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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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01 Jun 2026
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Under a blazing comet, Zuko does not die.
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26 May 2026
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The day after Sozin's comet, it seems like the whole Fire Nation has turned on its head. The dishonored prince has returned, the princess is locked up, and rumors swirl that Ozai himself has been defeated. The only thing for the royal servants to do is what they've always done - serve the royal family. But what are they going to do with this waterbender girl?
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26 May 2026
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The Mark of a Destined King by smallmauveglove
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
12 May 2026
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After the final Agni Kai, the royal physician returns to the same room where he once treated a burned, abandoned boy. This time, he finds a Water Tribe girl at his bedside, a lightning wound taken by choice, and a young man whose loyalties are written into his skin. Two scars — one forced upon him, one taken for her — reveal the destiny Zuko has chosen for himself. And for the first time, the physician leaves the prince’s chambers with hope.
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26 May 2026
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Zuko takes the lightning strike meant to kill her.
Katara is alone as she struggles to save his life and protect him from within the palace walls.OR
My take on the events immediately post the Last Agni Kai. Katara is alone in an enemy nation, winning the moment due to Zuko's sacrifice, but unknowing whether or not the rest of the Gaang was successful in their missions.
This is an aged up AU where the show takes place over the course of years.
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- Part 2 of The Balance
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26 May 2026
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Flashpoint Act I: Kindling by BloodInTheTides
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
30 Oct 2025
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Nearly a year into her role as the Southern Water Tribe’s ambassador, Katara has accomplished what her counterpart from the North could not: securing reparations from the Fire Nation court. But when sabotage, scandal, and colonial unrest threaten the fragile peace of a post-war world, she finds herself pulled deeper and deeper into the viper’s nest of Fire Nation politics…and closer to its ruler. As rumors swirl and tempers flare between the Ambassador and the Fire Lord, Katara finds a helping hand, and unexpected solace, in the brother of one of her students. In a nation built on blood and lies, she must decide: how far is she willing to go to protect those who cannot protect themselves…and what will it cost her?
This is the first act of a five-act story. Act I is complete and comes to, what I consider to be, a narratively satisfying conclusion. I will be posting the remaining chapters of Act I every day during Zutara Month 2025.
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- Part 2 of Flashpoint
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25 May 2026
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Remember Ember Island by sixtiescosmo
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
07 Mar 2026
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It's been 5 years since the war ended when Katara arrives in Caldera as the new ambassador of the Southern Water Tribe. Katara and Zuko haven't spent any real time together since his coronation, and neither of them knows how to act around the other.
It would be so easy just to consider themselves friends...if either of them had ever stopped thinking about what happened between them that one night on Ember Island.
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24 May 2026
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How does one pass the time during the worst snowstorm the South Pole has seen in decades? The Fire Lord is about to find out when he and Katara are stuck indoors with the house all to themselves while waiting out a blizzard.
Set during the events of “Winter Sunlight” and contains spoilers for that fic.
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- Part 9 of The Phoenix and the Dragon
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24 May 2026
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Zuko feels himself fading away to nothingness after intercepting the lightning meant for Katara during the last Agni Kai. Before everything goes dark, he reflects on his life with her and what all that could have been... But it will take the death of hope to let her go.
Written for the Zutara Angst Challenge. Rated M just to be safe.
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23 May 2026
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Sometimes the Fire Lady goes to the Fire Lord's office for... work-related reasons.
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22 May 2026
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All of the Fire I Swallowed by them_fatale_11
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
19 Mar 2025
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Katara watches Zuko get stronger, until he doesn’t.
This new weakness, the fatigue and the breathlessness and the racing pulse when he exerts himself, don’t loosen their hold on him, no matter what Katara does.
She is starting to believe the damage is permanent, and she has no idea how to tell him.
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The wound Zuko takes for Katara leaves him with a heart condition.
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20 May 2026
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Grieving All that I Gave Up by them_fatale_11
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
04 Feb 2025
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“Regression,” the healer says, watching Katara across the room, playing dolls with an endlessly patient Suki. “Cases this drastic are uncommon, but if a child is forced to grow up too quickly, to act like an adult before they’re ready, sometimes the mind tries to get that time back, when it sees an opportunity.”
And that is so deeply true of Katara. But it’s true of Sokka too. True of all of them. But Sokka isn’t falling apart. Sokka isn’t running around the palace acting like an eight year old.
Katara was eight when their mother was killed.
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Finally safe after the war, Katara regresses, and grieves.
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20 May 2026
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Letting Loss Reveal It by them_fatale_11
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
27 Jul 2024
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With a defiant yell, Azula launched a bolt of lightning directly at Katara.
"No!" Zuko shouted, leaping toward it.
If he could just get in front of it, he could still catch it. Still send it away. Somewhere far away from Katara. Even if that somewhere was his own body, it would be worth it.
He fell short.
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Azula hits Katara with lightning in the last Agni Kai and Zuko goes absolutely feral.
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20 May 2026
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When Azula challenged Zuko to an Agni Kai on the day of Sozin’s Comet, she set in motion a succession by right of challenge. The Agni Kai left Azula defeated, and Zuko claimed his ascendency.
With Zuko on the mend, the Fire Nation prepares for his formal coronation.
But a faction of careful observers approach with a problem: before Azula was defeated, she left Zuko mortally wounded, unable to complete the Agni Kai. The bending master who actually defeated Azula, the true Fire Lord by right of challenge…was Katara of the Southern Water Tribe.
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20 May 2026
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carry me slowly, my Sunlight by them_fatale_11
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
13 Aug 2025
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Zutara Week 2024 - Day 4: Reverence
Zutara Week 2025 - Day 4: BalanceKatara had watched Zuko long enough to realize that he treated his body like a weapon. Elegant and powerful when in combat, but awkward and uncomfortable anywhere else. Like he didn’t know what to do with himself when he wasn’t poised to fight.
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Her idea on how to help with that turns into several ideas.
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20 May 2026
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Zutara Week 2025 - Days 2/3 - Eclipse/Rescue.
Zuko made his choice in Ba Sing Se, defending Aang and helping his team escape the caverns beneath the city.
Having the former crown prince on their side means the invasion of the Fire Nation is going to go great. Right?
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Zuko joins the Gaang in Be Sing Se and changes the course of the Day of the Black Sun, but not in the way he intends.
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20 May 2026
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Being Reckless and Young by them_fatale_11
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
17 Jan 2026
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Maybe it was because they had been circling this possibility since the moment Zuko first appeared at the air temple. Maybe it was because the world was quite possibly on the cusp of ending, and these last scattered days might be their only chance. Maybe it was a joke the universe was playing on them, a twisted, desperate bid for some semblance of cosmic balance as the scales began to tip.
Whatever it was, Zuko and Katara couldn’t keep their hands off one another.
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Zuko and Katara on Ember Island given free rein to be horny twenty somethings and make a series of increasingly irresponsible decisions as is their Agni-given right.
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20 May 2026
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Walked a Thousand Miles to be Here Again by them_fatale_11
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
14 Aug 2025
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Zutara Week 2025 - Day 5 - Journey
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We were in love once, right?” She asks.
Zuko nearly chokes on his wine. His heart lurches. They are several glasses deep and his mind cannot keep up.
“What?” He manages.
“Me and Aang,” she says. She sips again from her own glass, “we were in love at first. Right?”
Zuko swallows hard.
“It… it seemed like you were,” he says. “You seemed…happy.”
“We were,” she says. Drinks again, “but then…so were you and Mai.”
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20 May 2026
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Five times Zuko was the Gaang's dad sharing joint-custody with Katara, and one time he was a really good custody partner. And...bonus smut.
In this fic I imagine everyone two years older.Bookmarked by Root_V
19 May 2026
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Katara finds out that the Prince of the Fire Nation is a cuddler.
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19 May 2026