| “ | Kyoshi, was it? Kyoshi, I'm eternally grateful for you and your compatriots for rescuing me. But you're young and that's why you don't understand. Eight years of my life were stolen from me. Thousands of my followers. At your tender age, what would you know about that kind of injustice? A lesser man might quit in the face of a setback that large. But not me. I relish the work, not the reward. I will get what I am owed. The world is on the verge of forgetting my name. Which means I didn't carve the scars deep enough last time. I'll do better with the second chance you've given me, Kyoshi. They’re humans like us, made of skin and guts and pain. They need to be reminded of that fact. | „ |
| ~ Xu explains himself to Kyoshi. |
Xu Ping An is a major antagonist in the Avatar: Kyoshi book series, appearing as the secondary antagonist of the 2019 novel The Rise of Kyoshi and a posthumous antagonist in its 2020 sequel The Shadow of Kyoshi.
He is the ego-maniacal leader of the Yellow Necks, who believe himself to be far above anyone to ever be held accountable and be punished for any of his deeds, being one of Kyoshi's most hated enemies that disgusted her even more so than Jianzhu, her archenemy.
While there is no official image of Ping An, some fanart has spread out depicting what he may look like while taking into account the physical traits the novel describes him to have, like his hair, eye and skin color.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- Sought to purge the world of all law & order and toss the planet into anarchy out of his arrogant belief that he is above everyone's judgement.
- Rallying up the Yellow Necks, Xu sadistically massacred all throughout the Earth kingdom, butchering dozens of villages of "abiders" entirely, even the children, that after each village, thousands are bodies of all the butchered are stacked behind him and the villages are now just razed shells.
- As a result, he is behind Sozin, or perhaps might surpasses Sozin, in having one of the highest kill counts in the entire franchise, placing all the others to shame.
- Xu only has superficial regard for his men. He claims the deaths of his men upsets him, but it is made clear Xu is obviously lying and using it as a convenient excuse to simply "blow off some steam" (by starting and even bloodier massacre for being imprisoned for 8 years, and when any of his own men and people he claims brotherhood fails to meet his standards, he has no qualms torturing and brutally murdering them.
- Best example is when his brother (possibly in-arms), Mok, frees him from prison, Xu strangles him in return to near death for not breaking him out sooner.
- Feeling his previous massacre didn't cause enough of a bloodbath and forgotten, Xu seeks to begin another and even bloodier massacre that will kill far more people to scar his name into history forever, beginning by attempting to slaughter the village of Zigan.
- To first blow off some steam, Xu breaks into the house of a farmer, bloodily beats up his wife and son and then forces them to watch as he slowly tortures the farmer to death by slowly dunking him into scalding water before preparing to kill the wife and son.
- Xu then uses his unique ability of lightning bending to unfairly fight Kyoshi and torture her death, and even when seemingly killed, he continues to do so to sadistically desecrate her body while proclaiming himself as absolute. The attacks scarred Kyoshi's hands forever that she was forced to wear military gloves to cover them.
- When his life was threatened at Kyoshi's mercy, Xu felt nothing but outrage toward being forced to suffer the consequences of his crimes, since he believed that only his enemies should face consequences. Then when he believed Kyoshi had let her guard down, he tried to attack her breathing a stream of fire at her face, proving that he had no chance at redemption and spurring Kyoshi's decision to kill him.
Trivia[]
- Xu Ping An is, alongside Ozai, Offshore Prison Warden and Unalaq, one of the four Avatar villains to be Pure Evil. However, Ping An is the only one to not serve as a villain for an entire story, to be just a relatively minor villain and to come from a book instead from the television shows.
External Links[]
- Xu Ping An on the Villains Wiki
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