Katara Deserved Better - Blog Posts
My girl katara deserves the best of the best!
While I don't participate in shipwars (multishipper) i have always noticed how it is always is aang better for katara or zuko? it is never who is better for zuko mai or katara ?
Are we really still having Kataang/Zutara shipping war debates in 2024? Like I sort of thought we all agreed collectively that Zukka is the only real option.
I know that a big part of Sokka's arc was to become a leader and he obviously proved that he can be one
But look at my girl Katara. She's exactly like her dad
She was born to lead. She went out of her way to prove that she can be known for more than healing and she just ended up being recognized as one
She is also a master waterbender, but I guess that's not important enough to get a statue
Main reason I didn't watch The Legend of Korra
I am a very recent fan, I have been there for four years, maybe, and I became very fond of Katara, she is the girl I always wanted to be, so extroverted, a great dream for an introvert. But we're not talking about my social problems.
The thing here is that when I finished watching the animated series during the quarantine, I loved it so much that I started to see what LoK was about because movies and series make me anxious if I don't know how builds and ends, so I watched some clips and was excited that Katara, Toph, and Zuko were still there. My disappointment is great when I see the publications talking about the disservice Katara did to her. And the more I learned about how the previous protagonists had fared, the more discouraged I was from watching the Korra series. And what I saw they did to her in the comics horrified me even more, so much so that I decided to stick with just the original animated series. Over time I have learned things about the Atla characters in LoK and I realized that basically all the Gaang have their monuments and are recognized for their work, and obviously it's great, very cool and they deserve it but Katara deserves it too.
Katara deserved to be remembered and honored in LoK, even if it wasn't as prominent as what Sokka, Toph, Zuko and Aang did, she deserved the same honors as her friends. And many say that the statues of them are for the founding of Republic City and I accept it, but even when bloodbending is mentioned, Katara doesn't appear. They were perfectly able to give a glimpse of a civil hospital that will bear her name and even her statue. Even a brief dialogue referring to something like a hospital.
X: Where will we take the wounded?
Literally any character: Take him to the Katar Hospital
X: OK
Literally just that was enough, there didn't even have to be a full scene of that damn hospital, just being mentioned was enough to honor her as she deserves.
Sorry if it looks strange, I'm not a native speaker.