“Prove to me you are strong enough to fight.”-Tai Yu Ming
T H E B A S I C S |Name|Tai Yu Ming
|Birth Date|April 13
|Age|18
|Gender|Male
A P P E A R A N C E|In Depth Appearance|Tai has spiky black hair and green eyes. His tanned skin is bronzed from being outside training all the time but his skin is smooth and almost soft to the touch. He stands at an even 6 feet with a well defined body making him look bigger then he is. He often wears traditional earth nation outfits, rarely differing from his style unless he needs to.
|Scars, Tattoos, Piercings|Tai has several small scars across his upper and lower body and one prominent scar across his lips from an accident when he first started earth bending. And an earring on his left ear.
G E T T I N G T O K N O W M E|Likes & Dislikes|✔Training, cooking, cleaning, reading, teaching, stability, Hardwork
✘laziness, messes, Bad food, ignorance, Rudeness, tardiness, Instability
|Habits|Tai taps his foot when waiting for somebody, hums under his breath when cooking or cleaning, bounces lightly on his feet when he's excited.
|Fears|☠Freezing to death, embarrassing himself in front of others, failing his friends or family
D E L V I N G D E E P E R|Personality|♦ Protective ♦ Hardworking ♦ Overbearing ♦ Calm ♦
Tai is a calm and parental person who cares for those around him almost like a parent to a child. He's hardworking and bit of a perfectionist which makes him work himself and others harder then they should. On the other hand he can be overbearing of others as he always think he knows what best for others even when it's clearly not. He also likes to take care of others rather it's cooking or cleaning for them as he feels it's an obligation to the people he's around. He also has a more dangerous facet to his personality as he's deathly protective of others almost to the point of obsession and may even turn his attacks to his allies if he feels they are about to do something reckless and fatal to their health and only relenting once he feels the people he take cares is strong enough to protect themselves.
|Place of Origin|Ba Sing Se, Earth Nation
|History|Tai Yu Ming was born in Ba Sing Se as the oldest of nine children in a middle class family. Even at a young age Tai was a care Taker as he he took care of his siblings as their parents were always busy making a living to keep each child fed and happy. Tai also learned he was an Earth Bender at a young age when he used to it find one of his hiding sisters in a game of hide and seek. After that his mother taught him to earth bend as she was an earth bender herself and was a member of the Earth Nation army. When he was being trained by their mother all of his siblings were also learning that they were benders so he eventually he started to teach each of his siblings bending after his lesson with their mother.
Tragedy stuck the family when he was a teen. Their mother was killed in combat, as she froze to death by the hands of a water bender. Tai was thr first to recover as he had to take of his siblings as their father has fallen ill after her death. Tai was working himself to the bone, he was feeding, cleaning and training his siblings while also taking care of his father and starting a job to earn some money until their father recovers, he had help with some of the older kids helping around the house, but he was doing most of the work even still. Tragedy struck again when the oldest of the brotherswas attacked by a water bender and then killed shortly after he joined the Earth Nation army, soon enough each of his siblings started to join the army to avenge their sibling and mother, at first Tai let them join without much resistance as he believed that it was their choice to make. But when his siblings started to drop like flies one by one, he started to falter and his father was doing worse, soon enough their was only two siblings left, the twins sisters who were close of age to join the earth nation army. One night the twins went up to him and say they aren't joining the army which relived him to no end, but he was horrified what he heard next. They wanted to leave the earth nation and make a new living elsewhere away from the sadness in the household. Tai did something they didn't expect, he ask to fight them, to see if they were strong enough to survive, the fight lasted three hours but the twins won using teamwork, he was quiet but then he put on a fake smile saying they were strong enough to survive, but unknown to them he and their father fallen into a deep depression after they left.
His father died shortly after the twins left, he left himself after putting up the graves of each of the dead family members, there was too many. He became a vagabond helping people when ever he can rather it's feeding then, cleaning their houses or using his bending to fix problems but it was all meaningless to him without anyone around to take care of, he has never knew a life of loneliness. It was disheartening and odd but he kept moving forward each day better then the last. He is hoping to find purpose in his family less life.
|Extra|His scared of Ice and freezing water. Should hate water benders but doesn't. Is the lightest sleeper ever.
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