Talk:Azula/@comment-66.8.249.174-20111121231327/@comment-3338975-20111122215336

She does have free will, but her circumstances were still not very good. One always has some responsibility for the course one's life takes as long as one is sane (which Azula was through most of the series), but her upbringing (in which both familial love & patriotism were directed horribly askew) makes the course she eventually took tragic - rather than an epically chosen destiny as her detractors seem to assume - I should know, I was once one of them, until the finale ended - and one still ought to have some sympathy for her in her plight on account of this (while respecting her as a person for the responsibility she did have in her life via the choices she made).