Avatar: The Last Airbender

Avatar Kyoshi

Long ago, the Four Nations did not always live in harmony. The Avatar, the sole master of all four elements reincarnated in each generation, was responsible for bringing balance to the world, and the world was in disarray after the previous Avatar’s death. It was up to the new Avatar, an abandoned street urchin named Kyoshi, to discover her destiny and save the world. Kyoshi went on to become a legendary figure in her 230 years of life. She trained the elite Kyoshi Warriors and the Dai Li, defended the world from conquerors and kings alike, and remained a mythic figure hundreds of years after her death.

Strength

Lifts a heavy container she carries through a manor. (source)
The container Kyoshi lifted is so heavy it would take two grown men to lift it. (source)
Picks a man up by the neck one-handed and cracks an ice wall behind him while strangling him. (source)
Bowls over men with a dense wooden game board before flinging it at others. (source)
Rangi stands on her knee while Kyoshi does exercise squats. (source)
Throws a teenager a distance away out of a vault and into a hallway. (source)
Pulls away a big man in a blink. (source)
Flings one man into two others, bowling them over. (source)
Catches herself from an attacker pulling her under ice, then stamps her foot down and crushes their face. (source)
Pulls herself free from the ice. (source)
Swings a maul at a trunk repeatedly and splits it apart. (source)
Another woman could not pull the maul out of the stump Kyoshi retrieved it from. (source)
Kicks over a cauldron large enough to immerse a grown man. (source)
Tackles two men at once, sending them flying away from the men around them. (source)
Tears people fighting each other apart, knocks their heads into each other, and tramples over them when running. (source)

Durability

Gets injured while freeing herself from ice. (source)
Gives pursuit while bleeding. (source)
Fights through paralytic poison. (source)
The paralytic poison incapacitated her moments ago. (source)
Tackles a man off a mountain side, ignoring the pain when she lands to start fighting. (source)
Lifted into the air and slammed into the ground before being nearly suffocated into unconsciousness. (source)
Falls a distance onto a hard stone ground and gets up to do so again throughout her training. (source)
Endures lightning that nearly snaps her spine in two, allowing further bolts to pass through her into the ground before counterattacking. (source)
Enters the Avatar State to win her duel before ultimately passing out from the pain. (source)
Fights through a garrote coated in shards of glass around her neck. (source)
Pelted with clay training discs Yun flings at her, taking the last one to the jaw, and keeps fighting. (source)

Speed

Using earthbending she catches a stone thrown at her and returns it hard enough to draw blood. (source)
Uses earthbending to bisect pebbles thrown at her and returns them. (source)
Catches a man striking out with his knife and breaks his fingers with her fan in one swift motion. (source)
Blocks poisoned darts fired at her instinctually. (source)
Instinctively guards her face with her gauntlets from shrapnel. (source)
Evades several rapid fire projectiles from Yun while delivering attacks of her own. (source)
Blocks a spike of earth Yun attacks her with, grinding it down a foot from her face. (source)

Earthbending

Pulls a room-sized boulder toward her from behind her opponent. (source)
Pulls a massive cube of stone out of a canyon from a distance away. (source)
Catches a stone thrown at her and returns it hard enough to draw blood. (source)
Kicks rocks at targets and raises walls. (source)
Bisects pebbles thrown at her and returns them. (source)
Alters the trajectory of thrown stones, sending them out to sea so far their splash is inaudible. (source)
Fires bullets of stone off a giant column in the center of a room, then throws the entire column so that it slices through the manor she is in to the outdoors. (source)
Constructs a training area, including a balance beam. (source)
Creates a 50 foot ramp and surrounds a manor with a massive trench. (source)
Provides a reference for the estate’s size. (source)
Raises and lowers a bridge. (source)
Raises a ramp up to an isolated cliff. (source)
Raises a crag to the isolated hut to allow those on it to leave. (source)
It was noted earlier that raising such a crag required an extremely skilled bender. (source)
Creates a trench in a street to try to entrap shirshu’s leg. (source)
Sinks Rangi into the ground up to her shins to trap her in place. (source)
Attempts sinking Yun’s limbs into the earth to trap him. (source)
Sends out a radial blast that throws the men surrounding her away. (source) (ESW; All animated feats occur during Kyoshi’s adulthood, after reaching full mastery.)
Jianzhu refers to her as possessing the ability to break mountains whenever she remembered to. (source)
Bounces a teahouse into the air a half inch. (source)
The teahouse was large, possessing a partially-built second story. (source)
Lifts the teahouse again in combat, tilting it to one side to spill out several people. (source)
Fires a pebble at Jianzhu and struggles for control over it with him. (source)
Struggles for control over an entire building Jianzhu tries to bring down. (source)
Matches even the greater effort of Jianzhu’s death throes as Jianzhu dies; the building then lifts up and slams down and Kyoshi needs a brief pulse of the Avatar State to hold it together. (source)
This was a 3 story building described as larger than the teahouse Kyoshi lifted earlier. (source)
Kyoshi and Jianzhu were both recovering from poison during this struggle. (source)
Rips the foundations away from a hut and nearly collapses a cliff, holding it into place. (source)
When Yun rips apart a grove and separates the trees with tremendous effort he notes that Kyoshi could have done it easily. (source)
Sprints through several walls, crushing through them as though they were rice paper. (source)
Another reference image for Kyoshi sprinting through walls. (source)
After initial failure, learns the unique art of dust stepping to reach higher ground. (source)
An instance of her initial failure to use dust stepping. (source)
Uses dust stepping to escape a militia. (source)
Plows downward through 14 stories of a building. (source)
Reaches through a brick wall and pulls someone through it. (source)
Suffocates several men with clay to intimidate them. (source)
Retrieves shards of glass from a wound around her neck. (source)
Blocks a spike of earth Yun attacks her with, grinding it down before it ever touches her. (source)
Engraves a tombstone. (source)

Firebending

Breathes fire her first time firebending. (source)
Could not summon more fire shortly after her first time firebending. (source)
Lost control of a spout of flame her second time firebending. (source)
Soon learned to firebend properly and felt like a natural at it, and kicks out a crescent of flame. (source)
Rockets herself forward into a tackle, then releases a massive ball of flame that destroys a stone defense Yun hastily raises. (source)
Heats up an iron lock between her hands in order to break it. (source)
Summons a tornado of fire and air. (source)
Lights her way down a dark hallway with fire. (source)
Heats up iron shackles, preparing to break them. (source)
Notes that she has bending strength far surpassing the best of the best firebenders as she deflects, catches, and charges through their fireblasts. (source)

Airbending

Throws a ball of wind to blast away a man next to her sending the man flying down a hallway. (source)
Flattens a clump of people fighting one another. (source)
Holds a door shut with a continuous blast of air while whipping men around a hallway into the walls and ceilings until they collapse. (source)
Kicks out air that fills a hallway, smashing it clean and smashing tables to bits. (source)
Gusts the clothing off a man. (source) (A:tLA S2E5; All animated feats occur during Kyoshi’s adulthood, after reaching full mastery.)
Plays with a breeze. (source)
Summons a tornado of fire and air. (source)
Catches several papers thrown into the air. (source)

Waterbending

When caught by surprise she waterbends the first time by catching some thrown at her. (source)
Creates a raft to quickly navigate the canals of Ba Sing Se. (source)
Lifts herself and another to the surface from underwater and holds them there. (source)
Amplifies her swimming to sink faster. (source)
Aided by the moon and a waterbender providing control, Kyoshi lifts the contents of a pond and washes it through a building to spill out the guards within. (source)
Provides a reference for the estate’s size. (source)
Sweeps a ship 100 yards out to sea and snaps the ropes mooring it to shore, then freezes it in the air with talons of ice. (source)
Lures Yun into arm’s length to place her palm on his chest, then freezes his lungs solid to kill him. (source)
The technique used to freeze Yun’s lungs is said to require too much raw power for most benders. (source)
Kyoshi spent a month learning healing before gaining the technique to freeze Yun’s lungs. (source)
Heals a cut around her neck, though the water doesn’t glow like it normally should. (source)
Heals superficial injuries of wounded guards, and knows how to stop bleeding and pop joints into place. (source)
Spends a month studying healing. (source)
Stabilizes Rangi and helps to save her life after Rangi suffers impalement. (source)

Avatar State

Pulls a column of stone from a sea floor that tilts over a boat, then washes pirates away with a wave of water and pulls up more earth that snap ships apart as she boils the sea. (source)
Bent earth from over 200 paces away, exceeding the capabilities of Jianzhu. (source)
This was her first time entering the Avatar State, and she was so exhausted afterward she immediately passed out. (source)
Described as imbuing her with the skills and knowledge of all past Avatars as well as vast amounts of energy and the previous Avatar destroyed an island before mastering the Avatar State. (source)
Further detail about the destroyed island. (source)
Blacks out, waking up to find she ripped trees up by their roots, pushed over hilltops, and caused landslides, though she retains consciousness thereafter. (source)
Raises herself and an opponent into the sky on a column of air, lights soldiers and fields of rice ablaze, creates a vortex where her opponent cannot breath, redirects flame he fires at her, and drops him to his death. (source)
Afterwards she reflects that she was in complete control of herself, and after a few minutes passes out from the pain of the lightning bolts she endured. (source)
Opens up the ground to reach the well water beneath, then uses it to heal Rangi’s impalement and save her life. (source)
Throws 2 massive statues. (source) (A:tLA S2E3; All animated feats occur during Kyoshi’s adulthood, after reaching full mastery.)
Creates a fissure in the earth, raises a wall of lava, and gusts off the end of a peninsula to create Kyoshi Island. (source) (A:tLA S2E5; All animated feats occur during Kyoshi’s adulthood, after reaching full mastery.)

Skill

Prior to training she could move large amounts of earth easier than precise amounts, the reverse of how most earthbenders learned. (source)
Teaches herself to levitate a small clay turtle, but accidentally breaks it. (source)
Underwent grueling training to implement her fans into a fighting style. (source)
Trained in firebending while balancing during sparring sessions and was comfortable dropping to her stomach on the balance beam. (source)
Studied Jianzhu’s tactical manuals, navigating a fight within a building using said knowledge. (source)
Takes out over two dozen armed men while fighting in a confined space. (source)
Learned to step quietly during her time as a servant. (source)
Sneaks up on Kirima. (source)
Automatically scans her environs for weaknesses in their security. (source)
Unconsciously recited a previous Avatar’s poem word for word. (source)
A reference to the previous Avatar’s poem. (source)
Feels a prickle on her neck in a spiritually resonant location. (source)
Meditates to summon the previous Avatar to speak with her. (source)
Possesses a later Avatar’s body to testify in court after her death. (source) (A:tLA S2E5; All animated feats occur during Kyoshi’s adulthood, after reaching full mastery.)
Experiences difficulty communicating with her previous life at first. (source)
Communing with past lives is said to be extremely difficult. (source)
Connects with Kuruk’s memories upon meditating with a spiritual guide, who is impressed with how quickly she did so. (source)
Nearly drowns herself to successfully establish contact with Kuruk. (source)
Proves skilled at detaching herself from the physical world, and connects with her past life Yangchen. (source)

Equipment

Wears chainmail armor. (source)
Her chainmail armor protects her from an arrow. (source)
A sword breaks against her shoulder while she wears chainmail. (source)
Makes her chainmail even heavier. (source)
Her chainmail armor stands up to earthbent shrapnel. (source)
The earthbent shrapnel killed several others, including armored guards. (source)
Uses her mother’s bronze war fans, headdress, and makeup. (source)
Her fans helped her mother continue to airbend as her powers dwindled. (source)
Her fans also help her to waterbend for the first time. (source)
Her fans assist Kyoshi in bending with precision so well it feels like cheating. (source)
Breaks a man’s fingers with her fan in one swift motion. (source)
Wears armored metal gloves that do not impede her bending and guard against darts. (source)

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