The desert sun burns and Zuko probably shouldn't touch the moving cloth, but he does anyway.

Zuko botches his escape on the day of the eclipse and sits out the war in prison. What will the Gaang do with a new Fire Lord they can't trust? Season Four "Zuko never joined the Gaang, and he's really bad at being good" AU.

"You said you were the Avatar!" "...I lied?" Aang doesn't get rescued in episode two, and no one's seen him go glowy yet... so he starts bluffing. Hard. Or: "The Avatar joins Zuko's quest to find the Avatar." In which Zuko doesn't join the Gaang, the Gaang joins Zuko.

/AU-divergence/ For world peace, there is no other way. He doesn't need salvation, or forgiveness. Instead of dying a hero, Zuko chooses to live as a villain in a garden filled with madness and monsters. The world shall burn, kingdoms will fall before knowing peace.

Izumi is the culmination of generations of the royal family's moral failings. Born into a world seeking to relegate her kind to the tomb of history, she must untangle the web of her family's sordid past to understand her place in it.

On a day that Zuko is upset, Azula takes her mockery a little too far. But Azula has never been one to regret the consequences of her actions. Set during Season3. Some Azula/Zuko.