--Ok, this is long, but bear with me here...It has some explanation and translation--

Foo! This is finally done! I've had this idea in my head since my schools' winter break. That's evidence of my slowness at doing stuff!

Anyway, I really love this idea. It comes from listening to my German mix CDs for a change and absently thinking about Zutara. I heard this song, "Halt Mich Fest," by German artist Tic Tac Toe, and I realized how much the lyrics fit with their current/near future relationship. Focused on Katara, of course.

So this got into my head and I thought it'd be a pretty original thing, and I translated an entire German song for this project!

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Basically, this is a sort of scenario for a direction that Katara's thoughts on Zuko and their broken relationship could take in the next few episodes. I'm projecting it at about the end of Boiling Rock Prt2 and beginning of Southern Raiders.

Here's what it is, before I get to my near-exact translation... Katara has already begun to see Zuko in his new changed self, but she still hasn't yet admitted that he's truly changed or trustworthy. Most of all, she's still hurt by what he's done to her and her friends.

In BR, she's going to see more of his true self, seeing him help risk his life, even possibly get captured, depending on our predictions, to help save the prisoners like Suki and her father.

It's going to start to clash with her set view on him...and it's going to start becoming apparent that she was wrong about him this time. But she's still going to be reluctant to trust him and even more to admit that she was wrong.

Meanwhile, We're probably going to see some more of Zuko trying to get through to her, trying to earn her trust and respect back.

So the summary is Zuko trying to get through to her, Katara not knowing what to do, let him in, or push him back again. She's still being distant, but she is slipping closer to him even if she's afraid to open up.

That's where the poses come in. Zuko trying to embrace her, Katara not knowing whether to return the embrace or to take his grasp off of her. Thus her hands hang in the air and she looks disconcerted.

Kind of a symbol of their reluctant romance and Katara's confusion over the two Zukos she knows.

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So, here are the lyrics as I have translated them, along with the song itself in a Youtube video. It's a kind of sad looking Wolf's Rain vid, so it has some blood and depression and probably some WR spoilers in it, so if you don't want to see it, just scroll down while the song plays...It was the only one of the two videos that came up that had the full song on it...

But just read these lyrics, and I think you can see for yourself just how Zutara it is.

Halt Mich Fest by Tic Tac Toe
[link]

I always ask myself,
What are you really doing with me?
I sit here, wait for you,
Stare a hole through the door,

I want, I don’t want you
Want you, don’t want you

Ach, what do I know what I want?

I know only one thing,
That is what I feel

-Hold me close-

The door opens, I want to say so much to you,
But then you look at me like that,
And I catch myself asking,

What I want,
What I feel,
What I think,
What I believe,
What I need,
I don’t know what it is.
Hold me close,
Because that’s exactly what I’ve been missing

Hold me close, Let me go,
Hold me close, What is up with me?
I’m afraid, that I’ve lost myself…
…In you…

I’ve asked myself always and again,
I’ve told myself always and again,

Why are you afraid?
Is it because you can’t control it anymore?

What I feel is stronger than me,
What I feel more strongly than I dare to give,
Which I’m scared to even take

-Hold me close-

It is too beautiful to truly be,
About which we have always dreamed,
Why can’t I let myself go?
What is so hard about being happy?

Without you I cannot…
I believe…
You…

I believe it’s better if I do not say it…

Hold me close, Let me go,
Hold me close, what is up with me?
I’m afraid that I’ve lost myself…
…In you…

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Note about the German translation...I'm only in college level German 2, and I had some help from Babelfish and my German book. But I got it pretty much translated.

It's not all word-for-word because I had to rearrange some parts of the sentences to make it sound more natural to the English speakers and make it flow better. Changed the word order so it isn't 'wierd english,' as my German teacher calls it ^^

A couple of spots towards the end had me a little stumped, too, so I just made the most sense out of it as I could...But if anyone out there who knows better German than me would like to clean up my mess, that'd be nice

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Some Zutarian fluff for everyone to help the AWS. I hope you guys love it and the song^^

Oh! and for my AMV-making buddies out there( I have a couple of them), consider this a suggestion in your suggestion box for a Zutarian AMV...Though I'd say wait a little longer to actually make this one, you know, until we have a bit more footage of Zutara interaction!

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By the way, if anyone of you HAVEN'T checked out Greenifyme, Mizsweet, and Trishna87's new Zutarian Podcast yet, GO AND DOOO EEET!

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Vote for Avatar in the Kid's Choice Awards...

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and deploy them teabags!!

*is done pimpin'*


Oh! and new episodes on April 4!

I'm done now.

Katara, Zuko and Avatar the Last Airbender (c) Mike and Bryan
Halt Mich Fest (c) Tic Tac Toe
The video (c) someone else
Wolf's Rain (c) someone else
Art and translation (c) KyokoMari

Zutara forever!