Ty Lee

Ty Lee is a supporting character in the animated series .
She is voiced by Olivia Hack who also voiced Rhonda Wellington Lloyd in Hey Arnold!, Katooni in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Mao Jahana in Blood+.
==Biography==
===Avatar: The Last Airbender ===
Ty Lee is a somewhat ditsy and cheerful acrobatics/gymnast from the Fire Nation. While she was growing up she attended an all girls school with her friends Princess Azula and Mai. She joined the circus because she wanted to be noticed and not be a part of a set because she six other sisters that look exactly like her. While in the circus Azula threatens and makes her join her in her quest to capture Prince Zuko and his and Azula's Uncle Iroh.
During the series it is shown that there might be some love interest with Sokka. In "The Chase" Ty Lee mentions that he's "kinda cute". Also in The Crossroads of Destiny when she is disguised as a Kyoshi warrior and Sokka comes to them she addresses him as "cutie" but tells her that he is involved with Suki. Later, when the two fight Ty Lee comments that "it's like we're dancing together".
During the episode, The Beach, Ty Lee is constantly chased around by boys on Ember Island. Mai later theorizes that she needs all this attention because she had none as a child, as she was one of seven identical siblings. Ty Lee then confirms that was why she joined the circus, to be different.
There is no apparent reason why Ty Lee is constantly happy and chipper, although it could be to forget about being one of seven, and getting no attention. It has been shown that boys are very attracted to Ty Lee and she knows how to get them to like her, telling Azula just to laugh and smile at everything they say.
Ty Lee recently ventured to the Boiling Rock prison with Azula (Mai was already there, so it's thought that she also came with them). When Sokka and Zuko launch they're escape plan, Ty Lee displays incredible acrobatic skills by running up the rope of the gondola they're escaping on, without even the slightest loss of balance. When she and Azula get on top of the gondola, Ty Lee battles Suki, and after a small skirmish, flips down through the gondola and back up and begins fighting again. When the guards are about to cut the rope, she jumps up onto the wire of the gondola and back flips onto the one next to it. When Azula and Ty Lee get back on shore, Azula shouts at Mai who saved Zuko and the others when the line was about to be cut. Just as the two are about to battle, Ty Lee hits Azula in the arms, rendering them useless, and runs to Mai's side, telling her they should go. But, a squadron of guards show up and restrain them, and Azula tells the guards to throw them somewhere where she'll never have to see them again, and leave them to rot. After the War, she was released from Prison and She became an Official Member of the Kyoshi Warriors, and went to live in Kyoshi Island. She is only the second outsider to be accepted as a Kyoshi Warrior, with Sokka being the first one to do so.
===The Promise Part One===
Mai is worried about Zuko now that he is Fire Lord and thinks his regular guards are a bunch of incompetent idiots. She says he needs some real security so she asks her friends Suki, Ty Lee and the rest of the Kyoshi Warriors to act as his personal guard. On her first night on watch outside of Zuko's chambers, Ty Lee reports that everything is clear.
===The Search===
Ty Lee, along with Suki, accompany Fire Lord Zuko to his father’s prison cell, where he has set up a meeting with him and Azula. He is hoping he can help his family mend their relationships. Zuko offers Azula some tea, she rips the tray from him and knocks him back, yelling how can she drink tea in a straight jacket. Azula gets up from her chair, Ty Lee is quick to intervene and chi block Azula immediately. Azula screams at Ty Lee asking how her mother got to her and made her turn against her old friend. Ty Lee is confused and says she is not making any sense. Ty Lee, Suki and Zuko leave and let Azula and Ozai talk in private. Ty Lee mentions how she never lost her fear of Azula. Later that night, Zuko escorts Azula back to her room and says Ty Lee and Suki should go home and get some rest. The two Kyoshi Warriors caution him and Ty Lee mentions that her chi blocking will wear off soon.
== Personality==
Ty Lee was bubbly and outgoing, yet slightly airheaded. She was a direct contrast to Azula's cruelty and Mai's constant torpor. She took delight in her acrobatic abilities, never missing an opportunity to show them off, and often craved attention and recognition, a result of her upbringing as part of an identical set of seven sisters. These attention issues also caused her to be a bit of a flirt, which is also why (according to Mai) she needed the affection of multiple boyfriends.
Ty Lee showed a strong sense of loyalty to her friends, Mai and Azula. Despite her obvious differences from Mai, she had a deep respect for her, and they often made an effective fighting duo, teaming up numerous times in the series. Ever since childhood, Ty Lee also considered Azula as a friend, but as she got older, that loyalty seemed to have been partially out of fear of the princess. When she first refused Azula's request that she join her search for the traitorous Zuko, Azula persuaded Ty Lee by endangering her life during a circus performance. For some time, she never disobeyed Azula's orders. However, her breaking point came at last at the Boiling Rock, during Azula's attempted murder of her own brother and Ty Lee's childhood friend, Zuko. When the rope holding Zuko's gondola was about to be cut, potentially sending Zuko along with several prisoners and friends plummeting to their deaths, Ty Lee showed concern while Azula smirked next to her. After Mai helped Zuko and his friends escape the prison, Azula threatened her life. Seeing Mai in the face of Azula's terrible rage and fearing for Mai's safety, Ty Lee attacked Azula, ending up in jail but finally conquering her own fears and taking a stand against her "friend" after months of obedience.
Ty Lee was known not to hold grudges against her enemies despite their encounters on the battlefield. This was evidenced by her eventual bond with the Kyoshi Warriors, whose confinement she was partially responsible for. She was able to establish a fairly strong friendship with the group while they were imprisoned together. She also showed affection for Sokka, despite having fought him under the orders of Azula.
She was known to be close to animals. In Ba Sing Se, she was seen teaching Bosco acrobatic moves before Toph earthbent her to the ground.
Ty Lee often came off as superficial, which was demonstrated for the first time when she affirmed her beauty to a Kyoshi Warrior and a second time when she warned her friends about the negative energy of their serious conversation, which she said would give them acne. However, whenever a true test of character came up, Ty Lee proved herself to be much deeper than people gave her credit for.
==Abilities==
===Agility===
Ty Lee was extraordinarily agile. Even as a child, she was able to execute mid-air somersaults and cartwheels that surpassed even Azula. As she grew up, her agility continued to improve, commonly seen walking around in a headstance on just her fingers. She later developed remarkable acrobatic abilities, which allowed her to join the Fire Nation circus and perform high-wire acts with balance and grace. People traveled for miles to see her perform. Because of this, she was fast and agile in battle, able to outmaneuver almost any opponent she came across and jump exceptionally high and far even from a stationary position. Her abilities allowed her to dodge the attacks of dozens of powerful earthbenders, who were unable to land a hit on her. She was also limber; able to twist, bend, and contort herself into positions nearly impossible for an ordinary person to achieve. These abilities also granted her impressive parkour and free-running skills, allowing her to scale almost any surface or terrain quickly and squeeze through most barriers and small spaces with noticeable ease.
===Chi blocking===
Another of Ty Lee's defining abilities was her mastery of pressure-point-striking martial arts, or chi blocking. With her extensive knowledge of the human body, she could strike sequences of pressure points, immobilizing her enemies to various degrees. She had the ability to paralyze a single body part or an opponent's entire body. This technique allowed her to block certain chi paths in benders to compromise their abilities. This made her especially dangerous to benders who relied solely on their bending and possessed no secondary fighting skills. She was so powerful that outside the walls of Ba Sing Se, she was able to defeat dozens of powerful earthbenders within seconds. However, if her target had faced her before or was expecting her attacks, the effectiveness of her chi blocking decreased as her opponent took measures to prevent her from using the technique. After fighting her before, Suki was able to avoid her attacks at the Boiling Rock, and Katara and Sokka were also able to effectively counter her when facing her again. She took Azula by surprise when she was about to strike Mai because, although the princess was familiar with Ty Lee's fighting style, she had never faced her as an opponent. While Ty Lee was imprisoned with the Kyoshi Warriors she had mentioned that she gave them "a few chi blocking lessons" and in return, she was allowed to join the group.
==Gallery==
Suki and Ty Lee battle.png|Ty Lee's battle with Suki on the Boiling Rock gondola
AcidicDimwittedHerald-mobile.jpg|Ty Lee's Warm Smile
Charming_Ty_Lee.png|Ty Lee
Imprisoned Mai & Ty Lee.png|Mai & Ty Lee are imprisoned for defying Azula
Ty_Lee_as_a_Kyoshi_Warrior.png|Ty Lee as a Kyoshi Warrior
Ty_Lee_is_Kyoshi_Warrior_now.png|Ty Lee with two Kyoshi Warriors
Ty Lee laying on a bed.png
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