Board Thread:Citizenship Applications/@comment-34553511-20180202213407

Character Name: Padma

Bender Type: Fire

Age: 18

Appearance:



Padma is a rather muscular woman with pale skin and hair. Like many modern Air Nomads, she is mixed from Fire Nation, Earth Kingdom, and Water Tribe descent. She often looks confident and carries herself with pride. Like many from the Southern Air Temple, she takes a much more liberal view on monkhood and has elected to keep her hair and have much more modern clothes than most monks.

Personality:

Padma is strong, confident and loves a good fight, if it is justified. While she doesn’t believe in throwing the first blow, she will go looking for trouble to get into one. During her time in the Southern Air Temple, she learned that sometimes killing is necessary though it should still be avoided, and she would never kill an innocent. Like many firebenders, her strength comes from her passion.

History:

Padma was born in the Eastern Air Temple to a airbending mother named Tashi and a nonbender father named Norbu. Her parents where calm peaceful monks content to spend their days in quiet contemplation…. Well Padma wasn’t about to let that happen. She was a demanding child, she had a hard time listening, and she wanted to do things her way. The Air Nomad’s teachings gradually helped temper her attitude as she grew into a child, but not nearly enough.

When Padma was seven years old, during some airbending drills she firebended a short spout of flame forwards. Firebending was definitely not unseen among the Air Nomads as they had so many ethnicities among them, but most of their best firebenders where in the Southern Air Temple to help protect against the Wastelanders. After being informed of that option, Padma was eager to go, but the monks had their doubts about it’s effects on her spiritual development and asked her to wait until she was older.

When Padma was thirteen, she started becoming more rebellious, often refusing to shave her head, skipping meditations, and trying to pick fights. Eventually the monks and her parents decided to allow her to move to the Southern Air Temple, and she couldn’t be more excited.

When Padma arrived at the Southern Air Temple, things seemed a bit more grim and robust than she was used to. Many of the monks had their hair grown out and where wearing personalized robes. As she approached she saw that there where even separate training fields for all four types of bending and another field where nonbenders practiced with lethal weapons. Once arrived she was introduced and told that everyone at the temple also have a station and since she was young they would give her an easy job for now, so she was given night-watch duties for her first month. There she learned the basics of the Southern Air Nomad style of firebending, which used firebending in larger more sweeping arcs to try to defend against your foes and then trying to counter-attack when they are off-balance. As she got older Padma had to learn to defend from wastelander attacks. Because of her age, she was often regulated to the back where she could do little to help with her style of firebending.

After the terrorist attack on the Republic City Air Temple, all four Air Temples where expected to send members to re-populate it. Unfortunately for Padma, the Southern Temple couldn’t spare to send many experienced benders, so she was one of the monks sent. Resentfully, Padma made her way via ship to Republic City, half-wishing some Wastelanders would attack them en route.

Character Alignment: Neutral Good

Sexuality: Homosexual

Height: 5’10”

Weight: 164 lbs. 