r/Avatar_Kyoshi

In season 2, episode 2 of the Netflix live action series, after Zuko stops some Earth Kingdom troops from harassing a kid, the kid says:

> Thanks. They've been getting worse lately. You come from the war? You're a real soldier. They're rejects. My brother's a real soldier too. He's stationed at Bin-Er. You been there?

Not the biggest reference but I thought it was neat! Pretty sure Bin-Er has only been mentioned in the Yangchen books up until this point.

Do you think it matters which order the 3 duologies are read in? Like could you go roku, kyoshi, yangchen or something?

I think what hurts me most about Kyoshi isn’t that she made brutal decisions. It’s that she knew, from the very beginning, what those decisions would cost her.

I’m rereading the rise of Kyoshi and this quote at the end kills me:

“The people would never revere her like they did Yangchen or smile at her like they did Kuruk”.

And she doesn’t argue with it nor does she promise herself she’ll change their minds. She just thinks:

Well… “then let it be so”.

That is so deeply devastating to me.

Kyoshi accepts that history will probably remember her as a monster before she’s even had the chance to become a hero. And the cruel part is that history does. Centuries later, everyone remembers the Avatar who killed Chin. The Avatar who ruled through fear. The Avatar who was ruthless and uncompromising.

Almost nobody remembers the scared girl who just wanted people to be safe. Nobody remembers the girl who worried constantly about doing the wrong thing. Who loved deeply. Who cried. Who questioned herself. Who sacrifices being with the one she loved in the afterlife. And everything she does is because she believed protecting people was her duty and worth much more than protecting her own reputation.

The world got to live in peace because Kyoshi was willing to become someone it could fear.

And then it only remembered the fear. And ugh…that is the tragedy of Kyoshi.

When I think about it this way, it kind of makes sense by the end she lost her humanity. She sacrificed her humanity in the name of her duty almost.

Note: This isn't discussing the next novel for a Avatar, this is continuing the Avatar Legends novel series that Jin is in.

The Avatar Legends novel says the protagonists will be unsung heroes. This mean no villains or criminals as the protagonists.

Judy who is the author of Jin's novel said she would like to write about Ty Lee and her time with her sisters and how she learnt chi blocking. However Ty Lee is a villain in the show but she could be written as a hero in a story.

Jeong Jeong would be very interesting to see in a novel.

Piandao I think could be written really really well

Gran Gran could be done well if we stick to the same niche women in Avatar

Between the transition from the first to second avatar that the first author wrote was 2 years rather than 1. Will it happen again? Yee prolly didn't know he would be writing the Yangchen novels and also COVID. Ribay took a year and a half to write TAOR. The next novel isn't even mentioned yet so maybe a July date in 2027?

Kyoshi 1: 2019

Kyoshi 2: 2020

Yangchen 1: 2022

Yangchen 2: 2023

Roku 1: 2024

Roku 2: 2025

Next one: 2027?

was also Makittuq while reading Awakening of Roku?? The novel was definitely setting up some sort of reveal that Atka was actually Makittuq the whole time but I >!was surprised and glad to find out they were 2 different characters. They are both young women with violet eyes and Atka was missing when Gyatso was infected and attacked Roku, which we later found out soon after where the two women were during the fight. !<

>!I thought it was a good twist. I also found it interesting that we now have two novels where the main antagonists were poison using earthbenders, first was Jianzhu!<

SPOILERS!!!!!!

I only just reached the scene but so far she has hinted at the spies and paranoia in her book!!