ANNE

Now that it's been nearly twelve years and that stupid ship war has gone on for so long, can we finally admit that there was no love triangle between Aang, Katara and Zuko?

katara having feelings for aang → part 3/?

maybe…just maybe…people stereotype Katara as “too motherly” for Aang because they’ve never seen media properly portray mutual romantic attraction…

THANK YOU.

Kataang was so realistic to me. The boys I genuinely liked, I cared for like Katara cared for Aang. We were friends, we laughed together, I try to protect them. Made sure they ate and took care of themselves, I was touchy feely, I soften around them. I have faith in them and try to lighten their load.

The older I get the more I also understand the appeal of Aang and want it for myself. Yes, when we’re young we like the tall, dark and handsome and Katara was realistic in that was too hence JET. KATARA WAS A REALISTIC YOUNG GIRL. We all wanted our Jets, had our Jets and learned from out Jets.

But once all that settles we want Peace. Light. Friendship. Maturity. Effective Communication. Freedom. Adventure. Higher Purpose. Fun. Youth. Not taking ourself too seriously. Someone to step back, tell us, and not participate in our self destruction. A partner. A Best Friend. A healthy lover. An Aang.

And the whole younger thing? First of all Aang was the most mature out of all of them. True emotional, spiritual, realistic, non-naive maturity but second, CMON, Yall never fell in love with people just a couple years younger than you. Never? Can’t even picture the appeal? Can’t think of anyone you know?

And DOBS? You’ve never been surprised that the person you’ve shamelessly flirted and were touchy feely with and were in love with actually liked you back? I’ve dreamt day and night of kissing my crush and when I kissed him on the cheek after prom I was SURPRISED that he kissed me on the lips. I’m not even kidding. I knew he like be too but I was legitimately still Pikachu-face shocked.

And EIP? You’ve never been through that awkward, painful, risky and confusing transition of best friends to lovers? You’ve never had a situation where you don’t know how to deal with the predicament at hand even if you wouldn’t want to have that problem with anyone else? No “right person wrong time” experiences"?

And lastly, Katara being treated as if she had no agency when he chose Aang, that she didn’t at all benefit when she chose Aang and had children with him. That people think she didn’t love Aang at all, that she was reduced to a housewife and saw that as an insult is ridiculous to me and insulting to Katara’s character. Period.

I just…Kataang is the healthiest, most realistic portrayal of a relationship to me–platonic and romantic and everything in between. They were the heart of the show (along with Zuko and Aang) and none of it relies on a romantic fruition. Them not ending up together would not have changed anything. Yet them being together was the happy ending cherry on top that we could all use in our life.

The antagonism they receive is astonishing to me. And the denial of their utmost respect, love and adoration for each other is mind boggling. You don’t have to like them but man, some of the things I read…. And those bad takes…this might be a fictional ship but women like Katara, men like Aang, their relationship and dynamic–those TRULY EXIST in real like so when fans have bad takes on them…what they imply is troublesome, out of touch and can be down right insulting.

Ship who you want I ship Aang with pretty much everyone but bad, toxic Kataang takes? That say a lot more of you and to an extension, what the media fed us.

people who bitch about the kataang kiss during the day of the black sun better bitch about that trope EVERY damn time it occurs in media (e.g. the primary hero kissing their love interest out of the blue as a last-ditch attempt to convey their feelings before having to go off into a life-threatening battle from which they may not return) or else you're just a whiny jerk who hates kataang and you're clearly looking for obnoxious ways to justify your hatred instead of simply saying that it's not your cup of tea and moving on

I think maybe people should also be bothered by Sokka just up and kissing Suki in “The Serpents Pass”?

This ^^^ The majority of the kisses in the show are like this.

In fact, I think the only ~kiss~ in the whole show where any kind of consent was explicitly discussed before the fact was Katara and Aang in the Cave of Two Lovers (and that conversation didn’t even go well lol). All other kisses were a) dramatic, romantic tropes with no preamble and therefore “overused” or “problematic” or b) on the cheek. If you wanna get bothered about tropes or the lack of explicit consent in the dialogue, then that’s like...every kiss in the show.

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Agreed

ATLA fandom: Aang tried to force his ideals on Katara and stop her from confronting her mother’s killer.

ATLA episode transcript:  Katara: Don’t try to stop us. Aang: I wasn’t planning to. This is a journey you need to take. You need to face this man. But when you do, please don’t choose revenge. Let your anger out, and then let it go. Forgive him.

What’s funny is that Katara said herself she will never forgive him and that’s okay. Aang was fine with that and he accepted that. The whole thing was that Katara was not gonna let anger get the best of her. She didn’t need someones life on her conscience at such a young age too. Bryke pretty much explains this but fandom likes to be that dramatic.

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I would argue that Aang did get it. He found out his entire culture and everyone he knew and loved - except Appa - had been murdered by the Fire Nation. Including Monk Gyatso - the closest thing to a father he would ever have. Aang understood.

i never understand why people say katara was reduced to a housewife in lok... like wasn't she in her 80s?? that's pretty old i can't blame her for settling down and teaching korra waterbending, and from what i understand there's little info provided about her life between atla and lok, so how can you say she was a housewife when you don't know what she did during all those years?? and the whole her not having a statue thing seems stupid when you consider that she is ALIVE and statues are 99% of the time memorials. like, someone who believes katara was reduced to "aang's wife" says a lot more about the speaker than it does about atla, lok, kataang, and katara herself.

the misogyny really jumps out doesn't it

I can’t believe people really say this when Katara is referred to as MASTER Katara when her name is first mentioned in LOK, not Aang’s wife or the Avatar’s wife. She is an esteemed member of the White Lotus so much that they asked Katara if she thought Korra was ready to learn air bending. Korra also refers to Katara as the best healer there is and was glad to have learned from her. She also outlawed blood bending and helped Korra get her strength back to walk again. The show does a great job of showing that Katara was her own person and built her own legacy. It’s certain people in the fandom that makes her out as the Avatar’s wife or some breeding machine just because she didn’t get a statue YET. It goes to show how a dark skinned woc has to go WAY out of her way doing the most in order for people to see her as someone who was more than a housewife. Like op said, it says more about the speaker than it does anything else.

i’m gonna be real katara’s baby crush on aang throughout the entire series was NOT subtle whatsoever and the only reason people don’t see it is because she’s a brown girl so they refuse to see her as the child she is

not to sound like a homophobic straight dude but I think yall should just let some characters be Friends not everything has to be about romance

not only is it just like… boring to make every single close relationship romantic it’s also just sort of. weird and almost Sad that every act of affection has to have some romantic or sexual alterior motive? like yall don’t hug your friends? don’t tell them you love them? don’t stick your feet in their lap when you sit on a couch together or rest your head on their shoulder or put your arm around their neck while you walk next to each other? you don’t do random acts of kindness for them because you care about them? you don’t hold their hand? don’t say good night or good morning or text me when you get home safe?

I’m so tired of every single act of love and affection and care between two characters being taken as romantic like please I am Begging you let friends exist. this mindset seeps into the real actual world n has a negative affect in the real actual world n has yall shipping real life people because you don’t understand how friends work and think that two people liking each other and having fun together must mean they’re In Love

n I’ve talked about this before but romanticizing and sexualizing all expressions of love and affection also results in fictional sibling relationships being stripped of their intimacy. no one can portray siblings cuddling or kissing each other on the cheek or sleeping in the same bed because it will Automatically be perceived as romantic or sexual. this also has a negative affect on the real actual world, as proven by the dozens and dozens of people on my last post about this saying that seeing this being done to fictional siblings made them uncomfortable expressing affection and sharing intamacy w their siblings in Real Life which is honestly one of the most heart breaking things I’ve ever heard

this isn’t about me not liking a certain ship or not seeing the chemistry between two characters its about how its Genuinely concerning that yall cannot view affection and love and care and devotion in any way besides romantic or sexual. I could go on and on and on about how its narratively boring or ineffective or annoying in a purely technical and analytical sense from a writing point of view, but mostly I just want yall to know that its weird and unhealthy to think this way and that fanbases at large having the inability to interpret any show of connection and care between two characters as anything but romantic/sexual is legitimately concerning and harmful

Why are people saying Aang’s inconsiderate for going into the Avatar State at some moments?

That’s literally something he cannot control, and is driven by his emotions. He can’t control whatever he was feeling, and every time he goes into the Avatar State unexpectedly, it’s always because he think he lost someone he loved. From Monk Gyatso, to Katara, to Appa. He goes into the Avatar State because of his emotions, he’s not a fully-realized Avatar yet.

I understand the sentiment that he puts their life in danger, but that’s not something Aang can control.

because of fandom, people always characterize aang as being jealous or suspicious of katara and zuko. but even when aang sits and watches fake them get together in a play right in front of his face, the only thing he’s upset about is the katara character saying hes like a little brother to her. like no one in the gaang thinks about z.tara at all. its no thoughts head empty for them.

And Aang doesn’t even ask her if she has feelings about Zuko!! Like op said, Aang is just upset about the character saying how he’s like like a little brother when lmao they’ve shared some moments that were intimate.

#katara #u r in a library with unlimited info #and all you do is look up fun facts about your boyfriend

are we not going to mention that aang thought being left handed in a past life is what made him special… like.. you bend all four elements and survived in an iceburg for 100 years without aging…