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with a hand on my heart (i swore) by opheliaesque
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
24 Jun 2026
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Sun and moon meeting, she recalls from the poem, lovers brushing past, passed, paths—
Master Katara leans closer, standing on tiptoes, whispers something into the Fire Lord’s ears. Fire Lord Zuko grins, wide and sweet like a crescent moon. Shula watches a spring blossom softly land between them, like a nudge from the spirits, an answer, a call—like an inevitable, breathing thing, already sewn into the crevasses of their souls, already tied into the beats of their pulse.
or: all the times people had mistaken Zuko and Katara for a couple, and the one time for a silver of truth
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Zuko and Katara are friends—always have been; always will be. He knows her coffee order down to the sugar level. She knows his shoe size whether in Water Tribe inches or Fire Nation sizing. They’re BFFEUTLCT (Best Friends Forever and Ever Until Tui and La Capsize on Themselves).
It’s the oldest tale in time.
or: the GAANG stage an intervention.
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that's how the light gets in by opheliaesque
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
16 May 2026
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Love is an easy thing. It is. You have a heart, and you find another one that dances with it—and even that dancing, it is easy. Loving, dancing, wanting, breathing. But a soul? A soul that loves and dances and wants and burns and bleeds and keeps? Where are you going to find something like that? Not just a dance between lovers—but a conversation between souls. Where? Point it for me, and watch how it leads straight to you.
or: the tale of Fire Lord Zuko and Master Katara
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When the next letter arrived, Zuko let it sit on his desk for a whole day before opening it, as if somehow Sokka would sense, a continent away, that he was still pretty pissed about Sokka trying to rope Iroh into this whole festival visit insanity. Finally, his point proven to literally no one except himself, Zuko waited until after a long bending practice, then a full bath, before he casually picked up the letter and broke the seal.
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Zuko has been Fire Lord for six years when Sokka starts trying to convince him to attend the Spring Gift festival at Wolf Cove, and Sokka isn’t taking no for an answer.
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08 Jul 2026
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The Fire Lord Is Dead by ErsatzErmine
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
27 Jun 2026
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A messenger hawk practically fell from the sky and onto the deck. It croaked quietly in misery when a soldier scooped it up, its wings fluttering from exhaustion, feathers tipped in frost. The urgency that had driven the bird to fly beyond reason was immediately clear when the scroll was untied from its leg and slipped free from the oilcloth that had protected it from the elements – the wax seal of the head Fire Sage gleamed in the dying sunlight.
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“Dead.” Admiral Zhao stared at the scroll. The almost habitual smirk was gone from his face, and his expression was almost slack from the shock. “The Fire Lord is dead?”
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Before the Fire Nation fleet arrives at the Northern Water Tribe, news arrives that Ozai is dead. The planned invasion is called off, and Iroh and Zuko return to Caldera City to deal with the sudden change in regimes.
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08 Jul 2026
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Katara is possessed by the Ocean Spirit. Zuko is trying not to die. Sokka is trying to get them engaged before either of those things changes.
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Long-term side effects of a lightning strike, Katara read, one night by flickering candlelight beside Zuko’s bed, her eyes itching with exhaustion: persistent neurological weaknesses, particularly nerve and muscle damage; severe headaches, trouble concentrating, and memory loss.
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06 Jul 2026
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oh my god. ohhhhhh my god. oh my godddddddd. consider my entire body chemistry ALTERED bro
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Five years after the war, Fire Lord Zuko accidentally agrees to be temporarily cursed in an attempt to help the near extinct dragons. He needs a healer to help get him through one summer of regular transformations. Katara, of course, is the best one for the job.
Even if she exacerbates certain side effects; even if the side effects may require a new arrangement.
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06 Jul 2026