This is that racist Italian woman with two dozen sockpuppet accounts, isn’t it? “Reclaiming the tropes that canonically belong to Aang/Katara”... Lmfao. I just know NATLA has her mad as hell for further validating the Painted Lady and Blue Spirit connection.
Paintedkuzon is pure delusion because the Katara counterpart to Aang’s Kuzon is canonically Sapphire Fire. Aang wasn’t pretending to be Kuzon when he was helping Katara disguised as the Painted Lady, but I've seen a lot of K*taang shippers think otherwise.
Zuko and Aang are far closer to being the yin and yang of the series than Katara and Aang ever were. Oma and Shu hardly resemble K*taang at all, which is why the Cave of Two Lovers story never made sense for them. Omashu was not intended to parallel Zutara, but it inadvertently did because it was Joshua Hamilton (one of the pro-Zutara writers) who came up with the idea. I actually talked to Hamilton a long time ago, and he agreed that Zuko and Katara were a far more fitting parallel for Oma and Shu than Katara and Aang. Was it because of his shipping preferences that he subconsciously wrote in a Zutara-like trope for K*taang to make it more interesting? 💀
K*taang shippers usually compare Katara to the moon and Aang to the ocean, so I could sort of see the parallels with Tui and La, but it feels quite forced. If Aang is associated with the ocean because he fused with La, then wouldn’t that make his parallel Yue, since she fused with Tui? Katara has ties to both the moon and the ocean as a waterbender, so why would she only be the moon instead of the ocean? The sun/moon parallel she has with Zuko is clearer because Zuko literally says she rises with the moon, while he rises with the sun, lol.