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soncee

Mommy Katara

salmakiis

water and wind

aisatsaa

if only Gyatso had run away with Aang

tillythemenace

I'm so glad we got a Kataang fandom renaissance :'V You have no idea how hard it was to be a Kataang in like those early days of fandom and all the scrutiny this ship has gotten throughout the years... I'm glad ppl are finally seeing for how great it's always been.

chimerrrah

elzifelzi

"Katara never showed any romantic interest towards aang in atla"

Meanwhile katara in atla any chance she got

This isn't even counting all the times she's been ready to beat someones ass on aangs behalf

I'd even argue that there were more instances of aang being oblivious towards her feelings towards him than the other way around.

But aangs not tall and doesn't meet your "edgey teen boy" fantasies so I guess it doesn't count right? Cuz how else are you gonna self insert into kataras role right?

foruko

somie

Atla doodles from my rewatch! some are from memory so forgive me for any inaccuracies...

myrthena

i finally drew something…

glue-bubbles

continuation

aisatsaa

or katara/aang/katara….🤔🤔

survivalove

it’s so funny to me antis pulling out this new (is it really?) angle of “aang choosing cosmic energy over katara isn’t romantic because if she knew… [insert anti feelings and pretend it would be katara’s feelings even though it doesn’t align with the source material here]”

and like first of all, she doesn’t know and she would never know. because aang would never burden her with that kind of knowledge in the first place. just like aang would never know that his running away triggered katara into confronting her father. or how much anguish she felt when he didn’t wake up for weeks after ba sing se. or that she threatened to murder zuko if he only *looked* at aang the wrong way.

truly some of the best aspects of kataang are all of the things they leave unsaid to each other, especially the things that reveal to us - the audience - how intense their feelings for each other are and how much headspace they occupy in each other’s minds. not only is this romantic AF but the not telling each other part is also what makes it complex and, um, realistic.

the concept of your partner telling you about every time they put you over the greater good or what’s good for them and this not being emotionally manipulative afffff. i’ve seen this play out irl a few times and these confessions usually have an ulterior agenda alongside them aka leverage aka unhappy couples

I genuinely do not understand where this whole “Katara would be mad at Aang for choosing her over cosmic energy” narrative comes from 👀

This is literally the same Katara in The Awakening who called Aang selfish for leaving them behind to carry the burden of saving the world alone. She explicitly says she understands the world needs him, but they need him too.

And considering how deeply Katara was hurt by her father leaving to save them, it makes even less sense to claim she would have wanted Aang to completely detach himself emotionally from everyone, especially her. Katara understands responsibility, but she also values emotional connection and the people she loves being present in her life.

So if Aang had actually gone through with fully letting go of all earthly attachment (which he decided to do and was also in the process of doing it, when he was killed by Azula), Katara probably would have understood why he did it, but she still would have been emotionally devastated by it. She would not be angry that he chose her and wanted to stay connected to the people he loved. If anything, she would have been relieved, and together they would have looked for another solution… which is literally what happened.