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Summary: Envy is never something to be proud of. Unfortunately, the sin rules Three people and all because of Azula and she doesn't even know it.

Note: This Story is inspired by joyblue's, story "The Green Eyed Monster," a "Song of Ice and Fire" fic on "Archive of our own." Inspired, not stolen. Get it? Got it. Good.

The Sin of Envy: A Character Study

Chapter One:

Ursa:

Princess Ursa of the Firenation was by no means royalty. Oh, she was the granddaughter of Avatar Roku, but royalty, she was not. However, she was raised to be a lady, which certainly helped in luring Prince Ozai into marrying her, though if anyone asked her, she'd claim that it was force on Ozai's part. But, Ursa strived to act as a woman of royal blood was meant to behave. Even when she and her beloved Ikem had taken refuge in the Earth Kingdom, she conformed to the teachings her parents had impressed upon her. At least when she had met Ozai and Iroh there had been an excuse. Her manners and conformity had been for the sake of climbing the social ladder to one of the two possible future Fire Lords.

Azulon's manipulations had helped of course.

But as a result of conformity, for a time, and certainly now, she had everything she could possibly want. Envy naturally was an unnecessary emotion to harbor. Or it could have been had Ursa truly had everything. Well, everything…...didn't include the love of her oldest daughter.

Azula had been taken out of the mental facility and now was being kept under severe supervision. Supervision might not have been much when the only supervision that watching the firebender was the Avatar and his group, but oddly it was working a lot better than keeping the princess locked up.

Ursa's stomach turned when she thought about what Ozai had done to her daughter. He had pushed her…all that pressure that Ozai had put on their child, her mind had finally snapped. Ursa had tried to be a mother to Azula when she, Ikem and Kiyi had been brought back to the palace, but the willful firebender had scorned her mother, ignoring her ever since they came back from the Earth Kingdom.

Once again, Ursa didn't have a chance with winning Azula's love.

Then again, it's not like it was the first time that Azula had spurned her mother and intended to leave it at that. That was why Ursa realized that Agni was so cruel. Her daughter favored Ozai over her own mother and now she ignored Ursa at every turn.

Ursa had suspected from the beginning ever since she gave birth to Zuko that at least one of her children would prefer their father from her. She had always thought that it would be Zuko; he was a boy after all, and didn't all young boys aspire to be like their daddies?

She had been wrong.

Perhaps it was because she doted on the boy so much or perhaps because Ozai considered the little prince weak since the day the child was born, or perhaps it was because Zuko was so much like his blood father; Ikem that the boy took a natural liking to Ursa, rebuffing Ozai's attempted teachings.

So when Azula came along, a rather greedy part of the princess, assuming that her daughter would instinctively sway towards her instead of the girl's father, had been filled with unbridled joy.

She had been wrong of course. Very wrong.

Perhaps the blood of Sozin was so strong in Azula's veins that any attempt to coax the child from her father was futile. Azula was at Ozai's side every single second, following him like a lost little lamb-puppy. It made Ursa sick even back then. She knew what Ozai wanted for both their children. Ozai didn't see humans when he looked at Zuko and Azula. He saw weapons. Warriors meant to be forged in blood and fire. Ozai didn't even know the meaning of the word "love."

And he had brainwashed Azula.

Azula always claimed that Ursa never loved her, but how could Ursa ever show her daughter love when the little girl rejected her offerings of love, instead drifting more and more to an iron fisted tyrant?

Ozai had taken Azula from her when Azula was a little girl, and it now seemed that Ozai had stolen Azula from her once again. Now, a seventeen year old Azula pretended that Ursa didn't even exist. It seemed that Ozai had won again.

Ursa could forgive Ozai for usurping Iroh from the older man's birthright, she could forgive him for nearly destroying the Earth Kingdom, she could even forgive him for scarring Zuko and for exiling her.

But the scars that Ozai had inflicted on her by stealing Azula from her back then...and now, would remain permanent.

Author's Note:

Well, I hope everyone liked it. There are more chaps coming and I just want to warn you that some characters are going to be OOC