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i'm still here (but all is lost) by hesitantskeleton
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
13 Aug 2025
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The throne room holds a kind of gravity to it, like the Southern Air Temple, like Hama’s home. It’s seen the destruction of generations, of cultures, of people and property and locations and hope.
And now, the throne sits, bare and waiting for a person who does not exist. Uncle Iroh cannot take the throne without challenging Ozai as he was formally abdicated months ago. Ozai is too weak to fight. His challenge to the throne will have to wait, but he also has no living relatives, no sons or daughters or step-children to continue the royal line. He’s too old to produce children. Sokka doesn’t know whether Uncle Iroh will ascend to the throne. He doesn’t know if he respects this choice, or if it’s a weakness.
The throne is bare. There’s a very real possibility that this is how it will remain.
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or, in which zuko is imprisoned after the agni kai and was thought to be dead. Only two people knew of his survival. team avatar must find an heir to the throne before it's too late, but how do you find someone who doesn't exist? -
(PODFIC) While Mighty Oaks Do Fall by hesitantskeleton
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
16 Mar 2025
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High Sage Kenji blesses Fire Prince Zuko with the resilience of the reed, who bends in the wind and never breaks. When he is done, Fire Prince Ozai narrows his eyes, seemingly displeased by this blessing. But Kenji does not speak for himself; he is only a vessel.
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The newly-crowned Fire Lord Ozai offers his firstborn son to service in the temple.
This turns out to be a catastrophic mistake.
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Podfic recording of WitchofEndor's While Mighty Oaks Do Fall starting chapter 11
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looking for a creation myth (ended up with a pair of cracked lips) by hesitantskeleton
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
03 Oct 2024
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(PODFIC VERSION)
The ever-pressing weight of life and being alive is... a lot. Zuko's life is falling around him, and he's not really sure how to continue.
Sokka's life is debatably great. His friend just fell in love with his other friend, he got an A+ on his calculus final, and his favourite bakery just started serving drinks.
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Or, Zuko needs a reason to keep going. Sokka takes one look at this wet flop of a cat and decides that he needs friends.Series
- Part 2 of Creation Myths
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looking for a creation myth (ended up with a pair of cracked lips) by hesitantskeleton
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
25 Sep 2024
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The ever-pressing weight of life and being alive is... a lot. Zuko's life is falling around him, and he's not really sure how to continue.
Sokka's life is debatably great. His friend just fell in love with his other friend, he got an A+ on his calculus final, and his favourite bakery just started serving drinks.
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Or, Zuko needs a reason to keep going. Sokka takes one look at this wet flop of a cat and decides that he needs friends.Series
- Part 1 of Creation Myths
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(for you i'd) bleed myself dry by hesitantskeleton
Fandoms: Carry On Series - Rainbow Rowell
16 Oct 2020
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baz has a minor emotional breakdown/existential crisis.
or, in which the author is having a Lot of feelings and needs to hear some things and made their comfort characters say what they need to hear (lmao)
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- Part 4 of Carry On Drabbles
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Creation Myths by hesitantskeleton
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
03 Oct 2024
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designated survivor by hesitantskeleton
Fandom: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
07 Nov 2019
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Zhao wonders if the boy remembers his old name. It's three years since he's been called anything but 'boy', three years since he lost an agni kai to his own father, and was sent to the lightning-tamers to have the rebellion burnt out of his brain.
Zhao's had him ever since. He's perfectly, despicably docile. Left alone, he does nothing, just stays sitting or kneeling where you left him. But when given orders, he'll do anything -- anything -- you ask him to.
Bookmarked by hesitantskeleton
27 Oct 2025
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"They asked if we'd heard the news... about the Fire Nation prince. He was thirteen. Sokka's age. I was... fascinated." Hakoda does not know Zuko, but he knows of him. [set after 3x15 TBR]
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Bookmarked by hesitantskeleton
24 Oct 2025
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Even as the self-proclaimed Plan Guy, Sokka has to admit he never saw this one coming.
Or: Zuko doesn’t make it out of the Fire Nation unscathed. Cue a whumpy rewrite of “The Western Air Temple.”
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Bookmarked by hesitantskeleton
22 Oct 2025
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When Sokka sees a “lost pet” poster near his apartment for an actual, literal dragon, he thinks it’s a joke.
Right up until he finds the dragon sitting on his couch.
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Bookmarked by hesitantskeleton
18 Oct 2025
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after three years in the grave, i remember it all too well by Andy_Day02
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
24 Mar 2024
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“When you said she touched you everywhere,” Andrew started, “what do you mean?”
Neil clearly remembered what happened before he blacked out, but neither of them thought to question what happened after.
Andrew’s mind played through their past six years together, picking apart every moment that pointed towards a truth he never wanted to hear. It was like watching a movie a second time, knowing every character’s backstory.
Some things made overwhelming sense, now. Even without having full memory of what happened, the subconscious is completely aware. Andrew knew that well.
The thing with having the lowest form of clinical depression was that few things moved him from rock bottom. Andrew was never happy, and he was okay with that.
Anger, however, was lethal.
True anger wasn’t an emotion he felt often, but when he did, it was dangerous.–
post-canon fic that hashes out everything (and then some) that happened in the car trunk with Lola in TKM. possibly a tad canon-divergent: Neil remembers parts of that night he forgot happened. extremely domestic. lots of hurt/angst/lots of comfort ensues.Series
- Part 3 of My Roman Empire: domestic (ish) Andriel
Bookmarked by hesitantskeleton
01 Oct 2025