This is probably a bad sign

[lizbee]

Apparently my new thing is to get angry when people call Azula evil. I mean, she only invaded a city, tried to kill her brother, came up with a viable plan for world-wide genocide and also burned that guy's house down that one time. PEOPLE HAVE BEEN REDEEMED FROM WORSE!

...also, you can't diagnose sociopathy in a fourteen year old, and her obsessive touching devotion to her father and psychological vulnerability after Mai and Ty Lee betray her suggest that, however much Ozai tried, she's not a fully-blown sociopath.

ALSO, when Zuko confronted the futility of the destiny Ozai had chosen for him, he developed emo-itis fell into an angst coma became physically ill and feverish for a few days. When Azula is confronted with her ultimate powerlessness in her father's eyes, she has a full-blown psychotic breakdown. THEY ARE NOT THAT DIFFERENT.

TL;DR it bugs me when people say she has no soul. In serious meta, I mean; obviously Zuko has had cause to wonder.

I was going to compare Azula to Jaime Lannister for some reason, being that they're both considered monsters, but he gets a manly redemption arc. But then I remembered the other thing Jaime is best known for, aside from regicide. *awkward*

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[selvage]

I've never actually read the spoiler blog. Clearly I should, if only because I imagine it's a smaller group of people.

It's a pretty good place! The mod has been away with family issues for a bit, but we're just adding comments to the latest post. Arctic_hare particularly is v. insightful and enthusiastic generally.

RE YOUR FOOTNOTE: OMG NEED TO DRAW URSA AS A BA SING SE COURTESAN. STAT. AND YOU NEED TO WRITE THIS FIC. YES.

[lizbee]

OMG NEED TO DRAW URSA AS A BA SING SE COURTESAN. STAT. AND YOU NEED TO WRITE THIS FIC. YES.

I WILL WRITE IT IF YOU DRAW IT! Only I'm not quite sure how it would go, aside from the bit where Ursa smiles and tells Long Feng that she is the woman who killed Fire Lord Azulon. Let me sleep on it.