I have no problem thinking that luck and circumstance played a role in Azula's and Zuko's lives, but I get angry when people talk like it's ALL luck which is plainly not true because both these characters made choices, as all people do. As you said, we all have to walk our own paths.
The one version of events where I could see the "Ozai turned Azula evil" argument was in a one-shot called Life Lessons by meltinglacier. And that story worked because it didn't do a flat good->evil progression but showed the actual components of Azula's issues like the way Ozai stripped away her capacity for trust and independent thinking. I don't think the story entirely reflects Azula's psychopathic tendencies, but I found it chillingly good just for the depiction of a controller's tactics.
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Date: 2012-09-08 02:28 am (UTC)The one version of events where I could see the "Ozai turned Azula evil" argument was in a one-shot called Life Lessons by meltinglacier. And that story worked because it didn't do a flat good->evil progression but showed the actual components of Azula's issues like the way Ozai stripped away her capacity for trust and independent thinking. I don't think the story entirely reflects Azula's psychopathic tendencies, but I found it chillingly good just for the depiction of a controller's tactics.