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1. Flashpoint Act I: Kindling by BloodInTheTides

   Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • F/M
   • Complete Work

   30 Oct 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Katara/Zuko (Avatar)
   • Katara (Avatar)
   • Zuko (Avatar)
   • Emotional Manipulation
   • Gaslighting
   • Trauma
   • Past Torture
   • Non-Graphic Sexual Coercion (manipulative dynamics not explicit not between the FMC and the MMC)
   • Medical Descriptions
   • Blood and Injury
   • Bloodbending (Avatar)
   • PTSD
   • Disassociation
   • References to sexual violence
   • Power Imbalance
   • Classism
   • Fantasy and Fictional Setting Racism
   • political corruption
   • Violence
   • Threats of sexual violence
   • Kidnapping
   • Jealousy
   • Possessive Behavior
   • Propaganda
   • mild alcoholism
   • Katara and Zuko Fight
   • It's not a casual sparring session
   • We put the Enemies back into their Enemies to Friends to Lovers relationship for a chapter
   • it's bloody
   • and a little hot
   • It takes a while to fix things after said fight
   • Slow Burn
   • No really it moves at a glacial pace
   • Mutual Pining
   • Idiots in Love
   • The yearning accidentally becomes political
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Unresolved Sexual Tension
   • Jealous Zuko (Avatar)
   • Katara Collects Red Flags Like Trophies
   • Everyone Needs Therapy
   • Mostly canon compliant until the comics
   • ATLA Post-War Reconstruction Era
   • Slow Burn Katara/Zuko (Avatar)
   • Past Aang/Katara (Avatar)
   • Zutara
   • Ambassador Katara and Firelord Zuko (Avatar)
   • Inventor Sokka
   • Zutara Month 2025
   • POV Third Person Limited
   • Theater Nerd Zuko (Avatar)
   • Blue Spirit Zuko (Avatar)
   • Zuko backslides a bit and we get into Blue Spirit Shenanigans

   Summary

   Nearly a year into her role as the Southern Water Tribe’s ambassador, Katara has accomplished what her counterpart from the North could not: securing reparations from the Fire Nation court. But when sabotage, scandal, and colonial unrest threaten the fragile peace of a post-war world, she finds herself pulled deeper and deeper into the viper’s nest of Fire Nation politics…and closer to its ruler. As rumors swirl and tempers flare between the Ambassador and the Fire Lord, Katara finds a helping hand, and unexpected solace, in the brother of one of her students. In a nation built on blood and lies, she must decide: how far is she willing to go to protect those who cannot protect themselves…and what will it cost her?

   This is the first act of a five-act story. Act I is complete and comes to, what I consider to be, a narratively satisfying conclusion. I will be posting the remaining chapters of Act I every day during Zutara Month 2025.

   Series

   • Part 2 of Flashpoint

   Language:

   English

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