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While Mighty Oaks Do Fall by WitchofEndor for distractedKat
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
26 Sep 2024
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High Sage Kenji blesses Fire Prince Zuko with the resilience of the reed, who bends in the wind and never breaks. When he is done, Fire Prince Ozai narrows his eyes, seemingly displeased by this blessing. But Kenji does not speak for himself; he is only a vessel.
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The newly-crowned Fire Lord Ozai offers his firstborn son to service in the temple.
This turns out to be a catastrophic mistake.
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19 Jun 2026
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Zuko loved his Father, like kindling loves the fire.
Ozai just wished he would die already.
(Or: Zuko’s father meant for him to die at the Agni Kai, but the spirits have a different plan, one that Hakoda didn’t recall signing up for.)
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11 Jun 2026
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Dysfunctional (a.k.a How the Gaang Adopted Zuko two Books Early) by Winner_of_the_disability_bingo
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
15 Sep 2022
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While Aang is talking to Roku at the Fire Temple, Zhao has captured Zuko, Sokka and Katara. Zuko's worried about what his father will do when he finds out Zuko disobeyed him and returned without the Avatar. He's also wondering why the two Water Tribe kids are looking so concerned. It's not like Father has done anything to him he didn't deserve.
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24 May 2026
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Canary in a Coal Mine [Peeta's Version] by Aly_moon for Mollywog
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
03 Feb 2026
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Peeta knew that his days were numbered in town at the bakery when his father died when he was sixteen. For a few moments he had hope, his older brother was transferred to District 3 for being smart and Rye was ready to marry the Carpenter's daughter, it almost seemed perfect. Rye would be a carpenter and Peeta would inherit the bakery. But Rye screwed up his own commitment, leaving him as the owner of the bakery and Peeta at the mercy of his mother who kicked him out of the bakery and with nowhere else to go he enlisted in the mines.
-Basically they are two parallel stories. One where Katniss becomes a townie and merchant, and another where Peeta is forced to go to the Seam and become a miner.-
- I blame "ConcretePillows" and its story Not Like Us, it gave me a need to write Peeta in the Seam.
But with a twist, the living one is Burdock Everdeen was alive and the dead one is Otho. -Series
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17 May 2026
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Two fractured people. One impossible thing between them.
Andrew doesn't hope. Hope is just loss that hasn't happened yet, and Andrew has had enough loss to last several lifetimes. He exists on the margins of his own life, keeping everyone at a careful distance, surviving one day at a time and calling it enough.
Neil is a dead man on borrowed time. He is chronically ill, the Moriyamas' circuit has its hooks in him too deep to pull out and his father is after him, ready to kill. He is meant to die one way or another.
They find each other at the bottom. Two people who had already stopped expecting anything good, stumbling into something that feels impossibly close to hope.
For a while, it almost is. But fate doesn't negotiate.
Neil cannot outrun what's always been waiting for him. Andrew cannot outrun the loss that's always been coming.
They were never meant to survive, let alone love.
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"Andrew didn't want to die anymore. He just didn't know how to live either." - Andrew
"Death sounded like a promise from here. He knew, that his last breath would be the best one he'd ever taken." - NeilAlternate Universe, Soul crushing angst
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28 Apr 2026