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* TheyDo:
** Ran and Mila ask Hakoda to marry them.
** [[spoiler: Ursa and Hakoda are finally married after the war]].


''Guide Me Home'' is an ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' Fanfic written by Qwi-Xux that has gained popularity in the fandom for... [[SturgeonsLaw actually being good]].

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''Guide Me Home'' is an ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' Fanfic written by Qwi-Xux that has gained popularity in the fandom for... [[SturgeonsLaw actually being good]].
Qwi-Xux.

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* GroinAttack: While teaching Ursa how to fight, Hakoda pins her against the wall and accidently puts his hand over her burn scar. She panics, a GroinAttack ensues and Ursa is absolutely mortified afterwards. Yes, that is an actual ''[[TearJerker tear jerker]]'' example of this trope.

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* GroinAttack: While teaching Ursa how to fight, Hakoda pins her against the wall and accidently puts his hand over her burn scar. She panics, a GroinAttack ensues and Ursa is absolutely mortified afterwards. Yes, that is an actual ''[[TearJerker tear jerker]]'' ''{{Tear Jerker}}'' example of this trope.



* MotifMerger: [[spoiler: Hakoda's betrothal necklace to Ursa]] has the symbols for the Water Tribe and the Fire Nation overlapping. It also merges the tradition of the Northern Water Tribe, as it and not the Southern Tribe [[spoiler: uses betrothal necklaces]].



* PowerOfTrust: [[spoiler: How Ursa finally gets through to Azula.]]

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* PowerOfTrust: [[spoiler: How Ursa finally gets through to Azula.an insane Azula after the war: walking by herself into her room in the asylum and letting her out of her restraints, and despite Azula initially attacking, reaffirming that she would do ''anything'' for her daughter.]]



* TearsOfJoy: Ursa ends up crying these after [[spoiler: Hakoda tells her that he met with Zuko and he's successfully changed sides and is out from under Ozai's thumb]].



* TookALevelInBadass: Ursa, who goes from a steadfast Fire Nation defector trying to run an inn for the Earth Kingdom Underground to a steadfast warrior in her own right.

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* TookALevelInBadass: Ursa, who goes from a steadfast Fire Nation defector trying to run an inn for the Earth Kingdom Underground to a steadfast warrior in her own right. That said, she is left out of the final battle when an accident with a young Earthbending refugee breaks her leg.

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* ApologizesALot: Ursa. Hakoda lampshades it frequently.

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* ApologizesALot: Ursa.Ursa, due to her lingering guilt and feeling like she doesn't deserve any kindness. Hakoda lampshades it frequently.



* BigDamnHeroes: When Ursa is abducted she is rescued by [[spoiler: Toph]].
* BittersweetEnding: The war is over, [[spoiler: Hakoda and Ursa are together and Zuko has a mother again... but Azula is damaged almost beyond repair.]]
* BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce: [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Ursa cooks a Fire Nation dish for the crew]]. In her defense, she did warn them.

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* BigDamnHeroes: When Ursa is abducted by a Fire Nation mole, she is rescued by [[spoiler: Toph]].
* BittersweetEnding: At least from Ursa's perspective. The war is over, [[spoiler: Hakoda and Ursa are together and Zuko has a mother again... but Azula is damaged almost beyond repair.]]
* BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce: [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Ursa cooks a Fire Nation dish for the crew]].crew. In her defense, she did warn them.



* DomesticAbuse: Like anyone needed another reason to hate Ozai.

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* CallBack: Hakoda uses the analogy of ice dodging to teach Ursa the lessons of going with life's flow, rolling with the waves, getting back up when you crash and trying again, and finding people you can trust to come find you. At the end of the story, ice dodging is the first thing Ursa and Hakoda do [[spoiler: as a married couple]].
* DomesticAbuse: Like anyone needed another reason to hate Ozai.Ozai - he burned Ursa as a reminder of what he could do to his family if she fails him.



* DefrostingIceQueen: Ursa, sometimes. She has a tendency to shut off her emotions when she feels that showing them would make her vulnerable, though the Southern Water tribe does a great job in drawing her out of it.
* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler: Toph]], who saves Ursa from a Fire Nation spy in the Resistance
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: As Notu, one of Hakoda's men, puts it:

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* DefrostingIceQueen: Ursa, sometimes. She has a tendency to shut off her emotions when she feels that showing them would make her vulnerable, though Hakoda and the Southern Water tribe does a great job in drawing her out of it.
* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler: Toph]], who saves Ursa from a Fire Nation spy in the Resistance
Resistance.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Just about everyone, from Hakoda's men, to the Northern Water Tribe, to ''Toph'', can see the sparks between Hakoda and Ursa. As Notu, one of Hakoda's men, puts it:



* FlashbackNightmare: Ursa has many... to the point where she actually finds it "refreshing" to have a normal nightmare.

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* FemaleGaze: After escaping from General Zhao's ship by swimming through icy waters, Ursa and Hakoda find a spot to change into dry clothes. When Ursa checks to see if Hakoda is not looking, she gets a look at his rear and has to repress her blush.
* FlashbackNightmare: Ursa has many...many about her past... to the point where she actually finds it "refreshing" to have a normal nightmare.



* ForegoneConclusion: Ursa goes to Ba Sing Se to find Zuko and Azula and get them to end the occupation. That'll work.

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* ForegoneConclusion: Ursa goes to Once she hears that Ba Sing Se has fallen to the Fire Nation, Ursa decides to go to the city, find Zuko and Azula Azula, and get them to end the occupation. That'll work.[[SarcasmMode Yeah, that'll work]].



* GroinAttack: While teaching Ursa how to fight, Hakoda pins her against the wall and accidently puts his hand over her scar. She panics, a GroinAttack ensues and Ursa is absolutely mortified afterwards. Yes, that is an actual ''[[TearJerker tear jerker]]'' example of this trope.
* HatesBeingTouched: Ursa, at first.

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* GroinAttack: While teaching Ursa how to fight, Hakoda pins her against the wall and accidently puts his hand over her burn scar. She panics, a GroinAttack ensues and Ursa is absolutely mortified afterwards. Yes, that is an actual ''[[TearJerker tear jerker]]'' example of this trope.
* HatesBeingTouched: Ursa, at first.first, most likely due to the burn given to her by Ozai.



** Mikko.

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** Mikko. After he gets sick of telling single women in the Northern Water Tribe that he's married, he spends more time with Ursa to stave them off.



* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Ursa is filled with guilt and shame at the start of the fic despite her work for the underground.
* ItsPersonal: After Hakoda finds out [[spoiler: that Ursa was married to Ozai]] and he finally has names to her oblique backstory, the war becomes even more personal for him.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Poor Ornu.]]

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* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Ursa is filled with guilt and shame at the start of the fic despite her work for the underground.
underground, mostly because of her role in Ozai's rise to power.
* ItsPersonal: After Hakoda finds out [[spoiler: that Ursa was married to Ozai]] and he finally has names to her oblique backstory, backstory (someone powerful threatening her son, an abusive husband who was willing to let his son die, her being forced to kill her father-in-law, forced to abandon her children who are both firebenders), the war becomes even more personal for him.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Poor Ornu.Ornu, one of Hakoda's men, is killed [[HoldTheLine holding off]] a squad of Fire Nation soldiers that found a hidden tunnel capable of ambushing the Water Tribesmen.]]



* PapaWolf: Hakoda. The phrase [[PapaWolf Papa]] [[BearsAreBadNews Polar Bear]] is actually used to descibe him.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Ursa delivers one to Ozai. At this point the readers are cheering for her.

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* PapaWolf: Hakoda. The phrase [[PapaWolf Papa]] [[BearsAreBadNews Polar Bear]] is actually used to descibe him.
describe him once he hears what General Fong did to his kids to get the Avatar to access the Avatar State.
* ParentWithNewParamour: After [[spoiler: Ursa and Hakoda reveal their engagement, Zuko, Sokka and Katara all have to grapple with their parents falling in love and becoming step-siblings to each other. For the most part it's amicable, though Katara is the slowest to warm up.]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Ursa delivers one to Ozai. Ozai [[spoiler: after the latter is jailed]]. At this point the readers are cheering for her.her.
* RelationshipUpgrade: From escaping from General Zhao, to working with General Xu, Ursa and Hakoda slowly acknowledge their feelings for each other. During their time in the Northern Water Tribe, she finally lets down her walls for him, and [[spoiler: they end up making love for the first time]].



* SadisticChoice: Azulon's order to Ozai to kill his son Zuko (and Ozai's willingness to go through with it) forces Ursa into one - either she loses her son, or she kills Azulon, makes Ozai Firelord, goes into exile, and is forced to abandon her children to her husband's mercies.



* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: [[spoiler: Ursa slowly developing feelings for Hakoda]].

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* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: [[spoiler: Ursa slowly developing develops feelings for Hakoda]].Hakoda, due to how kind, trusting, and a loving father he is to his children, everything that Ozai isn't.



* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: [[spoiler: Ursa to Azula.]]

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* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: [[spoiler: Ursa to Azula. The first time in Ba Sing Se goes badly for Ursa, the next few times after Azula is institutionalised requires a lot of time and effort before any headway is made.]]



* [[spoiler: TheyDo: Ursa and Hakoda are finally married after the war]].

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* TheyDo:
** Ran and Mila ask Hakoda to marry them.
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[[spoiler: TheyDo: Ursa and Hakoda are finally married after the war]].



* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: This fic seems to exist to explain what happened to the mice, including Ursa, of course, Hakoda at various points, and also [[spoiler: Longshot, Smellerbee, everyone else who split up from the Gaang at the beginning of "The Southern Raiders," and a few other people who showed up once and never appeared again.]]

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: This fic seems to exist to explain what happened to the mice, including Ursa, of course, Hakoda at various points, and also [[spoiler: Longshot, Smellerbee, everyone else who split up from the Gaang at the beginning of "The Southern Raiders," and a few other people who showed up once and never appeared again.]]again]].

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* AndHereHeComesNow: After the war is ended, Zuko comes back from his prison meeting with Ozai asking about his mother and only getting a vague answer, and asking Iroh for more info. Guess who he sees in the room the moment he enters?



* EveryoneCanSeeIt: "I don't know who you two think you're kidding... but it's sure not us."

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* EveryoneCanSeeIt: As Notu, one of Hakoda's men, puts it:
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"I don't know who you two think you're kidding... but it's sure not us."



* SherlockScan: Due to spending her whole life in the Fire Nation, Ursa has picked up on the subtleties on how firebenders walk and act. The first chapter has her IDing a person who knew the TrustPassword of the Earth Kingdom underground but walked like a firebender as a Fire Nation {{Mole}}.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan

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* SherlockScan: Due to spending her whole life in the Fire Nation, Ursa has picked up on the subtleties on how firebenders walk and act. The first chapter has her IDing [=IDing=] a person who knew the TrustPassword of the Earth Kingdom underground but walked like a firebender as a Fire Nation {{Mole}}.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodManSingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: [[spoiler: Ursa slowly developing feelings for Hakoda]].
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* DomesticAbuser: Like anyone needed another reason to hate Ozai.

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* DomesticAbuser: DomesticAbuse: Like anyone needed another reason to hate Ozai.
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Ursa and the crew (especially Hakoda) eventually grow closer. Of course, they don't know she's Fire Nation...

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Ursa and the crew (especially Hakoda) eventually grow closer. Of course, they don't know she's from the Fire Nation...

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* DefrostingIceQueen: Ursa, sometimes. She has a tendency to shut off her emotions when she feels that showing them would make her vulnerable.
* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler: Toph.]]

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--> '''Mai:''' Wow. And I thought my family had issues.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Ursa, sometimes. She has a tendency to shut off her emotions when she feels that showing them would make her vulnerable.
vulnerable, though the Southern Water tribe does a great job in drawing her out of it.
* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler: Toph.]]Toph]], who saves Ursa from a Fire Nation spy in the Resistance



* ElsewhereFic

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* ElsewhereFic ElsewhereFic: As befitting a story trying to answer WhatHappenedToTheMouse.



* ItsPersonal: After Hakoda finds out [[spoiler: that Ursa was married to Ozai]], the war becomes even more personal for him.

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* ItsPersonal: After Hakoda finds out [[spoiler: that Ursa was married to Ozai]], Ozai]] and he finally has names to her oblique backstory, the war becomes even more personal for him.



* RescueRomance

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* RescueRomanceRescueRomance: Ursa's first encounter with Hakoda is rescuing her from a Fire Nation spy who just burned her inn down and is pursuing her.
* SherlockScan: Due to spending her whole life in the Fire Nation, Ursa has picked up on the subtleties on how firebenders walk and act. The first chapter has her IDing a person who knew the TrustPassword of the Earth Kingdom underground but walked like a firebender as a Fire Nation {{Mole}}.



* TookALevelInBadass: Ursa.
* TortureAlwaysWorks: Averted. The red spider-fly venom is nasty but unreliable.
* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: Hakoda offers Ursa his blanket, claiming to be used to the cold. Ursa decides to take a third option and they end up sharing.

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* TookALevelInBadass: Ursa.
* TortureAlwaysWorks: Averted.
StunnedSilence: The red spider-fly venom is nasty but unreliable.
* ThereIsOnlyOneBed:
entire room goes silent when [[spoiler: Ursa and Hakoda offers Ursa his blanket, claiming to be used to meet after the cold. Ursa decides to take a third option war and they end up sharing.share a BigDamnKiss, right in front of their flabbergasted children]].


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* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: Hakoda offers Ursa his blanket, claiming to be used to the cold. Ursa decides to take a third option and they end up sharing.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Applies when Ursa joins Hakoda and his all-men crew on their ship.
* TookALevelInBadass: Ursa, who goes from a steadfast Fire Nation defector trying to run an inn for the Earth Kingdom Underground to a steadfast warrior in her own right.
* TortureAlwaysWorks: Averted. The red spider-fly venom is nasty but unreliable, and often causes hallucinations.
* [[spoiler: TheyDo: Ursa and Hakoda are finally married after the war]].
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* BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce: [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Ursa cooks a Fire Nation dish for the crew]]. In her defense, she did warn them.

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* BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce: [[CrowningMomentOfFunny [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Ursa cooks a Fire Nation dish for the crew]]. In her defense, she did warn them.

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So Cool Its Awesome is a fanspeak term that doesn't get wicks.


''Guide Me Home'' is an ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' Fanfic written by Qwi-Xux that has gained popularity in the fandom for... [[SturgeonsLaw actually]] [[SoCoolItsAwesome being good]].

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''Guide Me Home'' is an ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' Fanfic written by Qwi-Xux that has gained popularity in the fandom for... [[SturgeonsLaw actually]] [[SoCoolItsAwesome actually being good]].



* ArrangedMarriage: Ursa and Ozai.

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* ArrangedMarriage: ArrangedMarriage:
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Ursa and Ozai.



* BrokenBird: Ursa, at first.

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* BrokenBird: BrokenBird:
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Ursa, at first.



--->'''Hakoda:''' [[spoiler: With outside help from my son... and yours.]]
--->'''Ursa:''' [[FlatWhat What?]]

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--->'''Hakoda:''' -->'''Hakoda:''' [[spoiler: With outside help from my son... and yours.]]
--->'''Ursa:''' -->'''Ursa:''' [[FlatWhat What?]]



* HappilyMarried: Mikko.

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* HappilyMarried: HappilyMarried:
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Mikko.

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* TheMole: [[spoiler: Lots, of course, since this story is about an underground spy network. Special mention goes to Ran, an Order initiate operating from within the Fire Navy who helps Ursa and Hakoda escape from Zhao.]]



* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Ursa delivers one to Ozai. At this point the readers are cheering for her.



* TheMole: [[spoiler: Lots, of course, since this story is about an underground spy network. Special mention goes to Ran, an Order initiate operating from within the Fire Navy who helps Ursa and Hakoda escape from Zhao.]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Ursa delivers one to Ozai. At this point the readers are cheering for her.



* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: This fic seems to exist to explain what happened to the mice, including Ursa, of course, Hakoda at various points, and also [[spoiler: Longshot, Smellerbee, everyone else who split up from the Gaang at the beginning of "The Southern Raiders", and a few other people who showed up once and never appeared again.]]

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: This fic seems to exist to explain what happened to the mice, including Ursa, of course, Hakoda at various points, and also [[spoiler: Longshot, Smellerbee, everyone else who split up from the Gaang at the beginning of "The Southern Raiders", Raiders," and a few other people who showed up once and never appeared again.]]]]
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