She even goes so far as to claim that he is just jealous of Jet. While Sokka is the jokester of the group, Katara should know he would never make such serious claims if there is no possible truth to them. Still, she ignores her brother and lets her guard down around Jet, and it almost costs many people their lives. There aren't a lot of times when Katara displays jealousy, but one of the biggest times she does is when she and Aang are practicing waterbending together with the waterbending scroll.
She becomes outraged at how easily Aang can pick it up, while she struggles despite trying to learn it since early childhood. Her jealousy causes her to lash out, and she snaps at Aang, even though he hasn't done anything wrong.
Though she immediately apologizes for this outburst, the jealousy in Katara shows a much meaner version of herself than the one fans are familiar with. Katara is a practical and down-to-earth character. She is usually able to keep it together and control her emotions.
However, there are times when they have gotten the better of her. She lets go of rationality and makes poor decisions as a result. When all is said and done, she usually realizes her mistakes. But by then, it is too late, and the damage is done. Whether it's acting before thinking or speaking out at the wrong time, Katara's emotions sometimes overcome her level-headedness. Katara is highly protective of her loved ones, especially Aang. While this is true, she is not one to take the lives of others or make such serious threats.
But when Zuko joins Team Avatar in Season 3, she puts all that aside. She wastes no time in letting Zuko know that if he does anything to harm Aang, she won't hesitate to kill him. Though this is a justified response from her, it is jarring for viewers to see. Katara is loving and cares for the lives of all, but in this moment, fans can see a different side of her.
Katara and Toph have a strained relationship throughout the series. This strain comes to its worst during the episode, "The Chase," where the girls are mostly fighting. Katara eventually takes it too far, throwing cheap shots at Toph by making comments about her blindness. She's a person who takes action, but she doesn't delegate as much as she probably should. Taking control of the group too often and without much consultation with the others meant there was also a continued expectation for her to keep leading, reminding, and nagging.
But, as each person found their role, this eventually dissipated. During Book One of the series, Katara starts to teach Aang what she knows and has practiced of water-bending. Aang's natural bending ability leads him to quickly become fluent in what she knows, causing Katara to feel jealousy toward him. During the same episode, Katara steals a water-bending scroll without telling the others, putting them in danger of pirates, but they escape. When Aang tries to teach Katara something from the scroll that he could do and she couldn't, she hurts his feelings, bringing him to tears with nasty comments and sarcasm.
Katara is kind, compassionate, and caring. Her moral compass often helps her to help others when they are dealing with their own problems and the group when they need to make a decision. But, sometimes, she believes her moral judgment to be better than the others. She doesn't believe Sokka about Jet and gets angry at Toph for her behavior, with the two of them often clashing.
She felt she could do things on her own while the others needed help. Toph is stubborn, independent, honest, and tough. She was overprotected and controlled by her parents before she escaped them. So, naturally, a journey with the Avatar and his friends would have been freeing to her. But, Toph and Katara's dynamic was one of mothering and rebellion. Their name-calling and bending battle even disrupted Aang's training.
Katara didn't understand Toph's past and what she had experienced, causing her to overstep boundaries, but the two worked out their problems and came to appreciate each other. While freezing her opponent in ice, Katara was able to chain the princess to the grate before rushing to Zuko and healing him.
She followed Aang outside the tea shop and embraced him. The pair subsequently looked at each other lovingly before she instigated a romantic kiss, beginning the couple's formal relationship.
Katara's vision of her and Aang in the future changed her mind about the Harmony Restoration Movement. In the year following the war's conclusion, Katara and Team Avatar helped Fire Nation colonials resettle in their homeland in the Harmony Restoration Movement.
However, when the group came to Yu Dao , they were attacked by Fire Army soldiers and confronted by Zuko. Aang and Zuko began to battle, but Katara managed to calm her boyfriend after he entered the Avatar State.
The Fire Lord explained that unlike in the newer colonies, people of Fire Nation and Earth Kingdom descent had been living together for generations. Though Katara grew somewhat jealous, she realized that they reminded Aang of his people.
The couple failed to dissuade the Earth King from attacking the Fire Nation colonies and returned to Yu Dao to evacuate its citizens, where they were confronted by the Yu Dao Resistance before they explained the impending attack. As the armies arrived, Katara told him that she saw their own future as a couple of different nations reflected in the families of Yu Dao. As the battle raged on, Katara propelled herself up to the Earth King's war balloon to help convince him that he was fighting a battle against his own nation.
Katara restrained Azula during her psychotic episode on the journey to Hira'a. Sometime later, Zuko invited Katara, Sokka, and Aang on a search for his mother. As they readied to depart, Katara was horrified to see Azula, apparently escaped, but Zuko explained that she was coming with them in return for obtaining information from Ozai.
Katara was unhappy with her coming with the team and helped to apprehend Azula during her psychotic episodes on their journey to Hira'a. As they ventured into the environment, the group was attacked by their surroundings, though Katara deduced that it was the work of a waterbender, and Rafa and Misu showed themselves.
The ancient spirit began to battle the group, but it was halted when the spirit was reminded of her son Koh. Rafa's face was restored and Noriko was given back her memories and appearance as Ursa.
Although Azula had escaped, Katara and Aang remained optimistic that she had begun to change. Katara happily took part in a bowing ceremony as part of Yangchen's Festival in the Yue Bay area. The team returned to Yu Dao after the conclusion of peace talks and the formation of the coalition government. After a banquet, she found Aang meditating, who told her that he had seen a vision of Avatar Yangchen.
Katara consoled Aang when they found an industrial town built on previously sacred ground, and was surprised to see her childhood friends Niyok and Nutha in the area. She discovered an iron ore mine during the fight, but the area was unstable and began to cave in, with Katara and several others only being saved by Toph's earthbending.
As a dangerous storm brewed on the horizon, Katara helped evacuate the town's houses and businesses before the arrival of General Old Iron. After the spirit's defeat, she reminisced with Niyok and Nutha and lent her emotional support to Aang in his challenging situation. Katara inspired Siku and Sura to waterbend. Katara and Sokka returned to Ba Sing Se for some time afterward, where they prepared to return home for the first time since they left the South Pole.
The siblings reunited with their grandmother, step-grandfather, and father, and met Maliq and Malina , who were managing the redevelopment project. Katara expressed skepticism for the project, as she had seen foreign workers harassing the locals. After Malina was robbed, Katara and Sokka chased the thief to an abandoned ship, where Gilak and Thod explained that they believed that foreigners were making them weak and they had to be removed.
The siblings escaped Gilak's men and headed back to the city, where they were surprised to discover their father's romantic relationship with Malina.
Aang also arrived in the South, following the end of the threat in the Fire Nation, as well as Toph, aiding in the construction.
At a festival, Gilak's men attacked, chi blocking Katara and stabbing Hakoda. Katara participated in the skirmish at the Bridge of No Return , managing to save Malina from falling into a ravine. Afterward, she managed to inspire Siku and Sura to display their waterbending skills.
Katara asked Aang to be sure he was making the right decision about removing Liling 's bending. The group was stunned to see the growth of the town and Earthen Fire Industries, though they learned that the city was threatened with turf wars between bending gangs and an increasing social divide between benders and nonbenders.
She was awoken by a large explosion at Lao Beifong's factory shortly after their arrival and helped to put out the fire. Toph had discovered a planned bending supremacist rally , which Katara attended in disguise along with Aang and Toph. Toph confronted Liling at the rally, leading to a fight where the businesswoman was captured. After the woman escaped, Katara helped to battle Liling's supporters and convinced Aang to stop when he entered the Avatar State to remove Liling's bending.
Following Liling's final arrest, the group felt a special connection to the city and decided to stay, helping Cranefish Town grow and prosper into a metropolis later known as Republic City.
Katara and Aang had three children by the time they were in their early thirties: Bumi , Kya , and Tenzin. Sometime after the Harmony Restoration Movement, Katara married Aang and gave birth to three children: Bumi, a nonbender who gained the ability to airbend later in life; Kya, a waterbender; and Tenzin, who was born an airbender like his father. She passed on these skills to her only daughter, Kya, who became a renowned waterbender in her own right. In AG, Katara wrote a letter to include in the book that Aang was assembling for Tenzin, in which she wished her son the joys of youth and the strength to accept his legacy as one of the world's last airbenders.
Aang noted that conflict resolution was not always so easy, but Katara told him to settle the easy disputes for now, as Tenzin was still young. Through Tenzin, who eventually married Pema , she became the paternal grandmother of Jinora , Ikki , Meelo , and Rohan.
Katara trained Korra in waterbending outside of her family's hut in the Southern Water Tribe. During one of her early training sessions with a young Korra, Katara taught her that waterbending was all about slow and calm movements.
Her lesson did not stick with the Avatar, however, as she accidentally buried Katara under a pile of snow, not for the first time, when she tried to copy the elder's moves.
Uncovering the elder, Senna apologized for her daughter, though Katara brushed it off, noting that she had battled more dangerous waterbenders during her life than the youngster and expressing her confidence that the Avatar will learn to control her abilities in time. The session got cut short by Tonraq that day, as a snowstorm was heading their way.
Upon learning the next day that Korra had sneaked out during the bad weather, Katara joined Tonraq and Senna during their search for their daughter. Discovering the young Avatar safe and sound with a polar bear pup whom she desired to keep, Katara took the reluctant Tonraq and Senna aside and convinced them to let her bring the animal home, noting that every Avatar had had an animal guide and that raising Naga may be exactly what the high-energy Avatar needed.
Korra often spent a lot of time in Katara's healing hut growing up, where she taught Korra to mend wounds and broken bones. Katara told the Order of the White Lotus that Korra was ready to start her airbending training with Tenzin.
She noted the Avatar's ferocity, to which the White Lotus leader responded that she also lacked restraint. After Korra defeated her opponents, the White Lotus turned to Katara for counsel, wondering whether or not they should let Korra start her airbending training with Tenzin, since the young Avatar had yet to grasp the spiritual side of bending. Confident in her son's abilities, Katara announced that she believed Korra to be ready to commence her airbending training, as Tenzin would be able to teach her what she needed to know.
At her son's asking, Katara helped Meelo off of his head, much to her grandson's displeasure. As she expressed her joy over seeing her family again, Jinora approached her, informing her that she had read everything about her past adventures and asked what happened to Zuko's mother, Ursa. Katara attempted to elaborate, only to be interrupted by an excited Ikki, who fired several random questions at the old waterbender.
Katara predicted her next grandchild would be a strong and healthy airbender. As the young airbenders ran off to play in the snow, Katara turned her attention to Tenzin and Pema, the latter being pregnant with their fourth child.
She predicted that the child would be an airbender, much to Pema's dismay, who explained that it would be nice to have a nonbending child like her. When asked if Tenzin and his siblings were as rambunctious as the young airbenders, Katara said that Tenzin had always been more serious than Kya and Bumi.
When it was revealed that Korra's airbending training with Tenzin was to be delayed and the Avatar decided to find her own path by traveling to Republic City on her own, Katara was the only one who understood that Korra had to go and find her own place in the world. Confident in Korra, she gave her husband's reincarnation her blessing. Months later, after Korra's bending had been removed by Amon , Katara tried using her healing powers to restore Korra's abilities, but to no avail.
She later witnessed Korra, whose bending was restored by Aang, energybend Lin Beifong , restoring her earthbending abilities. Katara was hugged by her grandchildren upon their arrival for the Glacier Spirits Festival. Six months later, Katara invited her oldest son, Bumi, to attend the Glacier Spirits Festival with her and the rest of their family.
She, alongside her daughter, awaited the arrival of her sons at the dock, having a joyful reunion with her grandchildren. She later attended the royal banquet in honor of Chief Unalaq , sitting at a table with her family, where she looked on with concern as Tenzin was being picked on by his elder siblings. The next day, Katara encouraged Tenzin to take his siblings along with him on his trip to all the air temples, reasoning that he should cherish the time he spends with his entire family.
She also felt that the three siblings should visit Aang's birthplace together. Tenzin agreed to let his siblings join him and gave his mother a farewell hug, promising to see her soon. Katara attempted to heal an unconscious Jinora , whose soul was trapped in the Spirit World. During the Water Tribe Civil War , Katara did not interfere between the two combating parties, believing her fighting days to be over, [90] and instead helped tend to injured rebels along with several other healers in her healing hut.
She was sought out by her family, who brought a spiritless Jinora for her to examine. Alarmed over the amount of time Jinora had been in that state, Katara placed her granddaughter in a bath of water to heal. Assessing the situation with her bending, she stated she was unsure how much longer Jinora would be able to survive with her body and spirit separated, noting that Jinora was strong to have lasted as long as she had. When Jinora's spirit later returned to her body, Katara happily embraced her granddaughter and later accompanied her and her family to Korra's announcement that peace was restored between the Southern and Northern Water Tribes and that the South was officially independent.
Five weeks after the insurrection of the Red Lotus was put down, Katara was visited by a still injured Korra and set out to heal her. Katara commented that the mercury poisoning Korra had suffered had caused a lot of internal damage. Upon being asked if she could heal it, she remarked that all she could do was help guide the young Avatar's healing process, though the ultimate result of that was out of her hands.
Reminiscing on the feeling of going through a traumatic experience, she told Korra that if she dedicated herself to getting better, she would recover stronger than ever.
Katara worked intensively with Korra to help the Avatar recuperate from her mercury poisoning. The two waterbenders set out on the hard process of recovery. Progress was slow, however, and after nearly six months, a frustrated Korra snapped at Katara over the elder's inability to heal her. Katara tried to console her, stating it was all right and urging her to let her anger and frustration flow like water. When Korra admitted that she was tired of the situation, Katara told her she was not the first Avatar who had to overcome great suffering.
She recalled how Aang felt about the destruction of his entire culture and revealed that he had sought meaning in his suffering, which eventually led to peace.
She urged Korra to do the same and guided her to take her first steps again in a long time. Katara continued to help Korra over the next two years until she was physically fit again.
Katara had a warm, compassionate, and caring personality and often acted as a motherly figure to the group, something that often irritated the rebellious Toph. Her inner strength kept Aang and their friends together through their most difficult experiences, even in the absence of parental figures. While the team traveled through the Si Wong Desert, she was able to hold the group together in its most desperate moments. According to Sokka, she largely prevented their family from falling apart and took on many responsibilities to the point where she filled the void left by their mother, so much that he pictured her in place of their mother.
Even if she had to hide her identity, Katara never turned her back on people who needed her. Overall, Katara is often marked by a fierce determination to aid others and herself stated that she would never turn away from people who need her help, even if she had other priorities at the moment. She was even willing to defend Fire Nation civilians, such as when she helped the village of Jang Hui, [1] and fought her former teacher Hama , [54] who was from the Southern Water Tribe to defend the Fire Nation village she was living in.
This strong desire often frustrated others, particularly Sokka. Katara was marked by a fierce desire to learn waterbending, viewing it as a part of her and her culture that needed to be expressed. Her enthusiasm for waterbending caused her to constantly train herself in the art despite she originally did not have a teacher and learnt whatever little she could with great ambition, ignoring the criticism of Sokka.
She became overjoyed when she finally found a master to teach her formally. Katara was portrayed as the most mature member of the group, rarely taking part in Sokka and Aang's goofy pranks and Toph's less silly ones, though she did have a sense of humor.
She was a bit of a stickler for morality, even to the point of causing Sokka and Aang to faint from shock when she stated she wanted to pull a scam, as she had berated Toph for scamming people. Her loss was part of what drove her in her fight against the Fire Nation, although she did not exhibit as much outward prejudice as her brother. Although Sokka told Toph that Katara could be a pain and would get "involved and in-your-business", [53] she is understanding of other people's privacy, continually scolding her brother for snooping around Hama's inn and rummaging through her personal belongings.
On the other hand, Katara could be overly domineering. For all her kindness, she was sometimes self-righteous, had a nasty temper, and could be fierce when provoked. With lack of sleep, this side of her can quickly become more apparent. Combined with her strong sense of compassion, this gave Katara a strong sense of justice and she would run headlong into often dangerous situations to help others, which was best illustrated when she faked to be an earthbender to mix with innocent earthbenders in the prison rig when she was not a fighter yet, [26] challenged at the greatest waterbending instructor in the Northern Tribe for forbid women from learning combat focused waterbending, and destroying factories for the severe contamination at Jang Hui while she infiltrated to the Fire Nation.
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