| By Cangse Sanren | Part of the Phoenix Rising continuity. |
Princess Ty Lee was a cheerful and energetic girl who hailed from the Fire Nation with Air Nomad ancestry. As the daughter of a nobleman, she attended the Royal Fire Academy for Girls with her friend Mai. Growing up, Ty Lee dealt with six sisters who shared identical appearances with her. This caused her to feel a loss of individuality and led her to have a longing to be a unique, recognizable person, and a desire for attention from other people. Because of this, after she matured, she ran away from her home and joined a Fire Nation circus, becoming a skilled acrobatic performer and gaining more personal attention.
Ty Lee was a formidable hand-to-hand combatant, often utilizing chi-blocking, a unique form of martial arts that targets pressure points located in the human body. By striking these, she was able to disrupt an individual's chi flow and temporarily paralyze them, thereby also preventing the victim from bending for a period of time. Mai and Ty Lee were forced by Bellatrix to hunt down and capture Avatar Ozai and his friends.
Mai later betrayed Bellatrix to save Zuko's life, and when the infuriated bounty hunter retaliated, Ty Lee defended Mai by paralyzing Bella, which led to her imprisonment. While in prison, she met the Kyoshi Warriors for a second time and befriended them. In return for teaching them how to chi-block, they allowed her to join their group as an honorary Kyoshi Warrior. Upon their release at the end of the Hundred Year War, Ty Lee fell in love with Yue's younger sister, Marissa Aquarius, and moved to the North Pole with her, where they married and soon, had two daughters, Azulana and Phoebe.
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Marissa[]
Ty Lee with her wife and daughter
Marissa is Ty Lee's wife and the mother of their daughters. After their marriage, Ty Lee became the sister-in-law of Yue and Suki.
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