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The Princess in the Tower by ClammyHandsCayenne
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
07 Jul 2026
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Several years after winning the war, Zuko’s success lies in being a benevolent Fire Lord but failure lies in finding a healer for Azula. With no other options left, he pulls on the tenuous thread of his friendship with Katara and asks her to try and heal Azula as his last resort.
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10 Jul 2026
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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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Bookmarked by aylaren
09 Jul 2026
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Zuko falls to Azula's lightning, and Katara realizes she doesn’t want him to die. She doesn’t want anyone to die, but she especially doesn’t want him to die. Sometimes she thinks he’s the only one who understands, when the others are laughing and goofing off. What it’s like to have to try to be fun, to remind yourself that you’re just a kid too.
(And how stupid and typical of him to die this way, sacrificing himself for her.)
There’s not much else to do (she knows, she’s considered anything else she could possibly do). Katara pushes up her sleeves and sets to work saving his life.
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Katara heals Zuko after the Agni Kai and things go... wrong.
Bookmarked by aylaren
15 Jun 2026
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god incarnate. by ajram_writes16
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar: The Last Airbender: Chronicles of the Avatar Novels - Various
12 Jul 2026
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Toph frowned, nearly stepping back, but thought better of it. Best not to make yourself smaller in front of a bear. “What the fuck are you?” She whispered. She felt him shift forward suddenly and jolted in surprise when his palms landed over the tops of her feet.
“Please.” He rasped, the voice seeming to divide infinitely. “I do not want to fight you.” He dropped his forehead to the ground, simpering. “I never want to fight you.”
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14 Jun 2026
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Where The Sun Meets The Sea by Escapemymind
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
04 Jul 2026
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“It has been torture. Do you know how many times—“ Zuko paused, biting his tongue again.
Katara looked up at him. “How many times what? Zuko.”
He glared at her. “How many times I fucked my own hand because I couldn't have you!” he exclaimed, years of frustration palpable in his words.
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OR: Eight years after the war, Katara is sent to the Fire Nation on a diplomatic mission. There, she finds her old friend distant and cold, pretending she doesn’t exist. But Zuko can’t seem to stay away from her, no matter how wrong he believes it is to want her.
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12 Jun 2026