So like, Azure is the personification of MK's doubts in Wukong. Azure is who MK can become, given enough time and resentment. MK idolizes those around him, which causes MK to compare himself to people who don't exist. He was never going to be able to be the "Monkey King", because the version of Wukong in his head isn't reality. This is the same idealization we see with Azure. Azure praised the Monkey King as a just ruler and a benevolent proponent of change, as a humble God, a brother of revolution, when that's not who Wukong was/is. He's like no one and he's just like anyone. It's about what seeing others as anything but what they are can do. Placing them on a pedestal or making them a scape goat. You have to be able to take the good with the bad. You have to be able to see the good, to see the bad. Otherwise you eat yourself alive