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Call-out post for myself: almost cried on the bus today just from thinking about how Azula was fourteen and had a paranoid mental breakdown because all the people in her life that actually mattered to her betrayed her in like the span of one month and she was suddenly left with no one to foist her failures onto to keep her abusive father from punishing her for her flaws and despite how hard she worked to seem perfect and be perfect for him her only reward was to be handed a meaningless platitude and told to get out of his way

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#“you can’t treat me like this! you can’t treat me like zuko!”#everything azula does has layers but that line in particular is just#it cuts to the core of the situation#azula makes herself perfect because zuko wasn’t perfect and look what happened to him#she has to be perfect #and if she’s not perfect she makes jt someone else’s fault#not out of self-delusion but our of survival #god#it’s been ten years this still fucks me up

I just needed to immortalize those, because holy shit did that all hit me hard.