So you really like Azula? I do too honestly. She's an interesting character, and I feel like she did the best she could with what she knew and how she was raised- and she just feels kinda. Kinda tragic to me.
So sorry for this late response. And thank you for your ask! Yes I do really like her and hope her fandom only keeps growing, because she deserves it. I agree that she did what she felt was the best she could do with what she had, which is leagues above what everyone else around her was doing. She's had to battle not just enemies in universe, but enemies outside of universe that wished to see her shrivel. Fandom is a given, but even some of the show's writers had a misplaced grudge against her.
She could easily be read as a tragic character no doubt, but I prefer to see her as a girl with a whole life ahead of her; someone who after the events of the first series would have much to explore and be educated about. Someone that can expose so much about the people from her past, present and future and have a life outside of their prejudice and corrosiveness, a life beyond that. A girl and soon-to-be woman who went through hardship, but doesn't have to be solely defined by it or allow it to trample her progress toward self-actualization. Even if it were to take her some time to reach it.
There's hope for her, and I bet there's plenty in the ATLA World that would gladly take her under their wing and therapeutically mentor her. Probably not someone from her family though.
