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At the age of eight, Katara is taken from the Southern Water Tribe and locked away in a Fire Nation prison, where she learns bloodbending under the tutelage of a woman named Hama. Three years later, she discovers the Avatar and starts to tutor him in secret.
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* AxCrazy: Hama.
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* BarefootCaptives: The waterbender prisoners.
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* BreakTheCutie: Katara.
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->''Around [Sokka and Katara] the villagers laugh and grab at each other. Katara looks upward. Even in the dim morning a half-moon remains visible, and she finds herself thinking of Hama, who will never return home at all.''
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* SenselessSacrifice: In this version, Kya’s death is this, as Katara ends up being captured anyway.
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* SenselessSacrifice: In this version, Kya’s death is this, as Katara ends up being captured by the Fire Nation anyway.
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* SenselessSacrifice: In this version, Kya’s death is this, as Katara ends up being captured anyway.
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* StrangerInAFamiliarLand: Katara when she returns to the South Pole. This is in contrast to the happier reactions of the other waterbenders.
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* StrangerInAFamiliarLand: Katara experiences this when she returns to the South Pole. Pole after years of imprisonment in the Fire Nation. This is in contrast to the happier reactions of the other waterbenders.liberated waterbender prisoners.
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* AlasPoorVillain: Even after everything, Katara laments the fact that Hama never got to return home with the rest of the surviving waterbenders.
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* AssholeVictims: The prison guards killed via bloodbending.
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** Also, bloodbending is used to its fullest potential to kill.
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* ThouShaltNotKill: Even after all the suffering she went through in prison, Katara doesn't have it in her to kill the prison guards. {{Averted}} when she deals with Hama, though.
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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: Katara ''kills'' Hama (albeit in self-defense), and at the end shows some resentment towards Sokka for coddling her.
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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: Katara ''kills'' Hama (albeit in self-defense), and at the end shows some resentment towards Sokka for coddling her.her.
* WorthyOpponent: {{Defied}}. Katara bitterly notes that there wasn't enough guards to contain a massive prison break - meaning that the Fire Nation thought that the waterbenders would pose so little a threat once imprisoned.
* WorthyOpponent: {{Defied}}. Katara bitterly notes that there wasn't enough guards to contain a massive prison break - meaning that the Fire Nation thought that the waterbenders would pose so little a threat once imprisoned.
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* DontYouDarePityMe: Katara hates it when Sokka tries to comfort her when she and the other waterbenders finally return to the South Pole.
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* DontYouDarePityMe: Katara hates it ''hates it'' when Sokka tries to comfort her when she and the other waterbenders finally return to the South Pole.
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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: Katara ''kills'' Hama (albeit in self-defense), and at the end shows some resentment towards Sokka coddling her.
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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: Katara ''kills'' Hama (albeit in self-defense), and at the end shows some resentment towards Sokka for coddling her.
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* AffablyEvil: The Fire Nation guards give Katara a small amount of extra rations to eat during meal times, but Hama is not wrong when she says that deep down they would kill Katara if it came to it.
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* AffablyEvil: The Fire Nation guards give Katara a small amount of extra rations to eat during meal times, but Hama is not wrong when she says that deep down they would kill Katara if it came to it. Hama herself is also this.
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* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: Played straight with Hama. Defied with Katara and the other waterbenders.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: In the paraphrased words of a reviewer, Katara learns bloodbending at a young age, and has her hatred for the Fire Nation multiplied by her imprisonment.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: In the paraphrased words of a reviewer, Katara learns bloodbending at a young age, and has her hatred for the Fire Nation multiplied by her imprisonment. If the story is continued, this certainly will have some negative consequences.
* MamaBear / PapaWolf: When Hama tries to force the other waterbenders to become her disciples, they refuse and instantly shield the young Katara behind them.
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* StrangerInAFamiliarLand: Katara when she returns to the South Pole. This is in contrast to the reactions of the other waterbenders.
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* StrangerInAFamiliarLand: Katara when she returns to the South Pole. This is in contrast to the happier reactions of the other waterbenders.
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* AffablyEvil: The Fire Nation guards give Katara a small amount of extra rations to eat during meal times, but Hama is not wrong when she says that deep down they would kill Katara if it came to it.
* AxCrazy: Hama.
* AxCrazy: Hama.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Sokka towards Katara. Not that she wants it in the end.
* BittersweetEnding: The waterbender prisoners all escape and make it back to the South Pole. But Katara's innocence is gone, and she had to kill an AxCrazy Hama.
->''Around [Sokka and Katara] the villagers laugh and grab at each other. Katara looks upward. Even in the dim morning a half-moon remains visible, and she finds herself thinking of Hama, who will never return home at all.''
* BreakTheCutie: Katara.
* ChildSoldiers: Sokka is painfully aware that he is this.
* BittersweetEnding: The waterbender prisoners all escape and make it back to the South Pole. But Katara's innocence is gone, and she had to kill an AxCrazy Hama.
->''Around [Sokka and Katara] the villagers laugh and grab at each other. Katara looks upward. Even in the dim morning a half-moon remains visible, and she finds herself thinking of Hama, who will never return home at all.''
* BreakTheCutie: Katara.
* ChildSoldiers: Sokka is painfully aware that he is this.
* DarkerAndEdgier: In the paraphrased words of a reviewer, Katara learns bloodbending at a young age, and has her hatred for the Fire Nation multiplied by her imprisonment.
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* ForWantOfANail: This oneshot definitely entertains this possibility. Mainly, what if Katara was imprisoned by the Fire Nation before the events of the show took place. There are several main ways this affects the timeline.
** The other Southern waterbenders are freed from the prison
** The other Southern waterbenders are freed from the prison
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* DontYouDarePityMe: Katara hates it when Sokka tries to comfort her when she and the other waterbenders finally return to the South Pole.
* ForWantOfANail:This The oneshot definitely entertains this possibility. Mainly, what if Katara was imprisoned by the Fire Nation before the events of the show took place. There are several main ways this affects the timeline.
** The other Southern waterbenders are freed from theprisonprison and return home to the South Pole, which means that Katara has mentors to teach her ''normal'' waterbending.
** Katara learns bloodbending before the events of the show, and if the oneshot is continued, she will go on to teach Aang the skill.
** Because of the years that she spent in prison, Katara has a ''much stronger'' hatred for the Fire Nation.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Hama tells Katara that once they escape, any kindness that the guards used to show towards the young girl will vanish and be replaced with cruelty.
* KickTheDog: Hama bloodbending Katara. Enough said.
* MyGreatestFailure: Sokka failing to prevent Katara's capture.
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: Katara ''makes'' Hama stay until they've freed all the other waterbenders.
* StrangerInAFamiliarLand: Katara when she returns to the South Pole. This is in contrast to the reactions of the other waterbenders.
* ForWantOfANail:
** The other Southern waterbenders are freed from the
** Katara learns bloodbending before the events of the show, and if the oneshot is continued, she will go on to teach Aang the skill.
** Because of the years that she spent in prison, Katara has a ''much stronger'' hatred for the Fire Nation.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Hama tells Katara that once they escape, any kindness that the guards used to show towards the young girl will vanish and be replaced with cruelty.
* KickTheDog: Hama bloodbending Katara. Enough said.
* MyGreatestFailure: Sokka failing to prevent Katara's capture.
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: Katara ''makes'' Hama stay until they've freed all the other waterbenders.
* StrangerInAFamiliarLand: Katara when she returns to the South Pole. This is in contrast to the reactions of the other waterbenders.
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* TookALevelInCynicism: Katara's innocence and childhood is pretty much non-existent at the end of the story.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: Katara ''kills'' Hama (albeit in self-defense), and at the end shows some resentment towards Sokka coddling her.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: Katara ''kills'' Hama (albeit in self-defense), and at the end shows some resentment towards Sokka coddling her.
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At the age of eight, Katara is taken from the Southern Water Tribe and locked away in a Fire Nation prison, where she learns bloodbending under the tutelage of a woman named Hama. Three years later, she discovers the Avatar and starts to tutor him in secret.
This AU story was supposed to have spanned the whole show, exploring how events would've gone down if Katara had been taken by the Southern Raiders and locked away with the other Southern waterbenders - well, those who have survived the many decades in the waterbender prison. Hama obviously hasn't escaped in this AU, and teaches Katara all about bloodbending. Long story short, the first - and only - chapter is about how the waterbenders break out of the prison and return to the South Pole. The story may not be "complete" in the sense of how the author planned things to go, but the first and only chapter feels standalone enough to be a satisfying oneshot.
The story can be read [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/12687216/chapters/28928007 here]].
!!Tropes
* AbusiveParents: Because Katara is locked up in the same cage as her, Hama takes the young child under her wing. And forces her to learn bloodbending, often punishing her disobedience and defiance by ''bloodbending the poor child''.
* TheBadGuyWins: Hama forces Katara to learn bloodbending. Though see TheDogBitesBack.
* BarefootCaptives: The waterbender prisoners.
* DamnYouMuscleMemory: A TearJerker example. Even after spending four years locked up in a cage, wearing only prison rags, Katara still hasn't gotten used to having her hair hang loose and unkempt, occasionally forgetting the fact that she no longer has ties and clips to keep her hair in place.
->''Katara lowers her head. She wipes at her eyes and hesitates, fingers twisting over the empty air around her face. Some terrible muscle memory makes her hands search for loops of hair, for beads that don't exist. Her hair lays matted against her head and neck.''
* TheDogBitesBack: After the waterbenders break out of the prison, Hama tries to force them all to follow her, preparing to bloodbend them. Unfortunately for her, Katara sees this coming and kills her with bloodbending first - the very skill that Hama forced upon the young child.
* ForWantOfANail: This oneshot definitely entertains this possibility. Mainly, what if Katara was imprisoned by the Fire Nation before the events of the show took place. There are several main ways this affects the timeline.
** The other Southern waterbenders are freed from the prison
* TailorMadePrison: As in the show, the waterbenders are kept in cages suspended off the ground, far away from water. And they are given only the bare minimum of food and water to survive.
* WouldHurtAChild:
** Hama warns Katara that when they break out of their cage, the prison guards won't be merciful to them if they're caught, even though Katara is only a child.
** Though hypocritically, Hama bloodbends Katara to force her to learn bloodbending.
This AU story was supposed to have spanned the whole show, exploring how events would've gone down if Katara had been taken by the Southern Raiders and locked away with the other Southern waterbenders - well, those who have survived the many decades in the waterbender prison. Hama obviously hasn't escaped in this AU, and teaches Katara all about bloodbending. Long story short, the first - and only - chapter is about how the waterbenders break out of the prison and return to the South Pole. The story may not be "complete" in the sense of how the author planned things to go, but the first and only chapter feels standalone enough to be a satisfying oneshot.
The story can be read [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/12687216/chapters/28928007 here]].
!!Tropes
* AbusiveParents: Because Katara is locked up in the same cage as her, Hama takes the young child under her wing. And forces her to learn bloodbending, often punishing her disobedience and defiance by ''bloodbending the poor child''.
* TheBadGuyWins: Hama forces Katara to learn bloodbending. Though see TheDogBitesBack.
* BarefootCaptives: The waterbender prisoners.
* DamnYouMuscleMemory: A TearJerker example. Even after spending four years locked up in a cage, wearing only prison rags, Katara still hasn't gotten used to having her hair hang loose and unkempt, occasionally forgetting the fact that she no longer has ties and clips to keep her hair in place.
->''Katara lowers her head. She wipes at her eyes and hesitates, fingers twisting over the empty air around her face. Some terrible muscle memory makes her hands search for loops of hair, for beads that don't exist. Her hair lays matted against her head and neck.''
* TheDogBitesBack: After the waterbenders break out of the prison, Hama tries to force them all to follow her, preparing to bloodbend them. Unfortunately for her, Katara sees this coming and kills her with bloodbending first - the very skill that Hama forced upon the young child.
* ForWantOfANail: This oneshot definitely entertains this possibility. Mainly, what if Katara was imprisoned by the Fire Nation before the events of the show took place. There are several main ways this affects the timeline.
** The other Southern waterbenders are freed from the prison
* TailorMadePrison: As in the show, the waterbenders are kept in cages suspended off the ground, far away from water. And they are given only the bare minimum of food and water to survive.
* WouldHurtAChild:
** Hama warns Katara that when they break out of their cage, the prison guards won't be merciful to them if they're caught, even though Katara is only a child.
** Though hypocritically, Hama bloodbends Katara to force her to learn bloodbending.
