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''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120426073933/http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7250783/1/Stalking_Zuko '''''Stalking Zuko]'''''] is a well -written [[Adaptation Expansion]] fic that acts as a between/behind -the -episodes look at ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''. It starts off when Zuko is accepted in the Gaang - Katara doesn't trust him and fears that he will backstab them again. Her solution is to stalk Zuko and write down his every action so she would know his weakness. The story follows the Gaang's adventures throughout the second half of season three - retold through Katara's perspective.

Has a pair of sequels in ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120426073947/http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7325839/1/Not_Stalking_Zuko Not Stalking Zuko]'' and ''[httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20190701000656/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8121138/1/Not_Stalking_Firelord_Zuko Not Stalking Firelord Zuko]'' and a prequel with ''[httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20200328055012/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8093093/1/Jets_Troubling_Obsession Jet's Troubling Obsession]''.

* [[Anger Born of Worry]]: Katara got extremely pissy with Zuko after he fought Azula while escaping the Western Air Temple.

* [[A Threesome Is Hot]]: In ''The Boy in the Iceberg'', the play's rendition of Zuko often had threesomes, this culminates when play!Zuko had a threesome with Mai and Ty Lee, which was resulted in a musical number of how it gets awkward being stuck with your lovers on a boat for weeks.

* [[Buffy -Speak]]: Zuko is prone to this when he wants to talk about feelings.

* [[Deconstruction Fic]]: The series deconstructs the gender dynamics, the politics, the relationships and the consequences of [[Avatar: The Last Airbender]].

* [[Defictionalization]]: [[In -Universe]], after Sokka read about Katara wanting a commonsense stick in her stalker log, he gave her a real commonsense stick.

* [[Deliberate Values Dissonance]]: Water Tribe patriarchy astound Zuko and Katara, and judge mental illness with Victorian-esque values {{spoiler|which matter when Azula gets institutionalized after her [[Villainous Breakdown]].}}

* [[Distracted Byby the Sexy]]: Katara gets distracted a lot by Zuko's ecoshirtlessness.

* [[DoctorsDoctor's Orders]]: {{spoiler|Dr. Yang orders bed rest and medication for Zuko after recovery from his lighting wound.}}

* [[Drunk Onon the Dark Side]]: Parodied with Katara's birthday dictatorship. (A benign dictatorship!) And her Bell of Power in her [[Sick Episode]].

* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|Everyone Calls Him Uncle]]: Lampshaded by Katara when she realizes that '''she's''' starting to call Iroh "Uncle".

* [[Exiled to Thethe Couch]]: In the first part of ''Not Stalking Zuko'', Zuko is often sexiled to the couch by Sokka and Suki.

* [[FirstpersonFirst-Person Smartass]]: Katara

* [[Girls' Night Out Episode]]: The spa day

* [[Hero Withwith Bad Publicity]]: Aang has this with the Fire Nation, it's a [[Justified Trope]]. Many Fire Nation citizens had relatives that were killed in the Siege of the North when Aang was in the Avatar State.

* [[If It Tastes Bad, It Must Be Good for You]]: {{spoiler|Zuko hates the medicinal concoction that he has to take for his lighting wound.}}

* [[Maid]]: {{spoiler|The [[O CsOCs]] found in the Fire Nation palace dungeon after the Agni Kai.}}

* [[Make -Out Kids]]: Suki and Sokka are often canoodling in story.

* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Zuko, lampshaded by Katara on many occasions.

* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: Katara nearly had a [[Heroic BSOD]] when she realized she bloodbended an uninvolved Fire Nation captain in her hunt for Yon Rha.

* [[Not So Different]]: Suki and Zuko after their stealth-off realize that they are both really great at being "stealthy badasses" and both felt like outsiders to the group.

* [[One -Note Cook]]: Zuko is only good at making kebabs and tea

* [[Overshadowed Byby Awesome]]: Suki feels like this because she's not a leader like Sokka nor is she a bender like everyone else.

* [[Pointy -Haired Boss]]: Ozai is this to the Fire Nation generals.

* [[Politeness Judo]]: Zuko tells Hakoda that he in not a vegetarian, in fear of insulting him at the Water Tribe feast.

* [[Padding]]: [[In -Universe]], the writers of ''The Boy in the Iceberg'' don't know what the Gaang nor Azula, Zuko and their friends were doing after Ba Sing Se and the Day of Black Sun so they fill it up with wacky side plots and musical numbers.

* [[Quickly -Demoted Woman]]: [[In -Universe]], the Southern Water Tribe Warriors praise Sokka and Aang's accomplishments, but never acknowledge Katara, Suki or Toph's accomplishments. Then they expect Katara to do the sewing and cooking even though the villa has servants. This is used to show how sexist the Water Tribe men are.

* [[Shipper Onon Deck]]: Iroh, Toph, Sokka and Suki ship Katara/Zuko

* [[Stalker Withwith a Crush]]: Jet is this for Zuko, but believes he is the trope below.

* [[Stay in Thethe Kitchen]]: {{spoiler|Katara gets hit with this trope hard after Sozin's Comet when she reunites with the Southern Water Tribe Warriors. They don't even acknowledge her successes and immediately try to make her do the sewing and washing because she's there.}}

* [[Stranger in Aa Familiar Land]]: Katara and Sokka are not even home yet, but already feel like outsiders to their tribe.

* [[Straw Feminist]]: Katara is seen as one by Southern Water Tribe Warrior, but the author points out that people don't like being spotted or removed from their privilege.

* [[Too Soon]]: {{spoiler|[[In -Universe]], Katara did not like Zuko joking that he'd rather get hit by lighting than do something else, once he was on the mends}}

* [[Villain Withwith Good Publicity]]: Subverted with Ozai, Fire Nation colonials don't trust him and Fire Nation old guard and the elite think Ozai's completely nuts.

* [[Wham! Episode]]: {{spoiler|Aang disappearing before the comet, the Gaang were freaking and thinking that Aang might have abandoned them.}}

* [[What Did I Do Last Night?]]: Katara had drunk too much sake with Suki and didn't remember until she stayed awake for few hours.

* [[What Do You Mean ItsIt's Not for Kids?]]: [[In -Universe]], the late night screening of ''Boy in the Iceberg''

* [[What Measure Is a Mook?]]: [[In -Universe]], the Siege of the North killed off many Fire Nation naval soldiers, a lot of them from Ember Islands. The Gaang, excluding Aang and Zuko, didn't realize the human cost until seeing a memorial service on Ember Island for the naval soldiers lost in the Siege. Aang is ignorant of the consequences of the Siege of the North, while Zuko saws the dead bodies while floating on a raft at sea.

* [[What Happened to Thethe Mouse?|What Happened To Appa]]: [[Word of God]] wondered where Appa went during the Agni Kai, but justified that Katara and Zuko must have put him somewhere far away from the site since he's afraid of fire.

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Katara did NOT accept Aang's lion turtle excuse, she calls him out for abandoning them in their most critical hour.

* [[Who Writes This Crap?]]: The Gaang all wonder who wrote ''The Boy In The Iceberg''

* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|Why Did It Had To Be Fire?]]: Firebending for Appa.

* [[I Am Your Father|Zuko, I Am Your Great-grandfather]]: Played with and mocked. When Zuko revealed that Avatar Roku was his maternal great-grandfather, Aang realized that would make ''him'' Zuko's great-grandfather. Then Aang proceeds in asking his "grandson" for hugs.