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You have to wonder what people can get away with when they're speaking another language. They could be saying anything. Mutter a dirty joke, point out your terrible taste in fashion, or perhaps even declare their undying love for you. It would make no difference. You'd never know.
Zevran uses this miscommunication to his advantage. He cares deeply for the Warden, that much is clear. He's just not quite ready to admit it to them yet. So in the meantime, he uses his Antivan as an outlet for his confessions.
They'll never know. Right?
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15 Mar 2025
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If I long for the world, just a bit, will you forgive me for it? by nvrlostword for the zukka nation
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
02 Sep 2020
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Azula told Zuko that their father was going to kill him. He wasn’t going to stick around to find out if she was lying or not.
Or, an AU where Zuko runs away from home and finds himself in the south pole.
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- Part 1 of Finding Zuko
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- 29,347
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- 21/21
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06 Sep 2023
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Her daughter is five years old when Ursa realises what she and Ozai have been doing to their children. By each choosing one to bestow with their approval, they’re pitting them against one another. Perhaps Ozai is doing it on purpose, but Ursa isn’t. She resolves to heal the damage she has done.
In which Ursa tries to be a better parent to Azula, and it doesn’t change very much. And then, quite abruptly, it changes everything.
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31 Aug 2023
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“Wait,” Hob says, searching Dream’s face. “No one’s ever complimented your work before?”
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26 Nov 2022
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Hob is the anthropomorphic personification of Hope and the newest Endless.
He has a lot of learning, a lot of growing, and a lot of change to deal with. These are some of the stories.
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04 Nov 2022
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The Art of Seduction Via Longbow by Aria_Lerendeair for Onaa
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
10 Oct 2022
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Dream attends a demonstration Hob Gadling is hosting on historical weapons, including the longbow.
Dream is both the seduced, and the seducer.
Hob doesn't mind.
UPDATE: Now with second chapter!
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- 11,783
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- 2/2
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08 Oct 2022
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[Sokka is five when the first mark appears.
It writes itself in a deep red like a wound, as if someone had carved the word “nonbender” in a messy font across the knuckles of his left hand, as if it was handwritten with a knife.
When he asks his mother, as she applies salve on Sokka’s knuckles, she sighs deeply and says nothing for a few moments.
“Sometimes, spirits don’t make much sense.”
Sokka has yet to turn thirteen when he wakes up screaming in pain, about ten soulmarks all over each other between his left shoulder and his ear, red and vivid like burning flesh. Among the few words that are somehow possible to read out of the disastrous scribbling, “disrespectful” and “coward” and “burned” and “sorry sorry sorry” are the ones that stand out the most to Sokka. He thinks, at the tender age of twelve, whoever did this to his soulmate will be sorry too, one day.
A month after Hakoda leaves him with the job of the protector at the age of thirteen, Sokka realizes, with a bitter taste in his mouth, that he’s got more soulmarks than his entire village combined.]
Or, to have a soulmark is to carry the vilest things that your soulmate believes about themselves on your skin.
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26 May 2022
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26 Nov 2021
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The window is open, the Prince is gone, and there's a scarred stranger in the Prince's rooms. It doesn't take a genius to put the pieces together—the stranger is obviously an assassin.
Sokka presses the tip of his sword further into the stranger's neck. "I'm going to give you one chance to tell me who you are and why I shouldn't kill you right now," he says, his voice deadly calm. "Start talking."
Or: when Sokka gets assigned to guard duty outside the rooms of a Prince that no one's seen in six years, he isn't expecting to make any new friends. But when he ends up meeting Li, the servant with a scar and a mysterious backstory that he refuses to share, Sokka gets more than he bargained for.Ft. secret identities, a smidge of murder, and the inherent romanticism of falling in love with the same person twice.
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- 2/10
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Bookmarked by xjuliuscaesarx
09 Jan 2021
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Zuko does not survive that first fateful Agni Kai.
But no matter how much Ozai strives to pretend otherwise, the Old Gods are not dead.
And the Old Gods are angry.
[REPOSTED- ACCIDENTALLY ORPHANED]
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07 Jan 2021
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In a world where you switch bodies with your soulmate sporadically until you touch for the first time, two teenagers on opposite sides of the world wake up to live a life that isn’t theirs.
Zuko is the nephew of the Fire Lord, next in line for the throne after his son’s untimely death, and Sokka is the son of the Chieftain of the Southern Water Tribe.
So when they wake up in different nations that are still recovering from a war, they know it will be hard for them to meet; but they’re determined to try anyway.
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[inspired by a textpost by tumblr user @oldpotatoe]Bookmarked by xjuliuscaesarx
09 Dec 2020
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[Time passes oddly. Between one second and the next, Sokka has the Fire Lord pinned to the wall with his hands around the bastard’s throat. Golden eyes (one gold eye, his mind whispers) widen in shock.
“Sokka?” he chokes out. And then he smiles.
What the fuck?
“Sokka, I—”
Sokka slams his head against the wall, once, twice, and the smile wipes off his face. Good.
“What,” Sokka bites out, “have you done to my sister?”]
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An injury leaves Sokka with amnesia. His last memory is of the failed invasion, of leaving his father behind in enemy territory on the Day of Black Sun. Of hopelessness. Rage.
But then he wakes up, and the war is over. Suddenly, he must come to terms with the fact that years have passed, and that he's somehow the Southern Water Tribe Ambassador to the Fire Nation. He is also supposedly friends with banished-Prince-turned-Fire-Lord Zuko, of all people. Close friends.
Yeah, nah.
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- 25/27
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05 Nov 2020
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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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- 127,154
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- 20/20
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16 Oct 2020
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(do you take this jerk to be) your one and only by jatersade
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
28 Dec 2020
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Under the leadership of Fire Lord Iroh, the Fire Nation has made every attempt to restore peace and make amends for the harm they inflicted during the Seventy-Year War. Their newest proposal is a literal proposal: a marriage to unite the Fire Nation and the Water Tribes.
The Fire Nation offers Prince Zuko’s hand.
The Water Tribes offer Princess Yue’s.
Sokka is apparently the only person in the world who has a problem with any of this.
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- English
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- 55,843
- Chapters:
- 10/10
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28 Jul 2020
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For Peace and Zuko by beersforqueers for dickpuncher420
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
14 Sep 2015
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In a universe when Ba Sing Se fell and Ozai never became Fire Lord, the war finally ends… Iroh and Hakoda hatch a marriage plot to bring the Water Tribes and Fire Nation into alliance, with Sokka and Zuko caught in the middle.
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- Part 1 of Zukka Arranged Marriage
- Language:
- English
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- 43,277
- Chapters:
- 22/22
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- 3
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- 781
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04 Apr 2020
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03 Apr 2020
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Sokka is a man of science, and science says ghosts aren't real. So, he can't be dead... Right?
Too bad science can't explain why the only person who can see or hear him is Prince Angry Jerk.
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- 83,954
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- 21/?
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- 19
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03 Apr 2020
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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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11 Nov 2019
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Nondiscriminatory Hiring Practices by Raddtaire
Fandoms: Les Misérables - All Media Types, Les Misérables (2012), Les Misérables - Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Schönberg/Boublil
19 Dec 2014
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According to Cosette, the café is only a few blocks away from his internship at the embassy. According to Cosette, the coffee is all fair trade, and the to-go cups are recycled, and her boss is really nice. According to Cosette all of the business protocols and hiring practices are entirely nondiscriminatory...
Apparently, nondiscriminatory hiring practices mean that they only hire ruggedly beautiful men with messes of black hair and the biggest blue eyes that Enjolras has ever seen.
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Or Enjolras goes to a cafe to support Cosette and her new job, and inadvertently falls for a barista named R.
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15 Oct 2018
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Grantaire leans against the edge of the door and looks out at him in bemusement. "You're the smartest man I know, Enjolras. I know your memory isn't this bad."
Enjolras's smile fades away to a bewildered frown. "What?"
"They're out again. They're always out on Thursdays. It's date night. I know you know this, I've only told you half a dozen times. And yet you keep showing up."
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- 1/1
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15 Oct 2018