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That Shift in Your Soul by southslates for my_bated_breath
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
03 Jul 2023
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Katara wonders how she’ll reflect on this when she sees Aang again, if she’ll tell him about the Fire Prince who was kind of awkward and tried to make small talk with her underneath Ba Sing Se.
“My name is Katara,” she says. Zuko raises his singular eyebrow.
“I could still use that for wanted posters,” he says, almost seriously. “Katara.”
Her name sounds so funny on his lips. “Try your worst, Prince Zuko,” she falls back onto the floor of the cavern. “I think I can take it.”
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02 Jul 2026
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When Katara can't abandon people who need her, she dons a new mantle to help in secret. Along the way, she finds a new, mysterious ally in the Blue Spirit and comes to understand that sometimes people wear more than one mask.
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- Part 1 of Out of Yesterday's Ashes
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- 17,337
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- 1/1
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01 Jul 2026
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An unforgiving snowstorm forces Zuko and Katara to work together to survive.
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- 9,269
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- 1/1
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29 Jun 2026
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Suki was the first to tell her, after Katara agreed to that Summit proposal to marry Zuko all those months ago, that marriage wasn’t merely friendship.
She likes Zuko. She’s always liked him. The issue, then, isn’t whether she likes him; but when she started to like him like this.
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27 Jun 2026
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Crossing Paths And Blowing Sand by ErsatzErmine
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
30 May 2025
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“We’re in the middle of the desert, waterbender. So you might have that barrel, but once it’s gone, what do you have?” Zuko moved forward, into her personal space. She was shorter than him, and he was using his height deliberately to glare down at her, but Katara didn’t back down. He could feel the sun soaking into him – his power was strongest while she was at her weakest, and for a moment he wished she would start something so that he could beat her in a fight. “I can make fire anywhere, and you might get one shot in, but then I am going to make you burn.”
The moment dragged out.
They were glaring.
Still glaring.
This was the point where the girl would usually be flying away on a bison and he’d be covered in perfume or something.
Something shifted in her expression, and Zuko started fully processing what he had just said, and how it could perhaps have been phrased a little—Her voice was completely flat. “Make. Me. Burn.” Her mouth tugged, started widening into a sly smile.
His stomach dropped. Oh no. “I meant it like—“
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A good tip about a mountain pass leads Zuko and Iroh to Misty Palms Oasis a week early, and they run straight into some old enemies.
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- 81,564
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- 13/13
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24 Jun 2026
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Without the demands of a century-long war, waterbenders use their gifts for art rather than combat. Katara and her family’s troupe of waterbending performers travel to the Fire Nation to exhibit for its lord. With a dance of moon-silvered water, Katara ensnares an admirer who offers gifts and unsigned notes.
As the troupe spends six weeks with the capital’s firebenders to craft an unforgettable tandem performance—a union of fire and water—Katara extends an invitation to meet the admirer. She is not expecting Fire Lord Zuko himself.
A hidden duet between them ignites kinship, passion, and then fierce devotion.
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- English
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16 Jun 2026
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The whole Companion House is in a frenzy when a lucrative request comes in, for the best Companion in the House to meet with the surly Prince of the Fire Nation. –- Prequel to, and inspiration for/of, As the Turn of the Worlds aka "the Firefly AU".
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- Part 1 of As the Turn of the Worlds
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07 Jun 2026
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"The Blue Spirit begins appearing in proximity to rumours of the Painted Lady. She cleans a polluted well and the sickness it caused in a tiny coastal town. The very same night, a crate of rice and cured meat wrapped in flame embossed bamboo appears by the well. Valleys of sword strokes and kisses of ash adorn the rough pine crate.
It is said, the Blue Spirit is hunting the Painted Lady. Or that he’s under her spell.
In a way, both are true."
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- Part 1 of Rumour Has It verse
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- English
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- 50,383
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- 80/80
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- 3
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05 Jun 2026
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‘The Chemistry of Cooking,’ wasn’t exactly rocket science, but it wasn’t going to be a total cake walk, either. Well, except maybe in week 8 — that was when they were supposed to be baking cakes. The instructor tells them to pair up, and the girl in front of him turns around.
Zuko panics. This girl is way prettier than he expected, and now she is smiling at him hopefully.
“Do you have a partner?” she asks.
“No.”
“…Do you want to be partners?”
College AU where Zuko and Katara are chemistry 'lab' partners. Zuko will get more than he bargained for by saying yes.
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01 Jun 2026
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the beginning of a new and brighter birth by aloneintherain
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
13 Jun 2018
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“I’m so proud of you, my nephew.” Uncle cups Zuko’s face in his lined hand. The gesture is so tender, his palm so warm, that Zuko has to take a fortifying breath against the sudden swell of emotion in his chest.
“I want to be a good leader, Uncle,” Zuko says. “I want to look after my people.”
“You will,” Uncle says. “You are, nephew.”
In a new era of peace, Zuko works to be a very different Fire Lord than his forefathers. Based on this tumblr post.
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- 15,637
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- 1/1
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- 1,333
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19 May 2026
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Part of her wonders if she should thank him—if she could—but when she pulls away from her father and tries to make sense of the tangled words brewing in the back of her throat, Zuko is busy securing the balloon, dragging it off to the side and neatly folding the fabric back into the basket. The deep furrow of his brow and the tense set of his jaw gives her pause. His eyes are stormy and conflicted, so Katara bites her tongue, spins on her heel, and remembers a prince clad in black and red who spits fire and only knows how to take.
Against all odds, in the moments between now and the end, Katara falls for Zuko.
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18 May 2026
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All of Izumi’s teachers prior to this one have used the term “partners in learning.” But never before has it seemed true. And now, here he is, eyeballs deep in markers and glitter glue, somehow the most involved parent in the classroom.
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In which Izumi idolizes her new teacher and Zuko falls a little bit in love.
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- Part 1 of Zutara Month 2021
- Part 1 of Partners In Learning
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- English
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- 11,603
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- 1/1
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12 May 2026
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Ten Strides in the Right Direction by evergreenonthehorizon
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
26 Apr 2021
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These coming days will bring darkness and destruction, but if these little flecks of happiness continue to blaze through the bleak blackness, then nothing that is bad will prevail.
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Written for Zutara Month 2021
Day 3: Cuddling for WarmthSeries
- Part 3 of Zutara Month 2021
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- English
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- 29,397
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- 12/12
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- 408
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12 May 2026
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The Perfect Pot of Jasmine Tea by evergreenonthehorizon for stitch1830
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
27 Aug 2021
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She’s sitting there at her table, surrounded by thick-spined books, her eyes occasionally seeking his out over the top of her laptop, and he’s here in the kitchen being forced by his uncle to make pot after pot of tea.
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Or: Zuko falls in love with one of the Jasmine Dragon's patrons during Ba Sing Se's rainy season.
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10 May 2026
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On a deserted island just off the Earth Kingdom coast, the Blue Spirit saves Katara from the pirates.
It's an accident, really. The waterbender isn't supposed to be there. And he isn't supposed to take her back to his ship.
Unfortunately, there's only one way off the island, and his mask can't stay on forever.
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- English
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- 5/?
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- 1
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07 May 2026
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Stealing from pirates doesn't go as well the second time around. But at least Katara doesn't have to be alone after she's captured.
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- Part 2 of Zutara Week 2019
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07 May 2026
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Katara finds a familiar face after wandering into a tea shop in the Lower Ring. Unfortunate circumstances force Katara and Zuko to form a shaky alliance as they both work to escape from the authorities of Ba Sing Se without revealing their true identities.
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- English
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- 23,328
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- 8/8
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07 May 2026
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Sweeter Than Honey, Stronger Than Whiskey by JasmineTeaLatte
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
15 Feb 2021
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For the life of her, Katara couldn’t understand why she’d agreed to come to this stupid costume party in the first place. Maybe it was because she was bored, or maybe she needed to find someone to help her forget her jerk ex-boyfriend.
But she gets more than what she bargained for by enlisting the help of a mysterious but cute stranger with eyes golden as honey and kisses that taste like whiskey to help her ward off unwanted attention from a trio of drunk partygoers…
Zutara College Party AU, where the Blue Spirit actually saves the Painted Lady from the pirates.
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- English
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- 21,311
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- 3/3
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- 1
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- 77
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05 May 2026
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In order to prevent the decimation of her tribe Katara agrees to a treaty with the Fire Nation forcing her to marry the freshly crowned Fire Lord.
There's only one thing she's sure of before arriving at the docks. She hates the red that runs through his veins more than anything in the world.
Written for Zutara Month 2021 Day 21: Her Royal Majesty, Our Queen
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03 May 2026
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Katara’s not going to let her ex ruin Sokka and Suki’s wedding for her – and neither is her blind date, if he has anything to say about it.
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03 May 2026