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   Salt and Scale by mzladybird

   Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender  

   • Explicit
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   01 Jun 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Katara/Zuko (Avatar)
   • Katara (Avatar)
   • Zuko (Avatar)
   • Original Characters
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Aged-Up Characters
   • the Avatar is dead
   • Sokka is dead
   • pretty much everyone we love is dead
   • the Fire Nation wins the war
   • but now the Empire is crumbling
   • Political Intrigue
   • dark themes
   • PTSD
   • alcohol and substance abuse
   • References to Depression
   • References to Suicide
   • Violence
   • Murder
   • War
   • Blood and Injury
   • Bloodbending as vaguely vampiric
   • Spirits
   • Morally Grey Characters
   • No surprise it's full of angst
   • sexual fast burn emotional slow burn
   • 12-year-old me wanted them to fall in love 30-year-old me wants them to fuck nasty
   • Original Characters - Freeform
   • There’s ‘not nice’ and then there’s this Zuko

   Summary

   He comes at night, on the eve of a storm that will last for seven years. She cannot know it then; only when the veil of perpetual blizzard seals the south from the rest of the world and she is a sea away in the belly of the empire will Katara understand her fate.

   “I need your help.”

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   OR: Eleven years after the death of the Avatar, the Fire Nation’s prince asks for a favor.

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