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flickers of a past summer night by serendipiphany
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
07 Jun 2025
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“Out of all the games here, why’d you pick something so boring?” Mai asked, testing the waters.
“None of your business,” came his gruff response.
“You have terrible aim, by the way,” she retorted.
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Mai sneaks out to attend a summer festival, where she eventually runs into a masked boy who seemed strangely familiar.
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i love you, don't act so surprised by serendipiphany
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
12 Mar 2025
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With three years at sea, Zuko’s eyes grew dark with perpetual thunderclouds. He couldn’t be farther from the boy in her memories who seemed like the sun personified.
But over these three years, Mai realized that the dark and the gloom suited her just fine. She was never much of a sunshine girl, anyway.
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Five moments leading up to the first time Mai said “I love you” out loud.
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another day is dawning by serendipiphany
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
11 Dec 2024
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“They say this place is haunted,” Zuko voiced, an empty shell of a man as he stared out into the garden of their childhood. “So haunt me, then.”
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Ever since the Fire Lady died in childbirth, servants claim that the palace was haunted: at night, the air grows colder in Princess Izumi’s nursery, the scent of jasmine wafts through the windows, and some would go so far as to say they have seen a woman with flowing black hair in the gardens.
As the Fire Lord wallows in his grief, he remains deaf to the cries of his newborn daughter. Mai knocks some sense into him from beyond the grave.
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all pink and gold and glittering by serendipiphany
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
28 Jul 2024
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Her designated palette was a soft, dusty pink. The shade of plum blossoms. The shade of Mai’s namesake flower. The girl wore the color well, she was loath to admit. And if only she were born any differently, perhaps the name Mai would have suited this girl better.
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Stuck in an education system that goes out of its way to pit them against each other, Mai finds herself roped into an unlikely friendship with someone who is her exact opposite.
(A Mai character study which delves into her academy days, Zuko’s banishment, and Ty Lee running off to join the circus.)
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coloring outside the lines by serendipiphany
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
16 Jun 2024
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“He told me before that he can be my big brother, too. But he lied. He hasn't come to Auntie's shop to visit me and my sister at all.”
She crossed her arms, pondering for a while, until an idea suddenly came and made her grin. “If Zuzu can’t go to you and Mai, why don’t we just make her come play with us here?”
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Kiyi and Tom-Tom write a play and invite Mai and Zuko to be the lead actors. Will their unresolved issues rise to the surface, or will old flames reignite?
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fire nation girlhood by serendipiphany
Fandom Avatar: The Last Airbender, Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
05 Jun 2024
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As world leaders raising a future Fire Lord, Mai and Zuko make conscious efforts to outgrow the shadows of their own upbringings.
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A Little Thing by ackermom
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar: Legend of Korra
15 Dec 2025
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"The labor is progressing slowly," the midwife reports. "But there is no cause for concern, Your Majesty. If childbirth were a race, it would be run by komodo rhinos, not eel hounds."
Iroh would laugh, if not for the utterly perturbed look on his nephew's face.
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- Part 2 of We Rise With the Sun
Bookmarked by serendipiphany
03 Jan 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
maiko childbirth fic with really lovely Fire Nation lore and worldbuilding ❤️
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“I will not make an Orpheus of you, Bruce Wayne.”
Bruce and Talia talk circles around the greatest love story never told.
Bookmarked by serendipiphany
21 Jul 2025
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Every week, Jinu and Rumi spark fresh dating rumors.
Every week, their agencies deny it.
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- Part 1 of plights & hashtags
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- English
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- 16,196
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- 10/10
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- 7
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Bookmarked by serendipiphany
23 Jun 2025
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On some nights, the particularly lonely ones, Rumi places the letter in the tiger’s mouth and sets out to meet him — the boy, the demon.
They bicker, and they argue, and they spar, and they show each other the subtle markings of their patterns that no one else gets to see.
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Every meeting between Jinu and Rumi that didn’t happen on screen, because someone has to write them.
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- English
- Words:
- 16,460
- Chapters:
- 7/12
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Bookmarked by serendipiphany
21 Jun 2025
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“Making friends with her would be so helpful for you, Mai.”
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A retelling of the scenes about Mai’s past at the academy from the comic Ashes of the Academy.Bookmarked by serendipiphany
10 Apr 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
a gorgeous, more nuanced retelling of the Maizulee friendship origin story from Ashes of the Academy!!