Why i ship kataang

But above all I would diagnose her with schizophrenia A lot of people just see Azula as some heartless, evil, well, you know. But I don't necessarily think that's the case. I feel as though Azula just needed help and love more than anything else.

Let's start with her childhood. Take a look at her father, he was Like most children Azula just wanted to earn her father's love, affection, and approval.

The said part is she probably only earned the third. Zuko and Azula are complete opposites in regards to how each parent treated them. This has not stopped Zutara's popularity, though, or the fans who still wish or believe it should have been the canon pair. This article or section needs expansion. Zutara shippers developed into two camps: those who were simply passionate about their OTP and those who insisted it become canon.

The "cave scene" in "Crossroads of Destiny" was an infamous moment in the shipping war. During the third season, the increased Kataang shiptease as well as the reveal of Mai as Zuko's love interest led to outcry among more militant Zutara fans who ranted that the episodes were "bad" and "OOC" and looked for any sort of hints that would favor Zutara.

The less they got, the more intense their anger and bashing became. This led Kataang shippers who felt pushed too far to start fighting back viciously. Recent Kataang shippers have begun to bring up Aang and Katara's mutual status as genocide survivors as an argument against Aang detractors who claim he "didn't suffer enough to deserve Katara" [2] and claim Zuko "understands Katara better".

The finale saw Zuko getting back together with Mai and closed out with a romantic kiss between Aang and Katara, initiated by the latter. Zutara fans were livid. Some even tried to claim that everyone on the staff except Bryan and Mike shipped Zutara in order to validate their insistence that their ship should have won, though many of them failed to provide proper context or evidence.

So, considering this is a zutara board, everyone reading this will probably ship zutara, but I wanted to write this anyway. I don't know anyone else who ships zutara, so I thought this would be a good place to say exactly why I love zutara so much, and why I don't think kataang would work out. First off, I'd like to point out, I loved kataang when I first watched the show. Granted, I was about 5 years old, but I'm still not completely biased.

I rewatched it again this year, and in season 1, despite knowing abut zutara, I liked Kataang. It was cute, and it was obvious Aang liked Katara.

They felt very close to eachother, and they both blushed at least once for eachother. The first "zutara" moment, where Zuko tied katara up to the tree, felt uncomfortable and creepy to me, and I leant even more to kataang. Despite all this, I actually didn't ship kataang. It lacked substance, and a spark, but I assumed that would be built up in the following seasons.

Spoiler alert: It wasn't. So now we're at season Happy memories. Although season two was a great season, kataang kind of went down for me, and not just because of that crystal catacombes scene which I'll talk about later.

I can't actually think of a single time Katara blushed for Aang in S2, despite his crush in her was just growing and growing. Nothing in their relashipship was built up, and it made me feel like Katara got over whatever bit of her liked Aang ie one blush. Sure, maybe she kissed him in the cheek once or twice, but I feel like that was more just making him happy. It seemed like the creators kind of forgot about kataang, and then at the end, tried to push something by adding in that "I can't let go of Katara!

I love her! It's funny how kataangers think Aang saying he loves Katara makes kataang the perfect ship, because it doesn't. It's like if I said I love calum hood, that's doesn't mean we're the perfect match and you should go off shipping bralum or whatever our ship name would be.

Sure, you can say Katara loves Aang, and I have no doubt she does, but not in the way Aang loves her. Katara loves Aang in an almost, if not completely, motherly way. Aang, on the other hand, fantasies about kissing her. Aang feels an attachment to Katara, that he feels he can't let go of. The thing is, if Aang really loves Katara in the way that a relationship should be built off of, he should be happy if she's happy. What would make Katara happy?

Putting a stop to the war. But instead, Aang thinks about his feelings for her. The same happens when he unlocks avatar state and he says "I'm sorry Katara. For making her happy by unlocking the power to put an end to this war? No; he's sorry because he thinks that letting go of her will cause them not to have a romantic relationship, and he thinks that if he wants a romantic relationship with her, she obviously does with him.

He's actually sorry for himself. Now, the scene that turned me into a zutarian: the crystal catacombes. Even though I didn't think much of the part where Katara's yelling at Zuko when I was watching it, looking back, it just adds to the scenes.

You can see Katara hates Zuko. She hates him so much that she's even made assumptions about him "you're the fire lords son, spreading war and hatred is in your blood". Now, seeing Zuko's past with his family, I would be hurt, and probably super angry at the comments she's making.

But what does Zuko do? He just listens. He lets her rant. Because he knows she has every reason to hate him.

He knows he's done wrong in the past. And he feels bad. When he says "that's smething we have in common," I take it as his own little way of comfort. They may be from totally different life styles, and opposite sides, but he still gets her. He understands what she's talking about. Then the next bit that's shown with them, she's apologising. Katara's apologising to the guy she was full-on shouting at That is the effect he just had on her.

Then the fact that after such a short time of beginning to trust him, she actually offers to use the spirit water on him.