Mai on... Jetara!
"The only thing more popular than talking about how unsuitable I am as a lover for Zuko is talking about how great Katara the Waterbender would be for all kinds of romantic prospects if she cared to explore them. One of the few she took an actual interest in, to her detriment, was with the Freedom Fighter Jet.
"Anyone who's talked to Katara FOR FIVE MINUTES OR MORE knows that her favorite conversational topic is the death of her mother and that she considers the incident to be the defining moment of her entire existence ZUKO MIGHT HAVE WOUND UP THE SAME WAY BUT FORTUNATELY HIS DAD CONTINUED TO TRAMATIZE HIM THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE and as a result she developed a very unfair and critical view of the Fire Nation and its overzealous military. She didn't do much with that hate up until she tripped over some Iced Avatar and found herself recruited IS THAT WHAT THEY'RE CALLING IT THESE DAYS in his campaign to restore BALANCE to the world and smack around the Fire Lord GET IN LINE BUDDY I HAVE TICKET #472 AND LAST I HEARD THEY HAD MADE IT TO THE LOW THOUSANDS and while they were off gallivanting around in what must be the most inefficient attempt to save the world EVER she began developing all kinds of CONFUSING emotions KIDS NOWADAYS USE SOME VERY STRANGE EUPHAMISMS for the Avatar but didn't let that stop her from playing the field a little bit and sampling the charms offered by older hotter and more emotionally disturbed boys BUT NOT ZUKO IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING AND I KNOW YOU WERE.
"Despite having previously offered herself on a silver platter in a very professional manner to an Earthbender she randomly encountered HIS NAME WAS HARU BUT THAT'S HARDLY WORTH NOTING Katara pulled out all the stops and went into complete 'Giggly School-Girl" mode the second she first laid eyes on Jet I USED TO BE THE SAME WAY BUT THEN I HIT MY SEVENTH BIRTHDAY but to be fair Jet was doing his backwoods best to show off and present himself as some kind of Ninja Peter Pan. You see Jet was the leader of a group he called The Freedom Fighters THAT WAS REALLY ORIGINAL WHY GO WITH SOMETHING LIKE 'KIDS WHO GONNA MESS YOU UP' BECAUSE AT LEAST IT SOUNDS FUNNY but instead of actually fighting for freedom WHICH IT LOOKS LIKE THEY HAD IN ABUNDENCE ANYWAY the group did little more than harass a local Fire Nation military unit and a village of colonists who were probably eating worse than the Freedom Fighters themselves and only came to the Earth Kingdom to get away from the high property taxes HAVING LIVED IN THE EARTH KINGDOM FOR A BIT I CAN CONFIRM THE COST OF LIVING WAS MUCH LESS back in the Fire Nation. Jet explained to Katara that the point of all of this was some form of revenge against the Fire Nation for the death of his parents several years back but details were suspiciously lacking aside from the involvement of the Rough Rhinos SEE NOW THAT GROUP NAME ISN'T BAD and for all Katara knew at the time Jet's parents were lunatic serial killers who the Fire Nation took out as a general service to the unified world OKAY IT'S UNLIKELY BUT BETTER TO BE PARANOID THAN SORRY but it really doesn't matter because as soon as Katara heard 'Fire Nation killed my parents' she had to be physically restrained by her brother from ripping off her clothes and jumping at Jet.
"Whether or not Jet was genuinely interested in experiencing Katara isn't clear because flirting and manipulation seemed to just come naturally to him and before anyone else in the group could object I NOTICE SEXY SOKKA HAD A VERY INTENSE RIVALRY WITH JET THAT WE PROBABLY SHOULDN'T EXAMINE TOO CLOSELY Katara had signed her friends up as new soldiers in Jet's terrorist army. Sokka didn't like all the stealing from the poor and the killing of innocents and the cruelty to animals and the lack of adequate recycling measures but Katara wouldn't hear any of it THAT'S A GOOD LESSON NEVER MAKE SOMEONE CHOOSE BETWEEN FAMILY AND THE GUY THEY'RE KISSING BECAUSE FAMILY WILL LOSE EVERYTIME until the Avatar himself figured out Jet's genocidal plans and made Katara choose between himself and the bad boy.
"When it came down to it Katara decided that as much fun as she had snuggling and kissing and talking about dead parents with Jet AND WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE WENT ON IN THOSE CRAZY TREEHOUSES the Avatar was a much better investment for her future because he was planning on killing ever member of the Fire Nation in the whole WORLD and besides romance is a lot easier when one or more of the parties don't have a problem with telling the truth THAT'S A PHILOSOPHY I'VE TAKEN TO HEART AND IT GOT ME ZUKO SO IT MUST WORK REALLY REALLY WELL so Katara threw some ice at Jet and told him not to call her GOODBYE FILTHY BOY and left.
"That rejection must have really affected Jet because he at some point afterward gave up the whole Freedom Fighter thing I GUESS HE COULDN'T THINK OF A BETTER NAME and traveled to Ba Sing Se to find himself some more pretty girls THE PICKINGS MUST HAVE BEEN SLIM IN THE TREES but he couldn't go too long without making trouble for himself SOME PEOPLE TAKE THAT 'BAD BOY' THING WAY TOO FAR and was arrested for publicly brawling with another angry young man WHO DID QUITE WELL FOR HIMSELF IN THE FIGHT THANK YOU VERY MUCH and got brainwashed and turned into a Robo-Cop for the local Earthbender Secret Police. Sadly for Jet his mission was to distract and later murder the Avatar which once again put him in Katara's company and upon seeing him she struck out in righteous fury and pinned him to a wall with a bunch of ice knives I HAVE TO ADMIT THAT SOUNDS LIKE A PERFECTLY REASONABLE COURSE OF ACTION TO ME AND FUN TO BOOT. It didn't take long to figure out that Jet had an antenna stuck in his head that let him receive orders from his evil masters and the group traced the signal back to the enemy's underground layer where the Avatar did what he did best and beat everyone inside up in the name of goodness. Jet was ordered to assist in the fight and assassinate the Avatar BECAUSE THE LITTLE BALDIE HAD BEEN HAVING SO MUCH TROUBLE WITH SWORLD-WEILDING ANGRY BOYS RIIIIIIGHT but of course that didn't go very well and Aang talked Jet into coming to his senses but in a tragic act of spite the evil Earthbenders pushed Jet's self destruct button and hit him with a rock. Katara was really sad because even though she still thought Jet was a complete jerk she didn't want to see him die AFTER ALL HE HADN'T KILLED HER MOTHER AND THEY STILL HAD THAT SEXY LITTLE ORPHAN BOND and in turn Jet included a couple of tender Katara-moments in his dying flashbacks but in the end the Avatar's group had more important places to be and they left Jet to die underground in a dark cave with a couple of his groupies around to cry over him and dump his body in the lake once he was gone in what I consider to be one of the few true acts of the justice the Avatar ever perpetrated. Katara must have been pretty impressed by this because Jet hardly got mentioned again and it's practically legend at this point how CONFUSED her feelings were for the Avatar.
"I can't deny the appeal of a bad boy, but you have to know not to cut them any slack and keep some knives around for those especially stupid moments."