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Aang's energybending fails, and the war is lost. But before the gaang can blink, they wake up in the past, on the day that Katara and Sokka found the Avatar.
The war's a lot easier to win when your biggest enemies are on your side from the beginning.
Ft. the gaang's antics, loads of dramatic irony, and literally the entire Fire Nation being confused as to why, when, and how the banished prince got happy emotions and friends...
The first 5 chapters were written in 2020, and the (minor!) rewrite and all subsequent updates started 2025-06-01. If you want to see the work as it was before the rewrite began, the original work can be found using this link to the Wayback Machine!!
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- Part 1 of "A Second Chance"-verse
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15 Mar 2026
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They gravitated towards Zuko whenever the temperature dipped even slightly. At night, he often woke to someone pulling their bedroll towards him, or slipping under his arm, or turning over in their sleep and colliding with his shoulder.
It alarmed him, at first. It had never been a good thing when someone woke him in the dead of the night.
It was strange, then, that he was on the run without Uncle, officially a traitor to his homeland, and for the first time since his mother left, he woke in the night sandwiched between bodies, feeling safe.
(Zuko becomes the group's heat-pack.)
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15 Mar 2026
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Aang's will isn't strong enough when he attempts to use energybending on Fire Lord Ozai and his spirit is corrupted.
The spirits aren't happy with that. So when the Avatar and his friends next open their eyes, they are back almost a year ago, when a beam of light near the South Pole first announced the return of the Avatar to the world.Bookmarked by Boato
15 Mar 2026
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– and Azula’s crackling bolt of lightning steadied, became still and straight, and was a beam of blue light thrusting from the horizon to the sky. The cold voltaic shock through his nerves was the sting of cold air damp with spray from the sea, the pressure of electrical charge the weight of armour on his shoulders, the harsh blue-white glow of lightning the grey-white-blue of sea and ice and sky.
…His scalp was cold.
Zuko doesn't know why he's suddenly back here again, here on his ship amongst the icebergs, with the Avatar's light stabbing into the sky. He's not even sure this is real. But if it is, he's going to do things better this time.
Of course, things go off the rails almost immediately.
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15 Mar 2026
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As Riz steps inside, he takes stock of his surroundings, checking for exits, checking for weapons, checking for danger—no.
No, that’s not him anymore. He forces the thoughts out of his head. There’s no danger here. This is the safest place in the world, surrounded by his fellow Foxhounds—no!
Riz grimaces at his runaway mind. It’s been almost two months since the day that he and the other Bad Kids escaped the facility but the time they spent there has left its claws in them. Riz has wounds that can’t seem to heal because of what happened to him under the careful hands of the Sculptors. He knows that two months is nothing when it comes to how long it’ll take to heal from his time in captivity, but he can’t help but be frustrated anyway. It’s over now. He’s home. So why is he still acting like he was when he was a weapon in the Sculptor’s belt?
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or: In the aftermath of "you will be remade," the Bad Kids, thirsty for revenge, wrestle with who they are after the Sculptors changed them.
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- Part 2 of the foxhounds
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11 Mar 2026