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#its like yeahh their relationship is sooo shaped by femininity in the negative sense bc their perspectives clash so much
sokkagatekeeper · 3 years
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what rlly gets to me is that toph makes katara furious. she’s messy and rude and infuriating and she has quite the temper. she’s entitled and defensive and “help” seems to be a foreign concept to her, both towards herself and others and katara doesn’t get it but she wants to get it. katara still takes toph to the spa and she calls her pretty and defends her when other girls are making fun of her, and then they fight in the mud and get down and dirty and they clash and collide and they are gentle and caring with each other still. aang was never someone katara felt responsibility or rivalry towards, there’s no actual sibling experience in there. it is toph that means the definitive becoming of katara into a big sister. as toph says it herself (“she actually cares about me—the real me”), katara is annoyed by her and she yells at her and toph yells back and they argue and they have fun together and katara never turns away from who toph really is. and that’s all toph ever wanted, really.
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