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CHARACTER
NAME: Azula - Princess of the Fire Nation
FANDOM: Avatar: The Last Airbender
AGE: 18
ALIGNMENT (GOOD, EVIL, NEUTRAL): Evil
BRIEF BACKGROUND SUMMARY:

Azula first appears in a flashback, specifically Iroh's story about the Agni Kai in which Prince Zuko receives his facial scar and sentence of banishment. Azula is not shown again until the end of the season, after the siege of the Northern Water Tribe, when Ozai orders Azula to arrest Zuko and Iroh for failure to capture the Avatar and betrayal against the Fire Nation respectively.

In another flashback, it is revealed that she is named after her grandfather, Ozai's father Azulon and that she and Azulon are both firebending prodigies. Even when she was a child, Azula expressed her natural talents, along with her tendency for malice and perfectionism. Her sharp wit and the skill she displayed towards Firebending gained her much attention and acclaim, and her father showed her obvious favoritism, often at Zuko's expense.

Azula is depicted as interested in power from a very young age. She is shown destroying a doll that her uncle had sent her and young Zuko mentions that she throws food at the tame turtle-ducks that live in their garden pond. Young Azula suggests that her father would make a far better Fire Lord than the heir apparent, her uncle, Iroh, whom she also dubbed "a quitter and a loser" for abandoning his siege at Ba Sing Se after the death of his son and only child, Lu Ten. Years later, when her brother is burned by their father during an Agni Kai duel, she is shown watching with a savage triumph.

Azula first encounters the Avatar in Omashu during the second season, where she and Aang battle. Soon after, she names the Avatar as a personal target in addition to her brother and enlists the help of her friends Ty Lee and Mai. Azula continues to pursue the Avatar for the rest of the season, becoming the position in the narrative that the character Zuko had held during the previous season. While in Ba Sing Se, though, Azula is sidetracked by her conquest of the city. Eventually, she is able to convince her brother to help her secure Ba Sing Se and take down the Avatar. During their showdown in the catacombs, Azula appears to mortally wound Aang while he is in the Avatar State. It is assumed that the Avatar State has now become broken, and Aang is later shown explaining that his seventh chakra is now "locked." However, Azula suspects that Aang survived. She eventually blames this on her brother.

Upon returning home in the third season, it is revealed that Azula has not taken credit for the murder of the Avatar. She gave the credit to Zuko, claiming that she wanted to make him feel better as he faces their father and repay him for his aid in the siege of Ba Sing Se, knowing that her position in her father's eyes could survive without the additional glory to her name. After Zuko connotes that she's lying, Azula reveals that should the Avatar turn up still alive, all of Zuko's glory would turn to shame. This could lead many fans to believe that Azula planned to usurp the throne from Zuko all along, as hinted at during a prophetic dream that Zuko has in Ba Sing Se, where Azula was depicted as a blue dragon.

During "The Day of Black Sun," Azula serves as a distraction to keep Aang, Sokka, and Toph from finding Fire Lord Ozai, assisted by Dai Li agents. Later, Azula accompanies Mai and Ty Lee to the Boiling Rock, where Zuko has been captured, but Zuko, Sokka, Suki, and Hakoda escape. During the escape, Mai attacks the guards allowing them to escape. Azula's calm breaks, and in a fury, she attempts to attack Mai, but is stopped by Ty Lee. After having Mai and Ty Lee locked away, a crazed Azula leads a platoon to the Western Air Temple. There she duels with Zuko until they are both thrown from the airship. She survives by propelling herself to safety.

In the finale, Ozai, after declaring himself the Phoenix King, names Azula as the new Fire Lord. However, Azula begins to show signs of strain, shown almost immediately as Ozai explains the change of plans over Azula's protests. She appears to harbour a fear of being compared to, and ultimately following Zuko and his chosen path of being ostracized by their father. Azula has already started to degenerate at the very thought of achieving her life-long goal of ascending to the throne. Deteriorating into paranoia, she is shown banishing nearly every one of her servants, including the Dai Li, for the slightest infractions and for fear that they would betray her, which stemmed from the betrayal of her closest friends. While preparing for her crowning Azula cuts a large portion of her hair off in frustration, giving her a deranged look that she keeps for the remainder of her appearances. She then has a vision, possibly a hallucination, of her mother inside a mirror who tells her that she really loves her (Azula thought that her mother saw her as a monster), and furiously throws her hair brush into the mirror upon her mother's proclamation of love. As she is about to be crowned, Zuko and Katara arrive and Azula challenges Zuko to an Agni Kai for the crown. Detecting that Azula is "slipping," Zuko agrees and battles Azula (but advises Katara stay out due to Azula's state of mind), gaining the upper hand after a while. Her mental conflict clearly affects her fighting ability, as she fails to block or counter any of Zuko's attacks, settling for simply dodging and outrunning his blasts of flame, which contrasts her previous style. Zuko manages to taunt Azula into charging up her lightning; hoping that she will then throw it at him so that he may redirect it, but his plan backfires as Azula spots Katara and shoots the lightning at her instead. Zuko throws himself in front of the lightning to save Katara and is severely injured. Katara attempts to heal Zuko, but is then forced to dodge and evade Azula's wrath. Katara eventually manages to freeze Azula and chain her hands together behind her back, which ultimately allows them to defeat her and spare her life.

Azula, suffering from a tortured soul as well as dealing with her downfall (a final fate that she had recently begun to fear), finally slips into complete insanity and begins to cry and scream in frustration, even going as far as to uncontrollably breathe flames from her mouth. After Zuko and Katara defeated her in the Agni Kai, Azula was shipped off to a Fire Nation Mental Health Facility on a nearby island where she is supervised around the clock"
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FIRST PERSON ENTRY:
I don't understand this, metal demons on your roads, people screaming in the street from just a little hint of flame. I don't understand how I have come to be here. Me, the Fire Lord. Explain. Immediatly.