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The Fire Lord Is Dead by ErsatzErmine
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
27 Jun 2026
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A messenger hawk practically fell from the sky and onto the deck. It croaked quietly in misery when a soldier scooped it up, its wings fluttering from exhaustion, feathers tipped in frost. The urgency that had driven the bird to fly beyond reason was immediately clear when the scroll was untied from its leg and slipped free from the oilcloth that had protected it from the elements – the wax seal of the head Fire Sage gleamed in the dying sunlight.
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“Dead.” Admiral Zhao stared at the scroll. The almost habitual smirk was gone from his face, and his expression was almost slack from the shock. “The Fire Lord is dead?”
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Before the Fire Nation fleet arrives at the Northern Water Tribe, news arrives that Ozai is dead. The planned invasion is called off, and Iroh and Zuko return to Caldera City to deal with the sudden change in regimes.
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03 Jul 2026
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Determined to revive the Southern style of waterbending, Katara travels to the Caldera at Zuko’s invitation to search for information on the Southern Water Tribe in the extensive Royal Library. There she finds a dangerous tangle of political intrigue and civil unrest – and at the heart of it all, a silent stranger in a Water Tribe mask.
(Or, no one ever told Katara that Zuko was the Blue Spirit.)
A Bluetara fic, using the Zutara Week 2020 prompts (for structure, such as it is). Likely going to be around 10 chapters but that is a rough guess.
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Bookmarked by starlightforests
25 Jun 2026
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Inspired by this Tumblr post https://captainkirkk.tumblr.com/post/628849887874842624/au-where-the-war-ends-for-reasons-fire-lord as well as the myriad of fics already written about it.
Hakoda, Chief of the Southern Water Tribe, is busy. He's mourning his wife, trying to reconcile that grief and his burgeoning relationship with his second-in-command, raising two pre-teens, and navigating a tenuous peace. He does not need anything else on his plate.
Unfortunately, the Spirits have other plans for him.
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A letter, a ship, and a child turn Hakoda's entire life upside-down again, not even one year after Kya's death.
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- Part 1 of places to bury me
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Bookmarked by starlightforests
18 Jun 2026
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“Breathe, Katara, breathe,” he says. “You’re okay, I got you. That’s my girl.” His words strike her to her core, and her heart flutters- as always, for him. She is his, and maybe she always has been. She may be a waterbender from the South Pole, sister to the Southern Water Tribe’s greatest strategic genius and best friend to the Avatar, but the Firelord of the Fire Nation is the only person who has seen inside her soul and held her heart in his hands. Somewhere, along the way, Katara unwittingly allowed Zuko into her soul, taking up residence and finding peace within all her broken pieces. Somewhere, along the way, she gave him her heart, and she knows she can never, will never, want it back.
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- Part 1 of Seasons
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Bookmarked by starlightforests
11 Jun 2026
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It begins with Ursa, with that sparkle of life she vanished to protect. When Zuko finds her, everything changes.
Hope is a tender, fearless thing. Zuko's hope has the shape of a child and the eyes of his mother, and it must be protected.
The Avatar can wait.
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In which Lu Ten II, Zuko's little brother, takes the world by storm.
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Bookmarked by starlightforests
22 May 2026