A second look at The Legend of Korra reveals that the titular Avatar's spiritual connection goes further than just her past lives.

All of the Avatars in both The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra come from different backgrounds. Roku was from a prominent family, Aang was just a regular monk andKyoshi was abandoned by her parents to live as a homeless orphan. However,Korra is different fromher past lives in that she is technically royalty, as her father Tonraq was in line to be the chief of the Northern Water Tribe before being banished and relocating to the Southern Tribe.

Like all the hierarchy lines in the Avatar world, except for the Avatar line itself, the Northern Water Tribe's line of succession is blood-related. Meaning, Korra and her father share a bloodline with all the previous Northern chiefs, including Chief Arnook and his daughter Princess Yue, who would later be reincarnated as the Moon Spirit. This isn't the first time Avatar crossed the Avatar's heritage with another character. Fans first saw it in Zuko, who was the great-grandson of both Avatar Roku and Firelord Sozin, creating the dual nature oflight anddarkness inside of him. Although Korra's heritage doesn't create any internal conflicts like it did Zuko, it does give her a unique connection to the Spirit World.

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When Princess Yue was born, she was greatly ill. Unable to cure her naturally, her parents dipped her in the oasis pool where the spirit Tui gave her life. It created a link between Yue and Tui that continued until "Chapter Twenty: The Siege of the North Pole Part 2" when General Zhao killed the spiritin an attempt to take down the Water Tribe. To save the moon and her tribe, Yue gave back the life that Tui gave her and, as a result, became the Moon Spirit.

Since Korra and Yue are related, one could make the claim that Korra has a direct connection to the Moon, but Yue wasn't born with any spiritual abilities and only obtained such a connection because she was ill. However,her father once said that whenYue was born he had a vision of her becoming the moon, so it's possible that she was always destined to join the spirits, starting a link that helped direct the Avatar line of succession over to Korra. The Avatar after Aang was going to be from one of the Water Tribes, so choosing someone related to a spirit would surely help keep the world in balance.

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Even so, thisconnection could also mean nothing. Korra and Yue are likely nothing more than distant cousins, making their connection minimat at best. Regardless, it's still fascinating to have a relative that's a powerful spirit, especially one that is directly responsible for giving waterbenders their ability to bend.

This fact makes Korrathe only known Avatar to have such a connection to the Spirit World. It does seem a bit ironic, though, since she had such a difficult time actually making contact withit.

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Rachel Roth is a graduate of the University of South Florida in St. Petersburg. Her work has been featured in multiple literary journals and anthologies. In addition to CBR, she also writes for Hidden Remote and Haunted MTL. In her spare time, she watches horror movies and reads Stephen King.

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