Wonderful! Simply wonderful! A nice look into what might have been Azula's first real breakdown. :)

One word: brilliant!

Wow this reads like a lost scene or something! Great job.

Poor Azula. I guess Ty Lee and Mai betraying her really was the last straw.
That was really good; it seemed very in character to me, like something that could actually be a scene in the show.

-LB

Oh the true feelings nail polish brings out...
Nice job.

I never knew that nail polish could bring about such deep feelings.

Nice job on this Anti, you really captured Azula's character on this. Absolutely amazing! The flow of the writing was excellent.

~Lin~

Lovely. This was a good, informal peek into Azula's mental state that didn't turn out overdone or OC. I applaud you. ^_^ It's a very good fic, and the theme went along nicely.

Ha! That's excellent and extremely IC, if you ask me!

As requested, though it's long overdue. Been busy, babe. But I'm here now. Alrighty... first off, I like the story. :) Few things.

Punctuation
--Your ellipses use messed up the flow for me. It wasn't wrong to use it, but it kinda broke the flow you were starting up. Like here...

//She had…lost this battle, hadn’t she?//

I don't see why the ellipses were put there, but it's not an error, so...

--There were a few sentences where the meaning wasn't distinguished clearly enough, and some form of punctuation would have helped to distinguish it. Like here...

//She felt the coolness on her fingertip that meant she had overshot.//

After 'fingertip,' a semi-colon should really be there. It shouldn't be clustered in all together. So it should look like...

//She felt the coolness on her fingertip; that meant she had overshot.//

Another one...

//But there was something so very wrong with her hand tonight, and all it managed to do was knock it over from the small table, causing the clay to shatter and the water to run around her knees.//

Where the 'and' is, a semicolon would fit better in its place. Like this...

//But there was something so very wrong with her hand tonight; all it managed to do was knock it over from the small table, causing the clay to shatter and the water to run around her knees.//

Enough about punctuation, though.

Plot
--The plot... I really like it. Not many people can take a story about someone painting their nails and turn it into such a deep and... I'm speechless. That's how much you got me. :D

Characterization
--Dead-freaking-on. For real. :DD You embodied her so perfectly (symbolism!). I love it.

Final Comments
--You've stunned me with this, babe. I never doubted you were a good writer, but this is hard proof. :) Don't stop writing!

--Nova.

"She’d be perfect eventually, after all."

*shudders* Lovely. Azula is so very, very mad, and I had a squeefest when I saw her in the trailer. Don't worry about first times; your Azula was - ironically, in light of the fic's theme - perfect. I loved seeing her vulnerable and human, as opposed to cool and confident as she always is in the show. The way her feelings intruded on the task at hand and made her make mistakes was very realistic, as was the flow and thought structure. Great work, and please write more Azula! This one's going on the fav's list. :)

And thank you very much for reviewing "Halcyon Days". It's a special piece to me for many reasons, and knowing that you enjoyed it really made my day.

Simple but elegant, a perfectly lovely depiction of tragic sociopathy. Good job.

Very interesting. I really like how Azula actually cares about something, although it does seem a little bit out of character that should would care. But you pulled it off ^^ Nice job.

Very good story on Azula and her madness the story actually seems parallel to the rage of Zuko earlier when he hunted the Avatar. This fic actually is a good reminder that the two are related

Brilliant fic! I was worried that you were going to make her completely indifferent to the betrayal until Azula's explosion at the end, which was absolutely perfect! I also loved how you paralleled painting her nails throughout the fic to her need for perfection and for how her support base is gradually being "chipped" away, now that Mai and Ty Lee are gone. It's also like we're seeing the first stages of her decent into madness. Overall, great depiction of Azula's attitude after TBR and wonderful insight into her character. You should write more on Azula :)

Wow, this was a brilliant Azula-centric story! I love the switching back and forth of the nail painting and commentary on the Boiling Rock's events, that was really cool. You truly captured Azula's character here, great job!