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Things Rashaka Hates To See Done To Female Heroes In Fanfiction, ft. Katara of Avatar:TLA

1. Katara being lured away by a man and almost raped only to be rescued by Zuko/Aang/Jet/Haru, seeing as she totally forgot she could kick their asses any OTHER day except the day some random man decided to rape/sexually assault her.



2. Katara kissing Zuko/Aang/Jet/Haru after he rescued her from almost being raped/sexually assaulted, because sexual contact is really what she wanted the whole time, right? And it's just Zuko/Aang/Jet/Haru talks prettier to her, so that makes it okay, the whore.



3. Katara whoring herself out for money to survive, because a woman in need of poverty will always whore herself out, because that's a woman's natural fallback way of life, right? Even though someone like Katara has the physical/magical power to maim or kill pretty much anyone she chooses, there's no way she'd be a thug and mug people for money. Why do that when she can whore herself out?



4. Katara whoring herself out for money to survive, and being rescued from her life of sin by Zuko/Aang/Jet/Haru, because it's always a man's job to rescue the little woman from her natural state of whorish behavior, and only through his benevolent love and protection can she find happiness and integrity in life, providing of course she falls in love with him next, since being his object of sexual desire is fine, just as long as she realizes she can't be anyone else's.



5. Katara forgetting the fact that she knows how to use waterbending to maim or kill people. Seriously, KATARA KNOWS HOW TO MAIM AND KILL PEOPLE. KATARA IS A WARRIOR, AND WARRIORS MAIM AND KILL PEOPLE. That is what she went to the North Pole to learn, and she got very good at it. Katara had the opportunity to be a healer, and she decided she'd rather learn how to maim and kill people. Please for all our sakes' remember that.

Okay, see that list? Now take the name of the character, Katara, and replace it with EVERY LEAD FEMALE CHARACTER IN ALL OF YOUR FAVORITE SHOWS. Television, anime, books, WHATEVER.

Chances are, you've read that fic multiple times, for every female lead character you can think of.

More than bad spelling, more than an inability to understand paragraph breaks, more than random OOC love stories, this is the shit I hate to see in fanfiction.

^---This is what badfic looks like.---^


p.s. If you want to write rapefic, read this story first. Then come back and tell me you want to fucking write some rapefic, and I'll say okay.


EDIT: muffytaj is love.

Comments

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

She was lucky in Ep. 9 until Zuko caught her off guard and bound her hands which has been proven in several episodes to be necessary in bending.

True. But that was episode 9, she's come a long way since then. Even if she doesn't have a lot of water nearby, she always has what's in her canteen. Enough to create the water-whip, and that's proven useful on countless occassions, before she became a bad-ass waterbending master.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

With only a dribble of water she could freeze somebody's eyeballs. That'd be pretty damn effective against an attacker.

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

This is true, too. Katara's a fighter and there's no way she's letting somebody go that far without getting the whip. (Or their eyeballs frozen.) No matter what episode the fic's set in.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Exactly. We've seen what Katara can do with her bending when she's angry. Why couldn't she get angry/scared enough to bend the liquid in people's bodies? We've never seen her desperately protecting herself. I'm sure she's capable of a lot.

And, even if you feel the need to break down and humiliate her character (I admit I like breaking down characters sometimes) by, say, having her leg broken so she can't move and her hands bound so she's totally incapacitated to whatever the attackers want to do, the least you could do is write an in-character aftermath. None of this clinging to the male rescuer bullshit, when even looking at a man is probably the last thing she'd want to do.