Title: Significant
Summary: When people love the gods, what does it make the people who are loved by the gods?
Warnings: SPOILERS for The Boiling Rock. Do not read if you haven't seen the episodes and/or don't want to be spoiled.
Notes: I'd like to thank Lost in a Dark Wood and Kaibasgirlx. The light in my head suddenly turned on.
"You know you should count yourself grateful Princess," the sage told her. Azula however was not pleased and highly disagreed with the old man. Who was he to judge her and say she's fortunate, when she had lost everything? Her father was dead, the Fire Nation was defeated, and she was alone. Everyone who should have cared for her abandoned her. Her mother, her father, her uncle, and even her friends. In the end, with the exception of her father, everyone loved him more. The failure was loved more than the prodigy, though Zuko thought it the other way around.
"Grateful you say?" the princess barked, "Why?" Yes she ought to be grateful for being stabbed in the back by her only friends; she ought to be thankful that her father crippled her when she lied almost dying, asking for help when the enemy became too much for her; she ought to be thankful that she was kicked around like trash while bleeding until the Avatar, her brother, and everyone else came to her rescue. She ought to be thankful that her mother returned in her life, and that all she despised were living with her. She ought to be thankful for being oh so useless.
"There must be something about your brother that makes everyone love him so," the sage told her.
"They all prefer weaklings over the strong," she answered bitterly. "Like themselves."
"They all love him," he continued to Azula's chagrin. "Adore him. And he loves them too. He's some guy to be loved so much."
"Get to the point," she hissed. He didn't shut up soon, she was going to have him locked up. Or at the very least, far away from her.
He smiled, "And yet above all of them, he loves you the most. Doesn't that say something about him and you? That's he's no fool for caring for you; and you are a prize worth more."
Author's Notes: The whole thing about Azula being beaten at the final battle by her father after she's fallen and becoming crippled is not an idea of mine. I was browsing around tv dot com and some members were discussing it. So not mine, there's.