Talk:Azula/@comment-71.252.205.187-20130520060824

I think, despite Azula's obsessive hatred of Zuko and her severely corroded grasp on reality, one should feel sorry for her at least. After all, Ozai pushed her hard towards perfection from an early age upon discovering she was, like Azulon before her, a firebending prodigy. Furthermore if one is pushed towards perfection, usually knowing (in reality) that true perfection is impossible to grasp (life itself is imperfect as a rule) as life is unfair, even a very stable person will suffer mentally. And as we all know, Azula displayed from early on mid-level to upper level instability, which was a strong indicator of mental breakdown and disaster down the road. Ultimately her mental state can be blamed on her misconceptions reagrding her mother, her father's wicked influence, and her own natural insabtility. Like a crack with water in it during a big freeze (the crack=her instability+ water= misconceptions on mom and dad's influence) the crack just becomes worse.