Republic City is finally at peace, and Katara allows herself to hope that maybe now, after everything, she and Aang can finally become something real. But when Aang returns after eight months, he isn't alone. He comes back with you at his side, introducing you as his wife. Suspicious yet helpless, his friends do their best to welcome you, even as nothing about this sudden marriage makes sense. But while everyone else keeps their distance, one person doesn't. And perhaps Zuko gets a little too comfortable with the Avatar's new wife. ART CREDITS :: chamiii07, ilameys. (on x)

in which the war is over, the world is healing, and Y/N - last surviving female airbender, Aang's sister in every way that matters - is very good at pretending she doesn't know what Zuko looks at her like. He knew from the start. She knew from the start. Two years of careful distance and one postscript from Aang later - Zuko is done being careful. P.S. heavily inspired by a Zuko edit -and the avatar movie -that lived on my FYP rent free until I had no choice but to write this. you know the one.

She was raised to bring peace. Now she might be the danger in this world. Lyra woke up after a hundred years to find her people gone, her home destroyed, and a war she doesn't understand. She was meant to protect the Avatar. But when a certain Fire Nation prince starts hunting them... Peace isn't an option anymore. And when Lyra finally loses control? Even Zuko might not be ready for what she becomes.

All it took was one lunge from Enkyo for Zuko to move-his body snapping between Zhenyi and her father in one firm wall of pure will. Enkyo stumbled back, snarling, reaching again, but Zuko stepped in closer this time, heat curling low along his arms like a warning rather than an attack. The room went silent under his gaze as he spoke, voice flat and absolute: "Do not touch my wife." _ Zuko spent his adolescence fighting for a place in his nation-first at his father's side, and later against him-believing conquest was the path to honor, and honor the path to belonging. By the time he claims the throne as Fire Lord Zuko, everything he once thought he wanted is finally within reach: power, status, and the approval of his people. But victory does not bring peace. Haunted by loss and burdened by the weight of a nation still healing, Zuko finds himself isolated within his own court, uncertain of how to rule a world that no longer fits the fire he was raised to believe in. When Iroh decides it is time for him to marry, Zuko is swiftly betrothed to the daughter of a powerful Fire Nation general. The arrangement is political. Unwanted. Final. His bride is impeccably proper-soft-spoken, excessively modest, and carefully obedient in a way that feels less like etiquette and more like survival. She avoids eye contact, flinches at closeness, and moves through palace life as though taking up space is dangerous. Zuko assumes she fears him. What he does not yet understand is why. As duty binds them together and silence stretches between them in the palace halls, Zuko begins to suspect there are truths hidden beneath her guarded composure-truths that may change not only how he sees her, but how he understands power, loyalty, and the nation he is trying to rebuild. Even in a marriage neither of them chose, something dangerous begins to shift beneath restraint.

❝ Born of war. Forged by loss. Held together by something neither of them understood until it was too late. ❞ In a world torn apart by fire and blood, Siku an ice-wielding Waterbender from the Earth Kingdom never expected to find her greatest enemy in a banished Fire Nation prince. Driven by revenge, she joins Team Avatar to fight the ones who destroyed her home. But when the enemy becomes an ally, and the boy she swore to hate begins to heal the cracks in her heart, everything changes. Through battles, betrayals, redemption, and war, Siku and Zuko's paths twist together until neither can imagine a future without the other. From sparring beneath starlight to bleeding on palace floors, their love is anything but easy. It's painful. Raw. Real. And in the end... eternal. A slow-burn enemies to lovers story woven through the heart of Avatar: The Last Airbender and beyond told through Siku's eyes as she fights for balance, forgiveness, and the boy who became her home.

"Destiny is a funny thing... it follows you even when you run." She wasn't meant to be part of the story- but fate had other plans. zuko x oc slow burn. Everything belongs to the original creators aside from my OC and the Spirits I try to move along the canon events, sometimes I leave some things out or add new stuff, so don't be confused about that please. This is also my very first fanfiction, so I'm nervous about publishing this lol.

"Our hearts beat as one, a flame that never goes out, and before you know it, we'll have started an inferno." Homura has lived in a lie the most of her life. It's a life she chose, one she's happy with, and the Kyoshi warriors are the closest she ever had to a family. She has friends from all around the world but despite everything, there's one thing she lacks; a home. There is an invitation for her to go to the Fire Nation capital with her friends and suddenly, all she ever wished is coming true. Her friends are all there, in the palace she had the happiest days of her life and for once, she feels as if she's truly fitting in. But happy times don't seem to last. A threat she thought was long gone is appearing once more and this time, Homura's whole life is set to crumble. Credit for the cover goes to @lectiophile_wholived NOTE: The story belongs to the creators of Atla, aside from Homura and any characters that aren't mentioned in the series. The plot is mine.

Heimat: a place that you can call home; a sense of belongingness, acceptance, safety and connection to homeland A decade has passed after the final battle between the Avatar and the Fire Nation, a decade after the defeat of their Fire Lord. It is a time of prosperity for most, but the crimes commited during the war couldn't be reversed. Benders were taken away from their families, people were slaughtered, their belongings, homes and land taken away. This, had been the instance when it came to the northwest part of the Earth Kingdom, that had went on to become the Fire Nation colonies. The people of the Fire Nation and the Earth Kingdom lived on in the land that was given to them and gradually, they became one. They collaborated and cooperated in order to live and so they got richer, learnt to depend on each other for their survival. By the end of the war, the people, even though they came from different backgrounds, were one. A decade after the end of the war, the Avatar is commanded to solve the matter of whether the former Fire Nation citizens need to move or not. Aang believes the nations need to be separated. The people in the colonies do not, hatred starts to grow in their hearts. The Avarar will need the help of a companion more than any other time, and there is no better person to aid him than the secret waterbender that's part of the Fire Nation fleet, the woman who risked her own life to get him to safety, even though this had been the first time they had met in their lives. NOTE: Any characters that do not appear in Avatar: The Last Airbender belong to me. The atla universe belongs to the creators.

Long ago, the four Nations lived together in harmony. Then the Fire Nation attacked. The world was about to change forever and for the airbenders, there would be no coming back. A hundred years after the war, all airbenders save for the Avatar are thought to be dead. But in one of the numerous cells of the Boiling Rock a young airbender named Jaya resides, keeping her identity a secret from all. A thief, a killer. A failure of an airbender. Fate plays a curious game, though, and even the most worthless of people may come to have a second chance. In Jaya's case, it all comes down to one question; how many good deeds are needed until she truly feels she's lived up to her ancestry? NOTES •Any characters that do not appear in Avatar: The Last Airbender belong to me. •The a:tla universe belongs to the creators. •This is a companion story to "The Pawn".