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Azula & Unpopular Fandom Opinions
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The last couple of prompts have both reminded me of Azula and you know, the more time goes by the more I realize I am really, really disappointed in how her arc turned out. Even thought I know that she was going crazy because of Mai and Ty Lee betraying her, it still read a lot like another women losing her sanity when when she got power.
I think that Zuko leaving Mai (what was presumably) a really thoughtful letter is a good way to break up with someone in general. Additionally, I think telling her face to face would have been dumb and given Azula a chance to stop him.
It is okay that Ozai was really a faceless villain. That was his role and we didn't need to know/care about his motivations the way we did Azula, Mai, and Ty Lee.
Also, you know Zuko's scar? That is not a symbol of Zuko and Katara's love and when Zuko looks at it he's not going to think about saving Katara; he's going to think about how two of the four members of his family have tried to kill him.
avatar_contest because I want to get back into the habit of writing for Avatar and honestly, I'm sorry I broke up with that show the way I did.The last couple of prompts have both reminded me of Azula and you know, the more time goes by the more I realize I am really, really disappointed in how her arc turned out. Even thought I know that she was going crazy because of Mai and Ty Lee betraying her, it still read a lot like another women losing her sanity when when she got power.
I think that Zuko leaving Mai (what was presumably) a really thoughtful letter is a good way to break up with someone in general. Additionally, I think telling her face to face would have been dumb and given Azula a chance to stop him.
It is okay that Ozai was really a faceless villain. That was his role and we didn't need to know/care about his motivations the way we did Azula, Mai, and Ty Lee.
Also, you know Zuko's scar? That is not a symbol of Zuko and Katara's love and when Zuko looks at it he's not going to think about saving Katara; he's going to think about how two of the four members of his family have tried to kill him.
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1. Honestly, I see Azula's breakdown as the logical end of her character arc, and her paranoia as a result of it, not a cause. It was pretty clearly going on since "Boiling Rock," and she's never been particularly stable. Also, a lot of it had to do with love. She felt as if everyone close to her was abandoning her, which triggered her breakdown, which triggered the hallucinations of the first person who abandoned her: Ursa.
2. Agreed. It was the only thing he could do. Mai's loyalties were never really particularly clear up until "Boiling Rock," and he needed to risk nothing. She needed to have no idea where he was, and she needed to not know he was gone until he was far away.
3. Yeah, but once we saw Ozai's face and he became more of a character, we needed more. If they had just kept him this faceless figurehead villain, that'd have worked wonderfully.
4. Yes.
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2.) And even in Boiling Rock, I would argue, her loyalties were clear in the other direction. Not letting Zuko die, is, to my mind, far, far different that say, letting him go to fight the fire nation is, and I don't think she wouldn't have done that if it wasn't Zuko's life on the line.