Board Thread:Citizenship Applications/@comment-29798330-20160913152516

Name: Azeal Manik

Title: Overseer Azeal

Age: 24

Gender: Male

Sexual Orientation: Asexual

Character Alignment: True Neutral

Former Nations: Earth Republic and Fire Nation.

Bender Type: Earth

Character Picture:

Weapons of Choice: Extendable Blades and Earthbending.

Appearance:

In most cases Azeal looks stern, cold, and indifferent. He wears what he finds comfortable at the time and does not typically care what others think of him. While addressing the public however, he puts on a very humanitarian demeanor making himself seem like a hopeful individual and will dress up nicely for such occasions. Azeal has short dark hair that usually looks unkempt, pale skin due to spending most time indoors, and grey eyes from his small amount of water tribe ancestry.

History:

The story of Azeal begins long before he is born and instead starts with the birth of the Manik family name. Long ago a man named Jin who lived in the city state of Zaofu. He was a great inventor and engineer and was eventually given a position of authority for his work as well as the last name Manik. He fell in love with a firebender immigrant named Aza and they had several children carrying their name.

Jin Manik's second son was a firebender by the name of Xul Manik became a member of the Zaofu's police force and fell in love with fellow police member a firebender named Azura and together they fostered two children, the oldest of which was a nonbender named Nijun Manik. Nijun Manik invented many wondrous things, including streamlining some of the technology used in his parent's armor and was eventually given a chair as an engineering adviser. He married the waterbender Luia and had a single waterbending child named Turas Manik.

Turus Manik was a brilliant inventor but also a pacifist an a strong advocate for international cooperation and thus he found himself being inducted into the White Lotus. He was happy with guarding Avatar Kiryi until she began to speak of her ideas she had gained after communing with the spirits. Turus was appalled at her hatred of technology and her method to dispose of it so he left the White Lotus with several other members who shared similar sentiments and sides against her in the rebellion dubbing themselves the Steel Lotus.

The Steel Lotus made it their goal to promote technology and progress for humanity rather than the backward view of avatar Kiryi. However, because they had all seen Kiryi's power firsthand they knew they would need to be secretive to combat her. They instead spread word among the military of Kiyri's weaknesses thus allowing her to be defeated early in the war. The Steel Lotus then spent must of their time trying to subtly bring an agreement around between both sides of the conflict in order to stop this war and begin having humanity progress again.

During this period of time Turus Manik died of natural causes leaving only behind a single son from an nonbending mother he had a one-night stand with who was an earthbender named Kyu Manik. Unlike his father Kyu Manik was very lazy and immature and thus the Steel Lotus did not even bother trying to recruit him and he remained ignorant to it's existence. While Kyu was being immature the Steel Lotus supported the rising United Nations but was appalled by the limitation of technology in Republic City, causing them to begin to plan on how to subtly move against it as they became more devoted to both legal and illegal creation of technology than politics.

During this time Kyu Manik fathered and left several children including Uyaru Manik who was a airbender and decided to spend some time with the Air Nomads, there he discovered a penchant for fixing things and decided to go to the Earth Republic to study more into it, becoming an engineer before heading back to the Air Nomads and working as a rare engineer among them there he had two children, one of which was named Alun Manik. This boy was a nonbender and found the Nomad life uninteresting, he moved to the Earth Republic to study engineering like his father and had a child with the Fire Nation engineer named Rosla which was named Azeal Manik.

Azeal Manik was a child prodigy at engineering due to both his inherited natural talent from both parents and his upbringing by them. He had dual citizenship with the Earth Republic and the Fire Nation and went with his parents as they traveled to prominent engineering schools in both nations. Due to this and his extremely analytical mind Azeal was deemed a child prosody and was extremely invested in education. At the age of five he discovered his earthbending after trying to mimic his mother's firebending and was immediately given a tutor under which he showed great talent and mastered several styles of earthbending forms, though he still needs more combat experiences to be a true master.

Azeal created a new modern version of metal armor that he hopes to use to its fullest someday when he can accomplish metalbending. During this time he was approached by the Steel Lotus and was inducted into their ranks. Due to his ingenious he quickly climbed through their ranks from the initial role of "initiate" to the research role of "seer" to the research leadership role of "sage" then he reached the regional head title of "procurator" until he finally reached the final title of "Overseer" as he has already completed his engineering education at the age of 24. The Steel Lotus had decided that the conflict in Republic City could further their goals of allowing advanced technology once more and as such many Steel Lotus members began to slowly move over to the city overtime, and as such Azeal is coming to the city, and is keeping his organization in the dark for now.

Personality:

Azeal is an INTJ. Azeal spends large amounts of time trying to plan for every possible move and has a firm and unflinching goal which is not open to question. He will do anything to achieve his goal of progressing humanity. He tends to like the arts as well as the sciences of the world seeing them as both trying to reach human potential in different ways. He values efficiency an progress and thinks that most people are too ignorant to help humanity and thus wants to improve the education systems. 