Kwan

"fire"

- Oh! Is this a new mind ready for molding?

Ms. Kwan was a petite, middle aged woman who had a fierce passion for grammar. She was a hard-nosed, no nonsense school teacher who grew up on the upper class outer islands of the Fire Nation. Ms. Kwan was a prime example of a Fire Nation school teacher: she believed in hard work, hard discipline, and more hard work. Ms. Kwan was a teacher at this school for more than forty years, and some of her star pupils had become Fire Nation generals, war machinery inventors, and even one member of the Rough Rhinos, namely Vachir. Without question, Ms. Kwan was the teacher they never forgot.

History


After Aang was brought to the school, Ms. Kwan assumed he was a new student from "the colonies" in the Earth Kingdom. Calling him a slob, she immediately taught him proper posture and Fire Nation etiquette. The next day, after the "Fire Nation Oath", she assumed Aang was making a mockery of the Fire Nation and announced a pop quiz. The first question asked was for the year in which Fire Lord Sozin defeated the Air Nomads' army. Aang, confused, pointed out to the stunned class that the Air Nomads had no formal military and were defeated by ambush tactics – a fact apparently erased from Fire Nation history books. Ms. Kwan then said he could not possibly know that for a fact unless he was there a hundred years ago to which Aang quickly replied that he would just write down his best guess.

Trivia

 * Ms. Kwan shares her name with Suki's voice actress, Jennie Kwan.