>>121180630Alright I'll explain it again, I guess.
> it seems all he did was confirm the choices she made herself, independently of him.You are once again conveniently dropping the very important detail here where Ozai confirms all of Azula's choices in the same breath where he calls Zuko a worthless piece of trash. He never just praises her simply to praise her, it's always followed by comparing her to Zuko in order to humiliate him.
Because of this Ursa steps in to give Zuko all of the love and affection he's not getting from Ozai. Azula doesn't need this amount of attention, she reasons, because Ozai isn't actively calling her a piece of shit every time he sees her. However, Ozai doesn't genuinely love anyone, and Azula isn't so retarded that she can't tell the difference.
Now this is where
> 'Zula just wants to be friends with her Zuzu and mean old Ozai comes along and makes her be cruel instead. comes in.
Azula doesn't want to be friends with Zuko, she despises him because in her mind no matter how much better she is than Zuko, Ursa seems to love him more , and she doesn't understand why Ursa doesn't appreciate her the way Ozai the sociopath does. She's jealous of him and doubles down the more jealous she gets.
THe more she doubles down, the more positive attention she gets from Ozai. The more positive attention she gets from Ozai, the more Ozai shits on Zuko. The more Ozai shits on Zuko, the more Ursa moves in to help him. And so on, and so forth.
Hopefully you understand now. I still don't know what private top secret spy lessons have to do with any of this.
