The Death of the STRONGEST Avatar Revealed | Avatar Kyoshi

How the strongest Avatar - Avatar Kyoshi died in Avatar: The Last Airbender

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:28 Kyoshi's Age Explanation
02:13 Fire nation foul play?
03:15 Kyoshi's Death explained

Fan art used:

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[gavinsmith]

I love how the writers were like "No fuck you. She DID live for over two hundred years."

[thephilosopher]

Wow, thats actually really good writing to cover up an error. You could imagine how she would lose sight of the value of individual lives and eventually see that she's losing herself bit by bit the longer she lives. Ultimately seeing that her time is up, not because she can't live any longer, but because she's done all that she can do and its time to pass on the torch. Man her story would make a great movie!

[summertime]

I don’t think Kyoshi was “immortal, ” I think the right word would be “longevity.” She lived for a *very long time, * but even she couldn’t live forever. Still, she certainly made good use of her time as the Avatar.

[AnBui]

This is still somewhat open-ended. Other than the fact that she realized that the Avatar Cycle must continue and that she shouldn't live forever, another reason why she "let go" and chose to die by stopping to perform the immortality technique that Lao Ge taught to her is because of her personal connections with people. She had a daughter named Koko when she was 150 years old, which would put Koko at around 80 years old when Avatar Kyoshi died. Either Avatar Kyoshi knew that she was going to be missing Koko very soon or Koko had already recently passed away by then. And her girlfriend, Rangi, was obviously already long gone by then, so Avatar Kyoshi probably also missed her and wanted to see her again in the Spirit Realm. If your only child and your soulmate are both dead and you know that someone else will take over your job for you once you're gone, then you probably won't mind dying.

[marinpetrinski]

That’s very interesting, because I’ve read a couple of theories/ head canons that Kyoshi couldn’t have died any other way that by her own choice and this book heavily hints at that

[j_d_cliff_]

An older person teaching a younger person the secret to immortality... where have I heard this before??

[samhall]

So she most likely died peacefully but you thought it was a good idea to portray her on the floor, bent over, beat up, defeated, at the edge of unconsciousness and with someone almost on top of her?

[DERTHIX]

The human brain isn't meant to hold 200+ years of memory. IMO you'd start to become a different person.

[OrdinaryCritic]

If that’s the case, Bumi, who was still in peak condition during and after the war, must’ve also had a mad genius moment and let go.

“I’m going to do…NOTHING! Hehuhehuhahahehu”

[leslierobinson]

Very interesting, and outright compelling reason/cause of her death imho. This really gives strength (to a degree) to the statement, "You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain". Though, I don't believe she became a villain, just that given her power, and longevity she lost a certain amount perspective and empathy which given her human origin yet living hundreds of years as The Avatar seems like a reasonable conclusion.

[jf]

400 years adds up bec Roku's time plus the 100 years of Aangs freezing time. Roughly 200 years
So Kyoshi being 200+ years

[nathalieduverna]

I watched this with extreme anxiety! Having three of them born at the same time, nice to Aang's story. Knowing he'd have to balance the nations

[TheOyeah]

a Fitting ending i suppose, in the end she still know what's best and taking that option to let go before she completely lost herself and becoming more easy towards violence and maybe maybe become a twisted avatar

[NaSMaX]

So....Kyoshi forced ghost herself. Make sense, her enemies couldn't kill her so she like "fine I'll do it myself".

[DavidRybka]

I read the novels, Kyoshi is amazing!

[robertamielle]

"It's not like anyone reads the novels anyways"

i do 🥺🥺🥺 and they're just as awesome as the comics

[xeronix]

no one could have killed kyoshi lol, she was definitely in control of how and when she died. i love how they wrote her ending, to show 'immortality' has consequences

[GarryDKing]

Kyoshi basically just said fuck it I'm done and probably just let herself die peacefully, though the air nomads feeling she went too far in terms of her justice probably had a part in it, she realized they were right and felt it was time for the cycle to continue onto the next element...

[railynnentertainment]

Honestly it makes sence to me and I love that its more vague of an ending but you still get enough to peice it together

[aldzcant]

No person can be the same after few years, let alone a hundred years. If I was able to live 200 years and have the ability to decide who lives or not, I would definitely have a different perspective compared to my 100-year-old self.