So, the new chapter of The Sorting Cat's story and a recently discovered SG-1/A:TLA story has made me watch the whole anime series and I'm now looking for some very good fic.

Anyone has anything to recommend? I'm not shy of crossover as well as long as the xover universe is well explained (in case I'm not familiar with it).

 

Can you provide a link to the SG-1/A:TLA you've discovered, please ?

 

Morality Chain

In which Azula actually cares about Zuko but is otherwise canon. Well written, major complaint is that it is way too canon rehashy.

Three Families

The exact opposite problem Morality Chain has, this is way too expansive. YMMV on whether that's a bad thing or not, but this is long with a heavy focus on Spirits and world building and is highly complex. Still, if you can follow along with it it's very good and it has great characters and fight scenes. Highly AU, Highly recommended.

Bringing Out the Blue

When Zuko rescues Aang from Zhao disguised as the Blue Spirit he's never discovered. He begins to question himself as he spends more time with Aang and his friends. Also very good.
For crossovers:

Transit the Sun

A Buffy crossover. Buffy gets sucked into A:tLA via portal. Short and incomplete, but still good.

Avatar of Victory

By the author of Three Families, it's a fusion with Mass Effect. Highly world buildy and imo much better than Three Families. Great characters and fight scenes.

Displaced Nobility

If you don't mind reading on spacebattles, this is very good. It's a Mass Effect crossover where the Spirits send a 6 year old Azula into ME. All that time away from Fire Nation shenanigans has left her a little more socially adjusted than canon, but over all she's still herself. Incredibly short, but it's one of the stories I most look forward to updates of.

 

The Dragon's King Temple
Zuko and Toph get transported through a stargate and meet up with SG-1. It's not much action pack, but I like the realistic take the author has taken regarding language barrier and element deprivation, etc.

@TMNT: Thanks for the recommendation. I'll look them up!

Just realized I posted the this thread in the wrong forum. If a mod wants to move it where it belongs, greatly appreciated.

 

Are there any stories where Aang didn't run away after he was told he was the Avatar?

 

Avatar: Last Firebender By: clockworkchaos In a timeline where the Avatar was never frozen, Azula must escape the Fire Nation as it falls to the armies of the Air Empire. Can she possibly take on the Avatar and save the world?
Rated: Fiction T - English - Adventure - Azula - Chapters: 17 - Words: 127,106 - Reviews: 240 - Favs: 270 - Follows: 252 - Updated: Dec 21, 2009 - Published: Oct 10, 2008 - id: 4586900

It's Azula centric and abandoned, but it does have an Aang who didn't run. Probably more of a guilty pleaure/almost recommended from what I recall.

Also this thread has some other good recs for Avatar fics.

 

I'm not sure how this wasn't posted yet because it's probably one of the best Avatar fics ever:
Object Lesson
Basically, Azula joins the Gaang during book 3 and it's the amazings.

 

Any where Aang stays as the good guy? Or at least, is still the protagonist?

Edit: In fact, scratch that. I'll take any piece that isn't a crossover and has Aang as the protagonist instead of the fire siblings.

 

Geography Lessons: A Young Man's Education

Basically, it describes Zuko's off-screen attempts to get laid during the course of the show. It's both hilarious and a good smut.

Running Interference

The war is over and now Aang must face both puberty and people's expectations of him repopulating the world with air benders. It really made me laugh more then a few times. The Gaang is very much in character.

And if you're into Aang/Azula like I am, you should check this guy's stories. He writes them best.

I also second these two.

 

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5187842/
AU: In a different world, can a mysterious and ancient Order possibly defeat a ruthless Fire Lord? No. They're utterly screwed, actually. A proper For the Want of a Nail this time around.

The best Avatar fanfic, to me. It features Piandao as the main character - if you like intelligent, witty, active protagonists that are nonetheless flawed, you'll love the story.


https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3545748/1/Blood-Silk-and-Steel
AU. In a world where Sokka and Katara's father died instead of their mother, we follow the exploits of Sokka, a dark perversion of his former self, as he willingly enters the world of intrigue and deception that is the Fire Nation.


https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5812719/1/Damascus
When the fate of the world rests upon the shoulders of one person, best to hope that it isn't a blind, chi-crippled child...

 

Aang centric, please. Something, anything.

 

See Behind the Mask
By: Tomas the Betrayer
Ambition may burn bright, but it would take a fire much darker to ignite a 100-year old genocidal conflict. Burdened with his family's secret shame, Iroh sets forth on the eve of the final battle to save his loved ones from inhuman evil.
Rated: Fiction T - English - Drama/Spiritual - Iroh, Toph - Chapters: 7 - Words: 84,718 - Reviews: 30 - Favs: 50 - Follows: 10 - Updated: Jun 16, 2009 - Published: May 12, 2009 - Status: Complete - id: 5055912

 

There are really no Aang centered fics out there? I can't find any that looks even remotely interesting.

 

I doubt it. Aang just isn't all that interesting as a character for most people, it seems.

 

He's an idealistic coward for most of the series. Running from his problems, ignoring the wisdom his friends give to him. I was actually super disappointed with the ending of the original series Deus Ex Machina getting Aang out of his problem when it comes to having to Kill The Firelord by ass-pulling 'steal his bending' out of nowhere.

Bleh. Aang is the worst part about the entire series, despite the fact that he's the main character.

 

I really enjoyed the way they handled the ending considering it was a kids show. It was nice to have the whole murder thing addressed.

 

I'll grant you it's far from being the best fic ever. But it got me interested in the ATLA verse so I won't complain.

Thanks for the other recommendations! I'll look them up.

 

Three flaws of the Avatar series, IMO:

1. Unlikeable Protaganists
2. Bad Romance Stories
3. Deus Ex Machine Series Endings.

 

Huh. While I loathe Korra, I quite liked Aang. In fact, he was one of the few people I liked in the original series.
And he is the protagonist. I grow tired of seeing Fire siblings everywhere.