Kwan

"fire"

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

Ms. Kwan is a petite, elderly woman who has a fierce passion for grammar. She is a hard-nosed, no nonsense school teacher who grew up on the Fire Nation's outer islands (sort of the upper class suburbs of the Fire Nation). Ms. Kwan is a prime example of a Fire Nation school teacher: she believes in hard work, hard discipline and more hard work. Ms. Kwan has been a teacher at this school for more than forty years, and some of her star pupils have become Fire Nation generals, war machinery inventors, and even one member of the Rough Rhinos (Vachir). Without question, Ms. Kwan is the teacher they never forget.

History
After Aang was brought to the school, Ms. Kwan assumed he is 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 couldn't 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. Her fate after the War is unknown.

Trivia

 * Ms. Kwan shares her name with Suki's voice actress, Jennie Kwan. Whether this is intentional or not is unknown.