about his regrets.
He had other stuff he could focus on, like perfecting the Dancing Dragon and trying to figure out why Uncle was steering them to the northern tip of the Fire Nation.
Meanwhile, the Gaang have left the North Pole and are on their way to pick up Bumi and round out the gaang, they just had to stop and talk to the General Fong guy first. This shouldn't lead to any complications, right?
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- Part 10 of Always trust Sokka's instincts
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- 12,465
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- 3/3
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09 Oct 2026
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Part of the Instinctual Verse, please read that first.
It had been weeks since Sokka had freed Zuko from Jet's clutches, and Zuko... he still can't make a spark. He's spent every available moment in the sun, and while his chi is growing stronger, he can do no more than manipulate an existing flame. He's trying not to let on how... concerned he is, but since Sokka maintains that he's a 'terrible liar', he doesn't think it's particularly effective.
He knows that going to the Fire Days festival was probably a bad idea, after all there is a whole wall of wanted posters featuring them right outside the city wall. But honestly, if Zuko never made a bad decision, he'd never do anything, and he wants a taste of home so badly.
What's the worse that could happen?
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- Part 7 of Always trust Sokka's instincts
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- 4/4
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01 Oct 2026
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The man’s voice once again broke him from his thoughts; “In my dreams I see them tortured by Fire Nation soldiers. I see my entire culture wiped from the South, our footprint upon the ice shelves gone as though we never existed, our connection with the spirits and our ancestors forgotten.” He was silent for the briefest of moments, then, “You’re Fire Nation, aren’t you?”
Zuko rolled onto his side, facing the wall, scar pressed into the arm that cushioned his head. “Once, maybe.”
“Answer me this, then; when will this war see it's end?”
Zuko, recalling the fire that had burned in Azula’s sunlit gaze the day she’d caught up to him, chose not to respond.
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- 14/14
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29 Sep 2026
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After the fateful Agni Kai, instead of sending him off on a ship, Fire Lord Ozai decided to remove his son's title and relegate him to being part of the Palace staff.
Zuko's pretty sure he's going to go back to being Crown Prince any day now.
Just a few more days.
And then the Avatar and his companions are captured.
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29 Sep 2026
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Zuko realizes his destiny much earlier. As in, as soon as he wakes up in the palace after his Agni Kai and is told he is banished. Unfortunately, he's never been a patient one. So he storms right up to Ozai and tells him what he's going to do. And gets locked up for over three years. Then, one day, he's being pulled out and told he's the new Fire Lord.
A "Zuko never meets the Gaang and suddenly becomes Fire Lord after three years of literal torture" AU. In which the Gaang doesn't know what to think of the new Fire Lord who happens to be the missing nephew of Aang's firebending teacher, Iroh constantly has a headache, and, sure, maybe the world hates the Fire Nation, but the Fire Nation LOVES Zuko, and he can work with that.
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- Part 1 of Fractures
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- 285,346
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- 39/39
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29 Sep 2026
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Book one ends with two major diffrences: 1. Sokka went on the mission with Hahn (it did not go well) 2. Zhao survives the North Pole and that proves unfortunate for everybody (except Zhao, obviously)
Imprisoned on Zhao’s war ship, Sokka and Zuko have to work together to survive. They are not very enthusiastic about this prospect.
And they argue.
A lot.
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- Part 1 of All's Fair
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- English
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- 90,388
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- 12/12
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29 Sep 2026
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The story took a different turn after the Siege of the North when Zuko was captured by the Water Tribe.
A lot of prisoner trope, found families, and not-adoptions... And Zuko having to deal with more trauma than in the canon
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28 Sep 2026
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Zuko had never excelled at anything. Azula was a prodigy. Uncle always knew what to say. And Father... Father was strong, iron-like. But Zuko had only ever been good at surviving. Putting one foot in front of the other in a grim show of stubborn determination, gritting his teeth and bearing it. Survival was all he had ever been taught. He knew how to do it. So when he was kidnapped by the Southern Water Tribe, he expected to fight as he always had. He didn’t expect to be taught instead how to live.
In a warring land, the Water Tribe forgave the enemy in an act of defiance. For this, he was torn from them, and this time, his wounds won't heal so easily.
Forced back into nothing but survival, the last person Zuko expected to see was Hakoda's son. Hakoda was a promise of safety. The relentless blue of Sokka’s eyes was a promise of happiness. Zuko could have both if he just reached out his hands, but he found them clutching into fists. After all, he’d been burned one too many times.
But hey, at least between Hakoda and Sokka, Zuko could appreciate the family resemblance of pure, asinine stubbornness.
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28 Sep 2026
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Always trust Sokka's instincts by Thisisentertaining
Fandom Avatar: The Last Airbender, Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
14 Sep 2026
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Sokka's instincts told him Jet was untrustworthy long before he saw the teen do anything to prove it.
Every moment of mistrust was vindicated when he was introduced to the Freedom Fighter's 'training dummy': a scarred teenaged firebender who they kept trapped in cave.
Sokka has to decide between his personal morals and the ingrained reaction to treat every Fire National as an enemy to decide what to do with this information.
His decision seems inconsequential at the time, but it changes everything.
*A retelling of the series where an even more traumatized Zuko joins the GAang in book 1*
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28 Sep 2026
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Ozai knew trained assassins who could not have snuck past the guards into this part of the palace, let alone his office. It seemed his son might be a prodigy at something, even if it was an unconventional talent for royalty.
Ozai recognized Zuko’s potential early. That changed things.
(AKA Zuko is a ninja. Featuring a more subtly abusive Ozai, co-dependent Zuko & Azula, and general badassery.)
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- 42,189
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- 18/?
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- 5
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- 368
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- 1,767
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28 Sep 2026
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June has good luck with strays.
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- Part 9 of Two Drama Queens Loose on a Shirshu
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- English
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- 5,934
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- 2/2
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- 3
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- 580
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26 Sep 2026
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The Reclamation of Salted Earth by ThatWeirdGuyInTheBushes
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
31 Aug 2019
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salting the earth; the practice of spreading salt over a conquered city to both curse it and render its soil infertile, condemning its residents to famine.
Zuko is many things throughout his life. Himself is just the one he never has the time for.
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- Part 3 of move forward (there is nothing for you here)
- Part 1 of the occasional ghosts
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- 3/3
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- 139
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23 Sep 2026
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– and Azula’s crackling bolt of lightning steadied, became still and straight, and was a beam of blue light thrusting from the horizon to the sky. The cold voltaic shock through his nerves was the sting of cold air damp with spray from the sea, the pressure of electrical charge the weight of armour on his shoulders, the harsh blue-white glow of lightning the grey-white-blue of sea and ice and sky.
…His scalp was cold.
Zuko doesn't know why he's suddenly back here again, here on his ship amongst the icebergs, with the Avatar's light stabbing into the sky. He's not even sure this is real. But if it is, he's going to do things better this time.
Of course, things go off the rails almost immediately.
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- English
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- 27,909
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- 10/?
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- 5
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- 650
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03 Sep 2026
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When Zuko and his uncle brought Jet home from under Lake Laogai, they had no idea he was a firebender, or just how deep his hatred for the Fire Nation really ran.
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03 Sep 2026
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01 Sep 2026
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Burning Ashes To Dust (Like A Funeral Pyre) by Imaginealpha
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
06 Jun 2022
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The first lesson Zuko ever learns about firebending is that power comes from anger.
Firebenders can draw power from their pain. His whole life, Zuko is told to use his old haunts to succeed, swiping fire from the nicks in his fingers and bursting angry flames from his left eye. Azula’s cold fire comes from the scars littering her arms and the phantom stinging of her father’s backhands. Iroh, too, has little marks on forearms and hands, long faded but still burning like new when he bends them with intense fury. The nature of firebending is not so easily boiled down, though, and throughout his journey, Zuko tries hard to truly understand his pain and power in life.
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01 Sep 2026
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reparations are so much easier than actual apologies by suzukiblu
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
17 Nov 2023
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Zuko has a long list of reparations to make as the Fire Lord, but there are a few he has to make as himself.
He’s much more nervous about those ones, unfortunately.
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30 Aug 2026
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move forward (there is nothing for you here) by ThatWeirdGuyInTheBushes
Fandom Avatar: The Last Airbender
25 Jun 2020
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There is Ursa, there is fire, there is Uncle, and there is after.
And somewhere in between, there is Zuko.
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28 Aug 2026
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28 Aug 2026
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“Your dad,” Sokka starts, then swallows hard. “Your dad dueled you, burned half of your face off, and then banished you because you spoke when you shouldn’t have?”
Guilt festers and bubbles like black tar in Zuko’s chest. “I didn’t just speak. I questioned and insulted one of his highest-ranking generals—but the man was planning a massacre! He shouldn’t have—” Zuko clamps his mouth shut, his teeth clicking together, and swallows thickly. “I mean. I found the tactic he proposed very startling, but it wasn’t my place to question such things. I’m sure he had his reasons.”
“Tui and La what the absolute fuck,” Sokka whispers.
[Zuko gets imprisoned with Sokka and Katara during the winter solstice, and some very unfortunate things come to light. Alternatively: the gaang
kidnapsadopts Zuko in book one after discovering just how awful his father is.]- Language:
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- 32/?
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- 3,270
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22 Aug 2026