A big topic of discussion around Azula is usually what kind of mental illness she has, I tend to discuss that lebih and put less talk into the reasons for her losing it.
I've always seen it as a combination of things. She was raised in a broken halaman awal with a banished mother and a banished and burned brother. I’ve always imagined that her father was very verbally abusive and put a lot of pressure on her to be perfect. And for a while she was perfect, but the menit she lost grip on that she started to slip. She was betrayed oleh both of her friends and then very shortly after that blow her father tossed a crown she wasn’t ready for at her. Azula also didn’t have a guiding figure like Zuko did (no Iroh nor Ursa) to help her unlearn some of the worser behaviors that Ozai and her nation instilled in her. oleh the end of the tampil she had zero support.
The main reason I think that Azula went crazy was because she was basically set up to fall right from the beginning, she just didn't realize it. As a child her only guidance was Ozai who pretty much instilled it into that she had to be perfect. He raised her lebih like a solider than a daughter. Pretty much all of her beliefs are ones she shares with Ozai, no doubt this was intended oleh him. In essence she was indoctrinated oleh her nation. One of Azula's main issues is that she functions so poorly in an everyday social setting. She doesn't know how to talk to people so she didn't have many friends.
Which leads to when her mental health really started to decline. She was betrayed. Not just oleh Mai and TyLee, but I'd say Zuko as well. I'm not going to say that they didn't have good reasons to leave her, because she did give them a great many of them. But them leaving took its toll on her. Zuko when he left and confessed that he didn't kill the avatar likely showed her that she didn't have as much control as she thought that she did. It probably did sting at least a little to have her own brother turn on the family and gabung Aang, even if it was for the best. I can't imagine that Ozai took that one well. It was probably part of what lead him to leave her being on the hari of the comet.
But even before that, we see another place where things went south for Azula; she lost Mai and TyLee. The two people she trusted the most. Finding out that they were no longer afraid of her was a huge shocker for her. A while back Grey DeLisle did an interview wherein she notes that Azula used fear to keep her friends because she didn't think that they'd like her any other way. So after them, she no longer had fear on her side either. This put her completely alone, which was a major set up robber falling apart. It was also an indicator that she was losing control which in itself probably my alarmed her as she was very big on control. Unfortunately for Azula, this lapse in control led to another.
Which leads to the selanjutnya point. That she was already slipping when the crown, an empty judul oleh all means, was tossed her way. She was only 15; 15 and just lost her closest companions. She was in no position for lebih pressure and yet her father put the weight of the api Nation on her and then left her on her own. And the way he did it is worth noting. In that brief seen we see him take her through a range of emotions; sadness, anger ("it was my idea to burn everything to the ground!" "You can't treat me like Zuko."), fear (in the book companion to the episode she expresses that she's never raised her voice at him and wonders what he is going to do to her), and then hopefulness as he hand her the api lord title. He is very obviously toying with her head.
To go with the attention her father gave her she had a distinct lack of motherly love, atau at least she thought so. She brushed it off and made it seem like it wasn't a big deal but in the finale it becomes evident that it does bother her. The best way to hurt a pair of siblings is to play favorit and the api Nation family is about as dysfunctional as it gets. Hints were dropped earlier on that her mother's opinion bothered her. If they didn't her mother probably wouldn't have showed up in her hallucinations. Bottom line is that Azula didn't really have much genuine cinta and I think that it eventually helped to break her.
With her mother taking care of Zuko came a lack of guidance. One of the reasons I think that Azula lacked so much empathy is because the only person who really brought her up was Ozai who raised her on war and battle. Now I'm not saying I completely fault Ozai and Iroh because Ozai did a very splendid job isolating her and corrupting her child's mind to the point where she isolated herself via fear. I feel as though Ozai wouldn't allow for Ursa and Iroh to intervine and help Azula to be a better person. My issue with them lies in that they didn't really try and that Iroh seemed quick to write her off as a lost cause even when there was distance between she and Ozai. Azula displays signs of sociopathy because she was raised to be apathetic and she didn't have that wisdom Iroh bestowed upon Zuko nor the genuine example she and displays of cinta that Ursa gave him. All of this lead to Azula being unable to maintain her friendship which began the fall of the dominos.
And finally one thing that very clearly didn't help is that mental illness isn't well known in the avatar world. The fact that it seems misunderstood probably makes her illness that much worse. It induces lebih fear in her to know so little about her own situation and what's going on with her. Which probably didn't do her paranoia any favors. I can't imagine that hallucinations are a commonplace talked about thing so that probably made her confusion even worse.
Basically Azula was kind of screwed from the start but didn't even know it. And she had little help along the way because she isn't exactly the most approachable person. I just hope that because she's still so young that she has a chance to get the help she needs and recover.
I've always seen it as a combination of things. She was raised in a broken halaman awal with a banished mother and a banished and burned brother. I’ve always imagined that her father was very verbally abusive and put a lot of pressure on her to be perfect. And for a while she was perfect, but the menit she lost grip on that she started to slip. She was betrayed oleh both of her friends and then very shortly after that blow her father tossed a crown she wasn’t ready for at her. Azula also didn’t have a guiding figure like Zuko did (no Iroh nor Ursa) to help her unlearn some of the worser behaviors that Ozai and her nation instilled in her. oleh the end of the tampil she had zero support.
The main reason I think that Azula went crazy was because she was basically set up to fall right from the beginning, she just didn't realize it. As a child her only guidance was Ozai who pretty much instilled it into that she had to be perfect. He raised her lebih like a solider than a daughter. Pretty much all of her beliefs are ones she shares with Ozai, no doubt this was intended oleh him. In essence she was indoctrinated oleh her nation. One of Azula's main issues is that she functions so poorly in an everyday social setting. She doesn't know how to talk to people so she didn't have many friends.
Which leads to when her mental health really started to decline. She was betrayed. Not just oleh Mai and TyLee, but I'd say Zuko as well. I'm not going to say that they didn't have good reasons to leave her, because she did give them a great many of them. But them leaving took its toll on her. Zuko when he left and confessed that he didn't kill the avatar likely showed her that she didn't have as much control as she thought that she did. It probably did sting at least a little to have her own brother turn on the family and gabung Aang, even if it was for the best. I can't imagine that Ozai took that one well. It was probably part of what lead him to leave her being on the hari of the comet.
But even before that, we see another place where things went south for Azula; she lost Mai and TyLee. The two people she trusted the most. Finding out that they were no longer afraid of her was a huge shocker for her. A while back Grey DeLisle did an interview wherein she notes that Azula used fear to keep her friends because she didn't think that they'd like her any other way. So after them, she no longer had fear on her side either. This put her completely alone, which was a major set up robber falling apart. It was also an indicator that she was losing control which in itself probably my alarmed her as she was very big on control. Unfortunately for Azula, this lapse in control led to another.
Which leads to the selanjutnya point. That she was already slipping when the crown, an empty judul oleh all means, was tossed her way. She was only 15; 15 and just lost her closest companions. She was in no position for lebih pressure and yet her father put the weight of the api Nation on her and then left her on her own. And the way he did it is worth noting. In that brief seen we see him take her through a range of emotions; sadness, anger ("it was my idea to burn everything to the ground!" "You can't treat me like Zuko."), fear (in the book companion to the episode she expresses that she's never raised her voice at him and wonders what he is going to do to her), and then hopefulness as he hand her the api lord title. He is very obviously toying with her head.
To go with the attention her father gave her she had a distinct lack of motherly love, atau at least she thought so. She brushed it off and made it seem like it wasn't a big deal but in the finale it becomes evident that it does bother her. The best way to hurt a pair of siblings is to play favorit and the api Nation family is about as dysfunctional as it gets. Hints were dropped earlier on that her mother's opinion bothered her. If they didn't her mother probably wouldn't have showed up in her hallucinations. Bottom line is that Azula didn't really have much genuine cinta and I think that it eventually helped to break her.
With her mother taking care of Zuko came a lack of guidance. One of the reasons I think that Azula lacked so much empathy is because the only person who really brought her up was Ozai who raised her on war and battle. Now I'm not saying I completely fault Ozai and Iroh because Ozai did a very splendid job isolating her and corrupting her child's mind to the point where she isolated herself via fear. I feel as though Ozai wouldn't allow for Ursa and Iroh to intervine and help Azula to be a better person. My issue with them lies in that they didn't really try and that Iroh seemed quick to write her off as a lost cause even when there was distance between she and Ozai. Azula displays signs of sociopathy because she was raised to be apathetic and she didn't have that wisdom Iroh bestowed upon Zuko nor the genuine example she and displays of cinta that Ursa gave him. All of this lead to Azula being unable to maintain her friendship which began the fall of the dominos.
And finally one thing that very clearly didn't help is that mental illness isn't well known in the avatar world. The fact that it seems misunderstood probably makes her illness that much worse. It induces lebih fear in her to know so little about her own situation and what's going on with her. Which probably didn't do her paranoia any favors. I can't imagine that hallucinations are a commonplace talked about thing so that probably made her confusion even worse.
Basically Azula was kind of screwed from the start but didn't even know it. And she had little help along the way because she isn't exactly the most approachable person. I just hope that because she's still so young that she has a chance to get the help she needs and recover.
character zodiacs:
zuko: aries
sokka: gemini
katara: cancer
toph: taurus
yue: pisces
suki: sag
aang: libra
azula: leo
mai: scorpio
ty lee: virgo(?)
sexualities:
zuko: gay
suki: bi
sokka: bi
azula: lesbian
katara: straight
aang: straight
mai: pan
toph: bi ace
uncle iroh: straight
ty lee: bi
oz*i: straight
favorit ships in the fandom:
mailee
sukka
kataang
zukka
zukki
zuki
headcanons i saw and really liked:
korra asked katara to go pinguin, penguin hal naik eretan, tobogganing with her the first time they met
yue sent sokka the meteorite for his luar angkasa sword
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not a headcanon but suki didn’t die young :)
she is immortal
zuko: aries
sokka: gemini
katara: cancer
toph: taurus
yue: pisces
suki: sag
aang: libra
azula: leo
mai: scorpio
ty lee: virgo(?)
sexualities:
zuko: gay
suki: bi
sokka: bi
azula: lesbian
katara: straight
aang: straight
mai: pan
toph: bi ace
uncle iroh: straight
ty lee: bi
oz*i: straight
favorit ships in the fandom:
mailee
sukka
kataang
zukka
zukki
zuki
headcanons i saw and really liked:
korra asked katara to go pinguin, penguin hal naik eretan, tobogganing with her the first time they met
yue sent sokka the meteorite for his luar angkasa sword
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not a headcanon but suki didn’t die young :)
she is immortal
Yue awoke the selanjutnya hari to the sun shining through the windows. Today was going to be great. The sun came out and today zuko got out of the healers. She got dressed and her and zuko went to breakfest but something was different about zuko. she couldnt put her finger on it. then hours later, when she sat alone in her room with her artic rubah, fox it hit her! Zuko's scar! where was it?! As she thought, of the complication her eyesight fell black and her hearing blacked out. Then she fell unconsiously. She awoke to find herself in the healers hospital. Still shocked of the thought, she began to read her notes. As she read the writers she read zuko, and everyone else but on the last one it berkata . . . hon?!
Ok this is after the war and Aang,Katara,Toph,Sokka,and Zuko, are all friends Zuko regained his takhta as new api lord and Aang isn't treated as a god now got it ok good
In The api Nation
Katara:This kalung really belonged to your mother
Zuko:Yes she kept it with her until she......( switching supjects) Where's Aang and Sokka?
Katara:Sokka went to the market to get a new boomarang and I told Aang not to let him go alone.
Toph:They're in there again talking about feelings and crap I really don't care about.
Iroh:Good then maybe we can finish this combat training this time.
Toph:I guess
In The Market
Aang:She's with Zuko always with Zuko
Sokka:Relax your the avatar
Aang:That stoped sounding good right after the war
Sokka:Just look at me and Toph we're happy and she blind
Aang:Yea but she's not cheating on anda with Zuko
Sokka anda make it really hard to cheer anda up.
Aang:Dammit
Sokka:Whoa
Aang:I gotta go
Runs Toward Oppa
In The api Nation
Katara:This kalung really belonged to your mother
Zuko:Yes she kept it with her until she......( switching supjects) Where's Aang and Sokka?
Katara:Sokka went to the market to get a new boomarang and I told Aang not to let him go alone.
Toph:They're in there again talking about feelings and crap I really don't care about.
Iroh:Good then maybe we can finish this combat training this time.
Toph:I guess
In The Market
Aang:She's with Zuko always with Zuko
Sokka:Relax your the avatar
Aang:That stoped sounding good right after the war
Sokka:Just look at me and Toph we're happy and she blind
Aang:Yea but she's not cheating on anda with Zuko
Sokka anda make it really hard to cheer anda up.
Aang:Dammit
Sokka:Whoa
Aang:I gotta go
Runs Toward Oppa