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because you want to die for love (you always have). by flustraaa
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
18 Jan 2021
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it takes six words for her to topple his carefully built foundations. to obliterate the walls his friends couldn’t in the five years they’d known him.
he asks, “why are you here?”
and she responds, “i didn’t know he burned you.”
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- Part 5 of it isn’t over yet, it’s just begun.
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13 Jul 2026
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“Go on then,” stupid Zuko challenged, even as his voice cracked, because he was an idiot Fire Lord who didn’t know when to shut up, and Sokka liked that undying fiery streak but also wanted to kill him a million times when they get out of this-
But all thoughts of throttling Zuko himself came to a halt because because Tezuka was smiling with perverse affection, then he was gripping Zuko’s face with one hand---
--lifting a burning palm in the other, and then--
--Zuko was shrieking, his voice high and terrified and so damn young --
--Sokka shouted, shouted because he was so useless --
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Sokka and Azula bond over their mutual desire to keep Fire Lord Zuko alive. Post-canon.
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- Part 3 of Zuko is loved
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- English
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- 5,736
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- 1/1
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07 Jul 2026
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The attack on the Northern Water Tribe goes differently, Aang and the ocean spirit don’t destroy the entire Fire Nation fleet, only most of them.
Zhao escapes, taking Sokka and a few other Water Tribe men as prisoners. Knowing Sokka is traveling with the Avatar he gets sent to Zhao’s “special prison camp” that is hidden near the Earth Kingdom colonies.
Sokka gets a taste of the real war, not the war that he thinks he knows from traveling with the Avatar. While Zhao’s prisoner, he struggles to survive the inhuman conditions. Alone and thought to be dead, he feels himself slowly losing hope.
Seeing a familiar face brings back his hope, even if that face is the scarred Prince of the Fire Nation.
Sokka and Zuko come together to survive and end up depending on each other for a lot more than they ever thought possible.
-please read the tags, overall dark themes throughout-
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- Part 1 of Leaving It All Behind
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 259,814
- Chapters:
- 21/21
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- 11
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- 3,688
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06 Jul 2026
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At Sokka’s behest, the Gaang skips rescuing Zuko during the Siege at the North Pole. Instead they leave him, unconscious, buried in the snow.
In completely unrelated news, Sokka’s haunted by a ghost now.
(If you'd like more details before deciding to read this story, look here for spoilers.)
- Language:
- English
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- 67,555
- Chapters:
- 14/14
- Collections:
- 70
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- 4,076
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- 21,640
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02 Jul 2026
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this love burns so yellow (becoming orange and in its time, exploding) by meliebee
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
16 Jun 2020
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Ten months after Zuko is crowned at seventeen, he faces his first coup.
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- English
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- 18,767
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- 1/1
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- 25
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- 616
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01 Jul 2026
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To be honest, Grace did have his doubts about him.
When the new human first woke up, he punched Grace in the face and tried to run away. He didn’t speak for his first three days of being conscious. Not the best first impression.
Rocky, in the meantime, had one job. He was specifically tasked with building this new human a place to stay. Grace hadn’t made time for blueprints, too busy fumbling the situation that was his first real human in over fifteen years.
Grace didn’t realize ‘please build the new human a place to stay’ would be translated into ‘expand my home! the human will be living with me!’
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08 Jun 2026
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He blinks. He uncurls his hand to find pale crescents, arranged in a row.
“Hunter?”
Camila. There’s concern in her voice. It sounds like a nod, a smile, a warm hand on his shoulder asking what can I do. It’s care.
He can’t risk losing them.
“What if he’s still there,” says his mouth. His voice is steadier than he expected.
Or:
In the aftermath, Hunter doesn't have to pick up the pieces alone.
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06 May 2026
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the beginning of a new and brighter birth by aloneintherain
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
13 Jun 2018
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“I’m so proud of you, my nephew.” Uncle cups Zuko’s face in his lined hand. The gesture is so tender, his palm so warm, that Zuko has to take a fortifying breath against the sudden swell of emotion in his chest.
“I want to be a good leader, Uncle,” Zuko says. “I want to look after my people.”
“You will,” Uncle says. “You are, nephew.”
In a new era of peace, Zuko works to be a very different Fire Lord than his forefathers. Based on this tumblr post.
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- English
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- 15,637
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- 1/1
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- 1,337
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Bookmarked by patchworktwist
30 Apr 2026
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In which Sokka suspects Zuko is a FireCat, and other tales by Stardust_Steel for
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
26 Sep 2021
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Sokka theorizes that in another life, Zuko might have been a cat.
A series of ficlets written for ATLAtober prompts.
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- Part 10 of Zuko is loved
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 5,114
- Chapters:
- 3/?
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- 2
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28 Apr 2026
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After the Blue Spirit frees the Avatar from the Pohuai Stronghold, Admiral Zhao captures Prince Zuko under suspicion of treason. Isolated from his Uncle and his crew, Zuko has only one ally: the chatty prisoner one cell over.
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- Part 1 of Birds of a Phoenix Feather
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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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- English
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- 23,034
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- 1/1
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- 331
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Bookmarked by patchworktwist
27 Apr 2026
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"It's just two years, Sokka. Two years and I'm free."
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The ice has been Sokka's life for as long as he can remember. Learning to skate at his family's rink preceded learning to walk. The rink has been his safe place through everything; an ADHD diagnoses, an injury in his favorite sport, the death of his mom and his first girlfriend, and a myriad of mental health issues stemming from all of those things. If only he didn't have to share it with the stuck up rich kid that just moved into town. The rink needs the money Zuko's family brings in from renting it four days out of the week, but Sokka's not sure he can last dealing with the high demands of a professional figure skater.(Or: Zuko is a professional figure skater with expectations he can never live up to and Sokka is a college hockey player who really wishes the guy constantly getting on his nerves wasn't so gorgeous.)
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- English
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- 121,076
- Chapters:
- 34/34
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Bookmarked by patchworktwist
26 Apr 2026
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“I accidentally signed off on an arranged marriage to Sokka,” Zuko says faintly. He sits up so fast he almost falls out of his chair. “I signed off on an arranged marriage to Sokka, and he agreed."
In which Zuko suffers in a variety of ways, including but not limited to: close and constant proximity to the object of his affections, assassination attempts, and irreparable injuries to his dignity.
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- Part 1 of the problem children
- Language:
- English
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- 22,241
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- 1/1
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- 8
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- 350
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26 Apr 2026
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once, in every dream, in a thousand lifetimes by manbun_zukka (adykecalledCJ)
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
03 May 2021
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“You know I’m a little bit in love with you, right?” Sokka says after a while, muffled into Zuko’s hair. The other boy makes a little noise of surprise and stiffens up for a moment, but then he melts back into Sokka, as if he’s trying to eliminate every bit of space between them.
“Really?” Zuko whispers.
“Really,” Sokka says, raking a hand through his hair.
“Oh,” Zuko says. “Well, that’s good, because I’m a little bit in love with you too.”
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Or, in a world where you start having prophetic dreams about your future with your soulmate after you first meet them, Sokka and Zuko struggle to find their place. (They'll find it eventually, I swear.)
- Language:
- English
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- 25,279
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- 5/5
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- 3
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- 250
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23 Apr 2026
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Cannibalization of the Apex by CharmPoint
Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime)
21 Nov 2021
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Satoru doesn't survive the fight with Fushiguro Toji. He dies, cold and alone, leaving behind only a curse with a taste for carnage. Suguru brings that curse to his lips, swallows down the remains of his best friend, his one and only. He doesn't know if it's Satoru's soul or just a mindless curse he's ingesting, but still, he can't part with it.
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- Part 1 of Teeth and Stars
- Language:
- English
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- 55,591
- Chapters:
- 8/8
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- 18
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13 Apr 2026
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a slaughterhouse, an outlet mall by parsnips_and_meth
Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime & Manga)
22 May 2026
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Suguru begins to wonder if it’s lonely for Gojo. Keeping an inch between him and the world.
Not an inch, a voice that sounds suspiciously like Shoko reminds him. Infinity.
But does it feel like infinity? When summer’s humidity swells to its peak, can Gojo feel the pressure? When a barrage of low-level curses ambushes them in Roppongi, can he sense their velocity, the twist of the wind? When Suguru grazes the immovable space between them – hands him a test paper, shoulders past him in the corridor, reaches out, unthinking, to slap him on the back – does Gojo know the warmth of Suguru's skin?
Then, on July 12th, in a sour-smelling alley in Katsushika ward, Suguru catches him. Hunched over, spindly legs crouched, a street-worn cat pressing her nose to his fingertips. It licks her sandpaper tongue over his knuckles. Rubs the flat of her forehead against his palm. Gojo hums, pushing a tangled cowlick back with his thumb, a serene little smile on his face.
Yes, Suguru thinks. It must be lonely.
(Trauma is complicated, brains are strange, and Satoru Gojo is not immune to either of these truths.)
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13 Apr 2026
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a cavity shaped like being held by anatomyofacynic
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
29 Jan 2026
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Chuuya hesitated, then slowly lowered himself, distributing his weight cautiously, like he was afraid of crushing Dazai by accident.
The pressure hit all at once. Dazai made a soft, startled sound he couldn’t stop, and his hands curled reflexively into Chuuya’s shirt.
“Oh,” he breathed, eyes squeezing shut. “Um—that’s—”
Chuuya tensed immediately. “Too much?”
“No,” Dazai said quickly, voice trembling. “Please don’t move.”
There is no memory of being held. There is only the present: a couch, too much quiet, and Chuuya trying, clumsily, not to make things worse. Dazai discovers the absence inside him has edges. Chuuya discovers he can’t ignore it.
or: touch, for dazai, has always meant violence, restraint, or pain. this is about the other kind—and the hollow it leaves behind once he notices it exists.
Whumpuary 2026 - Day twenty-nine - Touch starved, “I need help.”
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- Part 15 of Whumpuary 2026
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- English
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- 10,467
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- 1/1
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- 48
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- 600
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- 4,578
Bookmarked by patchworktwist
08 Mar 2026
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Dazai is good at surviving.
He isn't good at wanting to.
But sometimes when things get really tough, Chuuya is there to pull him out of his own mind.
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- Part 3 of Like an open book
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05 Mar 2026
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“You idiot!” Sakura yelled at him, “Where were you?!”
“Someone is finally trying to kill me!” Kakashi shouted gleefully over the chaos, “Nobody has tried to do that in ages!” His eyes were sparkling in a maniacal way that Sakura knew could mean only one thing.
He was about to do something incredibly stupid.
. . . . .
We don’t see nearly enough of Kakashi fighting after the war, when he supposedly became way stronger. I’m here to fix that.
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- Part 2 of Among the Wolves
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 3,364
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- 1/1
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- 3
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- 18
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Bookmarked by patchworktwist
24 Feb 2026
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His son is eight years old when Sakumo takes his own life. Then he wakes up in a long-forgotten room, in a body not his own. He's not sure when or why but he's there, awake when he shouldn't even be alive, and everything around him has changed.
This body is not his own and Kakashi is no longer eight years old.
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- Part 1 of Paper Moon
- Part 1 of Sakumo Appreciation Club
- Language:
- English
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- 17,519
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 25
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- 231
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- 5,694
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Bookmarked by patchworktwist
23 Feb 2026