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Zuko botches his escape on the day of the eclipse and sits out the war in prison. What will the Gaang do with a new Fire Lord they can't trust? Season Four "Zuko never joined the Gaang, and he's really bad at being good" AU.
Featuring Azula's extended field trip, June not signing up for this, and Sokka's increasing desire to scream. Come get your international politics with a side of baby dragons.
Podfic and German translation now available, see chapter one notes!
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- Part 1 of Towards the Sun
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- English
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- 138,891
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- 51/51
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24 Jun 2026
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Chief Hakoda and his men are out on patrol when they encounter a surprise: an injured boy alone on the ice.
Hakoda brings him back to the South Pole, but keeping this boy alive may be dangerous in ways Hakoda had not anticipated...
A canon-divergent story where Zuko comes of age with the Southern Water Tribe with his only two friends in the world: Sokka and Katara.
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- 5/5
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23 Jun 2026
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forgetting is a kind of mercy by nerdylizj
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
27 Apr 2025
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It's death by a thousand cuts, Katara thinks. Saying goodbye to their old lives, forging ahead with whatever amalgamation of reality once they both fully remember everything, whatever reality that may be. Yet, two tethers between them will remain.
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Five years after Katara and Zuko go missing in Ba Sing Se, Kya and Lee are found living peacefully in the Earth Kingdom countryside.
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- Part 1 of forgetting is a kind of mercy
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- 14/?
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11 Apr 2026
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Katara and Zuko's mission on board The Southern Raiders goes badly wrong, and they are captured and imprisoned in the unforgiving hull of the ship.
Katara now finds herself locked in a small room with a boy that she refuses to trust, and nine years worth of trauma and guilt swimming in her mind. She is resolute in her hostility towards Zuko, but as the horrors of their captivity unfold, an undeniable bond is formed in the quiet moments between their captor's torments.
When they find themselves safely back with their friends on Ember Island, they are both sporting deep scars – old and new, seen and unseen. Katara struggles to reconcile all the pieces of herself and figure out who she truly is. And Zuko continues to battle with his past guilt, and the new guilt that arises from his growing feelings towards Katara.
As their bond deepens – it may be the lifeline they both so desperately need to pull them from the dark waters of their past.
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Canon-divergence from Book 3 Ep 16 The Southern Raiders. Eventual Zutara.
Trigger warnings placed at the beginning of each chapter.- Language:
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- 32/32
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31 Mar 2026
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Kids grow up fast when a cruel world awaits them. In times of hopelessness, Katara and Zuko grow together. In times of separation, they hope to see each other again.
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- English
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- 23/23
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20 Mar 2026
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didn't know my heart by babyfairy for zuzusexytiems, icyhottie, theloverofdragons, Shivisdivis, queensbury, Bendingdreams, greenteafiend
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
13 Jun 2017
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And yet, in a matter of days, she has managed to worm her way under his skin, has cracked open his rib cage and has begun to patch up the endless amount of wounds on his heart.
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- 103,679
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- 8/8
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19 Mar 2026
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The dragon offered Katara a deal: protection for her family and tribe if she lived with it for a year and a day. And she said yes. Because what other way was there to save her people?
But there was more to the dragon than Katara bargined for.
An "East of the Sun, West of the Moon" retelling.
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- English
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- 115,284
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- 24/24
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16 Mar 2026
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Aang gets a lesson, Katara and Zuko get undressed, Haru gets an eyeful, and Sokka doesn't get a clue. Sparrowkeet!verse.
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- Part 7 of The Sparrowkeet Series
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- English
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- 2,377
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- 1/1
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15 Mar 2026
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Seven years after Sozin’s Comet, the child of Zuko and Katara faces the world his parents created. Sequel to “The Sparrowkeet Series”.
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- Part 18 of The Sparrowkeet Series
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14 Mar 2026
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(Sequel to "like rum on the fire" but can be read independently)
Zuko makes a different choice back in Ba Sing Se and the rest is history...
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A remake of Book 3 where Zuko joined the Gaang earlySeries
- Part 2 of Cherry Wine
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- 67,271
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- 34/34
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09 Mar 2026
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In which everything is the same except Azula is the firstborn and she's eleven years old when she first meets her baby brother.
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- English
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- 21,207
- Chapters:
- 7/7
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- 32
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- 1,674
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27 Feb 2026
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Some people are born with soulmarks. Zuko has them, but his grandfather burned them off because they "make you weak."
Team Avatar has a few things to say about that.
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- English
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- 36,049
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- 7/7
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25 Feb 2026
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When Azula is nine, she becomes an only child. She hears the Fire Lord call for Zuko's life, and in the morning, her mother and brother are gone. Azula may be young, but she isn't naive. She knows what happened to them.
Which makes it all the more surprising when Azula tracks the Avatar down and fights his group of peasant friends, only to find herself staring into an eerily familiar face.
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- English
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- 60,040
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- 9/9
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- 100
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- 3,225
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24 Feb 2026
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Mid-Season-One Zuko is held for ransom by Chief Hakoda. Ozai's replies to the Water Tribe's demands are A+ Parenting. Hakoda is… deeply concerned, for this son that isn't his, and who might be safer among enemies than with his own father.
Podfic and translations in Dutch, German, Hungarian, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian now available! See chapter one author notes for links.
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- English
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- 127,154
- Chapters:
- 20/20
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- 209
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- 15,340
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19 Feb 2026
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A Godly Quest by CaffeinatedFlumadiddle
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types, The Heroes of Olympus - Rick Riordan
15 Feb 2021
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Paul is like… eighty percent sure that some of Percy’s so-called "quests" are all one big hoax. He isn’t able to prove it until he goes to Taco Bell at three in the morning.
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- 4,979
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- 1/1
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17 Jan 2026
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The Other "Heroes" by SirOliverSurface
Fandoms: The Heroes of Olympus - Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, The Trials of Apollo - Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types
31 Dec 2022
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Percy Jackson had seen weird before.
Swimming in the River Styx to gain invincibility to fight the Titan lord of time was "weird".
Getting your memory wiped by the goddess of marriage and family in a gambit to unite Greek and Roman demigods was "weird".
Having a spiritual attachment to blue food was... well... completely understandable, no matter how much Leo joked about it.
But this? This is "weird".When a battle goes wrong, and magic goes wild, the son of Poseidon and Hero of Olympus finds himself dumped in a world that seems strangely familiar. The Greek Gods are still around, the old myths were really true, all seems well. But one thing has changed: the people he's come to love. And it doesn't take long for him to figure out that these new faces all miss someone else, too; Hero of Olympus, and daughter of Poseidon, Percie Jackson.
Now with its own discord server: https://discord.gg/vcqxXmkQcK
NOW COMPLETED
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- 212/212
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- 1,347
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20 Dec 2025
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Elpis by Chaotic_Dumbass_Rogue
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types, The Odyssey - Homer, EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums)
11 Feb 2025
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Sing, oh muse, of the wrath
of the children with blood of the gods
but no claim to their parents. Of the
children who fight to be acknowledged,
seen, respected just as fiercely as they
desire to know the god who does not
claim them. Sing, oh muse, of the blood
that was shed, of the children who became
guests of Hades all tragically young. Sing, oh muse.
Sing. And remember the unclaimed.Series
- Part 6 of Daughter of Wolves
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Five times Chief Hopper gets called into the school because his kid is a goddamn menace.
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27 Nov 2025
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Percy Jackson, Ambassador of Hades by Takara_Phoenix
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan
28 Dec 2016
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After Sally married Gabe, Poseidon could hear his son's pain. Unlike in canon, the god doesn't turn a blind eye on the man abusing his former lover and his only demigod son, so he goes and gets Percy out of there.
But where would he be safe? Amphitrite would kill the child if Poseidon brought him down under the sea and everywhere else, he'd risk Zeus' wrath.
So Poseidon goes and asks Hades for a favor. To take the boy in and hide him in the underworld, shielded from the curious eyes of others. Hades agrees, under the condition that one day, Percy would marry one of Hades' children.
So Percy grows up in the underworld, raised and trained by Hades and his underworld council. When the Titan War approaches, Hades frees Nico and Bianca from the Lotus Hotel, but Hades' and Poseidon's deal changes so many more than just Percy's life. Bianca becomes the head huntress and Nico becomes a celebrated hero at Camp Half-Blood.
What happens when Hades sends Percy to camp, as his ambassador, to help Bianca and Nico in their quest for the Sea of Monsters...?- Language:
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- 149,424
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- 37/37
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03 Nov 2025
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The Rise and Fall by thisisnotthenerd
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types, Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, The Heroes of Olympus - Rick Riordan, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
04 Jun 2025
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there is no triumphant return of the gods, no chariots from the sky
the giants cannot be defeated without the aid of a god
if no god comes to call, what is left except to make one?A variation on the tale of Perse Athenide, or Perse and Athenide.
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- Part 1 of of Perse + Athenide
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 35,000
- Chapters:
- 13/13
- Collections:
- 7
- Comments:
- 373
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- 1,455
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- 456
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Bookmarked by esemdee
27 Oct 2025