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Second commission by @wombatking!! Based on this fanfiction by 0zym4nd14s on ao3

(!I apologize if I made any mistakes on the wheelchair its my first time drawing it!)

I love your art style! Maybe you could make a Zutara screenshot redraw if you want to? Doesn't have to be romance-coded, could be just platonic. :) Thank you in advance. And I read that you have a block currently, I feel with you. Same thing for me with writing. Take your time.

So sorry for the wait pookie!! I'm just loaded with requests but I hope you like it! Also I hope your writing block is already over 🫶🏼

Part 17 of re-drawing avatar screenshots!

Also I couldn't decide on what scene I wanted so this took even longer than I intended 😭

(meant as platonic but can be tagged as romantic)

[Judgement intensifies]

Zutara shippers who hate Aang: "Shut up, Zuko & Katara would totally want to be my friends."

Me: Zuko & Katara would fucking despise you

ZSWHA: You take that back! *in tears* YOU TAKE THAT BACK!

X

i feel as if the atla fandom argues about a lot of meaningless shit but one of the biggest (and MOST inane) points of contention to me is that....katara didn't get a statue in lok. like. i could go on about how katara's presence in lok was way more meaningful than anyone else in the gaang appearing and how she was a steady solid presence for korra who had far more of an impact than just a quick punchy fight scene and was actually compassionate and skilled and her political presence sets SO much of legend of korra's worldbuilding up and how the fandom is really notorious for reducing katara to a poor helpless victim as much as possible because she had a complex and significant and emotional character arc that didn't always have the most "classic" #girlboss plot points but the truth is like. its a statue? its a fucking statue??? a fucking hunk of rock im sorry??? i could not care less about a piece of rock over a character's actual presence?

Overhated complex female characters be like:

Soon we will see this powerful couple in a movie (It’s going be EPIC!!!)

Official Art of Katara and Aang for ATLA’s 20th anniversary Avatar in Concert tour. The artist is @velinxi.

Official Art of Katara and Aang for ATLA’s 20th anniversary Avatar in Concert tour. The artist is @velinxi.

katara: wow, the stars are beautiful tonight.

zuko: yeah, they are.

katara: you want to know who else is beautiful?

*at the same time*

katara: aang

zuko: mai

Can you Anti-Aang fake fans please stay away from A:TLA. I am so tired of y’all.

You people have no media literacy and chose to act like it’s the show creator’s fault you’re so dumb.

I shouldn’t even have to say this, but Aang never used Katara as a fan against his grief. What does the Guru say:

“You have indeed felt a great loss. But love is a form of energy, and it swirls all around us. The Air Nomads' love for you has not left this world. It is still inside of your heart, and is reborn in the form of new love”.

He’s basically saying even though Aang lost his whole nation, his love for them not only remains but he can also feel love again, for more loved ones, Katara. 

Katara herself even tells Aang that despite losing almost everyone he knew and loved, her and Sokka care about him and are his loved ones now: 

“Aang! I know you're upset and I know how hard it is to lose the people you love. I went through the same thing when I lost my mom. Monk Gyatso and the other airbenders may be gone, but you still have a family. Sokka and I! We're your family now!”

We got ourselves two beautiful moments where Katara comforts her grieving friend due to suffering a similar loss, assuring him he’s not alone, and said friend realizing that love is infinite and even if you loved ones you care about, love can be found in more loved ones. And these bitter Anti-Aang freaks try to twist this into something “selfish”, “unhealthy” and “toxic”. Because you’re still coping and seething over Katara not making out with Zuko in the finale like you wanted back in the seventh grade. 

A real post made by a real human being.

And you wonder why Zutara shippers are the fucking joke of the fandom now.

“LOK just reduced Katara to a healer” is such a tired take because it simply doesn’t, the fans do.

Katara is 80+ years old, she’s not going to be the frontlines of every battle anymore, and the fact she still uses her healing abilities to help those in need is nothing to scoff at because “well that’s what girl waterbenders are expected to do!”

Which yes, Master Pakku does make sexist comments about how the ‘healing huts are where women belong’, but that doesn’t mean no women is allowed to pursue healing in the name of feminism, it’s about choice. Katara didn’t chose to learn healing back then, but chose to in LOK.

And furthermore, I feel like this plays into how people buy too much into “show don’t tell” where if it happens off scene it ‘doesnt count’ which takes away from all her accomplishments that aren’t explicitly “i just took down 50 bad guys single-handedly”.

Like it’s stated, in the show, that Katara made bloodbending illegal, which at the very least implies some that she held some political power.

I just think it’s silly how people take one episode of Katara, as a teenager who’s actively fighting a war, saying she doesn’t want to be a healer, because of said war, when she’s being pushed into that role by a man and think it applies to 80 year old Katara who’s doing that role of her own volition

A real atla fan never speaks ill of Katara or Mai

and while katara and mai are in the battle of their lives and absolutely dominating their enemies there’s a cutscene to zuko and aang arguing over paperwork

so what and who do we have to sacrifice to see this concept happen….

People really try and say Katara is Izumi’s mom like honey?? That baby looks nothing like Katara??? Someone got Zuko pregnant and I know for a fact it wasn’t Katara

They don't necessarily say Katara is the mom, but they try to go "Oh, Maiko broke up in the comics, so Mai can't possibly be the mom" even though Izumi literally has the same face.

It's a blatant attempt at downplaying the fact that Zuko chose Mai over Katara or whoever they ship him with.

And let me be clear, I don't mind people just using the character of Izumi, or at least the name, in fics and making her the child of Zuko with some other woman, I do that too. The problem is the blatant denial of reality.

She's a Maiko baby. Plain and simple.

Zuko: Wow, the stars are beautiful.

Katara: Yeah they are.

Zuko: You know who else is beautiful?

Katara: *blushes* Who?

Zuko: Mai.

they can never catch a break 💔 i love them IDCC

*sighs in woc*

Katara: Valentine’s day is just a consumerist holiday that holds no real value other than drive people insane buying heart shaped chocolates for their significant others and pos-

Aang: I wrote you a poem.

Katara, already crying: You did?