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○ Kyoshi novel's fan-comic
• Comic 1° - The beginning, or almost that (chapter 1 - the test)
• Comic 2° - Entering the avatar estate (chapter: nine years later and the boy from Makapu)
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So no one was gonna fucking tell me avatar Kyoshi is bisexual? And has a girlfriend named Rangi? AND THAT I'D WANT THEM BOTH??
Nobody hit me up, I have the Rise of Kyoshi and Shadow of Kyoshi novels on the way, I am SO behind
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One of the most beautiful things about Kyoshi and Rangi’s relationship is that Rangi is one of the few people who consistently separates Kyoshi from the Avatar.
Throughout The Rise of Kyoshi, Kyoshi convinces herself that her value lies in what she can endure for everyone else. In one of her most vulnerable moments, she immediately replies with, “Yun would have been much better,” because she still sees herself as a replacement. A substitute. Someone who took the life that should have belonged to someone better.
Rangi won’t let her think that way.
She doesn’t comfort the Avatar. She comforts Kyoshi.
“You, Kyoshi! Not the Avatar, but you!”
That line gets me every time because it cuts straight through Kyoshi’s self hatred. To Kyoshi, the Avatar is what matters. To Rangi, it isn’t. She doesn’t love the title or the power. She loves the awkward servant girl she grew up with.
But then, the line that completely reframes their relationship:
“The Avatar can be reborn. But you can’t. I couldn’t bear to lose you.”
The world needs the Avatar. Rangi needs Kyoshi.
I also love that the emotional climax of this scene isn’t actually their first kiss. It’s everything that comes before it. Rangi spends pages trying to dismantle Kyoshi’s belief that she only exists to suffer. That peace and happiness are things meant for everyone except her.
And ultimately tells Kyoshi that she deserves peace. A home. Teachers. Protection. To be loved. And when Kyoshi brushes those things off, Rangi’s response is essentially, I wish I’d done a better job, because you should have only ever known love.
That’s why the kiss hits so hard. It doesn’t happen because they’ve finally admitted they’re attracted to each other. It happens after Kyoshi finally says:
“I do feel loved.”
For perhaps the first time in her life, Kyoshi allows herself to believe that she is worthy of love simply because she is Kyoshi, not because she is the Avatar.
In a franchise where so many relationships revolve around what the Avatar owes the world, Kyoshi and Rangi’s relationship is built on something much quieter and far more intimate. The reminder that before she was the Avatar, she was a person. And to Rangi, that person was always enough.
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I don’t think Hei-Ran is a bad person, and I think the way people talk about her sometimes ignores how much our perspective changes throughout the Kyoshi novels.
When we first meet her, we’re seeing her largely through Yun’s eyes. Of course he doesn’t like her. She’s an incredibly harsh teacher, who expects perfection, and constantly pushes him to be better. To Yun, who’s carrying the pressure of being the Avatar, she comes across as cold and unforgiving.
But then there’s the scene where Jianzhu wants Yun’s feet cut.
People often use that as evidence that Hei-Ran is just as awful as Jianzhu, but that’s not how I read it at all. She hesitates. She doesn’t seem comfortable with it. The scene feels more like she’s being pulled along by Jianzhu’s authority than enthusiastically agreeing with him. Jianzhu dominates that entire group for years, and even people who disagree with him struggle to push back. I think this sets up their relationship the entirety of book one, where Jianzhu manipulates her throughout, while lying to her at every opportunity.
I think it’s important to note all throughout book 1, she is in conflict with Jianzhu. She berates him, gets frustrated with him and even at one point that’s her hair down because she feels she has lost her honour following him.
Even when we hear about Hei-Ran’s conduct in Agni Kais and the allegations of unjust killings, I don’t think the novels present it as straightforward evidence that she’s evil.
Rangi is visibly upset when it’s brought up because, even within Fire Nation culture, those accusations cross a line. If I’m remembering correctly, one of the victims was even a member of their own family. But Rangi’s reaction also makes sense because honour is central to her worldview. She was raised to believe that discipline and honour were paramount, so the idea that Hei-Ran may have acted dishonourably is what truly unsettles her.
To me, that scene says less about Hei-Ran being irredeemably evil and more about how seriously Rangi takes the Fire Nation’s ideals. If anything, it highlights the tension between Hei-Ran’s fearsome reputation and the more nuanced person we actually come to know throughout the novels.
Even Kelsang, arguably one of the most compassionate characters in the series, committed horrific acts. He destroyed fleets of ships, drowning countless people in the process, and was even shunned by many fellow Air Nomads because of it.
Jianzhu is obviously the one who goes too far, but even some of his actions began with understandable intentions. His campaign against the Yellow Necks wasn’t born out of random cruelty. It was driven by a desire to bring stability to a world without an Avatar. The problem was that he became convinced that the ends always justified the means.
That’s what makes the older generation so compelling. None of them are spotless. Hei-Ran, Kelsang, and Jianzhu all made decisions that cost lives because they believed they were protecting the world during a time when there was no Avatar to keep the balance.
But the main shift in how I see her, is when we get Kyoshi’s perspective in book two.
Suddenly Hei-Ran feels like a much more rounded character. Yes, she’s still strict. Yes, she’s emotionally distant. But she’s also shown to be honorable, despite her mistakes. And deeply committed to her duties, while also genuinely caring in her own way. A lot of that is because Kyoshi gets to see her as Rangi’s mother, not just as a teacher.
I also think people forget that Hei-Ran changes. Once Jianzhu is gone, she isn’t trying to force Kyoshi into his impossible vision of the Avatar. She’s willing to accept Kyoshi for who she is, even if she doesn’t always agree with her or her methods. She also apologises for her behaviour to Kyoshi expressing remorse as to what she did to her and Yun.
She’s not a warm or nurturing person, and she’s definitely made mistakes, especially with Rangi, but that’s very different from being a bad person.
To me, Hei-Ran is one of the more interesting adult characters because she’s flawed without being villainous. She’s a product of Fire Nation culture almost. She’s an example of discipline over comfort, of duty over emotion and of strength over softness. Those values make her a difficult teacher and a complicated mother, but they don’t make her evil.
I think the contrast between Yun’s and Kyoshi’s perspectives is intentional. Yun sees the teacher who constantly pushes him. Kyoshi gets to see the person behind that. Neither perspective is wrong, they’re just incomplete on their own.
But to me, I always liked Hei-Ran and felt she was an intriguing character.
Rangi would be a day walker vampire (essentially a (half) vampire capable of surviving in sunlight) while kyoshi is a shifter of some kind.
The sei'naka clan I think would maybe have a special gene to allow them to survive in the sun maybe. Making them extremely capable warriors amount vampires.
in my opinion Kyoshi had such a Nymph vibe to her, i cant explain it
like if Jesa was a nymph and Hark was a mortal human or something like that
the Sei`naka 100% gives vampire though
Kyoshi as herself does too, but i think they wouldnt make sense for both of them to be vampires (at least from the beggining)
undooming my fav sibling duo from the novels:
the next step the rest of the FOC would come up with if they could had to deal with this two for one more week
and if they had grew up together (dosent really meter the context of the AU tbh)
" I was machine-"
"- and you were **flesh**"
Kyoshi and Lek doomed siblings
DO NOT REMIND ME PLEASE
My babys, and all the potential these two had and AGRHHHHHHHH
F.C. Yee WHEN I CATCH YOU
i remerber a little bit ago some people talking about how it felt weird to remember that Kirima and Wong were adults during the novels, and how they are aften thought about/read as teenagers/younger people, and i didnt remember at the time but still i want to share some of my thoutghs that i didnt see brough up yet
(btw just out of fun fact Kirima is implied to be yonger than Wong [like shes in her early/mid twenties and he is around 30ish something])
anyway as much as i can see whats thats coming from, to me its was so funny and unique Kyoshi having mentors of such different age groups
and to me the most adult like thing of those two were how both of them reacted to Kyoshi and Lek`s attacking each other all the time
like it fell to me that their actions of not intervening and just letting both learn how to deal with it all, not necessarily aged them for me, but more so hightlighted the age gap and how younger Lek and Kyoshi were
and thats just my headcannon, but i think Kirima and Rangi bickering is both much more fun and interesting if you think about how similar they can be, and that Kirima is (partially) seeing at least a little of her younger self on Rangi, and thats partialy why she is able to get to her so easily
that being said i can totally see, and not even blick an eye any time someone puts them in an AU and the entire FOC is the same age/at the same grade of something like that
I’m reading Kyoshis book at the moment and I find Kyoshis conversation with Lao Ge about his immortality fascinating.
Kyoshi’s first reaction to Lao Ge’s teachings is disgust. She immediately compares the pursuit of immortality to Jianzhu’s obsession with control. To her, trying to escape death feels unnatural, like believing you’re more important than everyone else. Lao Ge’s response is interesting because he completely reframes what “immortality” even means and makes her question her world view.
He explains aging as entropy: the body slowly falls into disorder. His technique is simply keeping the body “clean, neat, and tidy”, not frozen, just continually repaired by bending.
Then Kyoshi points out what seems like the obvious flaw:
“You’d have to decide what version of yourself you’d be stuck as, forever.”
And Lao Ge basically says: Exactly. That’s why you can’t. Then says:
“Those who grow, live and die. The stagnant pool is immortal, while the clear flowing river dies an uncountable number of deaths.”
He’s arguing that the worst kind of immortality isn’t endless life. It is refusing to change. A stagnant pool never changes. It is “immortal” because nothing about it dies. But it’s also lifeless. A river is constantly losing its old water. It “dies” thousands of times every day, yet it’s alive because it never stops changing.
So Lao Ge’s philosophy isn’t “live forever”. It’s: If you’re going to live forever, you’d better become a different person over and over again.
Ie: Your body stays ordered. Your soul never stays the same.
That’s why I don’t think Kyoshi suddenly wakes up one day and decides, “Actually, immortality sounds great.” I think she eventually realises that longevity doesn’t have to mean clinging to life. It can mean having more time to change not just the world but yourself. It’s more time to learn and more time to fix mistakes. More time to protect people.
Ironically, the Avatar is already someone who experiences this on a cosmic scale. Every Avatar is literally a continuation of the previous one, but none of them are the same person. The Avatar Spirit survives because it is always becoming someone new.
Kyoshi’s longevity almost feels like an extension of that idea. She doesn’t remain the same Avatar for two centuries. She becomes someone else again and again. The Kyoshi who dies at 230 is not the same Kyoshi who met Lao Ge. Which is exactly Lao Ge’s point.
Maybe immortality isn’t about refusing death. Maybe it’s about allowing parts of yourself to die so that the person who continues living is wiser than the one who came before. That’s a philosophy Kyoshi could accept later in life. Not because she feared dying but because she refused to stop growing.
And honestly, I think the fact that she eventually chose to end her life makes sense. Lao Ge was trying to teach her: immortality is only meaningful while you remain like the river.
And the tragedy of Kyoshi is that by the end of her life, she had carried the world’s burdens for so long that she may have felt herself becoming something harder and less human than the girl who first met Lao Ge. Not just hardened, but desensitised, so repeatedly exposed to death and violence that the weight of it stopped effecting her like it once did. She was more…stagnant.
And if that’s true, then choosing to let go wasn’t a rejection of his philosophy but the opposite. It was a recognition that when even death no longer moves you, when it ceases to feel like something sacred, then you risk drifting into a stillness far more dangerous than mortality itself. And stepping away becomes an act of reclaiming the humanity that “immortality” had gradually worn down.
I just find that interesting.
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look i know im soooooo not present in this blog anymore and most of you will probably not even remember me
...but im getting busy with the Kyoshi eras week in ways no one (me included) will be prepared for it
< im not hyping up my ablility or anything (seriously im not pleasee dont get quality expectatives from this post) i`ve just planing to mess around a lot with some theories/concepts i have been cooking up ever since i read the book
all of it is sligthly tained by the lingering of my last "no character nor piece of narrative will be spare, the ones who`ve fallen mercy by the show have only fell in a worst hand (the fandon one)" type of fandon and honestly as much as i love this bubble of the avatar novels fans, its amusing (and fantastic) the diference in which each fandon look at a piece as a potential to art
like everyone (NOT everyone but like the majorite) of you are so nice to this characters it makes me feel like a villan (i love it though, never change)
anyway im exited
ill also try to post more until than but no promesses
How do you think Kyoshi remembers her loved ones?
i wrote this whole responce without noticing the "how" at the beggining of the quention... so its maybe off, but i think she guards the impacts and learnings they share more then anything else
now about the "do you think Kyoshi remembers her loved ones" that i thought you asked....
yes
and i feel i maybe minority in this opinion, but i think the path they chose in the Roku´s novel of "she slowly become ruthless and stop seeing value in human life" is very nonsensical
not even entering her own character nuances in morality and such because thats not what you are asking, looking at how she values and guards deeply people she've known in life, i think its hard to believe she would not held into their memories
even with a long time passing (thats a conception many people theorise/argue when talking about immortal characters) memory does not works like that simple; impact, emotions, trauma, pathogenics and many other thinks can influence what/how someone will remember things
in many cases, people with memory problems caused by aging will be able to remember "randon" things from childhood and not a crutial information from their current routine/life
i had a kindergarden teacher once that i still remember to this day, her personality, her face, everything, even if its been almost two decades and she wasnt really nether positivity or negative really remarcable in my life.
and yet at the middle of the half of that very school year recess, after not beeing in her class for only like a week or so i straight up forgot her name, like could not for the life of me remember and had to convince my parents to remind me of it type of forgot
my point being memory works in weird ways and time lived would not be the sole determinant of Kyoshi`s memories
even if, with time, the clarity of memory fades there will always be the signature they had in her life, Kyoshi is a character that holds everything very closelly to herself, to a point its as much a quality as it is a flaw
