Tag: it made me cry so I had to reblog

avatararmin:

remember how katara saw her mother die and was deeply wounded by it but still pulled together the strength to be there for her family and lead them to the point where she replaced her mother’s face in sokka’s mind

remember how she lived at the bottom of the world in a tribe the fire nation had decimated almost beyond recognition and had no resources and no one to teach her but struggled to learn waterbending and spent months learning basic forms with no guidance and never gave up on her goal of becoming a waterbender

remember how she found a strange boy in an iceberg and would have been fully within her right to treat the phenomenon of a massive glowing chunk of ice spitting out a live boy w suspicion but instead went out of her way to free him and show him kindness and compassion 

remember how at fourteen she went penguin sledding with a new friend and commented that she hadn’t gone penguin sledding since she was a kid even though as a fourteen year old she still was a kid but it had just been that long since she got to act like one

remember how she was determined to save a boy she just met even though she was up against the fire nation and all she had was herself and her brother but she didnt give a shit about that she was going to save him anyway

remember how she dropped everything and left home for the first time in her life to help a relative stranger get to the north pole to learn waterbending and start to fulfill his destiny 

remember how she was so ready and eager to talk to new people 

remember how it pained her to see what the fire nation did to others and how she was determined to pass on some of her courage to them and served them the means to take back their freedom themselves 

remember how she followed her best friend through a storm and sat with him and learned that he did something that facilitated one hundred years of war, a war that tore her tribe and her family apart, and instead of getting mad she showed him love and forgiveness  

remember how she had the chance to see her father again but chose to stay by her friend’s side because he was her family too and she knew that she and sokka were all he had 

remember how she fought tooth and nail for the right to learn waterbending and showed what she was worth with moves she learned on her own and showed up all her peers by advancing faster than any of them 

remember how she occasionally clashed with people — strangers, group members, friends — but still tried her best to get along with them and show them kindness 

remember how she kept her wits about her and kept her group together in what looked like a hopeless situation, not giving up until they found a way out

remember how she saw her best friend at his lowest point and walked through a maelstrom of wind and sand and was not only not afraid of the most powerful bender in the world at his most dangerous but pulled him into her arms and offered him comfort when the last living connection he had to his past had been taken from him

remember how she showed compassion to people who had wronged her and gave them second chances 

remember how she loved fiercely and hated fiercely and held grudges and unleashed her anger on those who wronged her but pulled back before she lost herself to that rage

remember how she stuck it out with her friends to the bitter end even through death and fear and loss and suffering 

remember