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• ash on my hands and dirt at my feet by ficfaze

  Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar: The Last Airbender: Chronicles of the Avatar Novels - Various  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • F/M
  • Work in Progress

  16 Jun 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Toph Beifong/Zuko
  • Toph Beifong & Iroh
  • Azula & Toph Beifong
  • Toph Beifong & Zuko
  • Toph Beifong
  • Zuko (Avatar)
  • Iroh (Avatar)
  • Azula (Avatar)
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • AU where toph is raised by iroh
  • Angst
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Fluff
  • Slow Burn
  • and I mean really really slow burn
  • as in no romance when theyre kids and i mean it
  • Childhood Friends
  • Found Family
  • Zuko is an Awkward Turtleduck
  • Minor Character Death
  • POV Multiple
  • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
  • Embedded Images
  • in the notes specifically cause i had too much fun
  • Toph Beifong-centric

  Summary

  Zuko was only eleven when he met a strange girl that his uncle had taken in.

  Toph was only seven when her home was taken over, only to be whisked away to another nation.

  And Iroh now had a tiny girl with jaded eyes under his care and protection, all for the dying wish of his late son.

   

  In other words, a ward is adopted into the royal family of the Fire Nation. This changes everything but nothing at the same time.

  Series

  • Part 1 of ash and dirt

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