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    In which Katara learns the significance of hair in the Fire Nation through a series of somewhat mortifying mishaps.

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    16 Jun 2026

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    Despite Uncle's warning, Zuko doesn't manage to divert Azula's lightning away from his heart. The next thing he knows, he's waking up to the roaring horror of what has to be a furious spirit in the middle of a forest. At least he's not the only firebender nearby. Though, truthfully, the other guy's a bit clueless.

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    15 Jun 2026

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    Zuko goes into exile with a scar, a mission, and a wife.

    The girl wears ill fitted ceremonial silks. She is too thin, with jutting bones and hollowed eyes. Dirt smudges her cheek. Her lower lip has a healing split in it. Gaudy as her finery is, she wears it like prisoner’s rags.

    All of this Zuko registers in the time it takes him to reach the dais and bow. Every muscle aches with the remembrance of what happened the last time he knelt before Father. This time there is no begging, no roar of the crowd, no burning. Still—Zuko’s grateful to stand once more.

    Slipping into soldier’s parade rest, he waits for what will come next, all too aware of the girl’s defiant body next to his.

    “I am told that this is Katara of the Southern Water Tribe,” Father says, cruel amusement oiling his words. The phrasing makes the girl sound like a thing. “The last waterbender of their pathetic tribe.” Flames conceal all but his shadow, yet Zuko knows from long experience the exacting blade of his father’s smirk. The smirk he must surely wear now. Because he has built up his insult and now he lets it fall. “Your bride.”

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    02 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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    02 Jun 2026

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    Zuko returns to the Jasmine Dragon for a break from his Firelord duties, but since when has his life been straightforward?

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    31 May 2026