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Avatar KuDistinguishing physical features:
Male
19
- Keeps his hair in a messy bun
- Scruffy face
- Has an intricately geometric tattoo on his left shoulder
- Tan skin, greenish-brown eyes - typical coloration of his ethnicity
Habits: Takes the path of least resistance, but isn't often in a rush; likes taking detours just to explore; is non-confrontational but opinionated; and generally keeps to himself.
Personal life philosophy: "We must never expect others to do for us what we are capable of doing for ourselves." Though docile and passive in nature, Ku is by no means a pushover. He acts upon careful thought (and some self-interest), and is consequently a young man of few words. He conserves his energy for what he deems necessary – things like fishing and surfing and napping, not mediating trivial disputes or partaking in ceremonial events.
Bending type: Earthbender
Bending skill level: Earthbending and lavabending: mastered; waterbending: proficient; airbending: decent; firebending: almost completely inept.
Tribe: Jade Archipelago (Earth Kingdom annexed land)
Background: Ku grew up on Ma'nu, a commune of sorts, with his guardian-aunt, Lani. Though an impoverished island, and one made up largely of farmers, fisherman, and non-benders, the community was hospitable and generous. They were a peaceful and humble people who loved to talk, sing, and eat. Many of the adults were old and many of the children were orphans, but they all lived as one family.
Here Ku was content, living simply and learning earthbending under Lani's tutelage, which he enjoyed. Then one day he asked her to teach him waterbending. To which she replied,
"Ipo, we are earthbenders. Water is not our element."
Ku frowned. "But I bend the water at the beach all the time."
They kept this secret between the two of them for many years. It wasn't until Ku was fourteen that he shared his impossible talent with his best friend, Avi, one of the island's orphans. By this time Lani had told Ku he was the Avatar, and had explained what that meant.
"The title comes with enormous responsibility," she said to him one evening. "It is the Avatar's duty to maintain peace and balance between the bending nations."
"Sounds like a tall order," said Ku, dolefully pushing his rice to one side of his bowl.
"It is," said Lani. "But remember this, child. The world once survived without an Avatar. It could most certainly survive without one again."
When Ku turned seventeen, Lani surprised him with a trip to the continent. With no objections, Ku boarded the ship, intending to return in a month. But a month came and went, and he never made it back to Ma'nu.
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Ku met Nima after a year of roaming the rural coastline, his hair long and untamed, his face scruffy, with dark circles pooled beneath his eyes. After her accident, and once she had healed, the two wandered the countryside together, passing through several towns with Wanted posters depicting a cleaner, younger, better groomed version of the Avatar. Ku pretended not to see them.
A week before they were to separate, Ku accidentally waterbent in front of Nima. Afraid she might turn him in, Ku snuck away in the dead of night... Only to meet her at the nearest town the next morning. There they encountered a group of gray-cloaked benders. When they pursued, Nima helped Ku escape.
Since then the two have remained on the run together. -
Nima
18
Female
Distinguishing physical features:
Hmmm. Have a picture. If anything would be considered 'distinguishing', I would most definitely say it's her hair color.
Habits:
Nima isn't really a creature of habit. However, she likes to hum or sing when she's bored or alone and she likes to read whenever she gets the chance. When anxious or thoughtful, she will often tug at the ends of her hair or braid and unbraid the ends. She also has a strong affinity for animals and loves to train and bond with pretty much any cute and fuzzy creature.
Personal life philosophy (general personality):
Nima is very much a logical woman. She's perceptive and intuitive and she always believes the best of people until she's shown otherwise. As a rule, she doesn't take other people's opinions into consideration when deciding how she feels about a particular subject/activity/person. She's a free thinker and a true child at heart; she's got a true streak of wanderlust and won't hesitate to explore a new place or embark on a new adventure. All in all, though, I feel like Nima's life philosophy can be summed up by the quote below:
"When what you hear and what you see don't match, trust your eyes." -Dale Renton
Bending status:
She would be considered a master at her craft, as she has her arrows, marking her a fully realized Airbender.
Level of bending skill:
She's pretty good at what she does, especially her glider. #GlidingMaster
Tribe: Air Nomad
Background:
Nima was raised at the Western Air Temple and there she learned the ways of the Airbenders. Although she loved her home, she never truly felt as if she belonged and as she aged she rapidly became dissatisfied and restless. She found the constant holy practices of the other Airbenders to be tedious and boring and eventually she stopped meditating altogether, causing a stir among the older members of the temple. Nima didn't mean to be the rebel, but she ultimately became that in her teenage years; the only thing that kept her tied to the temple was her Airbending training. Once she attained her arrows, however, the tie that had been keeping her there vanished and when she turned 17, Nima set out on her own to explore the world like she'd always dreamed.
It was shortly after her departure when she met Ku, literally falling out of the sky and into his life. After her glider took heavy damage, (due to a surprise appearance of a flock of birds and the resulting collision with a nearby tree), Nima came tumbling down through the forest canopy and Ku was the one who found her, dangling unconscious and limp in a tree. They spent the following weeks together, travelling through the woods to the next town where they were supposedly going to go their separate ways.
When Ku accidentally revealed his status as Avatar, Nima didn't particularly care- they were just traveling together, after all, so what difference did it make that he happened to be the Avatar? She was indifferent to Ku's secret, really. (It's not like she was going to turn him in or get involved in his problems or even ask him for help- she just wanted to get to the next town.)
When he vanished the next morning, Nima simply accepted he was gone and carried on to the next town. She hadn't expectd to run into him again, but when she reached the town and saw the bounty hunters trying to convict him of being the Avatar, she jumped in, managing somehow to persuade them they had the wrong guy. They promptly escaped the town and have been together ever since, causing trouble and living simply.
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