Board Thread:Citizenship Applications/@comment-31292352-20170213063826

Character Name: Qui’lee

Bender Type: Non

Age: 19

Appearance: Qui’lee is small and thin possessing dark hair and deep blue eyes. They do not appear to have any secondary sex characteristics.

Personality: Qui’lee is inquisitive, learned, and sometimes detached. They are obsessed with their studies and inventions and mostly keep to themself.

They are aware that they can make people around them feel awkward and tend to not talk much to people that they are not close to or peers with because of that, but they have started to realize that this kind of behavior is bad for their health and is trying to combat it. While they have morals and boundaries they are often tempted to push beyond them causing great mental stress to themselves.

When placed in a situation where they must deal with strong emotions they tend to get flustered and shy. Qui’lee has a dangerous apathy for evil people, willing to go to great lengths to save innocent lives but not always for the guilty.

History: Born in a female body to an abusive mother from the Earth Republic by the name of Ursa, Qui’lee was originally named Kiu and knew nothing of their father. Their mother was a drunkard and a slut. She sold out her body to village after village just to get her hands on one more bottle and of course young Kiu had to see this transpire. Their mother would often beat her child in her drunken rages resulting in them becoming sullen and withdrawn by the age of 6.

Growing up Kia knew that they were not like the other girls, they felt trapped in a prison of flesh that she knew would not develop into the kind of person they were on the inside. After all this gender dysphoria and abuse from their mother, Kia decided to end it at the age of 9. They went to a rapid not far from the village their mother was staying at and threw themself into it. They felt their lungs fill up with water and let themselves drift into the abyss. Before being violently awakened with the feeling of water being pulled out of their lungs by waterbending. Looking up they saw a man dressed in blue that matched his deep blue eyes, same color as their’s. The man quickly embraced them in a hug as he cried and said “I finally found you.”. This man explained to them that his name was Naruk and he was their father. Their mother had left him after a one-night stand and he only learned later that she was pregnant. Fearing for his child’s health he had been tracking them across the Earth Republic for over 9 years to find his child. Overjoyed by this Kia decided to go live with their father, leaving their mother to an unknown fate.

Kia’s gender dysphoria became worse and worse and they were soon getting more suicidal thoughts, rather than try to face them on her own she told her dad about it who was getting a job as a policeman at the time. While he did not fully understand what they was going through he decided to bring them to a specialist in Republic City despite the financial strain. The rather forward thinking man recommended hormone blockers to delay puberty and then if the feelings persisted to come back around 15 for hormone supplements and at 18 for surgery. Naruk was skeptical of these drastic actions but Kia reassured him that this is what they wanted so he obliged. It was around this time that Kia decided to rename themself Qui’lee and started to refer to themself as themself rather than herself. Qui’lee also began to get proper education in the Northern Water Tribe’s schooling system and it soon became apparent that they were a prodigy. They quickly exceled far past the children that had been going to school since a young age and pursued more advance studies, particularly in engineering. Unfortunately, their behaviors and talent drew many bullies and some teachers that where not so quick to stop them. They hid this from their father, not wanting to put him through even more stress while he approached his goal of becoming a police officer. But when they were 12 they came home with a black eye and their father was quick to figure out what happened and after scolding them for not telling him sooner he had them go to non-bender self-defense classes, Qui’lee learned self-defense over time and it was enough to keep the bullies from psychically assaulting them.

Qui’lee completed the meager Northern Water Tribe education by the time she was 15 and wanted to move down to the Earth Republic to learn at a larger school. Their father understood and accompanied them there, stopping at Republic City first to receive hormone treatments to give themself over time. Qui’lee spent most of the time there in her studies, but due to the rising amount of crime near their school she bought a plated glove that they kept of themself in case they needed to defend themself. They wrote to their father every week and received a letter every week. They learned of the more advanced feats of engineering but before they moved onto applying these schematics in the class they stopped receiving letters. Worried Qui’lee decided to write another letter to their father to make sure that he didn’t just forget to send one or it was not lost in the mail. They did not receive another letter for 2 weeks, even on their 17th birthday. Abandoning their studies, Qui’lee headed back to the North Pole on the first ship out.

When they got there, they learned that their father had been killed while on the job, stabbed in the back by a young man. When they learned about this news Qui’lee broke down and started to cry. I’ll kill him! they thought to themself. ''I’ll kill him with his own damn knife! ''They thought as they took the knife from behind the officers’ backs and made a run for it. They spent the next year tracking down the criminal, finding and beating up other criminals with their steel reinforced glove and demanding information until she eventually followed the trail back to him. He was a scrawny looking punk, slicked back black hair and a red coat and some gaudy earrings and he was in a shady alleyway alone. Qui’lee tried to sneak up behind him, knife in one hand and the glove on the other but they stepped wrong on the snow giving themself away. The punk turned around and pulled out a knife and pointed it at them, “I don’t know who you are, but nobody tries to take me out and lives to tell about it!”. This threat made Qui’lee shake with anger and rush at him. The punk ducked low and tried to come up at their underside with the knife but Qui’lee could grab the blade with the glove and stop it and come up with their knife instead, stabbing punk in the liver.

Knowing that doing what they did would result in prison, they decided to make a break for it. They thought about where they wanted to go next and decided they might as well go to Republic City, they are the most advanced nation in the world, they needed to go there for their surgery, and the nation was offering a citizenship program. They decided to take a boat and get to the city. After they got their they underwent the surgery, feeling bittersweet at the loss of their one true parent but the beginning of something truly new.

Character Alignment: Neutral Good

Sexuality: Pansexual

Gender: Non-Binary

<p class="MsoNormal">Height: 5’8”

<p class="MsoNormal">Parents: Deceased <ac_metadata title="Qui&#039;lee"> </ac_metadata>