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The Art of Holding on and Letting Go by evergreenonthehorizon for bluesunflower44
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
16 Jul 2021
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Aang watches his first love fall in love with someone else.
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26 Mar 2024
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who did you meet, my darling young one? by theformerone
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
04 Aug 2018
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"You're doing a poor job at hunting the avatar."
Zuko pushes himself into a sitting position. He breathes in the frigid air, and breathes out steam. The breath of fire fills his lungs the way Iroh taught him, the way the Painted Lady taught her acolytes.
"I thought if the Blue Spirit was unmasked, he disappeared," he replies.
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23 Mar 2024
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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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23 Mar 2024
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her father's daughter by aloneintherain for vvavavoom
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
06 Aug 2020
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Izumi loved that scar. When she was too young to know what it was, she had smeared red paint over one eye and stuck a paper five-pronged crown in her ponytail. Dad didn’t like it. She didn’t understand why, until he explained what a scar was and why it hurt him to see her pretending to have one.
And now this man was going to give her one for real.
The smoke burned her throat. She choked, crying too hard now to form proper sentences, too scared to say anything other than, “Dad.”
Or: After Izumi is the target of an assassination attack, Zuko is left to deal with the aftermath.
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20 Mar 2024
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Aang discovers who Roku is to Zuko.
And he takes full advantage of it.
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20 Mar 2024