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Here's Chapter 29 of The Death of the Phoenix, the longest so far by a good amount.

Iroh and Appa travel to Ba Sing Se looking for Aang, we meet Kuei and someone who might be special to Huang, and Azula and Zuko bicker and are also so in love and in denial about it they're frankly sickening.

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In need of someone he can trust guide and challenge him, Fire Lord Zuko goes after an unexpected ally for his cause. Things work out a little too well.

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Since tumblr keeps showing me the same take I disagree with, over and over, with slight variations, I decided to make memes

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Here's Chapter 28 of The Death of the Phoenix!

I went back and forth on a few scenes for this chapter, but was ultimately pretty happy with the end result. Iroh is a fairly central character in this chapter (he is the main secondary character) and the Fire Siblings get to experience a few new things!

(I can't believe how much I've written for this story already! 273k words and counting!)

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Chapter 10 of 'Hearts of Vengeance' is out!

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Fanon: Katara does all the chores

Katara and the actual canon:

Fanon: 4566545 posts about motherly Katara aka her whole personality it seems

Katara and the actual canon:

(mind you, she acts motherly due to her TRAUMA. She's a child, not the gaangs' mother)

Fanon: Katara see Aang as a brother

Katara and the actual canon:

Fanon: Katara doesn't have feelings for Aang, she was forced to have a relationship with him

Katara and the actual canon:

Fanon: Bloodbending Katara!! ❤ ❤

Katara and the actual canon:

Fanon: Katara doesn't want a family/children/grandchildren

Katara and the actual canon:

Fanon: Katara was reduced to Aang's wife

Katara and the actual canon:

(the most boring headcanon. Yes, Katara's writing in tlok was bad, it has a LOT of flaws and many times she was forgotten (like the rest of the gaang, i have a lot to say about Sokka, Suki, Toph and yes even Aang) but when and how she was reduced to "Aang's wife"? She was never treated as the "avatar's wife" and they didn't have a single scene together in that series. Stop imagining things 🤦‍♂️)

Fanon: Katara hates to be an healer/she has no agency/her desire for vengeance in The Southern Raiders is 'letting her be who she really is'/blah blah blah

Katara and the actual canon:

Just watch properly this fucking show, i'm not gonna bother anymore

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Here's Chapter 27 of The Death of the Phoenix! I love that I'm getting to write interactions between characters that didn't come across each other in canon at all.

(Also, we're 260k words in and both sides of the main ship haven't even realized they're in love yet. I accept any anger towards me for writing a story that truly needs such a slow pace in order to work!)

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Here's Chapter 26 of The Death of the Phoenix, "Anger, Shame, Adoration". Zuko has a radical realization, the Fire Siblings come across a village, and Aang reaches Ba Sing Se.

This chapter went longer than I expected, but I just kept writing and it came out quite well! Hope you all enjoy it.

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Chapter 9 of 'Hearts of Vengeance' is out!

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Here's Chapter 25 of The Death of the Phoenix!

There are lots of animals in this one, which I only just noticed fully after writing it. Weird. Also, Azula is madly in love (they both are, but Zuko is still in denial), and she doesn't chastise herself for it for a split second here.

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Chapter 8 of 'Hearts of Vengeance' is out!

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I’ll be honest, I don’t think Zuko gets a happy ending in the show.  His family is completely broken and the one person in it who he has a semi-decent relationship with abandons him and fucks off to set up a tea shop half the world away in a city he laid siege to for 600 days. Sure, Zuko’s made friends with the Gaang, but they have their own lives, responsibilities, and families, so they’re not going to stick around in the Fire Nation. This leaves Mai being the only person in a thousand mile radius who actually gives a fuck about Zuko, and we know how volatile the Maiko relationship can be.  

Zuko never really had chance to figure out who he was and what truly made him truly happy life, instead having Iroh dump the responsibility of Firelord on him and Zuko dedicating his life to it to please Iroh(the series even suggests that Zuko might be happiest as a humble waiter!).  And of course, not only his unprepared to be Firelord, but he also faces an incredibly difficult task–”fixing” the Fire Nation–which would try even the most capable and prepared of rulers. He’s not in for a good time at all.

I want Zuko to have a happy ending. I just don’t think he really gets one in canon.

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Took me longer than I wanted because work exists, but here's Chapter 24!

We get Iroh interacting with animals, Azula and Zuko struggling with their feelings, and a forgotten Earth Kingdom village that unveils some disturbing inner workings.

The story is really picking up steam now, and we're not that far off from Zuko's emotionally stunted ass recognizing what he feels!

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Chapter 7 of 'Hearts of Vengeance' is out!

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I just got the most wonderful comment, it made me so happy. God, these moments make the effort of writing so worth it.

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Chapter 23 of The Death of the Phoenix is up (after a few rewrites that drove me crazy)!

After Azula's earth-shattering realization, the Fire Siblings continue their travels, the wanted Iroh begins his own new path south, and Huang has to deal with Earth Kingdom incompetence. Oh, and with a big weapon!

Should also be said that I nearly fainted when I saw the word count! Like, I have written all of that and I still have barely reached the halfway point?? HELP

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Chapter 6 of 'Hearts of Vengeance' is out!