Author Feature: lettersfromnowhere
You might remember this next author from such list as Top 10 New in July 2020 and Zutara Week 2020: lettersfromnowhere ! (aka @thereisnocabbageinbasingse )
Go check out her other TWENTY-EIGHT Zutara fics and stay for her multi-fandom stories!
Title: The Waiting Game Rated: T Summary: Newly-crowned Fire Lord Zuko and Katara of the Southern Water Tribe can't deny that there's something between them, but the timing is all wrong. Zuko's got Fire Lord things to do and a missing mother to find, after all, and Katara's needed at home and wondering if she even knows what 'home' means anymore. There's nothing to be done: they're going to have to choose duty over love.
But that doesn't mean that spark has faded over the years, and when their paths cross again several years later, Zuko and Katara must decide if the feelings they've buried for so many years are worth fighting for.
Series Part 1 of The Waiting Game Score: 8.8 / 10 Rated T Complete: 6.8 / 10 Tags: Series, Alternate Universe, Canon Divergence, Post War, Slow Burn, Aged Up
Title: Tethered Rated: G Summary: Katara thinks about soulmates often. Her Gran-Gran told her the story, once: how soulmates are tethered (she likes that word, tethered â stronger than connected, softer than chained), how young some of them are when they hear the first evidence of that Tether. How soulmates hear each othersâ thoughts sometimes, even before they know theyâre soulmates, even before they meet. She loves the idea that a little part of her is in someone elseâs mind even now.
Katara and Zuko through the years, sharing thoughts and finding each other. Score: 8.6 / 10 Rated G One Shots: 9.9 / 10 Tags: One Shot, Zutara Week, Soulmates
Title: go to the ends of the earth for you (to make you feel my love) Rated: G Summary: In which Katara is the last person who should ever be put on bed rest, and Zuko is the last person who's ever going to stop trying to assuage her bed rest-induced misery.
(Or: Zuko attempts to make Katara's last month of pregnancy a little more bearable.)
Series Part 1 of grow as we go Score: 8.2 / 10 Rated G One Shots: 9.8 / 10 Tags: Series, One Shot, Pregnancy, Fluff
Title: the most beautiful thing (that I have never seen) Rated: G Summary: This should be no sweat. After all, Katara's had the entire duration of Zuko's trip to the Earth Kingdom to work herself up to task of giving him news that'll rock his world.
That doesn't make said news any easier to get out, though. Score: 8.1 / 10 Rated G Complete: 9.8 / 10 Tags: Zutara Week, One Shot, Pregnancy, Fluff
Title: Introductions Rated: G Summary: It's never too early to start networking when one's going to inherit the Fire Nation throne one day.
(Or: the Gaang meets Zuko and Katara's first child.)
Series Part 2 of grow as we go Score: 7.7 / 10 Rated G One Shots: 9.7 / 10 Tags: Series, One Shot, Fluff, Steambab(y/ies)
Title: Tongue-Tied Rated: G Summary: Unfortunately, words aren't exactly Fire Lord Zuko's greatest strength; that makes things a touch more difficult than necessary when he realizes that he's got something to say to the girl who saved his life.
(Awkward, repeatedly-thwarted love confession fic for Zutara Week Day 5: Hesitancy.) Score: 7.0 / 10 Rated G One Shots: 9.5 / 10 Tags: One Shot, Zutara Week, Confessions
Title: Lean On Rated: G Summary: Katara isn't about to let Zuko neglect his well-being. Zuko isn't about to accept help. This is fine...right? Score: 6.9 / 10 Rated G One Shots: 9.4 / 10 Tags: One Shot, Angst with a Happy Ending
Title: four days and three nights Rated: T Summary: Zuko discovers firsthand that nothing is more fleeting than happiness, or more enduring than memory. Score: 6.8 / 10 Rated T One Shot: 6.8 / 10 Tags: One Shot, Alternate Universe, Canon Divergence, Angst, Character Death
Title: Tales of Caldera Rated: G Summary: Five years after the Hundred Year War comes to a close, the gang is reunited at a swanky diplomatic affair in the Fire Nation capital, and only one thing is certain: this is going to be a night for the books. The memorable night unfolds in six vignettes:
Sokka's attempts to ask for Suki's hand are hilariously thwarted over and over. Katara, still feeling out a new relationship, must face the reality of her position in the Fire Nation when she runs across a group of her opponents. A conversation with an emissary forces Aang to face the daunting task before him. A bored Toph challenges Aang to a rousing game of truth-or-dare. Zuko seeks Uncle Iroh's advice. And Suki does her best to balance her own hopes and expectations with her desire to be there for a friend in need.
Some humorous, some bittersweet, and some romantic, these are the Tales of Caldera.
(Or: it's Tales of Ba Sing Se episode but futurefic and it's at a party.) Score: 6.7 / 10 Rated G One Shot: 9.3 / 10 Tags: One Shot, Vignettes, Future Fic
Title: before you go Rated: G Summary: The Summer before college is supposed to be the time of their lives: the time to try things, have adventures, go out with a bang. So, armed with an epic pre-college bucket list, six friends set out to make that happen.
But this was also supposed to be the Summer that Zuko and Katara finally got it together and admitted they've wanted nothing more than each other for all of two years, but that doesn't look likely - not after what happened at Mai's graduation party. So, with the clock ticking, they have three months to work things out or lose their last chance.
All they know for sure? Before the Summer is out, nothing will be the same. Score: 6.7 / 10 Rated T One Shot: 9.3 / 10 Tags: Alternate Universe, Modern Setting, One Shot
DISQUALIFIED: Stay Frosty, Royal Milk Tea Rated: G Summary: *CO-AUTHORED WITH @sofileall*
With Gran-Gran getting too old to work full-time and college looming, Katara needs a job. Enter Jasmine Dragon Tea & Treats.
Zuko has enough on his plate just trying to keep his uncleâs struggling boba shop from going under, to say nothing of his sociopath kid sister or disastrous love life. So training a new employee - an annoyingly perky, irritatingly competent, infuriatingly beautiful new employee who thinks nothing of getting in his sisterâs face - is the last thing he needs to be worrying about right now.
But as the pair of them - and Katara's ever-present friends - grow closer, they run into trouble when they learn that the shop is struggling, and if they want to keep the home they've built for themselves, they're going to have to work for it. And so a plot is hatched: save Jasmine Dragon Tea & Treats or die trying.
Fueled by milk tea and matcha macarons, this year - featuring every type and variety of sibling rivalry, many botched promposals, first love, shop-saving schemes, unfortunate timing, Sokka as a dancing pineapple mascot, and one ill-fated open mic night - is one the Jasmine Dragon family is never going to forget. Score: 9.1 / 10 Rated G WIP: 9.6 / 10 Tags: Alternate Universe, Modern Setting, High School Setting, WIP
Would have been number 1 but itâs co-authored so I couldnât solely attribute to lettersfromnowhere!
