<p>The question I'm asking - Why is it always the father? </p>

<p>Yeah, ever since Ozai, it's always one bad father after another. </p><p>All the bad things that happen are because of bad fathers. </p><p>No matter what Ozai will always be the worst father. </p>

<div class="quote"><i>Giant Purple Platypus Bear wrote:
The question I'm asking - Why is it always the father?</i></div>
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Yeah, it's weird. </p>

<div class="quote"><i>Torresp wrote:
Yeah, ever since Ozai, it's always one bad father after another. <p>All the bad things that happen are because of bad fathers. </p><p>No matter what Ozai will always be the worst father. </p> </i></div>
<p>I agree. And Yakone was very nasty towards Tarrlok...but Ozai's definitely worse than him.
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<div class="quote"><i> <p>Giant Purple Platypus Bear wrote: The question I'm asking - Why is it always the father? </p> </i></div>
<p>Well, I guess that it's because it's usually the father who's more likely to be the bad parent. Plus, it's likely a reflection of how fatherhood is going down the drain in real life. </p>

They're all bad. Comparing them is pointless. They're all extremely screwed up in their own ways. Tie for all.

<p>Ozai- Burned, banished and tried to kill his son </p><p>Hiroshi- Helped equalists to avenge wife's death and attackted Asami </p><p>Yakone- Made his kids into revenge fueled bloodbenders </p><p>Unalaq- Almost letson die and tried to take over world </p><p>OZAI!!!!!! Worst of all time! He almost burned down all of the Earth Kingdom </p>

<p>Unalaq tried to take over the freaking world and turn it to darkness. If we're looking at what they did to the rest of the world, then Unalaq easily takes the worst human beings. </p><p>If we're looking at just their parenting skill, then they're all even. Ozai trained Azula into his perfect tool of revenge and burned Zuko's face. His actions screwed up Azula to the point where she was schizophrenic, insecure, and downright insane. </p><p>Unalaq had a similar impact on his kids, as we saw how Desna and Eska didn't dare turn against him. </p><p>Yakone trained his kids the way that Ozai trained Azula. He treated Tarrlok like Ozai treated Zuko. He then ordered Noatak to take Tarrlok's body, painfully twist it around against his own will, and torture him into submission. This haunted Tarrlok to the point where Tarrlok recognized many years later, when he was an adult, Noatak's bloodbending grip. Then, although both boys swore that they would set out against Yakone and do whatever it took to stop his powerhungry lust for Republic City (which, again, is quite similar to Ozai; Republic City at this point is the most important place in the world; both wanted their kids to gain huge political power in the world). However, both kids ended up doing <i>exactly</i> what Yakone had predestined for them: they beat the Avatar using bloodbending and took ovr Republic City, each at different times. They were both the most powerful men, politically speaking, in Republic City. Tarrlok then realized how Yakone had broken his and Noatak's wills, and so did Noatak. The two went back and, although we see an extremely deep, tragic side to them both... Tarrlok ended the two's life, believing that too much damage had already been done. </p><p>So, Ozai's actions led to his son's black eye and his daughter's insanity, Unalaq's actions led to his children's brainwashed insanity like Azula's constantly convincing themselves that daddy is the only one who's correct, Hiroshi's actions actually ld to a good part of Asami, and Yakone's actions led to his younger son being mentally and physically scarred for life form a painful session of bloodbending and his sons' death. Minus Hiroshi, all three men use their kids as tools for power. </p><p>Thus, I rule Hiroshi out of this and call a stalemate amongst Ozai, Yakone, and Unalaq. I rest my case. </p>

<div class="quote"><i>TarrlokUltimateWaterbender wrote:
Unalaq tried to take over the freaking world and turn it to darkness. If we're looking at what they did to the rest of the world, then Unalaq easily takes the worst human beings. <p>If we're looking at just their parenting skill, then they're all even. Ozai trained Azula into his perfect tool of revenge and burned Zuko's face. His actions screwed up Azula to the point where she was schizophrenic, insecure, and downright insane. </p><p>Unalaq had a similar impact on his kids, as we saw how Desna and Eska didn't dare turn against him. </p><p>Yakone trained his kids the way that Ozai trained Azula. He treated Tarrlok like Ozai treated Zuko. He then ordered Noatak to take Tarrlok's body, painfully twist it around against his own will, and torture him into submission. This haunted Tarrlok to the point where Tarrlok recognized many years later, when he was an adult, Noatak's bloodbending grip. Then, although both boys swore that they would set out against Yakone and do whatever it took to stop his powerhungry lust for Republic City (which, again, is quite similar to Ozai; Republic City at this point is the most important place in the world; both wanted their kids to gain huge political power in the world). However, both kids ended up doing <i>exactly</i> what Yakone had predestined for them: they beat the Avatar using bloodbending and took ovr Republic City, each at different times. They were both the most powerful men, politically speaking, in Republic City. Tarrlok then realized how Yakone had broken his and Noatak's wills, and so did Noatak. The two went back and, although we see an extremely deep, tragic side to them both... Tarrlok ended the two's life, believing that too much damage had already been done. </p><p>So, Ozai's actions led to his son's black eye and his daughter's insanity, Unalaq's actions led to his children's brainwashed insanity like Azula's constantly convincing themselves that daddy is the only one who's correct, Hiroshi's actions actually ld to a good part of Asami, and Yakone's actions led to his younger son being mentally and physically scarred for life form a painful session of bloodbending and his sons' death. Minus Hiroshi, all three men use their kids as tools for power. </p><p>Thus, I rule Hiroshi out of this and call a stalemate amongst Ozai, Yakone, and Unalaq. I rest my case. </p> </i></div>
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When I heard the "parent wise" part, I think I might've made a mistake with the title of this discussion. Should I change it? </p>