Board Thread:Citizenship Applications/@comment-2198466-20141218071210

Character name: Garrek

Bender type: Non-bender

Age: 19

Appearance: (Photo or description)

Personality: Garrek is a respectful and humble young adult. He feels that he's gone through a lot of mistreatment by others growing up, therefore he tries to remain empathetic with others, and understands that regardless of how a person is, there's always a reason. He's very helpful and tries to give to the less fortunate as much as he can, being able to relate to that on a certain level as well. However, he has very sarcastic side he, admittedly, enjoys since it pesters his enemiea. He's high tempered, but learned to be passive-aggressive when he chooses to be. In order to avoid trouble, he keeps his distance from people/things that fluster him, but that doesn't mean he's afraid to speak his mind when the time comes.

History: Garrek was raised in the Northern Water Tribe by his wonderful mother, a very spiritual healer named, Pamma. Being the youngest of three children; all different fathers, growing up was practically similar to being an only child ever since his older siblings either went off to get married, or to join the army. Although he has other relatives, many of them resided in the sister tribe, making it hard to visit since money wasn't so easy to come by. Garrek learned to love his mother dearly, and takes really good care of her. His mother's hardworking gave Garrek a lot of opportunities to hang out with bad influences as a young teen which gave him little knowledge on street hand to hand combat, but Pamma put him in his place with the right discipline.

Garrek's father was a firebender named Kaido. When Garrek was only a toddler, his father was never involved in the picture, and his mother filed for divorce. His parents' separation never seemed to have a profound effect on him since it happened so early in his life, but the thought of not having a father gave him a lot of unresolved voids. A very notable event in happened in Garrek's life when his father picked him up from school. Knowing Pamma would highly object, his curiosity gave into spending time with him. It was when Garrek learned that Kaido was an arrogant and abusive man. He went about it the wrong way when telling Garrek that Pamma was doing an awful at raising him. An even worse comment about Garrek being a disappointment because he wasn't a bender enraged him. This caused hostility between them. Pamma was outraged after learning this, prohibiting Kaido from ever seeing him again.

This gave Garrek much time to dabble in his own interests and he began inventing tools and constructing. Although his inventions unintentionally caused problems in the village, his mother always supported him. He gained very little notability within his tribe and promised that he'd become head of a booming business one day. This gave Garrek the idea to move into Republic City where the opportunities would be much higher since the Citizen Project began. Garrek packed his luggage and ventured off by ferry after giving his family a proper farewell.

That being said, Kaido returned, sincerely apologizing for his last encounter with his son, and begged to be apart of Garrek's life after realizing that Garrek had something going for himself. Although Garrek still has much internalized hatred towards his father, Pamma's upbringing advised him to forgive and put the past behind him. Kaido lives in Republic City, and helps Garrek out with whatever problems he faces financially, but it isn't enough to regain his full forgiveness. He just hopes that everything will go as planned to make his family whole and happy, including himself.

Character alignment: Chaotic good

Height: 5'10

Weight: 157

Parent names: Pamma (mother), Kaido (father)

Sexuality: Pansexual 