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sofiialyt:

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the Blind Bandit 🪨

comradekatara:

screencap from "the boy in the iceberg" of kanna saying to katara, "all right, no more playing."ALT
screencap from "the boy in the iceberg" of kanna leading katara by the hand as she says "come on katara. you have chores."ALT
screencap from "the boy in the iceberg" of katara saying to kanna, "i'm told you. he's the real thing, gran gran."ALT
screencap from "the boy in the iceberg" of katara saying to kanna, "i finally found a bender to teach me."ALT
screencap from "the boy in the iceberg" of kanna saying to katara, "katara, try not to put all your hopes"ALT
kanna continues: "in this boy."ALT
screencap from "the avatar returns" of kanna saying, "katara, you shouldn't have gone on that ship."ALT
screencap from "the avatar returns" of kanna saying to katara, "now we could all be in danger."ALT
screencap from "the avatar returns" of katara saying to kanna, "grandmother, please don't let sokka do this."ALT
screencap from "the avatar returns" of kanna saying to katara, "katara, you knew going in that ship was forbidden."ALT
screencap from "the avatar returns" of kanna saying "sokka is right."ALT
screencap from "the avatar returns" of kanna saying, "i think it best if the airbender leaves."ALT
screencap from "the avatar returns" of kanna approaching katara as she stands alone on a hill. kanna says, "katara, you'll feel better after you–" but is cut off.ALT
screencap from "the avatar returns" of katara turning around angrily to face her grandmother. "you happy now?" she snaps.ALT
screencap from "the avatar returns" of katara's hair loops blowing back and forth in the wind.ALT
screencap from "the avatar returns" of kanna's hair loops blowing back and forth in the wind.ALT
screencap from "the avatar returns" of katara clinging onto kanna with a frightened expression as zuko stares them down.ALT
screencap from "the avatar returns" of katara crying out as zuko grabs kanna from her grasp.ALT
screencap from "the puppetmaster" of hama being taken aboard a ship by faceless fire nation soldiers.ALT
screencap from "the avatar returns" of aang being taken aboard a ship by faceless fire nation soldiers.ALT
screencap from "the puppetmaster" of kanna staring up at hama with tears in her eyes as members of her tribe standing behind her also look on in distress.ALT
screencap from "the avatar returns" of katara staring up at aang with tears in her eyes as members of her tribe standing behind her, including kanna, also look on in distress.ALT
screencap from "the avatar returns" of kanna saying to katara, "it's been so long since i've had hope."ALT
screencap from "the avatar returns" of kanna saying to katara, "but you brought it back to life."ALT
screencap from "the avatar returns" of kanna addressing katara, "my little waterbender."ALT
screencap from "the avatar returns" of kanna and katara hugging.ALT
screencap from "the waterbending master" of yugoda saying to katara, "you're the spitting image of kanna."ALT
screencap from "the waterbending master" of katara saying "she never told me," in reference to the fact that kanna was originally from the north pole.ALT
screencap from "the waterbending master" of katara saying to pakku, "but she didn't love you, did she?" in reference to why kanna fled from their arranged marriage.ALT
screencap from "the waterbending master" of katara saying about kanna's decision to escape, "it must have taken a lot of courage."ALT

i think about their relationship so often.

the chiastic parallels between kanna risking her life to travel to the other side of the world during a war, only for katara to make the same perilous yet inverse journey north two generations later. how the shot with kanna looking on with tears in her eyes as hama is taken by the fire nation, the ship’s hull closing as she looks out at her decimated tribe, her best friend with tears in her eyes, is a beat for beat exact callback to katara looking on at aang, the only difference being that aang attempts to smile hopefully for katara before his face, too, ultimately clouds over with despair. the fact that kanna is constantly nagging katara to do her chores, to stop messing around, to follow the rules, to stay put, to listen to her brother. she knows katara, knows her intimately, because she once was her. that brave, daring, hopeful, adventurous girl who wanted nothing more than to escape the confines of her of her monotonous existence, who wanted to travel and find freedom and hope elsewhere.

but katara is now her responsibility, and she knows all too well that a girl like that can be trouble, can be a danger to herself and others. especially if she’s a waterbender. kanna saw her people massacred, her best friend taken by the fire nation, her daughter killed sacrificing herself for katara, the girl who carries the hope of her entire people on her shoulders. and she loves katara, she loves her so much, sees so much of herself in her, but it is also her job to rein her in, to keep her indoors, doing domestic busywork like sewing and laundry so she doesn’t try to run off, try to run all the way to the other side of the world, so her antics, through her bending mishaps or otherwise, don’t cause her to accidentally alert the fire nation and have their entire fragile existence come crumbling down after she and sokka have done so much to maintain it, to protect katara, even when katara feels like she is being smothered and overdisciplined and robbed of a childhood.

katara wants the opportunity to train with a master. of course she does. she considers her waterbending the most important part of her identity, the part of her that brought hope to her tribe and killed her mother in equal measure. she’s the only person left who holds the key to their cultural artform, this crucial piece of their heritage. and of course kanna would love it if katara could hone her craft, but her first priority is always keeping katara alive, and if that means she can’t become a bending master, then so be it.

raising a teenager is hard, really hard. they don’t like being told that ordering them around and telling them to stay in the borders you’ve drawn for them is “for their own good.” the only reason kanna doesn’t have the same problem with sokka is because he doesn’t actually consider himself a teenager (although he very much is), and he not only follows her rules but enforces them. they are on the same page; safety is the priority, katara is the priority. but katara hates how restrictive their rules are, hates how sullen and strict and serious they are. how hopeless they are, how resigned they are to leading lives of misery in the fraught safety they’ve created for themselves. she wants to see the world, to have fun, to have friends, to help others instead of being the one constantly being protected and sheltered.

of course, kanna and sokka are not hopeless and depressed and numb by nature; they have been hollowed out into shells of themselves by the war, by the promises they’ve made to keep katara safe. sokka grows so much by traveling the world, absorbs so much new knowledge so quickly, makes new friends and lovers, gains new perspectives, reaches his full, incredible potential by being dragged out of the comfort zone he clings to in the pilot. and kanna has already undergone her bildungsroman, lifetimes ago. she knows what it is like, what it means to experience the adventure katara desires. but she never told her. she never once mentioned to katara that the south pole is not all she knows, that she too once longed to leave the place that was stifling her, suppressing her freedom. she is afraid to tempt katara, to be anything other than the strict authority from which she once left everything she ever knew behind to escape.

until the avatar returns. until the legend she used to tell katara before their world became too hopeless, of the old days when the avatar kept balance and the world was not at war, is made real again. when katara, who found aang, who believed in him from the beginning, brings the avatar back, through her desperation and her rage and her indomitable hope for a life that can be bigger and better than kanna and sokka’s dour little pocket of resignation and grief.

kanna has always believed in katara, has always known that there would come a time when katara was to bring back hope to their tribe. so now, trusting sokka, katara’s sworn protector, to stay by her side and do right by her, she ushers them on their journey. katara, her little waterbender, hero of the southern water tribe, and spitting image of kanna.

sofiialyt:

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southern water tribe princess 🌊

aangarchy:

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This movie is gonna divide the fandom so hard i can already tell

greens-your-color:

“im microwaving them.” “im revolving them like a rotisserie chicken.” all along the correct metaphor was right there!!

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comradekatara:

digital line drawing of korra angled from the thighs up, looking into the distance as she flexes her muscles with her hands clasped in the center of her abdomen. she is styled in her book 1 outfit, her hair in its signature three ponytails. the background is a pale blue.ALT
two digital line drawings of asami sato side by side, one of her full body, and the other a zoom in of her bust. on the left, she is wearing a slightly modified version of her engineer outfit, her hands in her baggy pants pockets. on the right, her face is larger, her expression sharp and direct. the background is a muted red.ALT

makorra will never die

mochapao:

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‘it took my uncle ten minutes to do my hair…’

sadibadimadi:

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Going back to my roots

tadpole-art:

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Drew a Toph 🏵