Oh, and the fact that Azula, while legitimately suffering from paranoia, also has her own agenda and doesn’t much care how her actions affect the others. As is often the case, the quest is more complicated than expected, as is the story behind Ursa’s disappearance, her relationship with Ozai, and her desperate bid to do what she thought was best for her children. In an attempt to resolve some of the conflict within his “small nation” and hoping his doing so will make him a better leader of the larger one, Zuko has Azula released from the hospital and the two of them, along with Aang, Kitara, and Sokka, go in search of Princess Ursa. With stability established in the Fire Nation and across the continents, Zuko finally has time to focus on a question that has plagued both him and his sister Azula since childhood: what really happened to their mother? Knowing only that she was banished, leaving the siblings to the cruel tutelage of their father, Fire Lord Ozai, a lecture by an Earth Nation scholar about the parallels between the foundations of family and a nation leave Zuko wondering what sort of Fire Lord he’ll be as someone who has imprisoned his father, put his sister in a psychiatric facility, and left his mother to the whims of fate.
