[ They both know why, she'd taunted him about what she overheard when they were still children and it was hours later that their mother disappeared. Azula got a stern talking to and never saw her ever again, no kindness or love in her words before she vanished into thin air. She squeezes her hands into fists so tight her knuckles turn white, returning her gaze to the blankets in front of her. ]
But leaving us with our father was hardly protection. Look at what happened to us.
[ Zuko living in exile, Azula alone with Ozai which only increased her silent suffering (unbeknownst to her until it was too late). The competition between them grew greater with no one to wedge a foot in between them, their mother leaving was the final marker of her and Zuko's inability to ever really be a family. Maybe. Ursa's inability to love her probably would have encouraged the same relationship.
She continues talking, not wanting her last words to hang in the air, still bothered by the implication behind them. ]
She'd written letters to her lover the entire time she lived in the palace with father, but father was able to intercept all of them. One in particular he charged me with finding, a final attempt for him to remove you from the throne-- she'd claimed that you were not his, but her lovers. It was just her way of figuring out whether or not her letters were actually getting out of the palace, but together, along with your idiot friends, it led us to her.
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[ They both know why, she'd taunted him about what she overheard when they were still children and it was hours later that their mother disappeared. Azula got a stern talking to and never saw her ever again, no kindness or love in her words before she vanished into thin air. She squeezes her hands into fists so tight her knuckles turn white, returning her gaze to the blankets in front of her. ]
But leaving us with our father was hardly protection. Look at what happened to us.
[ Zuko living in exile, Azula alone with Ozai which only increased her silent suffering (unbeknownst to her until it was too late). The competition between them grew greater with no one to wedge a foot in between them, their mother leaving was the final marker of her and Zuko's inability to ever really be a family. Maybe. Ursa's inability to love her probably would have encouraged the same relationship.
She continues talking, not wanting her last words to hang in the air, still bothered by the implication behind them. ]
She'd written letters to her lover the entire time she lived in the palace with father, but father was able to intercept all of them. One in particular he charged me with finding, a final attempt for him to remove you from the throne-- she'd claimed that you were not his, but her lovers. It was just her way of figuring out whether or not her letters were actually getting out of the palace, but together, along with your idiot friends, it led us to her.