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and I think that you're the best of me (but then again I'm biased) by drunkhemingway
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
31 May 2026
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Determined to revive the Southern style of waterbending, Katara travels to the Caldera at Zuko’s invitation to search for information on the Southern Water Tribe in the extensive Royal Library. There she finds a dangerous tangle of political intrigue and civil unrest – and at the heart of it all, a silent stranger in a Water Tribe mask.
(Or, no one ever told Katara that Zuko was the Blue Spirit.)
A Bluetara fic, using the Zutara Week 2020 prompts (for structure, such as it is). Likely going to be around 10 chapters but that is a rough guess.
Title from "Far Between" by the Jivin' Scientists.
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25 Jun 2026
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Inspired by this Tumblr post https://captainkirkk.tumblr.com/post/628849887874842624/au-where-the-war-ends-for-reasons-fire-lord as well as the myriad of fics already written about it.
Hakoda, Chief of the Southern Water Tribe, is busy. He's mourning his wife, trying to reconcile that grief and his burgeoning relationship with his second-in-command, raising two pre-teens, and navigating a tenuous peace. He does not need anything else on his plate.
Unfortunately, the Spirits have other plans for him.
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A letter, a ship, and a child turn Hakoda's entire life upside-down again, not even one year after Kya's death.
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- Part 1 of places to bury me
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18 Jun 2026
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“Breathe, Katara, breathe,” he says. “You’re okay, I got you. That’s my girl.” His words strike her to her core, and her heart flutters- as always, for him. She is his, and maybe she always has been. She may be a waterbender from the South Pole, sister to the Southern Water Tribe’s greatest strategic genius and best friend to the Avatar, but the Firelord of the Fire Nation is the only person who has seen inside her soul and held her heart in his hands. Somewhere, along the way, Katara unwittingly allowed Zuko into her soul, taking up residence and finding peace within all her broken pieces. Somewhere, along the way, she gave him her heart, and she knows she can never, will never, want it back.
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- Part 1 of Seasons
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11 Jun 2026
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It begins with Ursa, with that sparkle of life she vanished to protect. When Zuko finds her, everything changes.
Hope is a tender, fearless thing. Zuko's hope has the shape of a child and the eyes of his mother, and it must be protected.
The Avatar can wait.
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In which Lu Ten II, Zuko's little brother, takes the world by storm.
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22 May 2026
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He opened his mouth to reassure his uncle, to tell him that he’d be able to start running in just as second, just as soon as the world stopped spinning, but instead all he muttered was, “I’m tired.”
When Iroh brushed against the back of Zuko’s head the pain there abruptly muscled to the front of Zuko’s list of issues, and he gave a loud groan. Iroh pulled back quickly, but Zuko could see that his hand was now dripping with blood.
“Then you should rest, Prince Zuko,” Iroh said, his voice calm and controlled, which would’ve been very nice if the lines of concern on his face hadn’t been so obvious. Zuko watched blearily as Iroh began to look sharply around them, apparently assessing something. “A man needs his rest.”
The world started getting hazy again, but the lack of attempted movement was a slight improvement. A series of shouts pulled him back from the creeping numbness, and Zuko forced his eyelids open.
Iroh was waving his arms, signaling to someone. “We surrender!” Iroh bellowed. “I am with the Crown Prince of the Fire Nation, and he needs a doctor!”
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Zuko and Iroh are taken prisoner by the Northern Water Tribe following the battle in Agna Qel’a.
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22 May 2026