User:Song of the Angels

Character Name: Avani

Bender Type: Earthbender

Age: 14

Appearance: Shoulder length wavy dark brown hair, wide vibrant green eyes, and a semi tanned skin tone.

Personality: Avani is a stubborn, strong willed girl with a creative imagination. She dislikes the restriction of shoes and prefers to go barefoot. She has fairly good manners but only uses them when she needs to impress someone. Avani is rather intelligent but very forgetful. She has a easily provoked temper and is slightly hostile to strangers.

History: Avani is the daughter of a rich (but not rich or powerful enough to have a last name) nonbending Earth Kingdom citizen who ran away from his home when he was twenty. Avani's father found a small, secluded village in the outer reaches of the Earth Kingdom and found Avani's mother, a nonbending Northern Water Tribe runaway.

Avani found her earthbending skills at age 7. She was the only earthbender in her village and the other children would tease her until she would earthbend for their entertainment.They stopped after Avani accidentally severely wounded another child.

At age 9, her mother died from a fever. Avani's father, half mad with loss, began going to the local tavern (a rough, seedy place) and getting drunk. Three months after the death of her mother, her father was killed in a fight. Upon learning her of her father's demise, Avani attacked the man that had killed her father with earthbending with the intent of only wounding him, but she killed him instead. After the fateful incident, Avani ran away.

For three years, Avani wandered the Earth Kingdom, trying to get away from the guilt of being a murderer. She had not earthbended since she killed the man, and had not ever planned to again. While staying on the streets of the outer ring of Ba Sing Se, she learned that there were earthbending teachers in Republic City who turned very few people down. She gradually made her way towards Republic city for two years.

She has now just arrived at Republic City and is looking for an earthbending teacher. She partly came to Republic City because of that, and partly because she was looking for a fresh start.