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:''This article is about [[Suyin Beifong]]'s son. For the [[Avatar: The Last Airbender (video game)|video game]] character, see [[Yuan]].''

{{Quote|earth|You're crushing my individuality!|Huan to a [[metalbending]] [[Earth Empire#Infantry|soldier]].<ref name="BZ">{{Cite episode|2|406}}</ref>}}

{{Character infobox
| nation         = earth
| image          = Huan.png
| nationality    = [[Zaofu]], [[Earth Kingdom]]
| ethnicity      = Earth Kingdom
| birth          = 
| age            = 
| eyes           = Olive drab green
| hair           = Black <small>(green streak dyed in the front and shaved on the left side)</small>
| pronouns       = He/him<ref name="MCc">[[Michael Dante DiMartino|DiMartino, Michael Dante]]; [[Bryan Konietzko|Konietzko, Bryan]]; [[Joaquim Dos Santos|Dos Santos, Joaquim]] & [[Jeremy Zuckerman|Zuckerman, Jeremy]] (December 2, 2014). [[Transcript:The Metal Clan (commentary)|"The Metal Clan" commentary]]. [[Book Three: Change|Book Three: Change Blu-ray]].</ref>
| allies         = [[Metal Clan]], [[Meelo]], [[Ikki]]
| enemies        = [[Earth Empire]]
| weapon         = Earth, metal
| fightingstyle  = [[Earthbending]], [[metalbending]]
| profession     = [[Arts in the World of Avatar|Artist]]
| position       = Earth Empire prisoner <small>(formerly)</small>
| affiliation    = * [[Beifong family]]
* Metal Clan
| appearance     = "[[The Metal Clan]]"
| lastappearance = ''[[Ruins of the Empire Part Three]]''
| voice          = [[Jason Marsden]]
}}'''Huan''' was the second oldest son of [[Suyin Beifong]] and [[Baatar]], half-nephew of [[Lin Beifong]], and grandson of [[Toph Beifong]]. As a sculptor, he used his [[metalbending]] abilities to create a variety of abstract [[Arts in the World of Avatar#Statues|statues]] and sculptures that he exhibited in the gardens of [[Zaofu]].<ref name="MC">{{Cite episode|2|305}}</ref>

== History ==
=== 171 AG ===
Upon learning of a new [[Airbending|airbender]] living in the city of Zaofu, [[Korra]] and [[Team Avatar (Korra)|her allies]] journeyed to the metal metropolis where they met its leader, Suyin Beifong. During a tour of Suyin's sprawling residence, the group encountered and was introduced to Huan, who was intently studying and manipulating a series of amorphous metal sculptures with his metalbending. When [[Bolin]] nonchalantly commented on the artwork of one of the [[Huan's sculpture|sculptures]], mistakenly assuming it was a banana, an annoyed Huan emphatically explained that the structures were inspired by the recent [[Harmonic Convergence]] and that they symbolized a new era.

Huan later sat down to dinner with his [[Beifong family|family]], minus his father and eldest brother who were busy with their projects, and guests, and remained silent throughout the whole exchange between his mother and their guests.<ref name="MC" />

The next day, Huan, along with his father, [[Wei and Wing|Wei, and Wing]], were witness to his mother and aunt fighting each other. In the middle of the [[Duels (late 171 AG)#Duel between Lin and Suyin|fight]], one of Huan's sculptures was sent flying into a wall, initially to his distress. When he looked more closely at its deformed structure, however, he figured that it was an improvement.<ref name="OW">{{Cite episode|2|306}}</ref>

Huan was at [[Opal]]'s farewell dinner, though did not react much to his mother's speech about her, unlike his twin brothers. He did, however, join in raising his glass in a toast, and watched as his sister left for the [[Northern Air Temple]] in an airship.<ref name="TW">{{Cite episode|2|308}}</ref>

=== 174 AG ===
When [[Kuvira]] had marched [[Earth Empire|her army]] to the gates of Zaofu in 174 [[History of the World of Avatar#Dates|AG]], a disgruntled Huan stood by his family when a meeting with the army commander and his estranged brother, [[Baatar Jr.]], occurred.<ref name="EG">{{Cite episode|2|405}}</ref>

[[File:Huan and Ikki.png|thumb|left|200px|Huan was impressed by the raw, emotional power that [[Ikki]] managed to capture in her painting.]]

During the night, Huan woke up when Kuvira announced through the city's communication system that his mother had attempted to take her out. He was tasked with watching over [[Ikki]] and [[Meelo]] while Korra, [[Jinora]], and Opal would deal with the army commander. He supervised the two children while they were painting at his atelier. He was impressed with Ikki's childish drawing, deeming it to be filled with "raw, emotional power", though upon noticing Meelo's lifelike portrait of himself as an emperor, he chided the young airbender, noting that he was a "pedestrian" for merely painting how he looked on the outside as opposed to revealing the "inner Meelo".

When Kuvira later marched into the city and ordered everyone to bow to her or be sent away, Huan and his father remained upright, much to Baatar Jr.'s anger. As he was manhandled by a metalbending [[Earth Empire#Infantry|soldier]], Huan ordered to be released as the rough treatment was "crushing [his] individuality".<ref name="BZ" /> Together with his family, he was moved out of the city and into a cavern located underneath one of [[Earth Empire factory|Kuvira's factories]], where they were all placed in a wooden prison cell that was suspended with ropes above a seemingly bottomless chasm. He was freed from his confinement by Lin, who used her metal cables to swing him over to the tunnel where Bolin stood ready to catch him. After they all reached the surface again, Huan remained behind with his father and grandmother, while Opal and Bolin set out to rescue [[Zhu Li Moon|Zhu Li]] and Suyin, Lin, Wei, and Wing attempted to destroy Kuvira's [[Spirit energy cannon|spirit vine cannon]]. Huan later journeyed to [[Republic City]] on [[Juicy]] with everyone but Toph.<ref name="OB">{{Cite episode|2|410}}</ref>

[[File:Baffled evacuees.png|thumb|right|200px|Huan was baffled to see Prince [[Wu]] resuming his singing and starting to dance with renewed vigor when they were threatened by three [[Earth Empire]] [[mecha suit]]s.]]

A week after arriving in Republic City, Huan, together with his father, joined the last group of citizens set to evacuate Republic City. They became stranded at [[Central City Station]], however, when Kuvira [[Invasion of the United Republic of Nations|attacked]] the metropolis a week before they had been expecting her and had her army destroy the [[train]] tracks. When Prince [[Wu]] arrived with two [[badgermole]]s, Huan and the other evacuees followed the creatures underground as they tunneled a way out for them. He quickly grew fed up with Wu's singing, which commanded the [[Fauna in the World of Avatar|animals]], and covered his ears. Huan looked on in surprise when Wu started singing and dancing with renewed vigor when three of Kuvira's [[mecha suit]]s threatened them, which led the badgermoles to attack the soldiers and crush their machines.<ref name="DC">{{Cite episode|2|412}}</ref>

Huan and the others made it through Kuvira's assault on the city safely and he later attended the dinner party to celebrate the wedding of [[Iknik Blackstone Varrick|Varrick]] and Zhu Li at [[Air Temple Island]]. When the dance floor was opened, he was dragged onto it by Ikki, who held his hands and started excitedly jumping up and down in front of him, much to his displeasure.<ref name="LS">{{Cite episode|2|413}}</ref>

Huan was present for the beginning of Kuvira's trial three months after her defeat, along with his parents, sister, twin brothers, and Team Avatar, and watched his mother confront Kuvira after the hearing for having pleaded not guilty.<ref name="RE1">{{Cite comic|RE1}}</ref>

After returning to Zaofu, Huan joined his family, Korra and Kuvira for a meal after his mother's party escaped from [[Gaoling]].

Huan joined the rest of his family in returning to Republic City when Kuvira's trial resumed, and gathered around her when she learned she would be sentenced to house arrest at the Beifong estate after entering a guilty plea.<ref name="RE3">{{Cite comic|RE3}}</ref>

== Appearances ==
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=== ''The Legend of Korra'' ===
==== Book Three: Change (易) ====
{{Appear|2|305|306|308nl}}
==== Book Four: Balance (平衡) ====
{{Appear|2|405nl|406|410nl|412nl|413nl}}
=== Graphic novels ===
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== Relatives ==
{{Main|Beifong family}}
{{Familytree
| | | | | | [[Lu Beifong|Lu]] |y| Wumei |_
| | | | | | | | |!| |_
| | | | | | | | Descendants |_
| | | | | | | | |!| |_
| | | | | | | | [[Lao Beifong|Lao]] |y| [[Poppy Beifong|Poppy]] |_
| | | | | | | | | | |!|_
| | Kanto |~|~|y|~|~| [[Toph Beifong|Toph]] |_
| | | | | | |!| | | |!|_
| | | | | | [[Lin Beifong|Lin]] | | [[Suyin Beifong|Suyin]] |y| [[Baatar]] |_
| | | | |,|-|-|-|v|-|-|-|+|-|-|-|v|-|-|-|.| |_
| | | | [[Baatar Jr.]] | | '''Huan''' | | [[Opal]] | | [[Wei and Wing|Wei]] | | [[Wei and Wing|Wing]] |_
}}

== Trivia ==
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* Huan is the third known named character to have dyed their hair, albeit not completely, the others being [[Ginger]], [[Gombo]], and [[Ryu]].
* Despite there being several occasions in which other members of his family have been engaged in conflict, Huan himself was never seen using his [[Bending arts|bending]] abilities combatively.
* In the episode "The Metal Clan", the photo on Suyin's desk depicts Huan as an infant, with designer Angela Mueller basing it off her and writer [[Joshua Hamilton]]'s son, Kai.<ref name="MCc" />

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