Funny / The Dawn of Yangchen

• To calm Yangchen's fit, Jetsun grabs a book written by a companion of the Avatar she is currently possessed by, then starts reading it aloud. It takes her a second to realize that it's a long, dry treatise on floodplain management. Her people all live at the top of mountains and can fly.
  Jetsun: Why in the world do we have this book?
• From Kavik's break-in at the Blue Manse:
  • The sheer amount of panic that goes through Kavik's mind when he sees her and realizes he's broken into the residence of the Avatar.
  • Yangchen meanwhile just calmly asks him to not take the scroll he's currently holding once she's noticed he's there. Kavik meekly complies...and then the chapter ends with her advising him to cover his ears.
    "I've been told I can scream pretty loud."
    [Next chapter.]
    Spirits above, she wasn't kidding.
  • Upon the arrival of Yangchen's guards, Kavik opts to take cover behind the nearest object he can find. This turns out to be Yangchen herself. Further shock follows when he realizes this.
• When Yangchen shows up at Kavik's house, his parents act like a divinity arrived straight from the heavens and they might permanently corrupt her by saying the wrong word in her presence. His mother nearly has a heart attack when she realizes she just offered an Air Avatar stew with meat in it. Yangchen hurriedly assures them it's fine.
  Yangchen: I can eat around it?
• Yangchen semi-blackmails Kavik into working for her by telling his parents that she has offered him a position as one of her official companions. His parents cry tears of joy, while Kavik just glares, knowing full well there's no way for him to back out.
  Kavik: I hate you.
  Yangchen: I'll let you sleep on it.
• At the Northern Air Temple, some nuns from the Eastern Air Temple nod respectfully to Yangchen... before suddenly shouting out jeers and insults ("Where do Westerners go? Down, down, down!"), which she returns in kind ("East side, least side!"). Then they all go back to being placid nuns again. Kavik is bewildered.
  Yangchen: Airball rivalry.
• Yangchen dumps Kavik in the ocean to wait for a ship, because she's still mad at him for throwing her lemur out the window without knowing it could fly.
  The sea was warm. Kavik was a Waterbender, a good swimmer to boot, and in no danger of drowning or freezing. But that was beside the point. "Pik forgave me!"
  Yangchen callously nudged him in the forehead with the end of her staff, sending him drifting away. "Pak did not."
• While overall a dramatic scene, the confrontation at the warehouse in Jonduri has a number of these moments:
  • The leader of the raid force, Pang, tries to rally his men despite being outnumbered twice over by a load of very large and very angry cargo haulers. Key word being tries.
    "We're not leaving," Pang said to his own men. "You want to explain to the boss-boss that you turned tail and ran, go ahead, but if you think for one second that - Hey!"
    There was no one standing behind him. Two of the association workers were already trying the door, but it had been closed and barred again, this time from the outside. Kavik slipped out of the way between the nearest crates, giving him a perfect framed view of Pang getting absolutely demolished by a running shoulder tackle from a man twice his weight.
  • Kavik later has to rescue Jujinta from a beating at the hands of four workers. Upon waking up shortly afterwards, Jujinta assumes that Kavik took down the attackers and then healed him with waterbending. Kavik decides not to admit that he just scared them off with wild flailing and then splashed Jujinta with water until he regained consciousness.
  • Jujinta refuses to surrender even when he and Kavik are the only members of the association group still able to fight, and they're trapped and completely outnumbered. Wanting a moment to try and think up a way of escaping their predicament, Kavik tells him to stop knifing people. Jujinta just assumes that Kavik wants him to conserve his throwing knives.
  • His utterly nonchalant reaction to the workers setting fire to the stack of crates he and Kavik are trapped on also counts:
    "This is the worst job I've ever been on," Jujinta said, sounding as matter-of-fact as he had outside at the tea stand. The crackling of flames grew louder. "Have you ever considered you've been cursed by the spirits?"
• Yangchen goes to the Order of the White Lotus for help, and gives the pass phrase. The guy at the door refuses to play, just wanting to avoid her. So she stands there, holding the door open and recites the entire sequence of plays both Lotuses must use to identify each other. They ask her, which of your past lives found out our codes? And she retorts, why do you think it was a past life? Couldn't it have been me?
• Yangchen uses the Avatar State to quickly clear snow from an area to aid in investigation concerning spirits.
  "If future Avatars looked back on this moment, she hoped they wouldn't judge her, using the most incredible ability for a bit of cleaning."
  • Her successor, Korra, would be shown using the Avatar State in more "reckless" manners such as to win a air-scooter race against Aang's grandchildren.