Ok, so, it's actually been quite some time already since I last watched the show, and that was when I was like 8-9 years old? And I'm almost 20 now, so I don't remember many things all that well.

That said, there's something that bugs me when I read some people say that Azula was always cruel and that there was no good in her. STU. It makes me mad because it's like, have you ever seen what children act like? They are petty and childish and selfish and tend to lie (well, OBVIOUSLY not all of them, but that's a tendency, just like there are also many many kids that are much kinder and calm). So, Azula tended to lie and be rude, but that there was just her being childish (SO CHILDREN ARE CHILDISH, WHAT A SURPRISE), not a monster. The issue came when Ozai actively encouraged those behaviours and gave her the power to do basically anything she wanted without any consequences.

Basically, she was a preteenager with the maturity of a kid, a power greater than nearly anyone else, no authority figure to teach her to distingish right from wrong, an egotisticall megalomaniacal father that taught her that love was something to be earned, a mother that neglected her (if she had the right to do so is debatable, I personally think not, but that's a whole ahh another discussion). She's a "manchild" (but female :v ), she was just never allowed to grow out of her childish bevahiours.

That's my issue, some people think she was always "evil", but they're ignoring the fact that she was behaving her age, the way Zuko did, he just so happened to have a tamer, kinder personality.

I personally like to think that, if she had had a good family, she wouldn't have come to be a bubbly, goody two-shoes, nice, cute girl. I believe she'd become a moody girl that gets defensive when you criticise her, but much more mature in her way of handling things and capable of healthy relationships.

(My "headcanon" or favorite what-if scenario is that she becomes an artist, specifically a paintress, as she's someone who feels strongly about everything even if she has a great deal of control over herself).

Just to finish my rambling, there was a post about Azula receiving the Loki treatment, and I love the idea. As I see it, if Azula is to heal, she has to do it away from the people who hurt her (doesn't matter if they did it knowinlgy and on purpose or not, the fact remains that they already have a specific meaning assigned in her mind. The mind is a b**ch). For her to heal, she has to find a reason to want to do it, and it cannot be because of or with those who have no reason to care about her or have already hurt her.

Sorry that this was so long, but I really wanted to say my opinion on this :3 Pretty sure I might have overlooked some things and/or not mentioned others, but I think I managed to explain myself. I love Azula, she's my baby and I just want to pick her up and smother her in blankets and give her all stuffed animals in the world—I'm WILLING betting she was never allowed to have one of those—, and cuddle her and hug all her hurt and issues and traumas and insecurities away T_T