Kya


 * This article is about Aang and Katara's daughter. For Katara's mother, see Kya. For Katara in the pilot episode, see Kya (pilot).

"water"

- Bumi, don't pick on Tenzin. You know he's always been sensitive.

Kya is the second of Avatar Aang and Katara's three children and their only daughter, as well as the only waterbender that the couple had.

History
Kya studied waterbending and healing with her mother and became a powerful healer. She put her healing abilities to use around the world, primarily studying, exploring, and working with them, which Tenzin described as "finding herself". After Aang's passing, Kya returned to the South Pole to be closer to Katara.

In 171 ASC, Kya attended the Glacier Spirits Festival in the Southern Water Tribe. Shortly after the feast, she and Bumi joined Tenzin and his family on their journey to the Air Temples.

At the Southern Air Temple, Kya and Bumi were not treated with the same respect as Tenzin and his family, and one Air Acolyte did not even know that her father, Avatar Aang, had any other children, thinking that Kya and her brother were servants.

Personality
She has been described as having a personality somewhere between those of her two brothers. Though, according to Katara, Kya was rambunctious as a child, whereas Tenzin was always rather serious. She retains a cool and clear head during times of distress, but around her brothers she can become "as unpredictable as a raging river". She is shown to have a close bond with her brothers.

Trivia

 * Kya was named after her maternal grandmother, Kya.
 * Kya was the name given to Katara's character in the pilot episode.
 * Kaya, similar to Kya, is the name of a young girl in the movie Princess Mononoke which has already inspired the creators many times before.
 * Bryan Konietzko described Kya as a proficient healer and a "hippie". She is said to share a special bond with her niece Jinora.
 * By the end of the first book of The Legend of Korra, Kya was the only one of Aang and Katara's children who had not appeared.
 * Kya shares her mother's skin tone, and is as such the only one of Aang and Katara's children to share the same skin tone as one of their parents.
 * Kya is the first known child of an airbender to be a waterbender.
 * Kya's favorite song is "Secret Tunnel".
 * Kya is the second known person with Air Nomad heritage to have been born after the Air Nomad Genocide.
 * Kya always felt a stronger connection with her mother rather than her Avatar father.