"I am an Air Nomad," she replies, modestly. It's the only thing modest about her presently. "We adapt."

Besides, she's still adapting to the "my people were destroyed even before my world was destroyed, and by other humans not aliens oh god" portion of her reawakening.

But air nomads DO adapt, even to tragedy.

"Have you been here a long time? What do you do here on the ship?"