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ellakomskaikru · 2 years

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as a fan of katara im not big on both kataang and zutara. theyd both require sacrifices on kataras part than neither zuko nor aang would be able to reciprocate. katara is a southern woman at heart and if she didnt become a chief (which i personally think she would excel at) at least shed take an active role in the rebuilding of her tribe - and frankly i dont see her leaving the south pole after the war, except for diplomatic/personal trips. aang is the avatar and if he did ever decide to settle down (as far as im concerned tlok was a bad dream and the republic city doesnt exist) lets be honest, it woudnt be in the southern water tribe of all places. most likely itd be an air temple because he has responsibility towards his dying culture. zuko would be semi-permanently chained to the fire palace or the fire nation at the very least i mean... he is a monarch, not much left to say. again except for trips, but thats not permanent residence. why does katara have to end up where either zuko or aang reside? and another thing - heirs. aang needs future airbenders. zuko needs a fire prince/princess. why does katara need to be held responsible for repopulating air nomads? why do kataras children have to be the royal family of a foreign country? (and she would have to have children in both those relationships) that would inevitably come at an expense of her own heritage, because again zuko, aang, their potential children would have great responsibilities. this concerns all of zukos or aangs potential partners but kataras culture and home are especially important to her. in my dreams katara permanently resides in the swt, as a chief, with a water tribe hunk who loves her a lot or at the very least someone willing - and capable - to move for her from another country. i like both zuko and aang, a lot actually but unfortunately they cant just do whatever they want for love

i know youre not a kataanger, but how do you reconcile all that with zutara? how would they overcome those obstacles? because for me theres just no solution that would satisfy me as a fan of katara that isnt unrealistic. again thats just my personal opinion and im curious about yours :)) all good vibes

Hello anon!

I completely understand where you are coming from! I really love Katara as well, she’s my favorite character in the entire atla series. I agree that Katara’s culture is very important to her and that she’d absolutely want to rebuild her tribe. But I don’t think that being with Zuko will prevent her from doing that. Multicultural families exist, and I speak with personal experience in that regard, as I come from a multicultural family. The Fire Nation after the war would be entering a new era of peace and they’d be trying to get rid of their fire superiority beliefs. So with that in mind, I think that Zuko and Katara could have a multicultural family. Their children would be both Fire Nation and Water Tribe.

As Fire Lady Katara would have the power to help her tribe rebuild even more, and she’d also bring her culture with her, and visit the Southern Water Tribe a lot. I don’t agree with the idea that she has to stay in the South Pole forever to truly be able to participate in her own culture, people in the real world leave their own home countries all the time and settle somewhere else, that doesn’t mean that they’ve abandoned their culture or stopped being their nationality of birth. And I think it’d be much easier to Zuko and Katara to have a multicultural family, because their cultures share more similarities than the Water Tribe does with the Air Nomads.

Both the FN and SWT cultures have an omnivorous diet, both have family units, and both have more similar philosophies on life, like they are both not pacifists. Also, the SWT is very family oriented and the community is very close with one another, which is the complete opposite of the Air Nomads, who aren’t raised by their parents because they want to free themselves from earthly attachments in hopes of achieving spiritual enlightenment. So I don’t think that would resonate well with Katara, who has abandonment issues. The Fire Nation society definitely isn’t that close to one another, as it is very classist, but they still value their family members very much like the SWT does.

And with Zuko, Katara doesn’t have the pressure to adhere to his culture because his people are still very much existing and plentiful, unlike with Aang, where she’d probably feel the pressure to adhere to his culture because his people where entirely wiped out, and she’d probably feel bad asking him to convert to Southern Water Tribe customs or to even just participate a little when he’s trying to preserve the cultural legacy of his people.

I also believe that Zuko and Katara’s children can be part of both cultures perfectly fine. Zuko would not be xenophobic like his predecessors, and his children with Katara would help the Fire Nation stop being xenophobic because they’d see the beauty of other cultures, and it would put the rest of the world more at ease, especially the Southern Water Tribe, to know that there are heirs of their blood on the Fire Nation throne, which greatly lessens the chance of another war breaking out. So anon, you’re opinion is completely valid and totally get where you’re coming from, but overall, I just don’t agree with the idea that Katara has to stay in the Southern Water Tribe forever and marry someone of her own tribe in order to preserve her culture. I think she can still preserve her culture while living elsewhere.

Thanks for the ask!

#atla #atla ask #ella’s original post #katara #zutara #anti kataang

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zvtara-was-never-canon · 2 years

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i once sent an ask to a zutara account saying i personally dont think zutara would work because i think katara would make an excellent swt chief - and that at the least i dont think shed leave her tribe. i earnestly asked how theyd reconcile that - and other things, it was a long ask - with zutara (i also expressed my troubles with kataang of a similar sort but thats another thing). they basically ignored everything i said and replied in the tone of "well its actually empowering for katara to be firelady because the water tribes would benefit" and then went on and on to praise zutara character compability when i wasnt even talking about that. turned me into an anti in a second. why does zuko always get to be a career man rebuilding his homeland while katara is a "diplomat". she got her own business!!

The extreme Zutara fans that cannot accept any criticism of their ship, no matter how mild, are incredibly good at turning people against the ship. I used to be okay with Zutara - now I hate it, because I got tired of seeing it being used as an excuse to botch every single character in the show.

And yeah, if Katara was to ever be in some position of power, it would be of her own tribe. Zuko would probably want to help rebuild all the places his nation destroyed anyway, especially since he is now friends with both Katara and Sokka. There is exactly zero need for Katara to marry Zuko if she doesn't want to - and she clearly doesn't want to.

That's another thing that bothers me about Zutarians. They, rightfully point out that Katara's interest in and romance with Aang wasn't always written all that well - but their way of "fixing" it is to demand her to be with a guy she never demonstrated any interest in, is very clearly in love with someone else, and was openly hostile and violent towards her for 90% of the show (and not in a "I like her, but I don't know how to show it" way, no matter how much they insist that was what was going on).

#anti zutara #katara doesn't want zuko #katara doesn't want to be fire lady

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comradekatara · 2 years

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an old chief katara drawing i finally finished for @katara-week 💖

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bum-ju · 3 years

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9, 10, 11 + 17/18

9. any unpopular opinions?

oh my god, yeah ndsjk i think my unpopular opinion for today is... lu ten is annoying and not worth exploring and i think trying to make fics about him where hes an earthbender or some shit is just imperialism apologism

10. what would happen in book 4: air?

azula redemption. i think she has a good path for redemption considering the way she became who she is now... however that doesn’t mean i think she should be redeemed necessarily.... i think thats more of a messy nuanced issue. something id like to see is mai and ty lee bonding with the gaang! especially for mai i think it would be a difficult adjustment in earning that trust and stuff... it would be so nice to see

11. what would be your ideal post-war occupations for each member of the gaang?

oooo i like this one! i think aang’s job would be father and avatar, it doesnt give him much time for anything else. although he has many many funky hobbies. katara absolutely opens up a waterbending academy !! sokka would be an inventor of course, and eventually take on the responsibility of chief of the SWT. toph of course opens up her own academy as well, but i think after she lets the lily livers run it when theyre older, she mainly fucks around in the earth kingdom or the fire nation (she doesn’t like the water tribes because it’s cold and she can’t see but katara and sokka visit her in the earth kingdom frequently), being wild, fighting random bets, or annoying zuko. suki continues leading the kyoshi warriors and aiding the earth kingdom during the transition period after the war. zuko resumes studying and readjusting to the fire nation, then eventually becomes firelord when he’s old enough. ty lee joins the kyoshi warriors, but eventually opens up a dance school (katara forces all her kids to join it, bumi has a GREAT time) and mai of course has her flower shop, which she and ty lee work at together whenver ty lee isn’t at the studio or visiting the warriors.

17. if you were a bender which element would you control?

fire!

18. already answered!

#jack tag #thank u bestie #ask

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