So I wanted to write a story about Avatar Kyoshi, something that would explain her large stature, odd choice in weapons, makeup, etc. There's still a lot about her we don't know, and not a lot that we do in comparison. But, if you do some dot connecting to other portions of the current Earth Kingdom to the past...

then I think you would get something like this (although perhaps a bit less interesting. Hey, its not just a history report, thank you very much):

Avatar: Kyoshi the Warrior

"Dad?"

"I told you not to interrupt me when I'm in the middle of a lesson, Ky!" father scolded, his huge body unflinching from the motions of Earthbending. "As a matter of fact, I though I told you not to watch these lessons at all." The muscles of his exposed chest tightened.

"What's the difference between Kandor and me?" Ky asked, as earth cracked under the stomp of her foot. Many cracks littered the area, from all four of Ky's brothers having been taught as well. "It's because I'm a girl, isn't it." A sigh escaped into her ears from her brother, mirroring father's mood.

"Kyoshi, you are six. Nine years younger than Kandor. If you're lucky, your mother will teach you when you're eleven-"

"But-"

"No buts, Kyoshi. Now go find something to do besides interrupt lessons." His words were echoed in her footsteps, engraving more cracks of earth lightning beneath her feet as she entered the west chamber of the house, storming upstairs into her room to watch and listen to his lessons.

Kyoshi had learned almost everything Kandor had learned over the past year from watching, perched in her room. Later she would wander further up the mountain to practice, coming back exausted most of the time. Her mother never had tried to prohibit her as her father did.

"Ky!" her mother ordered "Get down here! Your school tutor is here now."

"Just a second, Mom!" Her mother had told her few girls got educated, let alone as well as she would be. It was always boring work, though. Numbers and letters, writing and carving stone, both with and without Earthbending. Throwing on her formal green robe, her feet trotted down until she jumped over the last few steps, reflecting the sunlight in her winded hair. The floor shook as her feet cracked it.

"What did I tell you about jumping down those steps, Ky?"

"Sorry, Mom!" She would do it again, anyway. It was boring enough without 'quaking the house,' as her parents put it. In her mind, they started it, anyway. She walked into the study and sat down in the only desk there, dragging the taller of the two chairs over with her earthbending.

"I see your parents have been teaching you, Kyoshi." She nodded respectfully back to the aging man, ignoring the bookshelf on her left, drenched in sun through the windows opposite the dusty bindings and scrolls.

She ignored the jest, waiting to begin her journey into the dull.

AKW

"Thank you, Reng. Your service is appreciated,"

"She has done well today, Kri, although her interest could still be peaked."the teacher spoke as he followed Ky out.

"I'm sure it could."

"How is your husband doing with Kandor?" he asked politely, making conversation Ky listened to, lacking anything superior to do for the time.

"Khan?" mother seemed surprised. "Oh, he's doing fine. Though he's still not ready to teach Kyoshi here yet, although she seems to be piking it up on her own well enough." Her voice felt lost, somehow, but all Ky did was smile smugly. "How have her history lessons been?"

"They have been going all right, although her memory does seem to struggle slightly. We discussed what the Avatar is and the history behind it today." She didn't remember anything about an Avatar. It wasn't the first time she had missed a lesson somehow, without the teacher noticing. "Her memory was working just fine in that subject, though."

"Well, I'm glad to hear that." she picked up Kyoshi suddenly, lifting her into her mothers strong amrs. Ky shrieked in glee, booming laughter emanating from her lungs like her father before her. "I supposed Ky has earned some dessert today, haven't you Ky?"

"Yaaay!" Ky yelled again, arms waving in the air, giggling. Loose chunks of dirt suddenly shot to the ceiling, and then back down as soon as she realized her mistake.

"I don't see how you handle her, Kri."

"Hey," she turned her daughter loose, who promptly tore down the hall. "Khan wasn't the only Earth Rumble fighter in this marriage."

"I remember, Kri. I was there, too."

AKW

Kyoshi watched the house from her grassy cliff on the mountainside. She enjoyed bending smaller rocks down onto it, chipping the intricate painted roof of the isolated house, or watching larger ones break up as they rolled down the mountainside. The house had two wings, flanking the combat porch, as her father called it, and the main house. She was rarely permitted in there, except when they had guests.

She watched as her father trained Kandor, the youngest of four sons, with mild interest from here. She often tried to hit them as they trained, but if she did they never brought it up. And she was sure her parents would have mentioned it by now. Most of the rocks probably wound up in the sand garden, where she would occasionally throw rocks in when sitting next to it, and bend it in ripples as if it were water. Flowers flanked the sand, part of the 'beauty of the valley,' as her mother put it. As far as Ky could tell, there were enough normal ones in the valley for everything to live off of already. And she liked the greens there better, anyway.

Her mother's dinner 'bell,' a rotating rock atop the East wing of the house, began to move, as a last puff from the chimney cleaned out the ash. Joyously, she tossed herself down the steep hill she climbed next to her cliff, tossing up dry soil and immersing herself in solid stone. Just before reaching the garden, Ky shot the rocks out from her, freeing herself as she ran inside for her dinner—and her Jennomite dessert.

A puddle left from the morning rain splattered as her foot came down upon the shape-shifting water, only stopping once she closed the door to the house.

AKW

If this is popular enough, I will try to continue it. Suggestions and reviews welcome, though keep in mind that at this particular moment I'm just now getting off my writers block (I hope).