Azula acknowledges the fact that her father is just a man and that he gets lonely sometimes, without their mother there to keep him company. She is awfully lonely, too, without a big brother to harass (she was supposed to emberass him when he brings home his first girlfriend because that's what little sisters do, damn it; Zuko might be the new Don Juan or Casanova and cocky to boot without her loving 'guidance' - little sisters are important like that), without a mom to take her shopping on odd saturdays.

As she grows older, she also learns to acknowledge the fact that a man and a woman can be together for many reasons. Love is the most beautiful and purest of these, but greed and lust, it seems, are the most common ones. She struggles with this knowledge because mom always told her how love conquers all and how it is the most powerful and beautiful thing in the world and Azula wants that for her father and her brother and her uncle and herself, too.

She doesn't bother to learn the names of all these women her father brings home.

Her father claims that she needs a female influence in her life. Azula would like to retort that she owns socks that cover more than the dresses of those women he insists on bringing home but instead she just turns away. Because her father wouldn't understand.

What Azula wants is her mother, but she will have to make do with her memories, with old Seventh Heaven shows and the slu company her father keeps.