Sorry to burst your bubble, but Zuko paid more attention to Katara as a genocide survivor than Aang ever did.
This is just facts.
100% agree with this OP. The biggest impact that Katara’s genocide survivor status had on her life was her mother’s murder as her mother wouldn’t have been murdered if Katara was not the last Southern waterbender and Zuko knows this but A.ang doesn’t, which is just hilarious to me 😂.
A.ang knows that the Fire Nation killed Katara’s mother but he has no idea it was specifically because she was the last southern waterbender, one because he never bothered to ask about the tragedy and two because Katara just never felt compelled or encouraged to tell him. Zuko on the other hand knows all the details about the situation from Sokka, from Katara herself and then from Yon Rha.
Then for some reason Zuko, not A.ang (you know, the guy who’s married to a Southern waterbender), was specially mentioned to have given special attention to rebuilding Katara’s nation and countinues to take special interest in the Southern Watertribe over all the other nations.
They always say “they’re both genocide victims so they understand each other better”
And that would be cute if not for the fact that that little similarity between them completely went over Mike and Bryan’s heads even in this new movie (A.ang telling Katara she doesn’t understand what it’s like to be a genocide survivor). You’d think they’d say her husband was the one who took special interest in her tribe’s welfare since you know, it was affected by genocide and A.ang is supposed to be able to relate to that? But nope, apparently it’s Zuko, you know the guy who supposedly doesn’t care about Katara.
I’m honestly convinced that Bryke might just be dense because about 95% of A.ang’s interactions with Katara’s culture are negative. Him not liking their animal skins and food and being disrespectful about it by telling Toph not to eat it, or him allowing Katara’s culture to become completely sidelined in their family with the only person taking after Katara’s culture being Kya.
The one similarity that could actually make Ka/taang somewhat engaging has Zuko being more positively involved in it than A.ang.
Just ridiculous
