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cut from the same cloth by serendipiphany
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
29 Apr 2026
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“Take this as a learning opportunity. Someday, when you’re expecting your own child, you’ll be looking back on my way of handling things,” Michi had said.
The mere thought of ending up just like her mother made her shudder. Being her spitting image was bad enough. But now, Mai could imagine passing on their shared features—the same slanted eyes, sharp chin, down to the same perpetual frown.
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How Mai’s perspective on children changed over the years, from Tom-Tom to Izumi.
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- Part 3 of fire nation girlhood
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flickers of a past summer night by serendipiphany
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
07 Jun 2025
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“Out of all the games here, why’d you pick something so boring?” Mai asked, testing the waters.
“None of your business,” came his gruff response.
“You have terrible aim, by the way,” she retorted.
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Mai sneaks out to attend a summer festival, where she eventually runs into a masked boy who seemed strangely familiar.
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i love you, don't act so surprised by serendipiphany
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
12 Mar 2025
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With three years at sea, Zuko’s eyes grew dark with perpetual thunderclouds. He couldn’t be farther from the boy in her memories who seemed like the sun personified.
But over these three years, Mai realized that the dark and the gloom suited her just fine. She was never much of a sunshine girl, anyway.
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Five moments leading up to the first time Mai said “I love you” out loud.
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another day is dawning by serendipiphany
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
11 Dec 2024
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“They say this place is haunted,” Zuko voiced, an empty shell of a man as he stared out into the garden of their childhood. “So haunt me, then.”
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Ever since the Fire Lady died in childbirth, servants claim that the palace was haunted: at night, the air grows colder in Princess Izumi’s nursery, the scent of jasmine wafts through the windows, and some would go so far as to say they have seen a woman with flowing black hair in the gardens.
As the Fire Lord wallows in his grief, he remains deaf to the cries of his newborn daughter. Mai knocks some sense into him from beyond the grave.
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all pink and gold and glittering by serendipiphany
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
27 Jul 2024
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Her designated palette was a soft, dusty pink. The shade of plum blossoms. The shade of Mai’s namesake flower. The girl wore the color well, she was loath to admit. And if only she were born any differently, perhaps the name Mai would have suited this girl better.
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Stuck in an education system that goes out of its way to pit them against each other, Mai finds herself roped into an unlikely friendship with someone who is her exact opposite.
(A Mai character study which delves into her academy days, Zuko’s banishment, and Ty Lee running off to join the circus.)
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fire nation girlhood by serendipiphany
Fandom Avatar: The Last Airbender, Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
29 Apr 2026
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As world leaders raising a future Fire Lord, Mai and Zuko make conscious efforts to outgrow the shadows of their own upbringings.
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Yet no prophets could have foreseen that even in the presence of countless gods, Varka would lay his faith to the one angel his soul longs for.
Bookmarked by serendipiphany
26 May 2026
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The Time Nicole Tried To Write a Love Story (And Ended up in One Instead) by dubonpied
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
01 May 2026
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Nicole is a stranger to romance. The curse placed upon her by the Heavenly Principles made it a subject too dangerous to touch. Even now, years after Alice broke said curse, she still treats the subject with cautious fear. When Barbeloth challenges her to write a love story, Nicole does not back down in spite of her reservation. Not when winning the bet means Barbeloth will take care of Nicole’s share of the most boring job of the Witches of the Hexenzirkel for the next three months.
In her search for inspiration, Nicole discovers that Varka would make the perfect protagonist to her love story. She dedicates herself to a period of careful observation to better understand the Grandmaster and in the process, definitely, definitely does not gain any feelings for him. Nicole is an angel, she knows better…right?
Or the time Nicole tried (and failed) to write a love story.
Bookmarked by serendipiphany
25 May 2026
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In the aftermath of war, Zuko and Mai find themselves on diverging paths, burdened by duty, silence, and a love that never fully healed.
As they navigate shifting relationships, political unrest, and the ghosts of what could have been, they must decide if what they once shared can be rebuilt—or if it belongs to another life.
Bookmarked by serendipiphany
01 May 2026
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The Caldera Correspondence by BlackJadeofRedChamber
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
21 Nov 2025
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Promoted for her unorthodox methods, new Assistant Headmistress Mai now faces her final test: writing a formal letter to Fire Lord Zuko. It should be a mere courtesy. It becomes something else entirely.
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The author re-read "My Dear Enemy" by J.Webster and got i d e a s
Bookmarked by serendipiphany
30 Apr 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
I love going back to this whenever I need a pick-me-up ❤️ really witty and fun
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A Little Thing by ackermom
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar: Legend of Korra
15 Dec 2025
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"The labor is progressing slowly," the midwife reports. "But there is no cause for concern, Your Majesty. If childbirth were a race, it would be run by komodo rhinos, not eel hounds."
Iroh would laugh, if not for the utterly perturbed look on his nephew's face.
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- Part 2 of We Rise With the Sun
Bookmarked by serendipiphany
03 Jan 2026
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maiko childbirth fic with really lovely Fire Nation lore and worldbuilding ❤️