>>117059798If the comics focused on redeeming Azula, it should be through her doing what she does best, which is manipulating and conniving.
Realistically speaking, Zuko would last a few months before he gets overthrown by schemers and plotters, and his father gets put back in the throne. Azula should be the one to "help" Zuko, in her own way, to discover and stop these insurrections, and her own way often involves puppeteering him and his friends.