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Description
Ty Lee was a cheerful and energetic teenage girl who hailed from the Fire Nation. As the daughter of a nobleman, she attended the Royal Fire Academy for Girls with her friends, Princess Azula and Mai. As a child, Ty Lee dealt with six sisters that shared identical appearances with her. This caused her to feel a loss of individuality, and led her to have a longing to be a unique, recognizable person, and a desire for attention from other people. Because of this, after she matured, she ran away from her home and joined a Fire Nation circus, becoming a skilled acrobatic performer and gaining more personal attention.
Ty Lee was a formidable opponent at hand-to-hand combat, often utilizing chi blocking, a unique form of martial arts that attacks the pressure points located in the human body. By striking these, she was able to disrupt that individual's chi flow and temporarily paralyze them, removing their ability to use bending. Mai and Ty Lee were recruited by Princess Azula to hunt down and capture Prince Zuko and Iroh, and later, Avatar Aang and his friends.
Mai later betrayed Azula to save Zuko's life. When the infuriated princess retaliated, Ty Lee defended Mai by paralyzing Azula, which led to her imprisonment, along with Mai. While in prison, she met the Kyoshi Warriors for a second time, and befriended them. In return for teaching them how to block chi, they allowed her to join their group and were released from prison when the Hundred Year War ended. Later, Ty Lee adopted their makeup and clothes, effectively becoming part of a matched set once again.
