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thispatternismineFandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Relationship(s): Mai/Zuko, Zuko & Iroh, Zuko & the Gaang
Summary: Instead of trying to capture the Avatar at the North Pole, Zuko steps in to save the Moon Spirit, falling into the pond in the fight. Tui, seeing the child's dearest secret wish, grants it. Princess Zuko doesn't know how to explain this to anyone.
Or: A trans!Zuko take, but with ~magical transformation~.
Extract:
Zuko fell…
…into a vast emptiness. The pond had seemed barely big enough for those two fish, but somehow he was floating in a vast body of water.
There was no sign of the surface above.
It should be terrifying, but Zuko felt… calm.
He floated in the water, somehow not drowning, and able to breathe.
"Little dragon." The voice seemed to come from everywhere and nowhere at once. He looked around but saw nothing but emptiness, lit by a soft glow with no source. "Daughter of Agni."
"But- But I'm not a daughter of anything!" he called out, before considering the wisdom of that. But no water poured down his throat.
Surprise, tinged with amusement, swirled in the water around him.
"Ah. But you want to be. So much."
Zuko laughed. "Wanting the impossible has never gotten me anywhere. Even wanting something possible, that thing is never within reach."
"But what if it was?"
"What if what was?"
"Possible."
"What do you mean?"
Laughter. "You saved me, daughter of fire. I can grant you your wish. You could look like your true self.”
Fanart by trekkele
