iono if this is what you meant by angsty arranged marriage au but here you go
pairing: zuko/katara
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There are many things Katara despises. In her sixteen years of life, she has seen and heard of enough atrocities to feel a rattling ache in her bones that reverberates in her soul when the world disappoints her again and again. She is not so weak that she cannot make her own happiness, but she would like it much better if she didn’t have to create it, to force smiles to appease a troubled Avatar or a restless brother or a worried father. There is a contentment that comes from helping others, from healing, from bending, from the routine she’s created in the South Pole after the war. She stubbornly clings to that when rumors of uprisings and malcontent circle around flickering campfires on star-pierced nights.
When the Fire Nation’s colonial troubles threaten to drag the world headlong back into warfare, she leaves her routine behind to travel with her new grandfather and her father and her brother to a council of nations, because she did not save the world at fourteen to be relegated to domesticity when the world’s balance nearly topples again.
At the council, much is made of the Fire Lord’s youth and the rumors that he garners advice from his father, who yet lives courtesy of the even younger Avatar’s dubious mercy.
"Hi, my name is Sara, and I have a Zutara obsession."
Admitting you have a problem is the first step.
