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Peace comes at a cost: Zuko. Sent to the Water Tribe to marry Sokka, he’s bound to someone who hates him just as much as he hates back. But duty insists on cooperation, and nothing complicates hatred quite like being forced to share a life.
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29 May 2026
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Zuko had never excelled at anything. Azula was a prodigy. Uncle always knew what to say. And Father... Father was strong, iron-like. But Zuko had only ever been good at surviving. Putting one foot in front of the other in a grim show of stubborn determination, gritting his teeth and bearing it. Survival was all he had ever been taught. He knew how to do it. So when he was kidnapped by the Southern Water Tribe, he expected to fight as he always had. He didn’t expect to be taught instead how to live.
In a warring land, the Water Tribe forgave the enemy in an act of defiance. For this, he was torn from them, and this time, his wounds won't heal so easily.
Forced back into nothing but survival, the last person Zuko expected to see was Hakoda's son. Hakoda was a promise of safety. The relentless blue of Sokka’s eyes was a promise of happiness. Zuko could have both if he just reached out his hands, but he found them clutching into fists. After all, he’d been burned one too many times.
But hey, at least between Hakoda and Sokka, Zuko could appreciate the family resemblance of pure, asinine stubbornness.
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While Mighty Oaks Do Fall by WitchofEndor for distractedKat
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
26 Sep 2024
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High Sage Kenji blesses Fire Prince Zuko with the resilience of the reed, who bends in the wind and never breaks. When he is done, Fire Prince Ozai narrows his eyes, seemingly displeased by this blessing. But Kenji does not speak for himself; he is only a vessel.
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The newly-crowned Fire Lord Ozai offers his firstborn son to service in the temple.
This turns out to be a catastrophic mistake.
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21 May 2026
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“It’s a piece of history,” He argued and she was, as always, shocked at the rolling gravel that flowed quietly from his mouth, “We must preserve it.”
And Mae, who’d spent hours scrubbing the ghost of bloodied fingerprints from her brushes and days willing the scratch of pen to paper to drown out the sound of the Fire Princess's wailing; had looked at the child clutching ruined parchment to his chest and suddenly understood like a punch to the jaw why Prince Iroh had to be physically restrained from murdering his brother in cold blood.Or
The early days of Firelord Zuko's reign as described by his Royal Stenographer.
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20 May 2026
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Of Dead Fire and Dragon Dreams by ChickadeeChickadoo
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
04 Oct 2020
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Ozai said he'd killed Iroh. So when he shot lightning at Zuko- the lightning came back. Azula's fire broke when she saw Ozai dead- Zuko promised to fix things.
Everyone is confused about where the Fire Nation troopes are going.
Zuko is Fire Lord. Everyone is kind of confused about that too.- Language:
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19 May 2026
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In the aftermath of the siege of the North Pole, Prince Zuko winds up adrift and is "rescued" by the warriors of the Southern Water Tribe. Trapped on a wooden ship in the middle of the ocean, Zuko tries his hardest to stay in control of his bending and his temper with the Water Tribe crew that holds him captive. But when Chief Hakoda's efforts to wrangle the Fire Prince include tying the two of them together to keep an eye on him, Zuko's position on the ship and fight for control gets tangled, as the lines between warden and parental figure weave together and the two become attached in ways they never expected at the end of his rope.
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- Part 1 of Lifeline
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Zuko knelt before his father on the day of Ozai's coronation and said, "I am your loyal servant. I do not fear being burned."
Zuko remembers, vividly, bowing before the court, bowing before his father, and wishing he could say something else. Something like, I will honor you, or respect you, or even obey you.
He wishes there was some other way to prove loyalty, some other way to prove love.
He wishes he could have said something true, but he has always, always feared being burned.
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After escaping the Boiling Rock, Zuko and Hakoda have a discussion about duty, loyalty, and love.
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13 May 2026
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It took a long time for him to calm down, to stop screaming and thrashing and demanding to know just what exactly happened. Through his hysteria, Father managed to give a rushed sequence of events – bad information, an ambush, Earth benders, no one else in the mission survived and they did not think Lu Ten would either, except the boulder fell strangely, crushed his arm, but staved off enough bleeding to keep him alive until healers arrived, he was lucky. Not that Lu Ten felt lucky.
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Lu Ten survives, but his arm does not, leading to Zuko becoming his temporary scribe while he learns to write with his non-dominant hand; at the same time, he starts realizing family doesn't mean the same thing to everyone
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- Part 2 of Grandfather Azulon AUs
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12 May 2026
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Within the Aftermath by AriaofYlisse
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
18 Mar 2026
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Shouto wakes up in the hospital after the final battle is finally won. But at what costs? Where will his family go from here? Is Touya dead? Does he deserve to be dead? Does Shouto /want/ him to be dead? Shouto can always count on his best friend to be there for him, and he will be there in return for Izuku. After all, they’ve both been through so much.
AKA my “fixing” of the MHA ending because there were a few things I was unsatisfied with. Featuring the Todoroki siblings and Izuku processing all that went down, sibling bonding, and a happier ending for Touya bc I refuse to let him suffer to death in a tube.
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11 May 2026
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Roll Out the Red Carpet, Barricade the Door by GardenerSnake8822
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
19 Mar 2025
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Severus is still choking on the air being repelled from his lungs when the first attempt slams against his skull. This attempt isn't like theirs. It isn't the stinging, burrowing, bamboo-shoots-under-the-nail like crawling of his Lord's magic. Not Voldemort's slow and torturous magic, polluting his mind with burning pains as he digs deeper inside, unrelenting. Nor is it the powerful, crushing, passionate rush of Dumbledore flooding him. His mentor and warden's grand magic, trying to shatter his shields until they were impenetrable. No, this attempt comes at him like a dart throw. It sails at him like a whisp through the air, hitting his shields with the force of a feathered pin-point. Leaving only a small hole in the surface of his mental fortitude. The magic is insistent, but all too gentle compared to what he's known.
(Severus Snape whump at the ministry. Written because I was always confused why the Order didn't jump Snape sooner. Please excuse my use of Magical Macguffins :/ )
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04 May 2026
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“I knew the sniveling coward would run off and betray us sooner or later!”
“You did, did you?” Dumbledore replied, still standing in the doorway, Fawkes perched upon his shoulder. His powerful aura emanated off of him, filling the room. “Well, I am sorry to say I do have news and it is not good. It appears we have indeed lost our spy.”
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Voldemort forces Snape to test a mysterious potion on himself. It does not have the desired effect, but the Dark Lord makes do.
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29 Apr 2026
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It really, really wasn’t a good day for Sirius Black.
It wasn’t enough that he had been caught like a fool when he was supposed to be keeping his head down, now, he was bait. Bait to catch Harry. Bait to lure the Order into a trap. Bait that could cost them all everything. And just when he thought it couldn’t possibly get worse, it did.
Because Snape came to save him.
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- Part 4 of My fics for Sicktember 2025
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29 Apr 2026
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meanwhile the world goes on by StarSpray
Fandom The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
29 Jun 2026
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Following Maglor as he suffers through captivity in Dol Guldur, and his journey to healing afterward--and then the journey to reconciliation of all the House of Feanor.
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28 Apr 2026
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Pained Smile by ThornOfCamorr (PrivateBi)
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
21 Apr 2026
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Elrond dances at Arwen’s wedding, and tries not to think about losing her.
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22 Apr 2026
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A Sliver of Light Left Over by peasantswhy
Fandoms: TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
17 Jul 2018
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Erestor arrives in Mithlond on the eve of the Last Alliance.
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Age and Wisdom (of Butterflies) by Tamatoa (theresamanmadeofcrabs)
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
23 Jul 2025
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In which Luthien exercises a bit too much power when verbally bitch slapping Sauron out of Tol-in-Gaurhoth. This might not be Elrond’s worst day ever, but it’s certainly less than his favorite.
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The House of Finwë are the middle-aged white women to Elrond’s small feral peredhel in that Finwë was not white, none of his descendants in question are women, most of them are old as dirt, and Elrond is, uh, not that small? Adoption noises ensue.
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19 Apr 2026
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Memento Pugna (Remember, You Must Fight) by Drag0nst0rm
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
24 Oct 2022
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Feanor is being released from the Halls of Mandos. Finarfin has come to collect him.
It's not that he ever thought this would go well. It's just that he didn't expect things to go quite this flavor of wrong.
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- Part 3 of Memento
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19 Apr 2026
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The Most Precious of Treasures by SapphireShelle91
Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Hobbit (2012), The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
28 Dec 2020
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Bilbo is thought to have died during the Battle of the Five Armies, but in reality she has returned home to Shire, believing that she is forever banished from her friends sides and that they are far better off believing that she is indeed dead. However, her plans to remain dead to them are complicated by the most precious treasure a certain Dwarf King left her with and by a few friends who simply refuse to believe that she had truly gone from Middle-Earth.
Bilbo believed that her journey was done, she had gone there and had come back, her story was finished, she had no idea that she had just walk headlong into another.Series
- Part 5 of The Most Precious of Treasures Universe
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17 Apr 2026
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Aragorn and Faramir, in the early days of their burgeoning friendship. Chapters 8 to 12 feature an original character, son of Halbarad.
With cameos from Húrin of the Keys, Gandalf, the hobbits, and Lady Ivriniel, who has deigned to make an appearance.Series
- Part 7 of Third Age
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17 Apr 2026
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The Ashes at Thy Feet by WarriorEowyn
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
18 Oct 2024
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Maglor returns to Valinor, and Elrond’s family becomes even more complicated.
The costs and rewards of mercy, repentance, and reconciliation.