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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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    Everyone at this point has simply grown tired of their behaviour. It is like the white noise to the mundane reality of life now. But to Zuko, it is still that between them that pumps the blood in his veins, and fills air into his lungs. Too bad he can't find the courage to ask for that next step.

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    21 Apr 2026

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    Nearly a year into her role as the Southern Water Tribe’s ambassador, Katara has accomplished what her counterpart from the North could not: securing reparations from the Fire Nation court. But when sabotage, scandal, and colonial unrest threaten the fragile peace of a post-war world, she finds herself pulled deeper and deeper into the viper’s nest of Fire Nation politics…and closer to its ruler. As rumors swirl and tempers flare between the Ambassador and the Fire Lord, Katara finds a helping hand, and unexpected solace, in the brother of one of her students. In a nation built on blood and lies, she must decide: how far is she willing to go to protect those who cannot protect themselves…and what will it cost her?

    This is the first act of a five-act story. Act I is complete and comes to, what I consider to be, a narratively satisfying conclusion. I will be posting the remaining chapters of Act I every day during Zutara Month 2025.

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    17 Mar 2026

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    “So tell me, Thomas,” Lawrence said at last, each syllable dragging through the still air like the tolling of a distant funeral bell, “what is it your heart desires so fiercely it casts all reason into shadow?”
    Thomas faltered—but only for a heartbeat. When he spoke, his voice was low, resolute, tempered by neither fear nor hesitation.
    “He’s my best friend,” he said. “And I’ll see the world burn before I give up on him.”


    Written as part of TMRSS '25, inspired by my giftee’s prompt:
    TDC movie canon divergence where they rescue Minho, Sonya and Aris, but Newt gets captured, and they break into WCKD HQ to rescue him. (happy ending where Newt gets cured please) (bonus points if Teresa survives too)

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    12 Jan 2026

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    Thomas had no way of knowing how much his arrival had upended Newt’s world. To him it felt Thomas was the answer to a question he'd been asking for three years—though spoken in a foreign language, merely raising more questions; an answer all the same.

    or: The Maze Runner rewrite basically, just altered enough to have movies and books get along with each other. Plus Newtmas :)

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    12 Jan 2026