Board Thread:Citizenship Applications/@comment-5158777-20141228101002

Full name: Eru

Age: 17

Alignment: Neutral Good

Bender type: Nonbender

Appearance: Eru has a pale complexion, short brown hair and grey eyes. She's a tall figure covered with scars, that she usually covers up with long sleeved clothes, or the occasional kimono.

History: A gentle breeze tipped over the Southern Wastes as Eru was born among the debris. However, her mother and father didn't get to live to see their baby girl grow. Both were fugitives, and both had been murdered in a raid that took place only months after she was born. How she ended up in the Northern Tribe was by tumbling towards the portal by accident. No one wanted to pick the crying infant up, except for a young healer. Ymir, that healer, ignored the stares and disgust of the others and carried her home.

Eru grew up scorned by the tribe. To them she was an outcast, a burden from the wastelands. The poor girl couldn't defend herself from it, it was not her fault that she was different, with grey eyes and paler skin compared to the rest. Children in the village are told to stay away from her by their parents, the adults eye her disdainfully wherever she went. She still had Ymir for company, but the older woman was so busy that she couldn't spend time with Eru as much as she preferred.

Everything became worse when Eru discovered she wasn't a nonbender. Not that it stopped her, she would just have to find other means to prove herself at least a bit worthy. Ymir was already teaching her basic combat, but Eru was always a bit more interested in healing. Even if she wasn't a bender, Ymir offered to teach her basic first aid as well. Chances were rather slim on the ground, but the girl kept trying.

Unfortunately for Eru, life would not always be rainbows and sunshine for her. Not like there were any rainbows in the first place. Ymir and her were caught in the middle of a raid, and the older waterbender was killed in the crossfire. Eventually the chaos died down, but the police were paid to not do anything about the deaths, including Ymir. This horrified Eru, and angered her. The only person who accepted and loved her was dead and even for everyone else, nothing was being done by the authorities.

Eru was only 10 when this happened, so she was given custody to an orphanage. Surprisingly, it was police officer who adopted her. This officer, however, wasn't truly heroic in any sort of way. He was a corrupt man who did nothing but abuse her, emotionally and physically. It was screwed up, as he only adopted Eru because he wanted a play toy.

For years, he did things that made Eru wish for her old life back, even to the point of raping her as she grew older. At 15, Eru only had shreds of her sanity left, and scars over scars. But she had a plan in mind. When her abuser approached her again, drunk, she had grabbed one of his knives when he wasn't looking and stabbed him as he tried to rape her again.

Eru didn't stab him till the point where it would kill him, but enough so that she could run away. She was left homeless and wandering around, surviving of scraps of food. But life for Eru was pretty cruel, because she was kidnapped after only a few weeks into freedom. This was a thug gang who kidnapped her, and along with other young girls they planned to auction them as slaves, illegally. At that point she was in tears, her life seemed so shattered that she couldn't put back the pieces together anymore.

The auction took place in the lower areas of Republic City, but Eru wasn't paying much attention to her surroundings, she was too caught up in her sorrow. Pre-auctioning though, there was a bust, as a group of masked benders and nonbenders alike with caused a bunch of chaos, thus preventing the auction and saving the kidnapped, including Eru. Later on she would find out that this group- her saviors, was called Faceless.

When she was dropped off at the hospital entrance along with the other girls, Eru, quietly but specifically thanked Faceless' leader, before being rushed inside. Even upon being released from the hospital after a few weeks, she hadn't forgotten. She stayed in Republic City, having managed by obtaining a few light jobs to get by with. Eru was a scarred, broken young girl with the worst of pasts, but she's doing her best to move on.

She sought out to Faceless even so, eventually bumping into one of its recruiters and agreeing to join. Eru was given a few tests to prove her strength, she managed to succeed and was thus useful to the cause. She was accepted. And it gave Eru something to look brightly at.

Personality: Eru is cautious, rational to the point she would seem strict. But she's also passionate and optimistic. Due to a dark past that left behind scars, literally, Eru still caries the pain of it. However she just wants to move forward and learn better from it. Eru could be seen as a good person in general, mature even, but there are still times where she seems fragile. Even so, she can be tough and is willing to prove it. She also has a resentment towards police officers, as she had really bad encounters with them. 