Talk:Azula/@comment-66.8.249.174-20111121231327/@comment-4521003-20111125235725

I didn't say it excused only 10%. All I was trying to point out is that technically Azula could have made some very different choices. Nobody forced her to become who she was. She was influenced a great deal by her life, but that didn't mean she had to hurt everyone around her, including her own friends who admitted to serving her out of fear and her own brother who only had good intentions. Zuko actually demonstrates that Azula could have chosen a very different path in life. He was hurt by his own father, and at first he gave in to taking his pain out on the world by hunting the Avatar, yet later he saw the error of his ways and did a complete 180 degree turnaround. Azula never made that choice to rise above her problems and be a better person. She chose to maintain her vicious and selfish ways, which led to her downfall.