Did rangi stay with kyoshi?

[u/Crazycutedragon12]

Hey all. It’s a simple question but has it been confirmed Rangi and kyoshi stayed together after the books? I was talking about their relationship and it’s my favorite couple. She asked if it’s confirmed they stayed together for the rest of rangis life. She said she’s seen couples that ended together but In sequels or spin off they weren’t together anymore. I’m just being nosy fr

[u/nixahmose]

The only thing we know about their relationship post the books is:

1) Kyoshi and Rangi were still together during the ttrpg which takes place after the books.

2) I believe in a Korra comic its briefly mentioned that Kyoshi was known to have dated men and women which implies that she did get together with multiple other partners, but this comic came out a two years before the first Kyoshi book and the part in question was just focusing on the fact that Kyoshi was bisexual. So you could just chalk that up to the comic wanting to establish Kyoshi as bisexual in a quick way without much thought put into it given that Rangi had likely not even have been conceptualized as a character yet.

3) Kyoshi is not mentioned to be involved with anyone near the end of her life and is heavily implied to have lost her ability to emotionally connect to humans due to how much of her humanity she had sacrificed to maintain her immortality.

Personally my head canon is that Kyoshi and Rangi stayed together for at least 18 more years after Shadow of Kyoshi and had even adopted and raised a daughter named Koko before eventually Rangi died from a fatal wound by either a dao fei or corrupt earth kingdom official. It was Rangi's death that pushed Kyoshi into using Lao Ge's immortality technique and start chipping away at her own spirit/humanity in order to ensure she would live long enough to cleanse the world of all its evil and corruption.

[u/MakelYT → u/nixahmose]

If I were a guessing person I'd prolly say that Kyoshi and Rangi were togheter at least up until the whole chin the conqueror thing. But even then it's spotty because Idt Rangi would let Kyoshi do nothing while Chin was active since Kyoshi knew who he was upon him arriving at the pennesula, hence why she embarressed him first, before seperating the Island. As far as Koko it's hard to place her timeline wise but I'd prolly feel that Koko is Kyoshi's daughter biologically which would fit with Kya's statements about her having Male and Female partners. But it could be that maybe Kyoshi put her efforts into solving the Daofei problem while Koko lead the Kyoshi Warriors. Just speculation on my part tho.

[u/MakelYT → u/MakelYT]

Plus I kinda like rhe idea of Kyoshi being a mother. Given how she feels about her own mother Jesa.

[u/nixahmose → u/MakelYT]

Personally I prefer the idea that Kyoshi had no biological kids and instead adopted orphans. Given Kyoshi's upbringing as an orphan and how she despised the Earth Kingdom's obsession with blood ties, I think it would be most fitting for Kyoshi to adopt a homeless orphan and give them the same love and affection Kelsang gave to her and one that she always wished her mother had given her.