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After realizing that they may not live to see the end of the war, Katara and Zuko shared an amazing, loving, and sensual night together before facing Azula. All of their fighting and flirting exploded into one single night. An amazing night.
A night with consequences.
After Katara vanishes from the palace just nights before Zuko’s coronation, everyone’s futures are put on hold to find her.
What if she doesn’t want to be found? Or is afraid to?
Civil war in the Water Tribe, chaos in the Fire Nation and turmoil in the Earth Kingdom.Bookmarked by Merie
09 Jun 2026
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The Fire Lord Is Dead by ErsatzErmine
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
12 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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30 May 2026
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Why Do Non-Canon Ships Become So Popular? (And Why Should Writers Rethink When They Do?) by sarehptar
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Voltron: Legendary Defender, 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
27 Dec 2018
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A vaguely academic examination of the phenomena behind fandom shipping and why certain non-canon ships become exceedingly popular, far overshadowing the popularity of canon ships. This essay touches on common mistakes writers make with female characters and romantic subplots, and suggests a explanation for the enduring popularity of so many m/m ships which have no chance at all of becoming canon. Examples are drawn from Avatar the Last Air Bender, Voltron Legendary Defender (god help me), and My Hero Academia.
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- Part 3 of Echodrops' Meta and Fandom Analyses
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24 May 2026
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In which Zuko is actually Rumplestiltskin
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22 May 2026
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When the Sun & Moon Collide by isamerai
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
02 Jun 2026
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Zuko has not known real peace since the day he faced his sister in their Agni Kai many years ago. No matter how many times he tried to bury it, his feelings for Katara refused to fade. At every shared meal, every sparring match, and every return to the Fire Palace, he found himself hoping — just once — that her eyes would meet his and reignite the spark that had flared the moment he took Azula's lightning for her... but they never did.
Her gaze always found Aang instead. And, in time, Zuko taught himself to look away — for their sake, for the fragile balance of their friendship. The Avatar and the healer, bound together as if by fate.
But when Katara comes to the Fire Nation during a quiet break from Aang, the Fire Lord begins to notice something he hadn't allowed himself to see before. Whenever he looked away...
She always looked back.
(Set ~10 years after the Hundred Year War, Post-Canon)
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03 May 2026
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Zuko sat on a large stone and watched her work without interrupting, which she appreciated. When Katara finally let the water down and turned, he was looking at her with the expression she had come to think of as specifically for her.
"I've missed watching you bend," he said.
"I've been bending."
"I know." He paused, "I mean just watching you, watching from the outside."
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03 May 2026
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The Fire Lord Takes a Wife by aliceinacoma
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
28 Apr 2026
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”I’m thinking of marrying outside the Fire Nation.”
He bit his own tongue as soon as the words left his mouth, echoing back at him in the silence that followed.
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Five years after the war, Zuko employs the Southern Water Tribe Ambassador’s help in his most complicated duty yet: getting married.
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29 Apr 2026
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The war is over, but Katara doesn't know what that means for her. And if one more person asks her about her "next steps," she might burst into Zuko's flames.
(Zutara)
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23 Apr 2026
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rises the moon by PariThePlatypus
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar: Legend of Korra, Avatar: The Last Airbender: Chronicles of the Avatar Novels - Various
17 Apr 2026
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Zuko is crowned Firelord at sixteen, and from then on, that is all he is.
Mostly.
Because Zuko wants what he cannot have, and he cannot seem to let her go.
— or, snapshots of Zuko's life after his coronation
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20 Apr 2026
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What Was Left Unsaid by AutumnWeen for Bekazimi
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
08 Jan 2026
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A moment in time, a lingering touch, a spark…
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Katara deals with the fallout of the confrontation with the man who killed her mother years before, but she's not alone. Zuko, her former enemy, is by her side.
And it's here, while sharing this experience with him, where she’ll realize that betrayal hadn’t been the end; it was the catalyst.
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20 Apr 2026
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my lord, this reminds me of when we were young by akaiiko
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Avatar: Legend of Korra
22 Jun 2018
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In which Lord Zuko and Lady Katara reunite, dispense advice, buy a tea shop, and start the love story they put on hold to rebuild the world.
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- Part 5 of Zutara Month 2017
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11 Apr 2026
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In the scorching expanse of the merciless Si Wong Desert, two enemies find their fates unexpectedly intertwined. Prince Zuko, having finally abandoned his futile hunt for the Avatar and severed ties with his uncle, wanders the wasteland with nothing but regrets and his stolen ostrich horse. When he discovers Katara collapsed and dying in the sand, he makes a choice that defies everything he's been: he saves her.
Now bound by a lie, the exiled prince and the waterbender must travel together to Ba Sing Se, navigating a fragile alliance built on shared loss, desperate necessity, and the slim hope that doing one right thing might matter in a world defined by war.
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06 Apr 2026
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Feeling guilty for accidentally stealing Meng's crush a second time as she tries to court the Fire Lord at a peace summit, Katara forms an unlikely friendship. Meng is determined to find love in the court of the Fire Nation, and Katara is happy to help her adjust to the new environment. Unfortunately, Meng finds her insecurities driving her down a dark path that Katara struggles to pull her away from.
Politics, intrigue, religion, angst, and tragedy.
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05 Apr 2026
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Growing up, Mai had always been the quiet, proper daughter all other Fire Nation nobles wished they could have… until the day she met the Fire Prince.
He ultimately left her behind when he defected from the Fire Nation, with nothing more than a note and a broken heart to remember him by.
Then her entire world completely shattered six months later when she learned that Zuko had fallen in love with and proposed to a lowborn waterbender, even risking his life and throne in the process.
Mai thought she deserved every right to be furious by this turn of events, but of course, no one likes a mad woman.
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Written as a companion piece to my Zutara-themed series "The Phoenix and the Dragon." Not your average Zuko/Katara fic, not a Mai/Zuko one either, although it does cover their relationship from her POV.
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- Part 13 of The Phoenix and the Dragon
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05 Apr 2026
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02 Apr 2026
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Separated from her friends, Katara is plagued by memories of the past and future in the Foggy Swamp. She sees visions of her mother, her daughters...and is terrified to discover that their father is none other than Prince Zuko.
She struggles to reconcile the Zuko from her visions with the the one in front of her every time they meet.
[Revised version; originally titled "Chasing Tomorrow"]
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31 Mar 2026
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Two years after the war, Katara trains in the Foggy Swamp.
Unbalanced, the swamp shows her the future she’s headed toward and the one she could have.Bookmarked by Merie
23 Mar 2026
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when you move, i’m moved by bbutterfly
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
06 Apr 2025
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He nearly ran away, leaving Zuko and Katara alone in the tea shop.
“Why would you do that? If it’s pi-”
“Once again, I don’t think I could pity you if I tried. He irritates me, flaunting his prejudice like that, and if he does that shit to you, it probably means he does it to other people, and if I’m not mistaken you are the only Prince of the Fire Nation, aren’t you?”
“So you didn’t do it for me?” He smiled and rose up an eyebrow.
“No, I *am* your knight in shining armour, Prince Zuko, I should get a medal.” His name was sweet coming from her mouth.
He laughed at her antics. “I have a lot of dishes to wash before busy hour, tea’s on the house, Waterbender.”
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or, unlikely friendship born in a tea shop snowballs into something rare
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22 Mar 2026
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he's not my weakness; he's my universe by JasmineTeaLatte
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
20 May 2023
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A collection of unrelated drabbles for Zutara Month 2023. Chapters rated M and E are marked with an *
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Day 1 - Agni Kai
Day 2 - A Shoulder to Cry On
Day 3 - After All These Years
Day 4 - Parents
Day 5 - Living Together
Day 7 - Touch Starved
Day 11 - One Bed
Day 16 - Fortune TellerBookmarked by Merie
21 Mar 2026
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Whiskey and Salt Water (Bitter Tea) by PrioritiesSorted
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Avatar: Legend of Korra
24 Sep 2020
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Katara could feel the precipice before her, and if she flung herself from it now, he could catch her or let her fall. Not a fall to the death; she had seen too much and lived too long now for such a thing to be fatal, but the bruises incurred would be tender for years to come. It would be safer to stay on solid ground—she had lived without him for fifty years, she could bear another ten, or twenty—she could still bring herself back from the edge of this, remain stable. That was what she had chosen before, and she had been happy enough.
Katara hoped Zuko didn’t notice how her hands shook as she brought her teacup to her lips. The tea was lukewarm now, still with it’s not-quite-bitter edge. Katara jumped.
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- Part 2 of Erosion
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18 Mar 2026