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Age
19

Sex
Male

Element
Air

Home
Lower Ring

Profession
Beggar/Thief

Stance on Benders
Like most complex political issues, Yan doesn't care about whether or not benders should be allowed in The Republic.

Appearance
Yan stands about a head shorter than most men and has a scrawny physique that suggests he is malnourished to a degree. Along with his pale skin and the notably dark circles around his sunken-in eyes, Yan more or less looks constantly ill. His fingernails are caked with layers of black grime, and his teeth are brittle and stained. Yan wears a waterproof jumpsuit tucked into boots, and avoids combing his hair or performing self-grooming of any kind. Yan is known for his habit of constantly smiling, which most people find either unnerving or endearing.

Personality
If Yan were an animal, he would be a rat. Although he's not exceptionally smart, Yan possesses a fair degree of low cunning and street smarts, and can be sly when he needs to be. Yan is selfish and crude, and is known (by those who even know him) as an underhanded deviant who can't be trusted. Yan's sole motivation for staying alive is Zen, a psychoactive street drug named for its lethargic hallucinatory highs. Known for being an especially trashy street-drug, "Zen-Men" like Yan are stereotypically thieves or beggars -- Yan is both.

Yan is a skilled liar and can typically talk his way out of most situations, or bluff his way into them, especially if Zen -- or money to buy more Zen -- is involved. Yan's life on the streets has taught him to look out for himself above all else, jading him into a self-centered cynic.

History
Yan was born in the Lower Ring, to an unexceptionally poor family and unexceptionally poor life. Introduced to Zen at an early age, Yan has known little else but poverty and addiction, which have become second-nature to him -- Yan sometimes has trouble figuring out whether or not he's sober, as he's spent the majority of his life either high or coming down. Eventually outed as an addict, Yan was kicked out of his house after stealing money from his parents to support his habit as a teenager.

With a natural penchant for small crime, he has since kept himself alive through burglary and mugging pedestrians, though more often than not he settles for begging. He is a fairly successful addict, as he manages to eat enough to stay alive, and avoids law enforcement by having a permanent hideout rather than carrying his belongings with him. He has made himself a nest at the highest floor of one of the lower ring's many abandoned buildings.

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Likes
Zen
Sleeping
Candy
Egg-Based Foods
Parties with Free Drinks

Cough Medication

Dislikes
Not Having Zen
Bright Lights
Loud Noises
Unenclosed Spaces (Vast plains, empty indoor stadiums, open sea, etc.)
Working
Meat
Strangers

Habits
Smiling
Chuckling
Scratching Himself

Fears
Being deprived of Zen

@DeadBeatWalking Accepted. Also Kudo's for adding drugs to the universe. Zen sounds exactly like the kind of drug that would be circulating through the Lower Ring... perhaps all of them.

Love his look and his penchant for small crimes, his life of "freedom" that isn't really free at all. I look forward to his development!

Name: Xiu Qianru
(Pronounced: SHEE-you CHYAN-roo )

Age: 21

Sex: Female

Element: Earth-bending

Home: Upper Ring

Appearance: Xiu always seems to be glowing wherever she goes. She stands at an above average height of 5'7 and weighs a sturdy 142 lbs, sporting a lean but slightly curvy build. Atop her head is an impossibly curly mass of dark brown hair that she does her best to keep under control, though she's usually seen with it looking rather unkempt. She has a round face with freckles dotting her cheeks under her pale green eyes, and plump rosy lips, giving her a young and beautiful look. In regards to her typical clothing, she wears traditional (or what can now be called 'old fashioned') earth nation clothes when she's not told to dress up or look fancy. She prefers this type of clothing, as she feels it is most comfortable to wear.

Profession: By day, Xiu works alongside her mother as a Florist. The two women run a small shop that caters to all the residents of the Upper Ring. While not the most exciting job, Xiu enjoys being around flowers and delivering them to unsuspecting women and children. By night, Xiu studies alongside her father who works as an Advisor to the King during the day. After dinner, the two can be found in her Father's large office, working on her studies and debating over political issues. It is expected sometime in the future that she take her father's position as Advisor to the King.

Personality: Xiu is a kind-hearted woman, always putting other's wants and needs before her own and has a personality that makes others want to be around her. She is empathetic, honest, trustworthy, and probably a bit naive when it comes to some things. She is one who follows her heart more often than her mind, and is not afraid of the consequences that follow. She's tough, determined, a bit headstrong, and won't back down from a challenge if it involves getting what she wants. Despite having the attention span of a rabid squirrel-coon, Xiu is also intelligent and unusually perceptive of other's feelings and thoughts. Xiu very good at comforting others and is usually quite a joy to be around. She has extremely well-developed senses, and an aesthetic appreciation for beauty. She's not interested in leading or controlling others. She is flexible and open-minded about other people's lives, traditions, stories, etc.. She is also original and very creative and enjoys living in the present moment.

Stance on Benders?: Though she has never met a bender, Xiu doesn't have any kind of fear or hatred towards them. Despite being told they are bed people all of her life, she is not someone to believe something simply by being told. She feels a bit of pity for them, knowing that they cannot help how they were born, and considers herself lucky that she was not born with that kind of ability.

History: Xiu has resided in the Upper Ring of the Republic all her life. She grew up being pampered and protected by her parents who were among the most wealthy individuals in that region. She was sheltered most of her life, never being allowed to travel outside the walls of the Upper Ring. When she was younger, the only friends she had were the maids and butlers that worked in her house. Often times they would bring her gifts from beyond the walls, but nothing that would make her believe the rest of the world wasn't just as beautiful as where she lived.

When she was 12, she was allowed to work alongside her mother in the flower shop and this helped introduce her to some other people. As she worked, she would hear her mother speaking with the other older women about various crimes that were happening in other parts of the city. It was all so confusing to her and at the time she didn't really understand, and so she would keep her head down and focus on the flowers. Everything she knew about the Middle and Lower Rings of the city, would be from stories or half-answered questions from her parents. Her life was never that exciting or eventful, but Xiu has always been happy to be alive and surrounded by kind people.

Other:

Likes;
Flowers/Plants
Long Quiet Walks
Hot Soup or Tea
Music/Dancing
Meeting New People
Small Children

Dislikes;
None

Habits;
Biting Her Lip
Swearing
Humming to herself

Fears;
Thunderstorms
Small Spaces
Darkness

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LIKES

• Cloud-gazing
• His siblings; will murder for them
• His FireCat, Nekohi. It follows him everywhere and often finds its home around his neck.
• Street-performing.
• Acrobatics/Parkour/Dancing. Due to his thin frame, Jaakuna is very agile, which is ideal for acrobatics/parkour.
• Smiling and laughing
• Teasing his little sister
• The notion of sneaking into the Middle and Upper-rings to see if he can get away with it.
• Egging the guards on
• ANY KIND OF MEAT

DISLIKES

• THE REPUBLIC! THEY ARE PUBLIC ENEMY #1
• The Triad and many crime bosses
• Anyone who fucks with his siblings
• EGG CUSTARD! EWWWW
• Uptight, spoiled brats

HABITS

• Letting his mouth run free at any given moment regardless who is present.
• Avoiding responsibilities
• Roof-hopping
• Cutting people off when they start to annoy the crap out of him
• Cracking his knuckles
• Weed, which would explain why he’s always happy and cloud-gazing.

FEARS

• Losing his siblings
• Never getting out of the Lower Ring
• Dying before he gets to enact out his revenge
• BadgerMoles. You can say what you want about them, they scare the fuck out of him.

Name: Tikaani Xio

Age: 18

Sex: Male

Element: Water-Bending

Home: Wild/Tu Zin

Appearance:
Standing at 6'2, He has always been taller and more mature than all the children his age. His got his long brown hair from his father and his hazel eyes from his mother. Slim in nature but toned from his long days scavenging and hunting.

Profession:
Works with his father is a hunter/scavenger to bring supplies and food back to Tu Zin when they are in need.

Personality:
The quickest learner, always the first to find and understand the arts of food, labor, bending and life. His father taught him to always be aware of his surroundings, the very meaning of his name was "Wolf". At a young age Tikaani learned that the key to anything is persistence and patience. He would take these and use them on his hunts that he took along side his father. There wasn't much left in the land after the war, and at most times Tikaani and his mother felt drained because of the heat conflicting their inner-self. Overall Tikaani is silent, understands what needs to be done, and was taught to always finish what was started. He's shy at times and will rarely voice an opinion, but he is no push over. He uses ferocity that he learned from fire benders in his own bending, allowing for quicker release of his energy in movements.

Stance on Benders?:
Living in Tu Zin Tikaani doesn't know much of any problems other than the ones he has to deal with personally. Rarely are their checks for bending, all he knows are the barren lands that he lives. Though what he has heard from what his father speaks, he wants to hate nonbenders, telling himself they are horrible for blaming benders, but his heart refuses to make a bias decision as of right now.

History:
Born into a family that was not considered wealthy nor poor, his father and mother are kind people, giving more and more every year as Tikanni grew. He spent most of his early childhood learning about the qualities in life from his mother, rules of living, basic chores. All of which he was expected to use for his own family. He has spent his whole life in Tu Zin behind closed doors. Before the age of 13 he rarely stepped foot out side of his house, in his mothers fear of "seeings the world for how it really is" His mother and father never wanted anything to corrupt Tikanni, keeping him from most books detailing wars and shielding him from the past history of Avatars. Although they have always interested him.

At the age of 13 he was given his first task as a "Man". Hunting. He, alongside his father and two of his close friends left Tu Zin in search of food and anything worth using back home. His father had been doing it for years, back into Tikaani's infant days, he never knew exactly where or why he had gone until he witnessed the land for himself... Almost nothing. Wastes. It created a hole in him that he wanted to leave Tu Zin one day and find somewhere. Anywhere. That things might be okay. Somewhere the world he thought he knew, was true.

At the age of 14 he began learning basic bending, moving drinking water around, swirling it and creating mist. He was unable to get far into learning and reading when his mother, also a bender herself, found out. She forbid the practice in fear for her sons life if anyone found out. Now at the age of 18 Tikaani still has his many dreams, and craving to see what the world is.

Other:
Likes:
Reading
Cold weather
Exploring
He loves his parents
Animals
Hunting
Learning about Water-Bending
Girls

Dislikes:
Heat
Secrets
Liars
House work

Habits:
Thinking about things to much
Clenching his teeth/jaw

Fears
Losing his parents

Name: Jie Xiao

Age: Twenty-Two

Sex: Female

Element:Non-bender

Home: Middle Ring

Appearance: Jie stands at around 5'4" with a slimmer build. With extremely light brown hair and green eyes, she tends to attract a certain amount of attention. The girl is pale with high cheekbones, although constantly sports a look of exhaustion. To repair this, she'll predominantly wear makeup to cover the effects of certain lifestyle choices, which will eat up most of her funds. In terms of fashion-sense, Jie is quite trendy due to the requirement of her profession. She possesses a distinct burn mark that traces along her left forearm, to which she will keep hidden with various long-sleeved outfits.

Profession: Though not vastly wealthy, Jie spends her time as a singer to mostly the Upper Ring. Whether she be the background noise of a noble's party to the main performer in a gambling house, the girl has made her way into being a moderate success.

Personality: Jie is a selfish person. Extremely determined, she is the sole reason for her own rise to the Middle Ring. In some twisted way, the girl will often confuse selflessness or kindness for being weak. To most, however, she will attempt to keep a friendly demeanor as she is supposed to. Though she loves making friends and being around anyone who can keep up with her, she finds dealing with most to be a cumbersome task. Thus, Jie is quite open in terms of moral values, and willing to accept almost anyone so long as they're interesting enough.

Vainly aware of her own good looks, the girl will use her attributes to gain favor whenever necessary. This, of course, is her weapon of choice. Having had the goal of becoming a good socializer, Jie is a capable speaker and liar.

Stance on Benders?: She mostly dislikes the idea of benders. Like the majority, she sees them as too much of a hazard to keep unsupervised. Considering benders to be the reason for the world's present state, she supports a certain amount of regulation against such dangerous people.

History: Before, Jie once lived in the Lower Ring with her elder sister, Han. Her parents having been convicted as benders early in her life, she is unable to remember them, and therefore does not consider them as family. Though their age gap is severely large by fifteen years, the two girls were extremely close due to their circumstances. They'd survived in comfort for a time due to her sister's sacrifices, which allowed Jie to live out her childhood. Unable to support themselves without education or wealth, Han had earned her means as a smugler to members of varying rings. Due to this, Jie had been raised by listening to the experiences of others, following around the various characters that had flowed in and out of the Lower Ring.

A late bloomer, Han discovered her ability to firebend by burning her sister in the process. Though Jie allowed her to escape into the Wilds before being condemned, she still bears an anger towards the woman for leaving so quickly. Without a proper family along her adolescent years, she turned to Zen, adding on to the large population that depended on it as a favorite pastime. She would do whatever it took to provide enough for herself, and became a courtesan in the process of her descent. It was an unsurprisingly quick downward spiral, and the most desperate time of her life.

Unable to attract a large enough following to support her habits, Jie looked to other avenues as well. Though capable of charisma, she wished to garner more coin by the way of singing. After gaining the right sort of clientele, the girl moved to the Middle Ring as just that. Although Zen's use has slowly begun to wane, Jie is still a regular customer of one of the many drug smuglers in The Republic.

Likes;
►Sarcasm or Dark Humor
►Fashion
►Skill/Intelligence
►Sweets
►Flirting

Dislikes;
►Optimism
►Vulgarity
►Hot-Heads

Habits;
►Zen

Fears;
►Benders
►Fire
►A Mundane Future

Name:
Kuo.

Age:
Twenty-six.

Sex:
Male.

Element:
Water.

Home:
The Lower Ring of The Republic/Ba Sing Se.

Appearance:
Just above average height and lean, with respectable muscle mass, Kuo cuts a reasonably imposing figure. He has medium-length jet black hair and a lazy stubble smattered across his cheeks - a side-effect of a sheer distaste for grooming.

Profession:
Former Triple Threat hitman.

Personality:
Kuo is by turns pensive, often guilty of internalizing his emotions - but pleasantly passionate about his own goals and dreams, unwilling to accept no for an answer and ready to tackle any obstacles in his path. The fire of youth leads to occasional bouts of recklessness, but a lifetime of struggle and subsistence has endowed Kuo with a commendable talent at extricating himself from sour situations.

Stance on Benders:
Kuo hails from a long line of benders - waterbenders maternally and firebenders paternally - and spent the majority of his childhood learning the stories of his ancestors orally. Despite his parents' lack of bending talent, and his own assumed inability to bend the elements.

History:
Kuo was born and raised in the Lower Ring. When he was a boy, his father - a laborer at the synergy plant - perished in an industrial accident; shortly thereafter, during an outbreak of mysterious sicknesses in the Lower Ring, his mother took ill and never recovered.

Not yet a teen, Kuo was taken in by his only remaining family: an older cousin working for the Triple Threat Triad, from whom he would learn how to steal, fight, and handle a gun. Possessing a natural talent for marksmanship, Kuo was taken on by a local lieutenant as a contract hitman, eliminating various Triple Threat enemies for respectable sums of money.

In his early twenties, disillusioned with the direction his life had taken, Kuo separated from the Triple Threats - no mean feat, requiring his own relocation and a healthy amount of subterfuge - and vanished entirely from the public eye.

@Madly33@Medusa Both characters are accepted. Great work to the both of you. Nice to see some life in Tu Zin... and nice to see Zen is getting around lol.

I'll have everyones characters listed above shortly.

Name:
Chiharu Sojo

Age:
Nineteen

Sex:
Female

Element:
Fire

Home:
The Lower Ring - In one of the many highrise slum apartments like these.

Appearance:

Standing at 5'6" and weighing around 120lbs, Chiharu's supple form is slim and athletic, yet posessing a decent amount of womanly curves. Agile and flexible from the countless times playing and navigating through the numerous crooks and alleys that made up most of the Lower Ring in her childhood, she is incredibly street-smart and savy with directions. Her chocolate-coloured hair complements her olive skin extremely well and it also does a great job of enhancing her soft and delicate-looking features.

Her oval-shaped face is adorned with a pair of hazel brown eyes, pink supple lips and a small nose. Her cheeks tend to get rosy for a period of time after a bout of physical activity. A pair of dimples can be found on the edges of her mouth she smiles, which is known to be rather charmingly disarming. Her usual choice of attire is a maroon brown crop top as well as a pair of shorts layered ontop of an ankle length skirt of the same colour. The outfit seems to follow after an age-old fashion that the Fire nation used to adopt once upon a time.

Profession:
A Potter. A Pot and Vase Maker. Former thief.

Personality:

A spunky and headstrong individual, while Chiharu's appearance might make her seem soft and delicate, she is anything but that. Bold and daring, the intelligent young woman is adventurous and inquisitive. Her curious nature has led her to many a discovery over the years. An opportunist, one of the many traits gained from living in the slums of the Lower Ring, she will not hesitate to better the life of herself and her loved ones. Prone to being highly cynical, her aptitude in being to sense incoming danger have saved her neck many a time.

Highly patient and perseverant, she is not one to make rash or impulsive decisions. A thief's mind. She may no longer be a thief anymore, but the mindset had stuck with her, influencing her daily life. Highly observant and a quick learner, she adapts and learns to new situations rather quickly. Highly passionate for her beliefs and what she may be interested in, once she sets her mind on something, she will try her utmost to ensure that she gets what she wants, in whichever way possible.

Stance on Benders:

Pro-Bender. She is highly supportive of benders and the bending-arts in general. As bending is outlawed, she does not really let her opinion be known to anyone. She tries to get any information or documents on them, but there are hardly any to be found anymore due to entire subject being contrabrand.

History:

Chiharu couldn't remember much of her early childhood. All she knew was that she had lived on the streets on the slums on the Lower Ring, for as long as she could remember. She found whatever shelter she could at night and wandered the streets with other street urchins in the day. She stole whatever she could, and she got better with every attempt, ensuring that she was never once caught. Either they too slow to realise it or too slow to catch up. Her meals were taken at a soup kitchen set up by a tall thin man.

She was a regular at that place as the food was free and really tasty. Her life took a turning point when she was caught red-handed one day trying to steal the wallet of a bearded middle-aged man. He gripped her hand so tightly that she gave a cry of pain. Everyone around could see that the man was about to drag her to the authorities to hand her over, but he must have seen something else in her as he dragged her to his home instead of to the guards. Struggling was no use, as she could never hoped to match his strength. But all notions of trying to escape left her when they reached his home.

Chiharu saw pots everywhere. Pots and Vases. Countless of them littered the house, displayed in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. The young street urchin had never seen something like that before and was completely bewitched by the sight. The man, noticing the expression on her face, said "Like them? I made them myself. All of them." If her jaw couldn't drop any lower, it would. She simply stood there, mouth gaping as she shifted her stares from the man to the vast number of pots and vases.

There were tall and thin ones, fat and stout ones, and some had designs so artiscally abstract that they must belong to to the middle and upper tiers of the city. Then it dawned onto her. She wanted to learn how to do this. She needed to. Luckily for her, the man had a similar thought in his mind. He wanted to train her as his apprentice. He was getting old and he had no children for he was unmarried and no one else to pass his craft and trade to. He felt it too much of a waste to just let it go like that.

So Chiharu abandoned her old life as a street urchin behind, and stayed with the man who she came to know as Hiro. Growing up under his tutelage, she began as his apprentice, but gradually began more than that. She felt more like a daughter to him, and a father to her. As she began getting better and better at her craft several years down the road, their combined efforts increased the reputation of Hiro's pottery as his fame grew.

Soon enough, they were no longer making pots and vases for the Lower Ring. Orders were coming in from the Middle Ring as well. Hiro was getting too old to make the journey, so Chiharu, who had blossomed into a lovely young lady had to personally deliver the products to the customers who had placed the purchase orders for the goods. To say that the old man was proud of her was a severe understatement.

Likes:
✔ Pottery
✔ Acrobatics/Climbing to tall places
✔ Hot delicious food
✔ Exploring/Discovering new things
✔ The thrill of escaping from pursuers
✔ Making new friends (especially boys)

Dislikes:
✘Pessimisim
✘Snobby people
✘Hate against bending
✘Guards/Police
✘Going hungry
✘Freedom being taken away

Habits:
✏Daydreaming
✏Singing/humming
✏Swearing

Fears:
✏Death
✏Being caught by guards/police
✏Being left all alone