Katara's future without the war ending are pretty bleak. She'll either return home and be a caretaker of others, occasionally pitching in with her bending, or move to the Occupied Earth Kingdom and join the resistance there. And if she joins up with Aang, she'll really be that soccer mom from hell. (Not to mention trying to play matchmaker with Aang and Toph.)
There have been a few "Aang doesn't get unfrozen" fics, but I don't recall one that ever addressed the issue of Katara marrying. Usually she's just single and that's never remarked on. I figured that in a Fire Empire world, marrying an untrained waterbender wouldn't look like too attractive an option. (Meanwhile, in such fics, Sokka seems to always end up with Suki or Toph.)
I figure Aang would probably be freed by Sokka's daughters, assuming the stations of the canon are in motion. Originally I was going to work Aang in by making Sokka take Bato's place in "Bato of the Water Tribe" at that nunnery. Katara would have stayed behind to monitor his recovery. But I just did a drabble with a similar set-up in "That Father Lost, Lost His" and didn't want to repeat myself.
>Also, finding a husband is going to suck for her. There are no 17-30 year olds in avatar, at all. I honestly cannot think of a one. It's the kids/early teens, then come adults, then the old guys. But between early teen and adult, there is zip, nadda, nothing.
Not only that, but she's hardly in a position to romance any of the eligible bachelors among the war party with her Dad (the chieftain) and overprotective brother running interception.
The lack of visible 17-30 year olds in Avatar is something I always chalked up to the war's attrition. All the people in that age group? They're either civilians or army mooks. That's why you only have teenage prodigies (Katara/Toph/Azula/Sokka) and old masters (Pakku/Bumi/Iroh/Piandao). If the teen prodigies aren't good enough or lucky enough, the war cuts them down before they reach middle age. Then they spend twenty years raising children and recovering from the horrors of war.
In FMB proper, Toph is one of those teenage prodigies who barely managed to make it to adulthood. While the war's crucible made her a frighteningly skilled earthbender, it also messed her up in the head pretty badly. If the Gaang hadn't stumbled across her, she would have ended up either drinking herself to death or she'd have turned into the bastard child of Jeong-Jeong and Howard Hughes.
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Re: It's not Toph's family whose aged, it's Sokka and Katara'. [1/1]
Date: 2010-11-24 06:46 pm (UTC)There have been a few "Aang doesn't get unfrozen" fics, but I don't recall one that ever addressed the issue of Katara marrying. Usually she's just single and that's never remarked on. I figured that in a Fire Empire world, marrying an untrained waterbender wouldn't look like too attractive an option. (Meanwhile, in such fics, Sokka seems to always end up with Suki or Toph.)
I figure Aang would probably be freed by Sokka's daughters, assuming the stations of the canon are in motion. Originally I was going to work Aang in by making Sokka take Bato's place in "Bato of the Water Tribe" at that nunnery. Katara would have stayed behind to monitor his recovery. But I just did a drabble with a similar set-up in "That Father Lost, Lost His" and didn't want to repeat myself.
>Also, finding a husband is going to suck for her. There are no 17-30 year olds in avatar, at all. I honestly cannot think of a one. It's the kids/early teens, then come adults, then the old guys. But between early teen and adult, there is zip, nadda, nothing.
Not only that, but she's hardly in a position to romance any of the eligible bachelors among the war party with her Dad (the chieftain) and overprotective brother running interception.
The lack of visible 17-30 year olds in Avatar is something I always chalked up to the war's attrition. All the people in that age group? They're either civilians or army mooks. That's why you only have teenage prodigies (Katara/Toph/Azula/Sokka) and old masters (Pakku/Bumi/Iroh/Piandao). If the teen prodigies aren't good enough or lucky enough, the war cuts them down before they reach middle age. Then they spend twenty years raising children and recovering from the horrors of war.
In FMB proper, Toph is one of those teenage prodigies who barely managed to make it to adulthood. While the war's crucible made her a frighteningly skilled earthbender, it also messed her up in the head pretty badly. If the Gaang hadn't stumbled across her, she would have ended up either drinking herself to death or she'd have turned into the bastard child of Jeong-Jeong and Howard Hughes.