#my terrible terrible beloved girlfailure girlboss. queen of being evil for no reason and losing horribly

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RIP scarlet you won the tournament in my heart

Awful Characters Round 1 Part 2 (5/8)

Propaganda under the cut!

AZULA

Azula explicitly considers herself a monster. She says needlessly cruel things to her brother and friends. She kills the show's twelve-year-old protagonist and masterminds the idea of burning down the entire Earth Kingdom to force them to submit to Fire Nation rule. I have absolutely seen people get called abuse apologists for thinking she's a cool character. But she's also a (canonically) mentally ill fourteen-year-old who was raised by her father to see her ability to be weaponized as her only value. Her mother, arguably the only adult in her life who could have had a positive impact, had a strained relationship with her because she was more difficult than her brother, and then disappeared when she was nine. Her uncle, who was her brother's main healthy role model, took absolutely no interest in her. She watched her father belittle her brother for years and eventually throw him away when he failed to meet his expectations, so that was a threat she was always facing. She really had no chance. And she also has moments that suggest she wants some sort of meaningful connection with another person. She lets her brother take credit for killing the Avatar so he can come back from exile, even though it means she'll be bumped back in the order of succession and offers him advice that seems genuine. Her spiral into a mental breakdown starts when her friends betray her. She's just a much more interesting and multifaceted than a lot of the fandom gives her credit for.

QUEEN SCARLET

She is such an awful awful person. She doesn’t care about her kids. She forced her prisoners to fight to the death in her arena for her entertainment. She stole one of her soldiers’ kids after convincing said soldier to kill the other one. Oh, speaking of that stolen kid (The kid’s name is Peril, by the way she has a condition where you can’t touch her because if you do she’ll burn you. It’s called firescales. That will be important later), Scarlet manipulated her into thinking no one could love her! She also forced Peril into eating some kind of special rocks, and if she didn’t eat them Scarlet would poison her food and make her think she needed them. And when Peril finally escaped after Scarlet was attacked and allegedly killed, Scarlet manipulated Peril AGAIN by getting Peril’s dad to change her firescales to normal scales (he had a magic bag that could change people like that), but the spell also made her loyal to Scarlet and made her forget about her friends. Speaking of Peril’s dad, he and Scarlet turned Scarlet’s daughter Tourmaline into a completely different person for almost her entire life. But oh my god is Scarlet a fun character to watch. She’s evil in the way an old Disney villain is, and it’s so fun. I’m not online a lot to post my opinions, but someone literally stopped being my friend because I told them that my favorite character was Scarlet, so yeah.