Talk:Azula/@comment-118.221.119.55-20110503035517/@comment-3007997-20110503233831

Yes a child does start out a blank slate and look to the parents for guidance for whats right. Ozai raised her, he taught her his ideals and she went through life with those thoughts, which affected how she behaved. The FN propaganda is also something else to consider along with the false teachings and myths about the war. Her father was all she had sense her brother, mother, and Uncle all hated her. Azulon seemed to only be interested in her bending, and her friends feared her. So trying the be the perfect child that Ozai always wanted also affected how she acted. To follow every order, become the perfect warrior, and keep his approval along with what she thought was his love.

The fact that her mother showed Zuko so much more affection than her, made her jealous and sorta hate the guy and thrive to always be perfect and better than him. So that he would never become better than her and take Ozai's attention too.

She was obviously taught her skills of manipulation by her father, or trainers along with her skills. They gave a strong hint of this in Day of Black Son as well as in the finale. ALL of these things are apart of the environment she grew up in. So what she took from there, influenced how she acted outside the FN as well as inside. The ideas, the Intelligence, the personality, all of it was molded.

a good example would be how Zuko was changed through out the diff environments he went through. Meeting that family, his uncle, his mom, the time he spent in Ba Sing Se and his father burning him, which started his quest in the first place. his dad in the 'Agni-Kai, which was a part of the environment.