My people are dying, Sokka. Those who are in charge of others have a responsibility. It is time we show the Fire Nation we believe in our beliefs as much as they believe in theirs.Princess Yue
Princess Yue was the sixteen-year-old ruler of the Northern Water Tribe at the North Pole. Her character is a composite of her animated counterpart and her father, Arnook; functioning as both Sokka's love interest and the head of state due to her father's untimely death.
History
Backstory
Princess Yue told Sokka that she was a stillborn baby until she was revived by the Moon Spirit, she didn't wake up or make any voluntary movement. Her parents have prayed to the Moon Spirit for days on end. They then dipped her into the sacred water, which revived her and turned her hair white as a result. Her mother passed away years later and after that her father would also pass on, placing Yue as the leader of the Northern Water Tribe.
The Siege of the North
When Aang and the others arrived at the Northern Water Tribe, she welcomed them and befriended Sokka, who became her love interest. When the Fire Nation fleet came to invade the Northern Water Tribe sixteen years later, Commander Zhao captured and stabbed the Moon Spirit to death. This caused the moon to turn red and Yue to faint and weaken.
Yue gave her life back to the Moon Spirit by lying beside it in the oasis pool. Blue-white life-force energy leaped from Yue onto the Moon Spirit. In the process, Yue's hair turned from white to black. Yue's body did not disappear or transform into the new Moon Spirit. The Moon Spirit swam again and rejoined its partner, the Ocean Spirit. Iroh subsequently lifted her lifeless body out of the pool and put her on the ground, and Sokka grieved over her death.
Personality
Yue was a kind, gentle, faithful and hopeful person. She was extremely protective of her people, and was determined to do anything to save them, going so far as to giving up her own life to resurrect the Moon Spirit.
Trivia
- Yue (月) means "moon" in Mandarin Chinese. In Japanese, it is pronounced as "yu-eh", as heard in the series and the movie.
- In the film, Yue is portrayed by actress Seychelle Gabriel, who later was cast as the voice of Asami Sato in The Legend of Korra.
- Both characters fell in love with a member of the Southern Water Tribe and Team Avatar.
- In the series, Yue was the only member of the Northern Water Tribe wearing purple while others wore blue, which highlighted her character from the rest, whereas, in the film, Yue wore blue like her people.
- As opposed to the events in the series, Yue's father, Arnook, was deceased in the movie, and thus Yue was the ruler of the Northern Water Tribe.
- The entire subplot regarding Yue's engagement with Hahn was cut in the movie, meaning the romance between Yue and Sokka went on without the "other man" in the relationship.
- Unlike the series, Yue's lifeless body remained even after becoming the new Moon Spirit. In a deleted scene of the movie, Yue's death affected Sokka greatly, even to the extent of asking Aang to save the city for Yue.
- To make up for the lack of romance between Sokka and Yue in the original cut, M. Night Shyamalan extended the scene right before Yue gives her life to the Moon Spirit, which includes the line, "It is time we show the Fire Nation we believe in our beliefs as much as they believe in theirs," alluding to the Fire Nation way of life where people could not agree to disagree on something as personal as one's own belief.
- Yue's "believe in our beliefs" line is often criticized for poor or redundant wording, even though "believe in belief" is a common topic for theological discussions.
Licensing
This article contains content derived from the Princess Yue article on the Avatar Wiki, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
