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[thebakingqueen5]

Master Fic Post

i apologize in advance for how long this is. all of the following are kataang fics (for now)!

Broader-Use Links: 

Profiles: FF.net and AO3 

Completed Kataang Weeks:  

2018 (FF.net | AO3)

2019 (FF.net | AO3)

2020 (FF.net | AO3)

2021 (FF.net | AO3)

2022 (FF.net | AO3)

2023 (FF.net | AO3)  

2024 (FF.net | AO3)

Other Series: 

Kataang Valentine’s Bash 2021 (FF.net | AO3) 

Multichapter Stories

From Enemies To Lovers and Everything in Between (FF.net | AO3): She's the quiet, smart social outcast whose best friends abandoned her. He's the popular but arrogant jock who is living a lie. Can the two find love when things are not as they seem? Or will they be ripped apart for the sake of a reputation? 

TWs/CWs: self-harm, suicide 

Modern AU

On hiatus indefinitely (incomplete)

hopefully more to come soon  👀👀

Oneshots (Event-Unrelated)

Not Your Fault, Never Your Fault (FF.net | AO3): "It's not your fault. Never your fault." That's what they always told each other. But oh, what hypocrites they were. Kataangst and how they comfort each other through the ages. 

TWs/CWs: miscarriage, genocide

Canon-Compliant

help me remember (the ghosts of my past) (FF.net | AO3): aka "(it's okay to not) remember"; Shortly after The Rift trilogy, Aang comes to the horrifying realization that he is forgetting how it used to be. 

TWs/CWs: genocide, cultural loss

Canon-Compliant

We’re... Conserving Water? (FF.net | AO3): Katara and Aang get themselves into an awkward conversation with their children about showers and conserving water. Borderline mature situations and implied... stuff. Cloudbabies fic.

Canon-compliant, post-series

Into the Open Air (FF.net | AO3): Aang takes Katara for a flight on his glider. 

Canon-compliant, post-series

Songfic (lyrics edited out on FF.net)

10th Anniversary (FF.net):  Katara and Aang reflect on their years together, 4 dating and 6 married. Written for the Kataang/Sozin's Comet Part 4 10th Anniversary: July 19th, 2018. 

Canon-compliant, post-series

Forgot this fic existed actually that’s why it’s not on AO3

Reunion (FF.net):  Aang has been missing for 3 months. Has something happened? Will Katara forgive him? Will Zuko yell at Aang for calling him Firelord Hotman? 

Canon-compliant, post-series

Also forgot this fic existed

Kataang Week 2018

Mythology (FF.net | AO3): Aang tells the cloudbabies a bedtime story. 

Canon-compliant, post-series

Ballroom (FF.net | AO3): Katara and Aang are forced to go to one of the Earth King’s elaborate parties. 

Canon-compliant, post-series

Family (FF.net | AO3): Katara considers herself to have a big family, but it started out small. How her family and definition of family has shifted and changed over the years.

Canon-compliant, post-series

Affection (FF.net | AO3): The story behind Katara and Aang calling each other "sweetie.” 

Canon-compliant, post-series

Councilwoman Katara (FF.net | AO3): Katara attempts to put a ban on bloodbending.

Canon-compliant, post-series

Intertwined (FF.net | AO3): Katara realizes what Gran Gran meant when she said their destinies were intertwined. How her feelings for him evolved over time.

Canon-compliant, in-series

Quirks (FF.net | AO3): Aang notices one of Katara's quirks.

Canon-compliant, post-series 

Desire (FF.net | AO3): Katara gets some late-night cravings. 

Canon-compliant, post-series

Midnight (FF.net | AO3): Katara and Aang do some midnight waterbending during another full moon.

Canon-compliant, post-series

Sacred (FF.net | AO3): Aang and Katara talk about how they’re going to go about their wedding. 

Canon-compliant, post-series

Kataang Week 2019

Storm and Thunder (FF.net | AO3): Bumi wakes up from a storm. Aang comforts him. 

Canon-compliant, post-series

Breathe (FF.net | AO3): Different instances of Kataang telling each other to breathe. 

Canon-compliant, post-series

Gentle Touches (FF.net | AO3): Aang gives Katara a massage. 

Canon-compliant, post-series

Dancing (FF.net | AO3): To many, the word was insignificant and meant nothing. To others, the word was simply a pastime, a hobby, something to be done just for fun. To Katara and Aang, it was the entirety of their relationship summed up in a single, deceptively unassuming word.

Canon-compliant, post-series

Lazy Day/Morning (FF.net | AO3): Aang and Katara spend a lazy day in bed the day after their wedding. 

Canon-compliant, post-series

Frustration (FF.net | AO3): Ficlet about why Aang and Katara get frustrated with one another. 

Canon-compliant, post-series

Trust (FF.net | AO3):  Aang asks Katara to trust him. Katara (reluctantly) agrees.

Canon-compliant, post-series

Kataang Week 2020

Keeping Warm (FF.net | AO3): Katara and Aang sleep next to each other... for survival purposes obviously. 

Canon-compliant, post-series

Soft (FF.net | AO3): Katara talks about the softness of Aang’s heart. Aang’s mind goes... elsewhere. 

Canon-compliant, post-series

Blood/Wounds (FF.net | AO3): On the field of battle, Aang gets hurt. Katara, naturally, freaks out. 

Canon-compliant, post-series

PDA (Public Displays of Affection) (FF.net | AO3): Katara and Aang reflect on each other’s PDA. 

Canon-compliant, post-series

Heritage/Responsibilities (FF.net | AO3): The night before their wedding, Katara and Aang reflect on their heritage. 

Canon-compliant, post-series

Napping (FF.net | AO3): In a COVID-stricken modern universe, Katara and Aang are understandably quite tired. 

Modern AU

The Red Thread of Fate (FF.net | AO3):  How the Red Thread of Fate has connected Katara and Aang through their whole lives and beyond.

Canon-compliant, pre, in, and post-series

Kataang Valentine’s Bash 2021

Sun (FF.net | AO3): Katara wakes up early one day and spends some quality time with her husband in the morning sun. 

Canon-compliant, post-series

Moon (FF.net | AO3): Aang wakes up in the middle of the night to find his wife out of bed and outside, waterbending in the moonlight. He joins her and the two share a heart to heart about the stars and their relationship.

Canon-compliant, post-series

Yin & Yang (FF.net | AO3): Aang was yin, Katara was yang, and sometimes Katara was yin, and Aang was yang. 

Canon-compliant, post-series

Kataang Week 2021

Height Difference (FF.net | AO3):  It’s his 14th birthday and Aang is feeling frustrated. Katara wants to help and Aang confides in her about some of his insecurities.

Canon-compliant, post-series

Blending Cultures (FF.net | AO3):  Aang and Katara were from two very different cultures, but they made their family work anyways.

Canon-compliant, post-series

Missing Scenes (FF.net | AO3):  Bridging the gap between the Ember Island Players and Sozin’s Comet Series Finale.

Canon-compliant, in-series

Role Swap (FF.net | AO3):  Expansion upon the Yin/Yang oneshot from KVB 2021. During Katara’s first pregnancy, an interesting change in dynamics occurs.

Canon-compliant, post-series

Healing (FF.net | AO3):  Healing and all the ways it incorporated itself into Katara and Aang’s relationship. 

Canon-compliant, post-series

Tease (FF.net | AO3): tease (verb): gently pull or comb (tangled wool, hair, etc.) into separate strands. Aka the take on the “tease” prompt that no one (not even me) expected.

Canon-compliant, post-series

The Sea & The Sky (FF.net | AO3):  Katara was the sea, Aang was the sky, destined to meet at the horizon where they were bound together for all eternity.

Canon-compliant, in-series

Kataang Week 2022

Admiration (FF.net | AO3): He only sees her from a distance, but Aang can’t help but be besotted with admiration.

Canon-compliant, post-series

“Just Friends” (FF.net | AO3): Katara and Aang had always been close, the closest in fact, but they were just friends… right?

Modern AU

Sneaking Off (FF.net | AO3): Aang's been oddly secretive lately, so a pregnant Katara finally finds out what her dear husband has been up to.

Canon-compliant, post-series

Drunk Kataang (FF.net | AO3): While Kataang loved each other sober, they couldn’t help but find each other’s drunk selves equally endearing.

Canon-compliant, post-series

Power Couple (FF.net | AO3): Katara hated it when people called them a power couple. Aang happened to love it.

Canon-compliant, post-series

Quiet Moments (FF.net | AO3): Sometimes, Katara and Aang didn’t need words.

Canon-compliant, post-series

Wait For Me (FF.net | AO3): Katara and Aang hated waiting. They always had. But for each other? Why, they’d do it till the end of time.

Canon-compliant, pre, in, and post-series

Kataang Week 2023

Wind & Rain (FF.net | AO3): City Hall is under threat of a thunderstorm, and Aang refuses to ask Katara for help. What could possibly happen? Or, the one where Open Forum Day goes horribly wrong.

Canon-compliant, post-series

Injured (FF.net | AO3): Katara gets a paper cut. Aang panics.

Canon-compliant, post-series

Confession/Whisper (FF.net | AO3): “Tell me something you’ve never told anyone before.” Or, the one where Aang and Katara find themselves unable to sleep.

Canon-compliant, post-series

Cultural Exchange (FF.net | AO3): It's Aang and Katara's turn to cook dinner for the temple, and Aang feels like doing something a little different. Or, the one where I do too much research about Tibetan roasted barley snacks. Slight continuation of "help me remember (the ghosts of my past)" but you don't have to read it to understand this.

Canon-compliant, post-series

Rivals to Lovers/Secretly Dating (FF.net | AO3): Aang had always loved watching her from afar. Her movements were fluid, and her eyes sparkled in the light of the setting sun, so much like the water she bent. The only problem? She hated him.

Modern AU

Spirits (FF.net | AO3): Three times Katara took the spirits' names in vain and one time Aang did.

Canon-compliant, post-series

Reunion (FF.net | AO3):  "To whomever it may concern: You and a guest of your choice are cordially invited to the Eastern Fire Nation Secondary School's 10-Year Reunion on the 7th day of the 4th month of the year 110 AG in the caves near EFNSS. Join us for a night of dancing, music, and more!" Or, the one where Katara and Aang have some improvements for their Kataango.

Canon-compliant, post-series

Kataang Week 2024

Culture Sharing (FF.net | AO3): “They say the lights hold visions, memories, that if you look closely enough, you’ll see your loved ones dancing in the next life.” Or, the one where Katara and Aang go to see the aurora australis.

Canon-compliant, post-series

Protectiveness/Bodyguard  (FF.net | AO3): In which Avatar Aang is terrible at not falling for the pretty waterbender in his personal guard detail.

AU where Aang saves the world on his own and meets the rest of the Gaang separately afterwards

Part 1 of a two-shot with Day 4: Post-Battle Reunion

Parenting  (FF.net | AO3):  In which the Council of Five can’t figure out why the Avatar and his wife haven’t had children yet, but neither can Katara.

Canon-compliant, post-series

Post-Battle Reunion  (FF.net | AO3): In which Avatar Aang is really, truly, absolutely, horrifically terrible at not falling for the pretty waterbender in his personal guard detail. (But maybe it’s okay, because maybe she’s fallen for him too.)

AU where Aang saves the world on his own and meets the rest of the Gaang separately afterwards

Part 2 of a two-shot with Day 2: Protectiveness/Bodyguard

Disguise  (FF.net | AO3): Katara is volunteering at the senior center’s Bingo Night, but she’s pretty sure she’s seen this Bonzu Pippinpaddleopsicopolis somewhere before… Or, the one where Katara and Aang have very different memories of their first conversation.

Modern AU

Jealousy  (FF.net | AO3):  Two times Katara and Aang got jealous, and the one time it was of each other.

Canon-compliant, post-series

Proposal  (FF.net | AO3): Aang and Katara have a heartfelt conversation about their future.

Canon-compliant, post-series

[thebakingqueen5]

Are you doing Kataang Week 2025?

hi! thank you for the ask!

unfortunately this year life has just kinda gotten in the way of writing :( I haven't really had the time or energy for kataang week so I probably won't be publishing anything for this year (not on time anyways)

there's a couple ideas I have that I might publish as independent one shots at a later date but that's about it 😭

[kataang-week]

Tentative Schedule for Kataang Week 2025

Alright, apologies, I should have known I was being a little too optimistic with my estimate of having something ready earlier this week.

Prompt Submission will begin on Monday, June 2nd, if not sooner. More details will be included with that announcement post on how submissions should be made. It will run through Friday, June 6th.

Voting will take place across 3 rounds from Saturday, June 7th through Monday, June 16th with the winning prompts selected on the 16th.

Kataang Week will likely, as has been tradition, start in the last week of July, so from Monday, July 28th through at least Monday, August 4th.

I understand this reduces the number of weeks for working on prompts from 7 to 6, for which I apologize. If more of the fandom wants additional time for prompt submission and voting, please comment on this post and the schedule can be readjusted, though the July 28th-August 4th dates will likely remain.

More details to come. Thank you all again for your patience and understanding this year.

-Mod Dan

[avatar-legends-confessionblog]

Gyatso and Aang are the most tragic relationship in the show. Gyatso agreed that Aang was too young to be forced into the responsibility of the Avatar, he was going to find Aang and protect him from what the others were imposing on him himself. But they never get the chance. Aang never gets to learn that Gyatso was always on his side, Gyatso never gets to learn if Aang made it out okay.

Their love of each other was so deep and genuine, but they alone are not even given closure. They're even robbed of that. Aang's tragedy is so deep and understated, I cry just thinking about it.

X

[thirteendaysintaunton]

aang and katara are literally That Couple tbh like these are the two characters with some of the most rizz in the show without trying. aang the most popular boy in school after 1 week of transferring and katara who has boys falling for her at every turn. unmatched in charm. everyone wants them and what they have

[thebakingqueen5]

today on asks that made me do a lil happy dance around my room

thank you to these anons and everyone else who's ever liked, reblogged, read, and/or commented on my fics!! it means the world!!

yall readers have no idea how much impact your words have on us writers <33

[thebakingqueen5]

KW 2024: Proposal

Day 7 for Kataang Week 2024 hosted by @kataang-week with the prompt Proposal!

Links: AO3 || FF.net

Summary: KW 2024 Day 7: Proposal. Aang and Katara have a heartfelt conversation about their future.

Word Count: 2.2k

Preview:

“You’re still awake.”

A corner of Aang’s mouth upturned. She knew him too well.

“How’d you know?” 

He moved his hand to caress the waves of her hair, her locks cascading down her back like a waterfall. That’s what he assumed, anyway- their room was far too dark for anything other than the dimly lit window to be visible.

Katara tapped her finger against his chest, just left where her head lay over his heart. 

“Every few minutes, your heart rate is spiking. You’re thinking about something that’s making you nervous. Or excited.” 

Her hand trailed up his chest, finding and cupping the side of his face gently. Aang felt her head shift, likely to look up at him, even though she couldn’t see him. “Everything okay, sweetie? Even when you’re stressed about something, you’re usually able to sleep by this hour.”

“It’s not stress- I’m just…” He paused, his lips pursing. “I’m just thinking. About us, about our future.”

The waterbender remained silent, signaling for him to continue.

“I want to marry you.”

[alexanderwales]

"I don't think I could have the relationship with you that you have with me," she said. She was very casual about it, and I was immediately on the defensive.

"What do you mean by that?" I asked.

She put the book she'd been reading down. "It's just, the way you've described it, and the vibe that I get, I don't think I could do it how you do it."

"I still don't know what that means," I said.

"You're always doing this like ... micro calculation thing," she said. "You weigh your words. You try to time things. You have never once called me up while I was at work, or asked me for something when it was inconvenient for me, and you check and double check that you're not being a nuisance."

"And ... that's bad?" I asked.

"No, I love that about you," she said. "It's very kind and considerate. I know that if I tell you I'm not in the mood to hang out, you'll apologize and not push it. If you suggest that we get pizza and I say I'd rather have Korean BBQ, you fold instantly and we get Korean BBQ. I like that. I get the things I want. But it seems like an exhausting way to deal with people."

"I want you to be happy," I said with a small voice.

"I am happy," she replied. "You're great. You remember when we first got together I was like 'hey, look, if you want pizza, we can get pizza, it's just not what I'm in the mood for', and you kept insisting that you didn't care, that you would rather have me follow my needs? And I just thought, 'you know, maybe I should just trust that's what they actually feel'. And it is, as far as I can tell. There's not some secret part of you that wants me to break your way."

"You think I'm ... a simpering coward?" I asked. Even as I said it, it felt too accusatory, the wrong thing to say in the situation.

"Whoa, no, not at all," she laughed. "I think you do all that stuff because ... I don't know, you want to? Because otherwise why would you do it? It's how you are with every aspect of your life, you're a tryhard. I mean you said to me that you wanted to reclaim the term. Your relationship with me is that you're a tryhard (affectionate)."

"And you're ... not?" I asked.

"I'm not that way with anyone," she replied. "You know why I hang out with you so much? It's 'cause I like you. Most days, I am very much in the mood for you, and if you ask for a meetup, I'll say yes, and if you don't ask for one, then I'll ask you first. And for you ..."

"What?" I asked.

"It's like ... you're keeping track," she said. "You want to make sure that you're not sending me more messages than I'm sending you. You're balancing social micro stuff that I don't pay attention to. You're consciously monitoring how much each of us has said and making sure it's the right number of words or whatever."

"It's really not about the number of words," I replied. "It's more ... making sure that social and emotional labor is equitable, that there's a good rhythm to the conversation. I don't think you'd get good results by tracking word count."

"But see, I don't do any of that," she said. "I talk because I feel like talking. I listen when you need to vent because I like you and it feels good to give you an outlet. I mean you are undoubtedly putting in a bunch of work, and for me, there's no work. That's all I meant, really."

"You've thought about it," I said.

"Oh, I'm just reading this book, and there are two characters like us in it, and I was like 'yes, exactly', and then 'that would not work for me'." She shrugged.

"And if I stopped 'putting in the work'?" I asked. "Would we still be ... friends?"

"See, I don't know," she said. "Because that's never who you've been. You're asking me if I would still be friends with you if you changed your personality and how we interact with each other. Maybe? Probably? Who knows? Maybe we'd be better friends somehow. Maybe we're just two basically compatible people, and every time you've ever worried about anything it would actually have been completely fine."

"Or maybe it's load-bearing," I said.

"Maybe!" she replied with a smile that slowly faded. "You okay?"

"I'm thinking," I said. I didn't know if I could verbalize what I was thinking in a way that would be palatable.

"Do you not like being this way with me?" she asked. "Because I have never asked you to. I've made my preferences known, but if you've been bending yourself into knots and feeling a burden, then ..."

"No," I said, because I knew it was what she wanted to hear. "No, I like the way things are between us."

"Good," she smiled. "I do too."

[catmask]

just so you know, you have some followers who enjoy/write fanfiction. not saying their urls rn bc i don’t wanna air out dirty laundry in public but if you want them so you can block and report, just say the word and i’ll dm you a list

[catmask]

BRO?

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

Reblog if you're self indulgent and perverted lmao

[bemusedlybespectacled]

fellas is it perverted to think happy thoughts

[thebakingqueen5]

KW 2024: Jealousy

Day 6 for Kataang Week 2024 hosted by @kataang-week with the prompt Jealousy!

Links: AO3 || FF.net

Summary: KW 2024 Day 6: Jealousy. Two times Katara and Aang got jealous, and the one time it was of each other.

Word Count: 2.6k

Preview:

There were very few things Katara dreaded more than Earth King Kuei’s biweekly balls.

She loved dressing up and dancing with her boyfriend just as much as the next person, but spirits, would it kill him to host a party that lasted less than five hours? And that didn’t even begin her critiques of the lackluster finger food, the obscenely oversweetened pearl milk tea, the politeness she had to fake at some of the nobles’ suggestions of limiting contact between nations (did they see who they were talking to?), and-

“Avatar Aang!” a chorus of squeals sounded. 

The waterbender sighed. “And the fangirls,” she muttered to herself.

She knew their intentions were good and that Aang appreciated their dedication to reviving his culture, but sometimes she felt like they were more eager to help him revive his culture in other ways.

“Oh, hi friends!” 

Aang shot Katara an apologetic look as his attention was taken away by the gaggle of giggling girls, the daughters of high-ranking Earth Kingdom officials elsewhere in the ballroom. She settled on sipping from the glass in her hand, wincing at the sugar concentration of the drink. Her gaze absent-mindedly wandered to where Aang and the girls stood, her boyfriend dressed elegantly in his most formal robes. 

The reds and oranges complimented the azure of his tattoos, she noted appreciatively, and the pleats running across his torso made him look broader, more regal. The golden accents brought out the silver of his eyes, and the symmetry of it all highlighted that crooked grin she loved so much in a way that rendered Katara breathless and sent shivers down her spine. 

[thebakingqueen5]

KW 2024: Disguise

Day 5 for Kataang Week 2024 hosted by @kataang-week with the prompt Disguise!

Links: AO3 || FF.net

Summary: KW 2024 Day 5: Disguise. Katara is volunteering at the senior center’s Bingo Night, but she’s pretty sure she’s seen this Bonzu Pippinpaddleopsicopolis somewhere before… Or, the one where Katara and Aang have very different memories of their first conversation.

Word Count: 2.2k

Preview:

“Reminiscing?”

He nodded, opening one eye to look at her. “How’d you know?”

She scrunched her nose in the way she knew he found adorable. “You always do the same little sigh and smile. It’s cute.” Katara tilted her head. “What are you thinking about?”

The corners of Aang’s mouth upturned, his gaze distant and nostalgic. “How we met, my first memory of you, our first conversation, things like that.” 

The waterbender exhaled softly as images flooded her mind- a nervous first day of history class in their junior year of high school after he had transferred to her school, the flutters in her stomach at the presentation he had given the following week on Air Nomad culture, his voice passionate and filled with pride for his heritage, that icy winter afternoon a few months later (which technically was their second conversation, but Aang didn’t have to know that).

“The snowball fight, right?”

“Yeah,” the airbender grinned. “When someone hit me with a snowball even though I wasn’t playing.” 

She rolled her eyes, a smile dancing on her lips. “Well, someone wasn’t too upset about it because he decided to join my team. And asked me to go penguin-sledding with him right after!”   

Aang shrugged. “Hey, I’m just a peace-loving nomad who needed to learn from the master.” 

Katara snorted. “You tried to tackle like four penguin-otters, unsuccessfully mind you, before actually listening to me about luring them with fish.”

[kataangoogie]

Day 3: Parenthood 🎏

[thebakingqueen5]

KW 2024: Post-Battle Reunion

Day 4 for Kataang Week 2024 hosted by @kataang-week with the prompt Post-Battle Reunion!

Links: AO3 || FF.net

Summary: KW 2024 Day 4: Post-Battle Reunion. Continuation of Day 2: Protectiveness/Bodyguard. In which Avatar Aang is really, truly, absolutely, horrifically terrible at not falling for the pretty waterbender in his personal guard detail. (But maybe it’s okay, because maybe she’s fallen for him too.)

Word Count: 3.9k

Preview:

Katara had felt fear before.

She had felt fear when the black snow had come, the ash tainting the village’s water supply for days after, when her mother had told her to find her father, at the screams of the Chief when they had returned to the igloo that fateful day. 

She had felt fear when her father and the men of their tribe had gone off to war four years later, expressions stoic underneath layers of war paint as they kissed their crying wives and children goodbye, possibly for the last time, when the boats left with every last steel or bone blade in the village, when Sokka and her looked at each other as they sailed off, unsure of what to do next. 

She had felt fear when she saw that foreboding soot in the snow two years after that, when a Fire Nation ship had come to her village again promising nothing but death and destruction, when an angry scarred man had grabbed her grandmother and threatened her village, searching for a man, a myth, who hadn’t been seen in a century.

She had felt fear when her brother and Aang left the room with the other council members leaving her to deal with some dozen firebenders on her own with a limited water supply, when she had realized that their attacks were aiming to kill, when she felt the static crackle of lightning mere inches from her face before knocking the man out.

She had felt fear before. And that was why she was certain this new feeling overtaking her body was not fear.

[thebakingqueen5]

KW 2024: Parenting

Day 3 for Kataang Week 2024 hosted by @kataang-week with the prompt Parenting!

Links: AO3 || FF.net

Summary: KW 2024 Day 3: Parenting. In which the Council of Five can’t figure out why the Avatar and his wife haven’t had children yet, but neither can Katara. 

Word Count: 2.2k

Preview:

“If there’s something more you want to say, sweetie, just say it.” Though his words were blunt, his tone was gentle, more curious than anything.

“It’s just that-” She paused before shifting closer to him, entangling their legs under the blankets and pressing the side of her head to his bare chest. He pressed a kiss into her hair, cradling her against his body.

“Just that?”

She craned her neck to look up at him, expression hesitant.

“Why haven’t we had kids yet, Aang?”

The airbender’s eyes widened, clearly taken aback by the question. 

“We said when we got married that we’d wait a few years, have some time just for us, for the world to settle down, but, well…” She shrugged. “It’s been a few years. The world, for the most part, has settled down. But it feels like every time I bring it up- the idea of us having kids- you either say you’re too tired and put off the conversation or switch topics entirely.”

“It’s fine if you’ve changed your mind!” she quickly clarified. “I just wish you would talk to me about it, sweetie. I hate not knowing what you’re thinking.”

Aang felt his stomach drop at the thinly veiled frustration in her words.

[d4ncingqueeen]

one zut4ra concept that pisses me off the most is katara living in the fire nation and/or being firelady. why would katara want to rule the nation that murdered waterbenders? people of the southern watertribe? her mother.

they took part of her childhood so why would she want to live or rule there?

it doesn’t make sense for her character.

she’d most likely wanna live in her tribe, and help repair it.

taking her away from her people and putting her in clothing full of fire nation symbols while zuko has nothing representing the water nation on his is weird and disgusting.

example:

the whitewashing is disgusting as well.

[rms10]

This is probably one of the most tonedeaf issues I see that runs through that ship: the idea that Katara gives up her entire cultural identity to be absorbed into the Fire Nation. It's the entire whitewashed Pocahontas narrative applied to this franchise. It's why I don't really think they could ever work in anything resembling their canon characterization. Modern AU's, no-war AU's, etc. are the only way for it to play out reasonably, at which point the characters are going to be substantially altered anyway. (To be clear: I have no objections to people who want to morph these characters and play around with them. They are fictional. I only really object when they're dishonest about what they're doing. Go have fun.)

As a good friend said, that's Katherine, not Katara in that pic, and it explains a whole lot of the perspective issues we see.

[heyhanibee]

Kataang Week 2024–Day 2: Protectiveness/Bodyguard

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that one tweet that says katara acts like a booktok boyfriend

[kataangoogie]

Day 2: Protectiveness 🎏 "don't boo at him!"