I saw a post on Facebook a couple of days ago about how female Avatars can’t get pregnant because they could go into the Avatar state during labor and die. I thought that was dumb but at the same time it got the wheels in my head turning

I also recently watched Dune 2, where Lady Jessica undergoes the Spice Agony while she’s pregnant, resulting in her unborn daughter being born with the full abilities of an adult Bene Gesserit, and all the memories of all her ancestors. The problem is that a person with no memories of her own having thousands of years’ worth of memories has no sense of self, and can easily be taken over by the other personalities she has in her brain

So then I wanted to merge those two ideas. A female Avatar going into the Avatar state during pregnancy could cause a similar problem, where the child ends up absorbing all the memories from all the previous Avatars. The child would not be an Avatar, and he or she would only be able to bend at most one element, but the child would know how to bend all four. The child would struggle with all the memories and have a poor sense of self