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    Nearly a year into her role as the Southern Water Tribe’s ambassador, Katara has accomplished what her counterpart from the North could not: securing reparations from the Fire Nation court. But when sabotage, scandal, and colonial unrest threaten the fragile peace of a post-war world, she finds herself pulled deeper and deeper into the viper’s nest of Fire Nation politics…and closer to its ruler. As rumors swirl and tempers flare between the Ambassador and the Fire Lord, Katara finds a helping hand, and unexpected solace, in the brother of one of her students. In a nation built on blood and lies, she must decide: how far is she willing to go to protect those who cannot protect themselves…and what will it cost her?

    This is the first act of a five-act story. Act I is complete and comes to, what I consider to be, a narratively satisfying conclusion. I will be posting the remaining chapters of Act I every day during Zutara Month 2025.

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    “So tell me, Thomas,” Lawrence said at last, each syllable dragging through the still air like the tolling of a distant funeral bell, “what is it your heart desires so fiercely it casts all reason into shadow?”
    Thomas faltered—but only for a heartbeat. When he spoke, his voice was low, resolute, tempered by neither fear nor hesitation.
    “He’s my best friend,” he said. “And I’ll see the world burn before I give up on him.”


    Written as part of TMRSS '25, inspired by my giftee’s prompt:
    TDC movie canon divergence where they rescue Minho, Sonya and Aris, but Newt gets captured, and they break into WCKD HQ to rescue him. (happy ending where Newt gets cured please) (bonus points if Teresa survives too)

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    12 Jan 2026

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    Thomas had no way of knowing how much his arrival had upended Newt’s world. To him it felt Thomas was the answer to a question he'd been asking for three years—though spoken in a foreign language, merely raising more questions; an answer all the same.

    or: The Maze Runner rewrite basically, just altered enough to have movies and books get along with each other. Plus Newtmas :)

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    12 Jan 2026

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    “You’re sure?” Thomas whispered, low enough it felt meant only for him.

    Newt didn’t even know what the question was. The answer hadn’t changed. Of course he was sure. Never had he known certainty like this—nothing else held weight, only the boy staring back with those steadfast, familiar brown eyes.

    or: The one where they get to ruin each other and burn the world down for it.

    A sequel to Every Heart a Maze, a canon rewrite of The Maze Runner with lots of Newtmas

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    12 Jan 2026

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    “We’re in the middle of the desert, waterbender. So you might have that barrel, but once it’s gone, what do you have?” Zuko moved forward, into her personal space. She was shorter than him, and he was using his height deliberately to glare down at her, but Katara didn’t back down. He could feel the sun soaking into him – his power was strongest while she was at her weakest, and for a moment he wished she would start something so that he could beat her in a fight. “I can make fire anywhere, and you might get one shot in, but then I am going to make you burn.”

    The moment dragged out.

    They were glaring.

    Still glaring.

    This was the point where the girl would usually be flying away on a bison and he’d be covered in perfume or something.
    Something shifted in her expression, and Zuko started fully processing what he had just said, and how it could perhaps have been phrased a little—

    Her voice was completely flat. “Make. Me. Burn.” Her mouth tugged, started widening into a sly smile.

    His stomach dropped. Oh no. “I meant it like—“

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    A good tip about a mountain pass leads Zuko and Iroh to Misty Palms Oasis a week early, and they run straight into some old enemies.

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    06 Jun 2025