Katara (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Katara is a female animated character who features in Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Biography

Katara (Chinese: 卡塔拉; pinyin: Kǎ Tǎlā) was a female human born to the Southern Water Tribe during a time when the Fire Nation were set to conquer the world with her being the younger sister of Sokka. Born into the diminished Southern Water Tribe capital of Wolf Cove to Hakoda and Kya, Katara faced the reality of her tribe's dwindling strength from an early age. At the time of her birth, fifty years of repeated Fire Nation raids intended to capture and imprison the tribe's waterbenders had left them devoid of benders. While the Southern Water Tribe's defenses would have crumbled under the might of the Fire Nation, the tribe's relative inaccessibility in the frigid South Pole and the Fire Nation's perception that they were a non-threat meant that they were mostly left alone. Katara grew up within a loving, close family and community in her tribe. When she was six years old, she broke a tooth on some seal jerky made by Ashuna. When Katara was 8 years old, the Fire Nation again raided Wolf Cove when charged by Fire Lord Azulon to find and dispose of the last remaining waterbender in the tribe. During the battle, the leader of the raid Yon Rha confronted Katara's mother, who was taking refuge in the family's igloo. Seeking shelter with her mother, Katara ran back to her home and interrupted their exchange. Realizing the intentions of Yon Rha, who had demanded Kya tell him the identity of the waterbender, Kya insisted Katara leave and gave herself up as the last waterbender, lying to protect her daughter. Katara ran to fetch her father, but by the time they returned, Yon Rha had left and her mother had been killed.

Overview

Personality and attributes

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 optimistic. 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.

After marrying Aang, she and him came to have three children with these being Bumi, Kya and Tenzin. Bumi was the eldest son who was the only one born without any bending ability. Kya was their second child and only daughter who was born a waterbender. Meanwhile, their youngest child was their son Tenzin who was born an airbender.

Powers and abilities

Katara was born a human who came to be a waterbender allowing her to manipulate water through 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.

Originally, she had a talent for waterbending but was untrained leading to her wanting to seek a master from the Northern Water Tribe. Once there, she came to apprentice herself to a waterbending master named Pakku.

Notes

• Katara was created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko with her being voiced by actor Mae Whitman where she featured in the Avatar: The Last Airbender universe.

In other media

Films

• In The Last Airbender, Katara appeared in the setting of the 2010 live-action film where she was portrayed by actress Nicola Peltz.

Appearances

• Avatar: The Last Airbender:
• The Legend of Korra:

External Links

• Avatar Wiki Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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