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You simply can’t tell me he wasn’t super excited to tell his IDOL about the fact he invented a whole new bending technique in her native element, you can’t, he was prolly jumping with excitement to tell her
I have only one problem with it, and that is: what do you mean, they have a hunger for power and a mad ambition in their blood? Fighting and backstabbing makes sense if your nation is on the brink of collapse and you're trying your best to survive. Are you saying that Fire Nation people are… just born bad? This is an interesting opinion, which makes me wonder about the prejudices about the Fire Nation after the Hundred Years War. We know that firebenders killed Asami's mother, and Mako and Bolin's parents. In the world of The Legend of Korra, are firebenders, especially if they come from the Fire Nation, considered evil until proven innocent? Does the Fire Nation, like today's Germany, carry enormous burdens of guilt, and every citizen in it is forced to deal with their legacy as a descendant or relative of a soldier in the army who killed the waterbenders of the Southern Water Tribe and committed total genocide against the Air Nomads? Is this something that the avatar after Korra, or the avatar of fire after him, will have to deal with? If Avatar Roku and Avatar Szeto are remembered as bad Avatars, how much pressure will the next Fire Nation Avatar have to deal with? How many prejudices? How many people just assume he'll be a bad avatar, because fire nation avatars are always bad? In the world of the Avatar, are firebenders considered evil, suspicious, threatening? How does it feel to live in a nation that is responsible for such a great and terrible war, and even though you, as an individual, have never harmed another person, people expect you to bear the blame of your entire nation? People expect you to be power hungry and violent? What is it like to be a Fire Nation citizen in the modern era of the Avatar world? How will a Fire Nation Avatar deal with the fact that the two Fire Nation Avatars before him are remembered as bad by history, and that people will always assume the worst for everything he does?
This guy.
Let's talk this guy.
This is Szeto, the Avatar immediately predating Yangchen. Szeto was the first person we ever saw lavabend in the show and quite potentially one of the worst Avatars to have ever lived.
Potentially.
If you've read this far, you're interested enough in Avatar lore to know that it's cyclical. These humans are (un)lucky enough to be born with every elemental power available in their world and that elects them to a position they never asked for.
Korra lost her bending because Aang wasn't diligent in staying on top of Yakone. Aang's people were wiped out because Roku let his power-crazy jilted ex run around freely. Kyoshi created the Dai Li who became secret police terrorizing Ba Sing Se. Kuruk neglected his diplomatic Avatar duties leaving the world in political shambles by Kyoshi's time. And Yangchen gave humanity everything it wanted at the cost of the spirits because Szeto spent his whole career increasing the Fire Nation's power.
What would drive the Avatar, master of all four elements and bridge between the physical and spirital worlds, to leave everyone outside his home country to fend for themselves?
I posit, dear reader, that Szeto was worried for the very Avatar Cycle itself.
In my eyes, it becomes clear pretty immediately from what we learn in Kyoshi why he may have - again, potentially - done so. The Fire Nation is actually comprised of a series of differently-sized landmasses called the Fire Islands. For whatever reason, in Szeto's time, these Fire Islands were on the brink of collapse. Kyoshi shows us that being ambitious and power-hungry wasn't something Sozin started, but that Fire Nationals have it in their blood.
Infighting, backstabbing, and so much more would have been commonplace. Szeto would have been born into a Fire Nation on the brink of collapse. And sure, he was the Avatar, everyone's Avatar, but if he gave the other parts of the world equal attention, and the Fire Nation implodes, would another Fire Avatar ever even be born?
In Yangchen's second book we see he had a room at the Air Temple, so while he wasn't in his home country 100% of the time, judging by his reputation it had to have been 90% or more. Szeto had to leave the world in such a mess for Yangchen. Because if he hadn't given the Fire Nation as much attention as he did, the possibility must have existed, or at least been real enough in his mind, that it wouldn't last much longer.
An Avatar world without the Fire Nation is one in a state of permanent imbalance. One where the cycle is broken and the Avatar has nowhere to be born. Szeto had to have felt that it was: give his all to the Fire Nation, or else be the Avatar responsible for the literal end of their world with no chance of a savior being born to fix it.
@theloyalravenclaw asked for an AU in which all of the Avatars introduced onscreen are siblings.
1. In the heart of a working class Republic City neighborhood is a family of seven children. Their father was an earthbender,and their mother was a half Northern Water Tribe half Fire Nation nonbender. Both died a year ago, and ever since, Yangchen, the oldest nonbending daughter has taken over as the parent. She is twenty and very frustrated with her waterbending next oldest brother, Kuruk, who doesn’t understand why she feels the need to be such a tightass.
4. Wan, the oldest of the family and a firebender, moved to Ba Sing Se before their parents died, and he is in the process of raising the money to move home to help his sister out and possibly put Kuruk in a headlock.
3. Kyoshi is a sixteen year old earthbender looking to join the police. She may be a little in love with Chief Lin Beifong. Okay, a lot in love. Roku is fourteen and a dumbass. Everyone ignores him except when he accidentally sets fire to something important.
4. Eight year old Korra is fascinated by the existence of eight year old Avatar Asami in the same city as her, and it is only because he’s such a sweetheart that her twelve year old brother Aang only teases her about this a little. Also when he teases her, she freezes him to things.
5. When Harmonic Convergence comes down in a few years, Aang and Yanghen are going to gt airbending, making every single person in this family a bender, and meaning they’ve got at least one bender of each element.
He straight up threw hands
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Saw something that said Kyoshi and Kuruk likely ended up with more of a brother/sister relationship than a mentor/student one and I’m here for it:
Kyoshi, spiritually contacting Kuruk: holy shit dude you’re not gonna believe this
Kuruk: girl what’s going on out there?
Kyoshi: okay so basically Hei-Ran is so obviously into this Water Tribe chick right? So being the amazing future daughter in law that I am, I set them up
Kuruk, gasping: you didn’t!
Kyoshi: I totally did. It worked, as I knew it would because I know a useless bisexual when I see one. However, it seems that Rangi is unaware of the fact that they’re dating
Kuruk, cracking up: that’s adorable! Oh, that kid always had a bit of issues trying to find out who likes who
Kyoshi: I know right? Good thing I’m so perceptive!
Kuruk, snorting: yeah okay
Kyoshi, frowning: why did you say it like that?
Kuruk: you are probably then most dense woman alive
Kyoshi, offended: I am not! I am so aware of stuff!
Kuruk, deadpanned: Rangi had a crush on you literally the entire time you guys lived in the mansion
Kyoshi: that-that is a lie! There’s no way! She did not give me a single hint!
Kuruk: a month after you moved into the mansion, Rangi spent the entire day glued to your side because you mentioned you had a nightmare
Kyoshi, blushing: she was being a good friend
Kuruk: she was holding your hand the entire time. When have you seen Rangi initiate physical contact with anyone else in general?
Kyoshi:……………….if you weren’t dead already I’d punch you so hard you’d be sent to the spirit realm
[Kyoshi's trying to tell Rangi and Hei-Ran about Kuruk's troubles with spirits, but she accidently mentions he was deeply in love with Hei-Ran]
Hei-Ran: So, you're telling me you spent your time communing with the past Avatars discussing Kuruk's man-whoring?
Kyoshi, blushing: It was relevant...
Hei-Ran: How?
Kyoshi: Well, there was this poem... That's how Kelsang knew I was the Avatar and ---
Rangi, interrupting: What do you mean?
Hei-Ran: You entered the Avatar State in our battle against Tagaka. That's how we knew.
Kyoshi: You see, no... you know, this is not about the poem!
Rangi: So you did know!
Kyoshi: No! No, I thought the poem was about you!
Hei-Ran: What?
Kyoshi: No, not like that! I thought I'd come up with it!
Rangi: How a poem that was supposedly about me would make Kelsang think you were the Avatar?
Kyoshi, looking at Rangi, then at Hei-Ran, and back at Rangi, blushing intensely and gesturing widely: Well, you two are terribly similar!
Hei-Ran, sighing and pursing her lips: Terribly, indeed...