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Below are the descriptions (bios) of some major secondary characters. At the "end" of each bio, there's a link: (name)'s story in the series>>. This link will bring you to another page where you can read about what has happened in the series so far involving the particular person. The only precaution is that they may give away major events and spoilers, so view at your own risk.

Characters:
- Mai
- Ty Lee
- Jet
- Avatar Roku
- Fire Lord Ozai
- Suki
- Princess Yue
- Admiral Zhao
- Long Feng

Nationality: Fire Nation

Gender: female

Hair color: black

Eye color: gold

Position:

       Shuriken Master

First Appearance: Return to Omashu

Voiced by: Cricket Leigh

Mai is said to be a cold, calm, and reserved young woman as well as a longtime friend of Azula and Ty Lee, with whom she attended the Royal Fire Academy for Girls. She is described by nick.com as a "depressed-looking goth teen, seemingly bored with everything". She is an extremely skilled warrior in the art of Shuriken-jutsu, her primary weapon being small, fletched darts (called "stilettos" on nick.com) that are thrown from her wrists and ankles. She also uses a wide variety of other throwing weapons with deadly accuracy and has proven herself capable of besting a powerful bender despite not being able to bend herself.

Insight into Mai's childhood is given in "The Beach," where she mentions that, growing up, her mother was very critical of her, constantly reminding her that any misbehavior would reflect badly on her father's political career; Azula believes this is the reason that she is so aloof, having been conditioned away from anything that she might care about.

Mai is the Cantonese pronunciation of Mèi (袂) and means "sleeve of a robe," which is where she hides her weapons.

Mai's story in the series>>

Nationality: Fire Nation

Gender: female

Hair color: brown

Eye color: light brown

Position:

       Acrobat

       Chin Na or Dian Xue/Kyushojisu Expert

First Appearance: Return to Omashu

Voiced by: Olivia Hack

Ty Lee has been a long time friend of Azula and Mai since their time at the Royal Fire Academy for Girls. She was the daughter of a nobleman. She is one of seven siblings, as her mother gave birth to septuplets. However she didn't want to be a part of a "matching set", thus she tried to have and keep her own identity and one day ran away to join the circus where she is skilled in acrobatics and other gymnatics. Mai has mentioned once that the circus was Ty Lee's calling. In "Zuko Alone" she is seen as a perfectionist in acrobatics just when she was seven, upstaging Azula who punished her by shoving her to the ground.

She is not a Firebender, but despite this fact she is an effective fighter. Ty Lee uses her bare hands to bring down an opponent in battle. She hits her target's pressure points or human structure weak points or chi points (used in acupuncture) or even the term chakra points, to disarm her opponents and paralyze their muscles (temporary). She can also prevent benders from bending, simply by blocking their chakra. In the show it's called 'blocking of the qí' which is what happens, but Ty Lee's fighting style is based of a form of Taijutsu. Advanced Taijutsu affects the body externally causing real damage, but Ty Lee uses a form that involves jabbing the opponent from the outside that affects the opponent internally bringing him or her down from the inside and not causing any real damage to them. Ty Lee is carefree and kind, so it is no surprise she uses this form of Taijutsu.

Ty Lee, though seen on the opposing side from the Avatar and an air to Azula, is unlike her friends. She is very outgoing and carefree, taking everything in stride. Her favoriate color being pink, she is seen to be sometimes very girlish.

Ty Lee in Chinese is written as 太力 (tài lì) which translates as 'extreme strength.' In Mandarin, 太 can be pronounced both as tài and dài, although most of the time it depends on the context. This renders the pronunciation of Ty Lee and the Dai Li identical. "Ty" being similar to "tai" could be a reference to her fighting in practicing taijutsu.

Nationalty: Earth Kingdom

Gender: make

Hair color: brown

Eye color: brown

Positon:

       Former leader of the Freedom Fighters

First appearance: Jet

Voiced by: Crawford Wilson

He is also a very talanted fighter, and uses Twin Tiger-Head Hook swords for combat as well as to maneuver through the trees.

Jet's story in the series>>

Nationality: Fire Nation

Gender: male

Hair: white, black originally

Eye color: grey

Position: avatar (previous incarnation)

First Apperance: Avatar Roku

Voiced by: James Garret

( Andrew Caldwell as Teen Roku)

Avatar Roku was the previous Avatar incarnate (and the Avatar after Kyoshi), and is thus an aspect of Aang himself. Born into the Fire Nation in life, Roku is a benign force in spirit, serving as Aang's adviser and protector throughout the series. During the episode "Avatar Roku (Winter Solstice, Part 2)", Aang was able to communicate with Roku by visiting the Fire Temple that Roku called home 112 years ago. There, Roku explained Aang's responsibilities and why he had to defeat the Fire Lord before the end of summer.

Roku possesses a spectral animal familiar, a dragon named Fang that served him in life, in the same capacity as Appa does to Aang. Roku came across Fang, not yet hatched from his egg. Since Fang's parents were gone, Roku chose to raise the young dragon as his own, and the two soon formed an inseparable bond. Loyal to the very end, Fang chose to die at Roku's side and passed into the Spirit World with him.

The word "roku” (六) means "six" in Japanese.

Avatar Roku's story in the series>>

Nationality: Fire Nation

Gender: male

Hair color: black

Eye color: gold

Position:

       Fire Lord

       Firebending Master

Referenced Appearance: Avatar Roku (Winter Solstice, Part Two)

Actual Appearance: The Siege of the North

Voiced by: Mark Hamill

Fire Lord Ozai is the ruthless Firebender ruler of the Fire Nation and younger brother to General Iroh, son to Fire Lord Azulon and Fire Lady Ilah as well as father to Prince Zuko and Princess Azula. He is also the husband of Princess Ursa. He is the current Fire Lord; continuing to lead his country in a century-long war, started by his grandfather, Fire Lord Sozin, against the other three nations of the world, the ultimate goal of which is to create a planet-wide empire. Now, the war is in its final stages. By summer's end, Sozin's Comet will return, giving the Fire Nation the power needed to finish the war and conquer all that oppose him. Ozai is power-hungry, ruthless, indifferent and cruel, even to members of his own family who become obstacles to his goals (as seen in his treatment of his son and his brother Iroh.) Like his daughter, many of his actions indicate a seemingly total lack of conscience.

The modern way to write down the official red seal that is placed on all the wanted posters is 烈火國王敖載印寶 (liè huǒ guó wáng áo zǎi yìn bǎo), which translates as "Fire Lord Ozai's official seal." Ozai is written as Áo zǎi (敖載) which in spoken Chinese translates as "haughtily load." However, since it is written on documents, the word 載 (zǎi) comes to mean the word 'year' instead, thus making the translation for Ozai's name as 'haughtily year,' most likely a reference to him being the catalyst for the difficult year setting of the series. Coincidentally, whatever ways Áo zǎi ( 敖載 ) is translated as, it connects well with Iroh's nickname, "The Dragon of the West," due to in Chinese mythology, the dragon is called Áo rùn/jun (敖閏) which translates as 'haughty surplus/intercalary." It may also be a play on the name "Ozymandias," which was another name for the Pharaoh Ramses, who was famous for declaring himself "King of Kings."

Fire Lord Ozai's story in the series>>

Nationality: Earth Kingdom (Kyoshi Island)

Gender: Female

Hair color: red-brown

Eye color: blue

Position:

       Leader of the Kyoshi Warriors

       Tessenjutse expert

First Apperance: Warriors of Kyoshi

Voiced by Jennie Kwan

Suki's story in the series>>

Nationality: Water Tribe

Gender: female

Hair color: White (originally black)

Eye color: blue

Position:

       Princess of the Northern Water Tribe

       Moon Spirit

First appearance: The Waterbending Master

Voiced by: Johanna Braddy

 
PrincessYue is the sixteen-year-old daughter of Chief Arnook, ruler of the North Pole's Northern Water Tribe. Yue was born with a terrible sickness, and her parents feared she would die. Very close to death, they prayed to the Moon Spirit, and placed her in the Tribe's spirit oasis. The Moon Spirit gifted her with part of its own life force, curing her, but also turning her brown hair pure white. Thus, her parents named her Yue, after the moon.

Yue (月) means "Moon" in Chinese.

Yue's story in the series>>

Nationality: Fire Nation

Gender: male

Hair color: grey (originally black)

Eye color: gold

Position:

        Admiral

        Firebending Master

First Appearance: The Southern Air Temple

Voiced by: Jason Isaacs

 

Admiral Zhao, (formerly Commander and Captain), was a ruthless, driven leader in the Fire Navy, and a powerful Firebender. Arrogant and hungry for power along with glory, he is boastful, and quick to anger. Throughout the first season he was Prince Zuko's rival in the Fire Nation's quest to capture Aang, the Avatar. He harbored intense feelings of anger towards Zuko, and it is clear when he is first introduced that they have some history.

In his youth, Zhao studied under the now-renegade Firebending master Jeong Jeong, but stayed under his tutelage only as long as necessary to learn destructive techniques, rejecting Jeong Jeong's attempts to teach him discipline. This lack of self-control, combined with a fiery temper, resulted in a tendency to make foolish mistakes when provoked.

As a Lieutenant serving under General Shu in the Earth Kingdom, Zhao discovered a vast hidden underground library, later revealed to be the library of the spirit Wan Shi Tong. Interested to learn the information it held, he searched through scroll after scroll until he came across a detailed illustration with the words "moon" and "ocean". It was then and there that he learned about the Moon and Ocean Spirits of the Water Tribe, and where their mortal incarnations could be found. After this, he believed it was his destiny to destroy them.

Zhao rose through the ranks over the years, from Lieutenant to Captain to Commander and then finally to Admiral. This last promotion was granted by Fire Lord Ozai himself. Zhao was a witness to Zuko's Agni Kai defeat and was shown taking great joy in Zuko's suffering by calling him the banished prince.

Admiral Zhao's story in the series>>

Nationality: Earth Kingdom

Gender: male

Hair color: black

Eye color: green

Position:

       Former grand secretariat of Ba Sing Se

       Former Head of the Dai Li

       Earthbending Master

First Appearance: City of Walls and Secrets

Voiced by Clancy Brown

Feng was the Grand Secretariat of Ba Sing Se and the head of the Dai Li, Long Feng is a very influential, charismatic, and power-hungry individual who has the tendency to pop up out of nowhere. He rose from humble origins as a son of a Merchant in the Middle Ring of Ba Sing Se, to become one of the most feared man in the city.

The name Lóng fèng (龍鳳) represents Dragon Phoenix which in Chinese traditions stand for the royal throne.

Long Feng's story in the series>>