#Mom!Katara

[okbrambleberry]

Just things they can connect about… Zuko you should bring up the fact that you burned down Suki’s village again, I’m sure she’d appreciate it.

[eeriezoundz]

I could be a good mother

[demaparbat-hp]

Izumi (steambaby) sketches.

[fanfic-gremlin-ft-trauma]

i am disgustingly late but for women’s day i wanted to appreciate the mother figures of the world :)

[redbayly]

Zutara headcanon #35594

When he realized that Katara didn't have any sort of image of her mother (as the Water Tribe isn't really known for its paintings), Zuko hired the most talented portrait painter in the Fire Nation and then consulted with Hakoda and Gran-Gran for as many details as possible in order to commission a life-size painting of Kya to give to Katara.

The painting was so beautiful and so true to life that Katara almost thought her mother was about to step out of the canvas. It became one of her most cherished possessions.

Many decades later, after Katara passed away, the painting was considered a masterpiece and placed in the Southern Water Tribe cultural heritage center and museum. It is the most beloved work in the gallery and remains a symbol for many Water Tribe and Fire Nation people of love, courage, and kindness.

[nyxelestia]

Originally on Instagram, posted with artist @hrlshnv's permission.

Edit: artist is not on Tumblr, so if you have an Instagram account, please remember to go show them some love.

[billsbae]

this is so momtara and dadko coded

[punkeropercyjackson]

As a black woman who's naturally androgynous because of being biracial,critisisms towards woc x male character ships just read as reasons they're good to me.'His feelings for her are fueled by her looks!'I can't put into words how awesome that is,it's nice to see girls like me being seen as pretty by boys unlike how i was told i'd never be.'He loves her because he sees her as so much cooler than everyone else and not just an ordinary person!'Awesome sauce,good to know 'nonwhite girl' isn't synonymous with 'loser'.'He dosen't treat her like girls he's not in love with!'That's so awesome.'He knew her for barely any time before he started crushing on her instead of taking time with her!'Awesomeness City

[late-draft]

Southern Raiders

Well, after rewatching the Southern Raiders with my mom, it's easy to see why it could be interpreted as Zuko wanting violence and revenge, with scenes such as him lingering too long with his angry stare at Yon Rha after Katara already decided to leave, or him attacking and pressing on to get information from the captain of the Southern Raiders on the whereabouts of the man they were actually looking for, even though he could have called it quits as a "dead end" when Katara already started walking away.

But that's a misread. This is nothing personal to him and it wouldn't align with any of Zuko's previous behaviour - not in the Boiling Rock where he did everything to help Sokka, not in Day of the Black Sun when he didn't attack his father. Not in the North, where he offered a hand to try to save Zhao, a man who attempted to get him killed.

If the viewer invests two seconds into investigating the situation, it instantly becomes clear that when Katara was walking away when they hit the information "dead end", she was grim, tense, frustrated, bitter and still deeply hurt. Calling it quits there would mean her emotional wound would not heal. This is the reason why Zuko pressed on, and the reason he looked at Yon Rha with disgust. Not because he wanted murder, but because he was significantly affected by how deeply Katara was hurt.

"You should get some rest." "Are you ready Katara?" It's disingenuous to read Zuko's quotes as him doing this just to manipulate her into committing murder. He's never been portrayed as a manipulator in the show, and it makes perfect sense he's truly saying and doing these things to help her, just like how he was helping Sokka an episode earlier.

Yes, if I were directing the episode, I would have added scenes of more closeups, Katara despairing when they ran into a dead end; Zuko seeing her pain and it reflecting in his expression of sadness. That is where the focus actually is, and it would be conveyed visually this way. But:

Considering this episode was rewritten a thousand times, it's clear how the actual meaning was placed underneath the top layer of misdirection. And it becomes clear there was no chance for directing to put these visual explanations.

My mom commented, "maybe the Southern Raiders took Katara's mother as a prisoner, why is she overreacting?" and I had to facepalm. No, it's heavily implied Katara saw her mother's charred corpse. Her reactions throughout the show in regards to her memories of her mother are extremely intense, causing her to shake and cry. Third episode of the series, she outright says the Fire Nation killed her mother. And Yon Rha confirms in the end that he "didn't take any prisoners". It doesn't matter that Yon Rha was a pathetic person who was able to kill Kya due to Southern Raiders overwhelming their village and her being a nonbender. The trauma it caused to Katara became an integral part of her. Her "nasty" comment towards Sokka is logical. It's not nice or kind, but it's logical. Zuko was able to understand the depth of her pain and that simply "forgiving and moving on" was not an option for her.

And in the end, facing Yon Rha did help Katara get closure. It helped her. It alleviated the pain she was intensely bottling up for years. It gave her back control and power over the murderer she could do nothing about as an 8 year old girl.

[kittenfangirl20]

I love my mom so much, we introduced her to Avatar the Last Airbender and I told her the original plan was to have Zuko and Katara get together romantically and she responded with “That actually makes sense.”

[miela]

"katara would never fall in love with zuko when the fire nation killed her mom" well katara needs to realize that the fire nation probably killed a lot of moms that was under firelord ozai's reign she aint special now be punk rock and kiss his sON

[ultfreakme]

I just want to know what is this obsession with some ATLA fans on making Katara "The Mom"? She's 14. We start with Aang saying she is just a kid so what on Earth is this weird take?

[thinky-think-brainblast]

Am trying to spread the Kya and Aang agenda..

Anyways

Kya figured out how to a water scooter just by copying Aangs technique and adapted it to water bending. Aang was so proud, happy, excited to try it himself, and jealous he didn’t figure it out first. They then dragged Katara to water scooter with them, she was skeptical because her daughter and husband claimed it was better than surfing, she still doesn’t agree, but catch them “water scooting” together every chance they get.

Leaving this here cause this absolutely would be something that happens, and because I feel that people forget that Kya and Aang could also bond over waterbending.

[yourhighness6]

Every so often I am struck by how truly wonderful the zutara ship is. Unreal chemistry? Check. Mutual support? Double check. Fits so many great tropes my head is going to explode while also somehow being completely unique? Check times a million.

[korielle-writing-fanfics]

saw a comment say that katara being a fighter and mother were never a dichotomy and how even as a mother (at least in tlok) we don’t see her do much in terms of even being a mom and i had to think a bit

and yeah shes not present as a mom or grandma and damn they have her not even the bare minimum to do

[lphoenixspiritl]

At Toph and Aang's wedding, Zuko filled in as father of the groom and Iroh had the honor of being the father of the bride. Meanwhile Katara took on both roles as mother of the bride and mother of the groom.