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Zuko is a prince, son of the fire lord. Before his banishment he could want for nothing materially. Gold, clothes, jewels, anything was his for the taking. And then he had nothing. Until Sokka, who was maybe his friend, started to give him gifts. And a cross purposes conversation with Katara makes Zuko assume that these gifts contain a lot of cultural and emotional significance. And he accepts.
A story where Zuko falls in love via all the perfect little gifts Sokka gives him. And Sokka just needs a bit of catching up to end up on the same page.
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12 Jul 2026
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Sokka isn’t stupid. Not that his sister is, mind you (at least, he’d never call her that to her face now that she’s honed her waterbending), or any of the rest of Team Avatar, although sometimes it feels like he’s living in a different world from the rest of them — a world where running out of food means starving, and walking into a town full of firebenders with the Avatar in tow will get you killed, rather than help you free a beaten-down Earthbender colony.
Anyways.
Sokka isn’t stupid, which is why he laughs directly in Aunt Wu’s face when she tells him that he will marry the Fire Lord.
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11 Jul 2026
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Book one ends with two major diffrences: 1. Sokka went on the mission with Hahn (it did not go well) 2. Zhao survives the North Pole and that proves unfortunate for everybody (except Zhao, obviously)
Imprisoned on Zhao’s war ship, Sokka and Zuko have to work together to survive. They are not very enthusiastic about this prospect.
And they argue.
A lot.
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- Part 1 of All's Fair
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11 Jul 2026
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The attack on the Northern Water Tribe goes differently, Aang and the ocean spirit don’t destroy the entire Fire Nation fleet, only most of them.
Zhao escapes, taking Sokka and a few other Water Tribe men as prisoners. Knowing Sokka is traveling with the Avatar he gets sent to Zhao’s “special prison camp” that is hidden near the Earth Kingdom colonies.
Sokka gets a taste of the real war, not the war that he thinks he knows from traveling with the Avatar. While Zhao’s prisoner, he struggles to survive the inhuman conditions. Alone and thought to be dead, he feels himself slowly losing hope.
Seeing a familiar face brings back his hope, even if that face is the scarred Prince of the Fire Nation.
Sokka and Zuko come together to survive and end up depending on each other for a lot more than they ever thought possible.
-please read the tags, overall dark themes throughout-
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- Part 1 of Leaving It All Behind
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11 Jul 2026
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Martin was, quite probably, the absolute worst assistant the archives had ever seen. He was clumsy, and always talked with a whispering sort of mumble, and he kept eating bugs, which was...actually quite useful.
Or: Martin is a giant spider.
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08 Jul 2026