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Player Information

Name: Zen
Personal Journal: aresvallies
Age: 27
Contact Info: midgarhorizon has a sticky post at top with contact info.
Other Characters Played: Reno, Marty McFly

Character Information

Character Name: Princess Azula of the Fire Nation
Character Series: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Character Age: 14
Character Gender: Female
Original Canon
Canon Point: After A:TLA episode "The Beach" and before "The Boiling Rock"
Background Link: http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Azula
Personality:
Trying to scratch the surface of Azula isn't easy, and even harder under the surface. Azula could be best described as a cold, hard, metallic surface where a mass of conflicts and emotions rage. She's a very unbalanced individual, yet she can keep her cool until that one little straw comes along, blowing everything out of the water.

Not much is known about her early years, except that even from a young age, she was shown to be jealous and manipulative of her friends, keeping tabs on them through subtle actions and fears. Presumably, her desire to be perfect started early as well, as she was shown to try to upstart Zuko, her older brother, on several occasion by impressing her father and grandfather.

Her studies of tactics and history has made her a very cunning, ruthless fighter and leader in battle. She could even be considered a genius in matters of warfare. She uses her knowledge and skills to intimidate and control the people around her, and she's shown to do so even at a young age. Preferably with fear, which she even uses against her friends, as exemplified in her bullying of Ty Lee to leave the circus and join her in her crusade against the Avatar and the Royal Fugitives.

She's highly critical of other people around her, having no reservations on calling them out on a flawed plan or idea. Likewise, she threatens and criticizes anyone that questions her or says her orders can't be done/delayed, even her own warship captains.

Azula plans for everything, and makes plans on plans. It isn't unfair to say she can turn almost any situation into a win for her with a creative twist, and she definitely isn't the type to wait for magical sparkly transformation sequences to stop before acting when she has the opportunity. Given the chance, she will mercilessly and ruthlessly kill whoever stands in her way as an enemy, but not go so far as to execute the friends that betrayed her immediately after her canon point, instead ordering them to be locked away to rot.

She has a lot of mom issues, as the end of the show displayed that she had a deepseated issue with thinking that her mother preferred and loved Zuko over her. She has harbored this for many years and this is a major source of her internal conflicts and feelings. As a way of dealing with this I would say she buried her feelings at a young age and started on her 'path to perfection' as a way to gain favor with her father. On very rare occasions, when she is at her most stable, she can be shown to care at least a little about her friends- but it isn't entirely certain in canon that she's sincere or if she's acting because she isn't above doing such things.

One thing that is definite is that she shows no fear, even in situations dangerous to her and her health, such as the day of Black Sun, fearlessly confronting the Avatar without her firebending, or plummeting off a cliff face. She can think rationally and devise a way out of the situation, and is very good at thinking on her feet.


Abilities:

Being the Fire Nation Princess, Azula of course had access to only the best education provided. She is a prodigy at Firebending, being able to use blue flames and lighting, which only the more powerful masters can do. It also shows a reflection of her personality as lightning and blue fire was called the "cold fire" and required a suppression of all emotion. She uses firebending in unique and unusual ways, and rather than punches or open palms as most firebenders, she uses two fingers, a trait which she shares with her Great Grandfather Sozin.

Having a seat in the war meetings, in addition to history and study of tactics has given Azula an amazing insight to

Azula has also learned non-bending martial arts, weapons use, and acrobatics and doesn't necessarily need to use firebending to best her opponent. It is generally accepted that she picked up more advanced acrobatics from her friend, Ty Lee.

Things she is bad at: hairstyling, animal husbandry, people skills, dates, normal girl things, being a good sister, being a decent person.

Sample Entry:
http://towerofjamjars.dreamwidth.org/25302.html?thread=5417686#cmt5417686
http://dear-mun.dreamwidth.org/4661152.html?view=145523360&posted=1#cmt145523360