Board Thread:Citizenship Applications/@comment-72.78.140.213-20141231085833/@comment-25891335-20141231093849

Name: Avani

Bender Type: Earthbender

Age: 14

Appearance: 5' 4 long wavy brown hair pulled backinto a braid, lightly tanned skin, vibrant green eyes

Personality: Avani is stubborn, easily excitable, naturally untrusting, initially hostile to strangers, and has an exellent memory. She can be very mannerly and polite when she needs to be.

History: Avani was born to an Earth Republic nobleman who was disowned from his family as young man and a water tribe peasant. She began bending at the age of 6 and was the only Earthbender in her village.

When she was 10 her mother died of a sickness. Her father, heartbroken, began drinking Avani often had to drag him out of the tavern A few months after the death of her mother, Avani's father was killed in a tavern fight.

Avani tracked down the man who had killed her father and attacked him in her greif she killed the man and promptly ran away. She been plauged by guilt ever since. She has not earthbended since then, partly because of the guilt and partly because she was afraid of her abilities.

She wandered the Earth Kingdom for three years, never staying in the same place for more than a fortnight. She was afraid of being put in an orphanage, because at that point she was very emotionally unstable and afraid of accidentally hurting the other children. When she was 14, she heard Republic City would take in people with questionable pasts, and decided she might be able to forget the past and forge a new life there.

Character Alignment: Neutral Good