Katara. From what I've seen, people either like her or hate her. She's one of the characters with the most polarizing reactions I've ever seen. I can see why other people don't like her, but I personally don't hate her nor do I dislike her. The writers could have and should have done more with her development and potential, but I think the show as it is now does a good enough job at explaining the origins of her personality and why she behaves in the way that she does. People definitely hated her when she told Sokka that he didn't love their mother like she did, and while that is a pretty mean thing to say, Katara technically wasn't wrong. I always got the impression that Katara was closer to her mother, and Sokka was closer to his father. She was passionate about her mother and finding her mother's killer, plus she's like fourteen so even her "bitchiness" does make sense in this moment, although it is hurtful. People meme the fuck out of Katara talking about her mother, but try putting yourself in her shoes. Imagine being a little girl, and your neighborhood or city is being raided by foreign soldiers. You are scared and crying, hoping that your family is going to be okay, and when your own mother (which means the world to you) is cornered by a soldier–your last moment with your mother is her trying to tell you that everything will be okay and to just leave her to get help. Well you leave to get your father and brother and what do you come back to? Thr burned and charred corpse of your mother right there in your house. Who the fuck wouldn't be traumatized?
And Katara is still a kid by the time the plot even starts. Somebody did a count, and Katara actually only talks about her mother 31 times across 11 episodes out of the series total of 61, and most of the time she mentioned her mother particularly when asked about her NECKLACE. She would talk in
depth about her mother when she wanted to let people know that she had pain too, and that their suffering is not alone. When you put yourself in Katara's shoes, it's a surprise she doesnt talk about her mother even more. People say that Katara is a mary-sue because of how fast she got good with waterbending, but people forget that she trained with the best waterbender in the world and for months. There's the training she got from Hama. Meanwhile, Toph got lost, learned seismic sense from some moles, and became an earthbending master before she was even twelve, but nobody EVER calls Toph a
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