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    Recent census results show the most popular boy’s name in the year following the end of the war was Zuko. After the kind, generous, gentle, warm Firelord Zuko.

     

     

    “You can’t be serious.”

    Azula laughs with her whole body, though she can’t laugh in many other ways with her arms bound across her chest. But she laughs, with amusement, almost with joy.

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    A census is taken a year after the end of the war and Zuko is not a fan of the results

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    13 Jun 2026

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    Toph will happily admit that she genuinely, honestly, likes Zuko. She has told her friends this repeatedly. She thinks Aang is starting to get it, but that’s because he’s realized Zuko is probably one of the only firebenders that won’t try to kill him on sight.

    She would never admit it, but she sees herself in the way that Katara and Zuko argue, in the way Zuko never seems to fully understand what Sokka is trying to say, and in the way even now she still feels her temper flare with Aang. It reminds her, weirdly, a lot of herself in the early days of their little adventure, where she was still trying to find her footing.

    (A look into Toph and Zuko’s friendship between The Western Air Temple and Sozin’s Comet.)

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    "So, to put this together,” Toph says to Aang in a highly-measured tone that she didn’t know she even had the capacity for. “You were sparring, you had Zuko on the ground, and you held flames close to his, you know, scarred face?”

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    12 Jun 2026

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    Zuko wakes up the first time it happens to the smell of burning flesh. He at first thinks it’s just a lingering memory, the vestiges of a nightmare he’s had many times, but then he hears the shouts and clanging of metal that accompanies it.

    The telltale signs of a fight, right outside his door.

    So of course he does the sensible thing and rushes toward the commotion without a second thought, still in his loose bedclothes and bleary-eyed from sleep. He practically falls out of the door, stumbling right into the middle of both the hall and the battle waging within it.

    At this point, Zuko's no stranger to attempts on his life. He can handle it.

     

    Or five times Zuko's friends save him from an assassination attempt, and one time they're almost too late.

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    “Is everything in place?”

    “Of course. The 2nd division is encircling the palace as we speak, and Fire Sage Saito is at hand.”

    “Then it’s time to fetch the Fire Lord.”

    Above the ceiling screen, Zuko stopped breathing. This wasn’t just a meeting. This was a coup. And he had to sneeze.

    Things are changing in the Fire Nation. The war is over. Fire Lord Ozai is gone. His burned and banished teenage son is now in charge. And friends with the Avatar. And Fire Lord Zuko seems pretty intent on tearing down what the Fire Nation built over the past 100 years and building something new. Most of his governing council isn’t on board with that.
     
    The palace guards just want to get him to the Peace Conference next month in one piece. And maybe convince him to stop disappearing at random times. It’s harder than it sounds.

    Aka: Die Hard for firebenders, sort of

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