Board Thread:Citizenship Applications/@comment-25406788-20150712014912

The Hiroyuki family, famous for their beauty and wit, in the Fire Nation. Manami and Yata Hiroyuki are the youngest generation in this family, and one of them will be heir to the wealth of the family. This is due to the fact that the head only had one son, Matsuichi Hiroyuki.

Matsuichi married a woman who was not highborn, as himself, but incredibly beautiful. Kara carried great talent, beauty, and grace. For a long time, they struggled to have a child, and when one finally came it was a female. Now, they love Manami unconditionally, in fact they were grateful for her. But, they prayed to Raava for a boy. Matsuichi needed a male, to carry on the family name, and when Yata arrived 4 years later everyone celebrated.

The siblings were initially raised very close, completely unaware that Kara and Matsuichi didn’t have the perfect marriage. After Manami had begun firebending at the age of 7, her mother instructed her to care for her 3 year old brother. She was more than willing to follow this order, finding Yata immensely adorable and loving. The sad truth was Matsu was too busy running the family’s metalworking business and Kara was quite focused on indulging in her husband’s riches to be a mother.

Manami felt too distant from her parents, attempts to get their attention were a complete waste of time. So the young firebender turned her attention to her beloved brother, the only family member who seemed to truly care about her. She was slightly clingy and always wanted to spend time with Yata, but he honestly didn’t seem to mind one bit.

Sadly when Manami was 11 and Yata was 7, their parents had got into a horrid divorce. The former spouses absolutely hated each other and naturally Matsuichi wasn’t too happy to have to give half of his riches and his daughter to his despised ex-wife, but as long as he had his son to take over the business. He had hope for the future and drove himself to make back what he lost  

After his parents divorced and he was pulled away from his dearest sister, he fell into quite the state. He became rowdy and disobedient, rare calls over the phone from his sister, the only thing getting him to obey for a short period of time. His father was still busy with work, but as Yata grew older, the more his father came around. Part of him believed it was because he had disappointed his father by not being a bender, the other part didn’t care.

Once he hit ten, he began to learn the trade. His education was hands on, going to trips and meetings. His father groomed him into being the successor and heir to the family business. At fifteen, his father fell ill, and began to work less. The healers predicted three years, and in those three years, Yata practically ran the business himself. HIs father and others counseled him, but otherwise he realized and received, the stress of things.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Three years was the exact amount of time before his father passed, and it wasn’t very devastating. He knew it was going to happen, accepting his death, was probably the easiest part of the whole ordeal. The hard part came when he had to contact and inform his sister.

<span style="font-size:14.6666666666667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">His sister wasn’t extremely impacted by everything, but by the time he put his father in the ground, Yata was. It had just hit him that he was now completely alone, and had the company to rule without council. Stress and grief filled him, but a suggestion from his sister, seemed to relieve it some. The suggestion was to move to the Republic City branch, and let the family's long time assistant to run HQ. <span style="font-size:14.6666666666667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;"> <ac_metadata title="Yata Hiroyuki"> </ac_metadata>