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Baatar III is the son of the Great Uniter Kuvira and Baatar Jr., the grandson of Suyin Beifong, and the great-grandson of Toph Beifong. He graduated from Zaofu University early and spent his teenage years traveling the Earth Empire and connecting with the intelligensia and youth of the nation, becoming a new face of nationalism and revanchism against the United Republic. Considered a national treasure and important figure for the youth of the Earth Empire, he is one of the most influential and powerful figures in the nation despite holding a largely meaningless government position. He is also credited with discovering the identity of the new Avatar, Xian.
History[]
Early Life[]
Baatar III was born mere months after the signing of the Armistice of Republic City, having been conceived not long before Kuvira and Baatar Jr. finished their campaign of reuniting the fractured Earth Kingdom States. Discreetly revealing to Baatar Jr. that she was pregnant with his child was one of several tactics Kuvira used on her fiancé so he could forgive her betrayal at Republic City. It worked, so Baatar Jr. returned with Kuvira to raise their unborn child and their fledgling Empire, creating the utopia they envisioned together.
With Korra dead, Kuvira secretly hoped that the child she bore would by the slimmest bit of luck become the new Avatar. After Kuvira gave birth to a healthy and strong baby boy, she spent months conducting experiments other nations used to see if their children were benders. The baby boy, now named after his father, passed all the tests for earthbending, but none for the other elements. Having eventually conceded to the fact that her son was not the Avatar, she began to neglect the baby and left him to the care of trusted nannies and servants, despite propaganda paintings showing her as an attentive and loving mother to her child and nation.
When Baatar III was only three years old, his father mysteriously vanished.
Education and National Prodigy[]
In the years to come, Kuvira made sure that her son was vigorously trained in both his bending and education, receiving the best masters and teachers in the Empire. When he was only fourteen years old, he attended Zaofu University and graduated less than four years later with a major in Political Sciences, prompting many to think that he was looking to eventually become the successor to his mother.
Baatar never confirmed nor denied that he was looking to succeed his own mother, and even took to avoiding many of the day to day politics within the Imperial Administration Tower. Instead, he spent the next year traveling the Empire and becoming well acquainted with many of the intelligentsia of the nation, often giving guest lectures of his acclaimed thesis of the Hundred Year War's impact on the old Earth Kingdom. Word spread of his intelligence and charisma, and after the publication of his adapted thesis into the novel How the Kingdom Fell, he became a household name.
Kuvira became wary of her son's sudden popularity despite not even having a title in her government, so she decided to keep him closer within her vision. She ordered that he return to Ba Zhu Se and become the Head Advisor of the Higher Education Board of the Earth Empire. Baatar knew it was a pointless title and meaningless position meant only to keep him closer to his tyrannical mother's gaze, but he still managed to find loopholes to allow him to visit university campuses for lectures. Plus he knew that if he didn't take the job, Kuvira would've found a way for him to enter the officer's corp to be deployed into the Swamp.
Discovery of the Avatar[]
On a visit to his alma mater of Zaofu University, Baatar became entangled in a riot aimed toward him and protesting the ongoing Swamp War. When trying to negotiate with the student protesters with the help of another student, the leader was murdered by soldiers and the protest quickly descended into violence. He soon after say that Xian, the student who helped him, had been triggered into the Avatar State, blasting him back with a powerful gust of wind and knocking down a statue of Kuvira.
Upon discovering the new Avatar, he rejoiced but silently pondered why in her rage, Xian screamed the name of his mother, "Kuvira."
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