You had a natural bent toward aggression and ambition. That doesn't make you a beast. Competitive, ruthlessly driven, spoiled, but not evil. You were quite the prodigy, but like all prodigy children, you didn't know how to accept losses.
You weren't emotionally equipped to know how to deal with people doing things better than you, so you had to break them down to make yourself feel better. No doubt that such things haven't changed. You still react like a petulant little girl when things don't go your way, then insist that it always goes your way. For all your machinations, you still come off as a little girl desperately trying to prove to somebody that you're worth something great.
To your father? To yourself? Why? If you were emotionless, you wouldn't care about that. You wouldn't care about anything.
I'm not saying it's all your fault. Many children are mean-spirited and bratty. That's why they need to be taught temperance, and be loved. You had none, Zuko had too much. Neither of your parents knew the right balance, from the looks of things.
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You weren't emotionally equipped to know how to deal with people doing things better than you, so you had to break them down to make yourself feel better. No doubt that such things haven't changed. You still react like a petulant little girl when things don't go your way, then insist that it always goes your way. For all your machinations, you still come off as a little girl desperately trying to prove to somebody that you're worth something great.
To your father? To yourself? Why? If you were emotionless, you wouldn't care about that. You wouldn't care about anything.
I'm not saying it's all your fault. Many children are mean-spirited and bratty. That's why they need to be taught temperance, and be loved. You had none, Zuko had too much. Neither of your parents knew the right balance, from the looks of things.