#I can’t do that if sokka won’t be open to healing and being less angry

[ssreeder]

Hi pook 😢 ( sorry if u don’t like the nickname) but I’ve been reading your series and I am reading Into the Fire (chapter 8) and I’m just wondering why you made Sokka give in so easily when people tell him to control himself that’s not Zuko. Because I would imagine that he would be more stubborn and more focused on what he wants instead of being caring. Even though he’s a caring and kind person I feel like being in prison would make him more selfish and less understanding of other people if than makes sense 😭

Like it just aggravates me when I see Katara try to idk really baby him and control him a bit (not mentally) it just kind of annoys me. Because even though Sokka loves his Sister I feel like he shouldn’t listen to her for real.

But that’s just me because that’s my opinion coming from someone behind has anger issues/ gets angry easily 🤷‍♀️

I love love love this series btw!!!!

I added your other ask too so I could respond to both! Hiiii hellooooo I don’t mind nicknames it’s actually nice because then I can keep anons apart haha

as for your comment about sokka I gotta say you’re probably the first person to tell me sokka isn’t angry enough haha. Which is fine because everyone’s allowed to have their own opinions, but my thoughts on LIAB angry sokka is his intelligence is often battling his emotions. I think sokka is smart enough to know he isn’t supposed to be lashing out at people the way he is or clinging to Zuko so tightly to where they both can’t breathe. i also think he is desperate to be back to his “old self” without actually wanting to be his old self. I do think he is fighting his path to healing every step of the way but even with all the time spent in prison he is still SOKKA. He cares for people he loves his family and he knows from watching his parents growing up what a healthy relationship looks like - his codependency to zuko is probably not it. I doubt it will change much, but when people tell him ‘you need to chill’ Sokka is very much like I FUCKING KNOW BUT I HAVE NO CHILL!!! NONE! ZERO CHILL.

but I can’t imagine sokka wanting to hurt anyone who doesn’t deserve it. Or fighting his friends and family to isolate himself anymore than he already is. I have learned that writing a more emotionally triggering fic does stir up emotions in people and causes them to project onto the characters a bit which is fine but everyone processing trauma differently. & sokka is doing it his own way just like zuko is.

Also…. This is a fanfic and I don’t know if people wanna read sokka being a raging asshole for 50k… so some of the realism in healing gets lost to word count because unfortunately I can’t spend years and 1000k helping these boys overcome their trauma so some of it has to be rushed a little for word count / plot purposes haha.

Liiiiiiisten here pooki-anon you come yell at me anytime about liab I’ll be right here to soak up every word! Thanks for the ask I’m glad you’re enjoying the series!!

[carnistcervine]

CATLA AU

So CATLA is ATLA but instead of humans, they're all cats. CATLA.

Okay there's a little bit more to it than that. lol

-Here's a lowdown of the Gaang ~Aang- Sphynx kitten ~Katara and Sokka- Norwegian forest cat kittens ~Toph- Persian kitten ~Zuko- Oriental kitten

-Here's what each of the four nations are ~Water Tribes- Norwegian forest cats or some kind of arctic fishing cat ~Earth Kingdom- Varies wildly ~Fire Nation- Oriental and Siamese cats ~Air Nomads- Sphynx and cornish rex

-Yes, they're ordinary, four paws on the ground cats. They aren't bipedal or anthro.

-Though I do like to imagine them wearing clothes.

-It adds to the cuteness in my opinion. :D

-In this AU, the Avatar is an ancient being endowed by the wisdom of having lived thousands of lives. So it's less, individuals that are born and have separate and distinct personas, and a bit more hivemindy?? Not a literal hivemind, but basically the same person who lives and dies over and over again, learning and relearning, and trying different approaches, slowly changing as the ages go on.

-Aang is not the same cat he was when he was Wan(he’s grown and changed as we all do), but it's the same consciousness that has been passed down over the ages.

-As a consequence of this, the Avatar is a bit creepy and awkward. They don't mean to be, but mortals tend to find them very odd.

-Though the Avatar does try to act as normal as possible, as to not alarm of disturb those around them.

-At first it was fairly easy to pick the Avatar out of a group of children, as they were an old soul. But over the ages, they've gotten better at acting like an actual child.

-They still tend to be much more mature than their peers though.

-Yeah, the Avatar can have creepy, slightly voyeuristic, asocial tendencies, but they're a deeply empathetic being.

-They are rare to take a lover, because, well, being basically eternal/immortal they're lover will eventually die and they will continue to be.

-Being reborn is never easy for the Avatar, because their consciousness is an uninterrupted stream. They go from being killed/dying to suddenly being born and that's kind of traumatic.

-I imagine that a human version of this would absolutely abhor the fact that they are doomed to go through puberty again and again until the fucking world ends. :'D

-Anyway, the last thing Roku knows before being born again is the terrible heat and crushing pain of being buried by the pyroclastic flow. He suddenly goes from being in horrible pain and being unable to breath to being able to breath again, squirming and crying. He's realizes that he's been reborn when his mother licks his head, and starts to calm down.

-His new mother names him Aang.

-Still hurting from Sozin's betrayal, Aang tries to befriend as many cats and kittens as possible. He's eager to play with his peers, and does his best to hide his creepy spirit tendencies.

-For a while it works, Aang has many friends from all around the world, and a loving mentor in Gyatso.

-However, while Aang is still too young, the monks reveal to him that he's the Avatar.

-Or I suppose more accurately, they reveal that they know he's the Avatar.

-In this AU, the Avatar is born knowing they're the Avatar.

-But anyway, this catches Aang off guard, because he usually has more time than this to live as a normal kitten. He's deeply concerned, but tries to take it in stride.

-At least until his peers reject him.

-This tears open the wound of Sozin leaving him to die.

-The final straw is when the try to take Gyatso from him.

-Aang can't take it anymore and grievously harms several monks. It takes Gyatso to get him to calm down from his rampage.

-When Aang comes to his senses, he's horrified by what he's done and runs away.

-He and Appa get caught up in a storm and Aang freezes them both, sending them into stasis.

-Katara comes along and frees him, but being in stasis for a century has had a negative effect on his mind. He's lost his connection to his past lives. He no longer remembers he's the Avatar.

-Of course, with the loss of his memory, also comes with the loss of a lot of his social abilities.

-Katara finds poor Aang endearing, but Sokka finds him creepy.

-Aang just freakin sees Katara and starts crushing on her immediately. The first thing he sees are her eyes, and he gazes deeply into them. He sees her spirit, and falls in love with it.

-When Aang meets Zuko for the first time, he creeps Zuko out. He won't stop staring at him with those big, eerie eyes. But Aang can't help it, Zuko reminds Aang of someone, with those firey golden eyes...

-When Aang goes into the avatar state, he doesn't throw Zuko overboard, instead he traps him in ice and starts to walk up to him.

-Iroh, afraid his nephew is in danger, jumps in front of the Avatar, who simply stares at the two before calmly leaving with Sokka and Katara.

-When Aang exits the Avatar state he passes out and has a dream where his past lives whisper to him, trying to reach him.

-Aang is equally surprised by the revelation that he's the Avatar as Katara and Sokka. Though he's relieved to see that neither are showing any signs of abandoning him.

-As the Avatar, Aang has the ability to put restless spirits to rest. He does this at the Air Temples and other mass grave sights. Bring peace to pained souls, so they may have peace.

-Slowly, over the course of his journey to the north pole, Aang reconnects with his past lives and puts his mind back together into a single stream of consciousness again.

-When he visits the spirit Oasis is when he finally puts his spirit back together.

-Aang flips out when Zhao kills the moon spirit and goes on a rampage, chasing after him with the ocean spirit's blessing.

-Zhao manages to evade Aang who ends up getting caught up fighting Fire Nation soldiers.

-Zuko fights Zhao and Aang finds them. He completely ignores Zuko as he encapsulates Zhao in darkness and shatters his spirit.

-It's at about this time that the moon is returned to the sky and both the Avatar and the ocean spirit calm the hell down.

-Zuko is confused, he watched the Avatar attack Zhao, heard Zhao's blood curdling yowl and now Zhao is just lying there. He alive, and breathing, but his eyes are glazed over and he won't say anything.

-Zuko doesn't know what he just saw, but he has a sinking feeling that it was something horrifying.

-When they meet Toph, she initially wonders if Aang is really there or if she's imagining him.

-She low-key checks in with the others to make sure that Aang is actually there and not just an illusion.

-She still has times when she wonders if the other kittens are just fucking with her and Aang doesn't actually exist.

-When the sandbenders steal Appa, Aang is very upset. But he holds it in, he realizes that it's not Toph's fault, she tried her best.

-However when they encounter the sandbenders, Aang looses his shit and goes full Avatar beast mode.

-Katara is the only thing between the sandbenders and an early grave or more accurately, since he's that angry... having their spirits SHATTERED.

-Katara comforts Aang who breaks down crying into her fur.

-It takes Aang some time to get past his grief, but the Gaang help him through it. They all become closer as a result.

-When Azula kills Aang, and by extension the spirit of the world, the barrier between the human and spirit worlds destabilizes, and plagues are sent out upon the earth as it begins to die.

-Irreversible damage is prevented by Katara's quick action in reviving Aang with the spirit water.

-Aang's recovery is slow and difficult, and while he's down, spirits and plagues infest the world.

-Once Aang is recovered enough to go on adventures again, the Gaang end up working undercover to heal the damage done to the world by Aang's death.

-The Gaang see and understand firsthand just how devastating the effects of loosing the Avatar are and gain a new appreciation for Aang and his work.

-During the eclipse, when the Gaang encounter Azula, they're all pissed at her.

-Katara tries to tell Azula off about how she endangered the world, but she just rolls her eyes.

-She wastes their time until the eclipse ends, and Aang makes an executive decision in an attempt to avoid trouble with her in the future.

-He lunges at her, eyes glowing, and easily dodges her lightning.

-Azula feels real fear at this, she remembers the state Zhao was found in after a bad run in with the Avatar. She genuinely fears that Aang can and will do the same to her.

-She manages to generate a much more mild shock while Aang is in the process of breaking her spirit.

-Being subjected to the trauma of being shocked again is enough to drive Aang out of the avatar state, and the Gaang flee. Leaving Azula with a partly shattered spirit.

-She's still coherent, but her mind is fractured and she can feel it.

-The betrayal of her friends causes her to fall apart completely.

-Zuko is terrified about joining the Avatar, because he knows what angry spirits are capable of.

-Much to his surprise however, Aang is happy to see him come to the good side.

-It still takes him a while, however to get comfortable around Aang's presence. The look in Zhao's eyes after Aang attacked him, never leaves Zuko.

-Aang is tempted to kill Ozai, and he almost goes through with it. But instead he shatters Ozai's spirit and swallows his inner flame.

-Ozai is left a broken and confused cat. Thrown in prison to rot.

-After everything is over, and Zuko sees the state his sister is in, and the state his father is in, he has some very serious, very grave questions for the Avatar.

-Aang is patient and willing to answer, but he's not sure Zuko is ready to hear the truth of what he did to them.

(You bet your tucus that Zuko wants to help his sister after Aang tried to shatter her spirit and she subsequently went insane((which was pretty much bound to happen anyway bcuz Ozai is a shit dad)). But that's a story for another day...) 

-Some more notes on this AU, Lu Ten is alive. He’s a Dai Li agent that goes by Lung now. And Jet’s a (repressed) firebender. :’D

-But the most important thing is that the Gaang are a bunch of adorable kittens who snuggle together in a pile when they sleep.

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Swift As Karma (Part 38)

It hit her harder than she realized it would, to not hear Azula fussing over how she hated sleeping on the ground like a peasant. She had grown used to the former princess being around and it was disorienting to not have that presence. It didn’t help to hear TyLee crying herself to sleep. She bunched herself up at Appa’s paws, listening to him snore. She clutched Momo to her chest, despite the little guy trying to wiggle free. 

It hurt her in double knowing that she has lost Aang a second time. Should Ozai actually kill Azula, there would be no trace of Aang left at all and almost no hope to save the world. 

There was already no hope to save the world. 

She missed Aang more furiously than ever. 

Katara wanted to talk to her father; she could tell that her father had been eager to ask since arriving by the group only to find one missing. Yet she can’t bring herself to tell him yet. She still hated saying it out loud. And just how the hell was she supposed to explain to him that she is working with the very person who’d taken him out. Worse still, that she was actually rather worried about that person. 

Katara rolled over and Momo used the opening to fly away and perch himself atop Sokka’s head, screeching loudly into his ear until he bolted upright with a, “no! Bad lemur, go bug Appa. It’s Sokka sleeptime.”

He met Katara’s eyes and she crawled over to him. “Oh, Sokka, what am I going to tell dad? He liked Aang.” 

“The truth?” Sokka asked. He sighed, “do you want me to tell him?” 

Katara nodded, “please.”

.oOo.

Toph kicked a rock aside, what an awful day it was turning out to be. Katara just reunited with her dad, it was supposed to be a happy day. But not one person was smiling. She listened to Sokka break the hard news to Hakoda, noticed the way his demeanor changed--his posture going from upright to slouched, as Aang’s whereabouts were mentioned. 

“So we have no avatar?” Hakoda asked. 

“For a while we still did.” Sokka noted. “We lost her to the Boiling Rock.” 

“The princess?” Hakoda asked. 

Sokka nodded, “Aang’s spirit and powers transferred over to her. She has been working with us. It’s hard to get used to but she’s been...mostly okay to be around.” 

Toph lost track of that conversation when TyLee sniffling grew louder. She had buried herself deep within Appa’s fur. Toph herself could use a bit of the bison’s fluff; she missed chucking rocks at Sparky and listening to her complain about how earthbending was still a pain in the ass and how water was an element from hell. Sparky brought some personality to the group. 

“What are we going to do now?” Katara asked. “We’re back to where we started, an invasion plan and no avatar to help us get through it.”

Toph shrugged. 

“It’s like I’ve lost him a second time…” She paused. “What’s that?” 

“What’s what?” 

Silence was her answer for a moment, “I think that they found us.” Katara noted bleakly as Sokka declared, “dad, isn’t that a war balloon?”

Toph got to her feet, whoever they were, they were going to pay. She listened for the balloon to land. Not that she had to, the vibrations of it landing were jarringly intense. Toph stomped up to it with Katara in tow. She could sense Sokka readying his boomerang. Her own fair sized boulder hovered in the air. 

The hatch opened and Toph sent the rock flying with a mischievous smirk. It hit the girl in the stomach and she winced. “Welcome back, Sparky! That was for getting everyone all upset.”

Azula hardly had a chance to recover before TyLee slung her arms around her. “I was worried about you.” 

Azula offered TyLee’s back two awkward pats. 

“You’re okay.” Katara said. 

“I think so.” Azula replied. 

“How’d you manage to steal that?” Sokka asked. 

“I didn’t.” Azula replied. Apparently that was the cue for Zuko and Mai to step forward. 

“I won’t be going home to father.” Zuko declared. “I’m done letting him control my life.”

“Great.” Toph mumbled. “Now I’m going to have to come up with another nickname.” 

.oOo.

She never thought that it would be such a relief to be back with this group. Even less, did she expect to find herself actually happy to be there. TyLee continued to cuddle her and she didn’t have the heart to push the girl away. 

“Need me to rescue you from her?” Mai asked. 

Azula shook her head. “I’m fine.” 

Mai shrugged. 

“You’re not angry, are you?” Katara asked. 

“Hmm?” 

“That we left you behind.” 

“I would have been angry if you stayed behind and got yourselves captured. My plan would have been for nothing if you had.” Azula replied. 

“It doesn’t bother you at all?”

“Not really.” She replied. Though it had stung a little, she couldn’t imagine that anyone but TyLee would truly miss her or worry for her. Katara only cared as far as getting her small piece of Aang back. And yet, Sokka wrapped a blanket around her shoulders and Katara began healing the scab on her lip.

“Believe it or not, I’m glad that you’re okay.” Katara noted. 

“You are?”

Katara nodded, “thanks for helping us get our dad back.” 

“You’re welcome.” She replied quietly, she hadn’t expected a thank you. She didn’t want to get her hopes up, but she found herself wondering if learning to waterbend would become an easier process now. Azula squeezed TyLee’s hand and the girl propped her head upon the firebender’s shoulder. 

Katara’s smile was so warm. It left her feeling awful for leaving the girl’s friend behind and worse still, for hiding that she had seen the Kyoshi warrior at all. But Suki had almost cost them everything. The girl had almost gotten her killed. 

Katara was finally warming up to her, as though she deserved acceptance. She was still a liar. She was still a bad person. 

This wouldn’t have bothered her in the slightest some months ago; Azula hated that she was going so soft. 

She felt TyLee nuzzle her head into her neck and Katara offered her something to drink. They were going to find out eventually so she might as well get the girl mad again before she could get used to feeling like a part of the group. “It was Suki’s fault.” 

“Huh?” Sokka asked. 

“The Warden promised her freedom for giving my identity up.” Azula answered. “So I left her at the Boiling Rock.”

“We didn’t have time to go back for her.” Zuko added. On a normal day, she would have snapped at him for the interruption, but it was probably going to do her a favor in the long run. 

“I figured that she would have a better shot at freedom if we all didn’t get captured. Zuzu...his alliance with father is fragile.” It wasn’t a complete lie, it was a detail that made it even easier to leave the Kyoshi Warrior behind.

And easier to leave Juno behind. 

“Well he doesn’t have to worry about that with us!” Sokka snapped. 

“He won’t be staying with us.” Azula replied. 

“What do you mean!?” Zuko shouted. 

“Just how TyLee, Mai, and I took over Ba Sing Se, you have a chance to take father down from the inside.” Azula paused. She stood up and took a deep breath before slugging Zuko in the face, “you’re going to tell father that you had me and that,” she smirked, “as per usual, I proved to be the better firebender and combatant, and managed to escape.” 

“Do you know what he’ll do to me if I come home empty handed?” 

“The same thing he always did to me when I returned to him with news of you evading me.” Azula replied. “Which is why you’ll be bringing TyLee with you.”

With that her mouth fell agape, Azula didn’t give the girl time to ask questions. “Tell him that you took her because you know that I’ll come for her. I know father, he won’t kill her or hurt her because she’s more useful in one piece.” She tried to speak matter-of-factly, it helped that she was already feeling hollower. 

“Azula!” TyLee cried. 

“TyLee, you’re our best chance at having someone...three people sabotaging father from the inside. You’ll have Zuko and Mai, you’ll be fine.” For as reassuring as she was trying to sound, she felt as though she were going to fall apart. It had been TyLee who’d been keeping her together this whole time. Now she was going to have to trust that the others would treat her well. 

“You really think that this is a good idea?” Zuko asked. 

“Yes, now have an agni kai with me.” She said. “We need to make this look real. TyLee, you’re going to need some bruises too.” 

.oOo.

Azula hadn’t spoken since the war balloon faded to a speck on the horizon. She denied comfort and company, instead bunching herself up and leaning against a tree. She was decorated in bruises and nursing a sprained ankle. Katara thought that she and Zuko had overdone it, but according to the former princess, her brother was a dreadful liar. In order for him to be able to tell Ozai that Azula had been hurt in the fight, she actually needed to feel pain. She was rather insistent that it was only fair for him to rough her up just as much as she him. Katara was almost certain that it had more to do with punishing herself for gambling TyLee.

“Come by the fire, it’s kind of cold tonight.” Katara offered. 

Azula shook her head. 

“She’s going to be fine and so are you.” Katara tried. Azula remained quiet. “It’s hard to lose someone that you...love? But she’s coming back…” 

Azula goes rigid. 

“I’m not saying that to make you feel bad. I just want you to know that I know how it feels.” 

Still, she said nothing. 

“Anyways, I don’t feel like I’ve completely lost Aang. He’s still here.” She took Azula’s hand. “I know that he is because I sort of see him in you a little.” 

Azula lifted her head from her knees. Before Katara realized what she was doing, she had her arms around the new avatar.

And around the old avatar.

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Swift As Karma (Part 22)

“I couldn’t do it, uncle.” Zuko mumbled. “I wasn’t planning on it either, I only said that to get you to talk to me. Father is getting angry and I think that he’s going to banish me again if I can’t find her.” He paused. “But you should have seen her.” 

“You do what I’ve taught you.” Iroh finally turned. “You do what you think is right. You listen to yourself, nephew. Your father and sister lead you in the wrong directions.” 

“I’m still worried about her. I know that you weren’t listening but…”

“I was listening.” Iroh replied. “I just wasn’t responding.” He paused for a moment. “She has been banished and you believe that she is the avatar.” 

Zuko nodded. “You think that I should take her down while I still can, don’t you? Before she figures out how to access all of that power…”

“I think that you should keep trying to find her.” Iroh answered. “I think that you should take her down if it is necessary. Save her if you can.” 

Zuko could see on his face that Iroh wasn’t too certain that Azula could be saved. “What about you?”

At that, Iroh offered a sly smile. “Do not worry about me, Zuko. I will be free when the time calls for it.” 

.oOo.

It was like an itch, a terrible one. Azula could feel the power like a buzz, a soft vibration in her mind and soul. It was open and inviting, and oozing with Aang’s energy. Still she refused it. She had spite to maintain and a desire to never leave him an opening to take her over again. Her mind was all she had left--and there didn’t even seem to be much left of that--she wouldn’t allow it to be invaded a second time. 

“Come on, Azula.” TyLee urged. “Don’t you want to see again?”

“I won’t see again.” She replied simply.

“Maybe not like me, but you’ll get to see again. I don’t know any other blind fire or waterbender who has the opportunity that you do.”

“I had a lot of opportunities that on one else had. What good have they done me?” Even still, she wanted her sight back. She wouldn’t have lost it in the first place if she hadn’t had to work against the Avatars and her own decaying sanity. 

“You aren’t even trying to help yourself!” TyLee accused. Not that the accusation wasn’t warranted. Frankly she doubted that she could be helped at this point. “I’m doing so much for you, I’m trying to cheer you up and you…”

“Then go home, TyLee.” Azula rolled onto her side.

“You just turned to face her.” Toph called helpfully.

She grumbled a half-hearted thank you before turning the other way. 

.oOo.

She hadn’t meant to snap but it was dwindling her own spirit. She couldn’t recall ever taking up such a diluted aura. As much as she loved the former princess, she was becoming terribly hard to be around. “I don’t want to go home.” TyLee replied quietly. As frustrating as she was, she didn’t want to give up on Azula. “Please, Azula, at least try to help yourself. I know that the avatars scare…”

“I’m not scared.” Azula insisted so monotonous that TyLee almost believed her. 

She didn’t push it. Instead she sat down next to Azula and set a hand on her back. “I don’t want you to give up. I’ve never seen you give up.” She was fairly certain that her words had no effect. The former princess looked wholly resigned. 

“The infection is better.” TyLee tried. “The burn is healed.” She forced a reassuring smile that faded some when she recalled that Azula couldn’t see it.

“I wish it hadn’t healed.” Azula said so softly that TyLee wouldn’t have heard it if not for being so close to the other girl. 

She wanted to cry for her. 

She did cry. 

She curled up next to Azula, held her close, and cried. 

Azula said nothing at all.

She trailed her fingers carefully over Azula’s scarred torso. The skin was so rough and raw. The princess seemed to tense at her touch so TyLee withdrew altogether. “Please don’t give up on yourself. I haven’t.” 

.oOo.

Katara scowled, thinking at first that it annoyed her to see Azula receiving any sort of undeserved affection. She realized with a hint of dread that it was some brand of demented jelousy. Technically TyLee was cuddling with Aang…

“Feeling any better, Sugar Queen?” Toph asked. 

“Sokka is still missing. Aang is still dead. My shoulder still hurts. And now I have to look at that.” She beckoned to the cuddling duo. “That should be me and Aang. She doesn’t deserve that.” 

“Just let her have a break.” Toph muttered. “I don’t think that she’s enjoying herself anyways.” 

“Good.”

“We’re going to have to help her if you want her to help us get Sokka back. She can help us save the world.” 

Katara gave a sarcastic laugh. “She’s going to help save the world? I think that we have a better chance of getting Joo Dee to do that.”

“I’m just saying, she’s desperate. We’re desperate. We’re all kind of pathetic and maybe we could be less pathetic together?”

“She. Killed. Aang.” 

“And she got herself banished and blinded and burned.” 

“She tried to kill me.” 

“Then why are you keeping her around if you’re just going to complain about her being here.

Because she is Aang, Katara thought. “Like you said, we kind of need her...we can get rid of her after we get Sokka back.” She spared the firebender a glowering look. TyLee’s cries brought envoked images of the former princess crying. Of the frantic and tortured look of eyes that reflected uncontrolled lightning. Of her small body collapsing. Of that smaller and soft smile when Aang said that he loved her. 

She was torn all over again. Because deep down she knew that Sokka was right. Azula was just a kid. They were all just kids. 

Azula was afraid. 

Katara herself was afraid. 

They were all just scared and battleworn children. 

Yet only one of them had a combat kill. 

“I don’t know how to handle her, Toph.” Katara confessed. “I feel bad for her but I’ve never been so angry at someone in my life.” She also never had her lover and her foe inhibiting one soul. “I don’t know what to do.” 

“You didn’t know how to feel about me and you gave me a chance. Give her one.” Toph pointed out. “Aang is.”