Talk:Azula/@comment-89.139.149.222-20120525115830

I wonder if anyone else has some of the same reactions to Azula's malice that I have? For instance, it is supposedly a sign of Azula's maliciousness that she taunts Zukko about his impeding murder by his father. She was nine. Faced with betraying her father (who preferred her and gave her attention) to her mother (who didn't pay much attention to her) would be a difficult task - and it could have put her own life at risk. But Zukko was a mama's boy. If she came worried and concerned and told him what she knew she wouldn't have been believed. Taunting him until his mother heard and came to his resuce, would have relieved her of the consequences, especially if her mother had to "force it out of her", of going against her father and at the same time have given her brother protection.

Btw, her mother's reaction seems extremely unwise. I know the plan wasn't compeltely described but killing Ossi would have offered both her children protection. Most likely she would have been banished or killed, and her children may have been turned over to Iroh, or stripped of their royalty, but they wouldn't have been under the care and protection of a man who would agree to kill his own child to gain a title.

Her blase attitude toward death isn't necessarily a sign of lack of empathy. Has no one ever heard of the expression "still waters run deep?"