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1	->''"Perhaps I forgot to introduce myself... My name is Kyoshi. I was born in the Southern Earth Kingdom to farmers, Han and Lian. I started Earthbending when I was one, and was a master by the age of twelve. On my sixteenth birthday, I learned the truth; I was not just a farmer's daughter, not just a normal Earthbender... My name is Kyoshi, and I am the new Avatar."''
2	-->-- '''[[TheHero Kyoshi]]''', in the process of beating down a {{Jerkass}} noble
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4	''Kyoshi Rising'' is an ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' FanFic by iowaforever, focusing on the titular Avatar and her rise to prominence after the death of Avatar Kuruk.
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6	It can be found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10004308/1/Kyoshi-Rising here]]. Or [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/1272487/chapters/2629480 here]].
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8	Not to be confused with ''Literature/TheRiseOfKyoshi'', a canon tie-in novel depicting Avatar Kyoshi's life.
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10	!!''Kyoshi Rising'' provides examples of:
11	* ABoyAGirlAndABabyFamily: Kyoshi is the youngest of three (her older sister being approximately nine years older), and is the only Bender in the family.
12	* BadLiar: Kyoshi.
13	* BadassNormal: Ty Jun, a high ranking general in the Fire Nation military and the inventor of Chi Blocking.
14	* TheBard: Sun; a WanderingMinstrel from a long line of Wandering Minstrels, he meets Kyoshi as he's traveling the Earth Kingdom collecting songs and stories. His dream is to write the Avatar's biography, and he tries his best to use his knowledge of folklore and theater to help Kyoshi achieve her potential, to varying degrees of success.
15	* BeleagueredBureaucrat: The dock master of Taizhou is grumpy and over-stressed, but he does help Kyoshi out when she asks for him to point out a ship to the Fire Nation. Sun notes that the two [[NotSoDifferentRemark aren't so different]] in regards to their stress and duties.
16	* BerserkButton:
17	** Kyoshi doesn't take too kindly to people who pretend to be the Avatar.
18	** Anything to do with [[BigBad Chin]] is slowly becoming one for Kyoshi.
19	* BetterAsFriends: Kyoshi and Adachi ultimately decide to stay friends instead of pursuing a relationship.
20	* BirthDeathJuxtaposition: Kuruk dies quelling a storm in the Northern Water Tribe, and the next scene shows Kyoshi being born in the Earth Kingdom.
21	* BigShutUp: Kyoshi to Adachi, when their discussion about dealing with Jian Feng and a possible traitor devolves into an argument.
22	* CombatHandFan: Lady Sho's specialty. Ty Jun knows a bit of the art and Kyoshi seeks out Lady Sho to learn from her.
23	* TheConfidant: Sun is slowly growing into this role for Kyoshi, helping her open up and lending an ear whenever she needs someone to talk to.
24	* ConArtist: Kyoshi and Sun run into one on their way to Omashu. Kyoshi uses her Earthbending to expose his cheating to the (now very angry) crowd.
25	* CoolOldGuy: Lau Dan, Xin Beifong and Wei-Jin. This was to be expected, since they are [[spoiler: members of the White Lotus.]]
26	* CoolTeacher: Lau Dan, Kyoshi's Earthbending instructor [[spoiler: and White Lotus member]].
27	** Kyoshi herself towards Princess Miyaki, tempering the princess' brattiness while also assisting her with lessons in Firebending and leadership.
28	* CooldownHug: Sun administers one to Kyoshi when she almost smashes the head of one of the men who attacked her family.
29	* CountryMouse: Kyoshi is very impressed by Omashu and large cities in general. She doesn't like crowds or how paranoid the guards are, though, and has very little experience dealing with nobles or rulers.
30	* CowboysAndIndians: As a child, Kyoshi's older brother and his friends enjoy playing rounds of "Earth Kingdom Soldier", breaking off into teams and having the heroic Earth Kingdom defeating the evil Fire King with the assistance of the Avatar (the biggest argument is not over who gets to be on the good team, but who gets to be the Avatar). Kyoshi is often "kidnapped" to be the DamselInDistress, at least until she gets more control over her Earthbending and gets everyone to accept her as the Avatar whenever they play.
31	* CurbStompBattle: a few, not all of them in favor of Kyoshi:
32	** Kyoshi vs. [[FakeUltimateHero Wong Chu]]: Kyoshi completely destroys Wong Chu while the latter is busy trying to make himself look impressive. She takes him down even quicker when they fight again near the end of the first story arc.
33	** Kyoshi vs. [[RoyalBrat Princess Miyaki]]: while not a serious fight, Kyoshi manages to beat the princess simply by out-maneuvering her before striking at opportune moments.
34	** Kyoshi vs. [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Fire]] [[ParentalNeglect Lord]] Mitsuo: Kyoshi is beaten rather savagely, but [[CurbStompCushion manages to land a final hit on the Fire Lord]], forcing the fight into a draw.
35	** Kyoshi vs. [[RenownedSelectiveMentor Lady Sho]]: Kyoshi loses, but does win the right to train with Lady Sho.
36	* DarkAndTroubledPast: Mai-Lin, although she does her best to hide it from her friends. [[spoiler: It finally catches up to her in Chapter 46.]]
37	* EyeScream: The One-eyed Earthbender gets first his good eye and then his face burned off when he fights Kyoshi.
38	* FakeUltimateHero: While in Omashu, Kyoshi runs into a man who claims to be the Avatar. She objects to his claims, and the two fight a duel over who is right. [[CurbStompBattle Kyoshi trashes him without breaking a sweat]].
39	* [[FarmBoy Farm Girl]]: Kyoshi was born to farmers in the Southern Earth Kingdom.
40	* FauxAffablyEvil: Chin acts friendly and cordial towards Kyoshi when they meet. Keyword is ''act''.
41	* FearOfThunder: Kyoshi expresses a dislike of storms, saying that she used to run crying for her parents whenever a storm rolled in.
42	* FluffyTamer: Kyoshi tames a shirshu, which she named "Isra", before facing Lady Sho.
43	* TheGamblingAddict: Sun; he almost [[LostHimInACardGame lost his earlier traveling partner in a bet]], and would have lost quite a bit of money to a ConArtist had Kyoshi not cleared things up.
44	* HonorBeforeReason: Mai-Lin accuses the Fire Nation nobility of this after Kyoshi's Agni Kai with the Fire Lord.
45	* HowDoIShotWeb: At the beginning of the story, Kyoshi is only a child and thus has little experience with actual Earthbending. She tries to teach herself based off of what others have told her (mainly flailing her arms and stomping her feet ala ''Film/TheLastAirbender''), but can never Bend more than a few small rocks unless she gets angry. Once she gets some formal training, she progresses quickly.
46	* HumbleHero: Kyoshi doesn't like receiving any special treatment.
47	* IAmNotHim: Kyoshi is a bit more blunt than Kuruk was, and people have noticed it.
48	-->'''ObstructiveBureaucrat (whom Kyoshi currently has in a NeckLift):''' Th-the Avatar wouldn't threaten people.
49	-->'''Kyoshi:''' Sorry if I am not Kuruk, but your actions and blatant disrespect for the spirits have endangered the entire village. If I need to threaten you, then so be it.
50	** Even more explicit when [[spoiler: Kyoshi kills Jian Feng.]]
51	-->"I am not like you, [[spoiler: Jian Feng]]... But let me tell you of another mistake you made... I am not Kuruk."
52	* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Yangchen's outlook on her tenure as the Avatar.
53	* IShouldHaveBeenBetter: Kyoshi blames herself for [[spoiler: her mother being injured by bandits on the night Kyoshi learned she was the Avatar]]. Her main goal is to make sure that never happens to anyone ever again.
54	* IWorkAlone: Kyoshi's initial outlook. Sun talks her out of it after she reveals she's the Avatar.
55	* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Jian Feng and Adachi die by the end of the first arc.]]
56	* LostHimInACardGame: In Sun's backstory, he almost had his travelling partner enslaved by Sandbenders when he bet too high in a game. His partner repaid him once they reached Gaoling by taking the winnings and framing Sun for robbery.
57	* ManipulativeBastard: Minister Honsou is pulling the strings behind the Fire Nation royal family, working hard to make sure they stay under his control. Hard enough that he is willing to [[spoiler: hire Jian Feng as a mercenary to attack the Fire Nation and draw Kyoshi away from the Fire Nation.]]
58	* TheMedic: Mai-Lin; in the scene she is introduced in, she heals Kyoshi's arms after the latter burns them in a duel.
59	* MotiveRant: [[spoiler: Honsou, after he is attacked by Miyaki, rants about how his manipulations were done to help the Fire Nation. This is enough for her to convict him and have him arrested.]]
60	* MundaneUtility: [[CoolTeacher Lau Dan]] teaches Kyoshi how to use her Earthbending to fish (although he has [[WaxOnWaxOff practical reasons]] for it; Earthbenders need to be able to feel impacts and tremors through the ground, so they don't get snuck up on).
61	* ObstructiveBureaucrat: the magistrate's assistant in the first town Kyoshi and Sun visit continuously rejects Kyoshi's offers to help with a spirit problem, even after she reveals herself to be the Avatar. Kyoshi eventually gets fed up with him and puts him in a NeckLift.
62	* OhCrap: Kyoshi, when she [[spoiler: meets Sage Gorou after her escape from the temple.]]
63	* ParentalNeglect: Fire Lord Mitsuo, due to lingering grief over his wife's death.
64	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Fire Lord Mitsuo. He is a stern father but he seems to want the best for both his son and his nation, although his ParentalNeglect sometimes gets in the way and he can be manipulated by the likes of Honsou.
65	* RenownedSelectiveMentor: Lady Sho, one of the last practitioners of the art of using [[CombatHandFan Combat hand fans]] and Ty Jun's former instructor. She's a recluse who lives on Ember Island and has turned away many potential students, including the Fire Lord himself.
66	* {{Revenge}}: One of Jian Feng's motives for hunting Kyoshi; Kuruk made some kind of slight against him, and he is now set on taking out his revenge [[RevengeByProxy on his successor]].
67	* RoyalBrat: Princess Miyaki. [[CharacterDevelopment She grows out of it through Kyoshi's influence]].
68	* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Fire Nation Prince Adachi. His father even reproves him for doing reckless things to help his subjects.
69	* StarterVillain: Jian Feng serves as the catalyst for Kyoshi's journey, and his presence and influence weighs heavily on her mind throughout her travels. [[spoiler: He's killed off in Chapter 38, but not after striking down Adachi.]]
70	* ShockAndAwe: Miyaki starts researching the possibility of Bending Lightning after she brings it up in a conversation with Kyoshi. [[spoiler: She succeed and uses it to subdue Honsou.]]
71	* ShoutOut:
72	** When Kyoshi's powers first manifest, she pushes her brother and sister away with some small pillars. Her sister runs to her mother and says Kyoshi [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries threw a rock at her... it was a big rock]].
73	** The FakeUltimateHero Kyoshi fights in Omashu, Wong-Chu, was based off an early ComicBook/IronMan villain, a Vietnamese colonel who liked to wrestle his prisoners in exchange for their "freedom".
74	** A villain named [[Characters/Warhammer40000ChaosMarines Honsou]].
75	* ShowWithinAShow: Sun's stage adaptation of "The Avatar and the Dragon Queen", an old history on the rise of the Fire Nation. Watching the play gives Kyoshi a few things to think about in regards to her duties as the Avatar, and influences the decision to choose her makeup for her IconicOutfit.
76	* StatuesqueStunner: Kyoshi usually towers over most of the people she interacts with.
77	* SternTeacher: Lady Sho; she constantly calls Kyoshi an "idiot girl", gives Kyoshi vague instructions on performing tasks (and then hits Kyoshi with her fans or thrown sticks if Kyoshi gets the task wrong/questions the task), and keeps Kyoshi relatively isolated from the rest of the world. However, her training does produce results, and Kyoshi is able to learn quickly and win some respect from the master. And she is not a total sadist, allowing Kyoshi a day off to see Sun's play.
78	* TakeThat: The style of Bending in ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' is mocked a few times, with Lau Dan saying that excessive arm motions actually makes a person's Bending weaker.
79	* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Played straight during Kyoshi's fight with Jian Feng and his group, averted during her fight with Wong-Chu.
80	* [[TameHisAnger Tame Her Anger]]: A recurring theme concerning Kyoshi; Kuruk points out her anger issues when they first speak, and Kyoshi lets her temper get the best of her and she yells at the Fire Lord when calling him out on his ParentalNeglect. Several characters say that while she was in the right, she didn't have to scream about it.
81	* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Kyoshi would have been fine just living out her life on her family farm, but then Jian Feng attacks her home and she's forced to take up her role as the Avatar.
82	* TheNeedsOfTheMany: Yangchen's philosophy boils down to this; it is the Avatar's duty to preserve balance in the world, and thus they must be unrestrained from all possible bonds. Kyoshi appears to be taking up this view when she goes to confront Jian Feng.
83	* TheWisePrince: Prince Adachi. He does his best to help people, wishes to learn how to be a good Firelord and treats commoners with respect.
84	* TinyTyrannicalGirl: Princess Miyaki demands plenty of things, most of them focusing on having her brother or Kyoshi teach her Firebending than a more capable master. It takes Kyoshi confronting her head-on that Miyaki [[TookALevelInKindness takes a level in kindness]] and mellows out.
85	* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Kyoshi is the tomboy to her very girly sister Mei.
86	* TrialByCombat: To be accepted as a student of Lady Sho, Kyoshi has to fight a duel against the master. Kyoshi loses, but Lady Sho decides to train her anyway.
87	* WanderingMinstrel: Sun, whom Kyoshi meets early in her journey. He doesn't actually get an instrument until they arrive in Omashu, and usually acts as Kyoshi's tether in case she starts slipping too far into KnightTemplar mode.
88	* WalkingTheEarth: Kyoshi, in a literal sense of the term; she spends most of her time walking from place to place, although she does get help from fishermen, merchant sailors [[spoiler: and White Lotus members.]]
89	** Sun's occupation as a WanderingMinstrel demands that he does this. He doesn't seem to mind, until his wanderings lead to him getting into trouble.
90	* WellDoneSonGuy: Both of the fire Nation siblings have issues regarding their father's ParentalNeglect.
91	* WellIntentionedExtremist: Minister Honsou claims to have done all his manipulations for the betterment of the Fire Nation. [[spoiler: It's not enough to save him from being arrested.]]

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