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This is going to be a problem.
He's a washed-up hero in a broken suit his daddy built. Hand-me-down armor and a legacy he couldn't protect.
A hot washed-up hero with scars I want to trace with my tongue.
With abs I want to drag my nails down.
With a quiet strength that makes me want to see what it takes to make him break.
Fuck.
This is absolutely going to be a problem.
[Events of Dispatch as told by Invisigal. Post-canon stuff starts from Chapter 26]
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28 Oct 2025
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Zuko joins the Gaang at the end of The Blue Spirit and drives Katara crazy. Dealing, double-dealing, struggle against one's darker impulses; fluff, friendship, laughter; love, rage, peace. Mostly canon-style characterisation, tone, plot, (lack of) swearing and sex, violence ... for a while.
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"Don't say it."
"Please."
"Don't do this to me."When Zuko joins the Gaang, Katara feels nothing but pure loathing and that is all she'll ever feel... right?
It's funny how quickly things change when they fight so hard to keep them the same.Bookmarked by TLB
18 Mar 2025
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Pride and Prejudice by that_turtleduck
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Pride and Prejudice (2005)
15 Sep 2024
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It's a Zutara non-bending Regent Era AU!! Especially for all the people out there who have yet to get over the 2005 Pride and Prejudice movie but also for people who've never seen it and just want a nice Regent Era/ Bridgerton-esque lightweight read.
Katara hates Mr. Lee. The most arrogant, entitled man she has ever met. A man she wouldn't marry even if all the men in the world should suddenly disappear. A sentiment that he shares, Katara knows. He's proved this multiple times with his mean words and actions, but then why does he keep looking at her, and she at him?
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18 Sep 2024
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Katara can't help but worry after Zuko asks Aang to make a disturbing promise. One that Aang would never follow through with, right? The stresses of the throne weigh heavy on Zuko, and Katara knows she has to do something when Hawky starts coming back empty-clawed. But things are boiling over between the Fire Nation and the Earth Kingdom, and between friends. And none of them are prepared for the consequences.
An exploration and some canon rewrites of events during and after The Promise, dedicated to everyone who hated the comics.
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11 Sep 2024
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Years after the war has ended, Katara find herself with a little bit of time off. Deciding to actually heed her family and friends’ advice, she does something for herself. Something that had been on her want-to-do list for a while: traveling to the Fire Nation to experience the yearly storm season. As a water bender, it sounded like a truly enchanting time.
However, Katara hadn’t anticipated a certain event from the last days of the Hundred Year War to be plaguing her every thought. She had just wanted to enjoy her vacation. That’s what she gets for being selfish.
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11 Sep 2024
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The Fire Throne by FrostedGemstones22
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Selection Series - Kiera Cass
21 Jul 2026
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Last book of the Delicate Subterfuge Series.
Some people want to watch the world burn. Some people will do anything they can to stop them. It's not just a battle of hearts anymore, it's a war for the fate of the whole world. Everyone has to pick a side...which side are you on?
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- Part 3 of A Delicate Subterfuge
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30 May 2024
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Amid the turmoil following the end of the Hundred Years War, the Gaang comes together to celebrate Zuko being crowned Fire Lord- but when a rebellion is sparked, they must team up once more to defeat the threat to the new and tenuous peace.
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- Part 2 of Avatar: The Final Conflict
- Part 7 of FFN Originals
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11 Sep 2023
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Public Bookmark 220
Mystery Work
Part of Hidden Works
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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11 May 2023
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A brutal counteroffensive on the Day of Black Sun alters the trajectories of Zuko and Katara's fates, changing their lives forever.
Sprawling, long-form character study (mainly 3rd person, with 1st person flashbacks). Early chapters set the framework, but later chapters are some of my best writing.
Rated M (read tags). Work first published August 2022.
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- Part 1 of When Water Burns
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13 Apr 2023
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During the siege of the Northern Water Tribe, Katara is swept out to the ocean by a strong wave. Unable to return to shore, she is lost adrift without her friends, without supplies, and her only company is Prince Zuko of the Fire Nation
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31 Mar 2023
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Nice Diplomacy, By the Way by FictionIsSocialInquiry
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
16 Sep 2025
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‘Is there something you need?’ he asks, more sharply than he intends. He’s so tried…
Katara eyes him like he’s an animal, a wild thing she’s trying to ease into domestication. ‘The opposite, actually.’ She uncrosses her legs, leans forward in her chair and those tight blue eyes— full and ambivalent and certain all at once— get his full attention. ‘What if I did it? What if we did?’
‘What if we did what?’
Her cheeks are ruddy, her braid messy as though she’s spent too long anxiously fiddling with it. ‘Date. Court. Whatever you call it.’
Zuko blinks, repeats her words back to himself once twice, trying to make sense of them. No good; his brain is scrambled. ‘What…? What are you talking about?’
‘Sokka’s plan,’ she says slowly, frowning at him. ‘I’ve been thinking about it. It’s sound in theory, he just had the wrong girl in mind.’
‘Sokka’s…’ Zuko wet his lips. ‘You think we should play out Sokka’s plan?’
‘Yes.’
Agni’s four hells…
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21 Jan 2023
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With the lessons and the battles of the North Pole behind them, Katara and Zuko set off on separate journeys across the Earth Kingdom. While Katara pursues her next element, Zuko flees the nation and family that tried to destroy him. Though their paths promise new friendships and new challenges for them both, destiny seems determined to bring them back together someday.
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- Part 2 of A Tale of Ice and Smoke
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13 Jan 2023
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A "stolen" wife amdist a world rebuilding after a century of war, a repentant Fire Nation trying to redeem its wrongs and earn good deeds. Excuse for invasion or not, the wife who left the Northern Tribe Chief will be reclaimed, even if the poles of the South, and the Capital City of the Southern Tribe, Annakpok, must melt.
An AU of the Avatar series with events inspired by the movie Troy and their versions of the Illiad. There will be differences, in both characters and events, with emphasis on key characters, battles, war, strategy and hopefully some the nuance within.
While serving in similar roles to the Illiad/Troy counterparts, The Avatar characters are very much themselves and not heavily influenced by the Illiad characterizations.
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- Part 1 of Annakpok Sagas
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15 Dec 2022
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Zuko becomes one of the good guys a little earlier than usual, and joins Aang, Sokka and Katara in Omashu. The ripple effects stretch far beyond Sozin's Comet.
A canon-adjacent series featuring friendship, humor, and romance.
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17 Aug 2021
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The King's Pet or The King by ShamelessLiar
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Avatar (TV), Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
23 Dec 2024
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Sequel to Call Me Katto (spoilers follow!) Katara wakes to find herself imprisoned by the man she loved and must navigate a subtle battlefield if she hopes to escape and free her friends. Yet Zuko, embroiled in Azula's deadly game as he returns to a life he lost long ago, has no intention of letting her stray from his side. They could face anything together - if only she didn't hate him.
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- Part 2 of Call Me Katto AU
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A world where the Avatar has disappeared from memory. Where Sozin’s Conquest was successful. Where the unsteady order of the empire is threatened as members of the royal family are picked off one by one and lines are slowly drawn in the sand.
One last chance for peace forces an unlikely alliance between a homesick waterbender, a carefree Air Nomad, a runaway Earth Kingdom heiress, and the fire lord's inscrutable son. Together they must learn to shed old enmities and become the balance they seek to restore to the world.
OR:
The avatar has four heads.
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[["Remember, Katara, you are the ocean made flesh. Kya's voice is a whisper now, echoing all around her, and all fires bow to the sea."]]
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Let Me Pretend; Your Soul is Winter Fire by Fly09Fire
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
23 Jul 2021
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“You think I’d get away with that in house?” Zuko bites down his frustration. Agni, he really can’t do anything nice for her. Yes, it’s back-ended by motive, but she doesn’t know that.
Then, to his utter shock, Katara laughs. Soft, restrained. So like all those times he’d say something that amused her on his ship. “You still haven’t learned to smile when you do that.”
He’s spent months living off the memory of her smile, turning away like it was the suns glare and he only deserved to be burned. Now he stares at it, lungs shriveling the longer he forgets to breath. Wasn't he supposed to be doing something? He can’t remember. Can’t remember his own name, let alone pay attention to a nagging voice that sounds a lot like Azula’s. Not with Katara’s laugh still ringing in his ears.
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What is Katara supposed to do when she receives a secret note from Ba Sing Se's masked vigilante pointing her towards Pao's Family Teashop and the Fire Nation's most wanted fugitives are bussing tables and serving tea?My continued take on the series if Zutara were the series endgame. Feat Book Two canon-divergences, aged-up characters, secret plots, mature themes, pining, and Two Idiots in Love.
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- Part 2 of My Heart Burns