Board Thread:Citizenship Applications/@comment-25641444-20170205200920



Character Name: Yura

Bender Type: Water

Age: 20

Appearance: Being in good physical shape and having a beautiful face, Yura is regarded by many as being attractive and handsome. He typically wears simple clothes, though, including a brown coat, black sweater, and brown pants.

Personality: Although the waterbender is not particularly outgoing or much of a socialite, Yura is charismatic and charming to those that he meets. He makes a good impression and tries to get to know people very well, being a good listener and knowing the right thing to say at the right time. Yura also appears to be passionate about the idea of justice and being a good person, occasionally helping the police indirectly to apprehend criminals, or simply going after them himself. In addition, he likes to say that the rights of children is an issue that is especially important to him, and sometimes volunteers working at orphanages and schools.

In reality this is just a facade, as the real Yura is cold and cruel. He has no regard for human life at all, having a nihilistic view of the universe, and enjoys sowing chaos wherever he goes. The waterbender goes out of his way to murder those he despises, particularly those connected with the special orphanage he was in as a child. He makes no attempt at rationalizing what he does, but simply believes there is no point to anything so there is no reason not to satisfy his desires, and no reason to live. As a result, the waterbender kills people without blinking an eye, as though it is nothing to him.

Like most psychopaths, Yura is also very intelligent and cunning. He is a skilled waterbender and also is knowledgeable about the history of the five nations, international economics and politics, as well as other subjects. One of his other abilities is being a good manipulator. Unless the target is personally important to him, the waterbender prefers not to get his hands dirty and instead manipulates other mentally unhinged individuals into doing his bidding, or gets to know the target and persuades them to commit suicide.

History: A man whose origins are shrouded in mystery, Yura is thought to have been born somewhere in what had once been the Southern Water Tribe. Much of his early life is unknown but it is known that he lived with clan of Wastelanders. They had lived in a village on one of the southern Earth Republic islands which they captured in one of their northward excursions for resources, but when he was eight years old their clan was attacked by the Republic Army in a counterinsurgency operation. His parents and other relatives were killed right in front of his eyes, which was the moment that the monster inside him was born. The young boy – who had started waterbending shortly before the event, and was regarded as a prodigy in the small village – ended up being captured alive and taken to the Earth Republic.

Once there, the waterbender ended up in a special orphanage run by the Earth Republic government near Gaoling. Overseen by the internal affairs ministry, it was specifically for the children of criminals, terrorists, and other assorted scum. Yura was given the common Earth Republic name of "Yang" while at the orphanage, as part of the Dai Li-style brainwashing process that was used on the children there to make them forget their past. However, Yura was able to resist some of it and managed to hold onto fragments of his memory regarding his origin. The other conditions there were terrible. The instructors were brutal and cruel, dividing the children into factions and forcing them to compete with one another, encouraging violence and hate. Beatings and starvation were commonplace.

It was in this environment that the monster which had been born during the Earth Republic Army raid on his home was forged. Luckily, one of the things the instructors did was teach bending to those that had the gift, as it was thought that these children could be molded into perfect spies and agents for the Earth Republic government. Yura honed his skills and became among the best of the benders at the orphanage, and when he was thirteen years old he organized an uprising against the instructors. Everyone there – the children and the instructors – ended up massacring each other. Yura later said that it had been easy in a place with so much hate, as all he had to do was "add enough fuel to the flame".

Yura was the only one who survived the massacre, and all records of his existence had been destroyed along with the orphanage itself when it was lit by a firebender during the massacre. To make money and connections, Yura entered the underground, manipulating and killing the right people to earn bread, as he also focused on investigating his past which had been stolen from him at the orphanage. During this time in the Earth Republic, he went by the name "Zhang", although he still remembered his real name. By losing the memory of his life before the age of nine or ten, he had become an "unperson" of sorts, and thus came to regard names as irrelevant. It was also partly because he murdered those he found that had been affiliated with the orphanage and needed to remain anonymous. It was not until he visited Republic City that he began to go as Yura again.

Some clues the waterbender uncovered from questioning a certain government official in Ba Sing Se shortly before killing him led Yura to Republic City, where he said the man who led the raid on that waterbender village now lived in retirement. However, Yura realized that he needed to make connections and money to get by here, so he decided to put his skills to use for that purpose.

Character Alignment: Anarchic Evil

Sexuality: Straight

Height: 6'1

Parents: Unknown 