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comradekatara · 3 months

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katara’s role as the show’s narrator is so underrated because no one really seems to understand just how deeply katara is impacted by the nature of stories, with regards to their craft, their promulgation, and their cultural significance, so they don’t truly register the sheer metatextual brilliance of having her be the resident storyteller of the narrative itself.

the first thing atla establishes about katara is that she is someone who is fueled by dreams and fantasies, and believes in a return to a world where “all four nations lived together in harmony” (which is obviously an illusory ideal, as there was always geopolitical strife even if it wasn’t as overt as the devastating imperialist project they are now subject to), described to her by kanna’s stories about the old days.

katara is someone who indulges in fantasies of adventure and heroism, projecting these ideals onto both herself and others. she is an idealist in the truest, purest sense of the word, and what is an idealist if not someone who tells themselves stories about a more beautiful world to survive?

it’s no coincidence that the episode where katara successfully scares everyone with a very compellingly narrated campfire story is the same episode that she must contend with her heritage, the ominous lacunae in her stories, the pitfalls of her own naive idealization. it’s also not a coincidence that the story she tells was first told to her by her mother.

katara grew up hearing stories passed down to her from kanna and kya, and those stories gave her hope and brought her the possibility of happiness in a bleak, cruel world where she was ultimately alone. there used to be people like her, said the stories, and they were brave, and they fought til their final breaths to hold onto their culture, their love for their people, their humanity.

well that’s who i’m going to be, says katara. someone who fights, someone who cannot be knocked down (because there is no one else left to take her place), someone who will never cease to have faith in the capacity of others for good, for truth, and for justice.

stories are her heritage, they are her culture, they are how she defines herself and how she understands the world around her. stories are how she copes, how she survives; they are all she has left to cling to. and sometimes they are reductive, and sometimes they are outright false, but that’s okay too. she grows, she adjusts her narratives, she learns to leave room for more grey in her neat tapestries of black and white. stories can define a tragic past, but they can also pave the way for a better future. she keeps telling stories.

#i could sunlit garden this girl so easy (probably what hama was thinking)#katara #analysis #kanna&katara #katara&kya #hama&katara #this is also what makes the southern raiders so brilliant as the apotheosis of her arc #but that’s for another post #(one that I’ve probably made before lbr)#everyone in atla has a sunlit garden / mythmaking event / whatever you wanna call it #but katara is the QUEEN of narrativization #and you do not get katara at ALL until you get this #fyi.#anyway i love her so much that i nearly teared up writing this. it’s whatever tho

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punkeropercyjackson · 1 month

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"Well it's not like you can just TELL the non-Water Tribe characters are poc too,you'd have to pay extra attention!"Aang is a buddhist monk,Ty Lee is named Ty Lee and Zuko literally has monolids

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mugentakeda · 20 days

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we were girls together

#who is this pakku you speak of. Never heard of him #hama #kanna #What is their ship name. i dont know #atla #avatar the last airbender #alicias art

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transuncletaylor · 3 months

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If Katara is the spitting image of Kanna as said by Yugoda, do you think Hama felt a little sense of home when she saw Katara's face?

#katara #hama #kanna #atla

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delusional-void · 2 years

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So When We See Hama’s Backstory, We Learn That She Was Taken From the Southern Water Tribe Over 60 Years Ago. There’s a Girl Who is Very Clearly Friends With Hama. A Girl Who Looks Remarkably Like Katara, With Her Hair and Even a Bit of the Necklace.

I Think It’s Safe to Assume That Hama and Kanna Were Friends Long Ago. Gran-Gran and Hama Are Also Very Easily Presumably the Same Age.

Master Pakku States That He Carved Katara’s Necklace for Kanna 60 Years Ago Before She Left - Placing Her in the Southern Water Tribe at the Right Time.

I’m Sure That This Theory Already Exists. If I Noticed It, I Guarantee All of You Have, Too. I’m Also Not Sure if This Theory Was Ever Confirmed - I Just Think It’s Kinda Neat.

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waterfire1848 · 9 months

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Random list of water family headcanons that no one asked for

- Bato was around Katara and Sokka so much while they were growing up that they called him papa for the longest time. No one had the heart to correct them.

- Katara was a surprise.

- Kya always sang Katara and Sokka to bed with the same lullaby. Years later, Katara would sing the same lullaby to her kids.

- Kya and Hakoda met when their two villages merged. She quickly became friends with him and Bato and started dating Hakoda a few years later.

- Kya’s parents didn’t like her dating Hakoda because of Kanna and his father being from the North Pole.

- Kya took yearly trips to Kyoshi Island and was friends with Suki’s mothers.

- Kanna and Hama did have a relationship but it ended once Hama was taken away. When Katara and Sokka returned and told her Hama was alive, Kanna begged them to either bring her to Hama or bring Hama to her.

- Kanna raised Hakoda by herself after Hama was taken away.

- Katara discovered her waterbending when she and Sokka were having a snowball fight and she got angry that he was winning.

- The fishhook story is one Sokka regularly tells when Katara is having a nightmare or some other fear related attack. Katara either uses waterbending and talks about the day she tried to bring home a baby octopus-whale to help Sokka calm down.

- When they were flying on Appa, both siblings would get homesick so Katara would make snowballs and the three (later five) would have snowball fights until the snowballs melted.

- After the whole "then you didn't love her the way I did" comment, Katara made Sokka his favorite dish and they talked about Kya.

- If Kya had survived to the end of the war, she and Hakoda would have taken in Aang, Toph and any member of Team Azula who needed somewhere to live.

- Sokka took to staying awake on nights with a full moon after Yue’s death and, after the Puppetmaster, Katara joined him.

- Sokka helped raise Bumi and Kya when Katara suffered from post partum depression with Tenzin.

- Katara was a little upset when Sokka decided not to have kids because she wanted to be aunt Katara which is why she was so excited when Izumi, Lin and Suyin started calling her that.

- Katara asked Aang to be the bad guy when it came to the kids asking for a pet. The next day Aang and Sokka showed up with a polar dog puppy. Sokka had no regrets.

#should I do some for the Fire family #katara #sokka #Hakoda #Bato #Kya #avatar the last airbender #Kanna #Hama #headcanons #water family #water siblings #the water siblings

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attackfish · 6 months

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Can I ask for a continuation of the Sokka and Katara raised in the fire nation au?

Continued from: [Link], [Link], and [Link].

1. There is a woman involved with the search, from two villages over. She always comes out for these searches. She's an old innkeeper, a sweet woman. Kanna recognizes her. And it's really really weird that she recognizes her, because she recognizes her as a Southern Water Tribe woman, who was kidnapped by the Fire Navy. What is she doing here and free? Kanna sidles up to her and, voice too soft for anyone else to hear, says "Hello Hama, how did you come to be here?" Hama looks at her, and then looks again, and she smiles a smile of surprise and delight, and says to her that she could ask her the same thing. And they talk. Hama tells Kanna about escaping prison. Kanna hells Hama about her daughter in law's death and her son's capture.

2. Then she mentions that it's her grandson who is missing. Hama is shocked. She grows quiet and troubled. And something just feels really off. And Kanna used to know Hama well enough to know when something was really off. And she doesn't want to think...

3. That night, after Katara is settled into bed, Kanna slips out and follows Hama back to her village. Hama heads to her inn and goes inside, and Kanna waits. And waits. And just when she thinks that this was all very stupid, and she's being paranoid about somebody who used to be a close friend, Hama emerges from the inn, and heads out into thr night. Kanna follows. Hama winds her way through the woods to the mouth of a tunnel, and Kanna waits, for what feels like hours for her to surface again. Once she does, Kanna leaves her hiding place and goes down the tunnel in Hama's stead. It's pitch dark, so Kanna takes a flint and lights a candle from her pocket. As she walks down the tunnel, the hair on the back of her neck stands on end. She hears garbled noises. They slowly resolve, Into voices, and the clanking of chains.

4. When she reaches the cave at the end of the tunnel, She almost can't piece together what she sees, can't pull it into something that makes sense, gaunt shrunken forms hanging from the wall, her grandson strung up like a fairground puppet. It's real, and yet it's what's right in front of her. She tears one of the iron pins, so common to elderly Fire Nation peasant women, from her hair. She hasn't picked a lock since she was a teenage girl in the Northern Water Tribe, and the iron pin is too big for it anyway, but it doesn't matter, because all she has to do is shove The pins into manacle the locks, and push, to shove the locks open. First is Sokka, and her grandson falls into her arms.

5. She frees the others as quick as she can, but she soon realizes she has a problem. None of the others, who've been hanging there for months, are strong enough to walk more than a few steps. She's forced to leave them with Sokka. They run up the tunnel To the sound of the other prisoners begging them to come back, and as soon as they reach Hama's village, they pound on the door to the small garrison, and tell them what they've seen, and what Hama did. Several guards go with Kanna, so that she can lead them to the tunnel, so that they can verify her story. They carry Hama's other victims to freedom. Then they go to arrest Hama. Suddenly it's all over. They summon a judge, who rides through two days later, and Hama is sentenced to death. Every village for miles around has lost someone, and only a handful were still alive to be rescued. They all turn out to witness the execution. And sickeningly, Kanna finds herself the hero who sniffed out the Water Tribe witch.

#avatar the last airbender #atla kanna #atla hama #posts i created #do you want to ask a question it doesn't have to be a question #five headcanons #sokka the meat and sarchasm guy

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theduckeminence · 10 months

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Kanna/Hama by themselves <3

[ID: In the drawing, Hama and Kanna stood together up, shown from their heads to busts. Both beamed innocently and their eyes closed, seemingly in glee and were laughing at someone. Hama was holding up her right middle finger, in which she also made an icy claw to emphasize her fuckery. On her left, Kanna was covering her mouth, attempting to hide her laughter. Both were wearing parkas that were inspired by the amauti. Behind them were the colors of the lesbian pride flag. End of id.]

#atla #avatar the last airbender #kanna #hama #hama x kanna

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survivalove · 7 months

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the thing with hama is that at this point, she doesn't seem to really "care" about the water tribe. obviously she does, that's her home, and who she is. but it's changed so much, and she's become so deep in her revenge that i can't see her ever assimilating fully back into her home. the people there are desperate for some sort of peace, and hama doesn't want nor care for peace, she wants revenge. I kind of wish somebody would explore this idea more because yes a lot of people would have sympathy for what she's suffered, but I can imagine a lot of people, like sokka, would not like her (especially if you consider the fact that from the southern water tribes point of view, she attacked katara and sokka, two children of the tribe and that the majority of these people have never met hama). idk I think this is a very fascinating concept to explore bc it shows a more realistic side of the war in that some people, even if they thought they wanted it to end, can't live without it because of the traumas they endured. and like you said, the swt is a majority nonbenders society and one that's inherently changed. hama comes from the southern water tribe before most of the raids, and back then the culture was more closely linked with the northern water tribe. as the raids went on, water benders were lost, the culture developed to fit these conditions. we see in north and south that a lot of people do not like northern intervention, and changing the south pole to fit its standards, and since hama was from a time where cultural wise the south mimicked the north a lot more, I can imagine that would also be a point of strife

same, I think it would be a great concept to explore in a fic since it would bring up a lot of contention among the tribe (because I do think there will be at least a few people like kanna and hakoda who will advocate for her rehabilitation) but also between sokka and katara. at the end of the day, katara is a waterbender and she has this power, she and sokka both know what it feels like to be bloodbended but she’ll never be in sokka’s place where he literally couldn’t fight back against it at all if he wanted. i think sokka would hate her and would to hate to have to live with her in his home where he’s supposed to feel safe and I don’t blame him.

also katara once again feeling like an other because she’s the only other bloodbender in the tribe and most people don’t know that she’s bloodbended after that either. and what if the tribe decides hama can’t come back? what does that say for someone like katara who’s done the same thing?

the water tribe post war is truly one of the most underexplored parts of canon (!!!) i just imagine aang being invited to the council meeting trying to reconcile all these conflicting ideas lol. knowing him he’d probably want to give hama a chance but it’s not up to him. and it’s be a great problem for hakoda to reckon with too because as you said, most of the tribe is not going to want her back, and the swt is a democracy at the end of the day.

the southern water tribe in hama’s time does seem to be very different, aesthetically and culturally, from the north tho so that’s probably where i disagree. i think it’s more that she will miss her friends and everyone she knew. the presence of northerners would probably upset her the most. that being said, I think hama would want to go to back. I mean she fought hard for her tribe (another way the swt and the nwt is so different) and it’s not their fault she got taken so i don’t think she will hold any malice in her heart upon arrival. but i do think it will be a rude awakening for her to realize everything is so much different than it once was, once she gets there.

if i were to write the story, i’d probably end it with hama living on the outskirts a few miles away from Wolf Cove, where she can’t be a threat to anyone but still be close to where she grew up.

ugh the potential character development for katara, sokka, hakoda, kanna, hama and even aang for a story like this is literally limitless. sigh

#atla #katara #sokka #hama #kanna #hakoda #aang #southern water tribe #my asks

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atla-polls · 1 year

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#atla polls #kanna #pakku #iroh #bumi #lo and li #hama #piandao #jeong jeong #aang #cabbage merchant

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yellow-faerie · 6 months

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Who wants to hear my thoughts on Kanna, Pakku, Yugoda and Hama? I have been having...so many thoughts and you actually can't stop me

#Kanna #Pakku #Yugoda #Hama #by which I mean I'm going to be blessing you all w/ my big brain ideas very soon and no-one can tell me no #anyway Kanna's life is a tragedy and I made it worse #AtLA #Fae Rambles Into The Void

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comradekatara · 1 year

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i think about their relationship so often.

the chiastic parallels between kanna risking her life to travel to the other side of the world during a war, only for katara to make the same perilous yet inverse journey north two generations later. how the shot with kanna looking on with tears in her eyes as hama is taken by the fire nation, the ship's hull closing as she looks out at her decimated tribe, her best friend with tears in her eyes, is a beat for beat exact callback to katara looking on at aang, the only difference being that aang attempts to smile hopefully for katara before his face, too, ultimately clouds over with despair. the fact that kanna is constantly nagging katara to do her chores, to stop messing around, to follow the rules, to stay put, to listen to her brother. she knows katara, knows her intimately, because she once was her. that brave, daring, hopeful, adventurous girl who wanted nothing more than to escape the confines of her of her monotonous existence, who wanted to travel and find freedom and hope elsewhere.

but katara is now her responsibility, and she knows all too well that a girl like that can be trouble, can be a danger to herself and others. especially if she's a waterbender. kanna saw her people massacred, her best friend taken by the fire nation, her daughter killed sacrificing herself for katara, the girl who carries the hope of her entire people on her shoulders. and she loves katara, she loves her so much, sees so much of herself in her, but it is also her job to rein her in, to keep her indoors, doing domestic busywork like sewing and laundry so she doesn't try to run off, try to run all the way to the other side of the world, so her antics, through her bending mishaps or otherwise, don't cause her to accidentally alert the fire nation and have their entire fragile existence come crumbling down after she and sokka have done so much to maintain it, to protect katara, even when katara feels like she is being smothered and overdisciplined and robbed of a childhood.

katara wants the opportunity to train with a master. of course she does. she considers her waterbending the most important part of her identity, the part of her that brought hope to her tribe and killed her mother in equal measure. she's the only person left who holds the key to their cultural artform, this crucial piece of their heritage. and of course kanna would love it if katara could hone her craft, but her first priority is always keeping katara alive, and if that means she can't become a bending master, then so be it.

raising a teenager is hard, really hard. they don't like being told that ordering them around and telling them to stay in the borders you've drawn for them is "for their own good." the only reason kanna doesn't have the same problem with sokka is because he doesn't actually consider himself a teenager (although he very much is), and he not only follows her rules but enforces them. they are on the same page; safety is the priority, katara is the priority. but katara hates how restrictive their rules are, hates how sullen and strict and serious they are. how hopeless they are, how resigned they are to leading lives of misery in the fraught safety they've created for themselves. she wants to see the world, to have fun, to have friends, to help others instead of being the one constantly being protected and sheltered.

of course, kanna and sokka are not hopeless and depressed and numb by nature; they have been hollowed out into shells of themselves by the war, by the promises they've made to keep katara safe. sokka grows so much by traveling the world, absorbs so much new knowledge so quickly, makes new friends and lovers, gains new perspectives, reaches his full, incredible potential by being dragged out of the comfort zone he clings to in the pilot. and kanna has already undergone her bildungsroman, lifetimes ago. she knows what it is like, what it means to experience the adventure katara desires. but she never told her. she never once mentioned to katara that the south pole is not all she knows, that she too once longed to leave the place that was stifling her, suppressing her freedom. she is afraid to tempt katara, to be anything other than the strict authority from which she once left everything she ever knew behind to escape.

until the avatar returns. until the legend she used to tell katara before their world became too hopeless, of the old days when the avatar kept balance and the world was not at war, is made real again. when katara, who found aang, who believed in him from the beginning, brings the avatar back, through her desperation and her rage and her indomitable hope for a life that can be bigger and better than kanna and sokka's dour little pocket of resignation and grief.

kanna has always believed in katara, has always known that there would come a time when katara was to bring back hope to their tribe. so now, trusting sokka, katara's sworn protector, to stay by her side and do right by her, she ushers them on their journey. katara, her little waterbender, hero of the southern water tribe, and spitting image of kanna.