r/YueATLA • u/[deleted] • Jul 14 '21
A minor but sad canon divergence idea
What if Yue's father, Chief Arnook, was present when she made the decision to sacrifice herself to restore the Moon Spirit? I have two ideas for how this could happen. Firstly, the Fire Nation overran the palace before Zhao went to the Spirit Oasis, and they took the chief hostage and brought him to the oasis. Later he would be freed when the Moon Spirit was killed and Iroh defeated the firebenders. Secondly, for some reason Yue doesn't realise what has to be done directly after the Moon Spirit is killed, but rather after the rampaging Ocean Spirit drove out the Fire Nation, the tribe convenes to figure out what to do about the moon situation, and Yue speaks up and suggests this idea. What would be her father's reaction and how would the conversation between them go?
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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '21
Another way that this could work is that Iroh remembers Zhao talking about the spirit library, and the Gaang, Yue, Iroh and Zuko go to Wan Shi Tong's library to find a way to save the Moon Spirit, and they learn that Yue must sacrifice herself, so she wants to go back to the NWT, while others in the Gaang may try to stop or dissuade her