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obviously there is a lot of very loaded significance in the way that while katara tried to force herself into her mother’s role after kya’s sacrifice and sokka tried to force himself into his father’s role after hakoda & the other men left for war, katara actually grows up to take more after her father, both as a brave warrior who charges into battle (and as future chief *cough cough*), but also just physically resembling him more than sokka does, who actually looks very similar to kya, as well as taking on the mantle of sacrificial protector to katara, his tribe, and the gaang (it feels like no coincidence that the only thing we truly know about kya is also one of sokka’s defining characteristics). but also I just love the concept of katara taking after hakoda and sokka taking after kya physically-speaking, not only for the larger thematic ways in which this contributes to the subversion of gender roles, but because I think it would be very cool and fun if as sokka got older, he got taller but no more buff, like no matter what he will always just have the frame of a lanky nerd, and katara is the one with epic muscles, just like her dad <3