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Just a few of my favorites from my ao3 bookmark list! They're a bit older but a great time. By no means is this a comprehensive list, but if you've never read any fanfic before, you may enjoy starting here:

Clothe Me In Seasons, Dress Me In Snow by sadladybug It is not the memorial she deserves, nor the one she would want. But it can't be helped. He owns no property in the other nations, and he needed to keep her close. Closer than she was in life, anyway. Zuko's reflections on a life lived and a life that could have been.

i'm still here by owedbetter "You see me." And somehow, that makes all the difference.

Voyage by amoeve When Zuko asks Katara to marry him, it is for love. But it’s also an alliance that shows the world that the war is truly over, and everyone wants to get in on the fun. Everyone also wants them to observe every single tradition that the Fire Nation and Water Tribe have ever thought up for marriages, “to honour each others’ cultures and encourage a new era of harmony and understanding”. It sounds reasonable until Iroh and Hakoda start handing them helpful transcriptions of ancient ethnographic texts.

we hold our hearts in silence by psychedelic_aya Seventy years later, Korra tries to figure out Zuko and Katara.

Strike a Match by Naladot At Republic City's second annual HeiBai festival, Fire Lord Zuko has contracted a matchmaker to find him a permanent political ally—or, well, a wife. He asks Katara to chaperone his meetings. But this arrangement only threatens to reveal the truth: there are a lot of things neither of them have ever dared to talk about.

my lord, this reminds me of when we were young by akaiiko In which Lord Zuko and Lady Katara reunite, dispense advice, buy a tea shop, and start the love story they put on hold to rebuild the world.

Like Razors On My Lips by orphan_account She ensconces herself in an enemy shrine only to bump into the one enemy she is unprepared to face. Set early Book 3.

The Temple by tanithas Zuko and Katara travel to a Fire Nation village to aid locals who claim their temple is haunted by an angry spirit.

so i can die where i met you by irridesence "When Katara looks at him, her eyes are affectionate and unexpectedly sorrowful, startlingly blue against the stark white of her hair. The last, dying rays of the sun slant across the pai sho board, and her gaze slides from his face to the tablecloth. Later, Zuko will remember this as the moment he knew." Or: Zuko and Katara, eighty years later.

such selfish prayers by andromeda3116 Katara's ambition, so long set aside for the good of others, breaks free and sets fire to her soul. Or, Katara has a vision of her canon future, casts it aside, and becomes a world-changing politician instead.

also my own oneshots here:

when destiny keeps calling by crazyache No, this is a nightmare, and yet, it cannot be, because if anyone is familiar to nightmares, it would be the scarred exiled prince--and this is beyond it. Zuko relives the same day in the catacombs, again and again.

Another comic adaptation! Now is chapter 25: Jude kidnaps Cardan andd stuff happens...

their reasoning being that "we couldn't ban it even if we wanted to, every writer already uses it anyway"

"Every writer"?