And what do you have to say about Aang comparing Katara to Jet?
Oh wow, I don't want to get into TSR meta too much because it always goes around in circles and never ends well.
In his observation she seemed a little like Jet at first in how she was talking. From his perspective, she wanted revenge and there was some pure rage in her. I think he wanted to make her aware of how extreme he thought she was being and "snap her out of it" so that's why he said it, though he does empathize with her. Taking a life for revenge is a major deal for Aang and it is shocking for him. I could understand why Katara might have been offended when she heard that comment but I can also understand why he said the first thing that came to his mind. I'm not going to bash him for it.
Everyone in that conversation was only looking at it from their own perspective and that's why they were arguing so much. They all said some insensitive things in the moment. It's just that fandom only holds Katara and Aang accountable/practically demonizes them for their mistakes in TSR while giving Zuko (and Sokka, though he wasn't as insensitive as Zuko) a free pass.
Obviously, Katara isn't the same as Jet. It's a completely different context but he blurted out the first thing that came to mind. Was it the best thing to say to her? No. He's not perfect. I don't think anyone in the Gaang fully understood how Katara felt or how deeply her emotions run but I will say, Aang tried. Yes, Sokka was her sibling and Aang experienced the genocide but Katara had a different personality type and way of coping with her own grief.
I'm sure Aang didn't literally mean that she's completely the same as Jet and he still allowed her to take Appa. He didn't try to stop her in the end and he understood her need to confront the guy. He just hoped that she wouldn't choose taking a life but he accepted that he had to let her make that choice for herself. I feel like regardless of what he said at first, if Aang genuinely thought she was being another Jet, he wouldn't have put so much of his faith and trust in her.
Aang wanted to protect Katara's morality and at the same time uphold his own values, Sokka was siding more with Aang because he is not as emotionally invested in it as Katara and is not supporting revenge (and also he probably, like Aang, was fearful that his sister was acting in a way that would end up traumatizing her in the end), Zuko has a more grey morality and sees nothing wrong with revenge. He also really just wanted to make Katara trust him at all cost even if it meant getting said revenge with her because of his own guilt/insecurities plaguing him. Zuko, especially at that time period had a need to make people like him and it bothered him that she just didn't.
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i literally look so so so pretty and for what? Not a single woman is looking at me longingly from across the room, fiddling with her pen because this is a boring meeting, and i look up at her and my heart skips a beat because oh, you just caught me stealing glances, and we start talking, and she makes me a little bit insane and I fall in love with every piece of you, and you for every piece of me, and we've been friends for a year now, and one day you're walking me back home and the sun is setting on this flamboyant backdrop of vivid pinks and oranges characteristic to Autumn, and I turn around, I want to say something, but I see you and the only think I can think of is how much I want to kiss you, and I die a little bit inside. But I think you do too, because you're just looking at me in that way, the way you've always had really, and we kiss, and it's the most beautiful thing I've ever done.
But nah all I get are catcalls and creepy dudes hitting on me fml
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i am so sorry to the people who don’t realize my main is. me. it’s not a random weirdo liking every one of your posts it’s ME i’m the weirdo
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