Theory about Gyatso’s death
Yangchen book spoilers ahead
I have a theory that as an air nomad, Monk Gyatso wouldn’t fight back with deadly measures unless he had an equal trade of dying himself. I think he drained the air out of the room like Yangchen did to the combustion benders, but couldn’t let air back in just before passing out as he was too weak, and died.
The position his skeleton is in suggests he was in complete control at the very end and was the last one down.
I don’t think he would have individually suffocated the fire army as that goes against all air nomad teachings. There’s a lot of the internal debate within the Yangchen books that I believe Gyatso would have been thinking in that moment.
Yangchen book spoilers ahead
I have a theory that as an air nomad, Monk Gyatso wouldn’t fight back with deadly measures unless he had an equal trade of dying himself. I think he drained the air out of the room like Yangchen did to the combustion benders, but couldn’t let air back in just before passing out as he was too weak, and died.
The position his skeleton is in suggests he was in complete control at the very end and was the last one down.
I don’t think he would have individually suffocated the fire army as that goes against all air nomad teachings. There’s a lot of the internal debate within the Yangchen books that I believe Gyatso would have been thinking in that moment.