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Character Name: Shén

Bender Type: Firebender

Age: 21

Appearance:

Shén is a relatively fit light-skinned, handsome young man with Amethyst/Turquoise colored heterochromia eyes with the outer Iris of his left eye being Amethyst and the inner Iris being Turquoise and his right eye being the oppisite to his left. His eyes contain slight slits for his pupils oppose to the classic rounded eye's of the average person, and orangeish colored eyeshadow around his eyes, which were turned up at the corners along with thin eyebrows. He has long slik like, Turquoise colored hair that had a slight blue tint to it that cascades down his shoulder and face extending down to his mid-back with two centre-parted shoulder-length bangs that framed both sides of his face. It should be noted that Shén is said to strongly resembles his Father greatly, with the exception of his hair and eye color which he inherited from his late Mother. In his ears are a pair of golden curved earrings with a fang like Ornament along the bottom. He has a Dragon tattoo that extends from his right shoulder to his hip, covering part of his back and ribs as well as his entire right arm. He has another, and a phoenix tattoo on his left bicept.

Shén's usual outfit is made up of tall black boots, black pants, and a Azure colored Pao with Turquoise colored dragon design upon it. On his upperbody he wears an Azure colored chest guard with dragon design on it, In his hair he has a feathered head piece along with a sliver chained band at the back of his head holding his hair in place, on his arms are black Tekko along with golden braclets. He also is seen carrying a smoking pipe.

Personality:

Shén has been noted to hold agreat personality, he's smart, funny, energenic, charming, calm, and a level-headed person who can just about make anyone his friend due to his habbit of never judging a person by their belief's or faults even when they clash with his own. Overall he is discribed as genuinly a warm, easy-going and attentive person, who holds no vanity as he shows no concern or anger to those who mock him, in fact people say he dinds it amusing that the only way they can cheer themselves up is too down someone else. He unlike many arrogant benders actually seem to hold nonbenders in a high reguard.

Accurding to many people he's quite the abstract thinker, as he tends to conceptualize and generalise, understanding that each concept can have multiple meanings the fact that he can see patterns beyond the obvious and is able to use those patterns or a variety of concrete ideas and clues to solve larger problems also helps with that reguard. His describe way of thinking with a simple example, for instance where one would normally look at a painting of the ocean and the clear sky and interpret it as a simple picture of the beach, he would look at it as a representation of the sea at its most beautiful hour, portraying the beauty of a simple day and conclude that the painter of it wanted to celebrate the joys and beauty of life.

It practically helps that he tends to "Think outside the box." and allows him a richer conceptual understanding. This kind of thinking has proven him to be more intelligent than most people his age, despite giving off the aura of someone with a lower general mental capacity. He's adapted to become a fast learner and who thinks with a higher general mental capacity.

He's also known as a very venturous spirit, and has been a venturesome explorer since his dipper days. Often being portrayed as the most daring of contemporary people being more than willing to try new things and take risks And enjoys taking self hazardous risks but can be very cautious when it becomes risky for his friends and family. He is also portrayed as socially bold which is the very opposite of shy, willing to risk shame and/or rejection in social situations and also willing to bend rules of etiquette or politeness. This does not necessarily make him obnoxious, but he's also partially thick skinned as he's not easily offended but rather quite difficultly offended when it comes to himself, his friends are a different matter. He's also quite uninhibited, showing that im not embaressed about showing or saying the way he feels at all.

History:

Born in the Fire Nation to Jiao, a Non-Bender martial arts instructor and Pina, a Firebending nobel he was expected from birth to be a great firebender and to uphold his families nobility, However dispite his family status Shén took to a diffrent path than what was expexted of him.

As a child Shén was shown to hold great potential in the Firebending art having unlocked his firebending abilities at the tender age of 7 and mastering most of 10. This fact alone made his parents very proud which led to them pushing him harder and more frequent to mastering hia bending believing that he could be the next Fire Lord however all their pushing and harsh treating only did was allow Shén to grow to dispise them.

At the age of 11 Shén having enough of his parents treatment decided to run away after setting their house on fire with his sleeping parents inside, knowing he wouldnt have much time he snuck upon a ship leaving for the Earth Republic however before he could reach The Earth Republic he was caught by one of the sailers who was suprised to see a child stowaway aboard their ship bringing him to the capfain after hearing why Shén was their ship the Captain allowes him to stay only if he pulled his own weight and helped out on the ship. The next few month Shén built his strength and continued to practice his bending aboard the ship however after hearing the great deeds the Avatar did Shén decided to travel the world as well and adapting all bending styles into his Firebending style starting with earth.

After arriving in the Earth Republic where he spent the next few months with the Sailers he came to see as his family, he began his journey to add all bending styles into his Firebending style. Upon his 13th birthday one year after he ran away Shén and the sailers set sail once again this time to the Northern Water tribe after Shén feeling he had a good grasp on the Earthbending style of fighting decided to move on to Water thus asking the crew to head to the North Pole where he departed from crew and spent the next 9 years Learning and Mastering the Waterbending style of fighing along with the Earthbending style.

At 21 after leaving the North Pole Shén moved to Republic City in hopes of adding the Air Nomad style of Bending to his Unique style of Firebending.

Character Alignment: Neutral

Height: 181 cm (5'11")

Weight: 60 kg

Parent names: Jiao (father), Pina (mother)

Sexuality: Heterosexual 