Talk:Azula/@comment-4072858-20110625180626/@comment-4533483-20110625181558

The reason Azula was going insane was because she refused to look at the rest of the world from anything other than a cold, impersonal perspective, which had finally backfired on her. She may not have had complete peace of mind in the normal sense, but all that is really needed for lighting bending is a cold perspective of the world which refuses to allow emotion to enter into one's perspective, the attribute which makes it different than firebending. Since Azula was driven her whole life to look at the world impersonally, this carried onward even as her mind crumbled, giving her enough peace of mind knowing she was still able to cling to her "perfect perspective" on the world to allow her to emotionless-ly generate lightning, up until she was defeated by Katara and could no longer even claim this limited "peace of mind" as her entire world crumbled.