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“You dare suggest that I betray Iroh?” Fire Lord Azulon did not shout. “My first born? After the demise of his only beloved son?” The old man leaned back in his throne shaking his head, “You have made an irrevocable error here, today, Ozai. What man of honor, what brother, what Uncle, would use this tragedy, a death towards furthering our family’s sacred mission as you call it, for his own political,” He practically spat the word, “gain. No, no, Iroh has suffered enough, but you, my son, have been far too coddled.”
Zuko felt Father’s tension, but his stomach truly dropped when he saw Azula’s own worry, clear as day on her perfect actress face.
“You need to be taught a lesson,” Fire Lord Azulon decided. “You must, too, suffer the pain of losing your first born.”OR
Fire Lord Azulon, to punish Ozai, gives Zuko to Iroh
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- Part 1 of Grandfather Azulon AUs
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On the day before Ba Sing Se falls, Katara decides two things: 1) not to stop for a cup of tea; 2) consequently, the fate of the world.
Behind the walls, Zuko loses sleep, runs errands, contemplates treason, and drinks a lot of hot leaf juice—not necessarily in that order.
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Zuko decides to fight Azula in the Crystal Catacombs. This sets of a sequence of events that leads to Zuko being Aang's tour guide through the Fire Nation. While together, the GAang and Zuko get to know each other better while learning about each other's cultures. Zuko and the GAang bond and become closer than any of them could have predicted, but that might not be enough to save them from the terrors waiting ahead.
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by the stars above, i knew we were in love by theycallmesuperboy
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
30 May 2020
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“Thanks for coming with me,” Sokka said, leaning against the balcony.
“Did I have a choice?” Zuko asked, wincing at how harsh it sounded.
Sokka just scoffed. “Uh, yeah. Nobody can make you do anything, you’re the Fire Lord. There’s like, two people on this planet who can tell you what to do and you’d listen— the Avatar and your uncle.”
“Three,” Zuko corrected.
“What?”
“Three people who can make me do stuff I don’t want to do,” Zuko said, softly. “The Avatar, my uncle, and you.”
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Approaching the 10th anniversary of his coronation, Fire Lord Zuko hopes that by the time they return to the capital he'll have another thing to celebrate: his engagement to Sokka.
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- Part 1 of when the night is over
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Returned for a Better Try (to Make a Better Time) by atypicalhypocrite
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
07 Nov 2019
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The Fire Lord’s blast is sharp and thorough. Still on his knees before his father, a thirteen year old dies instantly. Another Zuko, once teacher to the avatar and a Fire Lord himself, jolts into being in his place, and deals with the consequences. Timeline preservation nothing, he’s going to be a better Fire Lord this time, and start sooner.
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With the arrival of Princess Azula, Toph Beifong, and Master Piandao to the Fire Nation, Fire Lord Zuko, barely staying afloat as is, finds himself thrown directly into the very thing he's been avoiding: the fallout of the Hundred-Year War. As faces old and new emerge from the shadows, some friend and other foe, Zuko struggles to help both his nation and the world while grappling with exactly what it means to do what is right.
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Books 2 and 3 of Fractures
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- Part 2 of Fractures
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Zuko realizes his destiny much earlier. As in, as soon as he wakes up in the palace after his Agni Kai and is told he is banished. Unfortunately, he's never been a patient one. So he storms right up to Ozai and tells him what he's going to do. And gets locked up for over three years. Then, one day, he's being pulled out and told he's the new Fire Lord.
A "Zuko never meets the Gaang and suddenly becomes Fire Lord after three years of literal torture" AU. In which the Gaang doesn't know what to think of the new Fire Lord who happens to be the missing nephew of Aang's firebending teacher, Iroh constantly has a headache, and, sure, maybe the world hates the Fire Nation, but the Fire Nation LOVES Zuko, and he can work with that.
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- Part 1 of Fractures
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The Story of A Name by LinesAndColors
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
29 Jun 2025
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Aang is born with the name 'Zuko' on his arm. Unfortunately, there's no one in the world named Zuko. Yet.
The story of how Zuko got his name
For Zukaang week prompt: tattoo au
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- Part 6 of zukaang week 2025
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Aang and Zuko. by vadergreyjoy (orphan_account)
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
30 Sep 2025
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Aang falls in love with Zuko. And he asks Sokka for help in courting him.
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With you, I float by notquitecreative
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
08 Feb 2026
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“Have you noticed how Zuko really likes his reflection?” Sokka asked one day, as they had breakfast in the Fire Nation dining hall at a rather later time in the morning than usual. They had been at the palace to discuss politics and help Zuko meet with Earth King Kuei, but the negotiations were over without much altercation, and they had the rest of the time to themselves.
Aang chuckled, “If I looked like him, I’d check myself out a lot too.”
Toph rolled her eyes. “Calm down, loverboy.”
Just a very short and sweet 3 part drabble about Zukaang and them dealing with trauma after the war. Lots of fluff and comfort.
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- Part 2 of I thee wed
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AU where Zuko realises early into his banishment that Ozai is an abusive bastard who sent him on a wild goose chase. Iroh turns their decommissioned warship into a floating tea shop, and Zuko settles down as a tea server onboard the Jasmine Dragon.
And then, years later, the Avatar emerges from the iceberg.
And then Aang decides that he wants Zuko, the first good firebender he’s met this century, to be his firebending teacher - even though Zuko wants nothing to do with him.
Based on this tumblr post.
(Please note: This fic is technically unfinished/abandoned, but contains end notes with my original plans to wrap-up the fic)
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Assumed dead after his banishment, Zuko takes up The Blue Spirit mask. No one has seen his face in three years, and he won't let them. It's safer this way, being alone. After a Fire Nation general hires him to bring in Hakoda for questioning, he fails the job miserably and ends up a captive of the Water Tribe. When Sokka is employed by Iroh to track down Zuko and find out if he is still alive, The Blue Spirit claims that Zuko is in fact dead, and in a fit of panic, that he was the one who killed him.
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Zuko and Aang's relationship transforms over the years but one thing stays constant, Aang has always thought there was something beautiful about Zuko and when he's given the chance to say it aloud, he's not afraid to admit it.
Or the five times Aang has told Zuko there is something beautiful about him and the one time he confesses and directly tells Zuko that he's beautiful.
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Katara giggled behind her hand. At what? He assumes the sheer impossibility of the "nonsense" she was about to say. "Please, the day we start calling you Sokka The Great is the day Aang marries the Fire Lord."
As they say, famous last words.
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An Accidental Marriage Brought to You By Dragons by Humanity_is_Dean
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
24 Jan 2021
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What if the Firebending Masters episode was also a wedding ceremony?
[Fic where everything in book 3 stays exactly the same except zukaang are married and these are the missing scenes]
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- Part 1 of Brought to You By Dragons
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Prince Zuko is born with a soulmark on his chest. He's the first royal child in six generations to have a soulmate, even if no one can really tell what the mark is supposed to be.
(Ninety-five years earlier, the new Avatar is born with a spine that's already scarred.)
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Aang and Zuko are platonic soulmates. It takes an extraordinarily long time for either of them to figure it out.
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Their soulmarks should not make sense together.
A peaceful airbender with too much power, a sarcastic warrior with a sharp mind, an emotional waterbender with a savior complex, a suppressed earthbending terror with authority issues, and a confused firebender who’s 90% trauma, 10% honor.
Their soulmarks really should not make sense together.
The spirits beg to differ. And now five people – who never even should have met – are tangled together by fate, ink, and the complicated mess of becoming who they’re meant to be.
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Let's take a closer look at some key points in the Gaang’s journey and inspect it through a different lense. Them being soulmates doesn't really change much… until it does. -
Regret Burns Soul Deep by Hollow_Rambles
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
08 Jan 2026
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It is tradition for members of the royal family to burn their soulmarks off as soon as they gain control of their bending. If only someone had warned Zuko that this family tradition would result in the one thing he would regret for the rest of his life.
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"He has the eyes, Princess Ursa." They were half-forgotten words, a whisper of fears never explained. Zuko had dismissed it all as nothing to worry about—until he somehow healed the Avatar. Fire healers weren't meant to exist, except he did. He'd saved the kid's life. Naturally, he wanted answers. Too bad finding them wasn't so simple...
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Ursa always knew Zuko was entangled in the spirit world.
Even the Fire Sages said so when he was presented. Zuko was a mirror. A reflection of the past and future. The one to lead peace and prosperity in the future of the Fire Nation.She did not expect the spirit to visit him.