#I doubt they actually knew how to treat someone like Azula

[julietwiskey1]

I think this panel is one of the most interesting ones in the entire comic.

It confirms the long time theory that the asylum was never about treatment of its patients. But rather a convenient place to make daughters of nobles disappear so they can’t cause a fuss.

Azula needed help after the Agni Kai. But they did not send her to a place that would give it to her. Even if they had good intentions at the asylum they probably had little to no experience with treating actual patients. So they restrained her and locked her up and abused her because they didn’t know what else to do.

It also hints at why Azula was there. Not to treat her mental health issues. But to turn her into a proper sister and niece for Zuko and Iroh. A place to make her subservient to her family as they see fit. And the other girls were in there for the same reason.