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On the day before Ba Sing Se falls, Katara decides two things: 1) not to stop for a cup of tea; 2) consequently, the fate of the world.
Behind the walls, Zuko loses sleep, runs errands, contemplates treason, and drinks a lot of hot leaf juice—not necessarily in that order.
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26 Apr 2026
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"We're going to be alcoholics by the time we're thirty," Sokka sighed.
"You think we'll live to be thirty?" Zuko asked, honestly thrilled. Sokka had pretty good instincts. Perhaps Zuko should reevaluate his long term goals. He could start by having long term goals.
A more likely alternative was that Sokka was just a hopeless optimist. It just went to show, you never truly saw another man until you stood shoulder to shoulder against a fleet of war balloons intent on raining death upon the city you loved.
Zuko was just a normal guy with normal interests. He liked theatre, burglary, crotchety ostrich horses, watching the Blind Bandit crush her opponents in a glorious display of skill and violence... just your standard banished prince things. It wasn't his fault he kept stumbling into rebellions and uncovering long-buried secrets. Fine, maybe freeing the prisoners was on him, but he was completely innocent of all other treason. Zuko was his father's loyal son. He'd never betray his nation.
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Uncle Iroh took a more creative approach to fostering Zuko's appreciation of other cultures. Now it's everyone's Problem.- Language:
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23 Mar 2026
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Zuko does not survive that first fateful Agni Kai.
But no matter how much Ozai strives to pretend otherwise, the Old Gods are not dead.
And the Old Gods are angry.
[REPOSTED- ACCIDENTALLY ORPHANED]
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24 Feb 2026
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Hakoda kills a Southern Raider. This backfires spectacularly. Zuko is just trying to keep four kids from dying while not being a traitor to his nation. Toph is concerned. Sokka finds himself rethinking everything he had previously considered the norm.
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Kuei orders all of the Fire Nation out of Ba Sing Se after Azula fails her coup. This has wider ramifications than he thought.
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31 Jan 2026
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Ursa adored the boy. Iroh doted on him. Azulon would coo at the child when he thought others weren’t watching. Even Lu Ten, who often declared the baby boring, would play with Zuko near the turtleduck pond. No, it seemed Ozai was the only one who saw what a disappointment his son was.
No matter. His problem would be dealt with by morning.
A Water Tribe Zuko AU.
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- Part 1 of The Blood of the Covenant
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27 Jan 2026
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"Dispatch? Kill Prince Zuko?!" Fire Lord Azulon hissed. "With Prince Lu Ten dead and Iroh without an heir? To leave me with only one grandchild to secure the monarchy? No, Prince Ozai! You have overstepped. Zuko will live, but not as your son. I will give him to Prince Iroh to raise as his own son, as his heir."
When Fire Lord Azulon ordered Iroh to adopt Zuko, it seemed like the magic wand that would fix everything that was wrong in Zuko's life. But life inevitably finds a way to blow up in Zuko's face. A loose retelling of the Avatar story featuring Fire Lord Iroh, angsty Azula, Zuko joining Team Avatar in first season, and a Mai who is definitely (not?) going to kill Zuko.
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26 Jan 2026
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After the Blue Spirit frees the Avatar from the Pohuai Stronghold, Admiral Zhao captures Prince Zuko under suspicion of treason. Isolated from his Uncle and his crew, Zuko has only one ally: the chatty prisoner one cell over.
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- Part 1 of Birds of a Phoenix Feather
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24 Jan 2026
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Crown Prince Zuko discovers his bending when he is five and his sister is three, and she’s the first person he tells, juggling a flame while she admires its beauty. When he shows the rest of his family, his mother’s chopsticks clatter to the table, and when Zuko looks to his father, his eyes are wide with shock.
His grandfather speaks first, the head of the table, and approval runs thick through his tone: “Well, look at that. A true prodigy, wouldn’t you agree, Ozai?”
“Indeed,” he hums.
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(Princess Azula won’t summon her first flame—a guttering, timid thing—until she’s seven.)
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Or, in a world where Zuko is the prodigy and Azula is the one banished, destiny shifts accordingly.
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09 Jan 2026
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Zuko botches his escape on the day of the eclipse and sits out the war in prison. What will the Gaang do with a new Fire Lord they can't trust? Season Four "Zuko never joined the Gaang, and he's really bad at being good" AU.
Featuring Azula's extended field trip, June not signing up for this, and Sokka's increasing desire to scream. Come get your international politics with a side of baby dragons.
Podfic and German translation now available, see chapter one notes!
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- Part 1 of Towards the Sun
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30 Dec 2025
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Mid-Season-One Zuko is held for ransom by Chief Hakoda. Ozai's replies to the Water Tribe's demands are A+ Parenting. Hakoda is… deeply concerned, for this son that isn't his, and who might be safer among enemies than with his own father.
Podfic and translations in Dutch, German, Hungarian, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian now available! See chapter one author notes for links.
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30 Nov 2025
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Jerusalem had fallen. Now, on top of the indignity of having to walk - walk! - to Alexandria to avoid getting shot out of the sky, Yusuf al-Kaysani has the double misfortune of being saddled with a filthy, empty-headed, exasperating Frank who doesn't even seem to know what his wings are for.
But after an explosion of temper reveals something about his enemy that Yusuf could never have fathomed in a thousand years, Yusuf finds himself looking at his companion in a whole new light. Suddenly tasked with helping Nicolo achieve a dream, an unexpected spark of compassion is born, that leads to forgiveness, to friendship, to all and more.
Every love story is a kind of dance.
Or - Yusuf and Nicolo live in a world where everyone has wings. It changes a lot about their world, and nothing about them.
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27 Jul 2025
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"I want to go back to Jerusalem. It's where all this started," Nicolo says.
"You mean where we first killed eachother," Yusuf says.
"I thought that it was my destiny to kill you," the priest says, honestly, holding his gaze, "when I did, you took me with you, and during those last breaths I thought I'd fulfilled my purpose."
"Usually that would have been the end of it," Yusuf says, close to humour, but not quite there.
"It would," he agrees. "I can't help but wonder if there's where this will end," Nicolo says.
"You believe returning to Jerusalem will make us mortals again? I thought you had found some solace away from the conflicts."
"I won't find peace in distance, if I don't find it within myself first. I need to go to Jerusalem to ask for forgiveness."
Yusuf shoots him a sad smile. The fondness in it is missed completely. "If you think going to Jerusalem will help you find peace, I'll follow you."
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29 Nov 2024
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When Joe meets Nicky, it's love at first sight--at least until it becomes abundantly clear that Nicky hates him, for no reason at all. For lack of any better ideas, Joe decides to be the bigger man, suck it up, and just be polite when their social circle forces them to interact.
Of course, that would be easier if Nicky's daemon wasn't literally the sweetest, warmest, kindest, most wonderful daemon in the world.
How, exactly, does an asshole like Nicky wind up with a daemon like that?
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16 Apr 2024
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25 Feb 2023
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Statute 62A: Regarding the Proper Care and Feeding of Your Vampire by KushielsMercy for qui_nomin
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
30 Nov 2022
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Vampire hunting isn't what it used to be. So here Joe is, nine-hundred years old, spending his Friday night wandering the live-donor clubs, checking permits and kicking out vamps with only a few decades under their belt who still think flashing fang in public is cute.
Until Joe turns the corner into the alley and sees Nicoló di fucking Genova himself, fang out, glaring at the silver fence surrounding him and looking about two seconds away from actually drinking a five-day-old pig. Joe he should have just called it a night. He’s clearly hallucinating.
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30 Nov 2022
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Stede goes to the dock to tell Ed why he can't go with him, but Ed is already rowing into the sunrise.
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30 Jul 2022
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Rudeness and Retribution by MorticiaYouSpokeFrench
Fandoms: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
25 Nov 2019
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Elizabeth Bennet is not one to take an insult lying down, and she decides that Mr. Darcy must be punished for his rude comment. With some inspiration from Caroline Bingley, she sets out to exact her revenge.
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30 Jun 2022
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we wouldn’t be standing here so tall by mellyflori for alaynes
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
24 Dec 2021
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"I'm certain this is not what you wanted from a marriage any more than I did."
For a second, Joe is on the receiving end of the most intense stare he's ever seen. He almost dares to hope for an argument, something unexpected, then his husband blinks, and he's back to being that blank-faced stranger Joe first met earlier that day. "On the contrary. An advantageous match is all a prince should ever want."
It was too much to hope that Nicolò might possess wit or charm that he felt free to express behind closed doors. Joe tries to hide a sigh. On the bright side, he thinks, at least it's forever.
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24 Dec 2021
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two men walk into a bar by incurableromancer
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Comics), The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
08 Dec 2021
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"Haven't you ever considered that the problem with all of your past relationships was that they were with women?"
And just like that, Nicky's turbulent mind goes entirely, perfectly blank.
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08 Dec 2021
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In truth this is but the latest bad day in a series of terrible ones: four days ago Yusuf was kidnapped and tied up and slung over the back of a horse, and the days since he has spent with a bag over his head as that horse carried him further and further away from his home. That was insulting enough, but being trussed up and left propped against the trunk of a tree without even a guard to stand over him is a new low.
At least these bandits haven’t tried to slit his throat, and seem more interested in kidnapping than actual bodily harm. But flopping around trying to find something to cut his bonds with is a particular flavor of humiliation he never wishes to experience again, especially when he hears people coming back to the camp, and the only thing Yusuf can do to preserve his dignity is to flip onto his back.
(An Ella Enchanted AU)
Now with a wedding epilogue!
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08 Sep 2021