Talk:Azula/@comment-4629706-20110823161758

To those of you who believe that Azula won't recover her sanity, I might ask why. First off, Azula held up through 14 YEARS of feeling unloved by her mother, having to constantly strive for perfection in order to please the one person whom she felt loved her, contending with the fact that Zuko was loved by Ursa, leading to an uproar of jealousy. The list of stuff like that goes on and on. And yes, it sounds like a sob story. It's not, it's the truth. For a normal person,carrying things like this on your shoulders would cause you to crack years before Azula did. And that brings me to the most amazing part of her maintaining her sanity for as long as she did: SHE WAS 14. A child. Barely even into her teenage years, the pressure built up on her to the point that she finally lost it. And she was strong enough to hold it, as a child, for over a decade. That takes guts and strength. And then, you have the fact that she will inevitbly get stronger as the years pass, and as she spends time in that mental institution, her mental strength (not the same as sanity, but strength) will continue to rise to the point that, eventually, she will be able to recover her sanity.

Then, if you turn to the real life spect of things, think about it. One word. Bryke. The all powerful Mike DiMartino and Bryan Koneitzko (however you spell his name). I've said it before, and I'll say it again. So many fantastical and good things have happened in the series, that the last thing Bryke would ever think to do is to force Azula into a mental institution for the rest of her life. That's not them. I'm gonna quote Kaizuh for a minute. "Cosmic bad guys lose. Deep good guys lose, but turn out great in the end." How true. Every character in A:TLA is so unusually deep. There's the famous Zuko, who struggled ll his life to plese his father, but as time went on, he began to realize that the path his father, and the Fire Nation, take is not always the best path. There's Aang, the wise Air Nomad, in love with Katara, nd lost his people at the age of 12, which gave him all the more drive. There's Katara, the fourteen-year-old mother, who acts motherly, due to the loss of her own mom. Toph, whose parents were always so overprotective, so she had to Earthbend in secret. At this, she feels pain, so she masks it. And then, there's Azula, who's backstory is not-surprisingly similar to Zuko's. Each one was constantly striving to please their father, who led them to do horrific things. Their stories are very similar, but there's one difference. Zuko's current story of pain and trial is over, whereas Azula's is open-ended. Zuko's ended with him finding the right path. And A:TLA is not some old Shakespearian tragedy, it's happy story of triumph through trial. And that's what the end to Azula's story will be, I guaruntee you. She will triumph, but only through her trials was such a thing possible.