Shadow Of Kyoshi Explains How Difficult Being An Avatar Really Is

Shadow Of Kyoshi Explains How Difficult Being An Avatar Really Is

F.C. Yee’s Avatar prequel novel, The Shadow of Kyoshi, heavily emphasizes the difficult challenges that inevitably come with being the Avatar.

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Shadow Of Kyoshi Explains How Difficult Being An Avatar Really Is

Warning: SPOILERS ahead for The Shadow of Kyoshi.

F.C. Yee’s The Shadow of Kyoshi takes a deep dive into the genuine difficulties that come with being the Avatar in the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender. The follow-up to The Rise of Kyoshi, the story focuses on one of Aang’s Avatar predecessors born into the Earth Nation. While the Avatar canon has already made more than clear that being tasked with mastering all four elements and maintaining harmony between the Four Nations is a true challenge, The Shadow of Kyoshi places great emphasis on the mental and emotional toll that comes with it.

Early on, Kyoshi and her Air Nomad aide Jinpa depart for the Fire Nation on the back of Jinpa’s flying bison Yingyong, when a sudden and unexpected message from her predecessor Avatar Kuruk hits her with the same effect as a horrendous migraine. The impact of it proves so debilitating as to cause Kyoshi to fall from the back of Yingyong, fortunately landing in water beneath her. Spiritual communication between current and past Avatars is one of the staples of the Avatar franchise, but Kuruk’s attempt to reach Kyoshi comes so suddenly as to cause her genuine physical pain out of the blue.

Arguably more difficult, however, are the moral dilemmas that come with being the Avatar, something The Shadow of Kyoshi zeroes in on later in a big way. The Rise of Kyoshi had dealt with Yun being mistakenly identified as the Avatar, and later being cruelly kicked to the curb once the error became clear. This deeply affects both Yun and Kyoshi, with the former returning in The Shadow of Kyoshi as an antagonist with a deep-seated bloodlust and new abilities from the Spirit World. This also sets up a shocking harsh moment in the book.

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With Kyoshi desperate for answers on Yun’s location, she holds the Fire Lord’s duplicitous half-brother Chaejin hundreds of feet over the ocean as his horrified mother Huazo watches. Kuruk also attempts to reach out to Kyoshi here to in a bid to pull her back from the figurative ledge she stands on while she dangles another person over a literal precipice. Upon realizing that neither Chaejin nor Huazo know of Yun’s whereabouts, the shaken Kyoshi allows the two to go free. Kyoshi, in turn, is forced to processes the realization that she came inches away from murdering a man in front of his own mother, the weight of it all hitting her with the same impact as Sarah Connor pulling herself back from a similar brink in Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

On both Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra, both Aang and Korra dealt with their own trials and were tested in their own ways. Aang similarly grappled with whether or not to kill Fire Lord Ozai in Avatar’s series finale, while Korra dealt with true PTSD after nearly being killed by Zaheer and his cohorts. The Shadow of Kyoshi continues that aspect of Avatar, putting its title character to the test on a physical, mental, and spiritual level. Such moments as these in The Shadow of Kyoshi are a reminder to Avatar fans around the world that while it may be fun to be the only person in the Four Nations to command each element, being the Avatar is anything but easy.

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