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Gender takes a very important role in the novels, a role that is highlighted even more once you switch the characters genders. So what would a male version of Yangchen be like? I would say that pretty much the same, in the airnomad culture there aren’t really any gender norms so I believe that as a guy Yangchens personality remains fairly the same. However that just applies to Yangchens personality, people would definitely treat her differently. Though in the novels we see that Yangchen is treated as a naive little girl by the Shangs and dare I say other important political figures (Northern Watertribe chief/Earth King). She has to learn to adapt and use this to her advantages. As a man I do think Yangchen would inherently be treated with more respect, however that naive little girl stereotype would become the naive airnomad stereotype. Which is why I do not think this gender change wouldnt affect very deeply Yangchens approach to how she deals with political issues, I think it would just make things easier since as “man” he might be trusted more to take charge or make decisions, all the while using the naive airnomad act to get the upper hand.

Kavik’s narrative as a girl becomes very interesting. I mainly say this because he is literally me, and I’m a girl so. Let’s begin at the core, Kaviks relationship with Ksylaan, one that as women becomes far more complex. Kaylaan is the perfect girl, expected to become the perfect woman, Kavik could barely compare to her. Infact she owed her sister her life, after all she saved her. That remains pretty much the same, Kaylaan would manipulate Kavik into thinking she was less than her, less smart, less mindful, less athletic, less beautiful. In the books we see that Kavik and Kaylaan are very often referred to as handsome. Beauty can play an important role in Kaylaan and Kaviks stories as woman. For kaylaan it would be one of her weapons, she knows what men think about beautiful girls and she knows exactly how to exploit it. Kavik on the other hand keeping things faithful to the books is very very painfully insecure. I think she would pay no mind to her looks and the few times she does she is just reminded that she would never be as good as her sister, so she needs to be good in other aspects. However I do think it would be a problem in her street runner life style, Kavik wouldn’t use beauty as a weapon, becuase she wouldn’t know how, that’s just something her sister does. As a handsome man Kaviks street runner life is like any others, as a beautiful girl, danger is much more evident. I also believe Kaylaans and Kaviks reunion would be much more shocking. Imaging finding your sister again after risking your life to locate her and she not only remains as condescending to you as she was before, but she is also pregnant? The speech the Kaylaan give to Kavik about Chaisee, “Why not trust the man I love?” Would hit so much harder in many different levels.

“Yangchen?” Yingsu said, she felt her lightly place a hand on her shoulder, and her voice was almost like a whisper.

She was acting like she would break, but how could something empty break? Yangchen looked up to meet her eyes and was instead met with the rest of the team looking worriedly at her. They shouldn’t all be focused on her, after all it was their loss too, it was their grief too. Yet she remained quite. Barely being able to hold eye contact with anyone, she would much rather keep staring at the floor. Something she has been doing constantly as of late. Everyone probably thinks she is probably rethinking the moment over, and over again. All the ways she could have stopped it, how it should have been her instead, how worried he was about her when it was him that was-

In reality yangchen was thinking about how jealous she was of the floor. The floor didn’t love anyone, the floor could just be the floor, and people didnt expect anything much more than that.

“ Yangchen you haven eaten anything since we arrived.” Akuudan said softly.

Yangchen raised her head again, now Yingsu was sitting beside her. Tagayum was serving a plate of food, and Juji was standing infront of a window starring of into the distance. It was not till that moment that Yangchen realized how little she wished to speak.

“Tired, ‘m going upstairs.” Yangchen said her voice raspy.

She thought they would argue against it, they would tell her to eat and then go upstairs.

“Yeah, go get some sleep. I will prepare a good breakfast in the morning.” Tagayum said and then turned with the plate of food towards the window were Jujinta was standing. Akuudan let out a tired sigh and gave her a half hearted smile, Yingsu then stood up and stretched her a hand to help her stand.

And so she left, the atmosphere still heavy and quiet. Yangchen gave the room a brief look before heading up, she realized then that something had changed forever between the team.

When she got to the bedroom door she couldn’t bring herself to open it, she just stared at it. Because if he wasn’t down stairs with the team, and Juji did not see anyone outside, then he must be in the bedroom. And if he wasn’t in their bedroom, then he was truly gone.

Imagine one day the gaang is researching things of the white lotus ( with irohs help ofc) and there is a paper Sokka was reading about something really nerdy, and Aang walks behind him and glances over his shoulder, and his like “Hey did katara write that?” And Sokka is like “ No dude, this was written hundreds of years ago. It’s actually really interesting, katara could never write something like this. It doesn’t even look remotely close to her handwriting.” Aang realizes Sokka is right, it doesn’t look like Katara’s handwriting at all. But still he genuinely felt that he had seen that type of handwriting before and the only person that came to his mind was Katara. So he asks Sokka who wrote it and Sokka says “ Some guy named Master Kavik, I think, I’m not really sure the name is kind of blurred.” The name doesn’t ring any bells to Aang of anyone he knew now or before he got stuck in the iceberg, so he just brushes it off.