Board Thread:Citizenship Applications/@comment-2198466-20150129024141

Character name: Ila

Bender type: Nonbender

Age: 21

Appearance:

Personality: Ila gives off the impression that she is a tolerant, emotionless and apathetic girl. Being the untalkative person that she is, she can be unsociable and will often stay isolated from others. Illa suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and suppresses her emotions by whatever means necessary and will often see things that will channel her depressing past. She doesn't trust people easily and believes that friends, allies, and family are inessential.

Thankfully, she can remain tranquil and unshakable in some of the most dire situation and because of this, she is extremely difficult to anger. However, anger is the last thing she would want. Unless her correct buttons are pushed, Ila can become blinded by deranged and morbid emotion, and will often resort to deadly methods. Regardless of being angered or not, she will always remain deadly, being capable and certain of killing others who cross the line.

History: Ila was born to two Earth Republic parents. Ila’s father was the son of a both a Water Tribe woman and Earth Republic man, and Ila was named after her grandmother. Her father was a weaponsmith and her mother was a stay at home mother. The only good detail Ila can remember of her mother was the scent of her perfume. Due to her father’s profession, Ila’s family owned a small weapon shop in the Earth Republic. When Ila was only a toddler, her father’s shop was held up by a group of Fire Nation criminals. She heard her father in danger and was the first to witness her father being brutally tortured and murdered with the very weapons he created. After the criminals were done stealing the weapons and money, Ila and her mother were held as hostages, being used as leverage to escape the Earth Republic. They were transported to a poor, isolated area in the Fire Nation, and were used as servants forced to work. Eventually, Ila and her mother learned that they were involved in a servant smuggling.

It had been many years later and Ila was finally a teenager, but still a servant. She was deprived of an ordinary lifestyle, education, and contact with the outside world. So far, her mother had been withered and used, teetering between life and death. Just like many other of the smuggled women, Ila’s mother had given birth to numerous bastard children. Ila was wide awake the nights her mother would be dragged out of her cell by crowds of drunk pigs. The physical and mental abuse eventually took it’s toll on Ila, but took an even bigger toll on her mother. Ila’s mother eventually lost of her mind, and became abusive herself. She distanced herself from Ila and would spew hateful and dehumanizing things at her, forcing herself to believe that Ila wasn't her biological daughter, and was a bastard child like the others. Ila continued to love and care for her mother regardless of the things her mother said. Her mother was all she had left in the world.

There came a night where Ila’s mother had enough of the abuse and decided to fight back. However, her mother was killed and stabbed through her chest with a katana by one of the men in charge. Considering she was all she had, her mother’s death cut Ila deeply, and she grieved her mother’s death until she turned eighteen. That night, Ila was officially declared old enough to be slept with, and was cornered in her cell. After a night of tireless screaming, violation, and torture, it changed her life forever. She understood that she could no longer submit and had to fight back, and the bloodshed she witnessed made her realize that the men deserved the very same punishment. The next night, the very man came for more. Luckily for her, she got a hold of his katana; the very same one that killed her mother. As the drunk man staggered, it gave Ila a chance to go for the kill. As she struck over and over, Ila vividly remembered cutting off his ear first, then the top corner of his head, and then ultimately executed him as swiftly as a guillotine. Keeping the katana for herself, Ila used this opportunity to escape the hellhole and venture to wherever the wind took her. She relocated to wastes for a couple of years where she met a master who enlightening her on the ways of the swordswoman. She was taught that vengeance would never answer her questions; but she thought otherwise. With a long list of men to kill, she's only managed to hunt down and kill three. She relocated to Republic City, praying she'll bring them and many more to justice.

Character alignment: Neutral

Height: 5’4

Weight: 99

Parent name(s): Jaya (mother; deceased), Ratna (father; deceased)

Sexuality: Doesn’t know, doesn’t care. 