Talk:Azula/@comment-67.5.240.186-20120605110056/@comment-5162358-20120605121943

Obviously all the below is just my opinion.

I think that before anything else happenes (in terms of regaining mental health and redeeming herself) Azula needs to be loved and cared for, by someone or a group of people. I do not think that anyone in her life, at least since she was a very young child, cared for her as a human. Her mother doesn't know how, her father simply doesn't. I don't think he even likes her really, but more is in awe of her powers and thinks that she is useful to him.

If her family is part of her rehabilitation then Iroh (and perhaps Ursa) need to see that, whether they intended to or not, they did abandon her.Her brother would need to understand had painful her life actually was and that she did not have the opportunities that he did in making good moral choices. That, having defeated her, he (and if Katara is willing Katara) could stand in as quasi-parents. She would fight them, but part of her respects them, and as long as their demands were for her good and the good of others, and not for their own needs, she would ultimately "come around" to following their commands.

While she is unlikely to be empathetic and warm, she can be caring and loving and protective of those she cares about. That she needs to be reached logically and intellectually, not emotionally.

I think it is also likely she has done good acts, most people have in their lives, but she may not see the acts as significant or fear they make her look weak so she hides or distances herself from them.

Ulitimately she needs to 1)feel loved as a human being. 2)understand there is a difference between being obeyed out of fear and loved. 3)understand intellectually that the "Avatar way" of harmony is a better ideal than the one she is acting on.(Power means right).

If she can be reached, and I do think she can, she would be extremely loyal to not only the Avatar way, but to anyone who followed that path.

Fireonthewind (wall • contribs) 12:19, June 5, 2012 (UTC)Fireonthewind