#it's the painted lady fic

[demaparbat-hp]

Character design for Katara in Soundless.

[becasart]

Fic: Envy is the Enemy of Honor

Here is my second contribution for the @zkbigbang and guau! This scene though! It motivated me to try something new and make a comic in this format. Make sure y'all give everyone who participated on this project some love 😭💕

[97b0n3s]

♡ The shadow ♡ (inspired by the painting by edmund leighton)

[caplanbuckybarnes]

Fated Flames (Zutara)

Summary: Zuko has a confession to make.

Warnings: fluff

WC: 670ish

Read on Ao3!

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Katara stood at the edge of the Fire Nation palace balcony, the evening wind brushing against her face. The soft glow of lanterns illuminated the courtyard below, but her mind was far away, lost in the complexities of the past few years. The war was over, but the scars it left on her heart lingered.

Behind her, the heavy footsteps of someone familiar approached. She didn’t turn around. She didn’t need to.

“Katara.”

Zuko’s voice, strong yet uncertain, sent a shiver through her. He stood a few feet away, and she could feel the weight of his presence like the warmth of a flame in the cold night air.

“What is it, Zuko?” she asked softly, her gaze still fixed on the horizon. The moon was rising, its silver light casting a serene glow over the land, a sharp contrast to the storm brewing in her chest.

“I’ve been thinking… about everything,” he began, his tone heavy with emotions he rarely allowed himself to show. “About what we’ve been through. About what’s ahead.”

Katara closed her eyes for a moment, feeling the tug of something she wasn’t sure she wanted to acknowledge. She had grown so much in the years of fighting the Fire Nation. She had seen Zuko at his worst, and now at his best. They had shared victories and losses, moments of pain and moments of healing. But could she really trust the pull she felt toward him?

She finally turned to face him, her blue eyes meeting his amber ones. “And what have you decided?”

Zuko took a step closer, the distance between them shrinking. His breath was steady, but his heart raced. “I’ve realized that… my destiny isn’t just about restoring the Fire Nation. It’s not just about my honor or the throne.”

Katara frowned slightly. “Then what is it about?”

He hesitated, but only for a moment. His eyes softened as he spoke, his voice quiet but resolute. “It’s about you. My destiny was to be here with you, Katara.”

Her breath hitched in her throat. Of all the things he could have said, she hadn’t expected that. The truth of his words hung between them like the tension in the air before a summer storm.

Katara’s heart pounded as she searched his face. He wasn’t the boy she had fought against when they first met, nor the conflicted prince struggling to find his way. He was a man now, a leader—and someone who had become so much more to her than she had ever anticipated.

“You’re serious,” she whispered, more to herself than to him.

Zuko nodded, his gaze never wavering. “I am. I don’t know where this path will take us, but I know that I don’t want to walk it without you.”

The weight of his confession settled into the quiet space between them. Katara had always been strong, always stood on her own. But she couldn’t deny the connection she had with him, the way their fates had intertwined in ways she never could have imagined.

She stepped toward him, her heart racing, but her spirit calm. “You think our destinies are the same?”

Zuko reached out, gently taking her hand. His touch was warm, grounding her in the moment. “I know they are.”

Katara’s lips parted, a thousand thoughts running through her mind, but none seemed to matter. In that moment, with Zuko standing before her, the future didn’t seem so uncertain anymore. For the first time in a long time, she felt like she knew exactly where she was meant to be.

With him.

She squeezed his hand, her voice steady. “Then I’m not going anywhere.”

Zuko smiled, a rare and genuine expression that lit up his face. He stepped closer, pulling her into a gentle embrace, the warmth of his body enveloping her like the comfort of a hearth fire.

And as the moon continued its climb into the sky, they stood together on the balcony, knowing that whatever lay ahead, they would face it side by side.

[sokkastyles]

Zutara Month Day 19: Rumors

Many rumors spring up in the first years after Zuko's coronation. A repeating theme of these tales is that Firelord Zuko, companion of the Avatar and friend of dragons, the banished prince, the scarred prince, the prince who returned, is spirit touched as well as he is fire touched. One story pertaining to this claim is that the palace is often visited by the spirit of the Jang Hui river at night. They say she is beautiful, and that she has the firelord completely within her thrall.

Though many a young woman has tried to win the heart of Firelord Zuko, many more are discouraged by tales that his heart belongs only to the Painted Lady, she who protects the waters and douses flame, with eyes as blue as the river from which she rises to slip into the palace each night, only to leave before morning's first light.

[bluespirlt]

the prologue of The Blue Spider AU, a zutara story, is officially out on ao3!

read it here.

next chapter to be posted soon!

[whatpistachio]

I wrote this fic after I saw the ✨spectacular✨ art of @mayskalih 💜 (check out her Blue spirit x Painted lady fan art!!)

My imagination jumped and… there it is:

🧵 Labyrinth of Night Secrets 🌌

Summary: After several assaults and fighting side by side for years, that night something will change the secret deal between the Painted Lady and the Blue Spirit, marking them in body and soul. That night will awaken something they had always kept silent.

So, let the moon rise and the spirits begin to live in the forest, until dawn.

Couple: zutara/ Blue spirit x Painted lady

Language: English

Words: 3,009

One Shot

Tag: Post-Canon, Post-War, Ambassador Katara, tension!!

They are in their 20s

Taylor Swift song: Labyrinth

Thanks to the zutara renaissance! 🥹 💜

Hope u enjoy it! ✨

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/54428260

[98chao]

another drawing of my au

[atla-milf-month]

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[lilbittymonster]

Going through the tags and comments on this poll, and since I haven't seen it talked about in a while I want to plug the ao3rdr extension for firefox and chrome. It's made my life SO much easier and I don't ever browse for fic on my phone anymore, I will only do it on desktop so this extension is functioning. And really, with specific reference to the linked poll, it would solve a lot of the problems people are complaining about on both sides of the argument.

[demaparbat-hp]

Imperfect Canvass

Read on AO3.

It's easy to forget, there, in Caldera. So they do everything in their power to remember. . The Blue Spirit and the Painted Ghost meet in the city each night, two souls in eternal search for repentance. Katara tries to find a way to kill the war, whatever it takes. Zuko, the Perfect Prince, offers her the only pieces of him that remain.

[becasart]

HURRRRRAAAAAAYYYYY!!! My very first @zkbigbang project, let's gooo! It was great working with everyone else, please do check out Fixed From The Inside 💕 As well as the other artists and writers' works for this event. There are so many amazing works this year!

[mx-giraffe]

I- I found this fic.

And I think it’s kind of like amazing???

It can’t be my favourite fic, cuz Under a Moonless Sky already has that spot, so it gets to take second favourite.

It’s called Spirit Son, it’s basically atla except Cool-Actually-A-Spirit-Blue-Spirit-Zuko. Okay it’s a little more complicated than that (good lord is it complicated) but like… that should be enough to get you to read it really shouldn’t it? (Also featuring the painted lady, awesome well-made and written original characters that help improve the overall storytelling and Zuko joining the Gaang early).

Please read it, it’s so amazing.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/34168471/chapters/85017253

[biconickyoshi]

Since Zuko and Katara both pretended to be spirits in separate episodes, I’m wondering whether they’ll ever do anything unique together in that one episode with the river people. Zuko is basically Katara but an angsty Fire Nation dweeb lol

Ooo good point anon, I didn’t even think about that!! I feel like they would definitely get into some shenanigans together as vigilante “spirits”, especially when they end up going to Jang Hui (the river town) lol. You’re right that they’re pretty similar - they are both very passionate about the things they believe in and they don’t take shit from anyone!

I hadn’t even thought that far out for that plotline yet, but now you’ve given me a lot of interesting ideas… So thank you for bringing that up! :)

[ssreeder]

Hi, genuine question for Ur well being

Since this Is the last part/book of the Fanfiction i wanted to ask if u would be 'retelling' the whole series like if u would have to rewrite the whole season (cuz that would be SO MUCH WORK ITS CRAZY😭) or if u will like stop at some point of thr 'og timeline' bcuz from there on its almost thr same as the original (ex: aang's final battlr w ozai or the last agni kai of Zuko n Azula)

If u had to rewrite the og-show w a new timeline' how will the povs work? Like will u write aang's pov in the final Battle against ozai (cuz if u do ESP the part where he Is in the A.S the Kyoshi novels DID a pretty good job explaining It when Kyoshi entrrs It)

This Is Just for pure boredom 😭 cuz im so curious abt how u will write EVERYTHING (cuz its a LOT. Especially rewritin S3 tbfh)

LIKE thats ACTUALLY a LOT of work and i dont know if u have the sanity for that 😭😭 (NOT IN A NEGATIVE WAY IM JUST ADMIRINF UR MOTIVATION🙏🙏)

antways i LOVED the new chapter SM It was SUCH A chill n cozy One that now im so scared abt the next cuz Ur... EVIL(/j)

I also expected the cliffhanger to be DEVASTATING SND CRY ONCE AGAIN 4 THIS FIC but It wasnt ACTUALLY so bad but NOW U MADE ME CURIOUSSSSS

(will We get to see the Fire NATION Boys flashbacks back when they we're on the ship e zuko? Im still waiting to find out if IROH know abt jee.)

Now im even more frightened abt the next haha

Ok im done lol, love Ur work and KEEP UP (Sorry u had to read alltat:P)

Olllooooo!

ok anon so I’m not sure if you’re asking me if I plan to rewrite season 3 and the shows canon ending? But if you are, let me reassure you that I am absolutely not going to do that haha. LIAB won’t even end the same way the show ended so it wouldn’t even be possible for me to do that anyway

I love that you assume they’re gunna win the battle in BSS and go on to fight ozai -

what if they lose? Maybe the city falls and they have to leave it all behind and hide from the FN? Regroup, care for the injured, mourn the dead…

Speaking of dead. Fuck if what if Aang dies? Can’t fight ozai if he’s dead.

Azula loves to throw lighting & hates to lose so anything’s possible when you believe in yourself that much.

or maybe everything will be fine?! They will all be ALRIGHT because it’s liab and nothing bad ever happens in LIAB :D :D

sorry anon I won’t say what happens but I can promise you one thing FOR SURE - I will not be rewriting canon season 3 haha.

YAYAYAYAYAYYAYAAAA I’m super happy you enjoyed the last chapter haha the plot is beginning to move and we are headed towards the battle!!

as for flashbacks, the iroh zuko talk is an iroh pov and he’s super focused on the convo so unfortunately there won’t be much “flash-backing” but the ship will be mentioned so you never know haha.

thanks for the ask anon!!!

[shorts84]

In the Green, my Adepta Sororitas novel, is now complete. If you like the sound of Battle Sisters stranded on a forest world with feral Orks and a mysterious artefact, struggling against time and the influence of the warp to save their Order from chaos and themselves from the Inquisition, then you might enjoy it. If not, just gaze upon this Sister on an Ork warbike which I will at some point finish painting, and ask no further questions. Thank you to everyone who has been reading so far. I love all your comments to pieces! Ave Terra!