#poor katara

[pottyospanna]

Late entry for Kataang Week 2023: Injured  prompt

Because winning a war doesn't mean there'll be peace all the time and being a healer doesn't mean you won't get hurt.

Again, some older teenage kataang for you. :)

I struggled so much with the sketch somehow, but it turned out almost okay I guess :D

@kataang-week

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Aang, Katara (c)  by Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko 

Art (c) Me 

Done in Krita

[vomits0cutely]

Sokka: *can’t see his mother face*

Katara: *can’t stop seeing her mother’s face because Sokka is her exact imagine*

[dreamchasernina]

I’m not a writer but even I understand how good the OG show was at showing us exactly who these characters are in the first few minutes of the first episode. The fact that they changed those scenes in the live action, where Katara shows the audience just who she is, tells you exactly what the problem with this adaptation is.

In the animated show Katara sees a boy in the iceberg, sees that he’s alive and knows she has to get him out of there. She knows she has to do everything she can to help that person she doesn’t even know! She doesn’t even think twice, doesn’t consider the dangers of hitting a giant glowing iceberg in the middle of nowhere. She grabs Sokka’s weapon and gives it her EVERYTHING to save this person. Because that’s who she fucking is! She’s compassionate, she’s strong willed, she will give it her all to help the people in need. And that’s what you get in those 2 minutes of the show.

As a writer, how do you press delete on all of that, and instead make Katara try to return their boat and accidentally free Aang from the iceberg? She frees him unknowingly. What do we learn about Katara from the scene? Absolutely fucking nothing.

I have absolutely no faith in the next two seasons unless they bring in competent writers.

[shortnailsforfuntimes]

Zuko: In my defense, I was left unsupervised. Katara: Wasn't Sokka with you? Sokka: In my defense, I was also left unsupervised.

[muclunga]

[mazzystargirl]

both katara and zuko consider aang their best friend. this makes katara really angry because how Dare zuko act like he’s closer to aang than she is because she met him first and he spent almost a year hunting him and now he wants to take her place as aang’s best friend?? when they ask aang he’s like “guys i love both of you! you’re both my best friends!” and katara’s like “no you can only have 1 best friend!” and so he’s like “oh actually appa’s my best friend” and katara can’t even say anything because she knows its true

[gay-mai]

katara: look, whatever happens in there, we have to stick together, ok? we have to back each other up

also katata, ten seconds later: so it had nothing to do with me! yes, ok, i was there, i’ll admit that, but i didn’t do anything!

[thecaroliner]

this just in

female characters can’t be strong and powerful if they have long hair