Board Thread:Citizenship Applications/@comment-6127156-20150606194519

 Name: Ryi

 Age: 25

 Sexuality: Heterosexual

 Gender: Male

 Type: Non-Bender

 Alignment: Neutral Good

 Appearance:

 Ryi is a relatively large man clocking in around 6’2” with a build that compliments his body. He is extremely fit, not particularly being muscle bound and brutish or slender and lean, meeting

 somewhere in the middle. He has relatively tanned skin, although not as dark as most of his fellow waterbenders. He has brilliant golden eyes and striking hardened features that showcase that he aint nothin to fuck with, which is complemented by his bold red hair.

 Personality:

 Ryi is a rather serious individual and is a no nonsense type of person. He rarely makes jokes, laughs, or even smiles which by those close to him is treated as a special occasion. Rather he is sarcastic and constantly has the “I’m surrounded by idiots” look on his face. He is extremely disciplined either because of his time in the military or because of his natural personality, no one knows really.He tends to keep to himself and tries to keep as many people in the dark about his personal endeavors as he can, even though he has no problems investigating in other people’s lives. When Ryi sets his mind to something, he will not stop until his goal is attained even if it costs him dearly. Ryi doesn’t give on anything or anyone he cares about no matter how dire or bleak the situation may seem, although admittedly it is hard to gain his trust, but once you have it there is nothing someone can do to make him lose his faith in that person unless it's from that person themselves

 History:

 Born to an Earth native father he never knew and a Native of the Northern Water Tribe, Ryi took his first breaths of life on Zishao 24. His life wasn’t much of a happy origin, from the beginning his father died a couple months before he was born, leaving his mother in the Earth Republic with 6 kids that she didn’t know what to do with. Ryi was the oldest of the bunch, meaning that while his mother struggled to provide for the family he had to help out at home and elsewhere as much as possible. It was during this time that Ryi became affiliated with a well known gang in Ba Sing Se, to which he became their errand boy, gathering supplies and delivering messages. They paid well, so in turn Ryi didn’t ask any questions.

 As he grew older however, they began to ask him to do more dangerous things, such as steal weapons from the military outposts, cover up some of their tracks, get intel from informants, and even beat people near to death who have double crossed them,owed them money, or were enemies of theirs. At this time,by the age of 8  or so, his sisters and brothers began training in bending to which he learned he couldn’t participate in because of his lack of the power.This stop him from advancing his own skills though, by the age of 15 he had become an enforcer for the group, bringing in loads of money, so much that because of that his mother didn’t even have to work anymore. What Ryi didn’t know at the time, that while he was working for them, the gang was secretly supplying his mother with Cactus Juice which she felt took some of the pain of losing her husband away. As time progressed, the more addicted she became, using large sums of money to buy Cactus juice or even resorting to steal it from the Gang.

 One day they decided they had enough of this and came to Ryi’s mother and 2 sisters while Ryi took his brothers out for some quality time. They asked for the money and she refused, something they didn’t tolerate. So in response, his mother and young sisters were beaten, and then raped by the entire gang(besides Ryi of course). When Ryi caught wind of this sacrilege he angrily made his way back to HQ and killed everyone inside the building at the time to send a message to the leader of the group that he was done with his bullshit.When he came home and was told that both of his sisters and mother didn’t survive the attack, he went ballistic. From that point on Ryi went around killing everyone he had met from the gang and everyone associated with them in an act of vengeance.

 It wasn’t long until the leader of the gang itself decided to act against Ryi for destroying almost the entirety of everything he had built in his 3 decades of building it. He was sick of Ryi’s acts and because no one that was close to Ryi in the gang was alive, he had some trouble locating where he lived. Eventually the boss located Ryi’s home and made his way along with 12 others to it. With the money he made from his jobs Ryi could have lived in a mansion if he wanted to but instead lived in a small town house on the outskirts of the city and in the less favorable area. He chose to strike his homestead while Ryi was away with his youngest brother to go run some errands. When he came back, he immediately dropped everything he had bought. His home was spread in front of him, on fire, and in front of that was the heads of the 3 siblings he had left at home on a stick. Ryi broke down and fell to his knees, sobbing and ripping his garments apart in agony.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> From there Ryi fell into a state of depression, leaving the Earth Republic all together. His only surviving brother he left behind with a neighbor who he had grown up next to and trusted very much. At the age of 16 and wallowing in an abyss of sorrow, Ryi traveled far and wide not caring where he would go and what he would do. He would often get drunk and get into fights just to take his mind of the agony that he subjected his family to. It was at one of these bars that he got into a fight with a military officer with the rank of Major. Not only was Ryi able to beat the man to the brink of death while drunk, but also 4 of his companions which got the attention of the Major's commander officer. The man told him that he should enlist with the military to which Ryi refused. During his time wandering, he tried to become a cop once but found that he wasn’t making much of a difference anyway, after all he was one man. It was only the next morning, when he found the note from the officer that he began to seriously consider enlisting.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> After nearly a year of training and rehab for his alcoholism, Ryi enlisted for the Earth Republic’s military. Easily the best amongst his class, Ryi began to shoot up the ranks like a rocket ever since his first day there, his determination to become a high power through the military and fight to make a difference empowering him. By his 2nd year of service he had become the youngest person to ever hold the title “Major” within the military. By his 4th year he had moved up to “Lieutenant Colonel” because of his bravery in a conflict with terrorist attacks in the Earth Republic. By the time he turned 23, he held the title of “Colonel” once again being very young for the position.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> Because of him being relatively young for the position, his associates were always jealous of him, and when the attacks began to come up again they took their chance to get rid of him. 4 years after the attacks that gave him the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, rebellion sprung up now from gangs. Gang violence was becoming more and more prominent throughout the nation, especially in Ba Sing Se. One of the gangs was the one that Ryi used to belong to and the same one that murdered his mother and sisters. Those who wanted to discredit him, quickly jumped on the revelation, framing Ryi for conversing to the gangs and funding their endeavours. Ryi was labelled a traitor and a criminal, being stripped of his title and sent to prison for something he was not doing.Eventually though, the truth was revealed that he was framed and was actually not in league with the gangs of the Nation. He was offered the chance to regain his title as Colonel, but he refused, having lost faith in the Military.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> From that point on Ryi looked forward to a new life where he could escape the one of old in Republic City. Going through the Citizenship Program, he left the Earth Republic went to spread his horizons, once there becoming a cop for the RPCD to pay for his past sins. <ac_metadata title="Ryi"> </ac_metadata>