Talk:Azula/@comment-95.148.220.254-20120201002728/@comment-1454424-20120201142323

Look guys, its nature AND nurture. Zuko and Azula had the same parents but they were born with different natures and yes they had different nurtures. Especially in the three years that Zuko spent away from Ozai and with Uncle Iroh. But no amount of nurture can totally alter a persons innate nature. A good upbringing can temper the bad tendencies a person is naturally born with and enhance the good tendencies, while a bad upbringing can enhance a persons negative traits while suppressing positive traits. But it is impossible for nurture to alter nature completely.

I mean, everybody keeps using Azula's age as an excuse for her enjoying watching her brother get burnt. I don't f--ing care how old she was. No child who had any feelings for her brother would have watched their father burn her brother's face with glee. Hell forget her brother, Azula's actions weren't even human! She showed zero empathy and I don't care what you say about her nurture, if she had an OUNCE of empathy in her nature, she would have acted differently in that scene. She does not. You can blame who she is on her nurture alone but you would be wrong. No person is solely the produce of their nurture. Innate nature plays a part in it.

Just as Iroh says, good and evil will always battle within Zuko, that's his nature. That's why Zuko will always stumble along the way, as he did back in Ba Sing Sa and is doing again in The Promise. However Zuko, so far at least, has showed that eventually good does win out with him. With Azula its not even a battle! The only thing that little mirror scene with her mother proves is that Azula knew deep down, that contrary to what she said about Ursa, her mother did not hate her. Azula is rotten to the core and because she is so rotten, I doubt there can be any continuation of her story that isn't just that scene of Azula chain to the grates, screaming and howling and breathing fire indiscriminately and breaking down upon realising it is all over but longer and more drawn out.