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    “Sooooo, now that you’re here does this mean you’ll teach me firebending?”

    “YOU KIDNAPPED ME!!!!!”

     

    Or: Instead of capturing the avatar spirit touched Zuko says fuck you and runs off to become the blue spirt, perfect content with spending his days sabotaging the fire nation

    Until the Gaang kidnaps him to become Aang’s firebending teacher, of course

     

    Rated teen for swearing

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    12 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 91

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    The first time Zuko met Aang was when he had snuck out of the palace at age 14.

    Because somehow this led to Zuko finding a baby monk yelling his lungs out for help from the top of a tree that he was very clearly stuck in despite any possible air bending the young monk could have done.

    And somehow, 2 years later this led to both boys being caught in a storm that had them frozen in ice for the next 100 years
     

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    05 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 18

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    The Fire Nation royal family are half dragon, as they are descended from dragons. Zuko joins the Gaang early after his banishment. One year into his banishment, Zuko gives up wanting to capture the Avatar in order to come back home. Instead he wants to help the Avatar. However when Zuko does find the Avatar and his companions, to say they don’t like him is an understatement.

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    04 Jun 2026

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    When Zuko was thirteen, his father attempted to kill him by the command of Firelord Azulon, burning through half of his face with the fiercest flame he could conjure. When Zuko failed to die, Ursa begged for her son’s life in exchange for the Firelord’s. She fled with her children after delivering counterfeit poison to Ozai and they hid among the refugees of Ba Sing Se.

    A baby was left at their door when Zuko was seventeen, from an encounter he could not recall. His mother wailed harder than the newborn infant when she found out about his work as an escort. He quit that day, and named his daughter Izumi.

    At twenty-three, Zuko meets Katara and Sokka, who both fled their homes as children to seek refuge from the raids of their tribe. However, Zuko meets them in very different circumstances: Katara as a trainee at the strip club he works at, and Sokka as his daughter’s teacher at Ba Sing Se Primary School.

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    Title credits go to "A Burning Hill" by Mitski

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    30 May 2026

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    Zuko stared up at him with his large, gold eye. “How are you on the Sovereign then? We’re just barely out of Fire Nation Waters, you know.”

    It was a perfectly reasonable question, Zuko thought, but the expression on the man’s face switched from constipated to ashy, so he must have said something wrong. “I’m so not doing this right now.” The man muttered before bellowing. “Hakoda! Get your scrawny ass over here and handle this!”

    “That’s a naughty word.” Zuko pointed out, squirming uncomfortably in the man’s grip. “Can you please put me down now?” This whole adventure had already managed to go spectacularly sideways.

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    28 May 2026

  6. Public Bookmark 1

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    (3) Zuko or Yuichi (Courageous; Helpful) was found by Katara (11) and Sokka (12) who their father left for war, both had saw ‘Yuichi’ badly injured. Both and the southern tribe adopted and made Yuichi part of the tribe. It wasn’t easy when both found out about zuko being a fire nation and firebender , but both still tried and later on cared and loved Yuichi no matter what he is firenation or not.

    Three years later, The Avatar was discovered.

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    15 May 2026

  7. Public Bookmark 14

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    Zuko has a very complicated childhood, and he still does, aspecialy when his crew decises to set the boat on fire and leave him, leaving him to forcefully use very desprate measures.

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    11 May 2026

  8. Public Bookmark 22

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    An AU in which Katara has been raised as a sacrifice to a powerful, fire breathing beast, but everything her tribe was told to believe turns out to be a fabrication. She's thrust into a world of deadly politics and strict expectation. She has an ally though. The fire breathing beast turns out to be a man who wants to change the world, and he's found a way to make it happen - the Avatar is alive.

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    11 May 2026

  9. Public Bookmark 94

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    Zuko rarely made noise. Even his voice echoed his loyalty to the quiet; brittle, raspy, reluctant to leave his mouth, even when he forced it through his teeth. People shied from him, off-put by his hoarse words and empty stare. His silence spoke for him. It said all the words he couldn’t voice until there was no need to open his mouth at all.

    But when he meets the children in the desert, that begins to change.

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    02 May 2026

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    Zuko is sacrificed to Agni when he is thirteen. His spirit lives on as a messenger for the Sun Spirit.

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    02 May 2026

  11. Public Bookmark 26

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    Zuko and Azula leave the Fire Nation for good after Ozai purposeful burns Azula and snuffs out Zuko, saved only by a mischievous spirit. They find out their cousin, Lu Ten, is still alive and married in the Earth Kingdom, being smuggled out by their Uncle Iroh.

    For a few years they live peaceful lives, Azula becoming a master firebender while Zuko regresses, so terrified of his flame, until the Avatar flies into their lives and inspires them to help him.

    What trouble can a master firebender and a partial spirit cause?

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    01 May 2026

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    What would happen if in the events of Pohuai Stronghold Zuko instead of being knocked out, was hit with the arrow and his identity compromised? His journey is about to take a whole different turn on early stage. How will this affect the course of history?

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    27 Apr 2026

  13. Public Bookmark 23

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    Ozai doesn't hate Zuko. Zuko and Azula get along. And they will win the war.

    But who's to say that after winning the war, Zuko and Azula will follow in their father's footsteps?...

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    19 Apr 2026

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    “If you don’t want to give me the answers I require, I can… simply…”

    Zuko grit his teeth so hard he thought he might’ve chipped a tooth. He wouldn’t scream. Not again.

    “... burn them out of you.”

    The one where Zuko finds home.

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    Third Installment in the "I'm Not Angry Anymore" Series. Follows Season 3.

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    05 Apr 2026

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    ”Just tea and pastries today, or were you folks looking for our breakfast menu?” Zuko asked.
    “Breakfast, please,” she had a gentle, pleasing voice. Probably a noblewoman.
    “Perfect,” he smiled, his fingers easily finding the menus tucked into the pocket of the host stand; Three beverage menus and three, smaller, breakfast menus.
    “Young man, my daughter is blind, she does not need a menu,” the man said gruffly.
    “Really?” Zuko raised his eyebrow in shock. His fake smile was replaced by a more genuine one. “Me too!”

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    02 Apr 2026

  16. Public Bookmark 90

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    The horizon was no longer empty. A ship cut through the mist—massive and black, with its metal sides slick with frost. Smoke bellowed upward from its smokestack, an oily smear against the pale sky. The ship slowed as it approached, shadow falling long and dark across their fragile ice floe.

    The engines hissed, then went quiet. Then a head popped over the rail. An older man with silver hair peered down at them, his face kind, as he called out, “Hey, you kids need some help?”

    Or, one act of mercy leads to another, until a cold, forgotten village begins to feel alive again…and a lonely boy with a scar might just find a home.

    Written for Zutara Month, Day 1. Prompt: Zuko Banished Without A Quest

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    20 Mar 2026

  17. Public Bookmark 21

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    Equivalent exchange is the principle that to gain something, one must lose something of equal value. In life, Equivalent Exchange is always present, acting as the first law of life. If Ed thought back on it, it seemed rather in line with that sentiment that when his brother breathed his first, his mother began to breathe her last.

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    Al is born when Trisha dies, and that changes a lot more than you'd think. Featuring Visions from the Future™️

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    27 Jan 2026

  18. Public Bookmark 90

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    READING METALLIC CRIMSON AND GETTING ALL THE LORE REFERENCES (IT'S EASIER THAN YOU THINK)
    Start Metallic Crimson normally (read the first 3 chapters)
    Then, before Chapter 4 jump to these:
    Maes Hughes and His Onions (lore)
    Alcoholic Maes story (super lore)
    Central City Stroll (lore)

    Now read Chapter 4 of MC

    Before Chapter 5:
    Fort Briggs (reference)
    Nobody Likes Parades (lore)

    Then read Chapters 5–8 of MC

    Before Chapter 9:
    Swinging Hips and Fists (super lore)
    Academy Anecdotes (reference)

    Then read Chapters 9–10 of MC

    Before Chapter 11:
    It’s not illegal if you don't get caught (reference)
    Tales from Amestris (super lore)

    Then read Chapters 11–12 of MC

    Before Chapter 13:
    Heat Wave (reference)
    Master Class/Psych Eval (super duper lore!)

    Then read chap 13 of MC and the rest

    Read Anytime:
    Who let this 12 year old in the Military
    Our Ancestors didn’t die for this
    Kimbliza moments
    Love Day (read after psych eval soft suggestion)

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    19 Jan 2026

  19. Public Bookmark 45

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    Trisha Elric dies from illness when Ed and Al are only 5 and 4. Her sister-in-law, an Ishvalan widow living in the far eastern mountains takes them in, but ultimately the boys lose her and parts of themselves to the war. Ending up in Central they are found by the genius Hohenheim who claims them. A cold, callused man he uses them for their skill in alchemy, forcing Edward to join the military to advance the man's ambitions and to set a game with the Fuhrer.

    Struggling to survive is all Ed knows. Distrustful of his military superior, beaten down by Hohenheim, and constantly worried for his brother, he somehow starts to find a place with Mustang's Team.

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    17 Jan 2026

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    Roy Mustang had a plan. It would take him up the ranks and to the position of Fuhrer where he could finally do the most good. Everything had been going well.
    And then he found a little boy who needed his help more than the country did.
    Adoption hadn't really been in his plans. But plans changed.
    At least Riza would still have his back. He was going to need all the help he could get.

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    58,161

    16 Jan 2026

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