Name: Hiryu Kage
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Element: Water
Sexuality: Straight
Strengths
-Ice- Hiryu specializes in the use of Ice while water bending. He has used this ice in genuinely new ways. [Probably thanks to his intelligence]
-Knowledge/Intelligence- While Hiryu may not be the greatest fighter in a blank slate. He is able to take advantage of nearly any environment he is placed in. This is thanks to his extensive knowledge of how water works and what contains water.
-Deceptive Abilities- Hiryu is a very capable liar and if needed can deceive people with the best of them. [Think of him as a modern Azula, but less bratty]
-Lie-Detector- While not able to constantly sense the physical changes such as certain well-trained earth benders. Hiryu has studied and done enough lying to be able to quickly pick up on when someone is doing it.
Weaknesses
-Compassion- Hiryu tends to be rather cold at times. [No pun relating to his use of Ice intended]
-Socializing- Due to his cold and undermining nature, Hiryu is not very good at socializing with others he doesn't already know.
-Pride- When Hiryu believes himself to be right on a matter, there is no stopping him from going through with it. He barrels past most peoples logical thinking when he feels, no, he KNOWS, he is right.
-Agateophobia- The Fear of Insanity, or becoming insane. Hiryu's worst fear is to be afflicted with, or to be near, anyone or anything that would suggest insanity. For he knows if he was to go insane, his cold nature could cause him to kill others, even his friends, without thinking or caring.
Personality
Hiryu is a very calculated, no-nonsense individual. While he is not against having fun, or other pass times. If there is work to be done or other things requiring attention, he will go to no ends to make sure it is done in a very timely manner. This causes him to ridicule anyone who goofs off as well as come off as a "Fun hater".
Hiryu's matter-of-fact way of speaking makes him seem EXTREMELY sarcastic when stating a fact. Even though he is simply saying it as a correction to a false fact, he goes about it in such a way that he tends to unintentionally insult people. And when speaking to anyone who is a stickler for royal tradition, most could guess this way of speaking would go down very badly for him, probably with him getting a sentence of some kind for speaking to royalty with disrespect.
Hiryu is not exactly the most romantically inclined individual. Though he is entirely capable of being romantic, his nature always tends to "get in the way". Hiryu would never hope to make an advance towards a girl he wasn't sure he liked, this is thanks to the fact he is much too shy to do that, and that he would have no idea what to say in that situation.
There is one redeeming factor to Hiryu, if someone or something is hurt, he will protect and nurture them better than many mothers. This makes him extremely good with animals, he himself commenting "Animals are amazing. They don't expect anything but food, water, and a good place to sleep. They don't make mistakes, they just follow their nature. That's probably why I get along with them so much better than with people." He has a pet Iguana Parrot which perches on his shoulder commonly.
History
Hiryu was born to a couple in the Northern Water Tribe. His mother was very reserved and quiet, while his father was loud and proud. He had a brother who was three years older than him, the brother acted much like the father, and they would go hunting and fishing together, leaving Hiryu at home with his mother. Hiryu grew close to his mother, helping her around the house when his brother and father were off on their little "adventures". His mother, like him, was a bender, while his brother and father were not.
It wasn't until Hiryu heard a banging on the door at night that things began to turn for the worst. It turned out that the adventures of his brother and father were actually criminal works. They had gotten involved with a dangerous gang that were raiding coastal ships. And now, the gang wanted revenge for the two getting them caught in their last operation. The door was busted down and the house began to smell of fire. The gang killed his brother, his mother, and his father. Unaware of the second son who had stayed home, the gang left after stealing some things before the house was burnt to the ground. Hiryu had escaped while the gang stole from the other rooms, hiding in the snow outside.
He grew up as an orphan, but he was far from bad off. While the gang had stolen a good portion of his father's possessions, Hiryu knew about a safe his father had hidden in the ground beneath his brother's room. When the fire had died and Hiryu collected himself, he dug into the ground and took out the safe. He hid it in his own hiding place, and went to the authorities. They gave him a place to call home until they figured out what to do with him. When Hiryu told them he had a large amount of money himself, the authorities went with him to retrieve it. The amount of money in the safe astounded even Hiryu. The money within was enough to pay for his whole life. A house for himself, and a top rate education. Hiryu buried himself in his studies in order to do what he thought would make his mother proud, so he trained, and studied, all the ways he could think of to better himself at waterbending and intellectual paths. He learned advanced mathmatics and chemistry. He learned this and applied it to his bending. Making ice weapons so sharp they could cut perfectly through very hard substances such as wood, and even some weak metals. And when cutting did not work, he applied other properties, such as forcing water between cracks in armor, then freezing it, splitting it apart.
After learning everything the men at the northern water tribe could teach him, Hiryu decided to leave the place. He took his money, and headed for the Earth Kingdom to see if living there could help him. While there, he met small Iguana Parrot that was being sold at shop, it was to be sold or it was going to die from lack of good conditions. He bought it right away and the two developed a strong bond over the next couple of months. After living in the Earth Kingdom a good 3/4 of a year, Hiryu was called upon as one to work with the Avatar. His answer was this "Not like I have better things to do with my life...fine."