Jokerzula

Azula: So, I see you received the free ticket I sent you. I'm glad. I did so want you to be here. You see, it doesn't matter if you catch me and send me back to the Asylum. Zuzu turned no different than my father. I've proved my point! I've demonstrated that there's no difference between me and everybody else! All it takes is one bad day to turn the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day. You had a bad day once. Am I right? I know I am. You had a bad day, and everything changed! Sparing my father's life doesn't hide it, it SCREAMS it! You had a bad day, and it drove you as crazy as everybody else! Only you won't admit it! You have to keep pretending that life makes sense. That there's some point to all this struggling. By the SPIRITS you make me want to puke! I mean what is it with you? What made you what you are? Uncaring monk as a parental figure, maybe? Betrayed by someone you trusted? Something like that I bet...something like that......something like that...happened to me, you know? I'm...I'm not exactly sure what it was. Sometimes, I remember it one way, sometimes another...if I'm going to have a past, I prefer it to be multiple choice! Haha! My point is... I went crazy. When I saw what a black, awful joke the world was, I went crazy as a coot! I admit it! Why can't you!? You're not that stupid! By clinging to reality you're denying the reality of the situation! I mean, do you realize that in order to orchestrate this whole plot I used a flock of chicken-geese that want to restore a benderless tyrant to the throne? Do you even know what triggered the 100 years war? Sozin jealousy over Avatar Roku powers! JELOUSY! Silly chicken-goose, it's all a joke! Anything anybody ever valued or struggled for, it's all just a monstrous, demented gag! Why can't you see the funny side!? WHY AREN'T YOU LAUGHING!?

(Aang goes Avatar state)

Aang: Because I've heard it before...and it wasn't funny the first time. I spoke to Zuko before I came in here. He kept saying that there was still hope for you. That he wants to heal you. You know what that means? It means that despite all your sick, vicious little games, he's as sane as he ever was. So maybe ordinary people don't always crack. Maybe there isn't any need to crawl under a rock with all the other slimy things when trouble hits. Maybe... it's just you.

Azula: NO!

(After a fight with Azula and Aang in which the latter is victorious. Zuko has arrived with the rest of the gaang.)

Azula (To Zuko): The spirits be damned! Well? What are you waiting for? I kidnapped a bunch of kids and I orchestrated a plot with the Ozai Secret Society. Just lock me back in that Asylum and get your standing ovation.....Well c'mon!

Zuko: No... Not this time. I don't want to hurt you. I don't want either of us to end up killing the other...but we're both running out of alternatives...and we both know it. Maybe it all hinges on tonight. Maybe this is our last chance to sort this bloody mess out. If you don't take it, then we're locked onto a suicide course. Both of us. To the death. It doesn't have to end like that. I don't know exactly what it was that bent your life out of shape, but something...something tells me that I've been there too. Maybe I can help. We could work together. I could rehabilitate you. Don't need to be out there on the edge any more. You don't have to be alone. We don't have to kill each other. Let me help you.

Azula:...I'm sorry, but...No. It's too late for that. Far too late. (Silence) Hahaha. Y'know, i-it's funny...this reminds me of a joke. See, there were these two guys in a lunatic asylum...and one night, one night they decide they don't like it anymore, so they decide they're going to escape. So they get up onto the roof, and there, just across this narrow gap, they see the rooftops of the town, stretching away in the moonlight...stretching to freedom.Now, the first guy, he jumps right across with no problem. But his friend, oh no, no way! He's afraid of falling. So the first guy gets an idea. He says, "Hey! I can firebend! I'll bend a flame across the gap between the buildings so you can walk on top of the flame and join me!" But the second guy just shakes his head and says "What do you think I am? Crazy? You'd just stop bending when I'm half way across!"