@koral_primrose @naMnaSYt Fair enough, I used the Google summary to save time. But the AI was repeating what the creators said. Here is the direct interview confirming their position on Zutara.
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@deityofdorkss @naMnaSYt Me when I quote AI and think I'm doing something
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although I think Zuko and Katara would be a bit better together, I do think this is a good relationship and a great ending to an amazing series
namnas@naMnaSYt
now rewatching
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Thiiiis and they are also inspired by Sakha people, it is indigenous group of Siberia region
ᴀɴᴛᴇʀᴏꜱ@deityofdorkss
Ragebait or not, Katara and Sokka aren't Black, White, or Asian. They come from an indigenous tribe directly inspired by Inuit and other Indigenous North American peoples.
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@wurikunahkuy You are contradicting yourself. You can't spend a whole thread arguing real-world geography to justify a label, then retreat to 'they are just fictional' when your logic fails. Overwriting deliberate Inuit representation is literal erasure. I'm done here.
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@deityofdorkss I never said Katara being Black was a headcanon of mine, actually. I'm not grasping at semantics, I'm specifically referring to you pretending to dignify me with acknowledging "Afro-Indigineity," — the canon is they are a fictional group. A Black hc is not erasure.
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If we are going to reject in-world racial/geographic categories then we must also reject in-world political categories because the Southern and Northern Water Tribes are not "indigenous" in the same way peoples in our world are.
ᴀɴᴛᴇʀᴏꜱ@deityofdorkss
Ragebait or not, Katara and Sokka aren't Black, White, or Asian. They come from an indigenous tribe directly inspired by Inuit and other Indigenous North American peoples.
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@wurikunahkuy You're grasping at semantics. The Water Tribe isn't based on Aboriginal Australians or Melanesians, making that irrelevant. Forcing a broad umbrella label onto a specifically coded Arctic Indigenous group is literal erasure. Your personal headcanon does not rewrite canon.
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@deityofdorkss You do realize though that there are Indigenous people who are Black but not of African descent + I really do not think referring to someone as Black truly negates or erases such visual cues like you think unless you feel as though they are entirely seperate from the discussion.
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@wurikunahkuy Yes, Avatar blends Asian elements globally, and Afro-Indigenous people exist. However, the Water Tribe's core visual and cultural blueprint is undeniably Inuit. Calling Katara simply 'Black' or 'Asian' erases the specific Indigenous representation she was designed to embody.
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@manoravui @Art_Leonidaz Até onde eu saiba nenhum dos 4 povos é baseados ou tem referências a África, eles tem várias referências porém focadas na Ásia e povos indígenas
As Principais referências de cada nação que eu lembro são:
Terra-China
Fogo-Japão
Água-Inuit e os Yupik
Ar-Buldistas
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@ElElcapitaninca Having distant ancestors from Siberia 5,000 years ago doesn't make a modern group 'directly Asian.' The Inuit are a distinct Indigenous people. Ignoring that nuance completely erases the specific culture the Water Tribe is actually based on.
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Ragebait or not, Katara and Sokka aren't Black, White, or Asian. They come from an indigenous tribe directly inspired by Inuit and other Indigenous North American peoples.
🇨🇬 RDX ⚔️@Jaguar_Randy
Katara est la plus grande femme noire de l'histoire des animé sans débat
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@daisukinadarin Like if they wanted me to root for Kataang endgame more via the movie’s gratuitous displays of PDA, they failed. Because all the writing issues in ATLA were even more glaring in the movie. It’s minor, but why does Katara wear Air Nomad colors yet Aang wears no Water Tribe colors?
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"zuko is the type who would save anyone, friend of not" but in relation to katara/in zutara's context ONLY, he is somehow, STILL, perpetually a coloniser and abuser... something doesn't add up, so do you think he's altruistic or an abuser, can you make up your mind? 🤨😒
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@pokidokies I mean, he literally just took lightning to the chest to save her life. Romantic or not, of course, it's going to be an incredibly tender moment.
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controversial ending but I do think it works
Energybending is an insane asspull but its not like its a form that doesnt make sense, and it was the only way to have Aang not kill Ozai while he still receives a fitting, if not worse, punishment
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now rewatching
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@cutiesmith5 You're arguing semantics over one thing I just happened not to mention. Yes, finding her mom's killer was a major contributing factor, but my main point still stands. He had to go through hell to earn her trust back. It definitely wasn't fast.
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@deityofdorkss Um no she forgave after they found the dude that killed her mom..
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Did you even watch the show? He had to save them from Combustion Man and break Sokka's dad out of prison just to earn basic trust. Katara's grudge was 100% valid, but taking literal lightning to the chest for her is why she finally forgave his ass.
ANTHONY GODWIN🇧🇪🌴@godwinanthony06
The only thing I didn’t like is how fast everyone forgave him. Realistically, that trust should’ve taken longer.
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