Mai on... Azutara!
"The Avatar world has more than its share of strong, proactive women, and naturally quite a few of them developed intense rivalries with each other. One of the more amusing was between the two dominant females on each side of the War, the Waterbender Katara and the Fire Princess Azula.
"Katara and Azula WHO BOTH SEEM UNUSUALLY FOND OF THE LETTER 'A' have such a stunning number of similarities BESIDES THAT 'A' THING that one could be forgiven for wondering if the Spirits' original intention for one of the girls was to be the classic evil opposite for the other and while most would peg Katara as the original and Azula as said sinful clone because Katara is self-righteous and pretty IF YOU GO FOR THAT TYPE OF LOOK AND BY NOW YOU SHOULD KNOW I MOST LIKELY DON'T and Azula was EVEN I'LL ADMIT a horrible person with a talent for physical and personal destruction at least Azula never took the time to torture the supposed love of her life with a 'hard to get' routine that makes even an Avatar chased by a dorky prince look like an easy snatch and that implies some rather interesting things about their alignments in my opinion WHICH IS ALWAYS RIGHT. Both girls were the younger sibling of a four-person family and the odd parallels don't stop there because their FATHERS were both the leaders of their respective nations even though Ozai was a tyrannical god King of the world's only modern military superpower and Hakoda was just the easygoing chief of a tribe that consisted of maybe about half a dozen inbred families who thought indoor plumbing was science fiction meanwhile their MOTHERS were practically identical in that they were both homebody non-warriors despite my previous observation that the world I live in is full of Amazon chicks and both had an ultimately self-destructive regard for their children that lead them to sacrifice in Kya's case her whole life and in Ursa's case her status as the world's most expensive kept woman in order to save the life of a child from a psychotic Firebender. Katara and Azula themselves were both young Bending prodigies of their respective elements who everyone in their respective families favored over their dumber older brothers.
"The brothers themselves are another source of very suspicious parallels especially with the relationship they FOR REASONS BEYOND MY KEN OOH FANCY PHRASE maintain with their tiresome sisters. You see both Azula and Katara aren't what I would call very nice to their brothers AND BELIEVE ME I KNOW HOW TO BE A NICE SISTER BECAUSE I DIDN'T FLUSH MY BABY BROTHER DOWN THE TOILET WHEN HE SPIT UP ON MY FAVORITE BLACK DRESS AND YES I HAVE A TOILET I ALREADY MENTIONED MY NATION INVENTED INDOOR PLUMBING which is probably the result of some kind of secret insecurity born of a fear that there's a place in the world where a pretty face won't fly as an excuse for all the horrible things they do to people but really Katara and Azula IS IT JUST ME OR ARE THEIR NAMES STARTING TO SOUND LIKE A STANDUP COMEDY ACT are so chronically cruel to their siblings that it makes me wonder if a set of bassinets weren't switched around during some kind of unlikely boating accident involving a canoe and a metal battleship during simultaneous family fishing trips.
"As anyone familiar with the family knows Azula was always taunting her HOT brother Zuko because he wasn't as good as her at lighting the carpet on fire and the few times he successfully did set said carpet aflame Azula would then further psychologically damage him by telling their dad that Zuko was lighting the house on fire starting with the tacky carpet and after a lifetime of such events Zuko and Azula both began to legitimately wonder if the royal plan of succession might not be changed soon to put the more competent child on the throne. Back in the South Pole Katara was constantly taunting her HOT older brother Sokka because he wasn't a bender at all and in the absence of any adult supervision felt it his duty to tell all the stupid people around him how to stay alive and that went double for his really stupid sister who seemed to have a lot of trouble making the connection between actions and consequences but every time he tried to tell her things like 'Katara you shouldn't eat carpet especially when it's on fire' she'd just call him names and belittle his abilities and claim their mother didn't love him and insult his intelligence and compose poems about how his girlfriends kept dying and it was all his fault and then eat the flaming carpet anyway and subsequently require rescue. Also AND I HATE TO BRING THIS UP BECAUSE I HAVE A WEAK STOMACH the girls both had some rather nasty subtext going on with their beloved big brothers in that Zuko and Azula had no problem walking into each other's bedrooms without knocking and leaning close together while arguing AND I NOTICE AZULA TOOK SOME KIND OF SPECIAL DELIGHT IN INTERPOSING HERSELF BETWEEN ZUKO AND I WHENEVER SHE SAW US GETING COZY while Sokka and Katara spent a disturbing amount of time hanging out together while just wearing undergarments and they shared a tent EVEN THOUGH SHE CLAIMED NOT TO LIKE THE SMELL OF HIS SLEEPING BAG OR MAYBE THAT WAS HER WAY OF PLAYING COY while camping out with their friends in the wilderness and I notice Katara took every possible opportunity to mock her bother's romantic adventures in a creepy way.
"Despite their chances for getting on famously with each other NO NOT THAT WAY FREAKS GREAT I DRAGGED THIS WHOLE THING DOWN INTO THE GUTTER WITH THE INCEST TALK Katara and Azula didn't interact with each much outside of battle but then everyone in my world battles each other at one point or another even Ty Lee and I sometimes fight just to do something I PROMISE NOT TO AIM FOR ANY MAJOR ARTORIES AND SHE PROMISES NOT TO GROPE ME WHILE I'M PARALYZED however Azula and Katara really got in each other's face in the caverns below Ba Sing Se because Azula had been trying to lure the Avatar over so that she could make a pass at him and of course Katara had what she considers to be lots of CONFUSING feelings for Aang but they were only confusing because she wanted his body but he didn't have any dead parents they could bond over BUT I'M DIGRESSING AND WE HAVE SOME JUICY GOSSIP COMING UP so in retaliation Katara tried to seduce Zuko but then Azula was all 'Oh no you don't skank' so she seduced Zuko better OVER TO THE SIDE OF EVIL NOT LIKE A REAL SEDUCTION and then Katara was like 'You think you got it going on but you don't' and she manipulated the Avatar into teaming up with her to beat up Azula and that on top of the stuff with Zuko got Azula really mad so she was just 'I'm not going to waste my time catfighting with you' and shot the Avatar dead with lightning and Katara just went 'I hate you' and ran away crying.
"They didn't meet up again during the Black Sun Invasion because they were too busy paralleling each other with their loyalty to their fathers but while Azula's loyalty got her in the same room with Sokka YOU GO GIRL BUT NOT TOO MUCH BECAUSE SOKKA'S BETTER THAN THAT Katara's loyalty just had her playing crutch to her broken down old man but a little while later when Zuko was heading off to have his FINAL CONFRONTATION OOH DRAMATIC with Azula Katara asked to tag along so she could get Azula back for the incident in Ba Sing Se and Zuko was a little taken aback because he thought it was important to his story arc that he kill his little sister but Katara just shook her head and went 'No no no you just need to get killed by lightning like Aang I need to smack her down for my character arc' so for the sake of the drama Zuko was forced to jump in front of the lightning and almost die while Katara got to fight Azula and finally prove TO WHOEVER CARED that she was prettier and a better fighter and more sane NOT THAT IT'S ANY BIG ACCOMPLISHMENT by tying Azula up with chains and while everyone was distracted by that image Katara healed Zuko from his electric overdose just to put the final nail in that EVIL OPPOSITE coffin once and for all.
"I once thought I'd be more popular if I had someone to catfight with, but then I realized that would mean spending more time with Suki, and decided I can do without."