Xiao Xing - Please read the first post and edit accordingly. The questions are not the same as the old CD thread. Thank you.

Questions:
1. What is your character's name?
Ayumi Sato

2. Where is your character from?
A small Earth Kingdom town

3. What is your character's age?
15

4. What does your character look like?
Ayumi is tall and gaunt, her bones showing through her skin. However, her beauty still shows through as well. Her face is long and pretty. She has jade green eyes that have a spark of curiosity in them. She has full lips that more often than not are turned down. She has long, black hair that reaches the middle of her back. Ayumi wears a rather dirty green tunic which is ripped in many places. She wears torn brown pants and nothing on her feet. She has disconnected shackles on her wrists, though she prefers to think of them as “bracelets.”

5. Give a detailed history of your character. Who are your parents? Are they alive? If not, what happened? Tell us what happened to character in their life so far.
Ayumi was born to two non-bending Earth Kingdom natives, in a small town near the coast. She was a cute, bubbly girl, who was constantly laughing. She was a very curious child, and was always trying to find new places to explore, a habit that got her into trouble frequently. She had a simple childhood, spent going to school and playing with her friends, as well as occasionally helping her parents with the antiques store they ran. Just about the only really interesting things that happened were the odd people who came through the town. Ayumi’s life was simple, but nice.

Her simple life vanished when she was 12. One day, a group of heavily armed men rode into her town and started destroying buildings and killing people. Everyone they saw was killed on sight. Unfortunately, this included Ayumi’s parents, who were killed trying to defend their fellow villagers. However, when the raiders came upon Ayumi and some of her friends, they decided to sell the girls into slavery rather than kill them, so they could make some extra money off of the raid. The girls were knocked unconscious, bound, and taken off to Ba Sing Se, where they were sold off to different rich crime lords. Ayumi was bought by a man who owned a very large estate in the Middle Ring of Ba Sing Se, and was made to be a dancer. She lived this way for two and a half years.

One day, while Ayumi and the other slaves were out in the marketplace, there was a riot; a fight had escalated, and the people were running to get out of the way. Ayumi saw it as her chance to escape, and slipped into the crowd of rushing people. She slipped through the crowd, never staying in any one place long enough for someone to realize she was there. She then ran through the city until she reached the Lower Ring. She lives there still, just another kid begging for money on the streets and trying not to get killed.

6. What does your character like? Dislike?
About the only things Ayumi likes anymore are money and food. Those, and still being alive. When your every day is spent simply trying to stay alive, you find that there isn't much you still appreciate. Ayumi hates her current situation. She hates Ba Sing Se, simply because the city represents all the hardship in her life.
7. What are some good traits of your character? Bad?
Ayumi is a very blunt person, though that could be good or bad. She doesn't sugarcoat anything. She could be a very nice person, if someone took the time to get to know her. Deep down, she is still the bubbly person she once was.

Ayumi is incredibly distrustful of all people. She looks out for herself only, and lets other people take care of themselves. She can be a bit cruel to others. She is greedy when it comes to money and food.

8. Does your character bend? What level of training is your character at? Who taught your character?
No, Ayumi doesn't bend. She doesn't know any fighting styles, though she'd punch you out given a chance.

9. What or who is important to your character and why?
The most important things to Ayumi are, once again, food and money. She needs them to survive. The only person important to Ayumi is herself. She couldn't care less about anyone else. She convinced herself that other people were only there to harm her, so she avoids any kind of friendship with anyone.

10. What or who is your character afraid of and why? What is your character’s greatest fear and why?
Ayumi is very afraid of death. She'd like to avoid dying for as long as she can. Her greatest fear would probably be dying before she managed to escape the horrible life she has now. She doesn't want to die a beggar.

11. What is your character’s goal(s) in life and why?
Ayumi's goal is simply to get out of poverty and out of Ba Sing Se. She wants to never have to beg again. She wants to get out of Ba Sing Se because the city is just a reminder of all the sorrow in her life. She wants to forget about all of it and start over.

Anyone ready for a novel?

1. What is your character's name?
Her birth name is Kyoko Matsumoto. She goes by that name (without the Matsumoto), but friends tend to call her either Kyo or Ky (rhymes with me, not my).

2. Where is your character from?
She was born and raised on one of the larger islands of the Fire Nation.

3. What is your character's age?
Add a few months to seventeen, and BAM! you’ve got Kyoko’s age.

4. What does your character look like?
Upon looking at Kyo, it’s bluntly obvious that she’s female with her delicate, slender frame and curvy hips and generous but not too big bust. She’s the perfectly average height of five feet five inches tall, with long, shapely legs that fit into her curvy mold, and slightly knobby knees. Her skin is sun kissed, not a pale papery white like the rest of her family, with the definition of slight muscles beneath the surface when she moves.

Her face is shaped like a heart, maybe a little bit rounder and more childlike, with full pink lips, a slightly upturned nose, delicately arching eyebrows, a forehead somewhere between acceptable and on the verge of being a fivehead, and big almond shaped eyes. Her irises are the color of freshly brewed coffee, or melted dark chocolate; so dark that there’s almost no difference between the iris and the pupil and the difference between the irises and the whites of her eyes is shocking.

Layered hair falls almost to her elbows at its longest, just past her chin at the shortest, with bangs that just graze into her eyes brushed to the right. Her hair is Kyoko’s favorite feature about herself, as it is an unusual color; a light reddish brown that resembles copper in most lights. She never curls it or wears it short, as she just doesn’t have the bone structure for it, but instead wears it long, usually down but occasionally in various up-do’s depending on the occasion.

Not one to bend to the norm, her outfit isn’t one exactly typical to someone of the Fire Nation. Sure, it’s the usual Fire Nation colors, but the dull red halter-fashion dress that doesn’t reach her knees and the knee high dark brown leather boots aren’t what most girls wear around town. Golden accessories like cuff bracelets on both wrists and a necklace that rests at the hollow of her chest just add a little pizzazz to her overall appearance. They add some glitter to the girl.

5. Give a detailed history of your character. Who are your parents? Are they alive? If not, what happened? Tell us what happened to character in their life so far.
(OOC: -____- I hate histories with a passion. I feel you should know that.)

Ky is not the most exciting person in the world history wise. History wise, she’s actually quite boring. She was born in the Fire Nation, a perfectly average baby girl with a brother two years her elder, a mother and a father. She grew up, a sibling bond between her brother, Rui, and herself growing with her. The word bond does not mean that the two got along, because bond can be interpreted many different ways. From the very beginning, there was bad blood between the two; Kyoko often wonders if it’s because she did something to Rui as an infant that she doesn’t recall and he never got over. They were often raised by just their mother, as their father was never home; it was just the way that life was in their house.

When she was six, her father-- a Firebender fighting in the war-- became a casualty, a number lost to the cause.

From that moment on, her family was never the same. Her mother was more distant, complaining more about the way her children acted toward each other, and then just not caring ho they treated each other at all. Her brother became even crueler, with a greater temper then before, and he took his anger out on Kyoko as often as he could find her. So she resolved to be there as little as possible. For the next year, until Rui had cooled down enough to be around him, Kyoko stayed over at her friend Aya’s house.

During that year is when Aya tried to teach her how to fight. They learned that that just wasn’t going to fly. On her seventh birthday is actually when they decided to give up, seeing as how Kyoko had received numerous injuries during the process of trying to train her and gained little technique. The saying “I’m a lover, not a fighter” became her favorite excuse to use.

She moved back into her house before she was eight, and life returned to normal for the next eleven years.

In all honesty, she’s not a very interesting person when it comes to her history.

6. What does your character like? Dislike?
Oddly, strangely, bizarrely enough, she does not like fire. In certain circumstances, like with a bonfire that’s a good three feet away from her, she doesn’t mind. A fireball whizzing through the air by her head, though, or flames licking at her skin, don’t come across so well in her book. Pity, disappointment, and disapproval also go down on her list of dislikes for their own reasons. Pity makes her feel weak, well, weaker; even though she can’t fight, she can still take care of herself and stand on her own two feet for the most part. She still knows that she’s a child to some degree. She feels that she’s let someone down when disappointment colors their features, or like she’s done something wrong and she doesn’t always know what. Disapproval is just a pain in the butt, because that means that they don’t see eye to eye and Kyo usually ends up arguing and getting herself into a bigger mess than before.

Praise is by far Kyo’s favorite thing in the world, because even though it comes few and far between, when there’s real meaning behind it then it means she’s done something right. And if you ask, she won’t hesitate to tell you that there’s a difference between praise and compliments-- “Compliments are about something you have no control over, something you lucked into; praise is on something you worked for and strived to be congratulated for.” She likes attention when she can get it, though it’s not something that she can’t live without. An afternoon alone wouldn’t find her panicking and walking up to random people on the streets asking if they’d like to spend time with her.

“Peaches are nice, too.”

7. What are some good traits of your character? Bad?
Every human is a delicate balance of flaws and strengths, often somewhat tipped one way toward the other. Believe it or not, Ky's personality allows her imperfections to overpower her good qualities more often than not.

Conceit > Practicality

Kyoko knows she’s pretty, and she knows that she can use it to her advantage. It’s a fine art that she mastered at a young age, and in doing so she started gaining the aura snob. They see her and jump to the conclusion of either stuck-up, pampered, or both, all of which signal a red light to turn the other way. Few people with clean intentions get close enough to her to realize that she’s actually a reasonable, down to earth person with a good head on her shoulders. Sure, she jumps to conclusions and can get caught up in gossip, but what girl doesn’t at one point or another? She knows when to shut her mouth and come back to reality.

Tenacity > Exploration

Picking a fight with Kyo is a losing battle. Not a physical fight, in which case she’d be pulling herself back from next week, but a verbal fight. She refuses to let any other opinion get past her thick skull. She’s got her heels dug so far into the dirt that no one can see her willingness to get out of where she is and go somewhere else. She’s curious, and seeing the world would be a big achievement for a girl who’s never left her home island.

Obviously, there are other little tidbits about her that are nice or bad traits to have, but you really need to get to know her to see her true colors shine.

8. Does your character bend? What level of training is your character at? Who taught your character?
Actually, to be unique, Kyoko is not unique. She has no training beyond school lessons. No bending, no acrobats, no weapons, no fighting, nothing. Her friend Aya tried to teach her how to fight, but when Kyo broke her wrist they decided she was a useless cause; that she was best off as a normal civilian. Chances are that she’ll never need to know how to fight. As she loves to say, she’s a lover, not a fighter.

9. What or who is important to your character and why?
Friends, more specifically, loyal friends who aren’t afraid to take her wrath after telling her the blunt truth are important to Kyo. If she didn’t have someone to joke around with, then how un-fun would life be? If there wasn’t someone to tell her when someone else was lying to her, regardless of prior knowledge that she’d get mad because she didn’t want to believe them, then who else would be there to cushion the blow?

10. What or who is your character afraid of and why? What is your character’s greatest fear and why?
Kyoko is afraid of her brother, Rui, because he’s been tormenting her for as long as she can remember. It was nothing at first, just simple picking on her that got on her nerves or made her cry, but as she got older he took to causing her pain with the only thing he had that she didn’t: firebending. He knew that she didn’t fire, and took advantage of that by burning her where the ugly marks wouldn’t show, mainly on her lower legs since he knew how obsessed she was with those boots of hers. Whenever Rui enters the room and their mother isn’t there, she gets scared that he’s going to hurt her again; she’s just gotten better at hiding it so he doesn’t get the satisfaction of seeing her scared.

Her biggest fear, though, would have to be spiders. Not little itsy bitsy spiders that she has to squint in order to see before squishing. Those don’t bother her. Any arachnid bigger than the size of her pinky nail makes her quake in her boots; she would actually willingly run to Rui and hide behind him just to get away from the eight legged creature. Once, when she was seven, she found a spider lurking in a dark corner of the living room that was the size of her hand. She ran to her mom screaming “It’s gonna eat me!”

11. What is your character’s goal(s) in life and why?
To design clothes, make the world a little more fashionable in a silent kind of way. Ky’s big dream isn’t really all that big, compared to overthrowing the Fire Lord or teaching the blind or something like that. But it’s personal, as it works with her vanity and sense of adventure. Yes, adventure; you have to see the different nations in order to adequately design fashion. What better way to live then to play up your strengths?

Tenshio - Not bad. #'s 6 and 7 could be expanded slightly, but all in all, good.

Kyoko - Good job! I like novels. Honestly, we've had longer, but the length for everything except is history is really good. The length for that is... okay, but passable.

Questions:
1. What is your character's name?
Isaso
2. Where is your character from?
Southern Water Tribe
3. What is your character's age?
26
4. What does your character look like?
Although he is usually forced to wear what he considers the rather plain, and drab uniform of The Empire he just trudges his feet and continues to wear it. The uniform though is always as clean as the day it was issued to him, and he intends for it to stay that way through out his time on duty. Although everything in his possession is tidy to an almost unreasonable account he does have one major oddity about his clothing habits. Even though he must wear shoes he has a knack of not wearing socks, mostly because he just feels as if they make his feet much less cramped in the shoe, and he doesn’t like the feeling of them when they get sweaty.

Although hardly ever seen out of uniform if you happen to see him with out it on you will find that his regular attire looks much like a uniform. Wearing everything in a very punctuated way, he likes to be very formal in almost every occasion not caring if it’s going on a hands on mission or going to a ball. It’s a habit that is would probably be counted as uncharacteristic if he had been around those of his childhood, but still it is the man he has chosen to be

A hard rigid face that has a reputation of showing little to no emotions unless extremely provoked or extremely drunk is one of the prominent feature of this man. Medium length head of course brown hair is on his head only measuring to about a two inches in length and is always nice and neat. The fact that when facial hair grows in it is rather blond unlike the hair on his head keeps him very clean-shaven all of the time. Hard brown eyes seem to be intently focused on whatever it is he happens to be attending to at the moment, although few times will you actually catch him with a kind expression on his face.

Standing at about five eleven he isn’t as tall as some people, but he is quite content with being about normal height. Being neither to tall or too small to blend into a crowd it helps him disappear when the time calls for such a thing. Slim, and not particularly strong Isao weighs only one hundred forty five pounds, but that comes from the fact that he doesn‘t like to eat much in one setting. The arm that he predominantly uses is slightly stronger and better built then his other arm, and with much examination one would be able to point it out. The man is very pale most of the time, from many days up in ships with little to no sunlight at all.

5. Give a detailed history of your character. Who are your parents? Are they alive? If not, what happened? Tell us what happened to character in their life so far.

Isao was born to two master water bends expected in all ways to become a bender the likes of which few had ever seen before. When he was a kid he was taught at a young age, and was forced to grow up much too fast. Life was spent training and he wanted to get away from it, and break away from all the mundane things of the southern water tribe.

When he got older and the war was in full effect the two parents decided that they were tired of setting around and waiting on the leaders of their tribe to act. Leaving they headed to the earth kingdom where they would help out in the war in whatever way possible. It took a bit to get there and when they did they didn’t find much.

His dad was taken away for crimes against the fire lord. His mom went crazy after about a year and went away trying to attack them, leaving him with a local merchant. Isao’s first kill was a fire bender who came into the city in a group to take over the small town. With the ability that he possessed he killed four of them, that was when he was but eighteen.

As he grew older he met a man that soon became a teacher, and at the time he seemed like some master to Isao. Quickly, more quickly then the man through possible, though Isao quickly gained on him becoming more and more of a monster. Talent dripped from his fingers as he displayed his power through the very harshest of training and abilities. Training in some mechanical way his entire world was focused on becoming better so that he could avenge his parents from the fire nation.

Slowly his trainer saw him becoming something of a monster, turning into a thing that should never be allowed to exist. So, in a quick moment to rid the world of this beast he attack the water bender, but in this moment the pupil out maneuvered the teacher. Killing him before his master had the chance to even scratch him he walked away no long a student, but as a master. Taking the man’s katana as he left and he began an escapade as a tactful assassin. Beginning a world of ruin.

In the next few years he just became a one man army against the fire nation, fighting it where ever he could and not looking back. Let the innocent live, for the greater good, let the corrupt die.

6. What does your character like? Dislike?

Isao hates firebenders, he will do whatever it takes to destroy them and everything they have ever stood for. Whatever price it takes, whatever rule he must destroy, whatever person he has to kill he will take them down. In anyway possible he will destroy them and take them to the ground, bring the entire fury of his power down up them. Anger for them seethes from ever pore of his body ready to encompass them in any second and fill them to overflowing.

Isao has no likes, to wants, he doesn’t care about people all he wants to do is destroy the firebenders. Yes, he likes to do stuff that are fun occasionally, but he does not yearn or wish for it. His life is breathing, eating, living the destruction of the firebenders. The instability in his mind is evident in ever move he makes, and it is seen in every breath he takes.


7. What are some good traits of your character? Bad?

Destroyed by what he’s been, corrupted by what he must become he has been shaped into a monster almost beyond all hopes of reform. Only a dim shadow of the man he once was remains to clutch desperately to this new entity that has emerged from the wreckage. The innocence that he once had has been replaced with a sense of foreboding insanity that seems to set upon him every day. The lingering fear of this insanity that he once had has been left behind, because he no longer has anything to keep him moving, and all hopes for a real have been cast aside like an old pair of shoes.

Parts of him remain, but those few pieces seem to be only a side note on the side of his overall behavior, and stature. A cold hard man has emerged, one that was forced to grow up too fast, and one that had no remorse for those who have failed in his eyes. Living without anything has taught him that little mistakes can kill a man just as easily as a large one can and has no tolerance for petty mistakes.

Arrogance runs thickly through every vein in his body making him an undesirable person to be around most of the time. This along with an anger that could spike at the slightest provocative makes him a real pain in the ass some times. If you impressed him enough he might give you respect, but it is hard to do in the best of situations, and if you disappoint him it’s almost impossible to get to a more respectable place in his mind. It’s not uncharacteristic for him to go off on little tantrums about things that seem relatively of little concern at the moment, and only he can understand the reason for them.

The complexity of his thoughts and the general intelligence that surround this man is masked by the insanity that runs thick through his veins. This knowledge delves more into the darker art forms of silent killing, and he is very much a sociopath. In no way is he afraid to destroy those around him for the sake of his own agenda and he shows no compassion or empathy for those who are in his way or of no use to him. It doesn’t stop there though, perhaps if that were it he wouldn’t be so completely insane.

A lust to kill is in his soul and everyday it is more and more predominant, as it slowly posses his mind. He kills to kill, and finds pleasure in the agony of those around him. It’s all a game to him, a game without rules, an ending, or morals.

8. Does your character bend? What level of training is your character at? Who taught your character?

Isao is a water bender that would like to consider himself a master at bending. When he was young he was taught at the southern water tribe some by his parents some by more formal teachers. When he got older they went away from the southern water tribe where he was taught by his parents. After they left he found a man that became his teacher. Later he killed the old man after he tried to kill him. Now, he considers himself a master, and trains a lot, but has no formal teacher or mentor.

9. What or who is important to your character and why?

The destruction of the fire nation is the most important thing to Isao right now. The lust to kill them runs through his bones every day, he wants that more then any thing else in his existence. When he isn’t striking at them upfront he is training for the moment when he will have to destroy them. It’s what his center of his world, and although he’s alone he wishes that he could have someone to aide him. Perhaps that’s the only thing that could save him from the edge of ruin.

10. What or who is your character afraid of and why? What is your character’s greatest fear and why?

Isao’s greatest fear is probably the fear that he will die without the vengeance of his parents. Or at least that’s what he would like to believe. Perhaps in reality it’s the thought that maybe he might never find his parents and that they really are dead. On the outside he says that they’re dead, but in reality he could with nothing more then for them to still be alive.

11. What is your character’s goal(s) in life and why?

Isao doesn’t have very many goals in his life. Right now it’s just the now, and trying to rip down anyone and anything that gets in his way. The fire nation /must/ be brought down, and the only way to do that is to attack them in whatever way possible. Still, he looks for his parents but not as vigorously as he attacks the fire nation.

(Sorry it's so rushed/took so long. I've had a really long time with school, and this was something I wasn't really motivated to do. =/ It pretty much sucks, but my posts will be much better, I'm not good at applications.)

Isao - The length #7 is impressive. Good job overall.

Questions:
1. What is your character's name? Megumi Hayate Kyiru. Fu called her Meg, as well as her cousin, but her mother simply called her Princess. Ryoko calls her 'Ru. To everyone she meets, she's simply called Kyiru, since almost everyone has forgotten that she was ever called Megumi, and those that haven't never found out if she was Okina or not. To the masses, she's known as Megumi Hayate, mysterious playwrite and heir to a vast fortune.

2. Where is your character from? Originally from a small village beneath the ruins of an old Sun Tribe temple, Kyiru's mother is from a kingdom along the west coast, and her father is from a small village just north of the capitol. She's spent time at her father's village as a child, and has traveled quite a bit as a young woman. The town is actually rather robust, with all the amenities of a posh city. It has two bars, one featuring stripping, dancing, and an all around good environment, and one where people go to be drunk and weepy, or fight. Several clearings lie just behind the huts, some semi-developed for fights, like makeshift arenas, while others are simply used as the villagers see fit. The blacksmith is known as an artist, with specialties in forging and maintaining weapons. He employs a unique wheel system, a grindstone attached to foot pedals that allows the user to sharpen weapons far more quickly, but less accurately, than normal. The healer's hut, an underground duggout built beneath a tree, is also a common location, including many healing supplies and potions not found anywhere in the world. Much of the villager's homes are actually built above the ground, raised-floor buildings build on stilts, many camoflauged to confuse the true number of residents. These buildings are all networked, lying in several clusters or blocks, each block with a clearing and a bathhouse, each block house connected to the next with rope bridges. Blocks are connected by longer bridges, though many prefer the ground instead.

3. What is your character's age? 19 and 9 months

4. What does your character look like? Kyiru is 5'6, basically average height, and weighs slightly over average for her age, all muscle. Her face is slightly pointed, and her hair is generally a mess, giving her a tomboy-ish appearance when added to her naturally lax style. Adorning her face is an eyepatch, covering the terrible scar that defines her left eye, and permanently hiding the eyeball beneath it, which has long since filled with blood after being practically crushed, and can never close for it's lack of a eyelid. Her other eye is colored a mix of ruby and wine, a multitoned red that looks dark while being nearly transparent. The overall appearance of her face could be rather beautiful, if she decided to style her hair. Her body is similar, with tight and defined muscles, and an average bust, she is considered average for lack of trying rather than lack of natural beauty. Though her legs are slightly long compared to the rest of her, this is almost unnoticable. Her clothing consists of bandages or wraps surrounding her arms, from wrist to elbow, more covering her several inches around her navel, more covering the entirety of her throat, and several for more practical uses around her breasts and pelvic region. The first three bandages all cover scars, thin scars tracing her veins, a single thick scar right beneath her navel, and a terrible gash stretching from ear to ear, respectively, though the last seems to be healing from the outside in, ending in thin pink lines. She typically wears tighter black pants and a shirt, made of a smooth fabric that allows her to move gracefully and silently. Over that she wears thicker robes that give her an adrogynous appearance, covering her more feminine aspects while giving her an unneeded bulk. Normally these robes are a dirty red or tan, with small plates of armor covering the vital organs and joints, and a collar flipped up to cover her up to her mouth. Over her head she prefers larger hats, a long bamboo or straw hat, strapped to her jaw. Her ensemble is normally finished with sandals made of metal, spiked along the bottom and shoved into a thick wooden sole, and her gloves, her trademark weapons. Her gloves are mechanically operated, hosting a simple clasp and release mechanism that allows them a normal wrist-guard appearance until triggered. When triggered, several rows of razor-sharp blades will spring forth, locking into position to tear and rend whatever she backhands, as well as two thicker spikes from the front, acting as deadly claws. She's also known to carry a dagger with her family's seal, a shiny metal weapon with an ivory handle, and crafted into it the picture of a rose.

Edit: Somewhere in there I forgot to mention that she's missing the tip of her left pinky finger. Ooh, and that her eye is constantly encircled by a dark ring, though sometimes it's covered by makeup, a testament to her emotional baggage.

5. Give a detailed history of your character. Who are your parents? Are they alive? If not, what happened? Tell us what happened to character in their life so far. Kenichi Kyiru was a troublemaker from birth, and that trait kept to him late into his teens. He had a natural talent for fighting, which served him well in a clan of warriors trained to be royal guards, but he deplored the way things were handled. He hated that the clan head, his own father, treated his brothers and him as kings because they could fight, and would turn around to beat the women of the family in the same sentence. It took him almost nineteen years to finally stand up to the old man, and when he did, he greatly underestimated the man's fighting ability.

Beaten and disowned, Kenichi limped away, through the capitol, and set his sights west.

Maaya Hayate, on the other hand, was treated as a princess, and loved with every breath. That was simply because she was a princess, Princess of the Western Province, who's capitol was a port fortress that served as a economic hub for the Fire Nation. Her father, under Fire Lord Sozin's reign, had formed the Hayate Western Banking Clan as a young man, and had built a bank in almost every major Fire Nation city, paving the way for the nation's industrialization, and becoming the unofficial economic head of the nation for some time. He was, however, not paying the slightest attention to his own kingdom, long since awarded to him by Aizakku, the new Fire Lord. His half brother detested this, and plotted to seize control from him, eventually deciding that the only way to do this would be to make sure he was next in line for the Banking Clan's throne, by killing not only Maaya's father, but her mother and herself as well. This eventually took place when she was just seventeen, and the girl was rushed from the palace one night by her mother, boarding a dingy little cart that promised to take her to a village with no name.

She ended up at the village several months before Kenichi did, and quickly learned that it did in fact have no name. The reason was simple laziness on the founders' parts, and it had been kept that way to add to the air of secrecy that it's citizens held. With nothing to do, and no reason to risk herself, seeing as how she still held access to vast amounts of her father's fortune, Maaya took up singing at the local tavern. At first this simply entertained people because she was beautiful, young, and vibrant. Later though, her words began to touch people, and she earned the adoration of the entire town, going so far as to sing for the occasional play, and earning double in one night that it would make it one month.

This was roughly the time that Kenichi arrived, still wandering aimlessly, but far more mellowed out than the boy that had attempted to kill his father was. He had no interest in work, but being that he was starving and completely broke, he had little option but to look to the bar for jobs. He quickly found out what the village was used for, writs issued by royalty or the rich, for everything from finding lost animals to killing in the name of the Fire Nation, all on a daily basis. And being that he was good with animals and good at killing, Kenichi decided he fit in well there, and set up permanently at the bar, though he only worked the occasional odd job out of laziness.

Maaya, though, was fascinated by this stranger, who she assured herself was handsome and kind, though he actively portrayed neither of these traits. No one quite understood why or how, but over the course of several months, Maaya convinced Kenichi to get out of his seat and vie for her affection, which eventually lead to a more serious relationship, and the talk of children. Maaya believed that children should be loved by the world, not just their parents, and Kenichi suggested randomly that she sing for the world then, and they would love her and her children then, a suggestion she took far to seriously.

Months later they ended up out of the village, Maaya taking the odd job as entertainer, and Kenichi working solely to protect and spend time with her. The height of her career came when she was paid to put on a show for Fire Lord Aizakku and the cabin, including the future Fire Lord Ozai as well. This was when she was discovered by allies of the Hayate Banking Clan, who recognized her uniquely red eyes and beauty, but Kenichi came to the rescue just in time by whining that he was tired and wanted to go home and spend time procrastinating. Eventually he managed to convince her that they should build a house and make some children, a suggestion that got him back home in record time.

Within another year, Kenichi and Maaya were celebrating the birth of their twins, Megumi and Okina, and lived in a quaint little house just out of the way in the village. Life was going well for them, as Megumi's first memories would tell her. She spent much of her time with her mother, happy to be paraded around and dressed up, while Okina was quickly on her way to becoming a lazy tomboy, spending much of her time at her father's side. This happy, laid back, life kept them for only three years, until just after the twins were celebrating their third birthdays. Maaya being an national celebrity, many tried to find where she lived when she was taking breaks from singing and entertaining, and one eventually managed to track her down.

Ara Nao had been hired to kill the heirs of the Hayate empire years ago, and hadn't stopped looking for them even after the rumors of Maaya's death with her parents. She eventually tracked them to the village, gaining ground on them quickly after her foray into the wide world, and cornered them in their house, poisoning them during breakfast. Their daughters were, as always, running about outside playing, and never saw what went on inside the house until Okina decided to go join them for breafkast. Megumi was slower, meticulously picking up their toys from outside and returning them to the tiny bunker beneath the house, where she hid when she heard Okina's scream. Her most vibrant memory of her youth was the side of Ara's face as she carried Okina away, the only thing she could see from her hiding spot. Quickly after she ran into their house to find her mother and father dying in the living room, the exact spot of which would later host Kyiru's longest table.

Okina was never found, and it was decided that Kyiru would be sent to live with her father's family, at her grandfather's request oddly enough. Though she never would understand, hearing the royal guards speak of Kenichi being with a celebrity, and learning that this celebrity was the richest woman in the world after her death, was a great opportunity to the Kyiru clan master. Unfortunately, she proved to be to lucky and hardheaded to give him the rights for Maaya's considerable fortune. In reality though, she was only interested in spending time with her cousin, who looked so much like her they could've been sisters. Her cousin, though still a child just like her, was a quiet and easily frightened little girl that confused Megumi at every chance she got. It was only later that she realized that it was because her cousin was being beaten by the twin brothers that seemed to be heirs of the clan, though she still never understood why she was never beaten, despite angering them constantly. The young Megumi tried her best to protect her cousin, already a tiny version of the warrior she would become.

But the twins would have it another way, and the clan master agreed with them. Megumi was proving to be less than useful, and he was sure that there was a way he could profit from her death. At six years old, Megumi tried vainly once more to protect her cousin, and was pulled by her hair deep into the forest surrounding the clan. At the edge of the river that lead down and around the Fire Nation Capitol, she was savagely beaten, then burned across the entirety of her back, all the way up to her head and down to her knees, everyone that they could when she was huddled down to the floor. That was the first time 'The Beast' ever woke, snapping the flames back at the twins, even managing to nick one of them before they stopped their assault and went back to simply kicking her. Eventually, the tiny girl had stopped moving, and they tossed the body into the river as a job well done, though that mistake would cost the clan master a fortune, not having the body of the girl he was attempting to profit off of.

The ice cold water suddenly assaulting every nerve across her back woke her up and sent her into shock, violently ripping her head out of the water before she drowned. Though she would have easily died, and the odds against her survival were nearly impossible to overcome, Megumi's mind dived into itself, letting the Beast act for her, letting it drag her broken body out of the water and to the nearest hut. She managed to keep her mind locked away for months, all the time it took her to crawl out of the various samaritan's beds that she found herself in and make her way back to the village. She had no clue how to even get there, but still managed it in a time that no other child, broken as she was or not, could have.

She spent the next part of her life being cared for in the orphanage down the street from her old home, or the healer's duggout, by his own daughter Fu Lijuan, a young woman she grew to love over the years spent in her care. Fu was the only one who insisted that she was beautiful, despite the terrible scarring that covered her back, and helped her train despite hating the thought of combat. She even went so far as to teach her the healing arts, everything from intensive care to acupuncture. But Kyiru showed none of the latent talents or beauty that her mother had, and that made many through the village hate her, most of all Fu Lijuan's own boyfriend, who hated her even more for taking up the young woman's time.

Their rivalry climaxed shortly after his anti-torture training, a course from the old masters in the village designed to break their assassin's minds and reforge them into the perfect weapons of war. Unfortunately, a side effect of the training was random lapses in judgement, most of all when Kyiru and Fu were found picking herbs in the mountains over the town. He believed that Fu had blown him off just to spend time with her little 'girlfriend', and struck Fu across the face. Kyiru, suffering from a flashback involving her long-lost cousin, went into a rage and attacked him back, quickly plucking out his eye in a move more advanced than she should have been able to pull off. This only served to enrage him further, breaking the already brittle strands of his sanity. The slaughter that followed left Fu a bloodied mess on the ground, dead where she lay, and her boyfriend carving out Kyiru's eye with his knife, mirroring his right eye by taking her left, though what he left in it's place was a wound more terrible than anything she could have done to him. To finish her off, he cut her throat from ear to ear, twisting the blade as it passed the center to form something akin to a smiley face. With that done, he took off, running deeper into the forest like a madman, and Kyiru was left to die, holding her one love in one hand and her throat in her other. Before she could drift off to a violent death, Kyiru allowed her mind to retreat and the beast to take over, reaching inside the wound that had been carved into her throat, and heating her fingers to the point where they cauterized the wound as they withdrew. Because of the sloppy work, she damaged her larynx, and with it, her vocal cords, as well as causing a permanent scar and pain in her throat.

The healer, searching for Fu to aid him in surgery, found Kyiru like that, writhing on the floor with his daughter in her hands, in the act of a very painful death. It was clear that his daughter was dead already, and though it broke his heart, he acted quickly to save Kyiru, leaving his daughter's body on the ground. With him, he took the eye that Kyiru had plucked out, still attached to the optic nerve, and attached it in place of her eye was he was working through her wounds...

Part Deux: When Kyiru awoke several weeks later, it seemed that her mental defense mechanism had saved her fragile psyche, at first. But upon looking in the mirror and seeing not only her eye, but the jade green orb she had took from the man who nearly killed her, her mind broke suddenly and violently. This was how she aquired the scars running up and down her wrists, following the veins. But the healer, who had already lost one of his daughters, refused to let her die, and cared for her day and night as she was recovering.

As she finally grew into her early teens, Kyiru began to remember what the Beast had locked away, deep in her mind. Laying there, strapped to a bed in the healers hut, she first witnessed the confusing journey she had undergone to make it back to the village, then the beatings her cousin had suffered before her protection, and the vile family of her father's side. Her memories all seeped to the surface, one after another, everything from the happy and unhappy memories of her parents, to the burns she had never been able to explain across her backs. Passing thirteen, Kyiru began to show a new resolve, successfully evading the healer, but no longer intent on destroying herself. By fourteen, she had begun her training anew, and had remember every moment from her past in vivid detail. After that, her memory began to catch up with her, and she found that she could remember details after simply passing her eye over something once, though she blocked out the permanently-open green orb with an eyepatch.

Another new trait she showed was the damaged larynx, seriously burned when she had stabilized herself. At low volumes, Kyiru couldn't speak, but she made up for that in short, painful, bursts of sound, scaring away those who got to close to her. But Kyiru's personality began to grow more and more violent, especially towards men, and she began to lash out against those around her. Her violent and loud streaks earned her a reputation among the other children training in the clan, and a few of them began to grow angry at the way she treated them, even after the healer managed to convince her that all men were prone to random lapses in judgement.

At fifteen, Ko Shai and his friend, both of whom having just undergone the torture training, lost it, and dragged Kyiru kicking and screaming to his home. Ko decided that he'd had enough of Kyiru's manners, and he had to 'put her in her place', something that both men found amusing. But still being weaker than them, and tiny compared to the others undergoing training, Kyiru didn't believe in herself, didn't think she had the power to stop them. With no other option, she just laid down and took it, her mind slowly breaking with every minute that passed, slowly withdrawing in on itself to awaken the Beast in her once more. It was only after Ko Shai was finished that his friend noticed her eye was glowing, and she was letting loose a feral growl that no moose-lion could have matched.

Within the course of fifteen seconds, Kyiru had taken a candle-holder, jammed the sharp edge into Ko Shai's chest, and ripped it all the way down to his pelvis, before shoving her hand between his ribcage and pulling out his heart. Kyiru was less herself than she was a monster, while killing him, and his friend didn't stick around to see what she planned for him, hightailing it before Ko had let out his final breath. Kyiru, on the other hand, found her mind returning to her, and her legs failing. Killing someone had been as traumatizing as being raped, if not more so, and almost on par with Fu's death. She sought out the only weapon she could, Ko's knife, and tried to jam it in her own heart to end the suffering.

It was only through pure luck that Hikari and her sister Ka Sang (I'm aware that this is similar to Ko Shai, but Ka Sang De La is the Chinese equivelant of Cassandra, so there's no similarity intended) heard her painful sobs, and went to check it out. Ka was the one who stopped the knife before he punctured her heart, and Hikari took her to the healer to recover while the two dealt with the mess. The village went into an outrage over the killing, not over the crime commited, but at Kyiru instead, insisting that she was most likely responsible despite the evidence. Ko Shai's partner was released without trouble, but had the healer, Hikari, and several other adamant members of the community stood in, Kyiru was set to be hanged. Kyiru, though, couldn't really care less, especially after she learned she was pregnant.

Recovering this time was far less physical and more psychological. She quickly got over the fact that she had taken a life, and couldn't care less since he was a bastard after all, but having been so close to taking her own life shook her to the very core. Children, like those she had cared for in Fu's stead, were special to her. Half the children in the village had grown up orphans, a sad effect of being raised to be assassins, and she wanted only to give one child the happiness that she had never had. But how could she raise a child when she couldn't even live with herself?

Her mind was made up halfway through the pregnancy, both to name her child Kirei, and to give her up to a happy household. The healer insisted that he had just the family, so all she could do was sit and wait. For the next while, feeling actually much better with herself and her bedrest, Kyiru focused on the happy memories her mother had given her so long ago. She could remember so much of those few happy years, and in great detail as well, but one memory stuck out to her, that of her mother singing to her as a child. With little else to do, Kyiru visited Nappy's rare shop, just a bit away from the healer's duggout, and went about browsing through musical items, hoping to give Kirei something along the lines of what she had. In the end, she spent several months, and much of her perfect memory, designing the perfect music box that played the lullaby her mother had sung for her.

After the birth, Kyiru gave it to Kirei, and Kirei to her new parents, and returned to her training. After Fu's death, her mind had sharpened and expanded with the advent of her memory, and after this tragedy, it had forged itself anew, and her body strengthened as well. Unlike before, Kyiru refused to even consider her own death, and fought with the pure determination that meant she would never give a foot, even while taking a mile. But, being sixteen, and moving into her parent's house, left her alot of free time, time that was only spent training and nothing else. As a young woman, this wouldn't do, and her imagination got the better of her.

Still just sixteen, but after nearly a year of work, Kyiru went to the tiny stage that held traditional plays for the village folk, and released a little play called 'The Beast', under the name Megumi Hayate, her penname that signified her as her mother's heir. The play was small and underfunded, but allowed her to refine her style and double the material, much of which was simply technical manuals for the director. Just months later, The Beast was released outside the village, once penned as the daughter of Maaya Hayate, and caught on quickly, earning the mysterious daughter of a long-passed celebrity a name for herself. But entertainers didn't do anything for free, and before she released her work, Kyiru had searched down an old man she recalled her mother talking about, the man responsible for her grandfather's fortune, and thus, her fortune, who now happened to be the economic advisor for the entirety of the royal family.

Now, nearly eighteen and returning home, Kyiru had the slightest feeling of satisfaction, despite the fact that The Beast was lauded as one of the saddest tales in the world, and access to her birthright. That wasn't enough for her though, and though she felt somewhat accomplished, she didn't feel the slightest bit good about herself. When she ended up home this time, she began to work, not just more into her training, but into the community as well, though she never cared what most of the people though of her. Much of her work took her to the orphanage, or aiding the elderly Nappy in her shop, where she met a young girl who took an instant liking to her, Kyami.

After years of having given up alchohol, though her drinking hadn't really been a problem after Fu's death, Kyiru finally returned to the bar where her mother had sung, and found that she had been somewhat missed. The young woman, one of many she had never paid attention to, was called Ryoko, a dancer and entertainer who'd worked at the bar from her early teens. Kyiru had almost not recognized her, but Ryoko had fallen for Kyiru a long time ago, something Kyiru was entirely oblivious to.

Kyiru adopted Kyami, though she continued her work in the orphanage. Ryoko and her dated for just over a year, through her eighteenth birthday and her nineteenth, until Ryoko had given her an ultimatum. Long ago the dancer had lost her father, running the same missions Kyiru took, and she could only stand and watch as it devastated her mother into a shell of what she was. Ryoko refused to let that happen to her. Though Kyiru was still young and in love, she could never forget what had happened to her and those she'd loved before. The decision tore her apart, but rather than answer Ryoko's ultimatum, she moved on, taking one more mission...

((OOC: Done, forgot to mention the shrine behind her house though. I also forgot to mention the meeting that made her vehemently opposed to meat. Basically, during her later teens, she was taught to butcher pigs to survive in the wilderness, and remembered what the insides of Fu and Ko looked like. Edit: Now that I think about it, I also forgot to put in the part where she takes the gut injury. It's rather important, to her at least, because it's made sure she can never have children again, and she got it while protecting children. Ironic, ain't it? ))

6. What does your character like? Dislike? Food-wise, Kyiru enjoys noodles, especially the spiced kind. She loves spiced powder on her food, and carries a satchel around with her most of the time. She also loves fresh fruit, especially bapples, a trait she's taken up since meeting the elderly Nappy. She enjoys nuts, though mostly when they're roasted and flavored, say with honey, sugar, or salt. She uses dried fruit and nuts, AKA trail-mix, while she's out on missions to keep her energy up. She hates meat though, having seen just how much the inside of a pig looks like the inside of a human. Seeing people eat meat gives her nightmares about eating Fu, and she loses her lunch in record time. She doesn't mind dinner rolls, but she absolutely hates butter. Something about the texture. She also enjoys frozen treats on the rare occasion she can get her hands on one. Amenity-wise, she has to have a soft pillow and a hard futon, though she can sleep anywhere. If she doesn't have that, she'll get a crook in her back and be walking funny all day. She loves to relax in the sun, and has a special windowsill for just the occasion, and enjoys relaxing most with someone else, her father or daughter mostly. She hates having the silence broken by speaking though, and finds talking useless most of the time. She does like to have a music box playing while relaxing though. She feels liberated when her muscles have been over-used, working out until they feel sore, but much so much lighter. Her day never starts without training outside, whatever the weather. She prefers sunshine or a pleasant light drizzle though, doesn't mind snow on the fact that she can heat herself, but doesn't enjoy heavy rains. Kyiru prefers the company of women who know when to keep their mouth shut and enjoy the silence, but doesn't trust the company of men, especially ones who talk alot. Kyiru believes that the greatest feeling is that of accomplishment, and that only comes from finishing something. It doesn't matter if it's a music box, perfecting a martial art's form, or saving a life, accomplishment is much of what she strives to do in her free time.

7. What are some good traits of your character? Bad? Kyiru is the classic never-give-up altruist. She fights without fail, adapts to every attack, and has mastered more than a dozen different styles of combat, as well as nearly thirty weapon styles. Despite her mastery of fighting, she still manages to be a deeply woven and introspective warrior, and prefers her cunning and wit over brawns. Because of this, she has a certain code of honor, and considers fighting uneven odds against her is far better than fighting against weaker opponents. She never harms children, no matter what the cause, and only turns against women if she doesn't like them, or they've proven themselves to be able to handle it. This belief in combat is as much her downfall as her strength, because though she is hardly surpassable, objective-based missions have become her bane. She quickly loses sight of her mission, prefering to fight or protect others rather than completing her task.

Outside of combat, Kyiru has proven to be more a thinker than the force of nature people have come to expect. She has a quick temper, one that's gotten her into much trouble, but has no need, or even want, for the acceptance of others. She does things because she wants to, or she feels it's right, not for anyone but herself. This has made her into somewhat of a silent planner, contradicting her brash and outspoken fighting style. She waits, watches, and then moves quietly, often in the form of mysterious donations, or the completion of something talked about long before it was decided. Because of this, very few people feel the need to know Kyiru, but those who have begun to recognize her mannerisms have put her on par with saints, rather than the monster other's make her out to be. Despite all this, when she's backed into a corner, she loses sight of her ultimate goal and focuses more on those around her. If those around her are men, this would be a bad thing, as she has an all-encompassing bias against men.

Kyiru's memory and sharp mind have proved her well, and she would rather use them than her tongue. This makes her off as somewhat of a quiet outcast, but this doesn't mean that she's not paying attention or moving towards her own goals.

8. Does your character bend? What level of training is your character at? Who taught your character? Kyiru has a latent ability to firebend, a trait she first showed at the age of six. However, she fears fire, and has never tried to refine this skill, so calling her a bender or a non-bender is interchangeable. She's trained in over a dozen different forms of martial arts and kung fu, though, and her physical skills and abilities are nearly unsurpassed. With her unique memory, she has the ability to learn at a extremely high rate, even when it's not clear she's being teached, so she's learned much from everyone around her. Everything from metal working from the smith in her village, to the waterbender's fighting style from the aging hermit who would train with one of her old friends.

9. What or who is important to your character and why? Kyiru's family, who two daughters and foster-dad, are always at the forefront of her attention. Her daughters are the most important people to her in the world, and she's grown to love the old man like he really was her own father, though she has a strange way of showing it. Ryoko, the dancer she's been dating, also tops her list, being one of the only people who can make her heart flutter as it does. Holding a special place in her heart is the children at the orphanage down the street from her, and their caretakers, being where she was raised as a child. Also with it's own special place is the shrine up the road behind her house, a mausoleum that hosts her parents, the previous love of her life, past friends, and Kirei's father.

10. What or who is your character afraid of and why? What is your character’s greatest fear and why? Kyiru's fears are surpassed by her determination on a daily basis. Her mindset tells her that fear is a misguided emotion, and though she can never fully defeat her fears, she can easily walk through them without breaking her concentration. One of her fears, an unbased fear that she's never fully comprehended, is that of spiders. Something about the amount of legs and hair they have send shivers down her spine. Another fear is that of fire, stemming from her early childhood. She still holds a fraction of her childhood fear of the dark, despite being most powerful and at home in it. Two more things she fears are her left eye, and the beast she believes lies inside herself, which in reality is just a mental defense mechanism that allows her to kill.

11. What is your character’s goal(s) in life and why? Her main goal in life is revenge; against the assassin and the man who hired her, Kyiru's uncle, who took the lives of her parents, the two men who beat her as a child, the grandfather who did such damage to her cousin, the man who killed her best friend and took her eye, and the second of the two men responsible for Kirei's birth. Her black list is much of what drives her, and what's kept her alive for so long. Another goal is to simply make the lives of children around her easier than hers has been, and to guide her two children into being responsible and good adults. Beyond that, she lives just to live, with a procrastinator's mindset, having lost everything good from her past.

Kosshi - The length's are very good. Good job.

(( OoC: Ugh, bio-type things. However, the whole point of this character, while she may seem simple, was exactly just that, simpler. Not every person or character in the whole world can have a tragic and dark past, you have to have the light past to balance all that out. Sorry the length shortened at the end, but I (attempt to) weave these things together, so sometimes the question's answer has already been weaved into a previous, so answering the question with length would have felt too repetitive. ))

Questions:
1. What is your character's name?Fei-Yen Tong
2. Where is your character from?Northern Water Tribe
3. What is your character's age? 19
4. What does your character look like?
Fei-Yen’s hair is of a deep chocolate brown, customary of the Northern Water Tribe. She often wears it in a single braid that loops down and ties with a small bun at the base of her head, or at the top of her neckline. Her eyes are a routine blue, like the color of ice when a painter puts it on paper. She’s of an average 5’ 4” build, and has the willowy floating look about her. Her posture is a little uneven, and she has yet to become comfortable in the curves she’s only recently gotten. When walking, one can see the potential for grace in her, but no one has come to teach her it as such. Her clothes are somewhat elaborate, consisting of light blues and often covered with white fur, both as a fashion and to stay warm. She wears a bracelet on her right arm, as well as small, betrothal-like necklace on her neck; as a symbol that someday she wants to be as happily married as her parents.
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5. Give a detailed history of your character. Who are your parents? Are they alive? If not, what happened? Tell us what happened to character in their life so far.
When Fei-Yen’s parents married together in the Northern Water Tribe nearly 20 years ago, they knew they would always want a child. It wasn’t long before her mother was pregnant, and they were greatly happy. However, after he father went to war, they realized a fact they had not in their wedded bliss. They were bringing their child into an era of war, and if this child was a boy, he would no doubt have to fight for his tribe and his world. When Fei-Yen was born, it was with great relief, the labor was easy, and the instant they had a girl, they realized with their tribe’s customs, they need not fear her going off to fight or war. She was a quietly rebellious young girl. Even at five, she would hold what appeared to be a grudge, without the hatred. Had she to go to bed before she wanted, the next day she might wake up early and annoy her parents by jumping on their bed, giggling at the joke. At 7 years of age, she discovered she had a talent. One day while helping her mother prepare a meal for her father, her parents questioned her about an argument with her friend the day before. Being tense and worried about the incident, she smacked her hands on the counter, and the boiling water in the cooking pot went flying. Luckily her father was a skilled water-bender and was able to stop it before anyone was harmed, but it changed things. They soon enrolled her in Healer’s school, and her happy-go-lucky attitude as a seven year old shrunk, being more calm and more molded. However, there was still that turn-around rebellious streak. As she approached the age of ten, this rebellious fit merely changed into more of a jokester's personality, teasing friends and teachers a like. At twelve she came up with what she considered her best prank against the Healer teachers she had begun to resent. As soon as the teacher walked into the room, Fei-Yen tilted a bucket of water that had been at the top of the doorway onto the woman, which was freezing cold, and then she changed it into a light layering of ice. However, in the cold weather, and the strict teacher had never done much other water-bending, the joke soon became dangerous. Another student rushed off and requested the immediate assistance of one of the male warriors, and he was able to de-freeze the teacher, though she had nearly reached a hypothermic state by that point. It was then that Fei-Yen became the center of disciplinary actions by the Healers and Warriors alike. If she did not show up for class properly, the Healer Teachers would scold her and make her do extra work. If the warriors saw her acting unladylike, or as they saw it, they would make her do a chore for them or fetch something. She was nearly 15 when her broken spirit turned into an angry one. Coming to her parents, she vented all her frustrations, but they were cautious to react. While they greatly loved and supported their daughter, they were also deep believers in the tribes customs. She was sent back to the Healer School, though due to her indifference, she lacks any true capability of Healing. Her spirit once again sunk into a broken state and no more rebellious tricks were seen. Though as her father once commented, “The quieter she gets, the bigger the prank is going to be.”
6. What does your character like? Dislike?
The single most thing Fei-Yen likes is pulling a good prank. Whether causing someone to slip or tricking them into looking at something, nothing provides as much humor or ecstasy for the girl. It often drives her to act differently then she might really feel, waiting for the setup of the joke she craves so badly.
She also has a quiet enjoyment of animals, and when not working in the Healing Huts, she often will take one of the Buffalo-Yaks and either ride it or merely walk with it around the snowy area of her Tribe. She has a particular fondness for one she calls Piao, even as going as far as to ask her father to purchase the animal, though he declined.
Another common fondness if actually of waterbending. She loves the move and feel, to control the water, to have control over something so changing, similar to life. In water she sees similarities to life events, sometimes its cold, sometimes it warm. Most people can’t control it, but she can, which enthralls her.
As for dislikes, being stifled would be the main one. If you push her one way, she will subconsciously gravitate the other. Encourage her to eat an apple, she will take the orange. Encourage her to be a Healer, she’ll want to be a fighter. However, this is by no means a conscious decision, its just something that happens that even she does not oft realize.
7. What are some good traits of your character? Bad?
A good trait would be her obvious sense of humor. She always loves to hear a joke, or tell one. In situation’s where things can seem grim, she often has a witty comment or small joke, sometimes at her own expense, to cheer things up.
She’s also stubborn, determined, and passionate, all three of these traits rolled up into a ball, tied together that they aren’t interchangeable. If she wants something, she will work at it with her whole being, at any angle she can, though she would never step on someone to get there.
However, many of Fei-Yen’s good traits are double edged swords, and can factor in as bad ones. Sometimes jokes go unappreciated or can prove dangerous as her past has shown. When in a serious situation, sometimes a trick of ice can worsen the situation, instead of making it better.
Her stubborn streak can be dangerous to herself and others, where perhaps it would be best to accept the inevitable or go along with something, she refuses, and can wind herself in all sorts of trouble.
8. Does your character bend? What level of training is your character at? Who taught your character?
Fei-Yen is a waterbender, and was largely taught by Yugoda at the Healing Huts. However, she does not appreciate the work and does not practice nor try to foster the talent, which decreases her skill in the area.
She is novice at best, and the only things she has learned to do by herself is moving water occasionally and turn it to ice, usually as a means to her practical jokes.
9. What or who is important to your character and why?
Her family is important to her mainly because they are her loving family. She would defend them with her life, but there isn’t a whole lot of depth to their relation other than that of parents and child.
Fei-Yen’s freedom is perhaps more important to her than anything else, the ability to make her own choices and control her life, sometime that’s buried in her heart, to be free of demands and others determined to rule her life.
10. What or who is your character afraid of and why? What is your character’s greatest fear and why?
The young northern waterbender lives a sheltered life, so the only great things she fears are the occasional artic polar bear that she may come across, however, in the great city, these occurrences are uncommon.
Her single greatest fear of that would be to live the life others want, to be the controlled female, as her mother was. To become the Healer, to marry whoever they want her to, raised children, and continue on the legacy, as so many women have before her. She wants a life of luster and difference, not something secure and normal.
11. What is your character’s goal(s) in life and why?
Her goals are simple and not far-reaching, as her age would dictate. Her short-term goals would be to learn waterbending, especially in the northern tradition, however she is wise enough to realize how far fetched that is.
If she cannot learn the northern style, she is determined to leave the North Pole and go to the Earth Kingdom and seek out waterbenders who might teach her there, while this may not be as satisfying to her, it would satisfy her goals.
Perhaps the only long term goal she possesses is to settle down and eventually marry, and much like the North Pole’s stance on the war, remain relatively isolationist, to simply live and be happy.

Fei-Yen - Good job.

Questions:
1. What is your character's name?
Yukio Kimura

2. Where is your character from?
A small city in the Fire Nation

3. What is your character's age?
30

4. What does your character look like?
One word can describe Yukio: Fabulous. He is very handsome. He has amber-colored eyes, and long, brown hair that goes down to the middle of his back. While he normally has no expression on his face, when he is hurting someone, a cruel smirk becomes affixed to his face.

Yukio wears a flowing red robe that goes down to cover his feet, upon which he wears black sandals and socks. He also wears a red shirt and black pants under the robe, so as to not ever look indecent. He has a single gold hoop in his right ear. He wears a gold bracelet on his wrist. Strapped to his pants he has two holsters, each of which has a dagger in it. These allow easy access in case he needs to stab someone quickly.

5. Give a detailed history of your character. Who are your parents? Are they alive? If not, what happened? Tell us what happened to character in their life so far.
Yukio’s birth was unremarkable. He was born to two nonbending merchants who spent most of their time selling artifacts and gossiping with the neighbors. They were the type of people to whom the thought of actually working with one's hands was appalling. They were arrogant, haughty people, and they passed these natures on to their son.

Yukio’s parents didn’t really have time for their son, so they enrolled him in a boarding school and simply forgot about him. Yukio gained a reputation at school as someone to be looked up to, and yet also hated. He had a large crowd of followers, but none could dare to call him their friend. Besides, Yukio spent more time hurting them than anything else. From an early age, Yukio was fascinated with inflicting pain on other living beings. Every chance he got, he would use any weapon he could find to hurt someone or something. This fascination eventually got him thrown out of school, but he couldn’t care less. He simply returned home and continued to live an exciting, torture-filled life. He was very happy.

When Yukio was 20, his parents were both killed by assassins. Yukio didn’t really care, but just was glad that everything they had owned was now his. Now Yukio spends his days either in his house reading up on the latest weaponry and torture methods while watching the koi in his pond chase each other, or out on the streets looking for new victims.

6. What does your character like? Dislike?
About the only thing Yukio likes is hurting others. That, and feeling superior. He enjoys buying new, expensive clothes when he can, because they make him feel powerful.

Yukio hates any sort of prolonged interaction with others. He will use the least amount of language possible to get what he wants, and hates having to do more than that. He is also infuriated when someone stops him from torturing an intended victim. He makes it his mission to hunt the obstruction down and torture them as payback for stopping his fun.

7. What are some good traits of your character? Bad?
Yukio is sadistic, taking incredible pleasure from causing others pain. To him, this is a good trait, but others just don't see it that way. Yukio is also rude and very condescending to those he speaks to, if he evens chooses to speak at all. About the only good trait he has is that there's no chance of him talking too much and annoying anyone.

8. Does your character bend? What level of training is your character at? Who taught your character?
Yukio does not bend. He does fight with two daggers, though he's more flailing around than actually fighting. He knows no style, and just goes with what causes blood and pain.

9. What or who is important to your character and why?
Yukio is the most important thing to Yukio. His happiness comes before all else. Everyone else's happiness isn't even considered. He will do anything to keep himself and his sick habits alive.

I guess you could also say that Yukio's daggers are important to him, since he couldn't indulge in his sadistic acts without them.

10. What or who is your character afraid of and why? What is your character’s greatest fear and why?
Yukio is very afraid of death. His greatest fear is of not being able to torture others. He lives for that pleasure, and if that were taken away from him, he would be nothing more than a body, with no soul to speak of. As long as he can torture, he can live.

11. What is your character’s goal(s) in life and why?
Yukio's dream is to become rich and powerful, and to have everyone else, even the Fire Lord, bow to him. Then, he'd have an unlimited number of people to torture. It would be heaven to him. He wouldn't need anything else to keep him happy.

Tenshio - Short, and some of the answers could have more elaboration to them, but it's passable.

((There is a reason why Shio doesn’t have many new characters. This thread is that reason. Come one let me pass.))

1. What is your character's name? Akado

2. Where is your character from? The Northern Water Tribe

3. What is your character's age? 34

4. What does your character look like?

Akado stands at five feet seven inches with a belly that becomes visible when he’s idle. His eyes are the most defining feature; icy blue they stand out against his dark skin and dark hair. With a medium frame and a fair amount of muscle, he does not easily succumb to fatigue. He comes with high cheek bones, standard amongst the Water Tribesmen. He lacks facial hair, but makes up for it with a full head of hair. His face is weathered, and his eyes have lost their youthful luster. The hair absent from his face is reflected on his body, he is as naked as he was when he was first brought into the world. He dresses plainly, a large blue anorak with white fur trimmings, blue pants, brown mukluks, and a pair of three-fingered, brown mittens. Underneath his large anorak, he wears standard Water Tribe attire.

5. Give a detailed history of your character. Who are your parents? Are they alive? If not, what happened? Tell us what happened to character in their life so far.

Akado was born to a lower class family in the Northern Water Tribe. With three brothers and two sisters, he would not have stood out, but he was one of two members in the family to waterbend, the other being his sister. With that gift, he was immediately singled out in his family. He was arranged to be married, and his life was set in stone. He would train with the master bender of the tribe and then enter one of the many professions opened only to waterbenders. Akado’s parents played favorites, and because he was neither the first born nor the best looking he was not in his parents’ immediate spotlight. However, he still enjoyed his childhood; he would play soldier with his brothers enjoying the edge given to him by his bending, and practice bending the water and snow of his surroundings. As he got older the day when his formal teaching would begin approached, he said his goodbyes and left to the upper levels of the city to learn from the master waterbender, Pakku.

Because he lived a great deal away from his waterbending lessons, he stayed in a home with other boys studying under Pakku. As usual, the people he met were immediately awestruck by his eyes; having spent years hearing their compliments, Akado was automated to respond with, “Thank you,” something his mother had taught all of her children as they each bore those icy eyes. The attention Akado received was new and almost unwanted, at home, his life was set in stone and his parents didn’t really worry about him as they did their other children. As such Akado was shy in his first years away from home, making few friends and impressing no one.

It wasn’t until puberty that Akado began excelling at waterbending. When that stage of his life came, he began to weave, freeze, and bend water, like he was breathing. He was a natural, but still not the best. Time passed, and he soon joined the ranks of others who became men after finishing their waterbending lessons with the master. Because he failed to leave a positive impression on Pakku, he was not among the group of students to continue their bending lessons to become masters. Having passed the masters rigorous training, Akado was forced up to work on the city’s structural integrity. He joined the ranks of countless workers who used their bending to keep the city functioning. He enjoyed his work, he got to bend and explore the city unlike so many other Water Tribesmen.

In time, he carved a betrothal necklace, and proposed to the lady he was assigned to marry. After they wed, he sealed their union with the gift of a bracelet carved from the very stuff the necklaces are made of. He got along well with his wife, Yamma, and she bore him three children two sons and one daughter all bearing his gifts. They all grew, his twin sons became soldiers, and his daughter became a healer. He arranged for each of them to be married, and life was good.

Then the Avatar came to the city and with him the Fire Nation. Akado feeling the need to help defend his home, quickly joined the ranks of citizens who underwent a crash course in combat. With his skills in bending, he quickly absorbed the knowledge of fighting, and when the time came he soon realized that he was not too shabby when it came to a fight.

When the battle ended, Akado was left to celebrate with few, and marvel at the Avatar's ability to use Tui's-the koi fish-power. His daughter, being forbidden from fighting, survived the attack, but his sons lost their lives, and he learned that his wife also joined her two boys. Broken, Akado spent many days in mourning. After the large citywide funeral to honor those past, he heard about the expedition that was going to be undertaken. The Southern Water Tribe, their sister tribe, was going to be sent relief in the form of people, specifically benders. Akado spent a week mulling it over, he could go and abandon everything he had or stay with whatever was left. He got over the pain, and enlisted in the Southern Water Tribe Relief Effort.

He bid farewell to his daughter, now married, and departed with the others who signed on. He would help to rebuild their sister tribe, and escape his pain.

6. What does your character like? Dislike?

He loves water. It was his gift as a child and the one thing that made his unique in his family. Thereby, he associated water with the love he has for his bending, and learned to adore water in its many states. He recently developed a love of isolation. Being able to escape the world and his pain has become almost a drug to him.

He is not fond of meeting new people. Were it up to him, he would just know everyone and not have to introduce himself. Luckily for him, his entire life has involved others introducing him so he has never really been given a chance to grow a pair and get over that little fear.

7. What are some good traits of your character? Bad?

He is obedient, and reliable. Aside from that, his other traits could be viewed as faulty. He is shy, and does not enjoy meeting new people. He often seeks isolation because the pressures of life are too grand. After all he basically abandoned his daughter because he could not handle the pain of losing his entire family. Although not prone to violent outburst, he isn’t one who handles emotional strife all that well.

8. Does your character bend? What level of training is your character at? Who taught your character?

Akado is a waterbender. He began his training, like all boys, with Master Pakku, then moved on to the real world; where his work provided him with experience in manipulation and control. Over many years he has become quite advanced in his skill.

9. What or who is important to your character and why?

His family, wife, sons and daughter, however, since the majority are dead he is quite alone in the world and only has his memories to comfort him at night or on empty days. Because of an innate biological advantage, he loves his family, and would do anything to protect them, but they’re gone so he is almost alone in the world.

10. What or who is your character afraid of and why? What is your character’s greatest fear and why?

Seeing his culture obliterated. With the story about the Air Nomads, fears that the Water Tribes are next in the line of obliteration, and fears that his whole being would become meaningless if such an event were to occur. Aside from that grand threat, he is not too fond of the idea of not being able to waterbend.

11. What is your character’s goal(s) in life and why?

Because of the group he has joined, his ultimate goal would be the restoration of the sister tribe. He saw the Fire Nation’s viciousness, and wants to prevent the evaporation (pun intended) of the Water Tribes from occurring.

Shio - I've always said that you're too hard on yourself. You did fine. Sure, some of the answers are short, but they're passable. Good job.

1. What is your character's name?
Lian Hao

2. Where is your character from?
Omashu, Earth Kingdom

3. What is your character's age?
20 years old

4. What does your character look like?
It is immediately clear that Lian cares a great deal about how she looks, as her hair and clothing are always made to be presentable. She keeps her jet black hair longer than is practical, well past her shoulders at about halfway down her back, and usually keeps it tied back with a low ribbon to keep from having to spend an excessive amount of effort keeping it tidy and tangle free. While she owns a variety of different ribbons for this purpose, she tends towards earthy tones to compliment her smoky green eyes. In order to enhance them even further, Lian is rarely seen without kohl lining her eyes. It is clear that the young woman does not spend a great deal of time outside, as her complexion is towards the pale end of the spectrum. Standing at five foot six, she has a lanky frame but has very little in the way of actual muscles.

Lian has a very limited wardrobe, due to a taste for fine clothing and a limited budget. Silk is her preferred material, but the bulk of what she owns is simply well tailored cotton. While she tends to pass on skirts and dresses in favour of practicality, there is no denying that her taste in tops is very feminine. She tends towards lower cut shirts that are curve hugging to flatter her figure. Pants which are loose below the knees slide over tall boots, each of which conceals an obsidian knife.

5. Give a detailed history of your character. Who are your parents? Are they alive? If not, what happened? Tell us what happened to character in their life so far.
Lian was born to Chou Hao and Sei Hao, a potter and a waitress respectively in the Earth Kingdom city of Omashu. Having had three boys previously, Lian was both their youngest child and their only girl. This meant that her father proceeded to spoil her absolutely rotten. This began to show almost as soon as she got into school. Lian’s natural talent for academics meant that she had very little homework, and spent most of the time that she wasn’t at school being lazy and unproductive.

After a few years of this, Chou began to realize his mistakes in raising his daughter, and sought to correct this by finding her an appropriate after-school activity. Initially, he chose earthbending training as the ideal activity. After all, he earthbended daily as part of his work, making him the perfect teacher for Lian to learn the basics. However, Lian hated just about everything about earthbending, especially the fact that it got her dirty and sweaty. Chou persevered at this course of action for almost a year and a half, but when Lian still showed little signs of improvement, he finally gave up teaching her.

This didn’t mean that he gave up trying to find something to channel his daughter’s energies into though. Eventually, Pai Sho ended up being the perfect solution. The game required very little physical effort beyond moving wooden tiles, and the strategic nature of the game complimented Lian’s intelligence and her competitive nature quite nicely. Now, instead of lazing about in her free time, Lian was spending every free moment possible practicing and reading up on the game. Within a very short period of time, Lian grew bored with playing her family members, and took her skills to the local tea shops for some newer and more difficult opponents.

However, even the wide variety of opponents couldn’t keep Lian interested forever. Eventually, she started growing bored, and in an attempt to make the games a little more exciting, she started placing small wagers on the game at age 15. Initially, she made a decent sum this way, prompting her to start placing bigger and bigger bets on games. Within a year, the young woman had a fully fledged gambling problem. Unfortunately, she didn’t recognize the problem just yet, she was winning far too much for the betting to seem anything but positive.

However, at age 17, Lian’s luck began to take a turn for the worst. A long string of bad luck saw Lian betting money on the game which she didn’t have, and she began to dig herself deep into personal debt. Unwilling to admit her mistakes to her family, she frantically searched for another solution to the problem, and eventually found a loan shark willing to spot her the money needed to pay back her debts, with the condition that it be paid back within the year, plus interest.

By the time the deadline for the debt came up, Lian was still far short of the sum needed to pay the loan shark back. Fearing the consequences, Lian fled Omashu at the age of 18. In the last few years, Lian has traveled throughout the Earth Kingdom, taking what jobs she can find, and moving on when the job market dries up. She has also taken earthbending back up as a means of protection when traveling, but progress so far has been slow.

6. What does your character like? Dislike?
Nothing pleases Lian more than interacting with a person who is her mental equal. While debates, riddles and puzzles all make her happy, her greatest joy comes from games of strategy such as Pai Sho. The unknown element that comes from being unsure what kind of plan is developing in the opponent’s mind makes strategy games interesting to her, and the woman derives a sense of superiority and satisfaction from being able to best somebody else with her brain. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Lian hates physical labour, heavy lifting and getting her hands dirty. She finds such things boring, and believes that they are a terrible misuse of somebody of her intellect.

Unsurprisingly, given her past, Lian has a love-hate relationship with money. On one hand, Lian is somewhat prideful, and to have her successes quantified in a tangible form feeds her ego quite nicely. However, money is also a constant reminder of her biggest failures. Therefore, while Lian is borderline obsessed with acquiring as much cash as she can get her hands on, the topic of finances in general is more than likely to put her in a bad mood.

Lian also is quite fond of consistency. Routines are comfortable for her, and she likes life the best when she knows what she can expect in the future. She dislikes surprises and spontaneity, as she believes she should be able to have a plan for anything and everything that life can throw at her. When things go off plan, Lian’s stress levels are all but guaranteed to rise.

Personality wise, Lian tends to like people who are more reserved. While she sometimes makes exceptions, people who are loud or overly energetic wear her patience thin fast. She is perfectly happy spending a long time with a person while saying very little.

7. What are some good traits of your character? Bad?
Lian’s best trait is her foresight. She is constantly thinking ahead, whether she is playing a leisurely game or plotting the best route to travel between cities. She knows how best to use people’s strengths to compliment eachother and create a coherent plan towards a common goal.

Whether people follow her plan, however is an entirely different story. Lian’s self confidence leans on the side of arrogance, which makes it difficult for her to rally total strangers to follow her lead. This tendency towards arrogance can lead to conflicts, which could alienate potential allies.

Another one of Lian’s drawbacks is that she doesn’t have many other skills beyond her mental abilities. She might be able to come up with a good plan, but if nobody but herself is nearby, she simply doesn’t have many other skills that can be used to carry it out. Being alone is a very, very bad situation for Lian to be in.

On the good side of things however, Lian is very adaptable. While she dislikes being forced to use a plan B, she always, always has one. She often has a plan C and a plan D as well.

8. Does your character bend? What level of training is your character at? Who taught your character?
Lian knows only the very basics of earthbending, and even those are not very well polished yet. She was taught for a very short period of time by her father, but lessons did not last very long and she was not an attentive pupil. Those lessons were almost half a lifetime ago, and not well remembered. What Lian knows now is a product of several years of trying to re-teach herself those half remembered skills. Presently, Lian’s limit seems to be manipulating about one twenty pound stone. Most of her bending experience revolves around the manipulation of her obsidian knives for purposes of throwing and retrieving.

9. What or who is important to your character and why?
Lian’s family is extremely important to her. Their opinion of her means the world to Lian, and thus, she is unable to face them until she has become the perfect daughter to them once again.

Her pride and integrity are also extremely important to her. While it is simply good practice to give an opponent misinformation, the thought of lying to a friend for personal gain absolutely sickens her. At the end of the day, as competitive as she is, she would rather lose having played something honestly than to have won through cheating and foul play.

10. What or who is your character afraid of and why? What is your character’s greatest fear and why?
Danger in general tends to scare Lian. She knows her physical limitations, and thus believes that fears of things like heights, saber-tooth moose-lions, and upset firebenders are sensible, and does nothing to cure those fears. Lian is also terrified of gambling. Having been addicted to it at one point, she is frightened at the thought that she might start down that slippery slope once again and face worse consequences than she had the first time around.

Lian’s greatest fear, however, is being alone. Lian is pampered, and is used to being taken care of. When there is nobody around to look out for her, an overwhelming sense of panic takes over, and she becomes unable to function properly.

11. What is your character’s goal(s) in life and why?
Lian is single-mindedly focused on the goal of raising the money to repay her debt, with enough extra money to help smooth over the fact that she missed her deadline. She wants her old, pampered life with her family back, but she doesn’t feel as if she can face her family with this problem hanging over her head. Only once her debt has been squared and she becomes the perfect, well behaved daughter once more does she feel like things will truly be back to normal.

Lian - Good job!

]Questions:
1. What is your character's name?[/b]
My character is called Mori Kenchi
2. Where is your character from?
From a small village in the Fire Nation, 3 weeks away from the capital
3. What is your character's age?
21 years old
4. What does your character look like?
Mori Kenchi is tall man. With his 6.6 feet he is one of the tallest men in his profession. His body has an athletic built thanks to the hard training he has put himself through. His brown curly hair is at shoulder length. It covers his neck and ears, a perfect natural armor. He has brown eyes, with a small green edge around the iris. His eyes are covered by two dark eyebrows that always give him a dark expression.
Mori has a trimmed beard. It makes him look a lot older then he actually is. People easily mistake him for a twenty five year old, some even for a thirty. He doesn’t care.
His body is covered with small scars from several burns and fights. To protect his arms a little more, he tapes them in with a fire resistant tape.
He always wears standard issue fire nation armor of the infrantry devision. Though he could get better, he prefers the light weight and freedom of movement.
Hearing about the blue spirit, Mori was inspired by the mask the creature wore. To freighten his opponents and to protect his face from burnwounds he wears his own custom made mask. A white mask that covers his whole face in the abstract form of a skull. Covered with red linings and in the middle a Fire Nation emblem.
When out hunting firebenders he normally wears a big black cloak. It covers all his features and makes him hard to distinguish in the dark.
He also has a big iron shield he uses together with his sword. In his right sleeve he has hidden an hidden-armblade. An assassins weapon he adapted to his liking. The weapon has the length of a short-sword (the same length as his underarm) and is of valuable use during battles. He isn’t built for stealth because of his length.That does have a disadvantage over his battle style. In order to beat a bender, he’ll need to get close first. And without much stealth, that opposes a problem Mori usualy has to solve by using his head.

5. Give a detailed history of your character. Who are your parents? Are they alive? If not, what happened? Tell us what happened to character in their life so far.
It was a stormy day, twenty years ago. Aya Kenchi had been pregnant for nine months and was now giving birth to her first born. Her husband, Kumi Kenchi, the local medic, sat at her bed, nursing her. After one agonizing hour Mori Kenchi was born in a small village in the fire nation.
The couple was relieved. He wasn’t a particular beautifull baby, but to his parents he was the greatest treasure in the world. Kumi Kenchi immediatly annouced his birth to the village that had been waiting in great anticipation. That night there was a great feast, in honour of Kumi Kenchi and his new born. Aya Kenchi hadn’t taken part. She had to rest.
After only one year a baby sister was born, and in the years after, two little brothers would be added to the family.
Kumi Kenchi enjoyed a lot of respect in the village. Not only was he considered the wisest, but he also had a good reputation as firebender. Many turned to him in their hours of need. As such, the family knew prosperety and peace for several years.
At an early age, his father discovered that Mori Kenchi had no affinity for fire. Unlike his younger sister and brothers, he would never be able to bend the flame-element. His father was very dissappionted. He had hoped his first born to be more like himself. Kumi Kenchi hid his dissappointment, but from there on, he always favoured his other childeren While he was still young, Mori Kenchi did not feel this distinction between him and his father. But as he grew older, and his siblings talents emerged, Mori started to notice. In his fathers eyes, Mori seemed to do nothing right. He was often scolded. Had to do many petty jobs, the other children did not have to do. His mother tried to shield him as good as she could from his fathers frustrations. She often fought with his father, arguing that he if couldn’t bare to love Mori, he should stay away from him. Mori fortunateley never withnessed these fights.
Kumi Kenchi trained his children himself. He was a tough teacher, asking a lot of his pupils. Often the children would return home with little burnwounds. But they loved it, for their father would always tend to them with a proud smile on his face.
Mori Kenchi didn’t participate. He wasn’t allowed. He would often sneak after his father, to spy on the training. At night, when he tought that everyone was a sleep. He would try to mimic some of the movements he had witnessed that day. His mother would sometimes watch, with a great pain in her heart. Mori was frustrated by the fact that his father left him out. He knew that his siblings looked down on him for it. And many of the other kids in the neighbourhood teased him with the fact that he was a black sheep. He wanted to show his father he could be just as good. But no matter what he tried. He couldn’t bend a flame. He never could control fire, no matter how hard he tried.
When Mori Kenchi was eight, his mother decided to sent him away. He would live with her brother in a village somewhere in the mountains for a while. She hoped that maybe her husband would miss his first born, and rediscover his affection for Mori. Besides, Mori was starting to become aware of his fathers’ strange behaviour, so she needed him to leave, in order to protect him from serious harm.
Her brother, Chen Pachin was a happy, cheerfull man. He took his nephew in as if he was his own son. Seeing how uncertain Mori was, he tryed to cheer him up. He took him out for long walks, talking to the kid, trying to figure out how to help him. Chin felt sorry for the kid as he figured why Mori was sent to him. His sister must have wanted a loving father figure for Mori. But Chin knew that wasn’t what Mori wanted. Chin immediatly called in a favour.
After two weeks, Mori met his new teacher. A fire bender named Iryu Nichi. Iryu had been part of the Fire Nation army most of his life. Now he lived a secluded live near the village. Instead of teaching firebending, Chin had asked him, to train Mori how to counter bending. Every move a bender makes, influences the attack he tries to do. How to block movements necassery for controlling fire, Mori had to learn every move by heart. That way he could recognise attacks and counter them. Mori was eager to learn. He understood this was his only change to show his father he didn’t need bending.
In the years to follow, Mori was trained hard. He learned every bending move known to Iryu, and then how to counter them. He was trained in the use of shuriken and and standard military weapons. He even deviced a weapon of his own. An armblade, hidden in his sleeve, that would pop when triggerd by pulling a small string with ring placed at the base of his wrist.
Iryu thought him the history of the fire nation and the army’s dogma.
When he was sixteen, Iryu couldn’t teach Mori anymore. Not because Mori learned everything there was to learn about firebending, but because Iryu’s knowledge was limited to military fighting-standards and then some. Mori returned home. His mother was so glad he had returned, she broke out in tears. He His sister and two brothers weren’t there. They had been sent of to the capital, to temporarily serve in the army. But when Mori wanted to oppose his father, he discovered he had died in an accident. Angry, that now he could not prove to his father his worth. Mori decided to travel to the Capital. He stayed a week with his mother. Then he travelled for the capital. As he arrived, he soon discovered he couldn’t meet his brothers and sister. The only way, was to enlist. So Mori enlisted and was sent to a trainingcamp. Though, used to military training by Iryu, he was soon noticed by the staff. They decided he didn’t need any additional training and placed him in a infantry unit based close to the capital. There he made quite a career for himself, due to his unique fightingstyle. One of the firebenders, Irzai Umi, decided he didn’t like Mori. He constantly sought a fight with him. One day, Mori decided he had enough and challenged Irzai to a Agni Kai. Irzai happely accepted, knowing Mori couldn’t bend. He was in for quite a suprise. Irzai wasn’t a particular talented bender and Mori had the element of suprise. Irzai didn’t stand a chance. Every time he tried to attack his opponent, Mori was there, stopping his arm-movement, deflecting his fire-punches and constantly pushing him out of balance.
After two minutes, Irzai was down for the count and Mori stood victorious.
The next day he was called to the office of his commander. but instead of punishing him, he was given a choice. Either he’d be fired for fighting a senior-officer, or he could work for the army as a blood hound, an army bounty hunter, tracking deserting fire benders. Mori didn’t have to think twice and gladly offered his service to the Nation.
Again he was trained, now by some expert fire benders. Instead of recognizing, he learned to read his opponents moves and slowly he improved his fighting style. After 3 years of training, he was finally set loose to hunt deserters. Finally he could prove, no man necasseraly needed bending.

6. What does your character like? Dislike?
He likes writing poetry. As a soldier you have to fill up a lot of time, when on duty, so he always has a small pack of paper and a quill with him. to write poems. Though he is a very poor writer. Besides that, he likes to travel, enjoys to explore new territory, meet new people, broaden his horizon. He's interested in history and politics and likes to discuss them. He likes good company. Friendly, educated and well mannered people. He has a strong predujice against people who lack any of these qualities.
He also enjoys small competitions and duels. He is very competative, likes to prove his strength to anyone who challenges him, though he hates to lose.

He dislikes benders with a big ego. Though he has to acknowledge their strength, he refuses to acknowledge their superiority. He doesn't think highly of benders, seeing them as spoiled bratts, who never will know the hardship of normal labour.

7. What are some good traits of your character? Bad? Mori Kenchi is a very patient person. He rarely loses his temper. He is also a very clever and bright individual, capable of adapting to new situations and improvising new tactics.

Yet, he's also very vain. Likes to brag now and then and to prove his strength in duels. He is a sore loser. One of the rare moments he loses his temper, is when he has lost a duel.
He's very proud. He's also very brave, hard to frighten. He enjoys taking risks, only then he feels at his best.
8. Does your character bend? What level of training is your character at? Who taught your character? No, my character is no bender. Instead he has been trained by a Fire Nation veteran-bender, named Iryu Nichi, to counter fire bending moves and to beat them without the use of any bending. His training took 9 years, after which he joined the army. There he received some basic training, but because of his training with Iryu he didn't need any. When he used his special fighting style against a firebender during an argument he was noticed by his superiors. His skills acknowledged, they sent him to the academy to improve his style further. He got an advanced version of his fighting training. Improving his skill even further, Mori Kenchi learned how to predict certain moves and also learned several effective ways to knock the air out of a benders lungs. That way a fire bender couldn't bend at all.

9. What or who is important to your character and why?
Kru Li, his eel hound is very important to him as it is his most valuable posession. He bought him from a trader just after fininshing training at the academy. He got it for a bargain, because Kru Li had proven to be very stubborn and sometimes even unreliable. Drawn to this defiant character Mori Kenchi decided to buy it, feeling he had met a similar personality. Though it took some time, Kru Li and Mori Kenchi are starting to like eachother, as far as the Eel hound could like anything. Still, he sometimes bites Mori Kenchi, or refuses to listen. Still, Mori Kenchi loves the creature for it's rebel nature.

Another important person to him is Iryu Nichi, his former teacher. Though they've lost contact these past 4 years, he often thinks about the old man in the mountains and about his wise lessons.

His deceased father. For he is the main reason Mori decided to learn how to fight fire-benders. He wanted to prove to his father he could be just as strong as any bender. Hoping he would finally be accepted by his father, but because he has never been able to do so. He took it on him to make a name for himself, hoping that one day he could become something his father would have been proud of.

His mother is the last important person in his life. She's home. Though he hasn't seen her, most of his life, he idolised her. Thinking of her as the perfect mother (who doesn') an image of love and care. Though he isn't far off, he tends to exagurating from time to time.

10. What or who is your character afraid of and why? What is your character’s greatest fear and why? Mori Kenchi's greatest fear is to lose his life before reaching his goal. He wants to feel worthy so desperatly, he is even prepared to fight any bender opposing him. Hoping one day to become something his father could be proud of.


11. What is your character’s goal(s) in life and why? Mori Kenchi's goal in life is to make his father proud. Though his father died, he is trying to become something his father would have been proud of. He tries to establish a world wide acknowledgement that benders aren't necassery. They are a luxury given by the gods. They shouldn't feel superior, for they are just human. He wants to teach Fire nation soldiers his fighting style, and even include other bending-disciplines besides fire bending into his discipline, creating an effective way to fight benders. He doesn't want them exterminated, and he doesn't deny their usefullness. He just wants them to be at the same level as normal people.

Mori - #7 could be expanded, but as far as I could tell, good job.

Questions:
1. What is your character's name? Takeno

2. Where is your character from? A small village in the Fire Nation

3. What is your character's age? Almost 20

4. What does your character look like? Takeno is slightly taller than average height. He has black hair that falls slightly down past his shoulders. He keeps it up in the usual style of the Fire Nation soldiers when on duty, and when he’s off duty, he usually keeps it back in a simple ponytail. Takeno is thin, with long, lean muscles from all his years of training and his years a soldier. His eyes are the normal amber gold that one would usually find the Fire Nation. Since he is a soldier, Takeno can usually be found in his uniform, and when off duty, you’ll find him in the normal Fire Nation attire of red and brown. Takeno is not a bad looking guy, but he doesn’t consider himself a truly good-looking guy, either, though some might.

5. Give a detailed history of your character. Who are your parents? Are they alive? If not, what happened? Tell us what happened to character in their life so far. Takeno was born the first child of Celarno and Meili, two average Fire Nation citizens who lived in a small town about a day from the Capitol. They were not overly rich or overly poor, and about three years later, they welcomed their second, a girl named Kanea. Two years after that, their younger brother, Telarno, was born. All three children were gifted with Firebending. Takeno and his brother, Telarno, were fairly strong benders, like their father. Their mother was not a bender, and their sister’s bending was weak. Growing up, Celarno would put his three children through harsh, tough training to prepare them for the worst. That was their life – eat, sleep, training with their father. Well, except for Kanea. Their mother forbids her to learn Firebending, though their father taught her some anyway. She was more proficient with swords, though, than either of her brothers.

Celarno and Meili were strong believers in the Fire Lord’s plan to rule the world. They both believed greatly in him. Growing up, Takeno had no other choice but to believe what his parents told him. After all, they were his parents, and you believe your parents. Therefore, he was eager to join his service of his nation. Soon after his sixteenth birthday, he joined the Army, working hard to succeed and grow in rank to please not only his family but also the Fire Lord. He came home whenever possible with stories of what he’d done, how hard he working and training. Both of his parents are very proud of their son, the soldier, though of course they both worry. What happened not to long after that, however, prompted the first really exciting that every happened in the life of his the family, because Takeno always considered themselves to be normal.

His sister, seeing her brother as a soldier and eager to follow his example, stole their younger brother’s clothing and masqueraded as a boy in the Army, to blend in more. Women were allowed in the army, but she was not old enough yet, too young by two years. However, she was caught by her commanding officer, and after back talking, found herself banished. It just so happened that it had been the same regiment as Takeno. He yelled at his sister for her stupidity before she left. As time went on, though, he found himself agreeing less and less with Ozai, and eventually, his daughter, Azula. Takeno never said a word, but eventually, a chance meeting with an older man named Makino changed his life forever.

Makino was a Nobleman with a vacation home in Takeno’s hometown. His disagreement with what the Fire Nation was doing had been growing, and as it would turn out, Makino was the leader of an underground rebellion in the Fire Nation. The man used to be a soldier, but had been forced to retire due to an injury. He had a personal grudge against the Fire Lord as well, because he banished Makino’s only child, Karena, Prince Zuko’s fiancée. Takeno, after some thinking, secretly joined, and as he grew in rank, he helped Makino more and more. Now, he works on trying to recruit more people, while he and other members of the rebellion wait, biding their time until they can help the Avatar in taking down the Fire Lord and Princess Azula, putting his banished son, Zuko, in his rightful place on the throne.

6. What does your character like? Dislike? Likes Takeno enjoys joking around with people, and often tries to find an exucse to do so. He also enjoys a good sparring match, and like joking around, will find an excuse to do so. He also enjoys a good meal, and loves his mother's cooking. He enjoyed the practice sessions with his father to an extent, although his father's harsh ways does cause him to resent his father a bit. He does appreciate them now, because he can handle anything sent his way. Takeno also enjoys the female figure, though he's had little time to actively appreciate it in recent years. He alos likes the Resistance and it's cause, as well as it's Founder/Leader, Makino.

Dislikes Takeno can ingore people when immersed in his work, and his ruthless nature at times can make people distant. Also, his temper can get out of control when allowed, because when angered, Takeno can do little to stop it without assistance. He also despises the Fire Lord and is equally if not more crazy daughter, Azula. He dislikes the war and it's purpose, as well as those who blindly follow the Fire Lord, and any who agree with him. He dislikes who he was before for blindly agreeing with what his mother and father had told him.

7. What are some good traits of your character? Bad? Good Takeno is normally a good natured person. He likes doing what is right, even if it's not easy to do so. It takes quite a bit to make him mad, as he's slow to anger. Takeno is also very dedicated and hard-working, willing immerse himself in his work if it's necessary. He will also do anything for a cause he believes is just, even if it means sacraficing himself for it. He is also an extremely loyal person, and will never turn his back on someone he trusts. Takeno will never back down on a promise that he has made; he's a man of his word. He knows when to be serious and when to joke around. He will also only take part in a real fight when he feels it's necessary.

Bad While Takeno is slow to anger, you do not want to make him mad. He has a very furious temper when actually angered, and one that no one wants to see. While willing to work hard and immerse himself in work can be good thing, he can also forget the people around him because of it. While sacraficing himself for a noble cause can be a good thing, it can be bad for his family and those who care. He can also be very ruthless when giving the right circumstances, willing to do things other people wont, which can be a good or a bad thing depending on situation. While he's loyal, if you cross him, you will see a side of him what you wish you hadn't.

8. Does your character bend? What level of training is your character at? Who taught your character? Yes, Takeno does bend - he's a Firebender. He's around High Intermediate, pretty strong. He was taught by his Father since he was a little boy, and is very adept at it now.

9. What or who is important to your character and why? Makino is very important to Takeno, because he's the Leader of the Resistance, and the one who personally recruited himself. Because of Makino's importance to the Resistance, and the Resistence's importance to takeno, it makes Makino very important to him. The Resistance, as I've said, is also very important to Takeno, because he believes highly in it's goals, and will do anything to see it suceed.

10. What or who is your character afraid of and why? What is your character’s greatest fear and why? One of Takeno's greatest fears is of dying before being able to assist in taking down Ozai and Azula. While he's willing to risk his life to complete his goal, he does not want to die before being able to do so. Another of his greatest fears is of being found out that he is a part of the Resistance, thereby making it harder for him to assist them. What has to be Takeno's greatest fear of all these great fears is the fear of not succeeding, of not being able to do a thing to take down Ozai and Azula, because that would mean the continuation of this pointless war - something Takeno wouldn't be able to live with.

11. What is your character’s goal(s) in life and why? Takeno's greatest goal in his life right now his to help Makino and the Resistance take down Fire Lord Ozai and Princess Azula. He believes that they're both insane and need to be taken down. He then hopes for the throne to be taken by someone who will stop this foolish war - Prince Zuko. Because of how bad he wants, Takeno is willing to risk anything - including his life, if necessary.