The Life of Azula: What Happened After the Series? (Avatar Explained)
Azula
princess of the fire nation might be one of the most fascinating characters in The Last Airbenderseries
many of you have asked me to explainAzula
and because it's such an interesting topic I decided to double down and make a video about herlife
this video will not only cover the original show but I'm going to gather information about it from all over before during and after theseries
and I'm going to bring it all together into one video now let's get this video startedas I
explained
the entirelife
ofAzula
so farAzula
was the second-born the Prince Ozai and princess Ursa her older brother Zuko being the first she was named after her grandfather fire lord azulon who was the Fire Lord when she was born and during her early childhood she was a prodigy firebender and at one point she had mastered 14 more forms of firebending than her older brothers you go she attended the Royal Fire Academy for Girls where she met her two best friends may entirely as Ullabecame the leader of their little group and as Ulla bossing the other two around became the thing that defined their friendships
Azula
and her family had a tradition to go to ember island where they had a beach house there they would see their mother's favorite play love amongst dragons something that both she and Zuko enjoyed one of the few things they agreed on her mother Ursa quickly realized that something was seriously wrong with their daughter she had no remorse and no sense of rightand wrong she did things like burned flowers on the palace grounds burn a doll sent to her as a present from her uncle and was a master manipulator and bully one day she said a firebending teacher's pants on fire when he told her that she wasn't doing the forms right while her mother Ursa saw all of this is bad her father owes I saw it is good and she quickly became his favorite he began to raise
Azula
as his heir rather than his oldest ZukoAzula
not only impressed her father but hergrandfather whom she was named after as well even though
Azula
had the approval from her father she never got that from her mother she always thought that her mother favorite Zuko and never took her side this made her desperate for her mother's attention which might be one of the reasons why she lashed out so much in front of her mother she was jealous of the attention and Zuko got from her and resentful towards both of them because of this one night when the family was having dinner as Itold you go off saying that his doula was born lucky and that Zuko was lucky to be born
Azula
was happy to see her father stand up for her but when Earth's a shot back at Ozai and stood up for Zuko her father's praise wasn't enough to fill the desire of her mother's praiseAzula
had a tendency for malice and perfection and these traits came out a great deal when she was with her friends Mae and Ty Lee one day Ty Lee did a cartwheel afterAzula
had just failed trying to do thesame she shoved her lead to the ground out of jealousy and laughed while she did so that same day when she saw Mae attempting to hide her crush on
azula
's brother ZukoAzula
used her manipulation to convince her mother to make Zuko play with them during their game she placed an apple on Mays head and set it on fire this for Sukkot it's a koumei into a fountain to put out the fireAzula
laughed finding great pleasure and embarrassing both of them she encouraged her friends to do badthings one day when a stool ax and Ty Lee had a sleepover in Mae's house
Azula
convinced them to steal mochi from May's mother which was a present meant for mais grandmotherAzula
ended up eating at all because Ty Lee got bad energy from it and although she didn't say it out loud they didn't want to eat it because she was scared of the Camorra casa ancient spirits that her parents order with snatcher if he did anything wrong in her sleep Mei tossed and turned and said that thecamera cos they were going to get her this kept
Azula
up all nightAzula
was also very competitive with her friends so much so that she went to new lengths to win that things as simple as hide-and-seek she would use tunnels and secret passageways that she found while exploring and used them to win something that Ty Lee and Meg grew very tired of one dayazula
's father oz I askedazula
's grandfather fire lord azulon if he could become Fire Lord rather than his older brother IrohAzula
listened as her grandfather became furious with her father he said that Iroh had just lost a son and as punishment for asking for the throne as I was to lose his son as well
Azula
went to tell us Zuko this laughing as she did so but she was interrupted by their mother her sir draggedAzula
out of the room and askedAzula
what
she heard anAzula
told her everythingAzula
acted as though she was upset about the whole situation but as she walked away she was smiling evilly this would be the lasttime she saw her mother for many years as her mother mysteriously vanished after that night the last thing that she said to her mother was full of manipulation and lies the things that she was best at this was not the last time ursus all
Azula
however Ursa went into azules room while she was sleeping and kissed her on the cheek saying goodbye how does Ulla known this things might have turned out differentlyAzula
was very unaffected by both the death of her grandfather and her motherdisappearing in one night she did however enjoy telling Zuko and Zuko told her that she was sick when Zuko tried to get his knife back from
Azula
she rubbed their mother disappearing in his face even more saying that mom wasn't there to help him this time when Ozai was crowned Fire LordAzula
watching Glee flee with a big smile on her face after her mother's disappearance oza began to favor a Sulha more and more over Zuko this became most clear whenAzula
watched smiling and ruining herfather on as he burned Zuko's face giving him a permanent scar he then banished Zuko from the Fire Nation until he captured the
avatar
with Zuko being gone this officially made a Zula become ozai's heir to the throneAzula
continued a firebending training and became so good that she could produce blue fire along with lightningAzula
got her first official task from her father when he sent her to find and capture Zuko and her uncle Iroh saying that they were traitors she found both ofthem and lied to Zuko saying that he would be welcomed home with open arms right before they were about to leave one of the guards called them prisoners and the two got away forcing
Azula
off the boat and into the water after failing on her first attempt to get them she enlisted the help of her childhood friends Mei and tightly while in OmashuAzula
seized the city in the name of her father naming it the city of new Ozai and she stripped mais father who Khanna from his governor rank while shewas there she ran into the
avatar
and she told her friends that Zuko and Iroh weren't the only targets anymore now they had to capture theavatar
as well on her missionAzula
utilized Fire Nation technology such as the tank trained wall in pursuit of her targets she came face-to-face with all three of her targets at one point but realized that she was outnumbered and blasted her uncle with blue fire to get awayAzula
tried to get through the impenetrable walls of Ba Sing se using a giantFire Nation drill she was almost successful but was stopped by team
avatar
Azula
along with Mei and Ty Lee eventually ran into the Kyoshi warriors a fight broke out in which the Kyoshi warriors lost andAzula
Mei and Ty Lee took their armor they used that armor to go to Ba Sing se and rather than infiltrate it from the outsideAzula
decided to infiltrate it from the inside she fooled the earth King to make him think that they were real Kyoshi warriors the earth Kingdom trader and former ministerlongfang recognized the Zula as the Fire Nation princess however he had his Dai Li agents bring her down to a cell to make a deal that you worked well together conquering Ba Sing se but eventually
Azula
betrayed longfang and took control of his Dai Li agents Long Feng ended up bowing down to her and said that she had beaten him at his own game Missoula was in disguise of the Kyoshi warrior she learned of a plot to attack the Fire Nation when the solar eclipse came it would cover up the Sunmaking the firebenders lose their power it was at that time the team
avatar
and an army behind them planned to infiltrate the Fire NationAzula
was again faced with all three of her targets Hugo Iroh and theAvatar
but this time she played her cards differently she promised Zuko that he could come home to the Fire Nation as Crown Prince and with his help she was able to capture Iroh and strike theavatar
withwhat
looked like a killing blow howeverAzula
was doubtful that she had actually killedhim and because of this she gave credit to Zuko when they returned home to their father Zuko didn't want to leave at first he had to be persuaded to do this
Azula
with the help of Ty Lee set up a date for Mei and Zuko she hoped that his feelings for Mei would persuade him to come home before she left Ba Sing seAzula
made Judy in charge and dubbed her as bureaucratic administratorAzula
thought that she was the perfect person for the job when they returned bothAzula
and her brother werewelcomed back as war heroes one weekend
Azula
along with Mei Tai Lee and Zuko all went to ember island to the beach house where their family went every summer when they were little well their resume looks like advantage of no one knowing who she was this way she could experiencelife
as a normal 14 year old her competitiveness came out during a game of volleyball and everyone thought that she was crazy and annoying later on she made a guy rush away from her when she was too overbearing afterthey kissed she again became jealous of Ty Lee who got all of the attention from the boys she later laughed when Zuko called Ty Lee a circus freak seeking out ty Lee's pain because she was jealous that she was better than her at something
Azula
later opened up about how their mother like Zuko better and said that she didn't care but after she said this she paused and looked into the fire with the very hurt look on her face she then began to dig deeper and said with definite sadness inher voice my own mother thought I was a monster when they returned to the Fire Nation
Azula
spoke up in a war council meeting she and her father came up with the idea to use sozin's comet which would give firebenders immense power to destroy the earth Kingdom once and for all she also warned them about the solar eclipse attackwhat
's helped them prepare for it they planned for Ozai to not be there when the occurred ruining teamavatar
's whole plan during the Eclipse invasion azulesstall team
avatar
allowing for the very short Eclipse to pass when it passed and she got a firebending back she drove them off and allowed the Fire Nation of victory whenAzula
went to the prison the boiling rock her longtime friends may entirely turned on her pilot she buckedAzula
making her fall to the ground completely helpless and unable to move she told them that they should have feared her more she then told the guards to take them somewhere where she would never have to see their facesagain and said to let them rot this is
what
made us doula start to become unhinged and she became a little bit mentalAzula
later confronted Zuko who had changed sides in the Western air temple which you began to fight and were both knocked off the airship Zuko was caught by Appa but Zuko watched and it looked like the end forAzula
but she caught herself by launching herself with fire and grabbing onto a cliff she watched as they flew away knowing that the battle wasn't over Oh as I made asulla successor as Fire Lord while he set into motion his plan to become supreme ruler of all nations and the world this made her mental health go downhill even more she had a full mental breakdown she banished her servants imperial firebenders and Oliver Dai Li agents paranoid that she couldn't trust them and that they would turn on her just like Mai and Ty Lee did she then became paranoid that her father didn't think she could handle being Fire Lord and she said that she would become
the greatest leader in Fire Nation history while getting ready for her coronation
Azula
cut off her hair and then she had a schizophrenic episode seeing her mother who told her it was a shame because her hair was so beautiful she began to have a conversation with her mother that she was envisioning telling her that she knewwhat
she really thought of her that she was a monster her mother pointed out to her that all of herlife
to use fear to control peopleAzula
responded saying that trust wasfor fools and fear was the only reliable way she then said in a sad and uncharacteristically unconfident way that even she her mother feared her her mother told her that that wasn't true and said that she loved her
Azula
consumed by emotion in the past desperate for her mother's approval began to cry that was all that she wanted to hear but this was too much she wanted these emotions to go away she picked up her brush and threw it at the mirror where she was envisioning her mother'sreflection at her coronation Zucco showed up before she was crowned Fire Lord
Azula
then challenged her brother to an Agni Kai a fight for the throne Zuko knew that he could beat her because something was off about her she was slipping whenAzula
was losing she decided to shoot guitar with lightning instead of Zuko and Zuko jumped in front of it saving KataraAzula
more crazy than ever then began to fight Katara she was eventually beaten by Katara and she went full psycho screaming and spittingout blue fire from her mouth she rived on the floor her screams slowly started to transition into desperate and pathetic cries she had lost everything including her mind missoula was taken to an insane asylum where she was watched 24/7 to make sure she didn't escape or do anything bad she continued to have schizophrenic episodes imagining her mother which continued to drive her further into insanity she started to think back to all that had
happened
to her and she came to the crazyconclusion that her mother had gotten to her friend's Zuko and everyone else that played a part in her downfall around 1 to 2 years later Zuko went to the asylum to ask
Azula
for help to figure out the truth aboutwhat
happened
to their motherAzula
agreed and as she did so she saw her mother in the mirror next to where she told Zuko that not a day had gone by since he put her in there that she hadn't wonderedwhat
happened
to their mother the first thing Zuko hadAzula
to was visit Ozaiin prison during this she was guarded by the Kyoshi warriors including her ex friends Ty Lee
Azula
and Ozai sat in silence not even saying so much as high when Zuko brought auntieAzula
bit the tray toward out of Zuko's hands and knocks you go over which made their father smileAzula
angrily asked to go how he expected her to drink tea while she was in a straitjacket Kyle even jumped in and she blockedAzula
Azula
screams and ask Kylie how she made her loser fear of her the she thatAzula
was referencing was her schizophrenic thoughts of her mother
Azula
has to go to let her knows I talk in private and Zuko agreed after Ty Lee and Zuko laughed Ty Lee told Zuko thatAzula
was wrong she never lost her fear of her while in private Oh as I told his doula about one of his secret chambers in the palace and a bunch of letters that her mother er sorrow he told her that he had collected them and made sure that they weren't to whom they were addressed afterAzula
and Ozai finishedtalking Zuko took a Zula alone and asked her
what
they talked about before he could find out howeverAzula
blasted him with lightning and got out of her straitjacket she ran to the chamber that Jose had told her about and when Zuko got there she told him that those letters were the key to finding their mother when Zuko took a step forward she burned all of the letters when Zuko askedwhat
was wrong with her she screamed why don't you ask her that again talking about her mother who she wasconvinced was out to get her
Azula
joined Zuko and teamavatar
on a mission to find their mother was dueling made a deal with Zuko because she knewwhat
the letter said Zuko had to take her unbound and of her own free well otherwise she wouldn't tell himwhat
the letter said she neglected to tell Zuko one thing however she got one letter which said that Jose wasn't due close father this was her key to taking the throne as it was not Sukkos birthright if that was true while flying on AppaAzula
asked the group which of them she approached first she then belted out that none of them had even met her yet so how did she convince them to help ruin herlife
Azula
later jumped off of Appa and tried to get away so that she could find her mother on her own asAzula
was running from Zuko she saw her mother and the reflection of the water she began to scream at the reflection she told her mother that she couldn't break her and that she was stronger than she realized she screamed outyou've been conspiring to take me down from the day I was born even when I was an infant you saw in me something you never had power that's why you think I'm a monster my power makes you fear me the reflection of her mother that she was imagining told her that she loved her and
Azula
screamed out consumed by anger confusion and her mental illness she then turned around and hit the water with her bending as she told her mother that this was her most treacherous act turning her ownmind against her Zuko then approached and asked who she was talking to before Zuko could get the answer however Katara wrapped
Azula
in ice all of them were then attacked by a spirit wall and none of them could fight it off Zuko Freitas Ulala and she used her immense power to drive the spirit off single-handedly whileAzula
was asleep she was again woken by her schizophrenic thoughts of her mother this time her mother told her to give up her quest her mother then told her that all herlife
shehid behind a mass of intimidation and fear
Azula
began to blast her mother but before she did so she started questioning everything Katara stepped in and snaps her out of her schizophrenic state whenAzula
realized that the letter she had saved was gone she confronted Zuko again who had taken it go too far and the Zuko eventually beat her and screamed out from the day you were born you've put me through so much whyAzula
why the relationship have to be like this she has to go if she waswhispering in his ear telling him to say this and Zuko told her that she was making no sense later on after everyone had calmed down
Azula
and Zuko watched love amongst dragons which made the two bond as they remembered their childhood on ember islands while there they were invited to a family's home by a man named Eiko there they met his wife Noriko and their daughter Kiki laterAzula
Zuko and teamavatar
went into forgetful Valley and teamavatar
began to help a brother and sister in needAzula
then thought that her mother orchestrated this whole meeting with the siblings and she tried to go after them Zuko and teamavatar
stopped her but during the fight the mother of faces appeared she told them that she could grant one wish and before the siblings who had waited many years to have this wishAzula
stepped in and stolen asking the mother faces where her mother was the mother of faces told her that their mother was now disguised as Noriko the woman part of the family that theyhad just met
Azula
went after her immediately slipping away from the group when she got to the house she zapped her way through the ceiling kicked Zuko out of the way and jumped order motherAzula
was ready to give the final killing blow but Noriko who had her memory erased of herlife
in the Fire Nation caressed her face and told her that she was sorry that she didn't love her enough tears began to fill in as ULA's eyes all she wanted her wholelife
was a mother's love and approvalAzula
had frozen and in that hesitation Zuko jumped in between the tailAzula
shot lightning and Zuko and he absorbed it and shot it back she told Zuko that she wanted to get rid of her so she could stop seeing her mother in her head Zuko then told her no and said that no matterwhat
she still had him that she would always be his sisterAzula
told him to shut up and she escaped the house Zuko and Noriko ran after her Zuko telling her that he could help herAzula
turned around and told Zuko thateven when he's strong he's weak she then ran off into the cliffs in the far distance Zucco search forgetful valley for weeks but he eventually came to the conclusion that she didn't want to be found Missoula was in exile for quite some time during that time she realized
what
a true destiny was it was not to be on the throne and it wasn't to make her father become Fire Lord again either her destiny was to turn Zuko intowhat
she and Ozai represented she wanted to make him ruthlessafter figuring out her destiny two things followed the voices in her head stopped and she regained her strength she was no longer weak or slipping the way she had been since the finale of the original
series
she came up with a plan and broke out a bunch of girls from the asylum that she was in before she used the old memory of when she may entirely stole Mae's mother's mochi she remembered Mae saying that the Camorra Koshchei were going to get her in her sleepAzula
later found out thatthe Chimera Koshchei were ancient spirits that abducted children
Azula
and her Asylum friends that she had broken out dressed up as the spirits which was part ofazula
's larger plan to make Zuko like her and Ozai they first went to scare okano Mae's father and the leader of the new Ozai Society a group they wanted to go out of the throne and Ozai back in it she told him dressed as the chimera kasha that if he did not get rid of Zuko then he would suffer Meccano failed whichAzula
predicted and wanted it was just the first step of her plan to turn Zuko into her in Ozai when
Azula
came back who Kondo begged her for another month to get the job done when he failed after a monthAzula
showed okano her true identity and showed him that she and her friends weren't spirits in a way this was even scarier to okano he had dealt with her before when she stripped him of his governor rank and took over Omashu the city that he was governing when she revealed her true identity sheforced him to help her with the next step of her plan which was to start kidnapping children Josas the original camera kaze spirits had done before she forced him to drain his bank account to make a headquarters where they would keep the kids the first child is she and her Asylum friends kidnapped was reconnaissance team Tom they kidnapped many more kids and used smoke and secret passageways for quick escapes that made it look like they magically disappeared
Azula
of course knew of all of thesedue to her years of exploring in her youth and when the same tunnels that she used while playing hide and seek with Megan Ty Lee one night
Azula
kidnapped her half-sister Kiki the daughter of Ursa during herlife
is Noriko during this kidnapping she was stopped and cornered and was forced to shoot lightning to escape which revealed her identity to Zuko Ty Lee Aang and SukiAzula
continued to play with you canö eventually revealing that she never intended for Ozai to end up on the throne as youcanö had been promised she ordered him to start a riot which made Zuko look even worse to the Fire Nation again all part of
azula
's plan to make Zuko look more ruthless after this who cano begged her to released the kids and his son TomTom Android as she was putting the key in to unlock it she stopped and told him that she was keeping the kids longer when Zuko may Aang and Mays boyfriend kilo found where the kids were a fight between them and the asylum girls ensuedAzula
eventually got herhands on kylo and may beg to Zula to leave him out of it when Zuko stepped in both Ian
Azula
gave each other everything that they had a battle that would have rivaled the Agni Kai they had at the end of the originalseries
Azula
then fled and Zuko chased after her the to once again fought it out untilAzula
got the upper hand and was on top of Zuko to Zuko surprised she got off andexplained
her plan to her brother she pointed out that in the last few weeks he had become ruthless and like herand Ozai when Zuko told her that she was wrong she vanished using smoke and left him with the parting words accept it it's who you are Zuko gave a speech saying that he was not the best ruler in the past few weeks an
Azula
and her Asylum friends dresses the Camaro Kasia watched from a far-off rooftopAzula
said his speech was touching in a sarcastic voice and they vanished we'll have to wait and seewhat
is doulas next move is it seems as though she hasn't given up onwhat
she thinksher destiny is making Zuko like her and Ozai she and her Asylum friends may have been stopped this time but I think there's a lot more to this story when we find out more I'll be sure to make a video about it so stay tuned for that thank you so much for watching guys you can follow me on social media links for that will be down below if you like this video make sure you press that subscribe button to help grow the channel I want to give a huge shout out to all my patrons listed below if
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