Legend of Korra - For Lack of A Better Path

[vancexentan]

It has been three months since the Equalist attack on Republic City and it's subsequent take over by Amon's forces and then their failure after the unmasking of their leader and his lies. The Equalists for all intents and purposes are fractured and or gone vanishing back into everyday life. Avatar Korra is hailed as a hero as is the majority of the Republic City Defense Force and the United Alliance's armies. With Republic City recovering from the destruction and still suffering from crime which has risen since the reinstatement of the police and the riots by still loyal Equalists. However some miles away from Republic City lies the trading route city similar to Republic City but without a reputable water source it heavily depends on it's airfields which allow the airships to bring in supplies by transport. There is a small river running through the city but the water is not sufficient for anyone but fisherman who barely make a meager earnings. This city is named Wu Xing (Earth in more native tongues) is home to not only a metal bender academy but is also a gambling capital and has well known Pro-Bending Tournaments hosted almost all year every month. However with that being said there are four gangs that have been unleashed upon the city making live miserable for the locals and travelers alike though they would protest that they do all that much to harm the city. The first of which being the Red Cat Gators, The Brown Mole Bears, The Blue Flames, and The Lightning Prodigals all of which are sly and very business savvy. However there's been rumors going about lately, unsettling ones at that, that say another gang is forming under the head of a mysterious man.

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Alright FAQ Time:
1. Air Bending will be allowed but pro-benders don't have an air slot so that being said air bending will not be allowed with a pro bending background. You must not be very well known. The most likely scenario being that you came from a rather unknown area and are rather new to bending or have kept it rather secret. This is because Tenzin and his crew will take you away for training and then your character can't participate in the roleplay due to the fact he's in the next city over.

Once you start bending in the city you may very well be noticed but the canon cast will be kept out by: "Being busy with Equalists rebels" unless requested to make an appearance in which case they may come in late roleplay to see you.

2. Blood Bending, 'Duel' Bending, Lava Bending, and any advanced form of bending is off the table unless it's Metal Bending/Sand Bending which has become common. You may be able to learn them later. However doing so will cost you the ability to use better earth bending. Also Ice Bending in restricted to The Northern and Southern Water Tribes with some bare basics left to Foggy Swamp Tribe members.

3. I'm aiming for a group that is from their teens to early mid twenties. Adult characters are HEAVILY discouraged due to the nature of the roleplay. However if you must I'll allow an older character.

4. The canon cast will not be involved in this roleplay. The whole purpose of this being semi-canon is to get rid of any questions about the avatar and or who the avatar is at the moment. This also prevents people, including myself, from abusing the avatar's powers in roleplay. Canon cast shall not be allowed at all since they are off doing their own things..

5. This will be a little darker in the sense of a Dark Knight (Batman) sense where there will be violence and possibly death but not on a scale I hope to keep this true to the series and prevent character deaths if possible.

6. Non benders are allowed as long as they're not equalists themselves. They may have been trained by them but no actually involved themselves due to plot reasons. You also may be a chi-blocker or whatever be it and no be at all affiliated with the equalists past or present.

7. Pro benders are not allowed unless they are retired. Unless you or a group of your friends can get together and make a whole team plus a manager with a reputable background of how you're getting funded then I don't have the time to deal with an entire mini-group and their arcs. Please stick to one or two characters. My character will be a pro-bender but I'm use to handling more then five NPC's per roleplay I'm in and can effectively handle it.

8. This takes place four months before Harmonic Convergence AKA Season 2.

[Zeion]

I'd like to be in on this. Sounds like a lot of fun.

[vancexentan]

Hope to see more people with your optimism Zeion.

[Draconilian]

Woohoo! Love Avatar, dibs on being the icebending master!

[vancexentan]

You won't be a master per say but intermediate skill is acceptable. If you start out as 'master' where's the room for growth? Also keep in mind healing is a generally unqiue skill. For sake of fairness skill in water bending will be turned down a notch for those who have it. Sort of a checks and balances system. My guy for example. Pro bending earth who specializes heavily in his bending. He lacks most stuff combatants use without it. He also can't see in the ground but in return he has some rather interesting moves in his arsenal.

[Javier]

I wanna be in!

[vancexentan]

Here's the OOC link. If you're wondering why this is up so quick is because the other version of this rp literally went nowhere so I had a OOC already made.

http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/50196/posts/ooc?page=1

[Javier]

cool

[KabenSaal]

I like this, Fire Bending is cool. But, by 'duel' bending did you mean 'dual' bending? Because I have never heard of duel bending before.

[vancexentan]

Yes that is what I meant. Simple spelling errors occur in typing.

[vancexentan]

Also to those whom it may concern I'm expecting a paragraph and a half for personality and history at the very least.

[KabenSaal]

It's cool. Dual bending is rather fun though, can do Air and Fire, and then specs on either element for control, or power.

[vancexentan]

yes but for canonical reasons it shall not be allowed in the roleplay.

[vancexentan]

bumping this up to make sure I can get some more people definitively for this roleplay.

[Tyrant from the West]

Well you caught my eye! However i might ask a few questions because although i currently am watching the show, some of the stuff talked about is a little confusing to me.

[vancexentan]

depending on the questions I will answer them however beware of spoilers.

[Tyrant from the West]

Alright, well for starters what are the 'ranks' of bending? Because i've seen you guys toss around stuff like intermediate benders and stuff in the ooc section and was wondering what are all of the ranks/terms, cause the only one i know for sure is master. What is an intermediate bender capable of?

[vancexentan]

Beginner/Novice/Adept/Intermediate/Elite/Master.

Intermediate is basically they know what they're doing and they know how to do it well. They can fight with skill and tact but would fair only somewhat well against someone who is of an elite whose honed their abilities to near master level.

Things like versatile mean they have a lot of tricks but are a master of none of them. Unless it's their signature move for example Naruto from the series Naruto's rasengan or shadow clone jutsu. A in universe example would mean people like Aang when he uses pure air bending. He knows a lot of tricks but he's not about to kill seven fire nation soldiers like his master (presumably) did in the first season after they found the body. Aang can do a lot of things with airbending but he is by no mean feat a true master early series.

Power Benders are just that they focus on sheer force and power overwhelmingly they have an advantage on sheer stamina and ability to use copious amounts of their element and or can simply smash their way through people. They lack tactics but make up with it as stated in the aforementioned. Think of Ozai or Iroh from the original series.

Skillful benders are neither a jack of all trades or a power bender. What they know is what they got and they tend to get to extreme points such as Toph's earth bending. They specialize in one area and can do a lot in it. For an example an ice bending skill based bender could potentially stop a ship with giant blocks of ice from all sides. Or a fire bender could conjure up really precise and efficient blasts. In other words think of Mako/Azula as an example of a skillful earth bender. Water benders would be like Katara or Pakku.

[Tyrant from the West]

Ok thanks a ton for the list 8D Also one more but kinda dumb thing.

Alright, and we are unable to start out our characters as metal benders, if we choose earth correct? So we can't make any of those wire-using police members?

[vancexentan]

You can be a metal bender but in trade off you lose skill in earth bending. You must also need to explain why or how you've obtained those powers. Those wire police are older characters however there is a metal bending academy that will be an outlet for younger characters providing they have the connections to get in. They train police cadets going into the wire bending police or the metal bending police as is their official name.