#the dawn of Yangchen

[llanosning]

Yangchen you should take your own advice ❤️‍🩹

[thyinum]

Powerful woman 🛐

[marigoliad]

Avatar Yangchen: The Greatest.

we don’t look at the hands for too long in this house thank u

[kataangoogie]

more yangchen! she's so fun to draw 🧡 

i love my screaming queen

[kvitlllllli]

[ghost-dusk]

Just avatar shenanigans

[cosmicdraghon]

The mission was ineffectively successful

[kyoshist]

Just two past lives on a casual stroll through the Spirit World

This wonderful artwork was done for me by @cosmicdraghon

[ghxxuls]

Yangvik doodles😋👍

[evaceratops]

a quick guide to avatar

[thyinum]

Disney princess of the Avatar world

[marigoliad]

I love them so bad it’s not even normal anymore

Shoutout to @ thyinum for helping me out with the wind 😔

[kataangoogie]

the scheming avatar

[kvitlllllli]

[helloimamistake]

[hitemwiththeoop]

you know what, i'm all for people criticizing kyoshi's fanon characterization as a cold-blooded murderer. but i'm actually not that angry at the roku novel's revelation that she emulated jianzhu, because they kind of warned us early on that that was what would happen eventually

the kyoshi novels do establish that to some extent, kyoshi did see jianzhu as a mentor figure. whether one agreed with his methods or not, he did give the earth kingdom a sense of stability with his political maneuvers, that's why everything went south so quickly when he died. even then we saw kyoshi using techniques she learnt from his diaries and recognized the patterns she was replicating, which she was ashamed of, but saw necessary

she was a TEENAGER when she was struggling with her own cruelty for the sake of duty. she was always conflicted about it, but she knew it was the only way for her. I'm not surprised the issue evolved in a worse way when she became an adult

You do have to realize that the way the roku novel treated it and the way the NATLA adaptation did it is VERY different. Canonically, it's always been implied she despises having to be the way she is. Netflix made it seem like she enjoyed it

AAAaand it's not odd AT ALL that a person with the power of the Avatar goes through a despair event horizon. It happened to Yangchen. It happened to Kuruk. It happened to Aang, and to Korra. It'll most likely happen to Roku in the novels. These guys deal with a TON of shit, like, really gruesome shit, on a daily basis. If anything, I think Kyoshi going a bit nuts is quite in-character, considering in the novels she almost went batshit like 3 times at only sixteen. The issue is how this mental breakdown is treated. And if they tell me kyoshi eventually grew up to execute a lot of people to an unnecessary extent, hey, I actually do believe it. But I do not think for a minute that she's proud of it