It's not often that I do a deviation that pretty much just redraws a screencap, but this one had to be done. I don't just upload screencaps--not my style.

YES, this is directly reffed. Notice anything interesting about the shape of the water? Thanks to brilliantlygreen for pointing that out, though she was shown it by someone else....but if you watch the scene, the water makes a shape that looks suspiciously like that universal love symbol.

I believe that this is the THIRD time that Aang and Katara have both been enclosed inside a heart, though there may be more.

My art is nowhere near as good as the show's, though, so I realize that I did it nowhere near justice. In the actual image, Aang and Katara are in a rather spectacular shape themselves--it looks like Aang is supporting Katara on his back.

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A lot of errors in my picture, but if you go to the frame and look at it...well....it's a work of art in itself. There's a symmetry to the two, opposite but identical. Enclosed inside a heart shape....everything weights itself there.

It's also interesting to contrast the length and depth of this scene to the shorter and more superfluous scene between Mai and Zuko--the two ships are a Yinyang in themselves.

And I'll mention as I did in my journal that in this scene, Aang practically tells Katara that her love brought him back from the dead. I read the theme in an essay shortly before watching the premiere (the essay had been written a long time ago), and someone pointed that out, and when Aang mentioned that in the episode....the two of them have an epic and unbreakable bond. The dialogue of the scene is also non-Oedipal--the way that Aang talks to Katara....and the way that she talks to him....if you tried having a mom and a son talking like that, or even a sister and a brother, things would be very unusual.

I spent a bit more time on the background than the other pic--yin and yang! One pic has no work, the other one has some. It's still pretty rough and not cleaned up well, but it's all mainly about the heart-shape and the idea. It's the imagery that's important here, but still the description that I'm more focused on.

Katara and Aang belong to Mike and Bryan, but also kind of each other. Viacom and Nickelodeon own the whole shebang, though.
The pic is kinda mine--it's heavily reffed from a screencap, so it's not really my own image. I just drew it and colored.
The find is brill's friend's. EDIT: Who is Good find!!!