Author Feature: MarkedMage
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Title: And Maybe We're Like Fire and Ice
Rated: M
Summary: It's an easy kind of love, the way Zuko loves her, and the way she loves him. It's simple in the way a turtleduck needs a pond to swim, the way a dragon needs fire to breathe. How the airbenders rely on the wind to carry them to the highest turrets on the temples, how the blood in the human body needs the heart to live. It's simple in the way fire ignites the world, and water soothes the burn. Like yin and yang, push and pull, hot and cold, ice and fire.
Score: 8.8 / 10
Rated M One Shots: 5.3 / 10
Tags: One Shot, Smut, Alternate Universe, Canon Divergence, Post Canon
Title: With Calloused Hands (I Tasted the Softness of the Moon)
Rated: T
Summary: They stay there in silence for a moment, a ragtag group of people from all corners of the world, pulled together to save it. Two Water Tribe siblings, one a strategic genius and the other master waterbender; a Kyoshi Warrior, fierce and beautiful like her namesake; the worldās greatest earthbender, and the Avatar, the last airbender. Katara opens her eyes and looks down at the one person who has brought them together in Caldera city. Her burning boy, her brilliant flame, the Fire Prince who took lightning for her.
Katara and Zuko, and what comes after.
Score: 8.4 / 10
Rated T One Shots: 8.5 / 10
Tags: One Shot, Alternate Universe, Canon Divergence, Post Canon
Title: A Quiet Collision of Destinies
Rated: M
Summary: Later sheāll touch her lips and realize that kissing Zuko is like watching a new constellation form; awe inspiring and breathtaking, igniting a fire within her belly and making the stars dance in her eyes.
Zutara week, day one: Reunion
Part 1 of The Moon and All Her Stars
Score: 8.2 / 10
Rated Ā One Shots: 3.4 / 10
Tags: One Shot, Zutara Week, Series, Alternate Universe, Canon Divergence, Smut
Title: Ten Truths
Rated: T
Summary: Something pushes at the edges of Zukoās consciousness. He remembers all those moments with Katara, the moments of shared silence where she waited, patiently, until he was ready to talk. He remembers how she pulled each little truth from his lips with just her gentle gaze and her willingness to listen without judgment. He remembers how they learned to trust again, in the simple breaths where truth became reality, where he talked and she listened. He looks at her again, sees the gentleness in her eyes, and knows it is time. Heās ready.
Score: 8.1 / 10
Rated M One Shot: 8.0 / 10
Tags: One Shot, Alternate Universe, Canon Divergence, Zutara Month
Title: i can feel it in my bones
Rated: E
Summary: Zuko's not planning to get drunk tonight. However, his demise comes in the form of tantalizing brown skin and deep blue eyes, and well, he's never been good at keeping promises.
Zutara week, day three: Fuse
Part 3 of The Moon and All Her Stars Part 2 of Modern dorks
Score: 7.5 / 10
Rated E One Shots: 0.8 / 10
Tags: One Shot, Zutara Week, Alternate Universe, Modern Setting, Series
Title: i've been so many places (but you're the one i run home to)
Rated: T
Summary: āYou have the greatest love story ever told,ā Yue says. āYou have been able to love the same person across two different lifetimes. Itās a love that exceeds time, lasting longer than tomorrow and farther than eternity. The love Oma and Shu held for each other carried on to this lifetime, but it is the love between you, Katara, and Zuko, that keeps it going.ā
This is the tale of Oma and Shu. This is the tale of Katara and Zuko.
Zutara week, day seven: Rebirth
Part 7 of The Moon and All Her Stars
Score: 7.4 / 10
Rated T One Shots: 7.2 / 10
Tags: One Shot, Alternate Universe, Canon Divergence, Zutara Week, Reincarnation, Series
Title: just relax (the world isn't watching)
Rated: E
Summary: Katara's first time. Someone's a little nervous.
(Hint: and it ain't Katara.)
Zutara week, day five: Hesitancy
Part 5 of The Moon and All Her Stars
Score: 7.3 / 10
Rated E One Shots: 0.7 / 10
Tags: Alternate Universe, Canon Divergence, Zutara Week, Zuko is an Awkward Turtleduck, Post Canon, Smut, Series
Title: Urano Metria
Rated: T
Summary: "You gave me the stars."
Zutara week, day four: Celestial
Part 4 of The Moon and All Her Stars
Score: 6.9 / 10
Rated T One Shot: 6.6 / 10
Tags: One Shot, Zutara Week, Alternate Universe, Canon Divergence, Post Canon, Proposal, Series
Title: You Never Walk Alone
Rated: T
Summary: "To me, you're my world, but to the world, I wanted you to be seen as you are, my equal."
Zutara Week, day two: Counterpart
Part 2 of The Moon and All Her Stars
Score: 6.4 / 10
Rated T One Shot: 6.1 / 10
Tags: One Shot, Zutara Week, Alternate Universe, Canon Divergence, Post Canon, Series
Title: and you can have this heart to hold
Rated: T
Summary: "You got me a wolf."
She searches his gaze, blue boring into gold. "Why?" She asks, voice soft like starlight.
He cups her cheek, and she leans in, eyes closing. When she opens them again, he's got a fond look on his face, a gentle, crooked smile, reserved only for her, touching his lips, and he strokes his thumb along the noble arch of her cheekbone.
"You know why," he murmurs, and leans in to kiss her again.
Zutara week, day six: Affirm
Part 6 of The Moon and All Her Stars
Score: 6.2 / 10
Rated T One Shot: 5.8 / 10
Tags: Zutara Week, Alternate Universe, Canon Divergence, Post Canon, Series