Talk:Comet-Enhanced Agni Kai/@comment-24.228.34.109-20101013010238/@comment-67.235.167.141-20101122001417

It was more than just "not being the favorite". She needed someone to love her and she felt that her mother did not. Her father was incapable of love, he saw his children as pawns. She didn't understand why her mother loved Zuko more, that's why she tried so desperately to be better than Zuko at everything; she was jealous of him, jealous that their mother loved him and not her. Being a bending prodigy made her useful to Ozai, it didn't make him love her and it made Ursa only love Zuko more. She was very lonely. That's why she dominated her friends. She was afraid they'd leave her like her mother did and when they betrayed her, Mai doing so to protect Zuko, she took it as Zuko taking her friends away, that they were favoring him over her; like her mother did. That's why she tried to kill him after that. Then, when Ozai told her that she wasn't going to be with him, that's what finally did it. That's when she totally realized that Ozai did not love her, that he saw her as nothing more than a tool, just like Zuko. "You can't treat me like Zuko!" That's when she got it. Ozai saw no difference between them. At that point she has no one. She can't rely on fear anymore. That's why she banished all of her servants, she can't rely on fear to keep them in line and if Mai and Ty Lee, her two closest friends betrayed her, well, anyone could. She doesn't know how to love or trust, so she's forced to accept that she's going to be alone her whole life and it devastates her. Well, at least that's what I think.