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i'm still here (but all is lost) by hesitantskeleton
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
13 Aug 2025
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The throne room holds a kind of gravity to it, like the Southern Air Temple, like Hama’s home. It’s seen the destruction of generations, of cultures, of people and property and locations and hope.
And now, the throne sits, bare and waiting for a person who does not exist. Uncle Iroh cannot take the throne without challenging Ozai as he was formally abdicated months ago. Ozai is too weak to fight. His challenge to the throne will have to wait, but he also has no living relatives, no sons or daughters or step-children to continue the royal line. He’s too old to produce children. Sokka doesn’t know whether Uncle Iroh will ascend to the throne. He doesn’t know if he respects this choice, or if it’s a weakness.
The throne is bare. There’s a very real possibility that this is how it will remain.
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or, in which zuko is imprisoned after the agni kai and was thought to be dead. Only two people knew of his survival. team avatar must find an heir to the throne before it's too late, but how do you find someone who doesn't exist? -
(PODFIC) While Mighty Oaks Do Fall by hesitantskeleton
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
16 Mar 2025
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High Sage Kenji blesses Fire Prince Zuko with the resilience of the reed, who bends in the wind and never breaks. When he is done, Fire Prince Ozai narrows his eyes, seemingly displeased by this blessing. But Kenji does not speak for himself; he is only a vessel.
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The newly-crowned Fire Lord Ozai offers his firstborn son to service in the temple.
This turns out to be a catastrophic mistake.
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Podfic recording of WitchofEndor's While Mighty Oaks Do Fall starting chapter 11
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looking for a creation myth (ended up with a pair of cracked lips) by hesitantskeleton
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
03 Oct 2024
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(PODFIC VERSION)
The ever-pressing weight of life and being alive is... a lot. Zuko's life is falling around him, and he's not really sure how to continue.
Sokka's life is debatably great. His friend just fell in love with his other friend, he got an A+ on his calculus final, and his favourite bakery just started serving drinks.
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Or, Zuko needs a reason to keep going. Sokka takes one look at this wet flop of a cat and decides that he needs friends.Series
- Part 2 of Creation Myths
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looking for a creation myth (ended up with a pair of cracked lips) by hesitantskeleton
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
25 Sep 2024
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The ever-pressing weight of life and being alive is... a lot. Zuko's life is falling around him, and he's not really sure how to continue.
Sokka's life is debatably great. His friend just fell in love with his other friend, he got an A+ on his calculus final, and his favourite bakery just started serving drinks.
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Or, Zuko needs a reason to keep going. Sokka takes one look at this wet flop of a cat and decides that he needs friends.Series
- Part 1 of Creation Myths
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(for you i'd) bleed myself dry by hesitantskeleton
Fandoms: Carry On Series - Rainbow Rowell
16 Oct 2020
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baz has a minor emotional breakdown/existential crisis.
or, in which the author is having a Lot of feelings and needs to hear some things and made their comfort characters say what they need to hear (lmao)
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- Part 4 of Carry On Drabbles
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Creation Myths by hesitantskeleton
Fandom Avatar: The Last Airbender, Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
03 Oct 2024
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designated survivor by hesitantskeleton
Fandom Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
07 Nov 2019
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This is the second thing twenty-nine months postbellum has taught Zuko – nothing is ever over. Nothing, no one, is ever finished, complete, total, sown up or true blue. The Fire Nation will pay penance, forever. He will be unready, forever. They will both be boats on a current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
He spent much of his childhood on a boat, but. He is uncertain if he knows how to sail.
(Twenty-nine months after his coronation, Zuko lays down in bed, and stays there.)
Bookmarked by hesitantskeleton
27 Mar 2026
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You Wouldn't Recognize Me Anymore by TryingCrying
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
19 Mar 2025
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Zuko gets kidnapped, and somehow EVERYONE has a bad time.
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- Part 2 of Woke Up Hurting
Bookmarked by hesitantskeleton
27 Mar 2026
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I No Longer Look Like Me by TryingCrying
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
07 Feb 2025
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Zuko and Sokka make a minor mistake, then Zuko ruins everything by majorly freaking out.
Hakoda is mostly confused. But when things start clicking into place, it all starts to make an awful sort of sense.
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- Part 1 of Woke Up Hurting
Bookmarked by hesitantskeleton
27 Mar 2026
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I don't belong here by sunnywriteswest
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
17 Mar 2026
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Zuko has a room just like everyone else in the group. He is free to come and go as he pleases, just like everyone else.
He has never felt more left out.
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Zuko has way too much time alone to think everyone hates him. The Gaang makes things worse without realizing.
Bookmarked by hesitantskeleton
20 Mar 2026
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The days trapped in the human world are good — Camila Noceda is kind. She patches Hunter's wounds, makes him breakfast for no price more than the dishes he insists on doing, lets him tag along to her job at the veterinary clinic.
But in the night, something scratches at his skin. It wants out. Hunter knows he cannot let it out.
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How do you take care of a Trojan horse?
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Bookmarked by hesitantskeleton
31 Jan 2026