#hmm I don't know if this prediction is considered an absolute requirement by KA because this post does lower the importance of the predicti

[late-draft]

The Fortuneteller thing.

I don't like how ambiguous and flippant the writing is about whether it A. does in fact feature legitimate predictions about the future in the atla universe B. is just making a joke and isn't actually giving any info so we should disregard everything Aunt Wu said C. actively insists that a person should make their own destiny.

Katara's prediction is THE problematic one, because Aang's is an empowering one as it says it simply cannot view his future love life, but assures him that he can carve out his own destiny.

By this logic, Katara's prediction should also have been that it's invisible and that she can make her own path and choices. But it doesn't, it says what it says. Unless Aunt Wu simply took a wild guess that Katara, a powerful bender, would like to imagine being with a powerful bender herself; but the series gives no hint, no visual clue through which we could spot that Aunt Wu was just guessing what her client would like to/should hear. For all intents and purposes, Katara's future prediction is framed by the series as actually legitimate.

I'm talking exclusively about metaphysics here, not about the narrative purpose of the fortunetelling it had in the show (because the purpose was to clearly position Aang as a possible option but still staying vague enough to allow it to not turn out to be true. Possible setup for a misdirect, a red herring.)

The vibes are off, that is, the framing of Aang's and Katara's predictions imply completely different things about how fortunetelling works in ATLA.

With all of that in mind, and if we accept Katara's prediction in the form it was given, I think the only, ONLY way I could consider it to be "okay", is if it resulted in Katara herself one day choosing to tell someone that she views them as a very powerful bender. This way it's her who is choosing, her who is deciding who to bestow with this description. It could be as a consequence of her becoming fully aware of what she feels for whichever person she describes.