Talk:Azula/@comment-3028289-20110513011834/@comment-3387809-20110513014643

Paranoia can change people quite a bit, no matter how self confident you were before. So it was naturally going to be out of character.

The lightning question can be summed up by this, she was provoked by Zuko, yet she saw her arch rival right, perhaps giving her enough evil concentration to finish her off once and for all. And her paranoia was obviously going to change her mind about agni kai's with zuko.