Azula

## Background

### 2002 - 2014: Azula

Princess Azula was born on a warm summer day to Prince Ozai & his wife, Princess Ursa in the country of Bhutran. She was their second child after their son Zuko. Her father was third in line for the throne, predecessed by his elder brother Iroh & Iroh's son Lu Ten. Azula was the stereotypical spoiled daughter. She grew up with all the riches, splendor & privileges of royalty in the Fire Nation. Her sharp wits & the fact that she was a firebending prodigy gained her great attention & acclaim from many, which quickly made her Ozai's favorite child. Ozai nurtured her confidence, educating her in politics & warfare so that she could succeed him as heir.

Azula was quite close to her brother when they were younger. But as the two grew older, their relationship deteriorated duje to Ozai's favortism of Azula & Azula perceiving Zuko to be their mothers favorite. It festered a rift of jealousy in her, resulting Azula constantly trying to gain her mother's attention. In time, her jealousy turned into hostility for both her mother & brother.

As a young child, Azula exhibited a duplicitous & cunning streak. She reguarly manipulated others to get her way, not caring for others in the process. Her personality traits combined with her impressive skills was a recipe for disasters in the years to come.

Two years after the Great War started, her Uncle Iroh began his legendary Seige of Ba Sing Se. After 600 days of attacking the city, he finally breached the outer wall. Unfortunately, his son Lu Ten was kiled in the seige & Iroh had the forces retreat. Azula believed her uncle to be "a quitter & a loser." Azula commented to her father that Iroh was not worthy of becoming Fire Lord & that he should be the heir instead. A few days later, her grandfather passed away & her mother disappeared. Her father was then coronated as the new leader of the Fire Nation, as Azula watched with joy.

### 2014 - 2018: Azula

Over the next four years, Ozai's favor of Azula & dislike for Zuko grew much more apparant. This resulted in an even more distant relationship between the two siblings, with Azula holding little amicable feelings for her brother.

In 2018, Zuko was asked by his Uncle Iroh to attend one of the war meetings so that he could see how things progress. During the event, he insulted a general & brought dishonor to his father. As a result, he was challenged by his father to an Agni Kai, a traditional duel only won when one opponent burns the other. Azula watched as Zuko begged their father for mercy but was instead met with a burn to the face. Zuko was thus banished from the Fire Nation & Azula officially became Ozai's heir.

### 2018 - 2020: Azula

Azula spent the next year proving to her father that he made the right choice in making her the official heir. She relentlessly trainied in pyrokinesis with the fire mages, learned strategy from war meetings & excelled in combat with her mentors. After a year of honing her skills, she had advanced her powers to the point that she could create blue flames, thus increasing her abiltiies & making her a formidable opponent.

As Azula attended war meetings with her father, she learned of a recently formed resistance that was targetting Ozai's rule. Though Azula wanted to challenge the group herself, he instead tasked Zuko & Iroh with bringing them in, telling Zuko he could regain his honor this way. For the next several months, Azula heard of Zuko's many failures but none had been that bad until the Invasion of the Northern Water Tribe. When word got back to Ozai that Iroh tried to prevent Zhao's assassination of Princess Yue & Zuko attacked Zhao for other reasons. With both branded enemies of the Fire Nation, Azula was tasked with capturing her relatives.

Azula was successful in finding the two, claiming she was there to bring the two back home. But her plan was thwarted when one of the soldiers accidentally refered to them as "priosners." The two escaped, leaving Azula captive-less. She continued to look for them for the next month until Ozai decided to have her go after people more appartment, the revolutionaries. She formed a team with her childhood friends Ty Lee & Mai to help her on her mission.

While Azula was unsuccessful in capturing them in Omashu, she was able to secure the city for the Fire Nation & renamed it New Ozai in her father's honor. She still continued her two seperate searches, even injuring her uncle when they encountered each in another city. Shortly after, she & her team encountered the Kyoshi Warriors of Kyoshi Island. The warriors proved no match for the trio & were defeated, leading to them being incarcerated at the Boiling Rock Prison. Using the Kyoshi Warriors attire, the trio snuck into Ba Sing Se & began plotting their takeover. In a matter of weeks, she personally overthrew the sovereign & had the Dai Li (police force of Earth Kingdom) pledge loyalty to her. Upon gaining control of the palace, she crossed path with both the gaang & her brother. As they all began to battle, Zuko assisted his sister & Azula managed to mortally wound Aang. Believing him to be dead, the two siblings retreated.

## Powers & Abilities

* **Homo Magi Physiology**: Bhutran is a place where most of its citizens are born with a natural affinity to use magic, specifically one of the four elements. Azula inherited the ability of pyrokinesis from his father.
	+ ***Pyrokinesis*:** Azula is one of the most skilled & powerful pyrokinetics of her country, recognized as a prodigy by both Ozai & Zuko. The most notable feature of Azula's bending was her ability to create blue flames, which are much more intense than the red, orange & yellow flames normally used by pyrokinetics. She also used her flames in inventive ways, such as creating jets of flames, whirling disks & blades of fire. Also notable was her ability to produce a greater amount of flames than others without tiring & she was able to maintain successive assaults for long durations of time.
* **High Level Intellect*:*** Azula is extremely intelligent & a cunning strategist. She was also a highly studious girl. Since childhood, she was well-versed in her nation's military history as she successfully recounted her great grandfather's strategy in an old battle.
	+ ***Deception/Manipulation*:** Azula's intelligence made her very skillful in manipulating people. She used this skill on many subjects, including Zuko, her mother, Sokka & even her father to an extent. She also displayed the ability to be so extremely capable of lying effectively that even Toph could not sense it regardless of how blatant the lie was, showing that Azula did not feel remorse for lying or many of her other actions. She also displayed an ability to realize whether or not someone was telling the truth, stating simply that she was a "people person."
	+ ***Multilingualism*:** She is fluent in Bhutranese, English, Chinese & Rhelasian.
* **Weaponry:** She has some skill with hidden weaponry.
* **Above Average Human Condition:** Her physical strength is adept as she could perform a planche, supporting her body in a horizontal position just by using her arms, with little effort.
	+ ***Hand to Hand Combat*:** Azula's high-level skill in unarmed combat has been displayed several times. She has displayed incredible fighting prowess in learning the fighting styles of her foes.

### Ratings

* **Intelligence:** Unknown
* **Strength:** Unknown
* **Speed:** Unknown
* **Occult:** Unknown
* **Weapons:** Unknown
* **Range:** Unknown
* **Strategy:** Unknown
* **Combat:** Unknown
* **TOTAL:** Unknown

## Notes

* Azula is an original character of the *Avatar: The Last Airbender* franchise.
* Sozin & Roku are Zuko's great grandparents in the franchise.
* Her birthday is the same as Grey DeLisle, the actor that voiced her in the television show.