I can't stop thinking about how the Avatar state was constantly talked about/explained in a destructive way during Kyoshi novels (Kuruk destroying Yangchen's place when he first got his avatar state, Kyoshi herself activating it out of anger for Jianzhu, and another time to kill Xu Ping An), and every time it's something so brutal, so powerful, so scary
and yet the book finishes with Kyoshi activating it out of love, out of desperation for her true love, fearing she'd lost Rangi forever if not for a miracle, be it from herself or any past life—and she says it might be treated in the future as "the most useless way someone used the Avatar state", but it was for love, her soul was fearing what she'd become without Rangi by her side, she needed that to work
in her oh-so-destructive-and-never-ending-battle of a life, Rangi truly was her humanity, her heart, what still held her sanity in life and reminded her of what she truly was