#katara interactions.

[sunshiinefades]

                katara  got  out  of  class  early  which  was  a  rarity  but  she  had  managed  to  finish  early  and  was  let  out.  so  katara  decided  she  to  swing  by  the  tea  shop  on  her  way  home  since  it  was  that  way.  figuring  she  would  bring  him  food  because  she  knew  he  forgot  his  lunch  on  the  counter  and  she  hadnt  had  time  to  swing  it  by.  so  katara  did  just  that  ,  once  she  had  the  food  katara  parked  and  went  into  the  tea  shop  hoping  she  didnt  catch  him  when  it  was  busy.  /  katara  &  zuko  :  @bcneficium

[bakedbeanchan]

[janadoesstuffwrong]

Something that I think ppl who ship both sukka and zutara don't acknowledge enough is the fact that poor Hakoda met both his kids' future spouses on the same day, in the same place and that place just happened to be prison.

[rosewaterdrunk]

continued  from  here!  @virtuousouls​

                 katara  smiled  when  suki  agreed  to  the  girls  night  out  ,  katara  was  thrilled  to  have  the  boys  around  but  they  got  on  her  nerves  a  lot  which  she  was  used  to.  ‘  trust  me  i  grew  up  with  my  brother  i  know  how  he  is.  ‘  katara  said  playfully  even  if  she  meant  it.  ‘  im  free  today  ,  hence  why  i  brought  it  up.  ‘  katara  teased  elbowing  her  friend  slightly.

[yourhighness6]

"Zuko and Katara would argue all the time if they ever had a romantic relationship"

Are

you

absolutely

sure

about

that?

[shellomantic]

atla cats !!!

omg finally finished the first four i'll do toph zuko azula n ty lee next >:)))

[mal3vol3nt]

Hi. You’re probably tired of seeing me dump stuff like this. (I’ll try to make this the last time). But I have to vent to someone. Because I see this one guy, claim to not hate Aang, only to villainize him to a ridiculous extent, acting like he’s unempathetic, forcing Katara to tend to his emotional needs and this user completely downplays Aang’s genocidal trauma. Not to be rude, but how much of a heartless prick do you have to be to invalidate genocide and the trauma it can cause. These fake fans should honestly keep their mouths shut about this show, they clearly don’t understand it.

the southern raiders episode needs to be freed from the zutara fandom i swear. i’m fully convinced they never actually watched that episode cause it literally ends with katara saying she still didn’t forgive yon rha and aang accepting that. he literally says “im proud of you”. it was never her anger at the man that aang disagreed with, it was the action she planned on doing—murder—that he wanted to talk her down from. not for yon rha’s sake, but for her’s. so even though she didn’t forgive him, aang respected that and was able to recognize the strength and validity in her decision. i’m so tired of repeating this rebuttal to this stupid as fuck argument

aang doesn’t force her to do anything in the entire series. katara has her own agency and free will to do as she pleases and not a single character has ever taken that away from her, and the one time where her freedom was threatened (by pakku), she fought for it and ensured she got her way. when yall say aang takes her agency away from her, you’re also ignoring the core traits of katara: her fierceness, her determination, her ability to recognize what’s right for herself, and her sense of justice

she never blindly follows or takes direction from anyone. when aang tried telling her and sokka to stay put while he made the trip to see roku in the fire nation, katara (and sokka) put her foot down and refused to listen. she demanded that they go with him, and he accepted them making that choice for themselves. when sokka tried convincing her to leave after she met up with haru and they had the chance to escape from the fire nation ship, she refused and said she wasn’t abandoning the rest of the earthbenders. her decision was respected by both aang and sokka. in fact, there are so many instances of her making her own decisions regardless of what anyone else says that it would be impossible for me to list them all. she never succumbs to what aang or anyone else wants, and she always makes her genuine thoughts on an important decision known. katara does not need anyone to tell her what to do nor does she allow anyone to tell her what to do. this is the same girl who single handedly changed the “no girls allowed” rule in the northern water tribe after having been told “you can’t do that”. yall think she would let aang walk all over her??? please put some respect on her name

now this may be a controversial take but i don’t care it’s the truth: comparing sokka and katara losing their mom to aang losing his entire culture and people is actually insane and insensitive but not for the reason zutaras think. its because absolutely nothing any other character went through can compare to what aang did, and to diminish his tragedy by saying katara’s trauma surrounding her mom’s death is somehow worse is actual insanity and i need yall to go to prison LMAO

katara did not witness her mom get murdered. that only happened in natla and i refuse to acknowledge that. she ran out of the tent to go tell her dad that a fire nation soldier was with their mom and when she came back, the man was gone and kya was dead. still insanely traumatic, but she was not literally standing there watching as kya burned to death

that’s literally what happened with aang. from his perspective, he had just seen gyatso only a few hours ago. gyatso was alive literally moments ago in his mind and then he was greeted with his decayed skeleton among the bodies of unwelcome fire nation soldiers. just like katara experienced insane whiplash from that heartbreaking change, to see someone alive only to come back to them gone, aang went through roughly the same thing

the only difference is aang didn’t just lose gyatso, he lost all his friends and mentors as well. and he didn’t just lose all his friends and mentors, he lost every single person who looked like him. and he didn’t just lose every single person who looked like him, he lost everyone he had grown close to and seen from the other nations. and he didn’t just lose everyone he had grown close to and seen from the other nations, he lost the animals native to the airbending temples. and he didn’t just lose the animals native to the airbending temples, he lost the native plants as well. and he didn’t just lose the native plants, he lost the structural beauty and integrity of the air temples. and he didn’t just lose the structural beauty and integrity of the air temples, he lost the ability to practice his cultural customs with others. and he didn’t just lose the ability to practice his cultural customs with others, he lost the ability to bend his native element with others. and he didn’t just lose the ability to bend his native element with others, he lost the time to mourn for all that he lost

i’m sorry to those of you who wanna believe your favs have suffered more than anyone else in the series, but none of their tragedies compare to aang’s. and i don’t believe in downplaying what the others went through to support a fandom narrative, but this is literally just me acknowledging the severity of aang’s story. to suggest any one else has gone through more is to be ignorant and nothing anyone can say will ever convince me otherwise

only reason yall think zuko or katara or sokka or toph or azula or whoever the fuck else is more tragic than aang is because all of their traumas are more relatable to the everyday person whereas aang’s is something that most people can’t even comprehend

[johnskleats]

got into zutara vs kat@ang discourse with a neighbor

neighbor: well the ending was good enough for ten year olds. it's not like the show was written for adults with writing degrees

me, who at age ten, watched the premiere when it happened and then rented the DVD off of Netflix later and rewatched the finale 5+ times before accepting that THAT was how it ended and there was simply no narrative explanation: it wasn't good enough for me then either

neighbor:

me:

neighbor: you must have been a weird ten year old then

[mesapies]

All the comics may not have been great, but they did give more relationships between women. Both friendships and rivalry

Even if they only lasted for like 3 panels

[seventeendeer]

just started book 3 of my ATLA rewatch and, all goofs aside, I do think it's a massive shame how many genuinely interesting ideas are in here which never get to shine because the headwriters are fundamentally uncomfortable with the themes they inserted into their own story.

they want to write a story introducing kids to the concept of war, but all of their main characters are inexplicably insanely competent and powerful, so we only get a handful of scenes depicting the war with any amount of realism. these scenes usually involve very minor one-off characters, and while evocative to adult viewers to an extent, they are likely to go over kids' heads because they're not grounded in the central narrative.

the writers are eager to borrow concepts from various asian mythologies and schools of thought, but they cherry-pick the parts they think are "cool" or "deep", while ignoring or shouting down ideas that don't neatly line up with what they themselves are already able to relate to (see the whole "opening the chakras"/"letting go of katara" plotline).

they want to portray strong, independent female characters standing up to sexism, but every female character must still on some level aspire to be someone's wife (and the dark-skinned girls are depicted as already fitting the mold perfectly; it seems to be the price they pay to be allowed in the story at all. the writers attempted to branch out a little in the sequel series with korra, but immediately felt so uncomfortable they felt the need to put the character through an insanely traumatic plotline as punishment for creative choices they made!).

there are many more of these, but you get the pattern. it's what happens when creatives like the idea of doing something meaningful, but ultimately can't bring themselves to leave their own comfort zones.

I'd honestly be interested in reading fanfiction of ATLA by writers who have a better understanding of the themes it's trying to depict, because there are a lot of interesting pieces on the board and I would love to see them moved around by players who aren't fucking stupid and actually know what the hell they're talking about

[sunshiinefades]

                katara  had  finally  had  a  day  off  where  she  didnt  have  a  class  ,  so  while  zuko  was  at  work  katara  decided  to  get  some  stuff  for  the  apartment.  the  waterbender  was  starting  to  pack  up  her  bags  so  they  were  easier  to  carry  ,  once  she  was  done  katara  turned  to  walk  out  of  the  store.  katara  turned  was  heading  towards  her  shared  apartment  when  she  spotted  what  looked  like  her  older  brother.  luckily  he  hadnt  been  to  far  from  her  but  had  his  back  to  her.  when  she  wasnt  to  far  off  from  him  she  called  out  to  him.  ‘  sokka?  ‘  /  katara  &  sokka  :  @signcfthetiimes

[lady-of-the-spirit]

I think Katara and Mako would get along really well.

[proshipear]

🌀 kacest (sokka x katara) moodboard !!

requested by anon!

[lifewtr]

Along the Way.

“Holy f—” Katara pivots on the toes of her sneakers, gravel crunching underfoot; balance askew as she tries to avoid ramming face first into a metal door; only she has spun too fast and too late, and instead of gracefully correcting herself she wobbles precariously to the left.

“Shit.”

Glass shatters as she promptly falls; a thud of something heavy and wet hitting the ground behind her. Katara doesn’t care, an upset squeak of a grunt dislodging from her throat as she helplessly tips and there really is so much gravel, she is sure that her hands and knees are going to be an absolute mess—

An arm snakes around her hips, a large hand cradling the side of her head that nearly nicked the alley’s wall just then.

“Got you.” The hand on her hip tightens as she is suddenly and swiftly brought right side up, the hand on her head cradling her safely and softly. “That was a close one.” A warm timbre hits the shell of her ear. “I’m sorry, I almost.. Sorry. You alright? You’re not hurt are you?”

Blinking owlishly; scrambling to get her feet properly under her before she turns around; Katara can’t discern if she should be put off by the fact that they keep meeting like this, or simply and sinfully delighted at hearing that voice so very up close and personally.

Large hands carefully fall away from her person. ‘And you’re crazy,’ she tells herself as she faces her savior, ‘so, so crazy for feeling like you’re freezing cold now that he’s not touching you—’

Concerned golden eyes widen with bewilderment. “Katara?”

“Yup.” She pops the p. “What are the chances, do you think?”

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[wilcze-kudly]

Five of my all time favourite characters let's goo

Thanks to @novaae for tagging me

I feel like putting this group in one room together would solve all of the world's problems or end in tears

Tagging: @linnorabeifong @makosbiggestdickrider @nova-leaf @notira @punkeropercyjackson and anyone who wants to join lol

[burst-of-iridescent]

people who say zutara can't be canon because "they only became friends in the last five episodes!" irritate me so much like my dude are we watching the same show? zuko and katara’s arcs mirror each other from book 1, they share parallel after parallel and have layers upon layers of symbolism, their backgrounds and personalities and morals are so similar that we the audience can see how compatible they are and how well they would understand each other even without explicit interaction between them, so that by the time the southern raiders rolls around, it simply serves as proof of what we already know about zutara.

tsr, eip and sozin's comet are, narratively speaking, the culmination of zuko and katara’s arc together, not the beginning! they're the fruit that’s borne from the seeds that were sowed since the very first season, and naturally viewers would pick up on that! of course people who love these two characters would see the connection between them and the similarities they share and the thematic significance of their relationship, and then the show itself validates this audience interpretation in the catacombs, in tsr, in the finale! that’s what zk shippers mean when we say that zuko and katara were meant to be together, because their relationship is threaded so deeply into their own personal narratives and that of the show overall that they don’t even need a lot of screentime together for the audience to know that a) they would be a good couple and b) the direction of the story was naturally leading to a romance between them.

zuko and katara’s relationship extends above and beyond their moments of direct interaction, so that their scenes together after they become friends are really just the payoff for the buildup of the past three seasons - because the narrative foundation for zutara was laid all the way back in book 1, not in the southern raiders or any of the episodes that followed.