If "isolation" is an acronym for "at home" then sure.
Like, I feel like everyone just forgets that she's a predominantly Water Tribe woman that spent 90% of her life living at the pole. It makes sense that she'd wanna live, well, at home.
Appa and any other bison is basically an easy means of transportation that, at the behest of the user, can take them across the world in relatively a month at most.
It's not her fault her kids decided to move away. It's a really weird notion that, just because she wishes so, her family should stick by her side, and vice versa. It might be that she felt uncomfortable without Aang at the temple, and the city life wasn't her thing, so she dipped home.
Uuuh...pretty sure Aang and Katara have NOT spend their lives at the South Pole, with the rest of the GAang building Republic City and whatnot. Like, I get Bryke chipped down her character until it wasn't amything more than a trophy wife, but even then it makes no sense for her and their children to live far away. She probably didn't move back until Sokka died, possibly only after the new Avatar was born there. So she spent maybe a third of her life there, more depending on how old she got until she passed away.
What bugs me more though is Bryke made her miss the most important point in Jinora's life just so there was no chance of Katara and Zuko in one scene.
Y'know...because old friends don't visit eachother either, lol.
So like, did she not have a life before she met Aang? She was born and raised at the South Pole, that was my sentiment. She spent 15 years of her life there. Your childhood experiences are quite important. She was raised according to Water Tribe customs. My point was that she moved there after Aang died because she didn't feel comfy in an empty temple. Two of her kids went their separate ways and Tenzin was busy rebuilding the Airbender society, he most likely spent most of his days in the city.
Also, trophy wife? What? Like, Katara's grandma lived a quiet life at the South Pole. She's also a girl that RAN from the North Pole, abandoning practically what was North Pole royalty just to live a free life. She sailed ACROSS THE WORLD for that. Would you call her a trophy wife because she lives a quiet life at the South Pole?
And what is even the issue with her staying at home and healing? She's not Toph, she had always been the voice of reason in the gang and never was about that life. She traveled out of necessity and debt towards her friend-turned-lover. She didn't travel because she wished to save the world. She traveled because she wanted to help Aang. Her brother is dead. Her husband is dead. Her children don't talk to each other, and the one child that stayed at home is overzealous in building an "Airbender society", so much so that he forgets about everything else.
Katara fulfilled her role in ATLA and retired to a proper life. She never was a Toph-like girl that was content with being a flea-ridden forest dwelling bum.
And, to your knowledge, Toph was ALSO a "trophy wife" for most of her adulthood. She got a proper job in the city, she found herself a guy and mothered TWO kids. Jesus, what character assassination.
And jesus christ, don't even talk about Zuko. Dude has TWO appearances, in which he does basically nothing aside from the bare minimum.
Like, bro, I don't like LoK too, but Katara is NOT the reason.
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u/Grasher312 Mar 18 '25
If "isolation" is an acronym for "at home" then sure.
Like, I feel like everyone just forgets that she's a predominantly Water Tribe woman that spent 90% of her life living at the pole. It makes sense that she'd wanna live, well, at home.
Appa and any other bison is basically an easy means of transportation that, at the behest of the user, can take them across the world in relatively a month at most.
It's not her fault her kids decided to move away. It's a really weird notion that, just because she wishes so, her family should stick by her side, and vice versa. It might be that she felt uncomfortable without Aang at the temple, and the city life wasn't her thing, so she dipped home.