[Female | 18 | Southern Water Tribe]
Makki is a sarcastic and laid back girl from the Southern Water Tribe. Her first response to anything is a sarcastic quip and a quick smile, which more often than not hides the fact that she stole your purse. Unsurprisingly perhaps, she has a habit of stealing, even unconsciously. IF asked she'll usually return stolen or taken items, but it's very rare that she ever returns them without being prompted to. Makki is very street smart, despite her words and lies about just arriving off the ship. Makki doesn't like talking about her feelings and often prefers actions to words.
Traits
A waterbender of some repute and a masterful thief. Her studies about airbenders has allowed her to be quicker on her feet, but not as quick as anyone who's trained under the master airbenders themselves. She also knows some healing, though it is greatly limited.
Relations & Relationships
Father: Injuquaq (Estranged)
Mother: Siku (Deceased)
Sister: Miki (Estranged)
Mentor: Gomi (Deceased)
Friends:
Ratna (Deceased)
Akane (Deceased)
Pukiq (Deceased)
History
Makki was born to a Northern Water Tribe woman who had come to bring waterbending back to the south pole. While there she met a man named Injuquaq and quickly became engaged to him after several years of dating and both moved back to the Northern Water Tribe. However, he could not bend and was extremely against benders.
Siku, Makki's Mother, was part of the faction that believed that waterbending should be a part of the Southern Water Tribe once more, and she also wished to escape the constricting sexist traditions that circled the entirety of the Northern Water Tribe. Siku had been trained as most women waterbenders were in the north pole, using water for healing and not attacking. Despite this she believed that she could teach others how to use this power in the south pole. Siku was just off the ship to arrive when she ran into Injuquaq, a man who was selling fish at the market.
Injuquaq grew up in the Phoenix Kingdom clutches, and had nearly been burned by several firebenders who claimed to have been part of the Phoenix Kingdom. As time went on, Injuquaq began to connect bending to power, and he believed that power was corrupting good and honest people into filth and criminals. He voiced this opinion only after Siku and he were married and with child.
When Siku discovered this, she vowed to keep the fact that she was a waterbender a secret from him, however long it took. Makki was born first, and as soon as she showed promise with waterbending at five years of age, her mother quickly told Makki to never allow her father to know about her waterbending. Siku trained Makki in healing and medicinal uses for waterbending, teaching her in secret from her father. When Makki was six, Miki was born and Makki's mother died from childbirth, leaving Makki without a teacher for waterbending in the whole tribe.
Makki decided to run away when she was ten, frustrated by her inability to learn more about waterbending on her own, only to be caught by her father shortly before she left the house. Makki, in a fit of rage accidentally water bended her father into their wall. She tried to explain it was an accident, but her father quickly told her to simply leave and never come back. With her little bag on her back she headed for the Northern Water Tribe colonies. There she found a mentor and a way of living.
Her mentor taught her how to use waterbending for attacking and fighting, which Makki quickly grew skilled at. He also taught her how to steal without being caught and how to live on not much money. Her mentor had always believed the current Avatar, the one under influence from the Phoenix Kingdom, to be the false Avatar and that the real one was out there somewhere. Makki picked up on this belief quickly, thinking that maybe
she was the avatar. Her mentor become more of a father figure as she grew older and Makki believed that her old father was just a nightmare...
Until she reached fourteen. That was when her mentor passed away, leaving Makki alone and without a home once more. The young vagabond headed for the air temples next, hoping to find relaxation with the monks, as well as trying to find out if she could bend air. She knew that airbending after waterbending was out of the cycle, but she wanted to know if she could do it or not, because the Avatar could bend any element without training.
After a few months of trying to airbend, Makki grew frustrated with herself, having not bended the air at all in her time there. Her delusion of grandeur had reached it's end, and Makki didn't want the monks to know her true purpose at the air temple. So she blamed them for being too weak in the war with the old Fire Nation and left in a huff, never looking back.
She decided to go to the Earth Nation next, simply because it had more Phoenix Nation presence to annoy and hide within and held possible work for her to do. She didn't care about any particular destination to go to, and simply boarded the soonest ship she could book.
That was when she arrived at Omashu, the city that was rife with fun, other bender kids, and a way to live without having to do too much manual labor. As she stayed in the city, she picked up younger kids who had been thrown out of their homes or ran away as she had. Slowly they became her new family, they stole together and Makki showed the ones that could waterbend how she learned.
Everything was going well for three years in Omashu. Makki managed to steal enough for everyone to eat every night and she enjoyed the feeling she had when they all worked together to steal or get food. One day Makki went out for cabbages -half to annoy the peddler and half because they needed them- and returned to discover that Phoenix Nation troops had stormed the home, leaving no one inside alive. Her entire gang had been wiped out, leaving Makki alone again.
Makki vowed vengeance against the troops for her once again broken family. She vowed that she would make every Phoenix Nation imperial pay for what they did to her family, and has been on the warpath ever since.