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When the Sun & Moon Collide by isamerai
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
02 Jun 2026
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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, 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 War, Post-Canon)
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04 Jun 2026
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Katara and Zuko's mission on board The Southern Raiders goes badly wrong, and they are captured and imprisoned in the unforgiving hull of the ship.
Katara now finds herself locked in a small room with a boy that she refuses to trust, and nine years worth of trauma and guilt swimming in her mind. She is resolute in her hostility towards Zuko, but as the horrors of their captivity unfold, an undeniable bond is formed in the quiet moments between their captor's torments.
When they find themselves safely back with their friends on Ember Island, they are both sporting deep scars – old and new, seen and unseen. Katara struggles to reconcile all the pieces of herself and figure out who she truly is. And Zuko continues to battle with his past guilt, and the new guilt that arises from his growing feelings towards Katara.
As their bond deepens – it may be the lifeline they both so desperately need to pull them from the dark waters of their past.
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Canon-divergence from Book 3 Ep 16 The Southern Raiders. Eventual Zutara.
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31 May 2026
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In the heart of the Fire Nation, exhausted but victorious, a boy and a girl wait for deliverance that will never come. That is to say, Sozin's comet comes and goes. Ozai defeats Aang. There are consequences to that.
Katara, Zuko, and the making of myths.
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- Part 1 of every good story starts with a tragedy
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25 May 2026
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The Fire Lord Takes a Wife by aliceinacoma
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
28 Apr 2026
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”I’m thinking of marrying outside the Fire Nation.”
He bit his own tongue as soon as the words left his mouth, echoing back at him in the silence that followed.
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Five years after the war, Zuko employs the Southern Water Tribe Ambassador’s help in his most complicated duty yet: getting married.
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25 May 2026
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"You see me."
And somehow, that makes all the difference.
(Podfic version now available!)
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- Part 1 of a moment to be real
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24 May 2026