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entre les braises on marchera (we will walk among the embers) by Lizardlicks, SyciaraLynx
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
14 May 2026
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Sokka waits, weighing the pros and cons of chancing stepping out into the lantern lit street once more, and ultimately deciding against it. He turns instead to head back down the alley, twisting his way around the narrowly cleared path filled with empty sacks and crates, and nearly falls flat on his face when his foot catches on something he tries to step over at the same time it tries to jolt away.
Still, he is shocked enough to go wheeling forward, and his bag of carefully procured supplies goes tumbling free to scatter all over the ground as he catches himself. “What the-?”
But the moment his eyes catch it, he is frozen to the spot.
The leg he had fallen over, being pulled beneath a body.
And there is a moment of icy dread, fear instant and instinctual before he can stop it but the sight of shredded clothing, of bruising, of the unfocused gold of a pair of eyes attempting to make sense of him, has a different concern immediately taking over. “Zuko?”
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15 May 2026
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i laid here once, and then went on (even the hollow my body made is gone) by godsintheheadlights
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
24 Dec 2025
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Sokka Sialuk is the sole park ranger at Wolf Cove Regional Park. He spends the majority of his time napping in his office, dodging calls from his concerned younger sister, and fending off boredom-induced depression by means of crappy mystery novels. Overall, his income is decent, his hobbies are nonexistent, and his life is…fine. Not good, but tolerable.
Oh, and then there's the small matter of the dead man haunting his dreams.
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04 Feb 2026
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“Your lungs have collapsed. You can barely breathe on your own. Aang’s been keeping you alive with airbending.”
Oh. That explains a lot. Zuko can’t do anything but choke in response.
Thankfully, the Water Tribe boy isn’t looking for a response. “Not even four hours ago, Katara was the only thing keeping you from bleeding out on the pier. You’re probably just minutes away from being back where you were then.” He accentuates his point by gently applying more pressure to Zuko’s injury. Fucking ow. “You need them. If you want to stay alive, you don’t try anything. Okay?”
Shit.
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When his ship explodes, Zuko isn't so lucky to get away unscathed. No amount of firebending can protect him from the solid steel the explosion launches everywhere. His ship is lodged in his chest, and he can't breathe. He must rely on the Avatar to do it for him.
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04 Feb 2026
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At Sokka’s behest, the Gaang skips rescuing Zuko during the Siege at the North Pole. Instead they leave him, unconscious, buried in the snow.
In completely unrelated news, Sokka’s haunted by a ghost now.
(If you'd like more details before deciding to read this story, look here for spoilers.)
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11 Jan 2026
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The Mercy of Magpies《喜鵲之恩》 by desden0va, ranilla_bean
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
29 Aug 2025
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In the XXXth span of the galactic war against the Phoenix King, the Avatar, Master of the Four Elements, summoned his trusted advisor to his side…
Avatar Aang, prosecutor of the long war against the Fire Nation, tasks General Sokka with the recruitment of a secret friend hidden on his old home planet Emptiness II, razed a century ago. There, Sokka finds an impossible community, where peoples from all quadrants of the galaxy have taken root—headed by the Phoenix King’s own son Zuko. As he comes to trust them, Sokka becomes invested in the community. But war is barrelling towards them, and he must harness the spark between himself and Zuko to save Emptiness II… and the rest of the galaxy.
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03 Jan 2026