The Firelord’s Decree

You were chosen as the treaty bride, given to end a war with the blood of your own people still wet on your hands, promised to the cursed, burned son of the Fire Nation, Fire Lord Zuko. You swore on that blood you would never love your arranged husband. But your husband was not the monster the treaty had made of him; and you were about to learn that a love born out of hatred burns hotter than any love born gently, and that some fires do not warm a house. They take it down to the ground first.

Betrothed to the Fire Nation prince since childhood, you spend years dreading your future—until the boy you feared becomes the only person who truly understands you.

In this Avatar: The Last Airbender Selection AU, newly crowned Fire Lord Zuko must choose a bride from twenty girls while his heart still smolders for a Katara who never noticed — and you never expected to fall for the royal sorcerer instead.

As Fire Lord Zuko’s childhood best friend, now his right-hand woman, you saw the vision.

Zuko had spent his whole life certain he would be the end of his line. That it would be kinder. Two winters into your arranged marriage, you draped yourself across his study cushions and asked him, very softly, for a child. His. Yours. A house full of them. He had not known, until that moment, how badly he had wanted to be asked. How long he had wanted to fill you with his name, his line, his everything. How starved he had been for the permission to want this out loud.

The war is over, but the world is still broken, and the Avatar is the one holding it together. After years of rebuilding Republic City and the air temples, Aang is exhausted, and the last thing he wants is a Companion. You're Reiko, a poised earthbender of noble birth, trained in every nation and handpicked by the Fire Lord himself. You'll travel the world at his side, from ancient ruins to the half-restored Northern Air Temple, and your influence reaches farther than he realizes. Win over a man who keeps you at arm's length, represent the Avatar with grace, and decide what to do about the boy you once had a crush on, who may not even remember you.

You moved to Republic City expecting university to be the difficult part. Instead, you found yourself dropped into a campus where everyone already has a history with everyone else. One chance meeting with a girl named Katara quickly pulls you into a friend group filled with athletes, artists, overachievers, party addicts, hopeless romantics, and people carrying far more secrets than they should.

The war is over. The world has found its balance. But some bonds are never truly forgotten, and some hearts take longer than a lifetime to find their way home.

After Mai’s betrayal leaves Fire Lord Zuko fractured and furious, he turns to the one person who has always remained — you. A noblewoman bound to him since childhood, carrying years of silent devotion behind practiced composure. What begins as a secret arrangement meant to soothe loneliness soon becomes something far more dangerous: lingering touches, jealousy neither of you will name, and feelings buried beneath palace politics and pride. But when old lovers return and new suitors begin circling you, Zuko is forced to confront the one truth he never allowed himself to see — he was never afraid of loving you, only of needing you.

You were a dragon in human form. A forgotten prisoner, isolated in the tower of the Fire Nation Palace. You were imprisoned here from the first Sozins Comet. You don’t know how long you’ve been here. You were the last of your kind, you were of royal dragon lineage although you hatched in the cell, you knew who you were. It was in your blood. One day you felt golden eyes watching you from the shadows, a young man, handsome and beautiful. Zuko.