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Name: Katara
Age: 14
Time Period: After: The Puppetmaster
Wing Color: Grey at the base fading into the blue of her eyes on the tips.
History: http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Katara
Personality:
As so often happens, the two most formative events of Katara’s life were completely beyond her control: She was born a waterbender, the last of her tribe, and her mother was murdered by the Fire Nation. This had the effect of making her both independent and vulnerable, her identity is intimately joined with her skills as a waterbender and the responsibility and love she feels towards her family - and the sadness she feels about her mother’s death. This sense of responsibility is something that affects everything about her.
Katara doesn’t always like being the responsible, mature one. She wants to be thought of as fun, she wants to be able to kick back and be irresponsible… but someone needs to mend those socks. And if it’s a choice between being thought of as fun or making sure that the ones she cares about are happy and safe and doing what’s right - well, then she’d rather be the one that everyone comes to instead.
There are some ways in which she is very grown up - she’s cared for her brother (a full time job, let me tell you), traveled the world, fought against soldiers and princes… and there are some ways that she is still very much a young girl. She’ll go penguin sledding, she’ll blush when a cute guy gets too close… and most importantly, she’ll dream, and she’ll hope.
It’s her capacity for hope that is one of her most defining characteristics. It is her hope in the Avatar that prompts her and Sokka to go with Aang on his journey, even though for all intents and purposes, Aang looked just like a 12 year old boy. And it’s that same ability to hope that makes her want to consistently reach out and encourage everyone around her towards doing what she thinks is the right thing.
In most cases, Katara is polite to strangers, almost to a fault. She’s very concerned with the proper rules for behavior and wants to do the right thing. She can be naïve when it comes to trusting people that she has just met. On the other hand, she also has a temper, has inherited the family trait for sarcasm - at least to family - and has tendency to believe that her way is the right way.
Once she gets going, Katara has no off switch. When she has decided on a cause, absolutely nothing will hold her back from pursuing it, even if it’s dangerous or impossible or risks something else she finds important. This is demonstrated time and time again, but a particularly stunning example is when she risks the Avatar’s training because she will not apologize to the waterbending master who refuses to teach her merely because she is a girl. Instead, she challenges him to a duel, fighting for her right to be treated equally, even at the risk of her ultimate goal.
Strengths:
Physical:
Katara has the physical strength of any young girl who lives an adventurous lifestyle and regularly trains her body. While her main strength is in her waterbending, and she could be considered one of the strongest waterbenders in the world, even without her bending to protect her the training of the movements themselves will provide her with some protection.
Mental:
Fiercely determined, bright, and innovative, Katara is very practical - she’ll be the one shooting down Sokka’s more ridiculous ideas… or trying to implement them practically, to suit an immediate need. She is not normally the one that her group looks to for battle plans and strategy is not her strong suit, but when it comes down to survival, the way that she took charge in the dessert - attempting to comfort and encourage Aang, keeping Sokka from drinking more cactus juice, trying to help them find ways to survive - shows that if there is any way to get through a difficult situation, she is going to find it.
Emotional:
Katara is deeply connected to her friends and family - and in some ways to everyone she meets. While on their trip through the earth nation, she met a young man named Haru who she talked into risking his safety by revealing that he was an earthbender to save an old man. When Haru was later arrested by Fire Nation soldiers, Katara devised a plan to get herself arrested for the same crime in order to free him.
She hates and fears the Fire Nation, although her time with Aang and traveling through that country is teaching her to see them as people, not monsters. She feels responsible for just about everything that happens around her. She feels everything very deeply - everything matters to her in the way that it matters to a young girl. It is safe to say that Katara is very emotional, but she draws strength from it and uses her emotions to fuel her drive to achieve her goals.
Weaknesses:
Physical:
The strength of Katara’s waterbending rises and falls with the full moon. Take her away from any source of water, and she will start to feel weak and disoriented. In the third season she mentions to Hama the debilitating effect that being in the desert had on her. Despite the physical conditioning her waterbending provides, she’s still only a fourteen year old girl, there’s no super strength or stamina here for her to rely on when it comes down to a physical
confrontation.
Mental:
Katara is more than willing to believe in mysteries and superstitions - much to the exasperation of her far more skeptical brother. When the gang came upon a village which had a fortune teller, she became addicted to asking Aunt Wu questions, even to the point of asking what she should have for breakfast tomorrow.
Emotional:
That same sense of responsibility that leads Katara to want to take care of everyone and fix every injustice she sees makes her easy to manipulate if you know the right buttons to push - as Jet amply proved the first time they met. She has a quick, violent temper that often leads to blow ups with her brother or Toph - even Aang when her mood is foul. Once her trust is broken, Katara has an extremely hard time forgiving and the anger and resentment she feels tends to cloud her judgment in regards to that person until she has been proven, often repeatedly, wrong.
Age: 14
Time Period: After: The Puppetmaster
Wing Color: Grey at the base fading into the blue of her eyes on the tips.
History: http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Katara
Personality:
As so often happens, the two most formative events of Katara’s life were completely beyond her control: She was born a waterbender, the last of her tribe, and her mother was murdered by the Fire Nation. This had the effect of making her both independent and vulnerable, her identity is intimately joined with her skills as a waterbender and the responsibility and love she feels towards her family - and the sadness she feels about her mother’s death. This sense of responsibility is something that affects everything about her.
Katara doesn’t always like being the responsible, mature one. She wants to be thought of as fun, she wants to be able to kick back and be irresponsible… but someone needs to mend those socks. And if it’s a choice between being thought of as fun or making sure that the ones she cares about are happy and safe and doing what’s right - well, then she’d rather be the one that everyone comes to instead.
There are some ways in which she is very grown up - she’s cared for her brother (a full time job, let me tell you), traveled the world, fought against soldiers and princes… and there are some ways that she is still very much a young girl. She’ll go penguin sledding, she’ll blush when a cute guy gets too close… and most importantly, she’ll dream, and she’ll hope.
It’s her capacity for hope that is one of her most defining characteristics. It is her hope in the Avatar that prompts her and Sokka to go with Aang on his journey, even though for all intents and purposes, Aang looked just like a 12 year old boy. And it’s that same ability to hope that makes her want to consistently reach out and encourage everyone around her towards doing what she thinks is the right thing.
In most cases, Katara is polite to strangers, almost to a fault. She’s very concerned with the proper rules for behavior and wants to do the right thing. She can be naïve when it comes to trusting people that she has just met. On the other hand, she also has a temper, has inherited the family trait for sarcasm - at least to family - and has tendency to believe that her way is the right way.
Once she gets going, Katara has no off switch. When she has decided on a cause, absolutely nothing will hold her back from pursuing it, even if it’s dangerous or impossible or risks something else she finds important. This is demonstrated time and time again, but a particularly stunning example is when she risks the Avatar’s training because she will not apologize to the waterbending master who refuses to teach her merely because she is a girl. Instead, she challenges him to a duel, fighting for her right to be treated equally, even at the risk of her ultimate goal.
Strengths:
Physical:
Katara has the physical strength of any young girl who lives an adventurous lifestyle and regularly trains her body. While her main strength is in her waterbending, and she could be considered one of the strongest waterbenders in the world, even without her bending to protect her the training of the movements themselves will provide her with some protection.
Mental:
Fiercely determined, bright, and innovative, Katara is very practical - she’ll be the one shooting down Sokka’s more ridiculous ideas… or trying to implement them practically, to suit an immediate need. She is not normally the one that her group looks to for battle plans and strategy is not her strong suit, but when it comes down to survival, the way that she took charge in the dessert - attempting to comfort and encourage Aang, keeping Sokka from drinking more cactus juice, trying to help them find ways to survive - shows that if there is any way to get through a difficult situation, she is going to find it.
Emotional:
Katara is deeply connected to her friends and family - and in some ways to everyone she meets. While on their trip through the earth nation, she met a young man named Haru who she talked into risking his safety by revealing that he was an earthbender to save an old man. When Haru was later arrested by Fire Nation soldiers, Katara devised a plan to get herself arrested for the same crime in order to free him.
She hates and fears the Fire Nation, although her time with Aang and traveling through that country is teaching her to see them as people, not monsters. She feels responsible for just about everything that happens around her. She feels everything very deeply - everything matters to her in the way that it matters to a young girl. It is safe to say that Katara is very emotional, but she draws strength from it and uses her emotions to fuel her drive to achieve her goals.
Weaknesses:
Physical:
The strength of Katara’s waterbending rises and falls with the full moon. Take her away from any source of water, and she will start to feel weak and disoriented. In the third season she mentions to Hama the debilitating effect that being in the desert had on her. Despite the physical conditioning her waterbending provides, she’s still only a fourteen year old girl, there’s no super strength or stamina here for her to rely on when it comes down to a physical
confrontation.
Mental:
Katara is more than willing to believe in mysteries and superstitions - much to the exasperation of her far more skeptical brother. When the gang came upon a village which had a fortune teller, she became addicted to asking Aunt Wu questions, even to the point of asking what she should have for breakfast tomorrow.
Emotional:
That same sense of responsibility that leads Katara to want to take care of everyone and fix every injustice she sees makes her easy to manipulate if you know the right buttons to push - as Jet amply proved the first time they met. She has a quick, violent temper that often leads to blow ups with her brother or Toph - even Aang when her mood is foul. Once her trust is broken, Katara has an extremely hard time forgiving and the anger and resentment she feels tends to cloud her judgment in regards to that person until she has been proven, often repeatedly, wrong.