Post by taedxoa on Jun 8, 2010 15:33:25 GMT -6
Profile Team Note: This profile is a reposting of a pre-2007 character. The original creator has left the forum indefinitely, but unfortunately has not given us permission to alter her character in anyway, even to bring it up to date with our rules. Taed was given permission to NPC this character, hence the reposting. Please do not use this profile as an example of what is and is not allowed on TARP, as these character types have been disallowed.
OOC: Please note — this character originally belonged to the member with username Kokejin, but she had me RP the character during her absences. Since her so-far permanent absence, I continued RPing the character, and this reflects an updated profile. (Kokejin's original profile is still under the female waterbenders board.)
Name: Etsuko Nireäriel (pronounced “et-SOO-koh nihr-YAR-ee-el”)
Age: seventeen annuals
Appearance: Etsuko’s once-long hair, jet-black and smooth as water, now only falls just below her shoulders, since she needed it out of the way while she was traveling and fighting. Sometimes she ties it up with a strip of cloth torn from an old Mothhaudh flag, but just as often she lets it hang down. Her eyes are a brilliant, bright blue which are almost the same color as her travel-worn old blue Water Tribe cloak. They are a little bruised around the eyebrows, now-permanent marks of the exhaustion of her young pregnancy. Hanging from the white cloth belt around her cloak is the wooden flute with a blue tassel that she still keeps, last reminder of her own village at the South Pole. She is short and thin, though neither frail nor solid; her body fortunately bears little of the telltale signs of stretching from carrying Sora in her womb.
History: It seems to Etsuko that her parents must have known she was going to be a waterbender, and that they must have been afraid of the Fire Nation finding them. That seems like the only reason that they abandoned her on the shore of one of the frozen lakes dotting the grand glaciers of the southern oceans. Fortunately, she was found and adopted by members of the Water Tribe village directly on the South Pole, and was raised communally by the adults of the village alongside the children there.
When she was nine, she first showed signs of her innate waterbending abilities, and was taught the principles of the most basic waterbending by Gran-Gran, the elder of the village, despite not being a waterbender herself. Etsuko’s curiosity about her own abilities and the world around her seemed nearly limitless for many years, and at the age of fourteen she left the village to explore the world, not being completely bound by familial bonds or the law of staying in the village for protection. She was presented with a simple, easy-to-play traditional flute by Gran-Gran as a gift from the village upon her departure, and she has never gone anywhere without it, suspecting it somehow aids the healing part of her waterbending.
For reasons not even clear to herself, Etsuko ended up sailing to the capital city of the Fire Nation in pursuit of a crush she had on the infamous Prince Zuko. Barely having set foot on the palace grounds, she was stopped by Princess Azula, who was unfortunately leaving the palace at just that time in a vicious temper, but was rescued by a cloaked man who, like the princess, bent blue fire. Together Etsuko and the man escaped; the kind firebender introduced himself as Taed Xoa Luinnar, an exiled priest from an island nation in the Fire Nation waters, who was returning home to Mothhaudh after two years away from his family.
They arrived on the island to discover that the island spirits’ barriers were no longer protecting the island, and Etsuko was present when the arrival of two would-be assassins ultimately led to a renewal of a treaty between Taed’s people, the Mothguaith, and the tribe of bender hunters known as the Galgori Conclave. During Etsuko’s time on Mothhaudh, she and Taed slept together and she became pregnant. After escaping a minor Fire Nation attack on the coast of Taed’s home village, Etsuko left the island with Taed and his brother Goen to search out allies in an uprising against the tyranny of Fire Lord Ozai.
They went first to Etsuko’s home in the South Pole, where Etsuko met many of her old friends but could not convince them to join Taed and the rest of the group. Instead, they accidentally encountered two Galgori tribesmen at an observation station not far from the village, who joined them as an honor guard and as Galgori representatives to the alliance. Together the group sailed north to the Earth Kingdom; unfortunately they were attacked by the pirates of the Red Koi, and while Taed used a Mothguaith technique to haunt their ship with his spirit, that spirit was whisked far away, leaving them temporarily with what seemed like the lifeless husk of his body.
Etsuko maintained that Taed would return to them, and helped direct the group to Mount Makapu, the village where Taed was intending to ask Aunt Wu for direction and advice. While there, Taed’s spirit returned to his body, but Aunt Wu received a vision in which she told them of the impending destruction of Mothhaudh. Etsuko gave permission for Taed to leave to defend his homeland, but Goen stayed with her and, some months later, helped Etsuko give birth to a baby that she named Sora. At this time it is known whether Sora will be a bender, or whether she will bend water like her mother or fire like her father.
After the birth, Aunt Wu paired Etsuko, Goen, and Sora up with a pair of traveling warriors, but in the aftermath of a bandit ambush they were separated from their escort. After hiding in the woods for six months, they at last set out for their next intended destination, Kyoshi Island, where they have been mulling over future plans for several weeks.
Personality: Once an over-reflective, highly cautious crybaby, Etsuko is aware of how much she has grown as a person. She has become a politician of sorts, and as her waterbending technique has grown, she had become more confident both as a person and as a warrior. She would do anything to defend her child, and she also prioritizes anyone else that swears to protect Sora, such as her foster brother-in-law Goen. She still tries to avoid conflict, and her first instinct is still to hide or to go another way around an obstacle, but she will not be afraid anymore.
OOC: Please note — this character originally belonged to the member with username Kokejin, but she had me RP the character during her absences. Since her so-far permanent absence, I continued RPing the character, and this reflects an updated profile. (Kokejin's original profile is still under the female waterbenders board.)
Name: Etsuko Nireäriel (pronounced “et-SOO-koh nihr-YAR-ee-el”)
Age: seventeen annuals
Appearance: Etsuko’s once-long hair, jet-black and smooth as water, now only falls just below her shoulders, since she needed it out of the way while she was traveling and fighting. Sometimes she ties it up with a strip of cloth torn from an old Mothhaudh flag, but just as often she lets it hang down. Her eyes are a brilliant, bright blue which are almost the same color as her travel-worn old blue Water Tribe cloak. They are a little bruised around the eyebrows, now-permanent marks of the exhaustion of her young pregnancy. Hanging from the white cloth belt around her cloak is the wooden flute with a blue tassel that she still keeps, last reminder of her own village at the South Pole. She is short and thin, though neither frail nor solid; her body fortunately bears little of the telltale signs of stretching from carrying Sora in her womb.
History: It seems to Etsuko that her parents must have known she was going to be a waterbender, and that they must have been afraid of the Fire Nation finding them. That seems like the only reason that they abandoned her on the shore of one of the frozen lakes dotting the grand glaciers of the southern oceans. Fortunately, she was found and adopted by members of the Water Tribe village directly on the South Pole, and was raised communally by the adults of the village alongside the children there.
When she was nine, she first showed signs of her innate waterbending abilities, and was taught the principles of the most basic waterbending by Gran-Gran, the elder of the village, despite not being a waterbender herself. Etsuko’s curiosity about her own abilities and the world around her seemed nearly limitless for many years, and at the age of fourteen she left the village to explore the world, not being completely bound by familial bonds or the law of staying in the village for protection. She was presented with a simple, easy-to-play traditional flute by Gran-Gran as a gift from the village upon her departure, and she has never gone anywhere without it, suspecting it somehow aids the healing part of her waterbending.
For reasons not even clear to herself, Etsuko ended up sailing to the capital city of the Fire Nation in pursuit of a crush she had on the infamous Prince Zuko. Barely having set foot on the palace grounds, she was stopped by Princess Azula, who was unfortunately leaving the palace at just that time in a vicious temper, but was rescued by a cloaked man who, like the princess, bent blue fire. Together Etsuko and the man escaped; the kind firebender introduced himself as Taed Xoa Luinnar, an exiled priest from an island nation in the Fire Nation waters, who was returning home to Mothhaudh after two years away from his family.
They arrived on the island to discover that the island spirits’ barriers were no longer protecting the island, and Etsuko was present when the arrival of two would-be assassins ultimately led to a renewal of a treaty between Taed’s people, the Mothguaith, and the tribe of bender hunters known as the Galgori Conclave. During Etsuko’s time on Mothhaudh, she and Taed slept together and she became pregnant. After escaping a minor Fire Nation attack on the coast of Taed’s home village, Etsuko left the island with Taed and his brother Goen to search out allies in an uprising against the tyranny of Fire Lord Ozai.
They went first to Etsuko’s home in the South Pole, where Etsuko met many of her old friends but could not convince them to join Taed and the rest of the group. Instead, they accidentally encountered two Galgori tribesmen at an observation station not far from the village, who joined them as an honor guard and as Galgori representatives to the alliance. Together the group sailed north to the Earth Kingdom; unfortunately they were attacked by the pirates of the Red Koi, and while Taed used a Mothguaith technique to haunt their ship with his spirit, that spirit was whisked far away, leaving them temporarily with what seemed like the lifeless husk of his body.
Etsuko maintained that Taed would return to them, and helped direct the group to Mount Makapu, the village where Taed was intending to ask Aunt Wu for direction and advice. While there, Taed’s spirit returned to his body, but Aunt Wu received a vision in which she told them of the impending destruction of Mothhaudh. Etsuko gave permission for Taed to leave to defend his homeland, but Goen stayed with her and, some months later, helped Etsuko give birth to a baby that she named Sora. At this time it is known whether Sora will be a bender, or whether she will bend water like her mother or fire like her father.
After the birth, Aunt Wu paired Etsuko, Goen, and Sora up with a pair of traveling warriors, but in the aftermath of a bandit ambush they were separated from their escort. After hiding in the woods for six months, they at last set out for their next intended destination, Kyoshi Island, where they have been mulling over future plans for several weeks.
Personality: Once an over-reflective, highly cautious crybaby, Etsuko is aware of how much she has grown as a person. She has become a politician of sorts, and as her waterbending technique has grown, she had become more confident both as a person and as a warrior. She would do anything to defend her child, and she also prioritizes anyone else that swears to protect Sora, such as her foster brother-in-law Goen. She still tries to avoid conflict, and her first instinct is still to hide or to go another way around an obstacle, but she will not be afraid anymore.