r/LastAirbenderLore • u/Angela275 • Apr 15 '20

Kyoshi

I been thinking Kyoshi died at 230. At that old age how did she fight. Or was it possible she like Bumi kept in shape?

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u/MrBKainXTR Apr 16 '20

Its revealed in the recent kyoshi novel that she was able to live such a long time because of a spiritual/meditative technique that essentially pauses aging. So she very well could have had the body of a 40 year old at age 230.

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u/Enfireno May 14 '20

That sort of thing never sat well with me. If only because, if anybody could do it, WHY DOES NOBODY LEARN HOW?

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u/MrBKainXTR May 18 '20

Well it was a secret technique only a few people knew about.

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u/Ndean192 Jun 03 '20

It was the pathway to many abilities that other avatars considered unnatural.

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u/Meii345 Jul 04 '20

Makes me think about the fact that Kyoshi would absolutely use the dark side of the force

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u/bihuginn Jul 22 '20

Another reason the whole raava light spirit thing is bullshit. Like Avatar Wan is pretty cool but the later half of season two reads like fanfiction.

You can't represent balance if you're only half of a whole. It's like if each avatar only had two elements.

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u/Meta-EvenThisAcronym Jul 27 '20

Not necessarily. Nothing about Vaatu seems balanced.

It's just like light side Jedi striving for balance. The Avatar himself/herself is literally part of that balance because of the link with Raava.

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u/bihuginn Jul 27 '20

You're not comparing like with like. They inserted badly interpreted Christian ideas coated in a thin veneer of spiritualism and unjected it into a mythos based on Eastern culture. Everything about the latter half of season two, bar the flashback to Avatar Wan, was awful. A dark avatar reads like something out of fanfiction and then it became dbz.

Now this makes it sound like I hate Korra, I don't. I just think the show and characters deserved so much better than the shitty writing present throughout the show.

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u/KamenRiderDragon Sep 02 '20

Because themes of light and dark only exist in Christian mythos? Why is this such a prevailing thought?

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u/GreatPower1000 Aug 03 '20

Had they followed trough with the civil war it would have been better.

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u/bihuginn Aug 04 '20

Oh 100% the start of season 2 was great. Actual morale conflict that an Avatar has to deal with, especially Korra who struggled being unbiased it was a perfect story for her.