Life in a sunny day

A.ang knows that the Fire Nation killed Katara’s mother but he has no idea it was specifically because she was the last southern waterbender, one because he never bothered to ask about the tragedy and two because Katara just never felt compelled or encouraged to tell him. Zuko on the other hand knows all the details about the situation from Sokka, from Katara herself and then from Yon Rha.

Then for some reason Zuko, not A.ang (you know, the guy who’s married to a Southern waterbender), was specially mentioned to have given special attention to rebuilding Katara’s nation and countinues to take special interest in the Southern Watertribe over all the other nations.

They always say “they’re both genocide victims so they understand each other better”

And that would be cute if not for the fact that that little similarity between them completely went over Mike and Bryan’s heads even in this new movie (A.ang telling Katara she doesn’t understand what it’s like to be a genocide survivor). You’d think they’d say her husband was the one who took special interest in her tribe’s welfare since you know, it was affected by genocide and A.ang is supposed to be able to relate to that? But nope, apparently it’s Zuko, you know the guy who supposedly doesn’t care about Katara.

I’m honestly convinced that Bryke might just be dense because about 95% of A.ang’s interactions with Katara’s culture are negative. Him not liking their animal skins and food and being disrespectful about it by telling Toph not to eat it, or him allowing Katara’s culture to become completely sidelined in their family with the only person taking after Katara’s culture being Kya.

The one similarity that could actually make Ka/taang somewhat engaging has Zuko being more positively involved in it than A.ang.

You see this? This here? This pissed me right off. Where does he get off? They've been travelling around the world to help him master all the elements and the Avatar State -specifically to end the war, mind you- and and this is the first time he's thought about HOW he's going to defeat Ozai? And he's shouting at Katara, like it's her fault he waited until the night before the assignment was due to think about how he was going to do it?

So what if i do?

As the eldest grandchild of a filipino family, i understood Katara's struggles immediately. The way she had to play the mother role for the sake of her brother. The way her anger was always dismissed. The way she connected to people through shared experiences. The way she cared for everyone, even those of the Fire Nation. The way people misunderstood her...

And I saw myself in her too. Not in her blue eyes, but in her brown skin and wavy hair... that was my hair and my skin color. (no face reveal, just a deer)

It was so rare to have a cartoon character actually physically remind me of myself, so ofc I clung onto her. (that's why representation matters, guys)

I ship them cuz i understood the level of understanding that only THEY can have. I understood that the daughter that had her life revolved around people would've wanted someone who let her do her own thing.

Dedicated to my cat, who is very vocal about my bed time.

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