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2024-05-01
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in remembrance of you

Summary:

Katara reminisces about Aang.

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Katara is glad.

 

Honestly, she is.

She is glad that she could live to see her children grow.

 

She is glad to see her grandchildren, their playfulness and childishness.

 

If you asked her if she was content with how her life played out, she would respond that she wouldn’t have it any other way. That she was pleased with how she was leading her life.

But sometimes…

 

There are times when the realization, hitting her like a sharp slap to face, barges in, unannounced.

 

The realization that living in the timeline of the next Avatar, the Avatar after the one you loved, married, had kids with, and adored, hurts .

 

That when you see the new Avatar, you see bits and pieces of your lover, but in different person.

 

That there are these small things they do and say that make you think, That was so much like Aang .

 

That when you hear they consulted past Avatars, you think, She saw Aang. She talked with Aang.

 

She keeps these realizations to herself, hiding it away in a chest, reflecting on it only when she is alone.

 

Perhaps the thing that hurts most of all is that the new Avatar also has a lover.

 

And Katara looks at them and thinks, Me and Aang did that once. Me and Aang acted like that. Me and Aang looked at each other like that. Me and Aang, me and Aang, me and Aang…

 

Me and Aang loved like that.

 

Katara had always had hope that she would see Aang in the Spirit World.

 

But now that the Avatar Cycle was broken …

 

Was Aang’s spirit lost forever?

 

Or would she not have seen him in the Spirit World anyway, because he was Korra? And now that the Cycle was broken, Aang’s spirit was, for lack of a better word, freed?

 

Would it be so selfish to hope that was true?

 

Korra and the Avatar after her would need Aang, and all the others before him, wouldn’t they?

 

After all, that’s what comes with falling for the Avatar .

 

But Katara still hoped that she would see Aang either way.

 

So she’ll patiently wait for her time to come to the Spirit World permanently.

 

But she still looks at the new Avatar and her lover, Korra and Asami, and aches.

Notes:

first kataangst and kataang fic in general lol- im not sure if ill write more of this couple, but i love themmm :D