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I love how Zutara shippers took Warmth and Aurora prompts and interpreted it as Zuko in the SWT! So amazing seeing them both in SWT attire😊🥰 Happy Zutara Week everyone.

Actually Zutara shippers are delusional and media illiterate because obviously the real reason Katara cries after reviving Zuko during the Final Agni Kai was not because they were close friends who cared for each other deeply, those weren't tears of joy, it was that she hated him so much that she was sad when he didn't die. She actually put such little effort into her healing that his survival was entirely thanks to the placebo effect.

It’s always “zutara shippers make everything about zutara” but then it’s the antis mentioning zutara every chance that they get. Like bro are you manifesting???

It’s actually kind of funny when I see people say that Zuko falling in love with Katara would’ve “cheapened” his redemption arc because first of all, how? He’s friends with her. Secondly, it actually would deepen it. Because Zuko is a character who is extremely devoted to his ideals. He was once committed to “regaining his honor” (actually: gaining his father’s love and approval) and that was due to the trauma bond that he had with his father created by abuse, not out of genuine love or belief in what his father is doing. So what is the exact opposite of that? Being devoted to someone not because they created a trauma bond with him through abuse, but because he genuinely loves who they are and what they represent because he believes in it too. Katara is literally the symbol of morality and justice and doing what’s right in the show. That is who she is. Zuko is devoted to her because of that. He takes a bolt of lightning to the chest because of that love that he has for her specifically. It’s not about her fixing him. It’s about the qualities and attributes Zuko admires in her and is committed to upholding and protecting out of genuine love and not fear.

All you have is sun and moon symbolism and fire and water symbolism and yin and yang and the forbidden love trope and the intentional oma and shu parallels and support from the voice actors for both characters and support from the main writers for both characters and support from some of the lead animators including one who made official art and undeniable primary source evidence that they were being set up as love interests and being the epitome of what each of them expresses wanting in a partner and parallel mother loss and parallel daddy issues and parallel sibling relationships and angst with a happy ending and insane chemistry and a romantic song named after them on the official album and both having a spirit persona from the other's culture and everything about the Final Agni Kai and the fact that they look amazing together. Which is basically nothing.