>>100815510>It wasn't an attempt to redeem her. It was just so we can understand her character,Yes, that’s she was brought back in the comic right? We already understood her character in book 2. Even if this were for that purpose it adds nothing.
>She was spared because she was chained up. Why should they execute her? Payoff, which is something book 3 dropped the ball on a lot.
>I really don't understand the problem here.The problem here is that Azula wasn’t killed. Do you know why we still have Firecest threads like this one? Because people have an incest kink? Sure but incest kinks alone don’t keep ships alive. Because it’s funny to trigger Scrapper? Sure but not really worth making continuous threads. No, The reason Firecest is still so big, is that it is the only thing left that gives her character any semblance of worth.
Azula is not an interesting villain. Is she a threatening one? Sure. An effective one? Yep. An entertaining one. At times yes. But an interesting one? No. She’s not a character who’s past warrants any exploring, because the only parts of her character that mattered were that She was a cold-hearted ruthless bitch, snd that she was good at it. Giving these sorts of characters “exploration” is a waste of time because unless you add a different side to them, no one is going to care about how “troubled” and messed up they are. Villains like Azula exist to do three things, Give the Protagonists hell, make the audience love to hate them, and die getting their just desserts.
Except Azula couldn’t do that right and survived. So now you have a character with a botched payoff, with whom nothing worth doing can be done because there’s nothing endearing about them. This is where Firecest comes in. It gives her a more interesting side that makes her actually capable of caring about something, albeit in a fucked up and dysfunctional way. Firecest is litterally the only thing that makes Azula worth a damn anymore
