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[worthyoraclequirk]

You guys can act like it’s normal all you want but a canon ship should never get this much pushback. Hell look at starfire and robin vs raven and robin lol Robin and raven is a pretty damn popular fanon ship even a few of the writers shipped it, the difference is that you literally can’t see it in the writing nor does it really come close to getting as much support as Robin and Star, the canon ship. But with Kataang the writing and dynamic is so shitty and one sided intentionally to the point where it’s unpopular in shipping spaces. Show me all the polls from the ATLA fandom you want but it really won’t mean nothing until I see some proof that Kataang is at all even liked in shipping spaces. Like I said once you view Kataang through a shipping lens and its writing as a whole the ship almost always falls apart.

[worthyoraclequirk]

The writers decided to have Aang kiss Katara without her consent, have their next on screen interaction be an argument. Have them not interact again for the rest of the show until the very final scene. And in between this, have Katara show very little care or worry about where Aang is while also having her be on screen the most with someone who she was already heavily shipped with at the time. And then yall wonder why people hate Kataang and were confused about the ending? And no their relationship in the movie does not fix it in fact it arguably makes it’s worse because it comes off like Katara only gained interest once he became taller and older, it also shows that Katara still had to mother him when they were adults.

[nymphe-des-eaux]

She doesn't mother him, for God's sake🤦🏻‍♀️

Aang is an independent 12-year-old boy who has already traveled the world alone (thanks to Gyatso, who raised him).

If by "mother him" you mean :

- Showing affection towards him (hugs, kisses on the cheek) = That's her love language. It's her way of showing him her love. She's only like that with him.

- Comforting him = He's a grieving genocide survivor, and she comforts him because she's a good friend. Several times in the series, we see Aang reject her attempts at comforting him, especially during the Appa arc.

Aang, for his part, is grateful for the kindness and attention she gives him and reciprocates.

He's one of her biggest supporters : always encouraging her, complimenting her, respecting her, admiring her, giving her advice, and comforting her. (If the Katara/Aang relationship were truly a mother-son dynamic, the effort put in would have to be one-sided.)

And regarding the kiss, yes, it would have been nice to see a scene where they discussed it. But after Katara gets annoyed with Aang, we see him call himself an idiot, give Katara space, and never make the same mistake again. It's like with TSR when she says the famous line to Sokka; there was no on-screen discussion between them.

(The reason she doesn't want to start a relationship isn't due to a lack of feelings, but because she's confused by the war and doesn't feel ready to start anything right now.)

In the next episode in question, he doesn't argue specifically with Katara, but with the ENTIRE gaang.

We see that she still has faith in Aang.

[nymphe-des-eaux]

"Katara didn't show interest in him" Pleeeeeeeeeaaaaaaasssse 😏

1. Katara jealous

2. Katara blushing because of him

3. Their dance

4. Katara wanted to kiss him and being upset when he doesn't want

5. Her look

What happens towards the end of the series with Kataang.

[dukeofdelirium]

“Katara doesn’t show interest in Aang”

Tf you mean? She was genuinely crashing out in the cave when she thought Aang was rejecting her after she suggested they kiss because she was catching feelings and wanted to kiss him and used that scenario they’d found themselves in as an excuse to do so. No one who views someone as only a friend would crash tf out like she did if their friend said “I don’t want to kiss you”

She straight up said she loved Aang in book 2 ep 1 -> “for the people who LOVE YOU, watching you be in that much rage and pain is really scary”. Sokka isn’t scared of the avatar state, and never voiced that concern. She’s talking about herself.

And she did not need to be all up in Aang’s space correcting his stances when they were waterbending either. She is not slick, she again used that as an excuse to touch him lmao

Like please be serious. Katara was very into Aang throughout the entire show. This is just ridiculous levels of lying to claim otherwise, and it’s embarrassing for the OP who is admitting they can’t comprehend a children’s cartoon written for 7 year olds. You don’t have to like or ship kataang if that’s your personal preference, but Katara canonically does love Aang romantically. Cope.

^^ And OP, if you don’t want to get your lashings, stop posting your fuckass shit in the main #kataang ship tag. If you can’t handle the fucking heat, get out of the damn kitchen. You can’t whine about kataang shippers cooking your ass when you’re the one coming into OUR house

[worthyoraclequirk]

“She straight up said she loved Aang in book 2 ep 1 -> ‘for the people who LOVE YOU, watching you be in that much rage and pain is really scary’. Sokka isn’t scared of the avatar state, and never voiced that concern. She’s talking about herself”. None of this is proof that she loved him romantically 😭 she’s not “crashing out” because he didn’t want to kiss her, she’s crashing out because he made kissing her seem like something terrible to do. Again not proof she was into him romantically. Correcting his stance is also not romantic bro🤣 Kataang shippers cannot be real individuals dude. Katara was not “very into Aang” in fact it was quite the opposite and this was intentional because the writers didn’t want to commit to the relationship because they found it uninteresting but were forced to do it because of Bryke and their fantasies.

Also in regards to that last part you are genuinely a hilarious individual 🤣🤣 funniest person I’ve argued with on this matter yet.

[worthyoraclequirk]

The writers decided to have Aang kiss Katara without her consent, have their next on screen interaction be an argument. Have them not interact again for the rest of the show until the very final scene. And in between this, have Katara show very little care or worry about where Aang is while also having her be on screen the most with someone who she was already heavily shipped with at the time. And then yall wonder why people hate Kataang and were confused about the ending? And no their relationship in the movie does not fix it in fact it arguably makes it’s worse because it comes off like Katara only gained interest once he became taller and older, it also shows that Katara still had to mother him when they were adults.

[nymphe-des-eaux]

She doesn't mother him, for God's sake🤦🏻‍♀️

Aang is an independent 12-year-old boy who has already traveled the world alone (thanks to Gyatso, who raised him).

If by "mother him" you mean :

- Showing affection towards him (hugs, kisses on the cheek) = That's her love language. It's her way of showing him her love. She's only like that with him.

- Comforting him = He's a grieving genocide survivor, and she comforts him because she's a good friend. Several times in the series, we see Aang reject her attempts at comforting him, especially during the Appa arc.

Aang, for his part, is grateful for the kindness and attention she gives him and reciprocates.

He's one of her biggest supporters : always encouraging her, complimenting her, respecting her, admiring her, giving her advice, and comforting her. (If the Katara/Aang relationship were truly a mother-son dynamic, the effort put in would have to be one-sided.)

And regarding the kiss, yes, it would have been nice to see a scene where they discussed it. But after Katara gets annoyed with Aang, we see him call himself an idiot, give Katara space, and never make the same mistake again. It's like with TSR when she says the famous line to Sokka; there was no on-screen discussion between them.

(The reason she doesn't want to start a relationship isn't due to a lack of feelings, but because she's confused by the war and doesn't feel ready to start anything right now.)

In the next episode in question, he doesn't argue specifically with Katara, but with the ENTIRE gaang.

We see that she still has faith in Aang.

[worthyoraclequirk]

None of what you just showed me proves for certain that she liked him or was in interested in him. And the writers kept it that way on purpose. I’ve literally seen the mapping out of the kiss during the invasion (I’m sure you have as well) and the writers literally change her reaction to keep her feelings ambiguous. And something like that, as far as feelings and having crushes/being in love with someone goes you can’t really write it that way (especially when the individual has chemistry with every other character). It’s bad writing and it makes it unclear. And the fact that she has chemistry with every other character except Aang makes it come off as if she’s not interested in him already. Even if we disregard the mothering point and you’re wrong on it btw because yes she does have to mother everyone in the group, it sticks out the most with Aang…it’s still a one sided crush for the entirety of the show and the writers kept it that way which opened the door for Zutara shippers. So blame Bryke for projecting childhood insecurities on to the relationship and blame the writers for writing it with little to no care at all.

Yes after writing Characters A’s feelings for character B to be ambiguous and all over the place the entire show let me have them fight at least twice in the past 4 episodes, give them no resolution at all, and throw in two jokes for another popular ship right after the two characters became friends. Let me also have one of those characters, C who’s also in the popular ship take lightning for character, and have this lead to no where just so I can have character A and B kiss at the end of the show!

[worthyoraclequirk]

The writers decided to have Aang kiss Katara without her consent, have their next on screen interaction be an argument. Have them not interact again for the rest of the show until the very final scene. And in between this, have Katara show very little care or worry about where Aang is while also having her be on screen the most with someone who she was already heavily shipped with at the time. And then yall wonder why people hate Kataang and were confused about the ending? And no their relationship in the movie does not fix it in fact it arguably makes it’s worse because it comes off like Katara only gained interest once he became taller and older, it also shows that Katara still had to mother him when they were adults.

[worthyoraclequirk]

Had to delete my account because of the harassment I received from you people but I really need to get one more lick in 😂 I just find it so hilarious how Kataang shippers are so insecure and so secretly dissatisfied with their ship. And to address a few things I heard..

No something being universally liked or disliked doesn’t mean it’s completely wrong. But when it comes to the audience and how the audience feels, if 70% of the audience is dissatisfied with how the canon pairing is written, and if literal WRITERS have come out and said how they made a mistake going with the canon pairing than I think it’s safe to say something is clearly wrong lmfao.

And no I don’t like Zutara, I like Zuko and Katara’s dynamic and how it developed but the idea of them being a pair after everything he did is a little off putting, however I can see why so many people like it. Not once in the story does Katara have to coddle his feelings or act like his mother and she also opens to him all of this not being the case with Kataang. At the end of the day as I said, the fact that the writers for NATLA find it better for the story to write bait scenes for Zutara (no romantic scenes in the OG btw) instead of developing the main CANON pairing despite them having literal kids and Grandchildren in the original verse says enough. There’s clearly something wrong with Kataang and it’s crazy how you guys can’t acknowledge it. Bro even the official ATLA instagram and YouTube accounts push Zutara propaganda just as much IF NOT MORE than Kataang.

So yeah yall can stay mad that Kataang will always be unpopular lol they made Aang tall handsome and STILL couldn’t pull more consistent numbers so what does that say? Stay mad! And here’s one of your own even admitting Zutara is more popular which just shows how shitty Kataang is.