<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=166717.msg7844122#msg7844122">Quote from: Karma on 08-03-2013, 03:50:50</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I chalked his living up to it being a kid's show and executions not really being okay. In this case though, executing him could cause significant ill will in the Earth Kingdom. That's bad juju for Azula's rule.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Except it wouldn't have been under Azula's rule that he was captured... it would have been under Ozai's.  Azula's hands would be clean of it.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=166717.msg7844245#msg7844245">Quote from: apygoos on 08-03-2013, 04:12:57</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">besides, to most of the fire nation, they just saw him as a crazy old cooke<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>This is closer to a good reason for Azula, I think.  But, I don't think Azula would really buy the act... he'd have a reputation.<br/><br/>But, given that he willingly surrendered (assuming Omashu was taken the same way) it wouldn't appear to be to anybody's benefit to execute him, I suppose.  You don't execute a cooperating prisoner, generally speaking...<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Unrelated Commentary</div><div class="spoiler_body">Well... I guess they did kill Ned Stark...</div></div>