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* MeaninglessMeaningfulWords: Kyoshi improvises a song in the moment while everyone else is having fun doing the same. Kelsang however notes that, word for word, Kyoshi is singing the very same song Kuruk wrote for Rei-Han. Kelsang and Kuruk were the only people who knew that song and to hear Kyoshi sing it word for word clues Kelsang that Kyoshi may be the Avatar.
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* AllMenArePerverts: Jianzhu thinks this when he witnesses countless men hitting on Rei-Han; a widow with money and connections. He notes that a woman like her "always draws out these leeches from the woodwork."
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* BodyguardCrush: Aside from [[spoiler: Kyoshi and Rangi]], the novel reveals that Kuruk had one of these on Rei-Han; going as far as to write a poem/song for her. But Kuruk never acted on it and by the time Rei-Han found a man she loved too, Kuruk gave up wanting Rei-Han's decision to be her own and if it made her happier, then he didn't mind.
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* UnrequitedLove: Kuruk and Rei-Han. Rei-Han herself revealed she had a small crush on Kuruk; but neither acted on it.
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* DidntSeeThatComing: Kyoshi falls victim to this by upholding her end of the bargain to free a captive man...who ends up being revealed as [[spoiler: Xu Ping An, the vicious leader of the yellow scarves]].
* FauxAffablyEvil: If you didn't know his reputation, you'd swear [[spoiler: Xu Ping An]] was a stand-up guy. Polite to those who do good by him, and willing to repay a debt to you in kind, so long as that respect is upheld.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Kyoshi thinks this about [[spoiler: Xu Ping An]], thinking him a Earthbending Bandit with a cocky streak. She's proven badly wrong when he starts dancing and [[spoiler: blasts her with lightning]].
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* SecretArt: [[spoiler: Xu Ping An's lightning bending. In Kyoshi's time, lightning bending was akin to unaided Flight of [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra Korra's]] time: an art that was thought to be lost to time if not a straight up myth. Before the events of the book; Jiangzhu spared his life after defeating his army of Yellow Scarves per request of the Fire Nation, who wanted to know how a lowly bandit mastered such an art.]]
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* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Revealed to Kyoshi that YangChen had a habit of reading Stoker, a monk deemed heretical with a few points of wisdom; though she was sure to study his opponents as well to understand multiple viewpoints of an issue.
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* RealityEnsues: Despite Kyoshi's persistence to kill Jianzhu, multiple interactions with TricksterMentor Long Ge have had Kyoshi question her morality and her plans throughout the book. The book's climax takes it a step further when her target is revealed to be a child only making his village suffer because he's been told to enforce his father's policies without thinking of the damage it's causing. Taking a life is much harder than one ever thinks it is unless you've really got no conscious about it.
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** The novel also took note to depict that many officials had sought to control the Avatar him/herself to their molds as a means to improve the world for their own means and ends.
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* ParentalAbandonment: [[spoiler: Kyoshi's parents did this to her when Kyoshi was about six or seven. Kyoshi remembers and is bitter about it. Finding out later that a stranger child (Lek) was taken in by them and raised to be a fine bandit had served to infuriate Kyoshi further.
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* ParentalAbandonment: [[spoiler: Kyoshi's parents did this to her when Kyoshi was about six or seven. Kyoshi remembers and is bitter about it. Finding out later that a stranger child (Lek) was taken in by them and raised to be a fine bandit had served to infuriate Kyoshi further.]]
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* StartOfDarkness: When Kyoshi flees Jianzhu, she is willing to work with Daofei (bandits) and learn the tricks of their ways and gain support to defeat Jianzhu. Two of whom become her Earth and Waterbending teachers.
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* CorruptPolitician: Hue. To use Jianzhu's words, Hue was a small-minded man occupied with vetoing everything Jianzhu put forward even if the gains would be beneficial for both parties. He was also a small minded man who had the full ear of Mr.Beifong (Toph's ancestor) and made anything work because Mr.Beifong's wife died and Beifong couldn't think or administer clearly after her loss.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Jianzhu views this about Hue, and if his own words are to be taken at face value, the Earth King at the time. Jianzhu humors leaving both of them on a stranded island and waiting to see which idiot eats the other first.
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** An early plot thread and point was about finding the new Avatar. Usually, the Earthbending methods have been foolproof; but at the start of the novel, Jianzhu and Kelsang had not found the reincarnated Avatar at that point and things were getting desperate from bandit attacks and corrupt government officials.
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* YouHaveOutLivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: Yun. Oh god, poor Yun. The moment Jianzhu realises that Yun is not the avatar, he immedietely lets him die.]]
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* YouHaveOutLivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: Yun. Oh god, poor Yun. The moment Jianzhu realises that Yun is not the avatar, he immedietely lets him die.]]]]
* XanatosSpeedChess: Jianzhu is forced to play a mean round of it when he loses Kyoshi. Unlike other examples of this trope, we see firsthand what he has to do, plan ahead of, and sacrifice to make these plans work.
* XanatosSpeedChess: Jianzhu is forced to play a mean round of it when he loses Kyoshi. Unlike other examples of this trope, we see firsthand what he has to do, plan ahead of, and sacrifice to make these plans work.
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* AchillesHeel: Debatable. Jesa's revokement of the Air Nomadic ways had weakened her spiritual abilities and had also weakened her airbending. The novel thus implies that a weakness in spirituality may impact airbending.
* BiTheWay: Kyoshi was canonically bisexual as revealed in [[ComicBook/TheLegendOfKorraTurfWars Turf Wars]] and it shows in this novel. She has an obvious crush on Yun, but falls in love with [[spoiler: her bodyguard Rangi]].
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* TheDreaded: Jianzhu. Kyoshi is too scared of his power at first and thus spends the first novel running from him. In Universe, Jianzhu is known as the Gravedigger, and earned his reputation by defeating the Yellow Scarves by earthbending a ton of them underground, [[BuriedAlive: Texas funeral style.]] Takaga is another example; being a pirate woman and a master waterbender who sought to control the seas.
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* TheDreaded: Jianzhu. Kyoshi is too scared of his power at first and thus spends the first novel running from him. In Universe, Jianzhu is known as the Gravedigger, and earned his reputation by defeating the Yellow Scarves by earthbending a ton of them underground, [[BuriedAlive: Texas funeral style.]] underground. Takaga is another example; being a pirate woman and a master waterbender who sought to control the seas.seas with brute force and intimidation. A third example is Mok; a non-bender who acts like a traditional mafia boss: someone you don't want to owe a debt to.
* HonorBeforeReason: The novel reveals that a person's honor and pride were of the utmost importance to anyone from the Fire Nation; to the point of which some would actually get fed up from hearing about it so much. This trope is also part of the conflicts between Kyoshi and Rangi throughout the book.
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* ParentalSubstitute: Kelsang is this to Kyoshi, after taking a liking to her when she's very young.
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* ParentalAbandonment: [[spoiler: Kyoshi's parents did this to her when Kyoshi was about six or seven. Kyoshi remembers and is bitter about it. Finding out later that a stranger child (Lek) was taken in by them and raised to be a fine bandit had served to infuriate Kyoshi further.
* ParentalSubstitute: Kelsang is this to Kyoshi, after taking a liking to her when she's very young.
* ParentalSubstitute: Kelsang is this to Kyoshi, after taking a liking to her when she's very young.
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* DisasterDominoes: [[spoiler: Once Jianzhu kills Kelsang, even if by accident, it becomes clear that Jianzhu ends up making more mistakes and taking greater precautions and steps to rectify those mistakes. Not only does killing Kelsang and sacrificing Yun alienate him completely from the true Avatar, other nobles begin to threaten action against him and to strip him of his power, which leads to him concocting a poison that almost kills everyone there save for himself and possibly Hei-Ran. By the time Kyoshi catches up to him, it's clear that the stress and the pain of his deeds have caught up to him.]]
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* DisasterDominoes: [[spoiler: Once Jianzhu kills Kelsang, even if by accident, it becomes clear that Jianzhu ends up making more mistakes and taking greater precautions and steps to rectify those mistakes. Not only does killing Kelsang and sacrificing Yun alienate him completely from the true Avatar, other nobles begin to threaten action against him and to strip him of his power, which leads to him concocting a poison that almost kills everyone there save for himself and possibly Hei-Ran. The novel takes pains to show us that Jianzhu, though guilty, is not happy by any stretch of what he's done. By the time Kyoshi catches up to him, it's clear that the stress and the pain of his deeds have caught up to him.]]]]
* TheDreaded: Jianzhu. Kyoshi is too scared of his power at first and thus spends the first novel running from him. In Universe, Jianzhu is known as the Gravedigger, and earned his reputation by defeating the Yellow Scarves by earthbending a ton of them underground, [[BuriedAlive: Texas funeral style.]] Takaga is another example; being a pirate woman and a master waterbender who sought to control the seas.
* TheDreaded: Jianzhu. Kyoshi is too scared of his power at first and thus spends the first novel running from him. In Universe, Jianzhu is known as the Gravedigger, and earned his reputation by defeating the Yellow Scarves by earthbending a ton of them underground, [[BuriedAlive: Texas funeral style.]] Takaga is another example; being a pirate woman and a master waterbender who sought to control the seas.
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* DisasterDominoes: [[spoiler: Once Jianzhu kills Kelsang, even if by accident, it becomes clear that Jianzhu ends up making more mistakes and taking greater precautions and steps to rectify those mistakes. Not only does killing Kelsang and sacrificing Yun alienate him completely from the true Avatar, other nobles begin to threaten action against him and to strip him of his power, which leads to him concocting a poison that almost kills everyone there save for himself and possibly Hei-Ran. By the time Kyoshi catches up to him, it's clear that the stress and the pain of his deeds have caught up to him.]]
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* NotSoStoic: The Air Nomads still uphold their pacifist ways but the novel reveals that not all air nomads could keep up their vows. [[spoiler: Kelsang fell from the order when he created a cyclone that killed a bunch of pirates in his time as Kuruk's guardian.]] Likewise, [[spoiler: Jesa]] was a former airbending master who fell in love with the thrill of crime and severed her ties to the Air Nomads, going as far to tattoo vipers over her airbending tattoos.
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* BodyguardingABadass: Justified. Whilst Kyoshi is the Avatar, and therefore thr strongest bender in the world, she isn't much of a fighter at the start of the series. For this reason, Rangi, a seasoned firebender, dedicates herself to defending the young avatar.
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* BodyguardingABadass: Justified. Whilst Kyoshi is the Avatar, and therefore thr the strongest bender in the world, she isn't much of a fighter at the start of the series. For this reason, Rangi, a seasoned firebender, dedicates herself to defending the young avatar.
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* [[spoiler: MixedAncestry: Kyoshi reveals that her father was earth nation/earthbender while her mother was an Air Nomad.]]
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* Reincarnation: Kyoshi ia is the avatar, and is therefore the reincarnation of the previous avatar Kuruk.Kuruk.
* SecretArt: [[spoiler: Xu Ping An's lightning bending. In Kyoshi's time, lightning bending was akin to unaided Flight of [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra Korra's]] time: an art that was thought to be lost to time if not a straight up myth.]]
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** The Yellow scarves that are brought up more than once are akin (or at least inspired by) to the Yellow Turbans of ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms''.
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** Hidden passage. Through the mountains.
** Guru Laghima is brought up more than once.
** Hidden passage. Through the mountains.
** Guru Laghima is brought up more than once.
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** Wong knows how to use it, and teaches her how.]]
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* Reincarnation: Kyoshi ia the avatar, and is therefore the reincarnation of the previous avatar Kuruk.
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* ManOnFire: Much like Aang, Kyoshi has a few, uh, *less desirable* fire-related learning situations.
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* ManOnFire: Much like Aang, Kyoshi has a few, uh, *less desirable* fire-related learning situations.situations.
* YouHaveOutLivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: Yun. Oh god, poor Yun. The moment Jianzhu realises that Yun is not the avatar, he immedietely lets him die.]]
* YouHaveOutLivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: Yun. Oh god, poor Yun. The moment Jianzhu realises that Yun is not the avatar, he immedietely lets him die.]]
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* AlwaysLawfulGood: Rangi. She always insists Kyoshi do her avatar training in the most authodox way possible.
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* BattleBallgown: Kyoshi's fancy servant dress has chainmail to stop assassins. They aren't taking any chances when it comes to the vicious pirate Takaga.
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* ElementalPowers: Well, duh. It is an Avatar novrl after all.
* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: Kyoshi's battle outgit conists of a long green dress, makeup, a headdress, and fans. Justified when you realise that the makeup is to hide her identity, the fans are warfans, and the dress was specifically made with chainmail inside to defend aservant.servant.
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* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: Kyoshi's battle outgit conists of a long green dress, makeup, a headdress, and fans. Justified when you realise that the makeup is to hide her identity, the fans are warfans, and the dress was specifically made with chainmail inside to defend a
*ManOnFire: Much like Aang, Kyoshi has a few, uh, *less desirable* fire-related learning situations.
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!!The series provides examples of the following tropes:
*BodyguardingABadass: Justified. Whilst Kyoshi is the Avatar, and therefore thr strongest bender in the world, she isn't much of a fighter at the start of the series. For this reason, Rangi, a seasoned firebender, dedicates herself to defending the young avatar.
*KickingAssInAllHerFinery: Kyoshi's battle outgit conists of a long green dress, makeup, a headdress, and fans. Justified when you realise that the makeup is to hide her identity, the fans are warfans, and the dress was specifically made with chainmail inside to defend a servant.
!!The series provides examples of the following tropes:
*BodyguardingABadass: Justified. Whilst Kyoshi is the Avatar, and therefore thr strongest bender in the world, she isn't much of a fighter at the start of the series. For this reason, Rangi, a seasoned firebender, dedicates herself to defending the young avatar.
*KickingAssInAllHerFinery: Kyoshi's battle outgit conists of a long green dress, makeup, a headdress, and fans. Justified when you realise that the makeup is to hide her identity, the fans are warfans, and the dress was specifically made with chainmail inside to defend a servant.
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The Rise of Kyoshi is the first novel in a two-part series written by F. C. Yee chronicling the life of Avatar Kyoshi, taking place 412 years prior to the events of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''. The book will largely follow Kyoshi through her teenage and young adult years, mapping her journey from a girl of humble origins to the merciless pursuer of justice still feared and admired centuries after her death, as well as touching upon her romantic interest in both genders.
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The Rise of Kyoshi is the first novel in a two-part series written by F. C. Yee chronicling the life of Avatar Kyoshi, taking place 412 years prior to the events of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''. The book will largely follow Kyoshi through her teenage and young adult years, mapping her journey from a girl of humble origins to the merciless pursuer of justice still feared and admired centuries after her death, as well as touching upon her romantic interest in both genders.genders.
Nine years after the untimely death of Avatar Kuruk, his friends and allies look throughout the Earth Kingdom in the hopes of discovering the new [[ChosenOne Avatar]], master of all four elements. But despite everything, their search comes up empty handed, time and time again.
Until they discover a child they begin to suspect is the new avatar.
Yes, that's right.
[[FakeOut Everyone, meet Avatar Yun.]]
In the meantime, simple servant girl Kyoshi watches on as Yun struggles to become the new Avatar, vowing to help him in any way she can.
[[WhenShitHitsTheFan Then things get real.]]
Nine years after the untimely death of Avatar Kuruk, his friends and allies look throughout the Earth Kingdom in the hopes of discovering the new [[ChosenOne Avatar]], master of all four elements. But despite everything, their search comes up empty handed, time and time again.
Until they discover a child they begin to suspect is the new avatar.
Yes, that's right.
[[FakeOut Everyone, meet Avatar Yun.]]
In the meantime, simple servant girl Kyoshi watches on as Yun struggles to become the new Avatar, vowing to help him in any way she can.
[[WhenShitHitsTheFan Then things get real.]]
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The Rise of Kyoshi is the first novel in a two-part series written by F. C. Yee chronicling the life of Avatar Kyoshi, taking place 412 years prior to the events of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''. The book will largely follow Kyoshi through her teenage and young adult years, mapping her journey from a girl of humble origins to the merciless pursuer of justice still feared and admired centuries after her death, as well as touching upon her romantic interest in both genders.
The Rise of Kyoshi is the first novel in a two-part series written by F. C. Yee chronicling the life of Avatar Kyoshi, taking place 412 years prior to the events of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''. The book will largely follow Kyoshi through her teenage and young adult years, mapping her journey from a girl of humble origins to the merciless pursuer of justice still feared and admired centuries after her death, as well as touching upon her romantic interest in both genders.
