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- This article is about the Avatar. For the official, see Gun.
"I'm done cleaning up after them. They take with both hands, and they pay only with blame. They find your edges and then dwell there. Work a hundred miracles? You're worthless for not performing a hundred and one."
Gun was an Avatar who lived during the Ru Ming era, long before Yangchen's time.[2]
History
Avatar Gun had a close companion, Mesose, a poet and engineer whom they nicknamed "Se-Se". The latter would write treatises that Gun liked to read or listen to.[2] Over the course of their adventures, Gun grew increasingly disdainful of humanity. The Avatar felt that people would always demand more aid despite being ungrateful for the aid already given, while also repeatedly making the same mistakes over and over again. In such moments of doubt, Mesose tried to calm Gun down.[1]
Eventually, Gun and Mesose found themselves at the harbor city of Ha'an when it was hit by a tsunami. Gun attempted to stop the natural disaster, but they could only weaken it. Large parts of Ha'an were destroyed, and Mesose died in the floods despite Gun's efforts at saving the scholar. Devastated at this loss, Gun disappeared for an extended period of time before resuming their duties as the Avatar.[2]
Legacy
Gun was recorded as having failed to stop the tsunami at Ha'an, though the city survived and would eventually prosper again. Jetsun later speculated that Gun themselves had demanded that the incident be labelled as a failure of theirs, considering that they had lost Mesose.[2]
Eventually, an eight-year old Yangchen, possessed by Gun, would relive the day when Mesose died.[2] About nine years later, Gun again possessed Yangchen as she was resting on a small island in the Northern Sea. This time, Gun's disdain for humanity came to the fore, as the long-dead Avatar implored their companion (mistaking Kavik for Mesose) to tell them why the Avatar should care any longer about all the ungrateful and short-sighted humans. When Kavik could only offer hope in the betterment of humanity as a reason, Gun started to madly laugh until Yangchen snapped out of the possession.[1]
Trivia
- Gun lived in the Ru Ming era which was first featured as part of Wan Shi Tong's calendar in "The Library".[3]
- In Chinese mythology, Gun (้ฏ
(Gวn)) was father of Yu the Great, founder of the Xia dynasty, and was appointed to the task of controlling the Great Flood by Emperor Yao, though many died as Gun's efforts failed. This bears similarities to Avatar Gun being unable to stop the tsunami at Ha'an. In addition, Gun's era of Ru Ming was succeeded by the Yao Ping era ("Peace of Emperor Yao") in Wan Shi Tong's calendar. - When Gun possessed Yangchen, Kavik felt that the Air Avatar suddenly seemed "decades" older. If this impression correctly reflects Gun's age, they were at least in their forties or fifties by the time of Mesose's death.[1]
| Preceded by Unknown; eventually Salai,[4] Zalir, or Wan |
Avatar | Succeeded by Unknown; eventually Salai[4] or Szeto |