Ty Lee's Parents

[akirafirebender]

I'm fairly certain that one of Ty Le's parents is not from the Fire Nation.

1. She looks nothing like the rest of the Fire Nation.
They have pale skin, black hair, and amber eyes. She has average skin, but not as pale as Azula's, Mai's, Ozai's, Iroh's, or Zuko's, medium-brown hair, and gray-brown eyes.

2. She's not a bender. That alone doesn't mean much; Mai isn't either. But combined with her weird appearance, it might have significance.

3. We know nothing about her family except that she has six sisters who look exactly like her. For all we know, one of her parents was foreign. I'd say probably from the water tribe, because of her hair and skin, but her eyes actually look surprisingly air nomad.

[Victim ~*of *~Circumstances]

Water Tribe? But any nation can have a braid, I mean Long Feng had one along with that Rough Rhino dude. I always thought one of her parents most likely would be from the Earth Kingdom since the Fire Nation doesn't seem too keen on the Water Tribe.

I know "Ty Lee being an Air Nomad" has been discussed many times over, and quite like the idea.^_^

[truwaterbender]

I have never eally thought about where Ty Lee's parents had come from, It never really bugged me. The grey eyes did at first, but after they got loose with the eye colors especailly in season 3 I gave up on the idea.(Did anyone notice Aangs brown eyes? They were grey in season one) But on the other hand, Sokka's eyes are blue and he can't bend.

The pale skin, umm, well maybe Ty Lee got more sun that Zuko, Azula of Mai, or anyone in the fire nation for that matter. It would seem she's the kind of girl who's not going to sit under the shade of a tree and feed the turtle ducks and rather do cartwheels in the sun.

I do agree with number two, but since we don't know anydetails of why people aren't benders and all that, I'm not sure if it has any signifigance.

You can use a lot of facts from the series to prove Ty Lee's parents weren't from the fire nation, but M&B never clarified, so they are poopie heads and left us hanging.

[Victim ~*of *~Circumstances]

I thought Aang's eyes changing was cause they were hazel? I have a friend with hazel eyes and they're never the same color depending on the lighting.

[That Kid Neo]

Was there some sort of hinting that someone within the Fire Nation would betray Lord Ozai? Anyway it turned out to be Zuko or something like that. Anyway, I remember when Ty Lee was first introduced, thinking she had ties to the air benders because of her eyes. I can't remember my theories anymore (lol, had fun speculating too) but I do remember a lot of others on this forum believing her to be related to the air benders or at least Aang somehow.

[nymphadora]

I think her parents would both be Fire Nation. The Fire Lord probably wouldn't be too keen on his daughter hanging out with girls that are only half from his nation.

IMO, the eyes are like that to add to her character. She has a similar personality to Aang - dreamy and childlike. It's just a coincidence. Though I do like the Air Nomad idea....

[tegtheavatar]

I think she really is from the fire nation. She wouldn't be accepted otherwise. You notice the fire nation treats anyone who isn't a fire nation person like dirt? Ty Lee wouldn't have been BFF's with the princess of the fire nation if she weren't native.

Though the eye thing is interesting. And maybe Ty Lee looks different because she might be from one of the Earth Kingdom/Fire nation colonies and then she was later sent to the fire nation academy for girls were she made friends with Mai and Azula. That's my theory.

Also, yeah, I totally noticed how Aang's eyes changed color a lot. One minute they were brown, then they were grey, then green, then, I swear, at point they were blue. Hey! He's like Daniel Radcliff!

[xrxpapi]

Sept 22, 2009 16:30:19 GMT -5 akirafirebender said:

I'm fairly certain that one of Ty Le's parents is not from the Fire Nation.

1. She looks nothing like the rest of the Fire Nation.
They have pale skin, black hair, and amber eyes. She has average skin, but not as pale as Azula's, Mai's, Ozai's, Iroh's, or Zuko's, medium-brown hair, and gray-brown eyes.

2. She's not a bender. That alone doesn't mean much; Mai isn't either. But combined with her weird appearance, it might have significance.

3. We know nothing about her family except that she has six sisters who look exactly like her. For all we know, one of her parents was foreign. I'd say probably from the water tribe, because of her hair and skin, but her eyes actually look surprisingly air nomad.

Notice you are only talking about the royal family here, what about commoners from the fire nation?