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[AO3] like we’re made of starlight

Title: like we’re made of starlight Author: Naladot Rating: Gen Status: Complete Summary: Katara leaves her post as the ambassador to the Fire Nation to take up a new one as the ambassador to the Northern Water Tribe. Her absence makes Zuko realize that he's got an unfortunate crush, which he is determined to keep secret. Unfortunately for him, subtly has never been one of his strengths—especially when he arrives in the Northern Water Tribe and she keeps taking him on what seem to be dates.

#zutara #zutara fic rec #fluff #oneshot #complete #G #AO3

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[AO3] The Long Route

Title: The Long Route Author: evergreenonthehorizon Rating: Teen Status: Ongoing Summary: When Katara experiences a sudden upheaval in her meticulously planned life, fate brings her to the Water Tribe village of Naamaruk. There, she comes face to face with her past and must reconsider the kind of future she wants for herself. All the while, she finds that almost every corner she turns in the village leads her to cross paths with Zuko, a mysterious man who has earned the love of the people in Naamaruk and has a hundred jobs but no answers to her many questions. Despite their differences, they may each be what the other needs.

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Or, a love story set in a small seaside village.

#zutara #zutara fic rec #modern!AU #hurt comfort #chaptered #ongoing #T #AO3

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[AO3] darling, don’t you cry

Title: darling, don’t you cry Author: tiffaniesblews Rating: Teen Status: Complete Summary: “Katara, our burdens are not ours to shoulder alone,” he told her, now wrapping his other arm around her and dropping a kiss to the top of her head. “I learned the hard way that sometimes you need to open yourself up to others or else you’re going to explode.”

“But I’m always the one taking care of everyone else,” Katara said, feeling tears welling up in her eyes. “If I’m too busy taking care of myself, who’s going to take care of everyone else?”

OR: Zuko finds Katara late at night, leading to a discussion of what it means to feel needed and where to find your home.

#zutara #zutara fic rec #post canon #fluff #angst #complete #oneshot #T #AO3 #this was sweet

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[AO3] Countdown

Title: Countdown

Author: thetasteoflies Rating: Explicit Status: Complete Summary: Some things are inevitable. The progression of time. The rising of the sun. The phases of the moon. The catastrophic collision of two people who are fated to ruin, restore, and remake each other. In that order.

After the war, Katara finally feels free enough to pursue her own ambitions and seek out what is important to her. But, in doing so, she leaves behind something, someone, that has become important to her - Zuko. By the time she realizes it, their past is littered with mistakes they can't undo and demons they will have to contend with. And when they inevitably do collide again in their furious and fantastic catastrophe, the only place to find forgiveness is in their fallout.

Our story has had its twists and turns. I may not know every turn we will take in our future, but I do know this:

We make our own destinies.

I make you mine.

Now breathe deeply and count backwards from ten.

#zutara #zutara fic rec #angst #complete #E #AO3

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[AO3] side of the highway

Title: side of the highway Author: visibleworlds Rating: Teen Status: Complete Summary: “Why the fuck,” Katara asked, “were you making an omelette at three in the afternoon.”

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Zuko moves, tries to repair his relationship with his sister, almost burns the house down, and falls in love. It’s a grand time.

#zutara #zutara fic rec #modern!AU #T #oneshot #complete #ao3 #pining #fluff

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[AO3] destiny is a funny thing

Title: destiny is a funny thing Author: gonnakostya Rating: Mature Status: Complete Summary: Katara isn't sure who she is anymore. In her search to rediscover herself, she takes Zuko up on his offer to escort her home to the Southern Water Tribe.

#zutara #zutara fic rec #atla #post canon #slow burn #chaptered #M #AO3 #complete

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[AO3] Katara Blue

Title: Katara Blue Author: drunkhemingway Rating: Gen Status: Complete Summary: Never again in his life will he call that color ‘ocean blue’ — it is ‘Katara blue’ for him now, it always will be, and it is joy and melancholy and hope and heartbreak all at once.

#zutara #zutara fic rec #atla #angst #complete #oneshot #G #AO3 #this was so good but ouch!!! #soz for always reccing angst i just can't help myself sdfghjk

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[AO3] Fato Profuga

Title: Fato Profuga Author: ecphrasis Rating: Mature Status: Complete Summary: Zuko, driven out of the Fire Nation, has made a home for himself and his people in the wilderness outside Omashu.

A windswept stranger and her band of warriors arrive after a summer hurricane, starving, weary, alien.

Like iron filings to a lodestone, Zuko is drawn to Katara, whose suffering mirrors his.

The sun and the moon cannot dwell together in the same sky.

#zutara #zutara fic rec #atla #angst #chaptered #M #AO3 #everything this author writes is so so good #this one is beautiful and painful and so worth reading #complete

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[AO3] locum tenens

Title: locum tenens Author: labelleepoque Rating: Mature Status: Ongoing Summary: Katara knows that this whole mess started with the burning. Nothing was ever the same after that. Not her, not Zuko, and not the country.

or: Katara knows Zuko is alive even if he himself refuses to accept it.

#zutara #zutara fic rec #atla #post canon #established relationship #angst #mystery #chaptered #ongoing #M #AO3

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[AO3] succor

Title: succor Author: lieselss Rating: Teen Status: Complete Summary: In the heart of the Fire Nation, exhausted but victorious, a boy and a girl wait for deliverance that will never come. That is to say, Sozin's comet comes and goes. Ozai defeats Aang. There are consequences to that.

Katara, Zuko, and the making of myths.

#zutara #zutara fic rec #atla #canon divergence #angst #hurt comfort #chaptered #complete #M #AO3

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[AO3] Away We Go

Title: Away We Go Author: TexasBean Rating: Gen Status: Ongoing Summary: Katara gets separated from her friends while fleeing from Azula and her cronies. The only way she can think of ever seeing them again is hopefully meeting up in Ba Sing Se. --- Zuko is alone; Uncle is gone; and he’s a fugitive with no hope of ever returning home. He’s been wandering with no real destination in mind. --- Katara and Zuko of all the chances, run into each other in some nameless Earth Kingdom town. They come to a sort of truce and from there, things gradually begin to shift.

#zutara #zutara fic rec #atla #b2 #canon divergence #fluff #angst #slow burn #painted lady blue spirit #hurt comfort #chaptered #ongoing #G #AO3 #fake relationship

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[AO3] I Asked You First

Title: I Asked You First Author: halfhoursonearth Rating: Mature Status: Ongoing Summary: After leaving Yon Rha’s village, Zuko finds a way to draw Katara out of her distress, and she begins to seek out his company. In late night conversations, they discover themselves and each other.

#zutara #zutara fic rec #atla #canon divergence #B3 #pining #chaptered #ongoing #M #AO3

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[AO3] Partners in Learning

Title: Partners in Learning Author: evergreen_on_the_horizon Rating: Teen Status: Complete Summary: All of Izumi’s teachers prior to this one have used the term “partners in learning.” But never before has it seemed true. And now, here he is, eyeballs deep in markers and glitter glue, somehow the most involved parent in the classroom.

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In which Izumi idolizes her new teacher and Zuko falls a little bit in love.

#zutara #zutara fic rec #atla #modern!AU #fluff #oneshot #complete #T #AO3

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[AO3] side of the highway

Title: side of the highway Author: arghmuffin Rating: Teen Status: Complete Summary: “Why the fuck,” Katara asked, “were you making an omelette at three in the afternoon.”

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Zuko moves, tries to repair his relationship with his sister, almost burns the house down, and falls in love. It’s a grand time.

#zutara #zutara fic rec #atla #modern!AU #humour #pining #oneshot #complete #T #AO3

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[AO3] butter sunlight

Title: butter sunlight Author: bombshells Rating: Teen Status: Ongoing Summary: “Why didn’t you tell us?” Katara asks.

Zuko shrugs, and then winces, because his general upper torso area still hurts like a giant bruise. “Would you believe me if I said I was too tired?”

Katara smiles ruefully, and the bags under her eyes are suddenly very pronounced. “I would.”

Later, Zuko would spend a lot of time trying to figure out what she means. - Post-Canon. The world keeps turning, and Zuko and Katara have to learn to turn with it.

#zutara #zutara fic rec #atla #post canon #angst #fluff #hurt comfort #slow burn #self discovery #chaptered #ongoing #T #AO3 #jsyk this hasn't been updated for a little while and it's got some kataang and maiko #i just recently read it and im rly interested in it

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[AO3] Moirai

Title: Moirai Author: LadyAniko Rating: Teen Status: Ongoing Summary: 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.

Or: Katara navigates a post-war world trying to rebuild itself and particularly grapples with changes regarding Zuko.

#zutara #zutara fic rec #atla #post canon #soulmates #reincarnation #pining #angst #chaptered #ongoing #T #AO3

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[AO3] Smoke & Mirrors

Title: Smoke & Mirrors Author: seraluci Rating: Mature Status: Complete Summary: Katara doesn’t know exactly what will come of her vigilante adventures with a masked counterpart in Ba Sing Se, but what she does know is that there’s something magnetic about him; and something that’s almost comfortingly familiar. Even if the mysterious Blue Spirit, enemy of the Fire Nation, doesn’t speak or show his face. Blutara AU.

#zutara #zutara fic rec #atla #canon divergence #angst #fluff #slow burn #painted lady blue spirit #chaptered #complete #M #AO3 #for the anon who was looking for this story