I got the sense that an Agni Kai wasn't necessarily supposed to be like Zuko saying he would kill Azula. The Agni Kai was more like an honorable fight for supremacy, even with lightning (which he redirected at his father without killing him).
I feel Zuko does hold out the possibility of killing someone as an idea--so did the rest of the GAang besides Aang. If he'd been given the job of killing the Fire Lord in the way Aang was I don't think he'd have tried to find other options. But when actually faced with the moment it seems like both he and Katara go for something else, no matter how angry they were before that.
I wonder if the connection is that Zuko and Katara are both very emotional characters so can get carried away with anger while Aang is very much not that? That's why they make good foils for him.
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Date: 2008-07-20 09:06 pm (UTC)I feel Zuko does hold out the possibility of killing someone as an idea--so did the rest of the GAang besides Aang. If he'd been given the job of killing the Fire Lord in the way Aang was I don't think he'd have tried to find other options. But when actually faced with the moment it seems like both he and Katara go for something else, no matter how angry they were before that.
I wonder if the connection is that Zuko and Katara are both very emotional characters so can get carried away with anger while Aang is very much not that? That's why they make good foils for him.