Seems like the netflix avatar made Azula seem like a victim cause women can never be evil by themselves
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Azula was a psychopath in every sense of the word, jealous that her brother had so much of her mother's love and that he was the heir to be until he spoke out of line.
She had her own 'team' who she not only saw as extremely useful but loyal to ONLY her so when they 'betrayed her' (In reality Mai said it herself, she loves Zuko MORE than she fears her) and then she is stopped from killing Mai by Ty Lee this makes her less restrained because she's now on her own directly under Ozai.
When Ozai goes off to burn the world, she no longer has any restraints and just loses herself in her own ego, it's why Zuko for once ACTUALLY had a chance to beat her in a straight fight, she was 'slipping'.
She wasn't a victim that was made evident in the media featuring her but she was so wrapped up in her ego that her own delusions made her BELIEVE she was the hurt party.
I always get psychopaths and sociopaths mixed up--even after looking up the definitions of both.
Azula was fucking NUTS. And that's okay for a character to be.
As Iroh said, "No, she's crazy, and she needs to go down."
Seeing her finally become Fire Lord, at the very instant it becomes a worthless figurehead position, was so fucking satisfying. One of the many reasons I adore those 61 episodes as much as I do.
Its because they are made up terms made to evoke emotional responses in the courtroom. They aren't real or even diagnosable, its literally just "she's crazy!" with a fancier sounding word.
There really isn't a distinction between these terms
The music at the start of that final Agni Kai is sublime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae9VB_Cf5RM
Also for anyone who was paying attention throughout the series you can see just how much control Azula has lost since her first appearances, going from precise two-finger points when firebending to entire fist thrusts. She was an obvious prodigy as seen when her flames turned blue but still ended up losing to both herself and her brother who in the end took firebending to a completely new level by combining his existing skills with the knowledge from both the progenitors of firebending, the dragons, as well as what his uncle taught him who developed novel techniques observing other bending schools. How he moves his body during the Agni Kai highlights this with his fluid movements, like waterbending, his deflections of incoming attacks, like airbending, and then during his own push the unrelenting force behind his attacks, like earthbending.
Also you can't forget,