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   Through Fire and Vows by Anonymous

   Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)  

   • Explicit
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   23 Sep 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Katara/Zuko (Avatar)
   • Fire Nation Royal Family & Katara (Avatar)
   • Zuko (Avatar)
   • Katara (Avatar)
   • Ursa (Avatar)
   • Azula (Avatar)
   • Ozai (Avatar)
   • Lu Ten
   • Iroh (Avatar)
   • Original Characters
   • Slow Burn Katara/Zuko (Avatar)
   • Arranged Marriage
   • and both parties HATE it
   • Alternate Universe - Dark
   • Aged-Up Character(s)
   • Enemies to Lovers
   • Enemies to Friends to Lovers
   • Zuko is an entitled prick (for a time :P)
   • POV Zuko (Avatar)
   • Protective Zuko (Avatar)
   • Explicit Sexual Content
   • Eventual Smut
   • Eventual Romance
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Fire Nation Politics (Avatar)
   • Ozai Being an Asshole (Avatar)
   • TW:
   • Minor Character Death
   • Dubious Consent
   • Blood and Violence
   • Grief/Mourning
   • Child Death
   • Zuko is a Mess (Avatar)
   • Zuko is Bad at Feelings (Avatar)
   • my boy is emotionally constipated but he's trying okay?
   • Flawed characters
   • Suicidal Thoughts
   • Zutara

   Summary

   Zuko never held a pivotal position in the royal family. He was just the son of Fire Lord Azulon’s secondborn, and brother of Azula, the prodigy. To most, he was nothing more than some entitled guy they had to tolerate, so insignificant that nobody really protested when a Water Tribe bride was deemed suitable for him.

   Yet he soon finds himself kneeling behind his father at the Coronation Plaza, draped in funeral robes for the second time that month while the nation hails their new Fire Lord. Now, as the unwanted heir with a foreign wife, he must navigate the deadly politics of the Fire Nation court to survive.

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   English

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   Chapters:

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   23 Sep 2025