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I don't think you really got my point, I'm talking about how 12 to 14 is an actual Jump in maturity 𝙗𝙞𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 (*I will talk about the mental one later) by the real life example I just mentioned, but yes different people mature differently, I didn't say there was "that big" of a maturity gap, but nevertheless there's a maturity gap and I didn't also mention that experience and life perspectives can be a factor in maturity, regarding what you said about Aang: "Aang suffered genocide that's gonna make anybody grow very quickly" I agree that this trauma is gonna force him to grow, but "Very quickly"?

Growing up from trauma doesn't happen that quickly as you think it is, yes Aang started to take his responsibility seriously after but he's still a kid who would goof off and have fun, there are many episodes that emphasize how he's still a kid and didn't really grow up, what separates Katara from Aang is that she already exprienced trauma and war since she was 8, she took mature responsibilities for herself and even takes care of Sokka, Aang got to have a normal childhood in the southern air temple before the genocide and didn't need to have responsibilities back then, so after this sudden trauma he exprienced it's hard to fully process it or to "quickly" mature from it

Regarding "They're still in middle school" I don't get what has school years to do with maturity? Maybe school years differ from a country to another, but in my country, 12 is supposed to be in the last year of elementary school not in middle school but yeah you already get my point

I find it hilariously stupid when some K̶a̶t̶a̶a̶n̶g̶ s̶h̶i̶p̶p̶e̶r̶s̶ undermine the maturity gap between Katara and Aang by saying: "Oh I love that Katara is taller than Aang, and Aang is short cuz it breaks societal norms"

IT'S NOT LIKE AANG WAS BORN SHORT AND KATARA IS BORN TALLER,

Aang is shorter than Katara In This PARTICULAR AGE PHASE because He's A 𝙋𝙍𝙀𝙏𝙀𝙀𝙉, he still hasn't hit puberty yet, meanwhile Katara is already a teen and older

To examplify that, me and my brother who have the same age difference as Katara and Aang respectively, when he was 12/13 I was taller than him, but when he started to hit puberty he drastically changed and even became Taller than me

In fact when Aang grew up, he became Taller than Katara, as seen from the photo of Aang and Katara as adults which destroys the argument that "Aang is short"

The "Shorter dude/Tall gal couple" only applies to Zaheer and P'li because when they're both grown adults (*given also that Zaheer is older) P'li is taller than him

What's even funny is that Zaheer himself is actually tall (he's 6'1) but P'li is just a giraff

🌸 Happy Birthday Sakura Haruno! [03.28] 🌸

“People think it’s the mind that drives us. It is the heart. The mind is a slave to the heart. So check the condition of the heart.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

女の子はタフじゃないと生き残れないのよ。

" Girls can't survive unless they're tough ".

Regarding my previous post about Zuko's characterization I think this comment is good to reply to and explain my point further

I think there's a nuanced difference between "being out of character/mischaraterized" and "not being/acting like yourself"

The thing with Zuko and Mai is that their relationship existence doesn't make any sense to begin with whether it was narrative-wise or character/personality-wise (*I will deep-dive into this topic in another post bec I don't want to deviate from the original topic) back to the point, I think to explain my point I will use Zuko and Jin as an example to make it clear,

When Zuko first met Jin he was being cautious of his identity being known and assumed she might know he and Iroh are fire nation, Zuko was of course acting nervous in the restaurant because (aside from him hiding his identity) Zuko is not capable to socialise or really be socially open, I think the thing of "not acting like yourself" was better explained in his date with Jin, Zuko was actually acting in-character even when he's being Lee and he wasn't comfortable at first but the moment when Jin asked him to juggle is the moment he started to actually act like his 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙚 self (*but he still wasn't mischaracterized back then) he started to be comfortable with jin because he actually liked her and became even more comfortable when they're alone at the fountain so the reason he had back then to not act like himself is now gone

From this we can know that Zuko is not the type of person who would be a "people pleaser" or try to not act like himself when he has no valid reason to or when he already loves/or comfortable with this person (*like with Jin)

Now let's see Zuko and Mai, the reason why this case is out of character even if we assumed that this relationship existence (somehow) made sense is that he has no reason to not act like himself with Mai, Bec he already knows her, she's not a stranger to him, and Zuko is not also the type of "playboy" as he's depicted in his relationship with Mai which is why I say it's out of character and a writing issue, also the other reason why it's out of character and not them shown as "not acting like theirselves" is because these moments are not presented as such

The writers presented these moments as them actually "acting like themselves" and to try to trick the audience into actually thinking this is "how Zuko and Mai really are" (*which is also the reason why the fandom mostly mischaracterize these two), the writers presented these moments as "look they're happy with each other and love each other" which is why it can't really be interpreted as "first relationships where neither of the two act like themselves"

But anyway thanks to the comment @thereslifeinhereyes and I'm interested in having these conversations even if we disagree