Stronger Than You

Inktober 2021 Day 7 - Fan

i heard we’re celebrating our favorite wlws ?? Here’s some rangshi

[ID: a pencil sketch of Kyoshi and Rangi. Kyoshi has her hair back in a low pony tail and stands taller than Rangi. She holds Rangi’s face in her hands as she gives her a kiss on the forehead. Her eyes are closed and she has a faint smile. Rangi sports her usual top knot hair style. She also has her eyes closed and a smile on her face. She rests her arms around Kyoshi’s waist as they stand close together. Both are in more laid back outfits, each wearing a tank top. End ID]

I enjoyed painting them all, I think except for Eda, I’m happy with them in general, and thank you to the winners of the instagram contest who picked really good characters.

( Avatar Kyoshi | Photographer )

this… is an incredible cosplay. like this looks like a costume design for what the live action could have been.

Kyoshi stood her ground. “Give me the Avatar,” she repeated. “Or I will put you down like the beast you are.”

— Kyoshi believes someone else is the Avatar in the first excerpt from The Rise of Kyoshi

We have our first excerpt from The Rise of Kyoshi, the upcoming original novel featuring, as the title suggests, the rise of the Earth Kingdom Avatar before Korra, Aang, and Roku, from a young girl to the fearsome legend we came to know.

We learn a LOT of really interesting new things here.

First of all, there’s this description from Mike (who is not the writer of the book, that would be F.C. Yee):

“In The Rise of Kyoshi, we meet a young woman so unlike the legend she is to become that we wonder how she could possibly transform into such a remarkable figure. She’s not a great Earthbender. People don’t even believe she’s the Avatar at the start of the book—a great conceit on Yee’s behalf, and one that provides the crux of the conflict for the entire novel. Entrusting another writer with a world and characters that I helped create is always fraught with anxiety for me. But when I read The Rise of Kyoshi for the first time, I was immediately drawn into the story and entranced by its intriguing new characters and backstory.”

The excerpt itself is also really really cool. It’s from Chapter Seven: The Iceberg. It’s very action-focused (lots of bending!) but there are lots of little things sprinkled throughout that immediately draw attention, for example:

We also meet what might be Kyoshi’s Team Avatar! Sort of… I guess it depends on how this fake Avatar thing plays out.

There’s also mentions of Kyoshi’s “Auntie Mui” and a “Master Amak”. This Mui and the fact that Kyoshi was impoverished at age 7 are the only things we learn about her origins in the excerpt. Master Amak, meanwhile, comes up in a VERY interesting moment… read for yourself to see!

The Rise of Kyoshi is 448 pages and hits shelves on July 16th!

(One last thing, the artwork above is just a quick mockup for fun. In the actual excerpt, she’s younger, probably not wearing that uniform and makeup yet, and not in a populated area. Ok moving on!)

And now, here’s the full excerpt:

The moments seemed to slowly stack up on each other like a tower of raw stones, each event in sequence piling higher and higher with no mortar to hold them together. A structure that was unstable, dreadful, headed toward a total and imminent collapse.

The sudden movement of Tagaka’s two escorts drew everyone’s attention. But the two men only grabbed the Earth Kingdom woman by the arms and jumped back down the slope the way they’d come, dodging the blast of fire that Rangi managed to get off. They were the distraction.

Pairs of hands burst from the surface of the ice, clutching at the ankles of everyone on Yun’s side. Waterbenders had been lying in wait below them the whole time. Rangi, Jianzhu, and Hei-Ran were dragged under the ice like they’d fallen through the crust of a frozen lake during the spring melt.

Kyoshi’s arms shot out, and she managed to arrest herself chest-high on the surface. Her would-be captor hadn’t made her tunnel large enough. Kelsang leaped into the air, avoiding the clutches of his underground assailant with an Airbender’s reflexes, and deployed the wings of his glider-staff.

Tagaka drew her jian and swung it on the downstroke at Yun’s neck. But the Avatar didn’t flinch. Almost too fast for Kyoshi to see, he slammed his fist into the only source of earth near them, the stone inkslab. It shattered into fragments and reformed as a glove around his hand. He caught Tagaka’s blade as it made contact with his skin.

Kyoshi stamped down hard with her boot and felt a sickening crunch. Her foot stuck there as the bender whose face she’d broken refroze the water, imprisoning her lower half. Above the ice, Kyoshi had the perfect view of the Avatar and the pirate queen locked together in mortal knot.

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there’s some lava bending going on there….  so she separated the ground down to the mantle layer (magma chamber)? then floated that chunk on lava then air bended it over? 

This is often cited as the single most powerful feat in bending in the entire franchise, and I’m inclined to agree. Kyoshi Island also manages to wind up quite a distance from the mainland–let’s assume it’s still on the continental shelf, otherwise MY GOD–and is large enough to sustain a reasonably-sized village with agriculture. Unless there’s an earthbending equivalent of the great comet going on, this is nuts. Avatar Kyoshi also lived to 230 years old. All of this begs the question to me–what the hell was up with her? Did she get a spirit-world power boost or something? These things are all very much outside the norm, even in a world of such extraordinary people. What’s everybody’s theory on this?

She was just that strong

My thought has always been that Kyoshi was one of the few Avatars that was completely at peace with who and what she was.  Every other Avatar we’ve seen – even the best of them like Aang and Korra – are conflicted over what they have to do and how they do it.  Guilt and self-loathing over their responsibilities and actions, regret over what they could have done better.

Kyoshi, however, never doubted herself.  Even without being arrogant, she always saw that what she did had to be done.  She took what were the only options.  You see this even in the advice she gives to subsequent Avatars: Be decisive.  Be final.  Commit.

Because of that, she was one of the few (Maybe only) Avatars who was able to completely encompass the powers available to them.  No part of her subconsciously didn’t want to use them.  There was no hesitancy buried so deep that she even didn’t realize it,   Unlike Aang, or Roku, or Koruk, or Korra, or Yangchen, or even Wan, she was able to give herself over totally to whatever she was doing and hold nothing back.

That’s why she was able to accomplish feats of bending and skill that no other Avatar could equal: Because she, alone of all the Avatars, had she SHEER CHUTZPHA to do it.

other avatars ask “can i do it?” kyoshi says “of course i can.”

Believe in yourself like Avatar Kyoshi believed in herself. Encompass the spirit of Avatar Kyoshi. I am a bad-ass and I WILL JUST DO IT

( Avatar Kyoshi | Photographer )

So wait, within the canon of the Avatar world, the Kyoshi Warriors’ outfits and makeup are taken from Avatar Kyoshi, yeah?

But then where did Avatar Kyoshi get that look?

Because until I get an answer to the contrary, all I can assume is that she just up and decided to make herself up like that, took one look in the mirror and thought, “Ah, yes, this is my aesthetic.”

And if that’s the case, she truly is the greatest Avatar of all time.  

I’m rewatching Avatar: the Last Airbender from the beginning

And one of the links I’m using is from Nick.com, where they put in fun facts about the characters and the voice actors and stuff into the episode I’m watching “The Warriors of Kyoshi,” and there’s this scene where Zuko goes, “nice try, Avatar, but these little girls can’t save you!” And this is the fun fact the writers put in:

Airbending spin + fans