Katara

Katara is a member of Team Avatar and was the Water Bender who helped end the Hundred Year War.

She is one of the main protagonists of the previous story, The Four Heroes.

According to Weekyle15, she will only appear in flashbacks and will not return to this fanfiction, with Will Vandom being the only main character to appear in both series.

## Appearance

She has dark skin with blue eyes and has dark hair with ribbons to tie it into loops and wears a blue outfit of the Water Tribe.

## Personality

Katara had a warm, compassionate, and caring personality and often acted as a motherly figure to the group, something that often irritated the rebellious Toph.

She displayed deep affection for those she traveled with and was fiercely protective whenever their safety was threatened.

Her inner strength kept Aang and their friends together through their most difficult experiences, even in the absence of parental figures.

While the team traveled through the Si Wong Desert, she was able to hold the group together in its most desperate moments.

She had a soft spot for children, giving a portion of her food to a little boy in Jang Hui and went as far to defend Tom-Tom, despite the fact that he was from the Fire Nation and that everyone else, with the exception of Aang, was distrustful of him for it.

This was because when Katara was a young girl, her mother was killed in a Fire Nation raid, an event which had a tremendous impact on her life and arguably shaped her into the person she became.

According to Sokka, she largely prevented their family from falling apart and took on many responsibilities to the point where she filled the void left by their mother, so much that he pictured her in place of their mother.

Overall, Katara is often marked by a fierce determination to aid others and herself stated that she would never turn away from people who need her help, even if she had other priorities at the moment.

According to Sokka, she was rather optimist.

Placing her whole heart in whatever affairs she had, she was often easily reduced to tears.

She was even willing to defend Fire Nation civilians, such as when she helped the village of Jang Hui, and fought her former teacher Hama, who was from the Southern Water Tribe to defend the Fire Nation village she was living in.

This strong desire often frustrated others, particularly Sokka.

Katara was marked by a fierce desire to learn waterbending, viewing it as a part of her and her culture that needed to be expressed.

She may have viewed it as a hope for rebuilding her tribe and saw her mother's sacrifice not only to save a daughter but what she represented, their own bending style.

Her enthusiasm for waterbending caused her to constantly train herself in the art despite she originally did not have a teacher and learnt whatever little she could with great ambition, ignoring the criticism of Sokka.

Her pride and strong mind caused conflict with the traditions of the Northern Water Tribe, which forbade women from learning combat focused waterbending.

She became overjoyed when she finally found a master to teach her formally.

Like her brother, father, and grandparents, Katara was resourceful and very capable to adapt to her environment.

Having quickly and exemplary advanced under the tutelage of Master Pakku, he stated that she accomplished this due to her fierce determination, passion and hard work.

Katara was portrayed as the most mature member of the group, rarely taking part in Sokka and Aang's goofy pranks and Toph's less silly ones, though she did have a sense of humor.

She was a bit of a stickler for morality, even to the point of causing Sokka and Aang to faint from shock when she stated she wanted to pull a scam, as she had berated Toph for scamming people.

Her loss was part of what drove her in her fight against the Fire Nation, although she did not exhibit as much outward prejudice as her brother.

Although Sokka told Toph that Katara could be a pain and would get "involved and in-your-business", she is understanding of other people's privacy, continually scolding her brother for snooping around Hama's inn and rummaging through her personal belongings.

On the other hand, Katara could be overly domineering.

For all her kindness, she was sometimes self-righteous, had a nasty temper, and could be fierce when provoked.

With lack of sleep, this side of her can quickly become more apparent.

She was also set in her ideals and frequently refused to relent on her views in the face of opposition.

Combined with her strong sense of compassion, this gave Katara a strong sense of justice and she would run headlong into often dangerous situations to help others, which was best illustrated when she faked to be an earthbender to mix with innocent earthbenders in the prison rig when she was not a fighter yet, challenged at the greatest waterbending instructor in the Northern Tribe for forbid women from learning combat focused waterbending, and destroying factories for the severe contamination at Jang Hui while she infiltrated to the Fire Nation.

Her short temper had frequently clashed with others; she showed open, but short-lived, jealousy of Aang's talent, and was frequently perturbed by Toph's confrontational and rebellious nature.

Despite being one of the more compassionate members of the group, Katara was one of the least willing to let go of a grudge, especially against those who she felt had betrayed her trust.

She held a considerable grudge against those who had threatened Aang or done things she considered morally wrong.

Upon her re-encounter with Jet, Katara reacted hostilely at the mere sight of him.

For a while, she was argumentative with her father because she felt that he had abandoned her and Sokka when he left to fight in the War.

At the Western Air Temple, she showed outright hostility toward Zuko and threatened to kill him if he slipped back to his old ways, being harsh and unforgiving of Zuko even long after he had joined Team Avatar and gained the trust of everyone else.

However, this could be because Zuko's betrayal of her at Ba Sing Se was far more personal than his betrayal of anyone else.

However, Katara was sometimes willing to give people second chances.

With much reluctance, she allowed Jet to guide Team Avatar to Appa, and appeared to be saddened by his death.

Also, she offered to try and heal Zuko's scar when they were enemies.

Eventually, even after his betrayal, she decided to forgive him and embraced him as a friend after he helped her find the man who killed her mother.

The loss of her mother at the hands of the Fire Nation caused Katara to be strongly express her emotions about that day to her teammates, bringing up the topic in situations that tested the feelings of both her friends and herself, reinforcing her relationship with her mother, albeit indirectly.

Occasionally, this fervor also blinded her from the fact that the people around her too suffered from similar experiences and events that equally impacted them.

An example of this was when Katara described her mother as just hers and without giving a second thought that she was Sokka's as well, or when the waterbender told her brother that he did not love their mother the way she did after Sokka tried to stop Katara from tracking Kya's murderer, greatly upsetting him.

When she got the chance to exert her revenge against the commander she believed was the killer, Katara was willing to use bloodbending against him, ignoring Aang's advice to forgive rather than take revenge.

She deeply regretted her actions after realizing she had bloodbent the wrong man, although she was not above planning to kill the murderer, only for her self-conscience to stop her from almost executing him, understanding that violence was not the answer.

Motherly and feminine as she might be, Katara was not afraid to go beyond her feminine looks and way of being to achieve what she wanted.

When she and Toph were denied entrance to a rowdy pub because the both of them were girls, they dressed up as boys.

Katara, in particular, showed her masculine side when wanting to ride the pub's mechanized bull; being even willing to start an all-out brawl with some of the guys there who mocked her ability to stay on the bull.

The whole thing ended with Toph dragging Katara away before things came to a head.

The two later went to a spa and reflected on how being a girl was not so bad at all.

## Bending & Abilities

Katara's most notable ability was her waterbending.

She rapidly developed her skill at the art, as her fierce resolve to master the element helped her become one of the most powerful waterbending masters in her era.

Katara was identified as a waterbender when she was a small child after she cracked some ice when her brother teased her.

She kept practicing even though she did not have a teacher as her father could not find any, learning whatever little she could with great ambition.

Over the course of her childhood, she taught herself basic waterbending techniques and managed to master some simple waterbending forms.

This was a difficult feat, considering she would have never had the chance to observe waterbending in practice.

As of the discovery of Aang at the South Pole, Katara was capable of "pushing and pulling" water, streaming small amounts and manipulating it into basic forms and movements, and was beginning to gain some control over the ability to change its physical state, freezing it into ice, as well as attempting to create sizable waves of water.

What little she knew, she taught to Aang, who quickly mastered all she had to offer.

That which had taken her years to achieve, Aang managed to imitate and outperform her within mere minutes, much to her envy and frustration.

Katara's waterbending remained amateurish until she came across a Northern Water Tribe waterbending scroll in a pirate-traders ship depicting several different traditional waterbending forms.

Incapable of passing up such an opportunity to have formal instruction, she eventually made away with the scroll and first learned the water whip technique with Aang and afterward continued to improve their overall technique.

Up until their arrival at the Northern Water Tribe, the two showed considerable improvement and Katara's confidence in her own abilities increased dramatically. She demonstrated the ability to bend with much greater precision and ease compared to when she first stole the scroll, was able to draw unseen water out of different sources and bend greater quantities in general, streaming them into powerful blasts and freezing water with much more control than before. She later developed several of her own techniques, including cloud manipulation with Aang's help, and a hand-held variation on the water-whip technique. She also demonstrated greater manipulation of ice and snow. In the time between her acquisition of the waterbending scroll and arrival at the North Pole, her sheer determination and discipline saw her proficiency improve greatly, clearly surpassing that of Aang's. Later, Katara challenged the master waterbending instructor of the Northern Water Tribe, Pakku, to a duel. Though she was undoubtedly no match for the master, she was determined to not be beaten. She demonstrated more advanced techniques than she ever had previously and greater proficiency in basic waterbending techniques she had previously learned. For the first time, she was seen bending with her feet and transforming the physical state of a wave.

Pakku eventually removed her ability to bend by trapping her body and limbs between spikes of ice and so won the fight without harming her, though he admitted that she was an exceptionally talented waterbender.

Under the guidance of Master Pakku, Katara's waterbending abilities advanced quicker than that of any student he had ever trained, which he accredited to her fierce passion and hard-work.

She fought and defeated Zuko with the augmented power of the near-full moon.

During the fight, she knocked him off his feet, deflected his attacks, imprisoned him in a dome of solid ice, and later a wave of solid ice.

Though she was defeated by Zuko after the sun rose, she fought him again with the full moon and defeated him easily.

Following the Siege of the North, Pakku declared Katara a full-fledged waterbending master in the short time that she was at the North Pole. She continued to hone her skills, regularly demonstrating her waterbending mastery in battle.

In Omashu, she blocked a flurry of Mai's knives by waterbending wooden boards into the air as shields in front of herself, managed to block arrows with a wall of ice, and retaliated by freezing Mai's arm in ice, only being defeated when Ty Lee snuck behind her and blocked her chi, preventing her from waterbending.

While in the swamp with Aang and Sokka, Katara used the stores in her pouch and caused enough pressure to the water in order to cut apart the vines, created large waves in the swamp water, froze a part of Huu's "swamp monster", created a coil of water to blast a hole into the monster and large round blades out of the water to cut up it completely.

Later, she easily defeated two earthbending students by freezing them in solid ice.

When facing Ty Lee a second time, she fought using the water in her pouch to fend off her chi blocking attacks, forcing Ty Lee to cartwheel away from disks of razor-sharp water.

She also stopped Azula from killing Aang by catching her hand in a water whip.

While crossing the Serpent's Pass, Katara made a bridge of ice for the group to travel across, worked with Aang to support an underwater bubble for the group to travel in, surfed around on a surfboard of ice, and formed a massive whirlpool with Aang to defeat the serpent.

Katara rapidly condensed water vapor into ice to defeat her foes.

When assaulting Jet upon re-encountering him, she used ice spikes, similar to Mai's daggers, to pin Jet to the wall in an alley.

While fighting off the Royal Earthbender Guards, she defeated dozens of them with whips and streams of water.

In the Crystal Catacombs, Katara and Aang fought against Zuko and Azula, whom she managed to cut one hair bangs and created two enormous whips of water, which she used to briefly trap her.

Later, these whips were able to match Zuko's enormous fire whips. When she was finally surrounded by Dai Li agents, she defended herself with the octopus form and rode on an enormous wave which knocked down these agents as well as Zuko. She proceeded to escape on a rising stream of water, carrying Aang to safety.

Katara's waterbending later became even more advanced and destructive.

During a fight with a Fire Nation ship, she lifted a huge wave to separate the two ships and formed a huge steam barrier between them for cover.

Once their ship was hit by a harpoon, she used her frosty breath of waterbending to freeze the hole in the ship's hull, thus repairing it.

When Aang held a dance for some of his Fire Nation school friends, she created a fountain out of solid ice for beverages and the glasses they used to drink from.

At the Jang Hui River, Katara created a cover of steam and sped herself atop the water's surface.

Assisted by Aang, she formed crashing waves and precise missiles of water to destroy a Fire Nation Army factory.

She also blasted a Fire Nation river craft into the air and against a cliff, as well as transported a huge bubble of water from a nearby creek to extinguish a fire.

When Combustion Man locked her and Toph in jail, Katara adapted to her environment, using her own sweat as a catalyst to form a water knife which broke out of a wooden prison cell.

During her time hiding within the Fire Nation, Katara met Hama, an elder, yet fellow waterbending master from the Southern Water Tribe.

After learning this, Hama began training her in Southern Style waterbending.

Among many techniques and combat tactics, she became able to condense moisture in the air to create her own water source for her bending and could remove water from plant life. Alternatively, with the latter skill she could bend the plants by controlling the water inside them.

On the Day of Black Sun, Katara fought against the Fire Nation guards at the capital, destroying several guard towers with Sokka and defeating many soldiers.

At the Western Air Temple, she rained ice spikes onto Combustion Man.

While tracking down her mother's killer, Katara used the enhanced power of the full moon to nearly take down a whole Fire Nation ship of the Southern Raiders single-handedly.

During her encounter with Yon Rha, she created a large wide dome of water by gathering rain drops and created ice spikes from it, nearly killing him.

Katara's prowess was formidable enough to fight against such prodigious master benders like Azula.

## Family

* Hakoda (Father)
* Kya (Mother, Deceased)
* Sokka (Elder Brother)