Yknow, i'm rewatching atla after reading the yangchen novels, and I really appreciate the small meaning behind some things a lot more now. In s3 e11 The Western Air Temple, combustion man shows up and wrecks the place. I always found this sad because the preservation of air nomad culture and architecture was something shown many times to be important to Aang, so the temple being destroyed is really tragic in that way. But also, Yangchen is a western air temple nun. And we can see statues of her there in the episode. So reading the novels and then seeing how her statue is focused on more at the western than any other is a nice touch that shows how much detail the og show had in it. These little nods to what eventually would become lore is amazing.
But as much awe as it inspires, theres symbolism without (imo) even trying to be. In the Yangchen novels, combustion bending is seen for the first time in the atla world, it was written as the biggest plot point and the worldwide threat of the novels. And we see Yangchen and her struggle against it. Things like Nujians death, Yangchens banishment, all of her struggles in the novels are some sort of result from her dealing with combustion benders. And she is from the western air temple. Which is salt in a centuries old wound. Yangchen, an air nomad, a pacifist by culture, who worked so hard to avoid taking lives when she was able, who lost so much because of combustion bending as a technique, who came from the western air temple,
I created my own concept for a Sonic Boom idea, basically a chamber leading to the Master Crystal which is a Boom version of the Master Emerald. Another idea I had that they ether could be separate or the Chaos crystals could combine and form into the Master Crystal… ether way I feel proud of this idea I did. 😊
As we see in her episode of Visions (V2 Ep9) she had a gift for purifying kyber crystals, and healed kyber crystals are white. I think one of the crystals that she healed ends up calling to her.
should talk about how my p2 playthru's been going... really been enjoying it a lot teehee funny thing tho i forgot i set tatsuya's nickname as hampter and i have lots of screenshots of eikichi calling tatsuya hampter now