Where the Sky Meets the Sea

They wish she was treated terribly post ATLA so their weird ass headcanons of Aang being abusive could be canonically supported lol. Katara not having a statue was because TLOK was planned to only be one season and she was heavily featured in that season. The statues were meant to essentially be cameos of the other characters save for the couple of flashbacks where we saw them dealing with Yakone for plot reasons. The only other gaang member that even ends up appearing in a way as meaningful as Katara is Aang, which yknow, makes sense… he’s the avatar and Korra is his next incarnation. Him appearing to her at the very end of the season was nice to see and also important to her character so.

Also, Katara doesn’t live in the North. She lives in the Southern Water Tribe with her daughter Kya 😂 she specifically states that she moved to the SWT to be with her mom after Aang died. She keeps her company and probably helps tend to the home. Obviously Aang’s death must have been incredibly hard on her, otherwise I don’t think Kya would have been living with her for so many years. Tenzin lives in republic city which isn’t really that far from the SWT and he seems to visit often along with the grandkids. As for Bumi, it seems like he stays mostly out and about doing odd jobs or something. There’s not an indication that I can recall of how long he’s been away when he’s introduced in TLOK. It has been a few years since I’ve watched it all the way through so it’s possible I’m forgetting.

Katara appears to be a very highly regarded figure in the tribe. We know she’s a white lotus member, she clearly spent a lot of her time overseeing Korra’s training, she must have spent years training her herself as well. She would be surrounded by community there, and that’s probably part of the reason why she moved back to the SWT after Aang passed away. That and, she probably wanted to be there in the event the avatar was reincarnated there.

We know Katara is a respected master, we know she had political power, we know she helped rebuild the SWT and that she helped create republic city, we know she was a council member like Sokka eventually became as well, we know she trained 2 avatars in waterbending. That doesn’t sound like a boring or sad life to me. Sounds to me like she got everything she ever wanted. The only thing that’s sad about Katara is that her brother and the love of her life both passed away before her.

But? Aang had to pass away earlier for the show to exist at all bc he’s the avatar. Katara even is allowed a very sweet moment with Korra at the beginning of the show where she basically gives Korra her personal blessing as the new avatar. She even hugs Korra and it’s animated to parallel her and Aang 🥹

KATARA; Waterbender, Fighter, and Greatest Healer

Avatar: Aang, the Last Airbender

KATARA & TAGAH

Avatar: Aang, the Last Airbender

I took a 10000 year break from tumblr and writing fanfiction because I hated the drama. Now I'm back and have no clue how to use tumblr and am only getting fic reviews about people wanting me to pay them for commission LOL

(and there's still dramaaaa)

So here is my old school plea to go read my fanfic that's basically a rewrite of the new Avatar Aang movie from Katara's perspective. It's not ENTIRELY canon. But my version of what should've happened. So just keep that in mind...

Been 20 years since I published kataang fanfiction so please be nice to me.

Will be reading your fic when I can! I’ll be sure to leave an *actual* comment lol