r/ATLA • u/JustAPerson_YesOrNo "Hello, it's Zuko here" • May 25 '25

Question What ATLA take make you like this?

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u/buffshipperreddit May 26 '25

I think Zutara is a fine ship, but when Zutara shippers say that Aang and Katara wasn't originally meant to be endgame, I'm like "bro, do you even watch the show?" Romance was teased between the two from the very beginning!

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u/Cheshire_Cat_135 May 26 '25

I think when they said that it was because that special edition of AtLA they released where it had a little fact, bubbles pop up, stated that Zuko was originally Katara’s love interest

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u/AHMAD3456 May 26 '25

The school shipping time short animation?

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u/Cheshire_Cat_135 May 26 '25

No when the show was originally airing, they had this special version where throughout the episode little bubbles would pop up with interesting little facts about the characters or the voice actors etc., etc.

And one of the ones from the very first episode, states that Zuko was originally planned to be Katara’s love interest

Here’s a pic of it

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u/bay_coconut May 27 '25

I don’t think that was ever true tho

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u/Cheshire_Cat_135 May 27 '25

I mean it did appear in the special edition of the show and the writers and creators are the ones who wrote and approved the fact bubbles so…

Also I’m not saying it’s true I was just saying that that’s probably why people say the things in the original comment

I don’t think the idea lasted particularly long during the writing process either way

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u/bay_coconut May 27 '25

Yeah plus the way the writers talked about it on the podcast, it was something that like 3 of 20 writers pushed for but was never gonna be a thing

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u/Digit00l May 26 '25

Literally the first thing we learn about Aang is that he thinks Katara is hot