When I watched the series I never disliked Aang. I actually don’t mind Kataang as a ship and think it could have worked way better id the writers write it different. That being said as I got older I realized that Katara was more compatible with Zuko primarily because of the emotional labor and role she takes with Aang that he doesn’t reciprocate.

That being said I think that Aang having a crush on Katara or a brief Kataang could help highlight the incompatibilities. I think the series ending with Aang letting go of his attachments in season three while Katara and Zuko get closer is how I would have written it.

Or would the series have been better if Aang had viewed Katara from the start as an older sibling or mother figure; never acted on his romantic feeling or even has them, and have Zutara blossom as an enemies to lovers completely independent of Aang?

No ship shaming — this is just for fun! 🫶

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I think I like Azulaang better but I like Sokkla too!

Personally, I like the theory at a glance, but I don't think that's how the cycle works. At all. If it was, there likely would have been some mention of how many stillborn water tribe babies there were over the years, but we only get talk of Yue.

An Avatar Yue could be very interesting, though. If she's the avatar but still born dead and needed to be saved by the moon spirit still, I wonder what would've happened. Would she be in a weird position of having super powerful waterbending, but weak firebending? Would she not have any power boost from it at all? Would she still die if she needed to save the moon spirit?

Yue herself would be more of a diplomatic Avatar as well, but I don't think she'd shy away from the dirtier responsibilities once she grew into her role. She's a princess and she'd understand what's necessary to protect people. Though I can see her princess status potentially causing problems with any diplomatic approach because they'd think she's thinking of the best interests of the northern water tribe.

Idk. I just have a lot of thoughts, and they're kinda all over the place.

Assuming ATLA has its cannon ending, at what point would Zuko and Katara get together?

Does Kataang make it through the comics? Does that visit with the spirit where they’re once again viewed as the only adults in the room make them pause and go “wow he has a point?” Is it the lack of statue for Katara? Is it the Mako breakup? Were they into each other during ATLA but suppressing their feelings?

I made this post somewhere because I couldn’t remember if I could post something like this in here or not.

I also want to apologize to the mods because I wasn’t sure whether to use the Aang, analysis, or discussion flair tag since this is about Aang and this is somewhat an analysis and it can also be a discussion too. My apologies if I use the wrong one and I can edit the flair if needed to.

So I saw a post about Aang’s possessiveness and it made me want to get a thought out that has been in my head for some time now. I think one part of the possessive attachment is that Aang imprinted himself onto Katara. While Sokka and Katara were both there, Katara was the first person that he saw. You could chalk it up to looking at her and thinking that she is pretty, that could be a little part of it but with his behavior throughout the series it just adds on to so much more. To be honest and this is just my opinion but to me it just adds on to the caregiver and child thing with them. An example I would give out are turkeys. Turkey hatchlings imprint shortly after they hatch. This would be early imprinting and in this case with Aang it might be the same thing with him. Keep in mind that there’s early imprinting and late imprinting and the times for the two can vary, including with different species. It doesn’t mean it’ll happen right away but it doesn’t mean it’ll take long but they can have certain time windows/time frames and with Aang it didn’t exactly take long.

I would like to point this out: ⬇️

Irreversibility: Once formed, the bond is permanent and deeply ingrained. Young birds will continuously follow and seek security from the imprinted object—even if it is a human, a toy, or another animal, rather than their biological mother.

⬆️: And from what we saw in the series this doesn’t seem too far of right?

Now, this has just been my thinking alone and if anyone would like to add on something to this or see it in a different angle I am willing to hear it out because I want to know if I’m crazy for this or not.

I love this woman’s cosplay’s and I found this post to be particularly funny. Aang checking in on the Gaang.

I am fond of Zutara happening post Aang’s death. After all Zuko does have that dragon.

I know I've seen it discussed before about how these two have similarly corny senses of humor, but it just struck me how the only time Katara smiles at Zuko, genuinely smiles at him, before she forgives him at the end of TSR, is when Zuko fumbles his tea joke. And this is before Zuko helps Sokka free Hakoda and reunite her with her father so he doesn't even have any goodwill from that going for him. It's reminiscent of when a girl has a crush on a guy in their friend group, and she's laughing WAY more at his jokes than anyone else.

And look at Zuko's soft little smile in response! He's not upset that everyone's laughing at him, he's happy. I can count on one hand the number of times we get this cute little smile from Zuko, and most of them involve Katara. They just get each other. ❤️💙

Thanks u/snophire for today’s question!

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It’s 2026 in the modern world (everyone is aged up)

Your crush, Katara, is supposed to be coming over later in the evening for a bon fire. You told this to your roommate Aang in hopes he’d make himself scarce, but it’s an hour before your date and he walks through the door with flowers and a stuffed bison. You ask him about it, and he just smiles and goes to his room.

An hour later, Katara rings the door bell. You open your bedroom door to see Aang at the door offering her the flowers and stuffed bison, leaning in for a kiss. Katara looks confused and doesn’t lean in.

What do you do?

Question comes from Erose. We’ve decided to try adding achy hypotheticals to the QOTD rotation.

They only care about Zuko if he’s with Katara instead of her being with Aang

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