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promise me i can take it back by opheliaesque
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
17 Aug 2026
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Katara, Zuko, and one drunken little conversation.
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Zuko and Katara are friends—always have been; always will be. He knows her coffee order down to the sugar level. She knows his shoe size whether in Water Tribe inches or Fire Nation sizing. They’re BFFEUTLCT (Best Friends Forever and Ever Until Tui and La Capsize on Themselves).
It’s the oldest tale in time.
or: the GAANG stage an intervention.
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i keep bleeding love by opheliaesque
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender (Movie 2026)
26 Jul 2026
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“You heal everyone, Katara,” he says, a lull—or an even deeper cut—in the eggshell cracks of her heart, “But who heals you?”
or: what happens in the in-between of life, death, and blood
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with a hand on my heart (i swore) by opheliaesque
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
24 Jun 2026
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Sun and moon meeting, she recalls from the poem, lovers brushing past, passed, paths—
Master Katara leans closer, standing on tiptoes, whispers something into the Fire Lord’s ears. Fire Lord Zuko grins, wide and sweet like a crescent moon. Shula watches a spring blossom softly land between them, like a nudge from the spirits, an answer, a call—like an inevitable, breathing thing, already sewn into the crevasses of their souls, already tied into the beats of their pulse.
or: all the times people had mistaken Zuko and Katara for a couple, and the one time for a silver of truth
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that's how the light gets in by opheliaesque
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
16 May 2026
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Love is an easy thing. It is. You have a heart, and you find another one that dances with it—and even that dancing, it is easy. Loving, dancing, wanting, breathing. But a soul? A soul that loves and dances and wants and burns and bleeds and keeps? Where are you going to find something like that? Not just a dance between lovers—but a conversation between souls. Where? Point it for me, and watch how it leads straight to you.
or: the tale of Fire Lord Zuko and Master Katara
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Katara and Zuko's mission on board The Southern Raiders goes badly wrong, and they are captured and imprisoned in the unforgiving hull of the ship.
Katara now finds herself locked in a small room with a boy that she refuses to trust, and nine years worth of trauma and guilt swimming in her mind. She is resolute in her hostility towards Zuko, but as the horrors of their captivity unfold, an undeniable bond is formed in the quiet moments between their captor's torments.
When they find themselves safely back with their friends on Ember Island, they are both sporting deep scars – old and new, seen and unseen. Katara struggles to reconcile all the pieces of herself and figure out who she truly is. And Zuko continues to battle with his past guilt, and the new guilt that arises from his growing feelings towards Katara.
As their bond deepens – it may be the lifeline they both so desperately need to pull them from the dark waters of their past.
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Canon-divergence from Book 3 Ep 16 The Southern Raiders. Eventual Zutara.
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Zuko falls to Azula's lightning, and Katara realizes she doesn’t want him to die. She doesn’t want anyone to die, but she especially doesn’t want him to die. Sometimes she thinks he’s the only one who understands, when the others are laughing and goofing off. What it’s like to have to try to be fun, to remind yourself that you’re just a kid too.
(And how stupid and typical of him to die this way, sacrificing himself for her.)
There’s not much else to do (she knows, she’s considered anything else she could possibly do). Katara pushes up her sleeves and sets to work saving his life.
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Katara heals Zuko after the Agni Kai and things go... wrong.
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Bookmarked by opheliaesque
05 Aug 2026
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might be the most beautiful thing i’ve read. so fucking obsessed and it’s not even close.
also also also reminds me of: [“He is more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. If all else perished and he remained, I should still continue to be, and if all else remained, and we were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger. He’s always, always in my mind; not as a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.”]
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Katara fucking hates her neighbor.
She's one sleep deprived surgery away from shoving a scalpel into his neck - even if he is unforgivably hot and covered in tattoos.
Zuko's neighbor is scary.
He's an FBI agent used to putting his life on the line at work and now, apparently, at home.
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The Princess in the Tower by ClammyHandsCayenne
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
07 Jul 2026
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Several years after winning the war, Zuko’s success lies in being a benevolent Fire Lord but failure lies in finding a healer for Azula. With no other options left, he pulls on the tenuous thread of his friendship with Katara and asks her to try and heal Azula as his last resort.
Bookmarked by opheliaesque
03 Aug 2026
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beautiful agony mind whirl of a fairytale. love this to bits
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The Fire Lord Takes a Wife by aliceinacoma
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
28 Apr 2026
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”I’m thinking of marrying outside the Fire Nation.”
He bit his own tongue as soon as the words left his mouth, echoing back at him in the silence that followed.
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Five years after the war, Zuko employs the Southern Water Tribe Ambassador’s help in his most complicated duty yet: getting married.
Bookmarked by opheliaesque
28 Jul 2026