| xRamensx wrote: | | PsychoPass wrote: | | MarryLarry wrote: | | DeeDuck33 wrote: | | MaiAndZuko4eva wrote: | | bendthisfire wrote: | | Do you think she might be facing the problem that Zuko had about his identity? If so we may have good Azula, though I doubt it. It's probably karma coming back to her. |
The thing about having the same problem may be true....but Azzie becoming good.... |
Nah, she won't become good. Avatar need a definite villain (besides Ozai). It isn't good for the story if two bad guys switch to the good side. |
I don't know what to think of it. In the trailer, we see her falling along with Zuko. This is presumably pre-comet time since the sky is still blue. However, another shot shows her firebending in front of a house, and if you pause it at the right time, you see that the sky is red, signifying the comet's arrival...or it could just be red from sunset/rise. Assuming she survives the fall, the only logical guess at this point is that the gaang does save her. This could lead to uncertainty and doubt, causing a moral dilema like Zuko. I'm guessing she cracks and someone takes her down because I honestly don't see her becoming good. However, it is not impossible. |
Remember what Aang said about his second trip to the spirit world with Roku: "If anything, what Roku showed me was that everybody/anybody is capable of great good and great evil..." There's some more but that is the main part. If what Aang said is "true" then that means Azula does indeed have good in her after all. She too is a descendant of Avatar Roku like Zuko. We all saw how Zuko had inner turmoil (because of the conflict between his two ancestors) but is that to say Azula is devoid of her heritage? 'Course not. It's the way she was raised. She wasn't born a seed of evil, it's the 'side' of the family she was raised on. Zuko was primarily raised by his mother who's great grandfather was Roku; the great good. But Azula was, apparently, mainly raised by her father who's from Sozin's bloodline; the great evil. In season 1, we saw the "great evil" from Zuko. Then in season 2, as he was shown the errors of his ways by both experience and guidance, the Roku side of him (his mother's side) was beginning to push away the evil of his Sozin's heritage. Finally, after pushing away all of the evil inside of him and letting the good of Roku fill his soul, he's a "good guy", if you will. Now, look at Azula. She's the complete opposite of Zuko. Not because of the way she was born but how she was raised. It's obvious that Ozai (the evil of Sozin) took her under his wing and raised her as the perfectionist, power driven, and 'evil' person we see now. She was never really influence by the good inside of her from Roku (her mother). Ozai led her to be like her ancestors (e.g. powerful and destructive like Sozin). The good inside of her from Roku has been locked up... But that doesn't mean it doesn't exist nor can it be released. Zuko had to placed in a/n environment(s) where he could experience and learn about the true good that existed in him. We saw where that led him. He was a changed person. He looked on the brighter sides of life. But then in Ba Sing Se... when he was around the evil of Azula, the good was overwhelmed. His inner turmoil had not been fully dealt with and, once again, Sozin took him over. I believe that if Azula undergoes situations where the good of Roku can be exposed and released from her chains, she too will experience an inner turmoil of good vs. evil like Zuko. Is that to say Azula would wise up and join the Gaang to fight against her country? Absolutely not, but it IS saying that Azula is not yet a lost cause. I may be going out on a limb with all of this, but all new ideas and ways of thinking sound crazy and wacko at first I blog'ed it, by the way. |
*claps* I couldn't have said it better myself! I agree completely with you. Azula was Firebending prodigy and a second-born, like Ozai, so he raised her to be what he struggled to be. Zuko had to work harder to become a good Firebender, so Ozai saw him as being weak, and since Azula was raised to listen to her father, she picked that up superiority over her brother. Since she was raised to be like her father, and Zuko was cuddled by his mother, they didn't spend enough time with either parent. Ozai might have had some ill feelings towards Ursa since she babied Zuko, and again, Azula instinctively had those feelings towards her mother. But like Zuko, who tried to please his father, Azula might have felt rejected by her mother, so seemed to love Zuko more. Which I don't think is the case. Azula just picked up her father's traits, and Ursa was scared by that, so she was more harsh with Azula than Zuko. I don't think Azula is a lost cause. I think she'll find a way she can fit into all of this without joining the Gaang, maybe joining Ursa in some way. |
Thank you! This is what I've always thought about Azula, because personally I hate those villains who are "evil", there must have been a reason why they got to that point. And it's true, we all are capable of good and evil, and sometimes people we see as "good ones" do terrible things. I would really like it if they treat Azula as a human being, not a maniac girl that can't see no reason. My guess is that she wanted power so much, that when he turned Fire Lord, she realized it wasn't what she really wanted. Or like you said, Zuko being able to defense himself from her attacks and maybperhaps winning, will most surely affect her in some way because he's not that angry person anymore, he has found balance. Also Ursa represents good in that family, Azula seeing her mother, it's a sign she's not completely sure of the path she's chosen like we all thought when she was able to pull lightning "the cold blooded fire". I don't see her joining the gaang, but I think Aang is going to save her, it's difficult for me to imagine they will let her die in that fall. And like I've said many times before, I hope the creators don't treat Azula as a typical villain. |
