This is an amazingly well-written story! Really, I can't wait to read the next installment of the trilogy! You are a very talented writer with a special way of words.

Wow, I love it simple as that.
The final killed me I was hopping for Azula to be best than the Avatar like she said she would but tha's too good to be true besides I think I prefer this Azula looking quite a lot like Wan Shi Tong

love it

Props to being able to write like you do impressive

I look forward to more :)

This reminds me of Jason Solo's time in the embrace of pain

This was definetly an interesting read, and it's outcome also a bit of a mix I didn't completely expect. Azula, an anti-avatar, very interesting, like her soul was destined to find it's part. I wonder how this will end in the trilogy.

"Good and evil isn't simple to describe," she insisted.

"But you know it when you see it, and then you avoid it, yes?"

"Yes."

Wan Shi Tong unfurled one wing and bent it, curving the feathers around like a hand pointing to himself. "Have you seen no evil in me?"

this reminds me of a saying in a book I've read.

here it is. "Evil is a completely different creature. Evil is bad that believes it's good."

I'm sorry for taking so long to review, but my new job is a killer drain on my time. I must say I'm disappointed with this chapter. I liked it, and it was extraordinarily well-written, but despite predicting the end, I was unhappy with how it happened.

The beginning was excellent and very promising, and the conversation with Wan Shi Tong reached an apex of achievement, with Azula truly becoming who she was meant to be. She was the perfect Anti-Avatar, not in adversity and opposition, but in education and learning. Much like the cycle of student-teacher with Wan Shi Tong, the Avatar had taught her the hardest lesson of all, how to be herself, through the test he forced her to pass. And she would return that favor - she, with all her knowledge, would teach the Avatar what he was truly meant to be, and many other important life lessons.

Then she realizes her father is dead. I can accept her rage, and her determination to teach the Avatar and the Gaang a rather sharper, more painful lesson. It makes sense - she did love her father, for all his flaws. And for all her knowledge, she is still human. I can even accept her manipulation of herself into something more, something inhuman, immortal, similar to the Avatar only in physical form. But the hacking away at the moral code was preposterous. It made all her progress worthless. What worth is knowledge in these areas when she herself removed them? Of course, one could speculate that if she removed them, she can restore them, but that rather makes a mock of the entire idea of a moral/emotional system.
At least she kept love, and there was the implication that her surviving relationships would be strengthened, which (with her new powers) bodes well for Ty Lee at least, and possibly others. But if all she has left of emotion is love and satisfaction... well, I'm not sure where it goes from here.

The ending was amazing. But as I wrote, I'm not sure where we go from here. The reason we so love Azula is (I believe) because of her personality. When she's removed almost all emotions, how much of her personality and character has remained, especially with all the development and knowledge it's undergone? I remain hopeful. But I am also concerned. In any case, I can't wait for either a reply or the new story.

Man...I actually read this a few days ago but never reviewed it...but man...its mad dope. Whole story concept and how you flowed it all together. Literally the best story I've read from start to finish.

Damn...All I can say is Damn, this story is amazing, I mean...Damn, oh my god I love it and I can't wait for the next installment of this masterpiece...Damn

Excellent story good sir, excellent. A friend had recommended this months back, and now it simply pains me to think that I waited so long to heed his advice. Fanfics aside, this is easily one of my favorite stories ever read, as it delves so horrifically in depth into the very nature of human existence. All human life is filled with pain, and whatever lies after, whatever transcendence in consciousness or spirituality that may follow, will be allowed to us only because of the pain we have endured. I love especially the comparison to a caterpillar becoming a butterfly, I think it's the perfect metaphor in this case.

There are so many aspects of deeper human psychology at play here that it's almost as if you aren't a human at all, but a higher being who understands us better than we understand ourselves. I like especially Azula's relationship with her father, how it's two people doing what they want to because they want to regardless of "society's" rules. I try to separate myself from morals, as they are essentially a plague on our existence meant to keep us weak, but it's an increasingly arduous task when faced with pressures that I know I must shirk but at the same time find incredibly hard to do so.

I've thoroughly enjoyed reading this story over the past couple days, and you can be certain I'll be heading straight for the next one and leaving a review there as well. You're an exemplary writer, and I have the utmost respect for your style and talent. I do have to ask, concerning the handle you use on here, the turn, is that possibly a reference to the Hollows series? Just wondering

Vahnati

Great chapter and story overall. I feel sorry for Zuko and his family. I wonder if it means anything that Azula never focused her thoughts of revenge on Mai and Ty Lee. Can't wait to see Azula tearing things up. I am wondering about a few things though. Is energy bending all there is to the Avatar's power? If not did Azula actually reach the source of it when she left the cave? Is she reincarnated with the power like the Avatar if she happens to die? If not I'd think that she would destroy the cave or something.

I Cannot Wait for the Sequel! Brilliant work!

I absolutely loved the ending. She'd achieved absolute power, yet found that the purpose of all her hardship had already passed on onto the earth. Then she starts to find something else for herself, outside of the mortal life she'd once lived and into a goal-driven stage where this time, she's in total control. Azula has already learnt and gone through so much, yet, there are still things she she can gain. This is one of the best stories I've ever had the pleasure of reading, that deals with something of such dark nature - realistic, philosophical.
I can't exactly put into words what this reminds me of, but I think a fallen angel would best describe her. Something that used to be so grand, yet cruelly stripped of her honours and cast onto the earth. Then through trials of time, she gained power and knowledge to ascend back into her former glory, yet infinitely more powerful that she could have ever been before.
She now has the power, in a world where, contradictory to the avatar's belief, is all that really matters. And I look forward further progress from not just her, but the sparks she has the potential to ignite or diminish from all those that meet her on her journey of teachings.