Avatar: The Last Airbender fanfiction recommendations
Included is the summary, completion status, chapter count, major ships, and word count. I really love all the fanfics here and I hope you find something nice here!
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you make a really good girl (as girls go) by suzukiblu
(Finished, 4/4 chapters, Azula/Yue, word count: 38,991)
Summary: “Oh spirits,” Azula says, grinning widely. The Water Tribe is full of idiots. “You don’t want to marry Zuko, he’s useless. Also, he’s already engaged.”
“He is?” Yue blinks at her. “Of course he is, he’s going to be the Fire Lord, he’s been engaged since he was twelve,” Azula says. A useless Fire Lord who she’s going to have to prop up, if not outright usurp, but Fire Lord all the same. The things she does for this family, she swears.From the City to the Ocean by trying_to_spell_both_our_names_at_once
(Unfinished, last updated 2020, 2/3 chapters, no major ship, word count: 16,318)
Summary: “What are those?”
“These,” Mother said, and Zuko noticed her voice was shaking, as if she was about to cry. “Are our pelts.”.
Zuko, Azula, and Ursa are Selkies. It changes everything and nothing at all.Life in Eden by WitchofEndor
(Finished, 6/6 chapters, no major ship, word count: 14,297)
Summary: Her daughter is five years old when Ursa realises what she and Ozai have been doing to their children. By each choosing one to bestow with their approval, they’re pitting them against one another. Perhaps Ozai is doing it on purpose, but Ursa isn’t. She resolves to heal the damage she has done. In which Ursa tries to be a better parent to Azula, and it doesn’t change very much. And then, quite abruptly, it changes everything.i really like the way your hair blows looking back at me by mazapan13
(Finished, 2/2 chapters, Azula/Ty Lee, Mai/Zuko, word count: 9,311)
Summary: Ty Lee could carry Azula’s books with one hand, along with hers, just so she could hold Azula’s hand down the hallway. Like Atlas, she would carry the entire world on her shoulders if it meant she got to hold Azula’s hand. High School!AU.The Good Vanilla by Haicrescendo
(Finished, 1/1 chapters, Sokka/Zuko, word count: 5,620)
Summary: Sokka’s beautiful friendship with Zuko doesn’t start with breaking Dad out of jail. That’s just what he tells people. Sokka’s beautiful friendship with Zuko started the day he realizes that he knows how to cook. Feat. breakup cake, an attempted assassination, and eating out of the pan like dirty heathens.Mass Times Acceleration by Haircrescendo
(Finished, 4/4 chapters, Sokka/Zuko, word count: 19,417)
Summary: [Zuko calls at three in the morning and says, tears in his voice and rage through his teeth, “I want to run away.” It’s Sokka’s turn to carry the brain cell in his household but he doesn’t waste a second before he’s saying, “Tell me when and where—I’m coming too.”] Or, A road trip AU featuring two teenage disasters, abusing Ozai’s credit card, and A Lot Of Sea Lions.The New Fire Lord (And How the Fire Nation Learned to Trust the Son of Ozai) by avatays
(Finished, 1/1 chapters, no major ship, word count: 5,058)
Summary: Knowing Zuko’s family, it was natural for the Fire Nation to be apprehensive of his rule – specifically the workers at the palace. Many of the Fire Lords had used capital punishment, abuse, and banishment to assert dominance and their right to the throne. Those are Zuko’s ancestors, surely he would rule with the same iron fist. They had forgetten that Zuko was a victim of such rule. And he would prove to the nation and the world that the Fire Nation is no longer to be feared – and neither is he. Because he is not Ozai. He is Zuko.Ladies, Tonight We Riot by for_darkness_shows_the_stars
(Finished, 1/1 chapters, no major ship, word count: 3,331)
Summary: The ladies of the Southern Water Tribe have survived for two years without their men. Now that the war is over, some are eager to return to status quo. Some ... not so much. Or; Katara leads a revolt.a nation, held by snowdarkred
(Finished, 1/1 chapters, no major ship, word count: 6,086)
Summary: It doesn’t take long for the rumors to start. The Fire Nation prides itself on its civilization. It isn’t like the other, lesser, nations who throw their children away by sending them into war. Those uncultured and unfeeling savages who are destroying their own future faster than the Fire Nation can save them from themselves. Every Fire Nation child goes to school. They learn reading and writing, the illustrious history of their country, and what will be expected of them as proper, upstanding Fire Nation citizens. They are to be protected, because children are the future glory of the nation. The crown prince is thirteen when his father burns his face in front of an audience of hundreds.Electra by maizula
(Unfinished, last updated 2023, 2/? chapters, Azula/Mai, word count: 8,545)
Summary: Mai is just shy of fifteen when she's promised to Fire Lord Ozai. Then Fire Lord Ozai dies, and Mai's father is made Fire Lord Regent until Azula comes of age. Zuko (fake) joins the Gaang to stop his sister from succeeding their father. Ty Lee really does join the Gaang. The war shifts accordingly. or: dyke drama changes the course of the 100 year war