The Search Part 3 SPOILERS

The Search Part 3 SPOILERS so don't read if you haven't finished or began to read Avatar the Last Airbender: The Search    DO NOT READ

So I finally found part 3 and read it. Have to say.....Azula still is the most tragic character of them all. I HATE URSA, people stop defending her, she is a terrible person!

So remember back in part 2 we meet a couple who gives them info on Ursa and Ikem? A friend of mine after reading part 2 gave a suggestion, "what if that is Ursa?" And he was absolutely right. It's sad when people can randomly predict what will happen. What happened was Ikem went to the Valley of Forgetfulness (or whatever its called) and asked the Mother of Faces to give him a new face in which he then helps Ursa to do the same thing when she returned to her hometown.

However the spirit has the ability to take away memories in which Ursa selfishly agrees to and the memories of her children or "previous life" is taken from her. When the spirit tells this to the gang, Azula runs off to confront Noriko but Zuko and Sokka reaches their home first. Azula fire bends at her mother demanding answers while telling Zuko not to be so naive. Azula is quite aware of her hallucinations of her mother in her head, HER SELF AWARENESS MEANS SHE ISN'T CRAZY!!! Ursa has one thing to say: "I'm sorry I didn't love you enough," we see tears in Azula's eyes, she fights with Zuko then runs away.

Aang shows up with the spirit who gives Ursa her memories back then she apologizes to Zuko. MY PROBLEM with this: Azula gets no closure, yes it's her own fault for running away but there's no scene depicting her coming back after calming the fuck down to talk to her mother. And Ursa's words are true, she did not love her children enough. Zuko is the favorite here like he's always been and it's unfair especially since Azula needed it more.

I find Ursa's lack of remorse disturbing, she was a bitch crying over nothing who constantly made Ozai out to be the bad guy when she lived with him. Technically she and Ozai are still married unless banishment = divorce. Her immaturity and refusal of her place in reality led to her choosing favorites which gave rise to the monster inside of Azula. She said she loved her daughter but never showed it, she did nothing for Azula at all, she was a terrible wife and mother then forsakened her memories of them to marry old flame Ikem. Ursa's actions were childish. She took responsibility for nothing. I can't stand her character and people who support her really need to stop and think about what's she's done.

The most surprising in a rather predictable ending was finding out if Zuko is really a bastard or not. It's actually not the surprising part, as my friend believed since part 1, the letter Ursa wrote was indeed a lie. I love how they hinted yet avoided writing the words 'sex' and 'virgin'.

So Ursa was a virgin when she married Ozai so both royal siblings are Ozai's children. Now the scene that impressed me was the flashback at the end when Ozai asked why she would write a lie, apparently he had spies watching her a long time before they married. VIRGIN POLICE! Anyway, he took offense asking if she would have preferred Zuko (specifically) to have been fathered by another man. Her answer is of course yes because she doesn't want Zuko to be like him. Ozai then gets down on his knees promising to fulfill her request by treating Zuko as if he wasn't his son.

What I loved about that: remember when Zuko told his daddy that banishing him was the best thing he could have done for his life? This means it was always Ozai's plan to introduce Zuko to hardships in order to make him a better person. We'll never know how much this really hurt Ozai to treat his son this way but doing it as a favor to his mother shows me how sadistically sweet Ozai is. Ozai is a bit of a sadist but I feel like he really did love Ursa and if Ursa could have accepted the marriage they could have been a happy family, granted if she paid some kind of fucking attention to Azula. His sadistic devotion to his wife (notice how he never remarried) impresses me. Call me nuts but I find it romantic in an odd way.