The Audacity of certain Zutara shippers
The funniest thing about some zutara takes is theyll swear up and down they love Katara meanwhile Katara is the first person they have to completely butcher to make their ship happen 🤔
like apparently loving Katara means turning her into someone who would cheat and betray Aang to humiliate him and throw every ounce of loyalty she has out the window
That's not katara anymore thats a Zuko self insert delivery service wearing her necklace
Katara is loyal to an almost insane degree she loves hard she protects people hard she holds grudges hard she commits hard but im supposed to believe Zutara fanatics care about her character. She chose Aang married him built an entire life and family with him and then one day zuko shows up looking constipated and broody at a diplomatic meeting and suddenly shes ready to risk it all. That's her character according to them though 😭😭😭
Katara would drag the moon out of the damn ocean with her bare hands before she casually betrayed Aang like that
and thats what kills me about these cheating headcanons because theyre not even about katara
Zuko gets to stay exactly who he is meanwhile katara has to get a full personality transplant so she can become miserable enough horny enough and morally bankrupt enough to finally pick him
her loyalty doesnt matter
her marriage doesnt matter
her actual feelings dont matter
everything katara ever said or did becomes some giant misunderstanding because obviously deep down she was secretly waiting for prince scarface to come collect her
The biggest truth is they want Katara and Aang to be miserable, and for what
Because canon katara commits the ultimate crime against them
thats literally the part that drives them insane
because theyll tell you katara is intelligent and strong and independent and knows exactly what she wants right up until she wants Aang
then suddenly this girl(past) woman(Currently) has never understood a single emotion shes experienced in her entire life
her marriage was secretly miserable
she spent 50 years staring wistfully toward the fire nation waiting for zuko to show up on a dragon and rescue her from the husband she voluntarily chose 😭
like wow amazing characterization guys
nothing screams respecting a female characters agency like spending 20 years explaining why her own choices dont count because you think another man looks hotter standing next to her
and ship zutara all you want, thats literally what fandom is for
make aang and katara never date
write zuko and katara falling in love
but when you need Katara to cheat on Aang betray her family or secretly spend her entire marriage wishing she picked zuko please stop pretending youre doing it because you understand katara better than everyone else 😭
you took katara destroyed her character, her autonomy and dragged the corpse into a zutara fic
because somehow zuko is allowed to be complicated flawed loyal traumatized honorable and fully realized while Katara gets reduced to whichever personality is most convenient for getting him chose
and then they call it fixing her character 😭
nah, you didn't fix Katara's character
you hollowed her out and made her into a trophy for zuko
I get it though from Zutara shippers prospective
when canon gives you nothing you start learning how to turn atmospheric proximity into romantic evidence
The funniest irony is katara spent the entire show demanding people respect her feelings and take her seriously only for parts of this fandom to spend years going actually katara sweetie you dont know what you want we do
and somehow they call that loving her
Katara is just the woman you need to rewrite until she loves him too