#The only challenge that comes close is Toph because she's nigh invincible

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This is also why I prefer to write Azula over most characters in Avatar: The Last Airbender

Because writing Azula is harder than writing Zuko or Iroh or most of the other beloved fandom characters. We are talking a person who pulled a Lady Eboshi and shot down her setting's equivalent of capital G God at 14, who got nerfed because the writers wrote themselves in a corner. A character who is presented as one thing, does the exact opposite, and gets treated like she's Warsmith Honsou or Fabius Bile by overgrown children who have never seen an actual human child or had any actual contact with a person of the species Homo sapiens besides their mamas bringing chicken tenders the basement.

Writing a character who's powerful, smart, and seen only through the eyes of others requires more skill than writing Prince Burns Shit When He's Mad struggling through fixing the postwar Fire Nation (I actually really like that kind of story but I ain't wasting the braincells on Prince Chuck Tingle Turtleduck), General Obi Wan Kenobi with tea, or what have you.

Avatars, of course, are an equal or greater challenge and this is why the setting itself has to nerf them because they created a fighting series for kids with a character whose greatest potential is stuff the setting doesn't uh, really bother exploring.

Of course the other character who'd be an actual challenge for an interesting story is Toph, especially when she gets metalbending. Toph is an OP powerhouse who steamrolls pretty much everyone and would be likely to start trouble if there is none for shits and giggles.

#avatar:the last airbender #azula #zuko #iroh #yeah I said it #whaddya gonna do? #cry that your favorite talking drawing got lambasted on the Internet? #log off and touch grass #azula is more interesting and complicated to write than anyone short of the Avatars themselves #The only challenge that comes close is Toph because she's nigh invincible #and writing her set of senses is an exercise in creativity that works just as well