Avatar: The Legend of Rosai

[Devcon1]

Hmm...I would like to take the [Chi-blocker] if I may.

[Neo Is Delight]

*hops in sneakily*
I'd maybe possibly like the fire teacher if you'll have me?

[AngelofOctober]

Would this image be acceptable?

Possible Character

[candlelitcraft]

@Neo is delight you got it

@angelofoctober yeah, that works

[AngelofOctober]

Then that's the photo I am going with

[Regitnui]

I generally thought you guys would pick two tags to build a character around, but this has had quite a swell in activity, so I won't change anything.

I've got [Avatar] Rosai, who might be a bit of comic relief as well. I'll see if I need to pick up another character when the main topic goes up.

[candlelitcraft]

@regitnui yeah I see what you mean, but we have a lot of interested people, so this way we don't have to turn anyone away.

Team Avatar will just travel by... van... I mean, it is the 70s

rolling up to fight the Red Lotus like

[AngelofOctober]

Working on somethings. I think I am going with some kind of hermit who chose to move out of the city after a family event and lives in the country.

[Neo Is Delight]

I saw there was a conversation earlier on about sub elements and what not. I'd like to add a bit to that, if you don't mind. :3

Spoilers ahead, warning!

Hider

Bending ability isn't as straight cut as it seems. You don't need two parents with bending abilities, or even one parent honestly. How it works is the bending ability starts at 'x' member of the family. From that member on, any children of their children of their children have a chance to be a bender. So for example, say 'x' member is a bender. They have four kids. Only one of them is a bender. Ignore the bender. 'y' member is one of the kids without bending abilities, they get married to a non bender, who's never had a bender in the family line before, and have a kid. That kid has a chance to be a bender of whatever element 'x' was a bender of.
So, using Mako and Bolin as an example, it's entirely possible for multiple bender children of the same family to be benders of different elements. All it takes is having two different bender ancestry lines of those elements somewhere down the line.

BUT!
This also plays into sub-elements!
You might be thinking "but can't any bender learn to bend sub elements"
No. Bolin couldn't master metal bending.
But, he could easily bend lava, learning to do so by accident. The criminal bender, that had spent years learning to do so, was shocked Bolin could do so in an instant.
Now, you might be saying "oh, it's just a fluke accident."
That's not the case though.
Remember his brother is a fire bender? He has fire bending in his blood, so lava bending, which as we know is molten rock. Fire, and earth as one. Naturally, having both those elements in his ancestry, it was easy for him to do what takes normal earth benders years to master.

[CollectorOfMyst]

Hmm... I really don't know which role I'd want to play. A non-bending White Lotus who is really formal and such sounds good, but I do still have a part of me that wants to be a bender... fire bender, by the way.

Also, yes, I do realise that spoilers are going to be unavoidable the longer this goes on. So I'm going to get to watching LoK at some point... just need to fit it in with everything else..

[AngelofOctober]

I have a name Zoze [Zo-zey]

[pandapolio]

I'll put myself in the running, for the fire bending teacher, and if not I can go antagonist.

[Regitnui]

@CollectorOfMyst, what about a chi-blocker White Lotus?

All those planning teachers, note that as we are, there won't really be a formal "you're the avatar's teacher" moment. You will likely become a teacher through accident over design. Think more Katara (let's learn together until you're better than me) than Toph (hey I'm going to teach you so shut it).

[CollectorOfMyst]

@Regitnui Isn't the chi blocker Devcon though? I'm assuming all of these roles are being listed as separate since they are independent characters. However, I'm trying to figure out how a non-bending, non-chiblocker would be able to fight in this world... perhaps someone found Sokka's space sword?

[Regitnui]

@CollectorOfMyst, that's a possibility, but Sokka actually fought really well without bending (being a strategic genius), and Asami had her zappy glove. We can refer back to the general tech level post a few pages back for ideas. Perhaps your character has tasers or a mecha suit?

[CollectorOfMyst]

Well... really that would be Post-post-WW2 guns and such in terms of weapons for the 'era'. However, since firebending in metal pipes replaced cannons... well, we have to come up with something better than the zappy glove, don't we?

Mecha suits aren't really my thing, since a few episodes in to LoK, Asami's father, a villain, is in one, plus they're rather bulky. (I've watched some of it, a while back.) And proper pistols aren't really something that a good guy would use, since we won't really be looking to kill people as Team Avatar, right?

One idea I had was a sort-of samurai/ninja person in the modern age - so they've adapted bending styles into physical hand-to-hand, seeing that that's what bending is in the end. Whether or not this style could be augmented with weapons is something else, though.

Just a thought.

[Regitnui]

@CollectorOfMyst, electrified baton-like sword?

[CollectorOfMyst]

Flying bat-lemur rider?

[Regitnui]

@CollectorOfMyst, I meant something like this; a bokken. You know, like the batons Amon's lieutenant used on Korra season 1, except more like a katana and with a smaller generator/battery pack.

As far as I know, lemurs don't get big enough to ride. We'll probably get a flying bison eventually...

[AllHollowsEve]

Well, since no one else seems interested, I'd like to reserve the spot of Earth Bending teacher. 'w'