| By Ash Witherspoon | See other fanon and fan fiction works from Ash Witherspoon. |
| "In some cases, you have to put the needs and worries of the world above that of your own." |
| — Hǎi Yún`s wise nature |
Hǎi Yún, (born as Hua Lán), is the first child and eldest daughter of her late parents; Asoka Lán and Shū Lán, the ward of her Airbending uncle, Tenzin and his wife, Pema, as well as the first cousin of the couple`s children, Jinora, Ikki, Meelo, and Rohan. She is also the older sister of Huī Yīn and Agni Yún; her younger sister and brother respectively. One of the three granddaughters of the Waterbending master, Katara, and the late Avatar Aang; Hǎi Yún is the youngest-known airbending master only being surpassed by her only female first cousin, Jinora. After her parents` deaths, she moved to Air Temple Island to live with her youngest uncle, Tenzin, and his wife, Pema; much like her grandmother, Katara, Hǎi Yún has taken on a motherly role for her younger siblings, and they consider her to be like their mother. A few years after the beginning of Zhu Li`s term as President of the United Republic of Nations, she married Tahno and the couple had five children together; Píng'ān Yún, Yǎ Qín Yún Niàn Zhēn Yún, Míng Jié Yún, Hua Li Yún, her many daughters and sons respectively.
History[]
Early life[]
Born in 153 AG in the desolate Southern Air Temple, Hǎi Yún grew up isolated from the entire world at large, and was trained by her parents alongside her younger siblings from a very young age. It was unknown why Hǎi Yún and her family moved to the Southern Air Temple, but it was believed that it was due to wanting privacy from the world. When they were extremely young, Hǎi Yún and her parents ventured down to an abandoned lake house, with Hǎi Yún`s younger siblings and celebrated the completion of Hǎi Yún`s basic airbending training; while enjoying their picnic, their parents were attacked and killed in front of their eyes. Hǎi Yún`s younger siblings began to sob their eyes out, thus attracting the attention of the killer, and he made as if to kill them; however before he could, Hǎi Yún had taken the oxygen from his lungs and suffocated him to death. That event would permanently cement itself in her mind, and would be one of the main reasons that she refused to kill, as she believed there were better options than doing that.
Adoption[]
Due to them being orphaned, with their only living relatives living in Republic City, Hǎi Yún and her siblings were forced to travel by boat all the way to Republic City. Abhorring somebody else taking care of them, excluding their biological parents, Hǎi Yún`s younger siblings volunteered Hǎi Yún to be their "mother" to which she accepted. Though devastated tremendously by her parents` deaths, she thought moving to Republic City would help them turn over a new leaf; this was something that she thought that they sorely needed after the traumatic murder of their parents. Her younger siblings would spend the next years of their lives growing up underneath Hǎi Yún`s stern but kind-hearted care; in time, they began to see her as their real mother, and began calling her "mom".
170 AG[]
Korra`s training[]
During the fall months of 170 AG, Hǎi Yún traveled with her younger siblings to the Southern Water Tribe compound to meet the new Avatar, Korra. Commenting on the coldness of the compound, the cold triggered suppressed flashbacks of her parents` deaths, and she began to panic; falling to her knees, she grasped her head attempting to get rid of the images. Only when Oogi, the flying bison owned by her uncle and his family nudged her back did she snap out of her shock-induced state. Katara looked on worryingly as Hǎi Yún forced herself into the house, and would do therapy with Hǎi Yún later that night. The next morning, Hǎi Yún and her siblings flew back to Republic City with the rest of their maternal family; though pleased at leaving the Southern Water Tribe as it reminded her, ever so painfully of her parents` deaths, she displayed her worry about Korra. This worry would prove to be quite ominous after Korra escaped from the high-security compound with the well-wishes of Hǎi Yún`s grandmother, Katara, traveling to Republic City. Finally convincing Tenzin to allow her (Korra) to learn airbending from him, Hǎi Yún reluctantly hugged the Avatar; she would leave to help Pema soon after, as well as feed her younger siblings food.
The Anti-bending Revolution[]
The Island would later come underneath attack from the Equalists, Hǎi Yún desperate to protect her younger siblings placed her body between them and the Equalists who had stormed into the room. Believing her to be a non-bender mother who had been abducted by Tenzin, Amon "rescued" her and took her to the Equalist rally
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