Duk

The guru: so, Aang, let’s start opening up your chakras. What are you ashamed of?

Aang (who never hurt Katara): ummm…

The guru: What do you blame yourself for?

Aang (who never ran away): uuuummm…

The guru: What are the lies you tell yourself?

Aang (who never denied he’s the avatar): ummmm…

The guru: What attaches you to this world?

Aang (who isn’t in love with Katara): ummmmm…

1. both the anime and the live action have a lot of consumers of a certain demographic that would definitely take that line as some sort of confirmation that kureha and hiriluk were together before his death. because if they both saw chopper as a son then that means that they were both his parental figures which means that they had to have been together before hiriluk's death/had to have romantically loved each other

the demographic in question? people who either take most visual media at face value and don't believe in subtext or people who read subtext absolutely wrong and treat their interpretation as fact. i just see way too many bad takes when it comes to this show that stem from a lack of media literacy and just all-around disrespectful stances so i just know that some viewers would've blown that line way out of proportion

and 2. we did not see enough of kureha being nice to chopper for that line to have hit (at least for me, miss 'holds a grudge like it's nobody's business'). now, just want to stress, i'm specifically talking about the live action here so i don't know how similar their interactions were to the animanga. from the beginning of the kureha's screentime to the end, most of her interactions with chopper are treating him like the med student he was (which is great, yay) and yelling at him/berating him. not enough of her interactions with chopper are mother-like, or even just loving guardian-like, for "my foolish son" to fit. maybe that's just because i have a weird perception of guardians and what makes a good or bad one, i don't know. and i, personally, would consider hiriluk to be chopper's dad and kureha to be more of an aunt-figure or godmother