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A Selection of What Remains by DefinitelyNotTherapy8
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender: Chronicles of the Avatar Novels - Various, Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
06 Jun 2026
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The Avatar is dead.
The war should have ended with Sozin’s Comet. Instead, it became something else.
Ten years later, the Phoenix Empire controls the world through occupation, surveillance, and a system that tracks benders by bloodline. No element is safe. Under the guise of unity, the Empire has begun enforcing arranged marriages between citizens and benders; binding power, loyalty, and lineage into something it can monitor, control, and, if necessary, eliminate.
The resistance survives in fragments. Katara survives by refusing to look back. She does not think about the boy who believed in balance. She does not think about the war that never ended. And she does not think about the prince who chose the other side.
Some things don’t stay buried.
When her name appears on the Empire’s registry, survival is no longer enough. Pulled into a system designed to control power, and the people who carry it. Katara is forced to navigate shifting alliances, impossible choices, and a past that refuses to remain where she left it.
Including him.
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28 May 2026
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Zuko wakes up ten years in an alternate future next to the waterbending girl who's name he can't remember and two children she claims is his own. With no clue on how he's landed in the south pole, Zuko concludes that he must gather the pieces in order to return home, back to the past and back to his life in the fire nation.
But unexpected feelings claim an unexpected piece of his heart.
“How can you look at me like that?” She asks, pulling him from his stupor.
Her blue eyes shift over his face, bound by the way he looks at her so intently, so infatuated. This man, who has loved and shared a life with her the past six years. And yet, she feels like she’s sixteen all over again. A sudden bud rose in her chest and blossoms into everlasting longing. Katara remembers this, remembers this exact scenario where Zuko had met her with the same gaze in the Crystal Catacombs so many years ago. Where he had met her with the same gaze in the quiet of his princely chambers and the kiss that silenced her sobs when she did not know if he would make it alive from the injury Azula had given him.
Zuko swallows. “Like what?”
“Like you’re seeing me for the very first time.”
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25 May 2026
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After breaking it off with her husband of 13 years, Katara goes to the Fire Nation with her kids. She just wants a change of pace, a chance to catch up with her old friend and move forward but ends up getting much more than she'd bargained for.
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12 May 2026
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After the war, Zuko is expected to lead a nation that he isn't sure he belongs in.
Everything changes when Azula breaks free, forcing him to confront a threat he thought he had already survived.Zuko is left trying to hold together a nation, a past he can't run from, and feelings he can't completely understand.
The Gaang stays to help--but not everything is as simple as it used to be. Old wounds resurface, tensions rise, and relationships shift.Especially with Katara.
Some flames don't go out,
no matter how far the tide pulls away. -
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After six years of following the Avatar around the world, Katara finally chooses to live for herself. Alone on Ember Island with the waves at her ankles and a myriad of possibilities ahead of her- she finally, after months and months and years and years of feeling like nothing, remembers who she truly is.
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11 May 2026