Talk:Azula/@comment-71.252.205.187-20130322205854

Speaking frankly, even though Azula has shown herself capable of truly horrendous acts, I think she deserves the compassion a broken child from a broken family would need. After all, while she nearly killed Avatar Aang, Katara and Zuko (among others), she never really was loved by anyone as far as she knew. Ozai only saw her as the means to an end of conquest, Ursa loved her but disapproved of her reckless behavior. Zuko hardly was able to express brotherly love as she antagonized him relentlessly. Furthermore, her linneage fueled her inner turmoil and eventual mental collapse. Leaving her brother, parents, grandparents, and female great gandpaernts out of the equation, she was heavily conflicted in the duel between Avatar Roku, teaming up with Fire Lord Sozin's better nature versus Fire Lord Sozin's dark ambitions. Such an internal conflict could tear even the strongest of people apart. Azula's guilty conscience and harsh quest for perfection alone reflected that she had a firestorm of turmoil within that ate away at her strength.