Avatar Kyoshi Did What Aang Refused To Do With Ozai

Avatar: Kyoshi Did What Aang Refused To Do With Ozai

In the new Avatar prequel novel The Shadow of Kyoshi, the titular heroine is forced to do something that Aang would not on Avatar: The Last Airbender.

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Avatar Kyoshi Did What Aang Refused To Do With Ozai

WARNING: Spoilers for The Shadow of Kyoshi

In the climactic battle of The Shadow of Kyoshi, the title character makes a decision to do something that Aang pulled himself back from in the finale of Avatar: The Last Airbender. The second of F.C. Yee’s Avatar prequel novels, following 2019’s The Rise of Kyoshi, The Shadow of Kyoshi sees its heroine placed into many challenging and even emotionally difficult situations. However, the book’s ending pushes her to make a bitter choice to save the day.

In Avatar’s series finale, Aang finds himself confronted with the possibility of having to kill Fire Lord Ozai in order to end the Fire Nation’s conquest of the world once and for all. With Aang having been brought up as a peaceful Southern Air Temple monk, the great value he places on all life leaves him in a deep philosophical and spiritual crisis. Though he comes close to slaying Ozai when they finally face-off, with Aang’s past lives ready for him to do so while he is in the Avatar State, Aang ultimately pulls back and instead uses Energybending, an ability earlier granted to him by a Lion Turtle, to render Ozai incapable of Firebending.

Kyoshi faces a similar and arguably far more emotional dilemma in her final confrontation with Yun. Having emerged from the Spirit World with the power of Father Glowworm, Yun had previously been mistakenly identified as the new Avatar before it was correctly determined to be Kyoshi. With Yun now intent on wreaking bloody vengeance on the world after the cruel rejection he was subject to, Kyoshi and Rangi do their best to hold their own against Yun, with Rangi being stabbed in the back by Yun during the battle. As Kyoshi holds her in her arms, she mournfully apologizes for Yun’s life being ruined when Kyoshi “stole your Avatarhood”. This causes Yun to lower his guard and approach her, with Kyoshi also apologizing for telling him that he needed to be able to live with his pain, “Because you won’t.” Kyoshi then finally uses icebending to freeze Yun’s heart and lungs, ending his rampage, and with it, his life.

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The Shadow of Kyoshi’s ending is a clear inversion of Aang sparing Ozai in Avatar’s finale, and shows that unlike Aang, Kyoshi, however reluctantly, was willing to use lethal force as the Avatar. Of course, this doesn’t place Aang on a pedestal or make Kyoshi into a lesser Avatar. Aang had the benefit of being able to remove Ozai’s Firebending from him, an ability that Kyoshi lacked, while it is also clear that Yun was not only now powerful enough to stand his ground against the Avatar, but too consumed with rage to be reasoned with. Under the circumstances, Kyoshi simply had no other option.

Fortunately, Rangi is healed from the near-mortal wound that Yun had inflicted upon her, while Kyoshi pays her respects to Yun at his grave, heartbroken that she could not save him from himself. Ultimately, the ending of Avatar: The Last Airbender is given a dark mirror in The Shadow of Kyoshi. Despite doing everything in her power to pull Yun back from the abyss he’d fallen into, Kyoshi was forced to make the one choice that Aang could not bring himself to.

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