I enjoyed this but feel like the ending was a bit lack luster. After all she went through she is now going to abandon ty lee? I rather expected her to find beauty in the fire and decide to see what trouble she could get up to with ty lee in the future.

But I guess that works?

I like this.
I wish you'd rewrite it though. No offense, it's more like after watching TLOK I wonder how this Azula would have a hand in it y'know?
Thank you for your story.

Awesome what-if! I love your characrerization of Azula. This is the girl we know from the Earth kingdom, infiltrating Ba Sing Se and destroying it from the inside, not the crazy loon from Fire. Its great too see what she could have done. The ending didnt feel quite right - really, just a general? But Iroh was right about her hating being FireLord. I feel like Azula focussed so much on becoming Fire Lord that she never thought beyond that. It was her end-all, be-all.

Anyways, thanks for this awesome fic! :)

ok that was totally awesome. i just read all 3 chapters in 5 hours and loved every minute of it so yay it's safe to say you are amazing. never stop writing.

I love this story, I've read it three times in the years since I found it.
You manage to write a plausible and entertaining AU, without changing Iroh's essential character despite him being the opposition and where all the changes to Azula's flow feel like natural outgrowths from the premise- with a few years raised by Iroh, even hating him, then a few more with Ty Lee at the circus, she turned out a bit differently than if she'd spent them under her father's influence. She still feels like Azula, deceptive, often contemptuous, arrogantly convinced of her own destiny- but you've shaved off enough rough edges to make her a truly sympathetic protagonist without mutilating the character and, unlike many stories that do so, you have genuine reasons for her to have turned out differently. Her scheming is genuinely entertaining and the audience feels some of her frustration at being thwarted by Iroh at every turn, but it ends on a high note. She may not be Fire Lord, but she's got Ty Lee and friends and an important and interesting job, so she's better off than if she'd actually succeeded.

I loved this. It was just perfect.

Okay, so I really, really like this. I'd be willing to pay for this to be real. Can this be real? I really like it. It still follows the basic stuff, but it's more interesting with Azula and Ty Lee there instead of Zuko. Let's face it, most people would love watching Azula with her conspiracy plan to become Fire Lord. Zuko's kind of always been a bit boring to me. But I was extremely fond of this story.

I just spent the past few hours reading this and loved every last second. You did a wonderful job adapting the series to your AU, and I think your characterization of Azula having to stomach the Avatar were spot on.

It's obvious you put a great amount of time into the details and development of this story, so I applaud you. It was epic. The only pity is that it looks like you've never written other TyZula pieces. That ship needs your talent ;)

This is a fantastic trilogy! I always felt azula would find some greater calling on her own accord, and you portrayed her moral journey beautifully and in character.

Ty lee you're too adorable oh gosh someone help me she's so cute!

Best Azula fic I have read! I was going to include a lot of expletives there but even that wouldn't do justice to epicosity that this story was! God I loved this.

really good story.

That ending felt a little dream like but then again Book 3 was full of illusions anyway. Thank you. Great perspective. Wish there had been more Tyzula and Toph cracks, but hey, Whats a fanfic writer to do? You're definitely not here on a readers whim.

Excellent story.

I would have liked to see more Tyzula and I think the ending was really rushed. You could have planned your story a bit better with the fact that the Fire Nation royals weren't in the bunker then where were they? Also, there wasn't really much reason for Azula and Aang to see the dragons because Azula didn't lose her inner fire like Zuko did in the show.

Overall, it was a good change in the original series but I think you could have made it more unique. Make it your own, not a mirror to the series. They probably didn't have to go to destroy the factory and clean up the lake so you could have replaced it with something more dramatic and develop more character e.g. Ty Lee gets taken by Fire Nation soldiers that recognise her and Azula's love for Ty Lee can finally be seen.

Thanks for the story! I liked it :)