#rip to kataang shippers who don't like the balcony scene but i want the mess from katara's side thank u

[thethiefandtheairbender]

What do you say when people say that katara rejecting aang in eip was her saying she wasn't interested in him because it is an excuse but she was for jet

because Aang also gives her the perfect way to say that she doesn't like him and Katara doesn't take it

A: That I'm just like a brother to you, and you don't have feelings for me. K: I didn't say that. An actor said that. A: But it's true, isn't it?

All she had to say was "Yeah". She didn't and says almost word for word what Yue said to/about Sokka ("I wish we could just be friends, but I like you too much, and it's too confusing to be around you" / "Because we're in the middle of a war, and we have other things to think about right now. [...] I'm just a little confused"). That simple

I honestly think the element that EIP's balcony scene (i.e. that Katara wants to wait till after the war is over) offers to Kataang both 1) really important in contextualizing her expressions of her own crush towards him, 2) really interesting, and 3) important thematically. But post for another day maybe

Most of my thoughts on things I'd care to express in atla (shipping or otherwise) is in my atla meta tag, so I always recommend looking there first to see if I've said something you might want an answer to