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Why Katara chose Aang over Zuko.

Katara chose Aang because he was her best friend, because she knew him well, trusted him, cared for him more than anyone else. It wasn’t a choice she made lightly; as evidenced first in the episode “The Fortuneteller” and several episodes after that such as The Cave of Two Lovers, City of Walls and Secrets, The Earth King, The Headband, The Invasion, and The Ember Island Players, this was something that Katara thought about for a long time before she decided to start her relationship with Aang at the end of the series.

“But no 14-year old girl would ever want to date a 12-year old, especially when she could have Zuko who is taller and more attractive with a wicked scar!” The problem with that argument is that it is based on the assumption that Katara is a normal teenage girl… and she is not.

First of all, let me point of that by the time Katara was ready to forgive Zuko, she’d already learned the hard way to NOT judge a boy by looks alone through her experience with Jet… her only other canon love interest in the entire series. Moreover, Katara is much more mature than the average teenage girl IRL; with Aang, she is able to look past the surface and see that he is mature and wise beyond his years, and that he has genuine feelings of love and affection for her. Katara says it herself in “The Invasion”:

“We’ve been through a lot together, and I’ve seen you grow up so much. You’re not that goofy kid I found in the iceberg anymore”. In this, we see Katara affirming Aang as her peer; she does not see him as a little brother, she does not consider herself a mother figure to Aang, she sees him as an equal.

Katara also grew up in a radically different environment from our modern world, and also lives in a very different culture. Dating a 12-year old at the age of 14 may seem strange to girls IRL, but to Katara it may not seem so unusual. Look at the Northern Water Tribe; in their culture, a woman can be married at the age of 16, something we would consider unacceptable in the modern world.

As for Zuko… for 55 episodes, Zuko was Katara’s enemy. He kidnapped her, tried to blackmail her, attacked her and her friends on several occasions… but most importantly, the one time Katara chose to give him the benefit of the doubt, he betrayed her in the worst possible way. He nearly got her best friend KILLED. Zutarians fail to recognize how traumatic an experience this was for Katara. It permanently damaged Katara’s relationship with Zuko, and opened her eyes to Zuko’s greatest flaw: As Iroh once said, good and evil are always at war inside him, something that carries forward into the comics even after Zuko helps end the war.

Katara says it herself when she threatens Zuko: “You and I both know you’ve struggled with doing the right thing in the past”. Because of this, Katara never even considers Zuko as a potential partner. In the end, it was not a choice between Aang and Zuko… it was a choice of whether or not she wanted to be with Aang, contemplating her feelings for him, and deciding what Aang meant to her. Zuko was not even a factor.

Finding someone who thinks you’re interesting enough to talk to you every day, whether they’re a friend or a lover, is one of the best feelings ever.

Aang: *literally sacrifices his ability to access the avatar state because of his love for Katara*

Zutarians: smh Aang is so selfish he didn’t do anything for Katara unlike Zuko

Why SasuSaku is Abusive

Okay okay so I’ve reblogged a lot of anti-sasusaku posts and I’ve made one arguing about the absolute uselessness of “their” kid but here’s another.

1. Literally 90% of any interactions between Sasuke and Sakura were abusive. From both perspectives. Sakura’s love is selfish, as she only focuses on her feelings and never gives any consideration toward his but rather only cares about the status that being with him could give her, and Sasuke’s was of the physical sort what with the multiple attempts on her life and all the insults toward her and the complete disregard for her well being.

2. There is zero understanding between them. Sakura doesn’t understand Sasuke. Not his feelings, not his motives, not his past. None of it. Despite what the emotionally stunted SS fans will say, yes love does need a reason. More than anything, though, love needs understanding. Loving a person requires understanding their flaws, their mentality, the beliefs and their motivations and the things that haunt them. Love is understanding a person’s faults, understanding that they’re [i]not[/i] perfect and accepting their faults while trying to help better themselves.

And this is something that Sakura has never accomplished. Sakura has never been able to understand Sasuke, or even Naruto for that matter but I’ll make another post on that later, and thus the two could never be in love. What Sakura experiences is infatuation.

3. Sasuke couldn’t care less about Sakura. The only time he’s shown any concern for her is pre-shippuden, and that’s only because she was on his team. He’s rarely shown actual concern for her…he’s never shown caring about her in a way deeper than that of a teammate.

4. They are at their worst around each other. Sakura is a talented medical ninja and, although her battle abilities are incredibly lacking, she has a strong personality with an admirable goal(of getting stronger and moving up in the world) but around Sasuke she reduces herself to a submissive doormat. Sasuke is…quite the same as he always he is. Completely focused on his own motivations and in complete disregard to anyone that gets in his way.

This topic will probably be expanded on in the near future but have this for now.

Friendly reminder that Yhwach didn’t choose that moment to attack because Ichigo and Rukia were at their happiest due to being ~reunited~, but because, for the first time, Rukia and Renji’s child and Ichigo and Orihime’s child were in the same place at the same time and it gave Yhwach his first opportunity to kill the both of them as they bring Ichigo and Rukia the most happiness. (◡‿◡✿)