+From Spacerac
*From Me
(And, yes, this way is faster and we should drop the kiss argument until one of us can think of something new.)
+No, it was about how a lot of Zutarians like to say, "Katara is Aang's mother" and then used her looking like Zuko's mom as a positive for Zutara. Their reputation includes them using glaring double standards when it comes to Aang (and Mai).
*Ok, I see what you're saying now. With me, I don't think that Zuko ever saw Katara as his mother just because she tried to make his boo-boo all better. First, like I said, he never saw her in the outfit that looked like his mother's. Second, the way he acted when Ozi was talking to him about his mother showed that he would never do anything to hurt her. He risked a huge fight with his dad just to hear what happened to her. If he thought Katara was like his mother, he would never have sided with Azula.
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+Actually they can, otherwise they would have stayed broken up since The Beach. She's not so perpetually bored around Zuko either, as you can see. They relate to each other in all of their positive interaction.
*Except the theme of "The Beach" was all about confessing your true feelings. Mai said she still cared about Zuko, but, correct me if I'm wrong, Zuko never said that he still loved her after the break up. Zuko didn't stay broken up with her because he still had his crush on her at the time and probably still has that crush on her. I'm going to guess that, until that scene with Zuko in a chair and Mai leaning against a wall comes around, Zuko is not going to realize that he isn't really in love with her. For now, though, the only person he feels any level of feelings of love for is Mai (excluding his mother).
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+Of course she is [taking her sweet time], and Aang was also. It's not the time for them to get together just yet.
*Aang didn't take his sweet time. He was trying to get Katara's attention since the first five minutes of "The Warriors Kioshi".
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+Some people just don't catch things like that when it's not on their list of priorities or if they simply don't notice. It can't be any more obvious to Zuko that he better not hurt Aang (he won't) or Katara will kill him. That's definitely a turn-off.
*Not on their list when they don't feel the same way. :p
For now, yes. Zuko does not have romantic feelings for Katara. He does, however, hold her in high regards.
Allow me to explain.
As I have mentioned before, the only girls who have been allowed to touch Zuko's scar are Mai and Katara. While this doesn't mean that, if he respects you enough to let you touch his scar, he's in love with you, it does show that, in order for him to be in love with you, he has to respect you enough to let you touch his scar.
The other thing is his reactions to everyone in 3-13. When Aang humored him about his firebending, he snapped at him. When Sokka made sarcastic comments out his firebending before AND after he got it back, Zuko yelled at him. Heck, he practically exploded at Sokka before he got it back. However, when Katara made her sarcastic comments about his firebending, both before AND after he got it back, he didn't yell, snap, or do anything negative. He stayed calm and answered the question or continued talking.
Again, I'm not saying that it's love. I'm saying, he holds her in high regards. She still thinks he's a prick
